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  • If you have a 401k, IRA, company pension, or any other type of traditional retirement accounts, you likely have some Tesla at least indirectly, and while you might not have direct voting rights, you would at a minimum have ownership of funds that have ownership of Tesla.

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  • This is why people 'forget about gen x' imo, it's because there wasn't a single cultural event that aligned people in the gap between boomers (the baby boom, which resulted in a lot of people being a similar age to form a cohort) and millennials (wide spread access to rapidly developing internet, 9/11, and the dot com bubble happening during formative years)

    That's just my opinion though, I know lots of stuff happened in that time, but I think those examples are standout events. (This is my perspective from the US, so things like the Berlin wall, I think had a less significant immediate effect on people here, culturally)

  • I did but it took me a long time, years and years, with occasional dips back into smoking.

    Now though it's nearly been 2 years no vape or anything and at least three years of no nicotine.

    I went up and down in nicotine levels, I used big huge cloud throwing fog machines and little tiny disposables.

    I eventually settled on a unit with a built in rechargeable battery and pods with replaceable coils (geekvape aegis)

    I don't think vaping will naturally result in quitting, it I do think it's the most effective harm reducer out there and as a tool has many ways to help reduce use over time.

    High nicotine disposables (elf bars, juul) I would stay away from if you can though since the nicotine concentration is so high that it can deepen the addiction.

  • I hate cast iron, but 'seasoning' is just a misnomer that was adopted to refer to the oils polymerizing on the pan. The oil (usually something like canola) is literally bonded to the metal.

    Not cleaning a cast iron pan is gross, fats left in the pan will go rancid.

    The only soap you can't use is lye based as that will strip the seasoning off.

  • But they do need special maintenance, compared to Teflon pans or ceramic pans, they are the most finicky and hard to work with.

    There are a lot of things people have done for centuries. Being old doesn't make something superior.

    The problem with the people who prostletyze cast iron, is they usually assume that everyone cooks like them, but the reality is that cast iron is generally a pain in the ass. I mean just the fact that you need to cover the entire pan in oil Every time you put it away should be enough of an indicator.

  • As the game goes on, the poker hands also get increasingly unrealistic and different from real poker including things like five of a kind, and a pair being worth more than a royal flush.

    If you tried to take the skills you learn from balatro to a poker table you would get kicked out basically immediately.

  • GPTs natural language processing is extremely helpful for simple questions that have historically been difficult to Google because they aren't a concise concept.

    The type of thing that is easy to ask but hard to create a search query for like tip of my tongue questions.

  • It absolutely will. The game has already been erroneously removed from storefronts in the past.

    If an 18+ rating will drive sales, why do the operators of PEGI and ESRB bend the rules to ensure their games (EA sports games being a prime example) get as low of a rating as possible, even when they have actual gambling (slot machines paid for with real money)

    I mean your own adamancy shows the damage since you seem to be under the impression that the game involves wagers/betting/gambling or other activities that could be perceived as dangerous.

  • This is all well and true, but it's important to note that these organizations exist as a sidestep to regulation, they are formed by industry insiders as a promise to the regulators that they will be honest about how they rate games (or movies or music) so that the government doesn't actually get involved and do it's job.

    It's a form of regulatory capture that allows the industry itself to decide what is harmful to us.

    It's basically the definition of conflict of interest.