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Little Bobby Tables struggles

E cigs worked for me quitting: I replaced analogue smoking with strong nicotine (18mg) MTL vaping which I used whenever I had the urge. Over the course of 6 months I gradually moved to a 3mg suspension as I found the stronger liquids were making me feel sick (especially in the morning). After about a year I couldnt decide on a vape flavour I liked any more (they all tasted odd) at which point I stopped carrying the vape with me and didn't miss it. I now dont use it at all. I realised the times I smoked were more from habit i.e. Ive just had lunch, a ciggy follows that" "Im going to make a phone call light up", rather than than an addiction that harrasses you to the core, 24x7. My wife still smokes and has tried various ways to quit, but ultimately she wants to smoke so continues. I smell tobacco smoke now and whilst I don't dislike the smell, being a room while someone smokes is not something I enjoy and can barely believe I used to happily sit in (UK) pubs all weekend smoking, playing pool etc.

It's been 2 years since quitting - started at 17 and quit age 39 as a very heavy smoker (20 pack + a day). I have always been very active but found my lung capacity, endurance and ability to perform are all much increased. I used to get the occasional chest pain and those have gone now, too. I just hope I havent done too much damage and can enjoy my kids, my garden, my physicality.. for as long as I can - my father in law has COPD and it is not a pretty end to a guy who used to be very a strong, physically capable guy.

I would encourage anyone to quit tobacco by whatever reasonable means & (my hunble) experience tells me vaping is way better than tobacco smoking.

No sure on Lotus or the amiga, but a null modem cable simply crosses the rx and tx between the two systems (so rx on one device goes to tx on the other and vice versa). Same principle of how a crossover ethernet cable was always used to back to back, for example, two machine nic's or two ethernet switches before auto MDIX.

McDonalds is in the real estate business (letting buildings), fast food is just a side order.

The article mentions how profitable the airline industry has been - "in the black for 11 straight years" https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/pr/2019-12-11-01/

I suspect any mass transport is going to take a hit with the current situation, trains included.

There is a difference between it having a network connection (i.e. ethernet) and having internet connectivity - you just need to be able to control the tv's traffic.

If the manufacturers start adding a 4G modem to their devices then that might change things. Hopefully the economics of that never work out.

This was REIN not RAIN, also common enough

RE RTL dongle.. Or tune your AM radio to ~612kHz to listen to the REIN

"Modelling one example of a wealth tax"; Other wealth tax implementations available.

Or take it to the other extreme - buy two dishwashers A and B and use A for dirty items whilst using B as storage for clean items. When the dirty one A is full, run it and put dirty items in the formerly clean washer B. This way you save on cupboard space which can be used to store faberge eggs instead.

It may be the case that the greater understanding will lead to a greater need for change.

Not OP, but I think they were referring to this:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29743857

Trying to remember the name of the book it is covered in, too

Edit: Book was "Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police" iirc

If the Russian state can merrily kill people on mainland UK in recent years (Alexander Litvinenko) and release nerve agent in Salisbury without recourse, then a sprinkling of election time cyber ops is the last of our worries.

Given that governments of these countries are actually doing something in response, covid-19 must be way more dangerous than guns. Oh.

My brother inlaw had a Roomba after testing several of these. He went out one day and came back several hours later to find his dog had defecated on the floor and the robo-vac had smeared the entire downstairs with poo. The vac was never the same after that