I'm looking - out of curiosity, is the EU going to only use Android?

No, I'm not a fan of wood smoke either but it's not that nauseating

Or you hire lots of people and expect to get rid of the ones you like least. Or you hire people you know you don't need for long because you'll be downsizing soon. Or you hire people to keep them away from your competitors. Or several other reasons you don't know dick about but still think you're qualified to run your mouth.

It's supposed to be comparative between everyone, not just who you happened to be in class with.

Yes. If I'm wrong, I will be pleasantly surprised. I'm not certain teh EU or any nation is worthy of trust.

I get modded troll all the time. So I hear ya! Seems like a troll mod is another version of someone disagreeing with me in here.

But yes, all you wrote is correct. All that said, if we actually rid meat products of nitrates, we'll trade assumed cancer for botulism, and not the type that helps with migraine or freezes the faces of the vain.

Almost like humans will die at some point. 8^)

"Iran is piddly compared with America in every way. Except killing their own people/protesters."

Hold my Diet Coke.

If you don't think coercion is force then you cannot be reasoned with

Quotas are crap whether positive or negative.

Grading standards should be based on something sensible, not comparison to the class, but to an objective standard. It's not sensible to penalize people for being in an exceptional class.

UCSC had it right when they refused to issue grades. Alas these days they will if you ask them to, which defeats the purpose of not doing it.

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.

Every time I have someone else's tobacco smoke come into my car in traffic I wanna puke. I don't get a chance to object to their face. If smoking is so fucking great, why don't they roll the windows up?

I want companies to think before hiring so that they do less firing. That naturally means they're going to do less hiring. But firing causes chaos and overhiring masks actual unemployment. If you're not employed for long enough to get out of a hole, it doesn't count in terms of the nation's economic health, but it looks like it does because it reduces unemployment statistics.

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

Because people have been convinced that having people pay for things, let alone necessities, is the natural order. But before money was invented, there was another natural order, and it was equity — not equality. We know this because we've studied hominid skeletons from prehistoric times and found that people were caring for each other, they didn't just abandon the inconvenient, despite health insurance not having been invented either.

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.