Soon enough, only old people will be smoking in the UK. And mostly lower class old people, given how low status smoking is. Surely smoking will become really uncool?

We have to assume that it is focus group tested. So they are likely doing it because they believe it will win votes.

Seems to be the same article from Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/indian-med-student-rakes-in-thousands-with-ai-generated-maga-hottie/

Det er ikke prisen der gør, at jeg ikke tager toget.

Det er det for mange.

once they get the black market vapes!

Vapes are not banned under the law.

What do you mean? As far as I am aware, Australia has not created such a generational ban law yet, so how can it be a failure?

Modsat e.g. benzin til biler, så er flybrændstof i Danmark ikke pålagt skatter og afgifter. Så vidt jeg kan se er det generelt tilfældet i Europa.

Det ville jo være for let en løsning, bare at sætte en afgift på flybrændstof. Det kan vi ikke have.

The unhealthiness of the chemicals in cigarette smoke is not subtle. I would be surprised if the vapes turned out to be just as unhealthy.

unnatural addictive chemicals

Using “unnatural” as the main adjective to argue for something being unhealthy is a huge red flag for pseudoscience. Unnatural is not a synonym for dangerous.

As an example, the 100% natural chemicals in even ecologically grown cigarettes are perfectly capable of being extremely dangerous.

But having to use a shitty black market for cigarettes every day would surely motivate most of them to try to learn to love the vape.

The black market would then only be supported by irredeemable vape haters. Who got hooked on cigarettes while never in their life being able to buy them legally. Which doesn’t seem like a big market to me - so might not be big enough to be profitable.

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But wouldn’t those people just vape instead? Which is not healthy, but is still healthier than tobacco.

Vaping is still legal. Why wouldn’t he just get his nicotine high from a vape?

So having weapons somewhere seemingly justifies targeting UAE civilian infrastructure to you. So is the US also allowed to hit Iranian civilian infrastructure, since there are Iranian weapons somewhere in Iran?

The recent video of Trump talking about the Iran War, while the anthropomorphic Easter bunny was standing besides him, was wild. I can only assume that parts of Trump’s staff knows this is unsustainable, and are deliberately not stopping Trump from making such demonstrations of his mental decline.

An important life lesson is that psychopaths and narcissists do not have the same inner life as you do. Trying to predict them using yourself as model will lead you astray.

En del af Pax Americana var respekt for menneskerettigheder. Hvor imperfekt det end var. Trump har skrottet den, og USA’s moralske ret (og vilje) til at gøre indsigelser. Trump og Hegseth tror kun på rå magt.

Bush II startede en ulovlig krig, og brugte i det skjulte tortur, men talte stadig om demokrati og menneskerettigheder. Det gør altså en forskel, og forplanter sig ned på jorden, hvilken retorik ledere bruger.

Som et eksempel, så ser Trump ikke nogen (for ham) nævneværdig moralsk forskel på Ukraine og Rusland. Trump kan bare bedst lide Putin, fordi han er en cool diktator.

• Vi ser, hvordan Iran angribes af USA i strid med FN-pagten, som blandt andet har ført til et ulovligt angreb, der har dræbt 100 skolebørn.

Jeg ville ønske at de ikke brugte den Iranske skole som eksempel. Det var en tragedie, ja, men det var åbenlyst ikke bevidst med vilje at USA ramte en skole. Hvis USA troede det var et validt militært mål, så var angrebet isoleret set tragisk men ikke “ulovligt” - fejl sker i alle krige. Hvorfor ikke bruge et eksempel, hvor civil infrastruktur rammes med vilje?

Så fuck USA. Men personligt er jeg mere forarget over Hamas og Hezbollah, som bevidst bruger e.g. hospitaler som militære anlæg. Og bevidst prøver at skabe civil collateral damage i deres egen befolkning. Jeg er forarget over nyhedsartikler, som ikke inkluderer en lovlighedsanalyse, når Israel rammer sådanne lovlige mål. Alt for tit forstår nyhedsartikler ikke, hvad der ifølge de overraskende velgennemtænkte krigslove er lovligt og “moralsk” i krig.

True subject to proportionality. But if the US or Israel bombs hotels and stuff, with the same argumentation, people here are also fine with that? There seem to be some hypocrisy on lemmy regarding that.

Also from Human Rights Watch: “Iran: Unlawful Strikes Across Gulf Endanger Civilians”:

The Iranian government has alleged that it is targeting sites where US personnel have relocated from nearby bases. However, Ebrahim Jabbari, a general with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), suggested that Iran will target civilian objects, saying that Iran “will hit all economic centers in the region,” AFP reported.

It is a really bad look to for your general to explicitly say that you are targeting civilian targets.

As I understand it, not going to happen. A bone marrow transplant is way more dangerous than just living the rest of your life on antiviral meds. The cure is worse than the disease.

Except for stone cold badass Mr prez, who just pops up with a triumphant fist pump.

Trump (like Reagan) was literally an actor, before becoming President. It is not that surprising that Trump can “act” when given an opportunity which arises.

We never saw damage to the ear tissue, just blood streaked on the skin.

Ear wounds bleed like crazy. It could be just a little nick.

Dude just casually climbs up to an extremely obvious vantage point with a long gun a stone’s throw away from someone under Secret Service protection, during an extremely public showing of an extremely controversial figure, and is allowed time to set up the shot.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Also if not incompetence, it would require a lot of people in on the conspiracy - random officers. That sort of thing leaks, unless everybody are really competent. And team Trump is simply not that competent.

It would also require the shooter to more-or-less agree to be murdered.

Republican voters could at any moment say “we won’t vote Republican in the next election, unless Republican Congressmen impeach Donald Trump”. And yet, they do not - rather the reverse, they would rebel if Republican Congressmen impeached Trump.

This is what 50% of America’s active voters want. For them, Trump is still infinitely better than an Obama Presidency.