Vomiting from the smell of smoke is not a normal reaction, Do all forms of smoke get this response? All smoke is at some level carcinogenic, and it is really difficult to avoid.

Is the code open source and inspectable? If not, you are trusting the people who developed the code.

And people are doing just that - growing their own tobacco, and rolling cigars out of the results.

This is not in contradiction to what you wrote, just a question of how far we go to protect people. Somehow I ended up in a Youtube rabbit hole for a while of people growing tobacco and rolling cigars. I haven't smoked for 50 years, but it was interesting. Fun fact - it takes two different types of leaves, one for the wrap and one for the filler. And Tobacco is actually an attractive ornamental plant as well.

But where we stop protecting others makes for an interesting discussion. And another rabbit hole. Do we want people to be protected from other people? How do we address the heterocyclic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons created when we barbecue meat, or smoke foods? If we ever give another person any of those products, they are ingesting carcinogens that we intentionally created.

Cured meat like bacon Nitrate - Cancer risk, Problem is, most nitrate exposure in humans is from vegetables. Uncured bacon? A lie, because it uses celery juice, which is high in nitrates, which cures the meat.

In the end, I can't resolve the issues completely, because it is a spectrum. And even becoming a raw food vegan doesn't eliminate the risk of ingesting things that can eventually cause a life ending illness.

So in the end, while smoking tobacco isn't a good habit, and chewing it is disgusting, as long as a person doesn't do it around others who object, I'm cool with it. And we'll never eliminate it anyhow.

What Is worse, the puritans end up actually creating more issues as pushback happens. I started smoking at 13 because I was rebelling against those who would determine what I was allowed to do. Fortunately, I stopped when I was 19 because it is stupid. But I see people today lighting up, and if you talk to the a little while, they universally don't like people telling them what they are allowed to do as long as they aren't harming anyone else.

I get some of it, but the EU is now going to control scrolling? I mean what is that. Are people hurt by scrolling? What is the amount of scrolling that people must be protected from? none at all? Just open the app and see one thing? Would a limit of one result be. the allowable schooling in web searches now?

Please! Protect everyone from scrolling - people are dying from the uncontrolled and life ending scrolling..... Won't somebody think of something something?

What impresses me the most is that anyone would not understand what happens when AI starts referencing itself, because ot itself and other AI swamping everything else out. At that point, it becomes truth irrelevant and either worthless or a sort of religion.

Well done!

Sorry, this availability zone is down due to: Lions

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But they sent a video of someone in a mask drilling out a hard drive!

Pop quiz, hotshot... oh shit, Canvas leaked all the quiz answers. Nevermind.

Did not know they had a mic jack. That's a nice addition.

Especially when people look at everything from socioeconomic level.

Definitely will have more spare money.

But do you believe that the wealthy are indolent or something? Many of my peers are in the millionaire class, and they work hard and long. And more than a few are highly stressed.

It is fortunate that there are many other forms of art, some that require little more than a sketchpad and pencils. I know what you are talking about a little, as my parents would not get me an instrument when I wanted to join the school band. So I got a part time job after school, saved my money, bought a Fender Bass and amp, and was making around 100 dollars a week in 1970. Not too bad for a 10th grader.

Art is creating things, not spending money. You can pick an art form that requires money, but it is not mandatory. You can even just buy a knife and carve found wood.

You're talking to a guy who regularly worked 60 hours a week, and more than a few occasions 100 hours.

Oh man! My art is my de-stressing. Wonder what the difference is? How does someone de-stress when they cannot even make sketches, maybe sing, or do anything?

Slashdot has a lot of tech people in here. I wonder if they actually understand art?

FTS :

37% of classical music listeners in the UK are aged 16-34, debunking the "graying audience" myth

I'm not certain how that jibes with the common meme that Boomers sucked up all the money, and GenZ people are poor.

One-third of classical music fans live in households earning over $100,000 annually

Which is another way of saying two-thirds are living in households making under $100,000 annually

From the other report, I was gobsmacked when they wrote:

Proportionately fewer baby boomers have advanced into top professional and high-salaried positions, despite their advanced degrees.

Wait... what? the boomers, who are claimed to hoard all their money to themselves, won't retire because they refuse to give up their big money, and aer generally the cause of every problem on earth is that? I've been told by millennial and Genders that they can hardly wait for us to die so they stand a chance of fixing everything. I mean, we are hated. That's a shock.

What I am seeing, from the scope of those two reports/studies is that there are wide demographics interested in the Arts, and I have no doubt that interest in the arts is an enhancement to life. I do not see that the poor are excluded. I do not see that the poor have zero time to appreciate art. But that's just me.

Thanks - reading them now.

You are invoking a meme. I do have an art minor, so I've seen a lot of artists and people who are interested in art. There are many artists who remain poor to work their craft. They are not stressed about that - it is their choice.

There are wealthy people who are not interested in Art. As well, more than a few who are both artists and wealthy

But can you address how a poor person is kept from accessing art on the internet? Even places like Facebook have a lot of art on them. Not many people are bereft of a smartphone or computer.

I've been very poor, yet always been interested in art. I work many hours a week now (although slowed a bit since retirement) , more hours than when I was poor. I have money. I really think a person is interested in art or they are not. Making it into a class warfare issue is specious as far as I'm concerned.

But this is Slashdot, where virtue is inversely proportional to wealth. 8^)