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Your original argument wasn’t about minimum voting age; you claimed the law would backfire due to the current generation. The point is to eliminate cigarettes over a long time peri…

You aren’t understanding the law. The idea was to prevent people born after 2008 buying cigarettes. In 2028, the minimum age to buy cigarettes would be 20. In 2048, it would be 40.…

The problem with smoking in particular is that it costs taxpayers obscene amounts of money compared to the other things you listed, in addition to straining the healthcare system w…

The point isn’t to stop that particular age group from smoking; it’s to eliminate cigarettes in the long term (eg 70 years).

I’m just saying that’s how the old systems worked, as that was a limitation of the time. A modern system doesn’t have to beep. It can tell you what it’s doing, in your language, vi…

> the study highlights exactly the difference the GP was saying: gen z is much more likely to be okay with the surveillance state You admit to CATO being biased but you still belie…

Thank you, I was looking for this but couldn’t find it. My comment has been corrected. To anyone downvoting my original comment, take a look at CATO, the style of writing used in t…

Who decides whether or not a question is relevant? Your refusal to even engage the question proves that you believe your freedoms are worth more than the lives of others.

I think you’re attempting to play with words to skirt around the question, despite the fact you know exactly what I’m saying. But let’s phrase it a different way. Are you saying it…

For thousands of years people have been fixing problems caused by the previous generation. Why does the buck stop with gen z?

What makes you so sure the data in your study is truly representative of gen z? A few months ago a study was posted on HN which claimed 30% of gen z supported police cameras being …

> Drunk driving already has very harsh penalties There are no penalties if you don’t get caught. I think the OP is saying that if it’s triggered, you can override it, but a report …

It would be ridiculous if the car just shut down and stopped immediately. I really shouldn’t have to point out that it obviously doesn’t work this way. In-vehicle breathalysers hav…

So your argument is that the right to drive a road-legal vehicle dangerously on private property is more important than the right to not get killed by a drunk driver on a public ro…

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There’s a common saying, “you can’t outrun a bad diet.” I hate this saying so much. I can’t imagine how many people don’t bother to exercise because they already have a bad diet, r…

Google pays creators out of the revenue they make from ads, and Google doesn’t make revenue from ads that were blocked. I think that would be fraud. I think this is fair TBH. If yo…

Same experience for me. The first video I watched after my premium sub expired, I was given two preroll ads. Then, 30 seconds into the video, an ad. Finally, at the end of the 5 mi…

It’s shocking because Alphabet is in the business of making money at the expense of their users. They aren’t building Chrome because they believe in the open web, they build it to …

> and haven't had an issue. Every lithium battery in every device you’ve used has degraded. It’s not a manufacturing issue, it’s a chemistry issue. If you haven’t had an issue, the…

It’s impressive how some of the most successful tech companies in the world get this wrong. If you give your phone number to Google, they will pressure you to enable SMS MFA and SM…

There is a specific issue with SMS that I hate more than any of the issues you mentioned - the state of roaming. Because every company on the planet forces me to provide my phone n…

I disagree about Ryanair. Yeah, they try and upsell you like crazy, but there aren’t any tricks. They warn you to buy bags in advance because they will charge more at a later date …

Yeah, this is it. People who are used to having their ticket price subsidised by other people who don’t have luggage are angry that those other people are no longer subsidising the…