I actually used vapes (the “real” ones) to stop smoking. It took years, but having the capability of controlling how much nicotine I had in my vape liquid was key. Eventually I brought it down to zero, and was able to stop.

This said, in europe the market is being flooded with disposable, colourful vapes - and those are an abomination. Just thinking of trashing all those lithium batteries makes me angry.

It’s more probable that in reality there are a of people working without the state knowing about it. Much tourism related work is traditionally paid “under the table” in cash, by the day or by the week.

People also don’t need cheese or cake, and they have it anyway.

the idea that people were crushed with tanks is disputed in academia

There are photos of people clearly crushed by tanks?

How is attending a far-right convention and fucking up diplomacy with Spain state business?

If he went to a furry convention would that also be state business?

He was huge in the 80’s and 90’s amd did some big scale acts like disappearing a whole bridge and stuff like that.

Or maybe Israelis are the ones who are not facing reality. You keep a malnourished and abused big dog chained in your backyard, you’re going to get bitten sooner or later.

There’s a very effective solution - predefined parking spaces, and after getting a scooter you can only park them in one of those predefined spaces. It works that way in a lot of european cities, and it works well. The problem is the ability to leave them anywhere, it was chaos before they implemented the predefined parking spaces where I live.

Mandated parking zones are very effective because you can’t really end the trip if you’re not on a parking zone, meaning that you keep getting charged until you park it in a parking zone.

Here you could leave the scooters anywhere for about a year, and it was nice because I could take one right to my doorstep - but my neighbours took them inside their house, and there were scooters everywhere taking up sidewalks. Around a year ago, it changed and now there are predefined parking spaces, around 50m or 100m from each other. I haven’t seen “abandoned” scooters outside of parking spaces for a few months now, and a lot of people still use then anyway.

Where I live, people in rental trucks go around at night gathering low battery scooters and unloading fully charged ones. Apparently you can make good money doing that work and recharging them.

Ask yourself - why did everyone got to see photos of the Chinese spy balloon, but nothing of the other 3 objects that were subsequently shot down by F22’s? The military most surely has photos of those objects also, why haven’t they showed them?

What the whistleblowers have been saying is that the government has indisputable evidence in the form of photos, videos, sattelite images, radar tracks, and even recovered crafts and bodies. If you haven’t seen any of that evidence, it’s because they don’t want you to see it. Multiple congressmen have seen it in classified briefings and talked about it, the evidence you want does exist.

Except that he has delivered classified documents and evidence to authorities with the right clearances? Of course he can’t just publish classified documents, unless he wants to end up like Snowden. He is following the correct procedures for whistleblowers, and that’s why you get to see nothing but people with the right clearences do. Multiple congressmen have had classified briefings on the subject and they don’t think Grusch is lying.

The Tic tac was seen, with their eyes, by four different military pilots. It was also captured in multiple different sensor arrays, data that has been classified. The video is the only thing available because it was leaked, but there is other sensor data that corroborates both the video and the pilot’s testimony. We don’t have access to that data only because the military doesn’t want us to.

You can block bots in your settings page.

At the time Facebook was starting to seriously suck and Google was still a trusted brand, but it failed mostly because of the invite system for the first few weeks. Google themselves closed the door to the possibility of huge migration.

You got an invite, but none of your facebook frieds did. It was an empty town so one naturally started adding random people, thus fucking the friend reccomendation algorythm forever. When they finally opened to the general public, people had lost interest already.

Their circles concept was actually awesome, but they shot themselves in the foot in trying to keep it exclusive for those first few weeks.

I’ve been using GPT4 for a few months now without complaints, it has saved me countless hours of trying to figure stuff out by myself.

Tried Bard, not impressed at all. I did 3 different tests, and got 3 awful results. The website itself looks like a cheap clone of chatGPT.

Never thought I would see Google being left behind by such a long margin.