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Vaping is new, it’s more likely it can be stopped in its tracks now, compared to alcohol which is sadly ingrained into our culture for thousands of years now. Though I should say that in some countries alcohol usage is trending down as well.

It’s not a competition. Banning one thing doesn’t require all other potentially worse things to also be banned first. Besides, in many places open drunkenness and drunk driving are already banned.

If said vice causes lung cancer I’m perfectly hapoy with that attidude.

There’s studies suggesting that vaping has a lot of negative effects as well, particularly on the lungs. Inhaling smoke or damps just isn’t great for one’s health it seems. Vaping also release a number of poisonous substances (propylene glycol and various aldehydes to name a few). Vaping also seems to increase your risk of cancer, but studying that is tough still because vaping is fairly new.

Put it in rice overnight. It will attract asian people who will fix it right up.

For real though, don’t put it in rice. Small rice particles can get stuck in your device and cause damage.

I do not think this is a strong argument. Nobody considers NASA to be the “space Nazis” either, just because some employees had connections with Nazi Germany. It’s a huge leap to claim NATO follows or is connected to some Nazi ideology based on this.

The very first date I had was an escape room under a restaurant. We got there early so we opted for drinks beforehand, then did the escape room together.

We’re still hapoy together after 5+ years and we recently adopted a cat, so I’d say it worked out alright.

It was just a really fun movie. I can’t really think of anything it did particularly poorly.

Would love a sequel as well!

If I understand correctly they already can. It’s not user-facing, but votes are federated if I understand correctly.

That’s a very specific usecase though that the majority of programmers likely will never have to face.

It doesn’t have to be either of those. Imo, it just had very little going for it for me. It’s far from the worst movie I’ve ever seen, but I was disappointed when I left the theatre, so I rate it a 4/10. I’m allowed that opinion, no?

Haha perhaps I secretly had higher hopes this would be the turnaround. When I think about the potential this movie had and wasted it might as well have been a dumpster fire. Difference being that this movie didn’t concentrate its terribleness in just a few moments I suppose.

Just an example: you’ve got Xavier’s sister right? A super-powerful telepath able to read minds by quite literally getting inside their heads. She turns into the big bad because the dunce at the TVA slighted her for little to no reason, and the plot and motivations remained the same as it was before. Bo-ring.

Instead, they could’ve done something more interesting; remember the comics where Xavier himself read Deadpool’s mind and realised what he knew about the true nature of the universe, and basically lost the will to live? They could’ve had Xavier’s sister (I feel kinda bad for referring to her this way but I can genuinely for the life of me not remember what her name was) do the same thing after getting inside Deadpool’s head. But instead of resigning to being just a character in a story, she could decide to end all stories by blowing up all universes (or perhaps she could try to regain her independence by destroying our IRL universe instead). The rest of the movie could play out the same, but with a more interesting motivation which is even lore-accurate.

I didn’t see any trailers or promo-material either, so I was spoiler-free too. Perhaps I went in with higher expectations? But reading your recount of the movie did make me realise why it probably fell so flat: there were little to no stand-out moments. I have a hard time piecing the movie’s full timeline together only days after viewing it, because so little actually mattered to the movie’s plot. A movie without peaks can only let you down I guess.

Hopefully they’ll improve with future movies.

Honestly, I thought this movie was kinda terrible. Sure, I did enjoy some of the cameos, but I thought the jokes were a bit repetitive and felt overused about 30-45 minutes in. There was also barely any semblance of a plot. The only real plot development was adding the letter S in front of “He’s going to destroy the universe”. That’s just not good enough to keep a movie interesting.

The fight scenes were pretty bland. The extensive use of slow-motion, bad cgi and most fight scenes being bad music videos made the movie feel incredibly drawn out and slow, which is killing for a movie relying on fast-paced jokes to keep the audience entertained. Watching a couple minutes of slow motion, 4th-wall breaking narration followed up by the same joke they’ve already done twice before got old quickly.

I got bored a third of the way through. The movie is also going to age poorly as a lot of jokes won’t be relevant anymore in the future. The TVA was wasted, most actors reprising their roles had disappointingly little screentime. I liked the concept, but it was just… such a letdown to me.

I have little positive to say about it. Jackman was fun to watch, considerably more fun than Reynolds. Chris Evans as the Human Torch was fun, but he barely had any action and got killed very quickly. Then there were a couple others that just “showed up”, basically unaltered from the originals with no real explanation as to why the TVA pruned them or what’s unique about them.

Maybe the Deadpool movies are just a miss for me, seeing as other people do enjoy it. To me, it was a 4/10, just a continuation of the latest string of bad Marvel movies. Thinking about it, I think I even enjoyed Quantumania more than this one.

The Darkroom of Damocles.

The big “twist” in the book basically gets pretty obviously announced in the first chapter “oh this person is exactly like me but better in every way I can conceive, how vexing. Gosh would I like to be him”. It’s almost spelled out.

Once the twist is known, the rest of the book makes little sense. Sure, the main character becomes an unreliable narrator, but he’s not just twisting details; hugely important events can no longer happen if you assume the twist, because there’s no physical way of it happening, unless the narrator is so extremely unreliable that you might as well be reading Jurassic Park only to reveal it was actually Terminator or something.

And then the book tries to end all clever by dangling the whole “was this the twist? Was it all real? Who knoooowws” making the book feel like a massive waste of time. Clearly the author wanted you to doubt the narrator at the end so you’d go back and think “oh was this/that a hint?”, but with the twist being so painfully obvious it lands flat on its face.

I was hoping there’d be some clever ending that meta-played on the whole “the reader has been distrusting of the narrator”-ordeal, but there was nothing. Very unfulfilling reading experience.

You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.

Trump was officially nominated by the RNC as their candidate. Biden hadn’t been nominated by the DNC yet, that was supposed to happen at the conference in a couple weeks. But now that he has pulled out, he will not be nominated and thus not be the official candidate.

Better rebrand to Clownstrife I guess.

In the Netherlands 112 is fine, most critical systems are. It’s mostly airports that are getting fucked by this it seems.

Banks and PSPs are fine here too.

Kickstarter does share it with the projects you back iirc, and those projects do occasionally sell that data to 3rd parties.