“Welcome, newcomers. The tradition of Festivus begins with the airing of grievances. I got a lot of problems with you people! And now you’re gonna hear about it!”
the companies that make vaping products have tricked teens into thinking that they’re safe
It seems to me that restrictions should be placed on marketing and violations of those restrictions should be punished accordingly. Cracking down on vaping won’t prevent something similar from happening in the future.
Australia will ban imports of disposable vapes in January, the Health Minister said on Tuesday, the first step in a crackdown aimed at curbing the growing popularity of these nicotine-filled devices with young people.
I don’t really understand why young people using tobacco is fine, but vaping is not.
People are stupid, but this seems to be happening because low-income countries have low vaccination rates.
Low-income countries, where the risk of death from measles is highest, continue to have the lowest vaccination rates at only 66%; a rate that shows no recovery at all from the backsliding during the pandemic. Of the 22 million children who missed their first measles vaccine dose in 2022, over half live in just 10 countries: Angola, Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Madagascar, Nigeria, Pakistan and Philippines.
“The lack of recovery in measles vaccine coverage in low-income countries following the pandemic is an alarm bell for action. Measles is called the inequity virus for good reason. It is the disease that will find and attack those who aren’t protected,” said Kate O’Brien, WHO Director for Immunization, Vaccine and Biologicals. “Children everywhere have the right to be protected by the lifesaving measles vaccine, no matter where they live.“
It’s not a stretch to imagine hundreds of thousands of civilians could be killed by killware in a hacking attack without a single traditional weapon system being involved.
Sure. Stuxnet was practically proof of concept.
Are they going to replace the Moskva?
Actually it is trained on data ‘the trainers have’.
“The first rule of Tautology Club is the first rule of Tautology Club.”
As an IT Professional i hate AI, because many People favor AI in Situations where statistical Algorithms are already good.
It sounds like people are the problem, not AI.
When Bill Clinton got elected?
Everything about how the US government functions is based entirely on the idea that everyone acts in good faith.
No. Duties and authority are divided up between the three branches of government to prevent an individual acting in bad fath from bringing everything down.
There is no real mechanism for dealing with those who abuse the system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_from_the_United_States_Congress
The Senate can bypass Tuberville’s hold by voting on officers individually, which it has done in only three instances, but to do so now for every frozen nomination would take months and impede action on numerous other issues.
Tough shit. Get to work. You shouldn’t have let a small problem turn into a big problem. If the solution is going to take a long time, then there’s no time to waste. Don’t let it happen again.
Does coal have any place in the future? I guess what I mean is, does it have any use beyond burning it?
Wouldn’t it make more sense to broadly regulate how recreational or intoxicating substances are marketed instead of playing whack-a-mole with piecemeal regulation every time a new problem pops up?