This is dumb. Brazil was able to extremely reduce tobacco consumption “just” with education and banning advertising.

It blows my mind how no other country in the world wants to follow their example on this. Are they too proud to copy a third world country? Even when it’s doing some things better?

A quick Google search suggests that Brazil and the UK have similar levels of smoking in the adult population. So the UK's already succeeded in reducing smoking consumption. The aim of this legislation is to eventually eliminate it.

They get away with it by having on the payroll the son of the president of the most powerful (and dangerous) country in the world

And one of the most corrupt presidents, I might add. He has increased his wealth by at least $3 BILLION during this last term.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2025/09/09/preside...

More like they get away with it because hundreds of thousands of people around the world demand the service.

It’s not the “walled garden” that’s preventing Valve to write Proton for Mac, it’s the lack of Vulcan support. Apple pushed to its own Metal framework when they deprecated OpenGl, which is probably great for performance, but outright denying support for Vulkan was a killer blow for games.

Which they could choose to fix but didn't because they are treating it as a walled garden. Which is the same reason they removed the OpenGL support and declined to update/modernize that implementation. As reverse engineering efforts for asahi linux have shown, implementing Vulkan is perfectly possible and apparently runs with pretty decent performance. And as Apple's own efforts with the game porting kit show, supporting DirectX is also not an impossibility and there are some examples of ported games in the Apple store.

Apple religiously defends its walled gardens. Stuff like this is the exact symptom. They don't allow third parties to "fix" this either. They don't really document their own hardware and treat it as a control point. They also don't support independent efforts to port other operating systems on mac hardware.

I also feel burned by that, but to be fair, is there any software in the world that's not getting worse and worse?

I think lots of backend stuff is getting better over time, but I fail to think of a single thing facing a regular consumer.

Typst

180 grand a month for PA is a lot of money. But I guess each person has its own priority. I mean, I can pay a very fancy gym with that price instead of the shitty popular one I go, which would probably improve my well being much more than asking to play Gorillaz

"a grand" means a thousand (dollars or pounds or whatever). $180k / month really would be a lot of money. I'd be your PA for that!

ok, now I wish there was an edit button. Thanks for noticing the mistake though

That’s how I’ve been working for years now. Does anyone know how this gh stacks work internally? Does it do the same thing under the hood?

I’m conflicted about it, seems like a good convenience, but I wouldn’t want my team to get dependent on an exclusive feature of a single provider

(You're replying to someone from product at GitHub, they're explaining that's how it works there)

People who care about privacy (very very few) use signal, everyone else uses Whatsup

You should focus on the part where Egypt blockaded the Suez and Straits of Tiran, which is what actually caused the war.

I think you are being a bit hysterical and trying to find an issue where there’s none.

The article is just trying to find an historical explanation on why something so inefficient became norm in modern civilization, there’s no sexism here…

So you think "doctors wanted to see better and didn't think it would hurt anything" and "It's all because of a Frenchman who decided it was more convenient – for men." are equally gender-agnostic?

> Knowing the demographics of this website

Any chance of elaborating on that? I’m new here, so I don’t get it