huh, looks pretty nice.

Because we are trying to do this for free, paying no one, in fact pirating the content for the purpose of keeping the Ukrainian troops motivated. Theres no money or job to steal here.

Finally a job for AI we can all agree on, time to translate and pirate print some paperbacks and .epubs .

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.

Ibogaine. Yes it works to cure adictions, and yes it can kill you due to impacts on the heart. Fully healthy people with no known heart conditions do drop dead occasionally while using Ibogain. Also you might have the worst trip of your life, like dragged down by a demon into hell style, or you might see the blessed virgin and be bathed in rainbows and forgiveness and come out a new person. You never know.

Generally more people have positive experiences and outcomes than negative in a clinical/therapeutic setting. Is it worth the risk? That’s up to you.

In-depth scientific review of Ibogaine and cardiac risk: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4382526/

Erowid experience vault: https://www.erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_Ibogaine.shtml

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.

A lesson every child should be taught in school before they are 18: if you want to do something talk to someone who has done it or tried to before you start. All it would have taken was one conversation with an Adjunct Professor to avoid this, or really any professor.

Deep Magic by Diane Duane anyone?

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.

different size balls for different size hitches. All hitches are removable, you can flip those over to fit different implements. Imagine that, removable, almost like there was a legal requirement they be removed while not in use.

Basically in areas where desalination is used for mass water production pure water is the resource in shortest supply and therefor osnhigher value than electricity. Wastewater is a potential source to feed RO systems to generate pure water, any water source with a lower concentration of solute than seawater is a potentially more efficient feedstock for the RO purification than seawater. Given that RO purification takes more energy than the energy generation system discussed here, it would be more efficient and therefore cost effective to mix the wastewater into the feed stream and produce a less concentrated brine waste output rather than use it to dilute the brine waste after the fact. The more concentrated the brine output from an RO plant, the more energy it takes to produce due to diminishing returns as the osmotic pressure increases with solute concentration.

There are exceptional cases, as I mentioned, where the composition of the wastewater stream will make it so that concentrating the solute in that stream has an economic incentive greater than the demands for RO water. In those cases diluting the brine may make economic sense. The location of the plant impacts this as well, there may be some edge cases where transporting the brine to the source of wastewater and processing it there on site may have an economic advantage. I’m thinking of nuclear waste and high toxicity chemical plant waste here where release is not an option and storage is mandated, so the waste stream will need to be both segregated from other less toxic waste and stored long term.