Vaping definitely isnt healthy for you.

It's not really the nicotine that causes the obvious damage though. Studies have shown that the vape smoke stimulates the vagus nerve which causes changes in the cardiovascular system that could likely cause heart disease

On top of that it’s obvious that what goes into the lungs generally stays in the lungs, and vapes are full of all sorts of weird flavours and e numbers

But the truth is even if you were vaping water all day it would likely still damage your cardiovascular system

> Vaping definitely isnt healthy for you

nobody claimed otherwise

> Studies have shown that the vape smoke stimulates the vagus nerve which causes changes in the cardiovascular system that could likely cause heart disease

Can you name this study? Are you talking about "E-cigarettes and their lone constituents induce cardiac arrhythmia and conduction defects in mice"? This study did not find what you claim. All it found is that in mice the heart rhythm during and right after exposure increased. This is far from claiming that it "could likely cause heart disease" in humans. Also human switching studies point the other way. smokers who move to vaping show improvements in blood vessel function within weeks. I don't know why people really need to twist study results to depict vaping more harmful than it is. Yes, it is not healthy and you shouldn't do it. But all scientific evidence conclusively points to vaping, even heavy vaping, still being way less harmful than smoking because we already know that basically all harm comes from inhaling the residues of combustion, not from the nicotine. Condeming vaping as being equally bad as smoking is irresponsible and unscientific and prevents proven harm reduction for heavy smokers.

> Condeming vaping as being equally bad as smoking is irresponsible and unscientific and prevents proven harm reduction for heavy smokers.

I never said this did I.

Also you’re talking about smokers moving to vaping, whereas at the moment plenty of people are going straight to vaping due to people over arguing how harmless it is compared to smoking.

Books with dangerous knowledge are banned.

See, the various banned porn varieties for an easy example

There are only three banned porn varieties I know of (depending on jurisdiction), which are child porn, bestiality porn, and nonconsensual/revenge porn.

And calling those things "books" is just nonsense. You know what we are talking about when we say "books", and it isn't that.

The Convention for the Suppression of the Circulation of and Traffic in Obscene Publications, which is ratified by most countries, and only denounced by Denmark, Germany, and The Netherlands, bans most porn.

There are some enforcement issues.

Unguarded LLMs create knowledge just like that, im not sure why you would consider it nonsense.

There's a reason people hated Grok for sexualising children

Anvil empires might end up being what you want

Why is that worrisome? Might give the fish a chance whose bellies are filling up with plastic rubbish

for all the reasons in the book/movie/television show 'The Andromeda Strain'.

In the same way a step counter encourages people to walk more, a glucose monitor on your watch could discourage you from eating that extra donut

Does a step counter do that? All studies I've seen say they don't cause people to adapt their behavior

This study says otherwise: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2007/11/pedometers-he...

Even if it doesn’t increase steps on average, it will absolutely still work with someone who’s self-motivated and not just looking for a quick fix.

I guess you can start spending your retirement money faster

The sad fact is that some people really should. Many people find it far easier to be or become indigent and fall on Medicaid services. If you do not qualify for Medicaid, then there is a real possibility that your insurance carrier will help put you or your caregivers into massive debt for a long-term illness like this.

If you do go into long-term care, Medicaid will probably seize your assets to help pay for everything. For example, a house in your name. They'll use those to pay back what they paid for your care.

So if you're gonna get sick and you're gonna be a burden in your old age, best to plan for leaving this world the way you came in: naked and penniless.

I know it’s a joke but then you’ll leave your family bearing the burden of your care. As someone whose parents had dementia, finding a place that treats your parents with dignity is extremely expensive and very rare. We were spending 12k/month and even we needed to set up camera’s and my sister slept with my mom and took care of her like a nurse. When the pandemic hit my sister couldn’t enter so every morning they took my mom, clothed her and sat her facing the bathroom all day long.

The only other alternative is some sort of mental hospital which is more like a prison than anything else.

Hopefully by the time i’m there euthanasia will be legal

No, a Medicaid funded care facility is the alternative

Try and read a book that’s been burnt and find out

The plagiarism machine is so good at this

I guess you’re unaware that brands like Shein effectively use slave labour then?

I guess there’s a reason Musk likened AI to summoning the demon in horror films.

It’s powerful but who knows what you’ll get

The reason he said that is because he's a rube.

I think "huckster" is a better fit here than rube. Though both is always a possibility.