LarrySellers

The parent is copy/pasting from the linked press release from Trump which exclusively links to donaldtrumpcampaign.cmail20.com. They know they're arguing in bad faith.

Please don't try again, I'm not trying to be condescending. If not for yourself, for the people you love. Nicotine addiction is particularly insidious.

Lots of people gave me this advice the few times I was addicted, I ignored them all and simply thought they were talking down to me ("of course, I know it's bad for you", "I can quit whenever I want") so I understand if you interpret it that way. Once you've seen yourself or a loved one go through it and survive (or worse) you have a different reaction, a bit like seeing someone standing on the tracks while a train is approaching. Wishing you good health.

The onus is on the person making the claim (you) I'm afraid.

> in the time when they didn't capture the market yet

Big Tobacco entered the market around 2012-2013.

We shouldn't assume that about the GP, but indoor vaping in public spaces is much common than indoor smoking in the US.

> to try to get addicted

Why?

> more nauseous than anything if you have enough

Enough to poison yourself.

Which studies in specific? Can you cite one?

The tobacco industry is making lots of money off of these and can sell them in flavors that were banned in cigarettes a long time ago (opening up the market to kids again).

https://tobaccotactics.org/wiki/e-cigarettes/

Which ones?

It's not obvious, that's why we're studying it. In fact some studies have shown that e-cigarettes may not lead to cessation.

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/2020-smoking...

E-cigarette aerosols vary greatly, as well as the temperatures that various devices heat them to.

> as any smoker that was into vaping could and did tell you

Anecdotal evidence may be unreliable due to cherry-picked or otherwise non-representative samples of typical cases.

I pick up trash in my neighborhood. It makes the neighborhood cleaner and more enjoyable for all. You might be overthinking this.

Shame it's so easy to get comments flagged and killed on HN. The parent comment wasn't inflammatory and (as we can see) contributed to relevant conversation.

Vaccines reduce the spread of disease, full stop.

Yep, no evidence.

> so if the feature can be traced back as a proximate cause of something like the capital [sic] riot

Then they would have removed OAN's video claiming Trump won the presidency, but they didn't. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4c5dYDD9xw

That is speculation, not circumstantial evidence. Thank you for providing sources that say "there is no evidence YouTube deliberately removed authentic dislikes."

The change was being explored years before Biden was president

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/02/youtube-doesnt-like-...

Sure, it's easy to find examples of dislike brigades for the current White House channel: https://libredd.it/r/Conservative/comments/l2d9ma/youtube_de...

I was just wondering if there was any evidence that the government was involved in UI change. There isn't.

Agreed, you have no evidence for your claim, so it can be dismissed entirely.

Do you have any evidence at all?

Is there any evidence that the government pressured YouTube into making this change? Or this is just blind speculation on your part?

Here's evidence that the videos are subject to organized brigades: https://libredd.it/r/Conservative/comments/l2d9ma/youtube_de...

Good point, there's clearly no conspiracy against the right.

...but the recent video of Biden getting sworn in has more likes than dislikes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2305DGsceE

He's been president for nearly a year. Youtube is really bad at this conspiracy stuff I guess.

Except they considered the change years before Biden was president: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18207189/youtube-dislike-a...

This Trump rally from The Hill, where he tells his followers to get the vaccine that he got, garnered 1.5k likes and 1.3k dislikes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huQdxDnQkac

Here Trump hints at a 2024 run on the Today show, but it has more likes than dislikes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU7MWvwTOzw

Here a Fox affiliate covers a recent Trump rally, but it has 10 times more likes vs dislikes! Didn't anyone tell them about the grand Youtube conspiracy?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi4niom7se8

Does that fit your narrative or no?

There are no dislike/downvote buttons on submissions on HN (only comments), no matter how much you "prove yourself"

Unfortunately it makes them inaccessible in this case, I wouldn't even know how to scroll sideways unless you actually expect a user to click and drag a scrollbar. Even if the site was usable the the text is still illegible.

“I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.” -- David Lynch

When I realized that The Big Lebowski is The Big Sleep + bowling it blew my mind