When I have thoughts like this I imagine that I am dealing with a friend who is having these thoughts.

If your friend was constantly struggling with their mental health and you were trying to help them would you call them an toxic, horrible, emotional abuser? I don’t think you would. I certainly don’t feel that way about my friends who struggle.

I also try to look at the evidence. Is there any actual evidence that people feel this way beyond your own thoughts and feelings?

Mental health is constant battle and separating real life from your condition can be an incredibly hard but rewarding exercise.

I’m sorry you’re struggling so much.

The difference is now you wouldn’t be able to buy it at 20 either.

You’d have to work pretty hard to get on cigarettes and hopefully most people just won’t bother.

Nicotine is still bullshit as are vapes. But as far as we know vapes are the lesser evil.

Except they aren’t like food. Vaping isn’t required to live. It’s purely recreational and aimed at children.

But I’m happy with either regulation or a ban.

This will be the big test of if being brought out will help them.

They’re sitting on such amazing IPs but have just fucked everything recently. Except diablo 2. That was great.

I live in hope as warcraft is still my absolute favourite game series.

Well yeah that’s the idea.

Yes and yes.

It works really well for kids. They aren’t even trying to ban it for adults.

Raising the age from 16 to 18 had a massive effect when I was young.

This will most likely dramatically decrease smoking in young people and that’s great.

It’s not 100% or nothing.

Yeah vaping will have its time. I bet they’re already sitting on evidence that it fucks you up.

Prohibition does work very well for kids though. Most people start young as when you’re older you know the issues.

So they are keeping it for people already exposed and trying to stop younger people starting in the first place.

They raised the age to 18 when I turned 16 and it dramatically cut the amount we had access to.

It’s not like the old alcohol probation. Plus smoking isn’t even fun like drinking. It’s just gross and bad for your health. And most people don’t drink because of addiction. It’s a different kettle of fish.

But they should be doing the same for vaping.

It’ll work for the majority of people. You won’t be able to do it out in public.

If you want to get cancer in your own house go ahead.

The truth is they put a huge burden on public services. Mainly the health service but also they create insane amounts of litter.

If vaping is still an option then most people will just do that.

Vaping is currently almost completely unregulated and some studies have found terrifying chemicals in them

People who don’t like cancer and want to take the insane pressure these death sticks put on the health service.

Who in their right mind supports mega corps selling addictive cancer causing products to young people?

Surely 50/50 is the same as the bad outcome being more likely but the bad outcome is actually less likely.

Most likely about getting laid. Probably left over from our monkey days.

I mean murdering people is extremist.

Taking their money would achieve the same.

“ChatGpt is really good if you use it properly”

Gets torrents of down votes every time. But I literally use it a lot at work and it’s brilliant.

This used to happen when new subs opened. Most of my feed was just them.

My assumption was that as the sub grew the posts kept getting voted higher than any other on the sub and therefore pushed as top material relative to the subs normal amount of up votes.

Most of the time yeah. But it depends as you can write c# with very little GC use if you avoid allocations.

Ahead of time compiling also gets things much closer. But then you lose runtime optimization.

Actually jit languages can outperform compiled languages by using runtime analysis to perform tiered compilation and profile guided optimisations.

C# has made some great strides in this regard.

All the normal optimisations are applied when it is compiled to byte code. Like loop unrolling etc.

Then once it detects the hot paths during execution it can apply even more based on how it is called. It can also do optimisations that aren’t possible at initial compile time.

Dynamic PGO it’s called. It’s a really interesting topic.

That is literally the worst use case for AIs. There’s no way they should be letting it provide contact info like that.

Also they’re stupid for dialing a random number.

This is definitely the answer. Bonus points for contextless clues to getting the other half.