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by shortcake27 3y ago
Your original argument wasn’t about minimum voting age; you claimed the law would backfire due to the current generation. The point is to eliminate cigarettes over a long time period and many generations, so I don’t see how it would backfir
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by shortcake27 3y ago
You aren’t understanding the law. The idea was to prevent people born after 2008 buying cigarettes. In 2028, the minimum age to buy cigarettes would be 20. In 2048, it would be 40. In 2093 (70 years from now), it would be 85. So in 70 years
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by shortcake27 3y ago
The problem with smoking in particular is that it costs taxpayers obscene amounts of money compared to the other things you listed, in addition to straining the healthcare system which affects people who didn’t intentionally poison themselv
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by shortcake27 3y ago
The point isn’t to stop that particular age group from smoking; it’s to eliminate cigarettes in the long term (eg 70 years).
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by shortcake27 3y ago
I’m just saying that’s how the old systems worked, as that was a limitation of the time. A modern system doesn’t have to beep. It can tell you what it’s doing, in your language, visually on the dash and audibly. Also, there’s no reason a mo
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by shortcake27 3y ago
> the study highlights exactly the difference the GP was saying: gen z is much more likely to be okay with the surveillance state You admit to CATO being biased but you still believe their studies are concrete proof of a hypothesis? >
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by shortcake27 3y ago
Thank you, I was looking for this but couldn’t find it. My comment has been corrected. To anyone downvoting my original comment, take a look at CATO, the style of writing used in their blog posts, their other studies, and their mission stat
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by shortcake27 3y ago
Who decides whether or not a question is relevant? Your refusal to even engage the question proves that you believe your freedoms are worth more than the lives of others.
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by shortcake27 3y ago
I think you’re attempting to play with words to skirt around the question, despite the fact you know exactly what I’m saying. But let’s phrase it a different way. Are you saying it’s more important for people to have the ability to drive ro
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by shortcake27 3y ago
For thousands of years people have been fixing problems caused by the previous generation. Why does the buck stop with gen z?
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by shortcake27 3y ago
What makes you so sure the data in your study is truly representative of gen z? A few months ago a study was posted on HN which claimed 30% of gen z supported police cameras being installed inside homes to protect against domestic violence.
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by shortcake27 3y ago
> Drunk driving already has very harsh penalties There are no penalties if you don’t get caught. I think the OP is saying that if it’s triggered, you can override it, but a report would be filed with the police so they can investigate.
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by shortcake27 3y ago
It would be ridiculous if the car just shut down and stopped immediately. I really shouldn’t have to point out that it obviously doesn’t work this way. In-vehicle breathalysers have existed for decades. They way they work is they give you a
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by shortcake27 3y ago
So your argument is that the right to drive a road-legal vehicle dangerously on private property is more important than the right to not get killed by a drunk driver on a public road?
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by shortcake27 3y ago
There’s a common saying, “you can’t outrun a bad diet.” I hate this saying so much. I can’t imagine how many people don’t bother to exercise because they already have a bad diet, read stuff like this, and think “what’s the point then” and g
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by shortcake27 3y ago
Google pays creators out of the revenue they make from ads, and Google doesn’t make revenue from ads that were blocked. I think that would be fraud. I think this is fair TBH. If you want Google to pay creators, but you also want to access Y
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by shortcake27 3y ago
Same experience for me. The first video I watched after my premium sub expired, I was given two preroll ads. Then, 30 seconds into the video, an ad. Finally, at the end of the 5 minute video, another ad. It was jarring. But I’m also not sur
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by shortcake27 3y ago
It’s shocking because Alphabet is in the business of making money at the expense of their users. They aren’t building Chrome because they believe in the open web, they build it to extract every last cent out of us. Ad blockers cost them mil
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by shortcake27 3y ago
> and haven't had an issue. Every lithium battery in every device you’ve used has degraded. It’s not a manufacturing issue, it’s a chemistry issue. If you haven’t had an issue, then you aren’t paying attention, or you don’t keep you
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by shortcake27 3y ago
It’s impressive how some of the most successful tech companies in the world get this wrong. If you give your phone number to Google, they will pressure you to enable SMS MFA and SMS account recovery. So your phone number becomes the weakest
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by shortcake27 3y ago
There is a specific issue with SMS that I hate more than any of the issues you mentioned - the state of roaming. Because every company on the planet forces me to provide my phone number to auth me with SMS, I now need to pay for roaming to
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by shortcake27 3y ago
I disagree about Ryanair. Yeah, they try and upsell you like crazy, but there aren’t any tricks. They warn you to buy bags in advance because they will charge more at a later date - that’s not a trick, that’s how they subsidise the ticket p
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by shortcake27 3y ago
Yeah, this is it. People who are used to having their ticket price subsidised by other people who don’t have luggage are angry that those other people are no longer subsidising their ticket. All this, despite the fact that the same ticket w
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by shortcake27 3y ago
> essentially what you're advocating is lower wages for some service workers just because the rest are possibly overpaid? How have you arrived at that conclusion? I am arguing that a) the tip should be included in the price, and b)
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by shortcake27 3y ago
In Australia and the UK there are no fees for withdrawing from a bank ATM (independent ATMs can still charge fees). IMHO this is superior to the bank refunding you. It doesn’t cost the bank $2+ to allow you to access your own money from a d
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by shortcake27 3y ago
Yeah, I’ve also travelled extensively around Europe, west, central, and east, to some of the most touristy cities in the world, and never been ripped off. OK, my current hostel is charging €8.50 for a continental breakfast, so I just go els
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by shortcake27 3y ago
There’s a Hard Rock cafe in Wrocław charging 2x the price of every other restaurant. From memory 70PLN for a burger. And yet it’s always full. I genuinely don’t understand.
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by shortcake27 3y ago
The United Kingdom, which unlike the United States is quite literally comprised of different countries, has managed to solve this problem. Australia also has a similar setup to the USA, and has also managed to solve this problem. I don’t kn
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by shortcake27 3y ago
There are a lot of people who want to get software built, but have no idea how to go about it. I’ve been around for a while and I’ve got 10 years of networking under my belt. Someone knows someone who knows someone who needs something built
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by shortcake27 3y ago
> States in the US are analogous to countries in the rest of the world. But they aren’t. States are states, it’s literally in the name. Almost all countries in the world have states or an analogy to states. Again, only an American would

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