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Never was

already done, even with images of lung cancer, addicted people don’t care and kids think it’s “cool” and “taboo”

They're effective.

The effectiveness of tobacco warning labels has been studied extensively over the past 50 years, and research shows that they are generally effective in changing smoking attitudes and behaviors.[3][4][5] A 2009 science review determined that there is "clear evidence that tobacco package health warnings increase consumers' knowledge about the health consequences of tobacco use". The warning messages "contribute to changing consumers' attitudes towards tobacco use as well as changing consumers' behavior".[6]

same as above.

Haven't seen them here in Austria/Germany. Also if you do that put websites not phone numbers there.

how are you going to catch them? who is gonna enforce the law, the chain smoker cop? you directly, going against an highly aggressive person who’s in the middle of nicotine withdrawal?

I mean I can still drive faster then allowed if nobody is watching. Should we stop enforcing speed limits because of that?

i’d personally say just fuck it and outlaw cigarettes and vapes entirely, they’re durgs after all, no?

It's way to ingrained into society to be outlawed completely.

I'm for controlled legalization of ALL drugs but keep them highly regulated. Drugs that directly harm others, like smoking should only be allowed in very specific locations like at home.

Taxes are fine but there are more effective ways.

• Remove vending machines which provide this drug 24/7

• move dispensary to drug stores

• put BIG warning labels on packages and every single cigarette

• prohibit smoking in ALL public spaces

• prohibit smoking while driving

• prohibit smoking while near vulnerable groups (kids, pregnant women, ill) even at home

• put quit smoking programs onto every package

• put even more money into prevention

For a second one you'd need a first one first

But the Chinese foreign ministry on said any reports that China and the US were nearing a deal were “fake news”.

How low do you have to fall that even China exposes your fake news.

That's the only solution.

Thanks! It's now in the instance sidebar :)

That's an awesome list. Can I use that for the instance sidebar? :)

Thanks for the shoutout! Every feedback and help is appreciated. :)

Let's bring social media to Europe together!

His heart goes out to us

They can keep their shitty American products. I hate seeing Teslas everyday. Let's get independent from them as fast as possible!

Marine Le Pen demands a lifetime ban from office for politicians convicted of crimes committed by abusing their position (2013, French with auto-generated subtitles).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SvZzOeIrp8s

Basically, popular people shouldn't need to follow the law?

She broke the law and is punished for it. Why is this so hard to understand?

Since its founding in 2002, the company has made numerous advancements in rocket propulsion, reusable launch vehicles, human spaceflight and satellite constellation technology.

Sure, but these are incremental improvements and not groundbreaking innovations. They surely have good engineers there. But the point that I want to make is that these improvements would have happened with or without SpaceX.

I don’t know why but Ukraine was using it so clearly it’s good for something.

I don't know if they need low latency, but currently it looks like other providers like Eutelsat will replace Starlink in Ukraine.

It’s also useful for people in remote places where there’s no good internet otherwise

Viasat for example provides 50MBit+ download speed. Should be more than enough for remote locations.

or to avoid government censorship

Shouldn't also be a problem with other satellite internet providers.

I don’t think anyone in the 80s thought a smartphone was possible, nor did anyone in the 50s think the Macintosh possible. Maybe it didn’t have to be private institutions making them, but it was.

If Jobs and his employees had the idea for that, others would have too. They weren't some once in a lifetime geniuses. Also, it only was possible because the underlying technology was developed first.

For a lot of modern technology decades’ worth of infrastructure and know-how are needed to even think about making the stuff, and most of that is the product of private investment and development.

The know-how isn't going anywhere. People have this knowledge, not organizations.

> I, as someone from the Middle East, don’t have access to that infrastructure and know-how and therefore am forced to pay through the nose for an American phone or a Japanese car. You can make the argument that private innovation is nonexistent or unnecessary only by using the results of decades upon decades of private innovation. You only need to look to the Global South to see what happens when you don’t have that.

Maan, private investment is mainly responsible for the under-development of the global south. Capitalists took their resources and privatized vast amounts of land and resources. Just look it up.

A lot of it (but not all) is in fact developed by developers in companies.

But many are not. Not everybody is doing things just for the money.

Also there are many applications where the best option is closed source, one example being Excel.

Sure. But this hasn't anything to do with it being closed source, but only because Microsoft decided to not share the source code. Also, I like LibreOffice more :P

SpaceX came to prominence and it's not because their rockets are always falling apart.

Ok, please tell me one thing they did to advance space exploration. And please don't say reusable rockets that bring down costs, because this is still a pipe dream.

Hell, the whole reason we're now talking about a European space industry is because of Starlink, so clearly capitalism was able to innovate that.

We already had satellite internet long before Starlink. In fact, Starlink is a bad idea if you consider astronomy and space exploration.

https://www.space.com/satellite-megaconstellations-spacex-starlink-interference-astronomy

The only reason Starlink was created is that Elon wanted to play online games while on some island and didn't get the latency down for it to work well. (Source: my dog)

Jokes aside, why do you need ultra-high-speed internet always and everywhere? For emergencies or normal usage, it definitely doesn't matter if a request takes 10ms or 250ms.

Taking something from a proof of concept in a lab into factories all over the world and then continuously improving it is innovation.

But does it need private institutions for that? Innovation, at least in my opinion, means making possible something we previously thought was impossible. Production and distribution aren't.

If something is truly wanted or needed, people will manufacture and distribute it easily without the need for private corporations to tell us what we need.

continuously improving

If you think that money is the driving factor, how would you explain the entire open-source ecosystem?

That seems more of a problem with lack of spine than anything else.

Huh? Of whom? The billionaire-sponsored politicians?

but putting it in state hands encourages stagnation and will eventually leave you unable to compete globally.

NASA sent people to the moon in the seventies. SpaceX must be happy if their rocket gets into low earth orbit without falling apart.

It's a widespread myth that capitalism is best at innovation. Quite the contrary is true. Most (real) innovations get developed with public resources in public institutions and private companies then take it and commercialize on it.

The internet, the touchscreen, computers, heck even AI, all developed with public money.

Also if someone tries to do stupid shit like Elon you can just nationalize the company or enforce some other harsh consequence.

And as we see it doesn't and will never happen in our current system.

He does shit like this because he knows nobody can punish him.

And that's the reason why no unelected individual should have control over so many resources which usually only countries have.

Critical infrastructure shouldn't be in private hands. As Musk perfectly demonstrates right now.

Commercial/private spaceflights are dumb and shouldn't exist. Just more trash that flies at bullet speed in our orbit.