treefrog

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[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 26 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

Tennessee is hot and humid.

Temperatures over 104f (40c) were common before climate change.

104 is the UK record from 2022. 113 for Tennessee, a record set during the great depression.

This is above the wet bulb level and AC isn't a privilege because without it, people will die.

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Sorry to hear that. My mental health is finally on the mend. Giving myself permission to be myself for the first time in my life, really.

Hope things get better for you soon :)

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Yeah, my bad for glancing at the top search result before I made my long-winded post above lol.

Hope you're well, Mr. Squid.

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

As flying squid helped me see, safer doesn't mean safe.

Nicotine alone can cause cancer and while vaping is 'safer' than tobacco, in that it's less carcinogenic, it is still a carcinogen. And because of the ROA, vaping is actually more addictive than cigarettes.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9222281/

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

Nothing is 100% safe. Which is why harm reduction is an important part of the conversation when discussing drug addiction.

Water is safer than tea. Tea safer than coffee. All three can in theory kill you if consumed in large enough quantities.

Anyway, I figured I would dig around more on vaping instead of just glancing at the top search result.

And, I take what I said back. Nicotine by itself causes cancer. Tobacco just makes it more likely.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9222281/

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (8 children)

Nevermind this, see my reply to squid below. I was operating under the wrong view that nicotine by itself is not cancer causing.

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago

Well sure, if oligarchs paid fair, we wouldn't need unions.

But they don't. So we do.

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago (16 children)

Seems like if they wanted to shut it down, rescheduling it first would be an unnecessary step since it's currently schedule one.

It will be a messy transition, as the article points out. But I doubt the point is to shut it down. Especially considering the political climate around cannabis and the messaging from the White House.

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

InnerTune in the same vein as Antenna pod

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

I imagine some people already are.

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 70 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

I thought the main issue was that AI don't really know how to say I don't know or second guess themselves, as it would take a lot more robust architecture with multiple feedback loops. Like a brain.

Anyway, LLM's aren't the only AI that do this. So them being trained on Facebook data certainly isn't the whole issue.

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