I managed to find and follow a Twitter mirror account, but no posts have populated

haven’t come across them, it figures I wasn’t the first to think of it. So far from the other comment I have found the .makeup instance, which seems to be doing what I’ve been thinking but is a bit odd in its interaction with my home instance

hmmm… if the search on one of these (Instagram) resolves a username but my client (m.bin on kbin.earth via Interstellar app) can’t locate it does that mean my instance has blocked kilogram.makeup?

aha! of course I wouldnt be the first one to think of it.

"In 1789, rumours spread like a virus across France: gangs of bandits were attacking villages, destroying crops and terrorizing peasants, mobilized by nobles trying to suppress political unrest. None of it was true. But the resulting panic and upheaval, called the Great Fear, helped to fuel the French Revolution — and provoked a debate that still divides historians.

Did a deliberate effort to advance revolution drive the rumours? Or did they emerge spontaneously, driven by genuine terror? Now, scientists have used the methods of epidemiology to solve the mystery. Drawing on historical records and models developed to trace epidemics, researchers conclude that the fearmongering had rational, not emotional, roots1. “We managed to identify the logic behind the dissemination of the Great Fear,” says Antoine Parent, an economist at University Paris 8 and a co-author of the study, published today in Nature."

Its a big field bog, and the people in charge of harvest have to move around in it. Also they drag the boom across the bog surface to harvest, so poles in the ground aren’t really an option.

The better question is… why not float rafts on the bog with the berries to let the spiders flee into those first then let the people wade in. Arachnid employees deserve safe evacuation! Probably wouldn’t fully solve the problem, but might make it a bit better.

I love this.

huh, looks pretty nice.

These are illegal Chinese imports which directly compete with Big Tobacco’s established brands (Blu, NJOY, etc.) Only Juul out of these has American Tobacco industry ties with 35% owned by Altria aka Philip Morris. I wish they had tested Blu and NJOY.

Anyway, Big Tobacco would benefit if customs and ATF ramped up enforcement against these Chinese imports.

Ah, but here’s the twist, most of them are already officially “illegal” but are still sold mail order and in corner stores none the less. It is an enforcement problem, not a regulation one.

Also of note, the big tobacco manufactured brands like NJOY and BLU actually have pretty substantial testing done on them. I met one of the analytical chemists who does the testing. What is there tolerance level for metals? I dont know, but probably better than the Chinese import all-in-ones. Based on this data though, seems like D Pods are the best pick all around if you have to pick one, so big brand D Pods are probably best overall, but then they dont have the flavors the kids all clamor over due to actually following regulation.

No one talking about how this could completely annihilate open source .apk development? First off the lead dev has to get identity verified to get a key, which will reduce the number of devs willing to push through friction to start a project. Then when the key is issued and it is posted to the repository, what keeps anyone from grabbing it and using it for another repo? We’ll they have an official app registration of some kind, ok, what about version control? Does every new version have to be registered before it can be loaded and tested? Same for forks?

This is about to be a terrible mess, Google is assassinating FOSS with this.

A lesson every child should be taught in school before they are 18: if you want to do something talk to someone who has done it or tried to before you start. All it would have taken was one conversation with an Adjunct Professor to avoid this, or really any professor.

Deep Magic by Diane Duane anyone?

ouch

Elf Bar is manufactured by Shenzhen iMiracle Technology part of Heaven Gifts family of companies.

Esco Bar, the worst of them is made by Shenzhen Innokin Technology Co. Ltd.

Flum is manufactured by Flumigo Technology Limited, self held company.

Juul Labs spun of from Pax, 35% of it is owned by Altria aka Philip Morris who make NJOY.

All different parent companies and hardware manufacturing plants as far as I can tell.

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Yep, it is bad bad: https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/disposable-e-cigarettes-more-toxic-traditional-cigarettes

The juice itself is… of moderate known negative impact. The nicotine itself isn’t actually very bad for you. Some of the flavoring though is pretty questionable. Compared to combustion it is likely still quite a bit less negative for your health in most cases.

The exception is the hardware, it seems quite likely there is mass lead and other heavy metal poisoning happening due to poor quality metal and ceramic components in vape hardware. I work in a related industry, and this conversation is being had internally by the big players who are afraid of potential class action lawsuits coming down the pipeline while pure export companies from China and elsewhere sell bulk wholesale of low quality hardware. Vapor composition certifications are coming soon, but the damage may well be done for a generation.

Yeah or “Feed”, if anything needs regulation it’s this tech.

Think Clockwork Orange scenario. Hard not to think words when you are shown those things in images, and especially if you’re drugged.