LainTrain
@LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Harvard Slips on a Global Ranking List, as Chinese Schools Surge Ahead 11 hours ago:
Well, shit, TIL.
So why are all these people going there then, if they have no real promise of citizenship etc.? Or am I wrong there too? Is Chinese education that prestigious? Or are we talking PhDs and researchers and the likes?
Wouldn’t mind a source as well.
- Comment on A new public footpath is planned for one of the UK’s most famous ancient sites 2 days ago:
I’m surprised we haven’t sold it off for raw materials to the Chinese yet
- Comment on Harvard Slips on a Global Ranking List, as Chinese Schools Surge Ahead 2 days ago:
And what’s the number of international students at those Chinese universities? I doubt it’s anywhere near what the US has even on ICE raid day.
- Comment on EU shies away from condemning Trump's renewed threats on Greenland 1 week ago:
It’s so over for Europe holy shit
- Comment on Vietnam introduces tougher penalties on e-cigarette and heated tobacco use 2 weeks ago:
Oh well sorry then, I must’ve misunderstood
- Comment on Vietnam introduces tougher penalties on e-cigarette and heated tobacco use 2 weeks ago:
Harmless means absence of harm. That we don’t know of any harms does indeed not mean there aren’t any harms to be eventually known.
Therefore, as far as we know it is harmless. Hence why I said so. That would be understandable to commenters ITT if they knew how to read.
And additionally, in my personal opinion - it makes plain sense that the longer we study vapes, yet find no harms, the probability increases that they are indeed harmless.
Or at the very least I believe they are no more harmful than the harms caused by our existing standards for e.g. air pollution, in that vaping causes no excess deaths, but may do so if we had cleaner air and lower base rates of lung disease to which vaping may be some contributing factor.
I’m not an expert nor do I think the above two paragraphs constitute a fact, and I’m more than happy to change my view given sufficient reason, however I also dont think things for no reason or purely because it serves me or brings me some sort of comfort of a lazy mind. Frankly I doubt I would stop using nicotine even if I knew vaping was directly harmful in some way no more than I would stop using alcohol already knowing that it is incredibly harmful (not that I drink alcohol but that’s besides the point).
My reasoning for this is that even with the extremely primitive understanding of both the scientific method and the human body (not to mention technology for the analysis of it), cause and effect around tobacco-caused illnesses was known since the 1700s.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_tobacco
You can check the sources yourself, but for example:
Overview of the history: …wiley.com/…/j.1440-1843.2003.00483.x
Here’s from the 1800s: …utexas.edu/…/Nicotiana_tabacum-notes.html
Here’s a note of observations between the late 1800s to 1920s
- Comment on Vietnam introduces tougher penalties on e-cigarette and heated tobacco use 2 weeks ago:
That’s just an example.
I do find myself subconsciously judging pornography creators and consumers, but I would never express such a thing nor act upon it as if it’s the truth.
I’m not so stupid as to think that just because of a personal distaste in my subjective preference that it is somehow objectively bad or harmful, much less that any action should be taken based on something as vague as my own vibes. I’m not a bigot, and I try my best to not trust my “gut” and to think rationally instead.
That, to me, is simply being rational, something that is in short supply nowadays.
- Comment on Denmark becomes first country in world to end letter delivery 2 weeks ago:
That’s very cool! Go Scandinavia!
- Comment on London coroner calls for circumcision safeguards after baby death 2 weeks ago:
This country only gives a shit about genitals when it’s trans people receiving treatment for their disorders.
When it’s actual children being mutilated against their will because their parents are so deeply schizophrenic they believe it is the will of people that don’t exist that they mutilate children, it’s all muh “community leaders” this and “concerns” that.
- Comment on Banned for an Intro Post — SpaceBattles Has Turned Moderation into an Ideological Purge 2 weeks ago:
Not that I don’t believe you, but I’d really like to know what specifically was in your post, because you seem to dance around it without ever mentioning it, in a sort of “states’ rights” esque way, with the obvious follow up question being “states’ rights to do what?”.
IRL not everything can be solved on pure principle, if you were genuinely hateful or inappropriate, then by tolerating you, intolerance would only increase.
- Comment on Vietnam introduces tougher penalties on e-cigarette and heated tobacco use 2 weeks ago:
It’s a meme ya dunce. I think it’s meant to be edgy. And I don’t think it’s glorifying vaping, it looks like typical /r/drugscieclejerk
- Comment on Vietnam introduces tougher penalties on e-cigarette and heated tobacco use 2 weeks ago:
- Close enough tbqh. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_cigarette
- Comment on Vietnam introduces tougher penalties on e-cigarette and heated tobacco use 2 weeks ago:
Yeah your statement doesn’t contradict mine, as far as we know they are harmless. But we also know really well too, these things have been studied up and down since the 90s and still nothing was really found.
The *blends" thing idk about, the only ingredients out there that go into vape juice are VG, PG, nicotine and flavouring, there aren’t any legal variations on that, this is usually pretty well regulated in the first world.
- Comment on Vietnam introduces tougher penalties on e-cigarette and heated tobacco use 2 weeks ago:
Jesus that’s messed up
- Comment on Denmark becomes first country in world to end letter delivery 2 weeks ago:
I wish them well in this experiment. Hopefully this doesn’t mean outsourcing a public service to American big tech megacorps
- Comment on 2025 likely to be UK's hottest year on record, says Met Office 3 weeks ago:
Barely felt like it at all. Whole summer without a decently consistent nice warm spell, just middlingly warm. Winter weather came very early too in August and hasn’t left at all.
- Comment on Meet the YouTubers Terrorising Britain for Clicks 3 weeks ago:
Ironically these people and what they do are the ultimate effect and evidence of a social contract circling the gutter, but not for any of the reasons they would have you believe.
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 3 weeks ago:
No, they’re just on payroll of the corpos.
- Comment on 'Racist prick' Tommy Robinson 'bullied' at Dubai boxing event 3 weeks ago:
Racists sure love their little Dubai holidays lol. You ever seen a leftist go to Dubai? Me neither
- Comment on Secret courts' still handing out warrants for energy firms to break into homes 3 weeks ago:
Uh, no, the headline pretty straightforwardly describes what is happening. These are private firms, they should frankly have zero recourse other than simply not doing business with that customer again and reporting to other private firms that track credit scores.
- Comment on Greta Thunberg arrested at Palestine Action protest 3 weeks ago:
More sources:
news.sky.com/…/greta-thunberg-arrested-at-a-prote… theguardian.com/…/greta-thunberg-arrested-london-…
Some right wing media sources too, for your suffering:
telegraph.co.uk/…/greta-thunberg-arrested-london-… www.dw.com/en/…/a-75286097 www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c17x1jenvv9o
- Comment on Two arrested on suspicion of shouting slogans calling for ‘intifada’ at protest 4 weeks ago:
You got a loicence for that thought?
- Comment on Kemi Badenoch: Tories to scrap petrol ban if they win next election 5 weeks ago:
That only works when the population for the most part acts rationally and reasons from facts and not like a cult that lives completely divorced from reality and doesn’t reason and can’t be reasoned with.
- Comment on Robin Ince quits Infinite Monkey Cage over BBC censorship 5 weeks ago:
Can’t say I’ve ever heard of this show, but it’s always a shame to lose something like a science show to this insane far-right takeover of the UK happening right in front of us. What’s happened to the BBC is especially a travesty. I’m glad that there are still people out there who seem reasonable and not driven to insanity, and who use their voice to do right, and as a trans person I appreciate him for standing up for our community.
- Comment on French far right wants to reopen brothels and put sex workers in charge 5 weeks ago:
Dare I say… based? Broken clock right twice a day. Or maybe in France sex is apolitical.
- Comment on Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles 1 month ago:
Until same-day GP appointments are available and easy to book this won’t change.
- Comment on Wes Streeting orders review of mental health diagnoses as benefit claims soar 1 month ago:
Wes Streeting should review himself instead because this level of callousness probably warrants a mental health diagnosis of some sort.
- Comment on Apartment blocks causing issues for UK fiber broadband 1 month ago:
That sucks. For what it’s worth all the victorian mcmansions I lived in had more mold and nutty neighbours than internet, one was on a street that had literally no signal.
The only place that had openreach optic fiber and gigabit speeds on offer was a brutalist apartment block built in the 2010s which was great.
- Comment on UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B 1 month ago:
Voted for them as opposed to who? Zack didn’t have our back last election exactly, it was them vs reform & Tories odds are it may come down to that again if the press finds dirt on Zack. I’m trans so trust me I don’t love the paternalistic red tories, but I don’t personally blame anyone for voting for them.
- Comment on NHS doctor suspended for 15 months over series of 'anti-Semitic and pro-terrorism' comments 1 month ago:
Let’s see them then. What were the social media comments in question? The article talks about “conspiracy theories” and “denying sexual violence”, so I’d like to see what exactly those comments were because to me this doesn’t just seem like what you’d expect, so I’d like to see it before I dismiss it.