…and they’ll tell us how green they are as they do it.

I couldn’t remember the exact offense, but yes… That’s what I meant.

No, because they are using them as a shield to commit atrocities.

How is Ukraine “their own soil”?

Isn’t discussing national issues with a foreign leader, when you’re not the serving president and not in any other diplomatic role, frowned upon? Especially a foreign leader engaged with hostilities against an ally.

…and shooting the other half in the back as they can’t communicate.

The dependency was massively reduced just in 2022 post invasion, but you can’t just go cold turkey.

So how will you know if he changes anything?

The US isn’t in anything right now. It’s deployed (it always is), but not in active hostilities.

(Unless I’m missing something in Central or South America)

Honestly. No country should have the military spending that the US does. It’s too much power in one place. I understand the cold war made it necessary though.

Not ban. Regulate, like food. Have standards and enforce them.

Secondhand nicotine does you no harm. The reason cigarettes are so bad for you is that you’re smoking tar. That’s what makes the walls of a smokers home yellow, and what gives them cancer.

Nicotine is addictive, but largely harmless at the levels in cigarettes and vapes for the primary smoker. A secondhand smoker will be getting almost nothing. The problem with vapes is, I suspect, the flavourings. I’m aware of mounting evidence that they’re not harmless, but I think that’s only to primary vapers, not secondary.

I think that last point is an important one.

Banning things often does more harm than good. In your case “Nicotine Bad!” as a policy removes your options.

So regulate them and enforce it.

Oh boo hoo!

People being mildly annoying means they should be banned? Cigarettes were killing smokers and those around them. That’s the line for me. If your actions harm others, then it gets restricted.

Vapes are nowhere near that line. They just smell weird.

You know this, but nicotine isn’t the problem. It’s all the other crap in them.

…and let me guess. Critizing Israel’s actions is tacit support of Hezbollah?

It was a death sentence leaving NK. They were never going to be allowed back in to tell others of the outside world. The only question was how long they’d last.

You mean the ones building massive LLMs with all the data they’ve scraped?

Lampposts will remain in place in many locations where they are necessary, such as in cities where CCTV cameras rely on good lighting.

Booooo! CCTV is deployed far too broadly.