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What does "exposed your alt on .ca" mean?

Can you intertwine Lemmy accounts from different servers somehow?

It validates that governments can see what's happening on Telegram, and that makes Telegram a target.

They can't go after the likes of Signal because they have very little to go on in the first place. They can't say definitively what's happening there as they can't see any messages. Unlike Telegram.

It's not a conspiracy that Signal are compromised, so they're being ignored. They're being ignored because there's nothing to see, so governments might as well spend resources going after the apps where information is visible instead. At least they might get a result. E2EE apps are too difficult.

Signal only delivers a promise that their E2EE will be enough to make the information govts get useless.

Signal do more than just a promise. Their encryption techniques are available to see. You can confirm if it's enough protection for you or not. Telegram are the ones making a promise. I'm not saying they've broken their promise (as evidenced by the arrest).

But it is just a promise when Telegram still has the ability to see messages. Signal can't see messages and therefore don't have to rely on a promise that can be broken (willingly or not). They instead rely on encryption, which appears to be far stronger than any promise could be.

For all we know, this is performative and the French government already has access to Telegram's servers and can see everything. If they have access to Signal's, oh well, they can't see shit.

In exchange for smoking.

As in, not quitting ingesting nicotine. Still inhaling foreign substances into the lungs. Vaping is still shit for you.

In the early 2000s the message was "smoking is bad, here is why, this is what it will do to you, please don't do it". That message was sinking in to the general public. Smoking was plummeting.

Then austerity came along around the same time as vaping and it became far more convenient to just ask smokers to vape instead of mass education campaigns.

Now the simple answer is just banning it.

It's not a solution. It normalises government overreach into day to day life, it others people and makes them targets for discrimination, and doesn't convince people of the ills of smoking.

It's a dumb idea that polarises people and doesn't fix the root issue.

Who's not arguing in good faith now?

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/e-cigarettes-around-95-less-harmful-than-tobacco-estimates-landmark-review

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/e-cigarettes-could-be-prescribed-on-the-nhs-in-world-first

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/quit-smoking/using-e-cigarettes-to-stop-smoking/

https://www.nhs.uk/better-health/quit-smoking/vaping-to-quit-smoking/vaping-myths-and-the-facts/

That took about 3 seconds of Googling

People IN pubs and bars already enjoy smoke free air. The discussion is about outside beer gardens. Where the wind is. There's also nothing stopping pubs having their own rules against smoking in their beer gardens already. Why must the law be used to criminalise those who smoke?

I'm not a smoker by the way. I'm pro-smoke reduction even, as stated by my point about education, but I'm anti-authoritarian and anti every faucet of human life being criminalised.

Oh no! Smells! Call the police.

"Yes, police service please. Somebody was stressed at work and decided to take a break to calm down and in doing so inadvertently made my jumper smelly. Can you arrest them please? They're still here. They're behind the bar serving pints to everyone, you can't miss them, their t-shirt is so pongy, poooooeeeyyyyy. I'll see you in 5 minutes."

I worked in a pub for a few years, do you know how difficult it is to get the plod to show up? Even if there's two blokes kicking the shit out of each other it can be a task to get them to respond to the call.

Making it ILLEGAL to smoke outside is ridiculous. Those who say otherwise are far happier with government overreach and authority than they'd otherwise admit.

Edit: to add, remember when we were told sitting outside kept us safe from covid, an airborne virus, because of the constant airflow? Funny how that doesn't apply to smoking.

Which part of the US 🇺🇸 is Austria 🇦🇹 in?

Absolutely authoritarian.

Education campaigns are far more effective with far less pushback than draconian bans. Let people choose for themselves.

I remember constant campaigns in the past trying to convince the public of the ills of smoking, and it (slowly) appeared to be working. Then vaping came along, and instead of continuing the education campaigns, the health departments tactics seemed to change to "take up vaping, it's better than smoking".

And now, it may just be anecdotal, but smoking appears to me at least, to be on the rise again. I wonder why?

LABOUR rail minister threatened a company with severe financial and reputational damage if they didn't fire one engineer for doing his job. It's great to see New New Labour being so pro-worker...

Surely you can't be advocating for for-profit private companies to pay for their own mess? What would the shareholders think?

How are we supposed to continue to create wealth for those who don't need any more wealth if we demand they use their own ill gotten gains to clean up their mess?

That doesn't make any sense at all!

(/s)

Will we buggery.

I love making the streets of London glisten gold. It really perks me up when Aberdeen's granite shines silver in the sun as it helps me imagine what those poor struggling toffs in London have got via our labour and I'm glad I could do my bit to help. /s