Buffalox

@ Buffalox @lemmy.world

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20h ago

Vegetarians have ‘substantially lower risk’ of five types of cancer, a major study found
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Buffalox @lemmy.world 20h ago
Ah ok I thought fish was included, because I've known some who call themselves vegetarians who eat fish.

20h ago

European girls aged 13-15 have world’s highest rate of tobacco use for age group

Numerous research papers I have studied. Before I started vaping more than 10 years ago.The base for the juice was very thoroughly studied all the way back to the 50's, and was used to prevent infectious respiratory diseases in kindergartens, and is still used in asthma inhalers, and is also used as stage "smoke". So there are numerous uses of the vaping juice that are all considered perfectly safe.The nicotine itself is not a carcinogen, so all that remains is the food grade flavors, that are most likely about as safe as the smell of a pot of tea.

20h ago

European girls aged 13-15 have world’s highest rate of tobacco use for age group

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 20h ago

As I mentioned earlier, the bases of the juice have been used since the 50's. And is also used in asthma inhalers. So it is false to claim the long term effect is unknown.The nicotine is also pretty well known, and is not a major carcinogen. All that remain is the flavor, where there may be minimal risk, but they too are known enough to be good grade, and we'll enough to mass produce and workers working with that every day.

So that part is mostly an argument from ignorance, which is unfortunately what we see regarding vaping about 99% of the time.

Again you call it early smoking, which is false. Vaping is not smoking. And there is no evidence that vaping leads to smoking. The whole gateway drug is a huge mistake that is often repeated but has zero evidence.

21h ago

AI opted to use nuclear weapons 95% of the time during war games: researcher

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 21h ago

The AI won. 🤣

21h ago

AI opted to use nuclear weapons 95% of the time during war games: researcher

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 21h ago

even though the technology it depicts is far outdated.

War Games was my first thought when reading this, but it seems like the AI was smarter in the movie than current AI.

22h ago

European girls aged 13-15 have world’s highest rate of tobacco use for age group

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 22h ago

As a substitute, it can aid in the process of trying to quit smoking altogether.

Yes I used it myself, where I had failed with several attempts before, I finally succeeded getting rid of tobacco with vaping, and then step the vaping down by mixing ever less nicotine in may vape juice.

Vaping feels cleaner than cigarettes and tastes better when you haven’t smoked before.

I agree, and even as a heavy smoker, when you have vaped for 14 days, a cigarette taste horrible.

It makes it easier to start smoking.

I know what you mean, but I have to correct you there. Vaping is NOT smoking. There's a HUGE difference between inhaling a vapor that has been proven safe, to a degree that it was used to prevent infections in kindergartens in the 50's in USA. The nicotine itself has few detrimental health effects, apart from creating dependency.Smoke from tobacco on the other hand, contains hundreds of carcinogens, and it is pretty obvious that inhaling smoke is dangerous. While vaping is more like smelling the fragrance of a pot of tea.

Also, I’d argue that putting nicotine in the growing bodies of kids and youngsters isn’t the best idea to begin with,

I absolutely agree, the fact that it creates a dependency, is IMO a good argument for making it illegal for under 18's.You are not fit to make that decision as a minor. However, it is also my impression that many young people actually do vape without the nicotine.Also regarding the nicotine in vapes, there are allegedly similar problems with energy drinks, that can also create dependencies. Those should be restricted too IMO. Preferably completely outlawed, or rather limited to be no stronger than a cup of tea.

22h ago

European girls aged 13-15 have world’s highest rate of tobacco use for age group

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 22h ago

I know those are frequently confiscated here, but when I vaped, most the equipment was made in China anyway, and the highest quality brands were also from China.Puff bars are apparently exceedingly popular, but to me it seems like a giant waste, I personally mixed my own juices from pure pharmaceutical quality PG and nicotine, and buying the best vaporizers and tanks from China. But that is next to impossible today, which I suppose is a part of why puff bars have become so popular.IMO the EU regulation is a bit heavy handed, but I suppose it does prevent extreme use to some extend, personally I'm happy I could use vaping as a means to get rid of my addiction, where several attempts before vaping had failed.

23h ago

European girls aged 13-15 have world’s highest rate of tobacco use for age group

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 23h ago

Which makes sense since the base is relatively close to a sugar-alcohol. But that would probably be per gram.So if you vape 2 ml per day (moderate use), and compare that to drinking 1 beer per day (also moderate use). The beer is 33cl of 4.5% alcohol (vol) = 15ml alcohol in one beer, or 10.5 grams, where 10 grams is 1 standard drink.

So by that measure vaping 2 ml is 1/7th as likely to cause cancer as drinking 1 beer.I personally stopped vaping a few years ago, after being a heavy smoker for many years. The maximum I ever vaped was less than 5 ml per day as a former heavy smoker.

In EU we have limits on how powerful the vape can be, and how big the tanks can be. So I doubt many of those girls even vape 2ml per day.Apart from the dependency on nicotine, it is mostly harmless.

23h ago

Vegetarians have ‘substantially lower risk’ of five types of cancer, a major study found

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 23h ago

Yes the calcium part is outright weird? Regarding B vitamin I think it's some specific B vitamins like B12, definitely not all of them.I think there may have been some journalistic misunderstanding, because it is mentioned in context with Vegans, while the article also seems to lump the 2 together at times. Which is a problem IMO, because there's a huge difference between Vegetarian that drink milk and eat fish and eggs, and a Vegan that eat zero animal products.

23h ago

Vegetarians have ‘substantially lower risk’ of five types of cancer, a major study found

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 23h ago

Here it means less than 150g per day. But there is no minimum recommendation AFAIK, probably because most people eat too much.So optimal amount is a bit murky. It probably also varies depending of what types of meat you eat. It is generally understood that chicken is better for your health than red meat.

23h ago

European girls aged 13-15 have world’s highest rate of tobacco use for age group

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 23h ago

Calling vaping tobacco use is like likening a painkiller to eating tree bark.Yes the nicotine comes from tobacco, but hundreds of other compounds are removed, and smoking or chewing tobacco is cancerous, AFAIK vaping is not, or more precisely less than 1% the toxicity of tobacco.

23h ago

Vegetarians have ‘substantially lower risk’ of five types of cancer, a major study found

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 23h ago

Yes I am aware that this is a cultural thing among many people. And responses by people that read the article can seem confusing.Admittedly I do it myself sometimes, but in this case that regards peoples health, I think a clarification was in place. 😋

24h ago

Vegetarians have ‘substantially lower risk’ of five types of cancer, a major study found

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 24h ago

Vegans had a 40% higher risk of bowel cancer when compared with meat eaters.

Regarding vegetarians and cancer yes, but most studies show that a moderate intake of meat is beneficial to your OVERALL health. And this study does NOT show that less meat the better.Also a lot of studies including this one, show that some nutrients are hard to obtain as a vegan, so you need supplements to stay healthy. Especially if you are Vegan.

I don't think you read the article, but just had a knee jerk reaction to the headline.

1d ago

Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 1d ago

USA has absolutely zero respect for the rights of people in or from other countries.This was also evident in how Obama explained the "balance" of US surveillance.It is also evident in how USA spies on allied top politicians. The might makes right mentality in USA is disgusting.

1d ago

Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 1d ago

WTF? This is harassment pure and simple, there is no rational reason for this.This is most likely contrary to human rights, and I sure hope it is illegal for any EU country to do this.

2d ago

Firefox’s AI Kill Switch is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 2d ago

its all just bloat.

Here you go:https://www.brow.sh/

If you want a lean no bloat Web Browser there are many that fit that label way better than Firefox.Firefox was always a full featured browser with more features than most.

Another nice little browser would be Falkon:https://www.falkon.org/

There are dozens of such browsers, Firefox is great because it's complete, go get your incomplete browser with only aged features elsewhere, that doesn't have the new features Firefox offer.Some of us use for instance the page translation quite often. If you are not used to that, you are limiting your browsing to only sources in languages you understand. I understand 5 languages, but not for instance Chinese and French.

2d ago

Firefox’s AI Kill Switch is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 2d ago

Most ordinary users never make a setting change,having it off by default, would make it so those users will never be aware the features are there, and having translation available on the address bar is a major feature.Since they do no harm, I can honestly not see a reason why it should be opt in?The people that want to turn it off are just contrarian, and possibly oppose AI as some sort of principle, disregarding that in this case it actually helps people that want to read articles in other languages, and blind people to have meaningful captions on pictures that aren't properly captioned for the blind.

You do you, but this is not you doing you, you are being contrary at far greater cost to other people, regarding something that shouldn't even be an inconvenience to you. You just choose to be difficult without having a real reason. Except you hate the word AI.

What AI feature is it exactly, that you think is detrimental to your normal use of Firefox?

I mean heck I would prefer to not even download the components

Why? And how many other features would you prefer not to download? The plugins interface maybe? Video and audio Codecs? Support for PNG? The theming capability? How many plugins do you have? What about AI features is it that is so especially horrible to you?

2d ago

Firefox’s AI Kill Switch is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 2d ago

Yes and no, this is not about others being worse, it's about being a total non issue in Firefox.First is that if you don't use them, the Firefox AI features do NOTHING. And on top of that you can disable them completely.

2d ago

Firefox’s AI Kill Switch is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 2d ago

Oh for fucks sake, you don't even have to turn it off, just don't use the AI functions if you don't want to. Like translate or Image Caption for the blind.The AI functions don't do shit unless you use them.They don't slow your browser down, and they don't eat resources as is so often claimed.Stop the fucking Mozilla hate.

2d ago

Western sanctions failed so completely that Russia just pitched Washington $12 trillion

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 2d ago

This is complete bullshit by Russia, the Russian nominal GDP is only $2.2 trillion. With highest estimate being $2.5 trillion, and the Russian economy is declining.

https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/gdp

So saying this is a failure of the sanctions against Russia, is adding a lie on top of another lie.Why is this stupid article upvoted?