Disposable e-cigarettes were a direct and immediate response to pod based vapes getting banned. Use to be, you would buy a device and just buy juice pods that were disposable. It still wasn’t great for waste, but that policy was a clear step in the wrong direction.

They saved children from using Juuls, just to fill the landfills with lithium batteries.

I’m about ready to get rid of all of these useless federal agencies. They’re all being politicized and made useless. Get rid of appointments, do elections or something. The FDA waited like 4mo to investigate some factories after getting reports that their baby formula was killing babies. They ended up finding massively unsanitary conditions and shut them down. 4 months.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/05/25/watch-live-house-grills-fda-commissioner-abbott-executive-on-baby-formula-shortage.html

I hate them with a passion. They’re inept and corrupt. The tobacco wing is in the pockets of big tobacco. The drug side of things is massively corrupt. They suck at their job, lie to us constantly, and we still pay them for it.

I don’t hate the EPA, but man I’m so sick of seeing massive failures from our government.

Ah so you’re just a dick.

Just because the room is full of bad takes doesn’t mean I’m not going to speak my mind.

Glad you understand this was never a conversation, but rather an opportunity for you all to circle jerk eachother on how much you hate Elon Musk. Your comments are memes at this point. Wow, you hate Elon Musk?! How surprising.

I’m not surprised.

Even if he’s widely hated, he still tends to push the tech space from time to time. Yet, this, a tech community wants to ignore anything with the word Musk on it just for the sake of having the name Musk.

But nah, it’s fine because you can follow a community that is nothing but him. A community with one post, that is based on the idea of posting news about him and trashing it. Makes a lot of sense.

You guys should just call your community “gadgets”, you obviously hate logic which is a pretty integral part of technology. But hey, even dumb people like their toys. Seems quite fitting.

Wow, this isn’t emotionally driven and detached from logic at all.

I really don’t think we need to keep adding more laws that no one will follow to be honest. The government acts like it cares about children, yet they budget laughable numbers to their education. We should be providing some of the best education programs in the world to our future generations. Give them the tools necessary to cut through the bullshit and make good decisions for themselves.

They want us to be morons so we rely on them to make decisions for us. It’s sickening how many people eagerly just give away their agency.

Have a stronger will.

Well, it is a capitalist nation. You also don’t have to watch them and you certainly don’t need to act on them. Commercials help fund television. If you don’t want to see them, don’t watch TV. Unless you think that should just all be offered for free. Actors should work for free, camera crews, sound, lighting, writers… all free, right?

I’ve got no love for FB, or social media in general for that matter, but why are they suing them for it instead of coming up with actual regulation to address the issues? It’s all just a show and the fact that barely anyone sees it means they are winning. You’re all victims of propaganda.

They did the same exact thing with vapes. It was never about the children - they were just a convenient talking point. Data shows teen usage has dropped significantly, but they’re still pushing that narrative because most people aren’t aware. Same thing with the black market THC vapes - some agencies are STILL making the claim that it was from regular vapes. Our government is fucking sleazy and they don’t give a shit about the truth or the people.

I am getting really tired of thinking about the children, and I’m getting real tired of the government forcing bullshit legislation over it. Let the parents think of the children and let’s get the government working on some real shit for a change.

This stuff has been going on since the dawn of marketing. Should we also kill off makeup commercials? Maybe just not allow anyone even moderately attractive to post pictures of themselves online, in ads or appear on TV? Make them cover their faces in public? We can’t have children seeing other humans and getting upset that they don’t look like them!

If parents actually gave a shit about any of this, they would just not allow their children access to these things.

When I read something like that, I don’t think “hey those are actual stats, wow!”. I actually think “hey those are actual stats, whoa!”. Kidding.

You’re being pedantic for no reason

It’s a generalization and their point was not the numbers. It was that in the past people complain about this kind of atuff, Google ignores it and people move on. Google probably even still continues to grow.

However, I think things have been shifting and that may not even end up being the case. Look at Unity.

Really everytime you log in too.

Google maps led me to work today and I didn’t enjoy it. Where’s my money?

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