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31·27 days agoYes. Restaurants, bus stops, train stations, public parks etc.
Oh for sure! It’s a well known problem that’s been subject to increasingly strict regulation (for good reason), and modern cars are a significantly less pollutant. Ending the addiction to fossil fuels would be a huge win, but also a much larger undertaking than preventing the effects of SHS.
So where would smokers go?
On their own private property or designated smoking spots (which should be away from people and high-traffic pedestrian areas).
may be trying to escape but are tied by addicted
There should definitely be publicly funded measures to help people get rid of these addictions (ideally to no or very little charge). In the long run it’d save the public (and former smokers) a lot of health and money.
It takes a bit of effort to shake an addiction but especially with the right tools it’s very doable.
No no no, you misunderstood þem… þey meant you don’t matter, because you’re not “most people.”
Don’t put words in my mouth or claim that I mean things that I don’t. It is a very simple observation that the demographic group everyone matters more than a smaller group of people. It’s not that that smaller group “doesn’t matter”.
Smoking causes negative health effects for everyone - this is not the case for perfumes. As I said, the argument could certainly be made to ban strong perfumes, but it isn’t the one I’m making. I definitely reject the case that Adm. Patrick made that public smoking should be allowed because strong perfumes are allowed.
Loud-ass exhausts, booming subwoofers…
These can indeed have negative health effects and are banned in many places, the latter at least after certain hours (noise complaints!). MOT inspection fails vehicles with excessively loud exhausts and in many places you can get a “rolling inspection” from a traffic officer on the road resulting in a fine or “fix-it” ticket.
Strong colognes and perfumes…also banned in public.
Don’t have negative health effects on most people, though you can be asked to leave from many health care institutions if using too strong scents. Not really comparable to smoking but the argument could certainly be made.
Ugly sweaters, poor fashion choices, and shitty cars with anime girls painted on the side?
Only causes death by second-hand embarrassment. Maybe not excessively scantily clad anime girls at a… kindergarten? but apart from that only emotions will be hurt.
'tis a perfectly valid and rather unpopular opinion.
5·2 months agoEmployee no. 5823 was all out of fucks to give that day.
862·2 months agoI mean, $2k is about okay for a month of labour in much of the world
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After a quick look at the communities you’ve been banned from they are heavily moderated in ways that can seem very arbitrary to outsiders who don’t share their opinions.
Communities on lemmy.ml: tankie echo chamber that bans anyone going against the narrative.
Blahaj/womensstuff/lgbt…: “safe spaces” that will moderate anything that (subjectively) might be considered offensive/bothersome to their main user categories. Womensstuff bans all men.
Whilst you in the Fediverse are free from the tyranny of a single overlord, you instead have to contend with all the little counts and lords you run into in their online fiefdoms. Thus: lower likelihood of getting a sitewide ban unless you are very extreme, but higher likelihood of accidentally stepping on someones toes and getting banned from a community by being a normal person.
201·5 months agoIf I wanted LLM therapy I can get that without paying an absurd surcharge.
What I did was mass edit all my comments. According to reddit customer support (about a year ago at the time), they do not retain old versions of edited comments.
Meanwhile google slapped me with nine captchas to fill out a form like wtf?
That first bit always feels so false and icky. Like, no I didn’t open up chatGPT to have my butt licked every other sentence. I just need the syntax for X or Y, and no I’m not delving into interesting depths of typescript. I’m monkeypatching the code to make a certain thing work and probably leaving a trail of wanton destruction behind every step I go.
It’s possible to reduce the privacy issues by using APIs with a local frontend. Given that APIs usually cater to companies instead of end consumers they actually have simple opt-outs for information logging.
Requires a bit of know-how, and you’ll be paying for your llm per use (not that bad actually, I’ve personally averaged <10$/yr in api costs) but at least you get to have all your personal issues on your local device instead.
For a chatGPT-like experience you probably want the ooga booga web generation ui but there’s others too.
It’s a finnish gov:t newspaper reporting on a gov:t study.
Here’s the link:
Just for the record, even in Italy the winter tires are required for the season (but we can just have chains on board and we are good).
Double checking and it doesn’t seem like it? Then again I don’t live in Italy. Here in Sweden you’ll face a fine of ~2000kr (roughly 200€) per tire on your vehicle that is out of spec.
Granted that you need to write a more complex law, but in the end it is nothing impossible.
…and thus it is much simpler to handle these kinds of regulations at a lower level. No need for everyone everywhere to agree, people can have rules that work for them where they live, folks are happier and don’t have to struggle against a system run by bureaucrats so far away they have no idea what reality on the ground is (and they can’t, it’s impossible to account for every scenario centrally). Even on a municipal level certain regulations differ, and that’s completely ok!
How is this new or original in any way!? This has been a feature in many kinds of games, for ages