LarrySellers

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by LarrySellers 5y ago
The parent is copy/pasting from the linked press release from Trump which exclusively links to donaldtrumpcampaign.cmail20.com . They know they're arguing in bad faith.
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by LarrySellers 5y ago
Please don't try again, I'm not trying to be condescending. If not for yourself, for the people you love. Nicotine addiction is particularly insidious. Lots of people gave me this advice the few times I was addicted, I ignored the
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by LarrySellers 5y ago
The onus is on the person making the claim (you) I'm afraid. > in the time when they didn't capture the market yet Big Tobacco entered the market around 2012-2013.
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by LarrySellers 5y ago
We shouldn't assume that about the GP, but indoor vaping in public spaces is much common than indoor smoking in the US.
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by LarrySellers 5y ago
> to try to get addicted Why? > more nauseous than anything if you have enough Enough to poison yourself.
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by LarrySellers 5y ago
Which studies in specific? Can you cite one? The tobacco industry is making lots of money off of these and can sell them in flavors that were banned in cigarettes a long time ago (opening up the market to kids again). https://t
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by LarrySellers 5y ago
Which ones?
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by LarrySellers 5y ago
It's not obvious, that's why we're studying it. In fact some studies have shown that e-cigarettes may not lead to cessation. https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/2020-smoking... E-
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by LarrySellers 5y ago
I pick up trash in my neighborhood. It makes the neighborhood cleaner and more enjoyable for all. You might be overthinking this.
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by LarrySellers 5y ago
Shame it's so easy to get comments flagged and killed on HN. The parent comment wasn't inflammatory and (as we can see) contributed to relevant conversation.
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by LarrySellers 5y ago
Vaccines reduce the spread of disease, full stop.
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by LarrySellers 5y ago
Yep, no evidence. > so if the feature can be traced back as a proximate cause of something like the capital [sic] riot Then they would have removed OAN's video claiming Trump won the presidency, but they didn't. https:/
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by LarrySellers 5y ago
That is speculation, not circumstantial evidence. Thank you for providing sources that say "there is no evidence YouTube deliberately removed authentic dislikes."
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by LarrySellers 5y ago
The change was being explored years before Biden was president https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/02/youtube-doesnt-like-...
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by LarrySellers 5y ago
Sure, it's easy to find examples of dislike brigades for the current White House channel: https://libredd.it/r/Conservative/comments/l2d9ma/youtube_de... I was just wondering if there was any eviden
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by LarrySellers 5y ago
Agreed, you have no evidence for your claim, so it can be dismissed entirely.
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by LarrySellers 5y ago
Do you have any evidence at all?
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by LarrySellers 5y ago
Is there any evidence that the government pressured YouTube into making this change? Or this is just blind speculation on your part? Here's evidence that the videos are subject to organized brigades: https://libredd.it/
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by LarrySellers 5y ago
Good point, there's clearly no conspiracy against the right. ...but the recent video of Biden getting sworn in has more likes than dislikes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2305DGsceE He's been president for ne
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by LarrySellers 5y ago
Except they considered the change years before Biden was president: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18207189/youtube-dislike-a... This Trump rally from The Hill, where he tells his followers to get the
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by LarrySellers 5y ago
There are no dislike/downvote buttons on submissions on HN (only comments), no matter how much you "prove yourself"
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by LarrySellers 5y ago
Unfortunately it makes them inaccessible in this case, I wouldn't even know how to scroll sideways unless you actually expect a user to click and drag a scrollbar. Even if the site was usable the the text is still illegible.
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by LarrySellers 5y ago
“I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.” -- David Lynch
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by LarrySellers 5y ago
When I realized that The Big Lebowski is The Big Sleep + bowling it blew my mind