These are illegal Chinese imports which directly compete with Big Tobacco’s established brands (Blu, NJOY, etc.) Only Juul out of these has American Tobacco industry ties with 35% owned by Altria aka Philip Morris. I wish they had tested Blu and NJOY.

Anyway, Big Tobacco would benefit if customs and ATF ramped up enforcement against these Chinese imports.

Ah, but here’s the twist, most of them are already officially “illegal” but are still sold mail order and in corner stores none the less. It is an enforcement problem, not a regulation one.

Also of note, the big tobacco manufactured brands like NJOY and BLU actually have pretty substantial testing done on them. I met one of the analytical chemists who does the testing. What is there tolerance level for metals? I dont know, but probably better than the Chinese import all-in-ones. Based on this data though, seems like D Pods are the best pick all around if you have to pick one, so big brand D Pods are probably best overall, but then they dont have the flavors the kids all clamor over due to actually following regulation.

No one talking about how this could completely annihilate open source .apk development? First off the lead dev has to get identity verified to get a key, which will reduce the number of devs willing to push through friction to start a project. Then when the key is issued and it is posted to the repository, what keeps anyone from grabbing it and using it for another repo? We’ll they have an official app registration of some kind, ok, what about version control? Does every new version have to be registered before it can be loaded and tested? Same for forks?

This is about to be a terrible mess, Google is assassinating FOSS with this.

ouch

Elf Bar is manufactured by Shenzhen iMiracle Technology part of Heaven Gifts family of companies.

Esco Bar, the worst of them is made by Shenzhen Innokin Technology Co. Ltd.

Flum is manufactured by Flumigo Technology Limited, self held company.

Juul Labs spun of from Pax, 35% of it is owned by Altria aka Philip Morris who make NJOY.

All different parent companies and hardware manufacturing plants as far as I can tell.

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Yep, it is bad bad: https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/disposable-e-cigarettes-more-toxic-traditional-cigarettes

The juice itself is… of moderate known negative impact. The nicotine itself isn’t actually very bad for you. Some of the flavoring though is pretty questionable. Compared to combustion it is likely still quite a bit less negative for your health in most cases.

The exception is the hardware, it seems quite likely there is mass lead and other heavy metal poisoning happening due to poor quality metal and ceramic components in vape hardware. I work in a related industry, and this conversation is being had internally by the big players who are afraid of potential class action lawsuits coming down the pipeline while pure export companies from China and elsewhere sell bulk wholesale of low quality hardware. Vapor composition certifications are coming soon, but the damage may well be done for a generation.

Yeah or “Feed”, if anything needs regulation it’s this tech.

Think Clockwork Orange scenario. Hard not to think words when you are shown those things in images, and especially if you’re drugged.

Now here’s a real gateway drug.

Very cool stuff. It is always wild to me that the universe is/approximates infinite yet galaxies aren’t densely packed enough that the occlude each other at the furthest distances we can detect. Much like Protons in atoms, though there are quadrillions of them in every planet and star, a neutreno can travel a straight path for eons through multiple galaxies and never touch one. What a crowded yet vastly empty universe we have.

Here’s a thing about LLMs, they will effectively make laws like this meaningless. Law comes in to enforce against a company building a program to block ads, extension goes off market. Someone asks their LLM “create an extension function referencing the same data set for my browser that performs the same function” boom new extension with no central point of distribution. Share the prompt on a forum, now everyone has a custom ad blocker. Or not so far down the road, LLM is directly built into the browser, no extension needed just prompt “do not display known advertisements on pages I request before loading, but perform background activity which gives feedback to the site that ads have loaded” boom done.

In a way, local LLMs are like distributed applications, they make enforcement against specific program functions pretty much impossible.

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So the ISP redirects the request from the primary host to the CloudFlare cache under some conditions? but wouldn’t that be ineffective at blocking the sites of the browser still attempts to pull from the primary host first? I’m assuming this must be mediated by the ISP somehow otherwise it would just be a browser setting to only pull from the primary host of the domain.

I don’t understand how CloudFlare is intermediating the traffick in this case. How can CloudFlare block the sites if they aren’t hosted on CloudFlare or using CloudFlare services? Are they acting as an ISP in the UK?

If we take the Schwartzchild Cosmology at face value we would only ever be able to “pierce the veil” through the boundaries of our cosmos with information/radiation through the Hawking Radiation, at least if the universe containing our local singularity has similar physics at play regarding singularities and the force of gravity.

That said, you could always go “down-well” into a singularity in our universe, but surviving the event horizon as more than particle soup spaghetti is quite a challenge.

This theory is called Schwarzschild Cosmology, and has actually gained some traction recently based on some new experiments.

https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.111.103537

As a youth this made intuitive sense to me as I first learned about different cosmological theorems. A black hole is essentially a pocket of mass on which a set of physical properties exist that are different from its containing universe, with the boundary between different physics being the event horizon and the “Big Bang” being the initial collapse of the singularity.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.1069

Effectively there is no current consensus on the issue, though Many Worlds and String Theory are widely regarded outside their adherents as non-falsifiable and therefore not legitimate theories.

Essentially the proponents of the theory have created beautiful math that fit their view, but absolutely nothing in the real world that can show that it is a more valid theory than any of the other theories which have equally elegant math to back them.

The simple answer is always antigravity aka magic. You could calculate the force of gravity acting on them and say that amount of antigravity plus the force required to accelerate them at the rate they accelerate including wind resistanceat the elivation they are flying, but you would need their mass and dimensions.