Trump admin 'exposed as liars' after El Salvador makes major admission to United Nations
Im not making excuses, Im saying there are nuances to the use of, and therefore proper testing of, the device.
I used to make my own coils back in the day when there were juice bar shops. If you build a robust enough coil then the coil will well outlast the life of the cotton you put in it. Therefore theoretically the coil will not be heating up or being heated enough times to where the coil releasing metal particulate is a concern. If you build a flimsy coil and heat it up too high, or use it for too long past a reasonable lifetime, or run it dry, then youre going to be inhaling metal particulate as it breaks from the coil.
Therefore, if while testing these disposable devices they are just running the thing hot and fast as a matter of testing, then the results will show significantly more metal in the vapor than would have ever been there under normal use. And most places testing vapes dont care if their methods make it look worse than it actually is, because, just like with smoking, they get way more attention in pointing out how bad it is for you (in comparison to more middling perspectives that paint it as safer than smoking)
The most dangerous thing in the world of vaping rn IMO are weed cartridges and disposables. The “coil” in those is just the thinest piece of kanthal you can imagine. What makes it dangerous is that people have popularized taking “blinkers”, or running the device out to its 10 second safety limit point. They think its a safety for weed inhalation, but its quite the opposite. Its a safety to prevent that tiny wire from blowing itself out. More blinkers = more kanthal particulate that youre inhaling instead of weed. The device will keep going so long as two nubs of that wire can still make contact somehow, even if youve already blown out some of the wire
Anecdotal, but as someone who has used vapes and smoked cigarettes since well before Juuls and the modern disposable market existed, I feel infinitely healthier vaping even modern disposables than I ever did smoking cigarettes.
If I were to guess at whether I was verifiably healthier now using only dispos, versus back when I smoked half a pack or more per day, my guess would be that I am far healthier now than I ever was then
Im open to being proven wrong, and obviously the best thing would be not to smoke at all, but as far as harm reduction goes Im still of the opinion that smoking cigarettes must be far worse. At least assuming you dont smoke well past the safe point of running out of liquid and just inhale straight coil. A lot of these reviews seem dubious to me in that they probably run the device differently than it is actually used by a vaper. Running past safe points of juice, running hotter than your lungs would ever be comfortable with etc. Just like how studies of cigs would have a pseudo-human device chain smoke without accounting for the ability of the lungs to clean themselves up over time. Or just time in general. How is a robot smoking 1000x straight the same as a human having 1000 darts over multiple months? That kind of thing
Its honestly a great analogy for the way that humans have a tendency to do the same thing. Most people are fairly incapable of setting aside what they already think is true when they go to assess new information. This is basically no different than an LLM being pushed to ignore nuance in order to maintain a predisposed alignment that it has been instructed to justify in spite of evidence to the contrary.
If anything hes designed a model with built-in problems specifically to cater to human beings with the same design problems
If theres one thing we all know desk jockeys appreciate its the opportunity to do manual labor
North eastern Louisiana is no more likely to see a hurricane than southern Arkansas or mid-Mississippi
Theres no way in hell the US will be anywhere close to first in developing stable fusion power. Projects in Europe and Asia are lightyears ahead of us here, where we dont even have a reactor capable of producing a stable reaction. Meanwhile in Korea I think they have managed to achieve a stable reaction for over 10 minutes already. Who knows where China is at, although they likely have the largest facility working on it.
Weve already lost the race thanks to our obsession with yesterday’s energy methods
fierce debates continue over whether the moment has arrived for serious comparisons with fascist regimes.
Ah yes, fierce debates akin to such classics as “is the sky blue?”, “do bears shit in the woods?”, or “does the pope wear a funny hat?”
E: jokes aside, this is actually a pretty insightful article. Im just tired of the mollycoddling
Its a little bit late to be chickening out here, as Texan farms report they have lost 100% of their workforces already, and Californian farms (where most of our food is grown) have reported losing over 75% of their workforce. You cant just undo the fear that has already been struck into people, no one has faith they wont change their minds again in 2 weeks…
Its hilarious to me that people think that the founding fathers, who ostensibly designed this entire country specifically for the benefit of the land-owning gentry, would hate maga politics.
Im like 99% sure that the founding fathers would probably hate legitimately democratic politics. They were never interested in actual democracy in the first place. They were interested in entrenching their position as the ruling class of this country. Thats it.
“They stood against monarchy!1!1!” Yeah, they did, they stood against one guy having the power because they wanted that power for themselves. Not because they wanted that power vested widely amongst common individuals. “No taxation without representation” wasnt really about representation. The colonies could have easily argued for representation, people like Benjamin Franklin were vocal in trying to push that as the best choice for their future, and Britain was not an absolute monarchy by any means. They simply didnt give territorial/colonial subjects the same rights as citizens, which is exactly what the United States has done the entire time it has had colonies itself. US territories have no say in the government that unilaterally controls them.
The majority of the founding fathers were basically a bunch of libertarians who just wanted to not pay taxes. British colonists in North America were the richest and least taxed people in the entire world at the time, and they were severely spoiled by it.
People seriously need to get over their views of historical actors as these benevolent and infallible characters in some fairy tale story of them envisioning a country built for the good of everyone. These were the same guys that relied on indentured servitude and slavery to make their money. They believed quite strongly in themselves having superiority over the commoner, let alone their opinions of peoples who werent white.
I would bet every dollar I have that if the founding fathers snapped back to life right now that they would be no different than the maga morons or libertarians that want to run this country into the ground
Democracy doesnt have to, and usually doesn’t, involve giving everyone a say in literally everything. For example, in the US people did not have the ability to vote for their senators until we had an established public education system in the early 20th century. So our original senate was much closer to something like the house of lords in the UK.
While allowing people to directly elect all their congressional representatives didnt go bad right away, 100 years later its pretty clear that the average person is far too incompetent to be voting for their senate representation. Public education, good as it might be compared to having none at all, is compromised as hell and does not inspire quality civic engagement.
Honestly our country would be far better off if only people who’ve earned some degree of higher education could vote for their state’s senators, but of course that would be billed as undemocratic and elitist quite easily by anyone who opposed it. There are plenty of morons with a college education, but it would be better simply by virtue of not having both houses of congress able to be captured by the exact same stupidity
I think you meant inter-family, but the actual proper term would be intra-family as in within the family unit
Yeah, Im sure people are thinking so much about that line as they pop the top off their 14th bottle of bud and watch their 6 year old fumble a lit mortar shell
People just like being dumbasses and blowing shit up. In my city one of the more common activities is firing live rounds from handguns into the air. People get hit every year by falling bullets. Its just dumb shit plain and simple. Im so glad to live in a place now where the fire danger means no fireworks on the 4th every year. Its legitimately a more enjoyable holiday even if you cant blow shit up
Today’s topic is self destruction, and I aint talkin about the KRS One discussion
Im talkin bout the one-too-many ignorant suckers, lying on the mic to my sisters and brothers
Every time you listen to the radio all you hear is nonsense, they never play the bomb shit
Everything that glitters ain't gold, and every gold record don't glitter; that's for damn sure
why not just get consent for the thing that you’re doing
I would imagine because consent would require opening the door to paying someone for use of their likeness, and if they were going to pay someone fairly they could just pay a voice actor. The whole thing is a means of getting what they want without paying for it
The followers of the antichrist will wear the mark of the beast on their foreheads
The antichrist will appear to be mortally wounded but miraculously survive
The antichrist is one who is arrogant and boastful, loves making public threats, and is obsessed with winning and being viewed as a conqueror
The antichrist will be someone who somehow sneaks into power rather than being properly handed it, specifically by colluding with a few powerful people because he does not have the majority on his side
Someone who will develop a cult of personality, and turn otherwise good people away from what they previously knew as righteous
Someone who’s rise to power and imperviousness to being stopped will serve as justification of his righteousness to those who have been tricked
Someone who “will distribute among his followers the plunder and wealth of the rich—something his predecessors had never done”(Daniel 11:24). Obviously were reading “followers” as his wealthiest friends that prop up his position
He will “try to change the set times and the laws”, “cause deceit to prosper”, and “will greatly honor those who acknowledge him. He will make them rulers over many people and will sell them land at a price.”
He will wage war on “the kingdom of the south” and target its people.
He will do everything that he does in service to himself and to the detriment of all those who are suffering:
There will be a leader over the land who will not help the ones who are dying.
He will not go looking for the young who got lost, or care for the children.
He won’t help the ones who are sick or broken, or even give nourishment to the hungry ones who are still healthy.” - Zechariah 11:16-17
He will be friends with a leader in Israel and “will do as he pleases; no one will be able to stand against him. He will establish himself in the Beautiful Land, and will have the power to destroy it. He will determine to come with the might of his entire kingdom, and make an alliance… then, he will turn his attention to the coastlands.” - (Daniel 11:16-18)
Literally the only aspect of Trump that doesnt match the biblical description of the antichrist is that the biblical antichrist is ultimately stopped by the courts. And we all know the supreme court isnt doing shit about this one…
Mum is the word, after all
Lest we talk about “bird”
Reasonable people everywhere call Joe Rogan insane for being such a dunce that he is just now realizing this was the plan the entire time
In CBSs case, they are in the middle of a merger that requires federal approval. They basically had no choice but to settle under duress, and I imagine they could file a countersuit once Trump is no longer in control of the federal government
Lying aside, this is setting up a really weird question regarding sovereignty. It represents just another way that modern conceptions of sovereignty are becoming less and less territorially bound.
Another example, which also sheds light on why this is such a strange claim from El Salvador, would be the enforcement of laws in border zones. Under older conceptions of sovereignty US agents can enforce US law on US soil, and the same was true for its neighbors. However, more recently the law changed such that we have bilateral agreements with our neighbors that allow their agents to enforce our law on our soil, and vice versa, within 100 miles of the border. From the classic conception of sovereignty this makes no sense, other than that the nation’s law is still territorially bound.
The case here with El Salvador is even more interesting. El Salvador is saying these men are locked up under US law in CECOT, and that they are the responsibility of the US. Which means that now the law of the US is not territorially bound, and is being implemented in El Salvador over these men. It’s hard to convey to someone that hasn’t studied sovereignty academically just how absolutely bonkers that is.
For a similar but contrasting situation, think of immigration. If a country wants to remove migrants it doesnt tell the country they came from to come in and get them. Removal is a legal process carried out by the state, under its law, as an exercise of sovereign control over its specific territory. Asking agents of the other country’s government, who have no legal jurisdiction to do anything, to come and get migrants would make no sense.
El Salvador here is basically ceding their sovereign control over these specific people despite the fact that they are obviously in El Salvador, and therefore are subject to Salvadoran sovereignty. This isnt something that any country has ever done, except with regards to very specific people like ambassadors, or very specific spaces like embassies or military bases