He’s kind of right though, if you’re interested in understanding the flaw of your approach here you might try to read up on “The fallacy of composition” which is the fundamental logical flaw you’re sitting on at the moment that the responder is taking issue with, albeit impolitely.
I view burned tobacco products like cigarettes, vapes, and “heat not burn” devices like IQOS as a scale of harm, where the most harm is burned tobacco, and the lowest is non participation.
Vaping is WAY closer to non participation than it is to burned tobacco, and I suspect HNB devices are similarly way closer to NP than BTP as well, just not as close as vaping.
When they’re marketed to existing smokers, I think vaping and HNB devices are net goods, they improve people’s health outcomes. They can also be a gateway to cessation, or a step along the way. That’s how I quit smoking a long time ago when vapes first came out.
Full disclosure, while I don’t work directly for the tobacco industry, I do do some work on youth prevention technology for some of these types of products.
Lol was “caught red handed” in the prompt?
This is constantly where my headspace is for any public statements by people, companies, or politicians.
I don’t judge people by their words, I judge them by their actions, and that makes the world make so much more sense.
You know… as common as it is to label and group and classify people online, I just don’t think that generally works the vast majority of the time.
Insurance companies don’t bill people as adults until 26 because our brains don’t finish developing fully until then and we make poorer choices in a statistically significant way until then.
So while the legal age of adulthood is often late teens to early twenties, the reality is you still probably act young in a way that older people pick up on.
When I was 21 I felt like I was an adult. But I wasn’t even finished growing, and looking back from 40 I was young and dumb and it was obvious to everyone but me.
Matt Mercer has the hair for the Emperor! I’d bet he had the chops to play him too.
Although maybe this assumes pre-heresy a bit.
Looks like now that we are in December we are getting a positive signal that this might actually happen!
That’s pretty neat, but photosynthesis separates that bond without using heat right?
I could not make sense of the post title, so I clicked in to get the actual title.
“Olivia Wilde Sees Social Media as a Danger for Film as Art: ‘I Don’t Make Movies So People Love Them’”
I love this theory and it’s now my head canon.
There are many different accents across the US.
Some of them very much pronounce the word “than” like others pronounce the word “then”.
That’s not really how language… or humans… or culture… work.
This is a common mistake for many native English speakers and highlights the different challenges in speaking a language and writing a language.
In many regions of the US for example, “than” and “then” are often pronounced exactly the same.
Clearly the answer to our national disunity is for the perpetrator to run for office.
Wow that looks really good, I hope my first humanoids are that good!
Yeah, if anyone should be shot, it would be that kind of person of course.
Ok now everything is just made up
Another professional here. Lemmy really isn’t a place where you’re going to find people listening to what you have to say and critically examining their existing positions. You’re right, and you’re going to get downvoted for it.