Who claimed they weren’t addictive? Lol go eat your own dick cheese.

That would mean the concept of “literality” no longer exists, but you just used it, (I’m taking your words literally, to mean that you believe “literal” now means “figurative” in perpetuity) so it must still exist. I also just used it, so even if you meant “literally” figuratively, the literal definition still exists, because I just used it.

You see why we can’t just say “oh welp words change” now? They do but also if nothing has meaning just stop speaking languages at this point because they’re, well, meaningless.

Hell I’ll give you another popular example, you ever watched South Park? You remember the biker episode? They argue the same thing you do here, that words change meaning, but about a different word (and with a better case for it, no less). You wanna defend the evolved use of that word publicly here right now?

Community Notes:

Vapes are safer than cigarettes, nobody in the history of ever has claimed they were safer than fresh air (city air, maybe). Independent studies done (mostly by the UK outside of the Phillip-Morrisphere) show it to be 95% safer than analog smoking, due to a lack of tar and other carcinogens produced by the burning of plant matter.

Vapes have more nicotine in them than cigarettes but “10 times” is a nonsense number pulled directly from your ass. What mg/ml are you referencing exactly? It’s commonly sold between 3mg and 6mg for freebase and 20, 40, or 50 for salt nic, one of those is probably about correct for your math, which one?

Furthermore the reason for the increased nicotine content is the disparity in the absorption of nicotine between the ROIs, vaping it is less efficient than smoking it, and freebase absorbs differently than salt nic at that. You absorb less nicotine/hit vaping than smoking, so if you increase the nic content you can compensate for that. Of course you can overdo it too, and I also used to smoke a pack and a half a day, some only smoke like say half a pack.

The real “issue” is the ease, for instance I can vape at my desk at work but not smoke, so I vape more since I don’t have to take a whole ass break for it, but in essence I’ve simply digitized the Mad Men era, they used to do what I do, but analog. Then again, if I couldn’t do that, I’d have a log of zyns on me, it’s not exactly like I’d be nicotine free.

BUT would it be safer for me to chainsmoke cigarettes all day, or vape a bunch? That is the question, not “would it be safer for me to vape or not?”

Inb4 “popcorn lung.” You know cigarettes have 2,000x the amount of diacetyl (the responsible chem) as vapes? And nobody has EVER gotten popcorn lung from vaping NOR cigarettes? That’s because it requires the powdered form to enter your lungs and settle like asbestos/mesothelioma, which has ONLY been observed in one popcorn factory that didn’t use respirators.

Hey now, I have gooning and vapes and I’m plenty isolated thank you very much!

If that’s the case than literally now literally always means “figuratively.”

And sometimes, it does, when used incorrectly or sarcastically, but that doesn’t mean that the literal definition of “literally” is no more.

Imma be real this “LiBeRtArIaNs” bullshit is new, misguided, and region specific, and even within that region is debatable.

Small “L” (goddamn sans serif fonts) “libertarian” is literally just the diametric opposition if “authoritarian.” That’s it.

“Big L” “Libertarian” for some reason has come to mean The American Libertarian Party™ specifically. “They’ve been taken over by the right” maybe, sure, but they can’t have the entire concept of libertarianism no more than the US Democrat party is the entire embodiment of democracy, they’re named after those concepts but those concepts still exist without the bounds of the US party and the whims of said US parties’ current leaders. Even if the Libertarian Party™ happened to perfectly align with your views on what “liberatarian” (as in the antithesis of authoritarian) means at any point in the future, they still don’t have ownership of the concept simply because they’re named that.

In reality, “libertarian” describes any number of people and ideologies as long as they’re anti-authoritarian, including anarchism, and just like anarchism you can find many examples of people who claim it but do not understand it in the slightest, or seek to pervert it to their will intentionally.

Don’t let authoritarians poison you against a word for a concept in an attempt to sway you to their side.

If math wasn’t there trial and error would have taken over. (Hell it might have been a lot of that anyway tbh…)

I think the difference is that AI isn’t a literal killing machine

Tell that to the Iranian schoolchildren Claude thought were viable military targets (you can’t, they’re dead as hell), and to the people using AI drones to loiter and auto select targets in Ukraine.

A gun is a killing machine.

A gun is a machine designed to fire a projectile, what you aim it at is what decides if it’s a “killing” machine or just a long distance hole puncher.

A bow is much the same, while it “is” a “killing machine,” designed for use in war and hunting, the archers shooting at targets at the range near my house aren’t murderers, they’re just target shooters. Would they use their bow to defend their house, just as I may use my gun that has only shot paper to do the same? Yes, they might, but only one of us is apparently deserving of ire from the uninformed, despite being the exact same situation.

Guns are a tool used to kill people, guns should be shut down and deleted now.

Stop. Putting. Internet. In Everything.

Necro, but: “the location” is broadcast via GPS by the dogbot, “the location” is either “where the dog was EMP’d,” or “where the dog was forcibly exploded.” Either way they know it was the last broadcasted position.

Besides, explosions leave them with a lot less salvageable material, the actual main issue is shrapnel.

Sorry for necro, if anyone still uses that term, but:

Bro then fucking do it. You won’t, pussy, no balls.

OR you have a life, don’t want to die, you know that it won’t solve anything it’ll just make Vance president and further the goals of the surveillance state, and that you expecting others to do what you wont is fucking dumb. Pick one and stick with it. The only people who have the right to say “but we could shoot him” to me are those who have tried, either do it or kindly fuck off with that shit tbh.

Nobody cares? I guess that’s why nobody talks about it.

“Constantly you say?”

The aforementioned dogs. The welder is for the bunkers.

Ehhhhh by then pipe bombs won’t be so passé.

A) They should be

B) Cameras won’t stop shit if what they’re worried about came to pass, they’ll collect evidence that will be largely unusable, because it’ll be crowds they need to worry about, not “Steve.”

GrapheneOS been had this feature, don’t let apple tell you they invented it.