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.

Right, next the native americans will take the US back because historically it’s theirs? Russia started a war, stop looking for excuses to cope.

I’m sorry, who started a land war in February 2022?

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

There are photos of people clearly crushed by tanks?

Infelizmente é algo de tão comum que acabas por ter que mudar de instância.

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.

I didn’t addressed anything because the whole comment is a load of bullshit.

Fuck off with your Putin propaganda.

The idea is not to get the power back to earth, but to have power on the moon. Without power, you’ll never have humans living there.

Yeah but a car is mostly made of engines and bolts and wheels and stuff like that, you know.

Gen Z are adolescents or young adults now. Gen Alpha are the little kids. We’re getting old.

And for businesses, VR simply has not proven to have a cost benefit worth even the initial capital investment, without even taking into account ongoing IT costs due to damaged equipment.

That’s just not true. Companies of all sizes are using VR for onboarding and training with much success and a huge return on investment. There are also a lot of location-based and VR arcades making a nice profit.

VR may never go mainstream, but for businesses there are a lot of use cases for which it is valuable.

Cars are seen as a status symbols in a lot of places, instead of as the utilitarian things they are. Where I’m from people will see you in a better or worse light depending on what you drive, for sure. Most young people get first in debt not for college, but for the 200.000km second or third hand car imported from Germany.

Yeah, we would all much rather talk with a real person, but when I’m walking my dogs at 1am there is no one available.

I use ChatGPT voice as a kind of “podcast on demand”. If there’s something on my mind I run it through ChatGPT, if not I ask it to come up with something interesting for us to discuss - and it as yet to let me down.

It’s not a matter of replacing people - it’s more as if you had your own on-demand youtuber that could talk about anything you want and answer all your follow-up questions.

I think I understand why this is a double-edged sword. Most consulting companies basically invoice hours. Even a lot of software development is charged by the hour. So now empoyees use AI, come up with awesome work much faster, and all that looks like a big advantage - until you get to the end of the month and find out that you now have a lot less billable hours logged.

The bright side is that you can now deliver more projects - so you now have to do much more work to invoice the same as before, and all the competition is now also delivering awesome work. It’s a race to the bottom, more stress and less money for everyone involved.

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.

That’s all good, but then in this same situation agents would find nothing about you at all and “thumbs down” you because you are obviously hiding something.