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Did someone actually quit smoking after using a vape?
  • I'm not sure that vaping inside is better than smoking outside. You're right about it being more pleasant and likely right about it being healthier, do you know of any research comparing second hand smoke on clothes to second hand vape (comparing smoking outside to vaping inside)

  • Did someone actually quit smoking after using a vape?
  • I did, not sure it made it easier though. It took away two negatives for smoking for me, it didn't smell bad to others and I could smoke inside.

    If anything it made it harder to quit, but they're supposedly much better for you

  • What opinions about the tech industry do you feel comfortable expressing here, but not in public/at work?
  • On a bright note I'm optimistic that ai bloated garbage and advertising will eventually push a critical mass of people to using decentralized and open source tools, or possibly that non-profits and co-ops will start to spring up to manage more ethical services that could potentially replace the mainstream ones.

    When you're not trying to make some dude disgustingly richer, you don't need a ton of advertising (imo).

    I also think tech workers should unionize. On a darker note, I think outsourcing/offshoring post-covid is going to kill any unions viability. You need bargaining power (withhold your labor) and I'm not sure that will exist for this trade because of how easy it will be to find workers.

  • Watching the Generative AI Hype Bubble Deflate
  • I've ran some college hw through 4o just to see and it's remarkably good at generating proofs for math and algorithms. Sometimes it's not quite right but usually on the right track to get started.

    In some of the busier classes I'm almost certain students do this because my hw grades would be lower than the mean and my exam grades would be well above the mean.

  • Progressives Have the Answers to Transform the Democratic Party
  • I really got swept up in the stop trump fever the last 5 years and really forgot about this. For some reason I was convinced they were the good guys.

    What do you think can realistically be done, or will likely happen

  • What are "buy it for life" items made in the USA?
  • I think this is meant to highlight how expensive it is to be poor, not to serve as financial advice for purchases.

    I completely agree with you that it's unhelpful as financial advice but I think the idea behind it is to point out that because poverty forces people to buy substandard products or not products in bulk, it ends up more expensive in the long run

  • What's something really good that is about to happen, and not a lot of people know about it?
  • Yeah for sure. You could get an all in one inverter battery bank, but I prefer piecemeal systems because of repairability/replacing parts/upgrading parts.

    Basically you'd get a battery, when I was shopping around I found eg4 or gyll batteries to be the cheapest. Small Texas company. That could have changed. Some ppl make their own or use them from a car, but soldering plus making a management system seemed like more than I wanted to deal with.

    You need a way to charge the battery (panels etc) and also a way to get the power into the battery safely and efficiently (charge controller).

    And then you need a way to get energy out of the battery to your apploances. You can get DC appliances that match your battery voltage or get an inverter.

    For all of those parts you need to run some simple calculations for efficiency and compatibility and use case (how big of a system etc), as well as some fuses and possibly lightning arrestors and grounding.

    Totally doable and a good bit of fun

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    Pornhub is pulling out of Florida
  • I honestly don't know enough about it but I'm sure there's a way, maybe get isp's to flag traffic going to known vpn servers and fine them if they connect users or something like that?

    Why, is it impossible or difficult to enforce?

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