a tobacco worm will seek out nicotine

Reminds me of a few fiends I know

That’s how a lot of the government works though. It’s legal enough to change the way things work.

It’s one branch of government declaring a new way to enforce things from the very top. It always depends on people below actually following through.

Shit, even decriminalization is like that. A city can say, “we no longer want to prosecute people for marijuana” and they literally just tell cops to stop arresting people for it, whether it’s a federal crime or not. And the cops will stop arresting people for it… Usually… And if someone does get arrested for it, the district attorney will probably say “well we aren’t prosecuting for that so let him go”, and that’s that.

It’s similarly “legal”. Someone in power declares a way of doing things and people do it, to a certain extent.

There’s a supposed balance of powers that way. Legislators don’t get to decide 100% how things work. Other branches can make choices. Judges, mayors, governors, presidents.

And obviously, it can get abused, and nothing is stopping Trump from declaring that wearing green on Sunday is illegal, and if he did judges would probably just tell people to ignore that stupid shit.

Legal is a spectrum. It always depends on how it’s going to be enforced in practice, and how severe the penalties are, and how badly people want to do it.

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🔗 and probably everything else too

🔗 Including the readme

I’ve seen this look before. It’s “oh god you’re actually trying to explain the homework and not just give me the answers”

Programmers automating coding then CEOs forcing everyone else to use it is an insult to programmers.

Some fuckers that built AI and fucked their own industry need to take some responsibility here. Some Sloppenheimer out there fucked the market up, one of our own.

Even then, they will like it as long as it makes tons of money and the owners keep buying off politicians.

End money in politics first.

Do younger generations really ingest as much YouTube/tiktok/ig influencer data as it sounds like? I feel like I just missed that phenomenon, with YouTube being a thing when I was leaving high school… I never got in the habit of watching YouTube like TV, but it sounds like so many others are addicted to that and short form content.

That’s a very political statement to make

Yeah that looks dangerous as fuck… He’s basically transferring all the energy of his legs pushing into however big the end of that arrow is, and right at the back of his skull.

I hope that bow is actually really loose and it just looks funny but people are dumb as fuck

Lol natural gas? What, do you like, hate America? We need diesel trucks transporting coal to burn on site

Third eye, probably trying to draw telepathy

https://atm.amegroups.org/article/view/119609/html

2023 review found most animal tumor-initiation studies did not show nicotine increasing spontaneous tumor initiation, while tumor-progression results were inconsistent and hard to generalize

Smokeless tobacco is not “safe”, it’s addictive, may have oral/cardiovascular concerns, and long term data is limited, but cancer risk is likely far lower than chewing tobacco. Nicotine alone os not strongly established as cancer causing in humans, but biologically suspicious enough that “harmless” would be too strong.

There’s a reason the FDA is allowing Zyn to say there’s a difference now with “Using ZYN instead of cigarettes puts you at a lower risk of mouth cancer, heart disease, lung cancer, stroke, emphysema, and chronic bronchitis”. People would do better to switch to Zyn than smoke or use dip. They’d do even better quitting, but people should understand there’s much higher risk with smoking and using chewing tobacco.

…I mean, are they wrong?

All hail the sun god