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1  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] [POW] EPIC - Epic Private Internet Cash | MimbleWimble | Dandelion++ on: November 30, 2019, 08:35:04 PM
Ms.Fungible, that is typical of all projects, Telegram is the most focused medium. Less distraction more idea flow less blah blah blah. Bitcointalk is a good place to chat about politics and how great Bitcoin is/was and crypto economics and how great Bitcoin is/was and Bitcoin forks and John McAfees The Dickening and how great Bitcoin is/was and so much more of the same  Roll Eyes

Epic Cash definitely has good things in the works. Glad to see people from all places joining in!
2  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Vape Products Shouldn't be Banned on: November 29, 2019, 03:53:08 PM
This whole vape scare is about the tax revenue the state is not collecting on standard tobacco products. This is all to justify taxing vape products just like tobacco.

Sadly I think thats all there is to it, vaping vilified to bring on tax parity.
3  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: Are u buying alts? on: November 29, 2019, 05:13:58 AM
Buying Epic Cash on BiHODL and Monero on Kraken.
4  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: [XMR] Monero Speculation on: November 29, 2019, 03:53:32 AM
Monero is awesome!
I love real privacy cryptos: Monero and the up and coming Mimble Wimble tech like Grin and Epic Cash.
People need to know!
5  Other / Meta / Re: grin is now accepted for forum payments on: November 28, 2019, 11:40:24 PM
Love the tech behind Mimble Wimble, but really dont like unlimited emission. Looks like there are several Grin forks out there though.
6  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Vape Products Shouldn't be Banned on: November 28, 2019, 10:09:08 PM
I totally disagree with you,we can already predict with the few data we have today that vaping is a lot less harmful than cigarettes just by comparing their ingredients.
Yeah, that's not how science or medicine works. Everyone thought thalidomide was totally safe based on a small amount of data, and then thousands of children were born with horrendous birth defects.

E-cigs have at most 5 different ingredients while cigarettes contain more than 600 ingredients,most of them known to be harmful.
I'll concede they contain fewer ingredients than cigarettes (more than 5, though), but that does not make them inherently safer. There has also been very little studying of what these compounds break down to or combine to form when heated. There are ingredients which aren't present in cigarettes at all such as diacetyl, which can cause fatal lung diseases such as bronchiolitis obliterans, a disease that is not linked to smoking cigarettes.

Why regulated e-cigs in europe haven't caused any death?
They have. European countries have heterogeneous reporting methods (and some have no reporting system at all), so the data is incomplete when compared to the US. But there categorically have been severe illnesses and deaths:
https://casereports.bmj.com/content/2018/bcr-2018-224350
https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l5275
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/09/30/death-factory-worker-first-britain-linked-vaping/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/11/14/first-belgian-death-linked-vaping-teen-given-e-cigarette-18th/
https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/vaping-death-lipoid-pneumonia-17005080

...and by the way I am not saying that vaping is great, just that it helped to get two of my good friends off chain smoking death sticks

7  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Your thoughts about Greta Thunberg on: November 28, 2019, 09:20:45 PM
Some puppet. There is no way a 16 year old kid would talk to the world leaders like this unless somebody was financing the whole act.

Not saying those "world leaders" aren't puppets themselves. They suck too. But this kid? She is a very well written script.

The world is beyond saving now.

If you want to save the world, find a way to eradicate at least half of the world population.

Thanos' way is the only way.

Excellently put Smiley
I think she is still a puppet, because I dont think she fully realizes what she is really being used for.
She is the best puppet money can buy atm.
I would give you merit points if I had merit points!
8  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Tesla sources cobalt from Democratic Republic of Congo on: November 28, 2019, 09:14:36 PM
DRC uses child labor.

Every Tesla/powerwall sold is using child labor.

What's the societal impact of child labor on finished products?

I was born in Cameroon and I spend a lot of time doing business in Africa, the reality of 'exploitation' in Africa often comes down to the following quote

"the only thing worse than being exploited, is not to be exploited!"
- Joan Robinson
9  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Your thoughts about Greta Thunberg on: November 28, 2019, 09:05:43 PM
I think its sad that a socially retarded child with Asperger syndrome is being exploited to push economic cause.
Big Oil money is transitioning into new industries, if she got up in the 80s she would not have been given a microphone! Today she gets groomed up and propped up in front of an audience because timing is good, Big Money is on the move and needs a clean delivery mechanism.
Sad, she thinks she is doing good, like Jeanne d'Arc did...
10  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Vape Products Shouldn't be Banned on: November 28, 2019, 08:34:01 PM
I think Big Tobacco is one of the chief forces behind banning vaping.
Real life cases, I have two friends who used to smoke 1-2 packs a day.
They are both nerds, so when vaping came out, they for into vaping because it was kind of a game.
They would mix their own mixtures, chose amount of nicotine, flavors, etc.
This gave them a nerd feel, and control of what goes into what they smoke.
This has been going for years, they vape much less than they used to smoke.
They do not smoke at all, just vape.
Their clothes are not soaked with stink, their friends enjoy their company more, their health is better.
People around them do not suffer from second hand smoke.
Thats 2 people not smoking 1-2 packs a day, EVERY DAY, having effect on Big Tobacco bottom line.
I have a really hard time buying into banning vapes.
11  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Depression and exercise on: November 28, 2019, 08:10:35 PM
Love and Respect Yourself!
Take Care of Yourself!
Even though its hard at first, push yourself to exercise!
Even though its hard at first, try to eat better!
You will be more okay with yourself, use that as a stepping stone on the way to be better and better with yourself!

Drugs are not the answer, you have all the answers in you, right here, right now!

Good things will happen!
Good Luck!
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