Reminds me of the small child (I think they were 5 or 6) who was suspended for biting a PopTart into the shape of a gun and pointing it at someone.

The only thing we have to fear is security theater itself.

I think this service may have done better if anyone knew it existed.

I've been doing HR and hiring work and never even heard of this until now. Kind of have to blame Google for this service's failure.

This is disingenuous and wrong. The exact same tautology can be used to say "They're marketing to adults, but some kids are attracted to things marketed at adults". Just because it has fruit and bright colors does not mean that it's "targeting children". There is nothing inherently child-oriented about fruit or bright colors.

By that logic, Apple is targeting children because they use a fruit logo, TD Ameritrade is targeting children because they have a bright green logo, and Lamborghini as well for making a bright orange supercar. Give me a break.

Why is it so difficult for people to understand that tobacco tastes like ass on its own, and that other flavors are much more appealing even to adults who use vape products? If I was trying to quit smoking, OF COURSE I wouldn't choose the dirt-flavored product, and there's nothing specifically targeting kids about this.

If your product is fruit-flavored, why would you not have pictures of fruit on the label? Menthol has green mint stuff on it, so sure, blueberry has blueberries on it. The only thing remotely bad about these companies' actions is that they didn't have appropriate age verification on their sites. That isn't targeting kids either, it's just poor eCommerce compliance.

These tobacco giants are really targeting these vape companies with disinformation and smear campaigns as hard as they can. Their profits must be in the toilet.

This was a terrifying prospect until I read that users can decline the requests by police forces, and it's not automatically granted.

We don't need cops to have access to more surveillance, we need more surveillance of the cops.

Given the propensity for fascism/dictators to seek out any means to control and limit information available to the masses, and Trump's prior propensity for dictator-like "I do what I want and I'm the only one who matters, anyone who writes or speaks badly of me is an enemy of the people" actions make this quite odd to me.

"We're gonna build a wall on the western border, and Peru is going to pay for it!"
"They're not sending their best people. They're sending Alpaca farmers and pan flute players... some of them are good people."

After all, the printing division is the only thing making relatively functional products at that company.

Sadly this is true. Even at legal dispensaries I now have to ask if it is BHO (butane hash oil) or extracted with something much more safe like supercritical CO2. The problem is that the CO2 extractors cost $5k-$30k depending on size and complexity, while for BHO you can just run a can of hardware store butane through some buds in a PVC setup in your trailer bathroom and get something resembling THC vape juice.

If you have good clean e-Juice then you're inhaling the same thing used to suspend Albuterol in asthma inhalers and used for non-toxic fog juice. If you try to mix your own and put crazy crap in it, or buy from a shady guy on the corner, sure you are probably not going to get the safe stuff.

For example, you smoke weed every day. You're probably fine. You want to flavor it, so you start burning fruit with your ganja. Probably won't be fine for long - people don't usually smoke those things so we don't know what they do to our lungs and bodies.

That 'spice' or 'k2' shit is terrible. Didn't that kill some people on its own? I thought the FDA had all but banned it from sale in the US, so it's not doubt to me that if people have liquified it and are vaping it then we're going to see some issues there.

The other thing I was considering, and something that would be an easy mistake to make, is if anyone tried to make homemade e-juice and used the wrong kind of Glycerin. Vegetable Glycerin is relatively harmless when vaped, but Animal-based Glycerin can cause serious lung problems with the same use.

The amount of coverage this extremely small set of cases (relative to the number of people who have vaped heavily for a decade) makes me think it's some sort of widespread tobacco-industry corporate hitjob. The number of news outlets publishing "vaping causes illnesses and death" when there's not yet been any actual tie between the illness and vaping (which they are all careful to mention in small print at the bottom of the article) is quite appalling.

So much for "don't be evil". It seems like, between YouTube and Google, being extremely anti-consumer and anti-employee has become a primary goal.

How very specific and informative.