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Understanding Sweden’s Smoke-Free Revolution: A Model for Global Health
  • The success story suggests that a smoke-free society can be attained more swiftly through a comprehensive, non-prohibitionist approach. This involves embracing both traditional measures and innovative solutions, catering to individual preferences, ensuring affordability, and providing easy access to safer nicotine alternatives.

    Seems obvious when you put it like that. Banning can create a sort of Streisand effect, and steadily increasing tax doesn't do much at all. Hope the safer alternatives don't incentivise excessive usage.

  • how was everyone's week?
  • Moved into a new apartment after a remote work trip through europe.

    Got necessary furniture, whitegoods and home wares, set up utilities. Started a new job, and managed my side business during off hours. Started learning Rust because i aim to contribute in small ways to Lemmy and build a ui. Had a sesh with my delta green group.

    Was a busy week, but i feel oddly addicted to the level of activity. Learning rust is going a bit slow but I'm enjoying it!

  • What's your favorite car game? Arcade and sim, I just want to know!
  • Trackmania! Man, the original was a hoot and i spent way too long in Trackmania; Sunrise. The tracks are still second to none, and the track editor; powerful. It allows you to save as many ghosts as you want and then produce a video. This was mind blowing to a younger me; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UcQmJwTnBg

  • What are your plans for this weekend?
  • Moved into a new place, need to get some stuff for my home. Like towels, lamps, mat, utensil tray, bin, plastic containers... I'm headed to a factory outlet and I'll try not to get carried away.

    Might get a sound system if I'm not careful

  • My Music - Losing Hydra

    This music is about a distant planet, where a hydra escapes a couple of jet aircraft. Ultimately it wins its freedom.

    The video is some 3d fractals & fx which was very fun to tinker with.

    Music has been a hobby of mine for a long time! It's pretty niche, but i hope someone out there enjoys it! ✌️

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    What european cities have you traveled to and would like to revisit?
  • Did an adhoc eurotrip from east to west. Porto in Portugal was fantastic. Colourful city and people. It spans a river edged with cliffs. As the sun sets a dense fog rolls down the river from the sea and blankets the place. When the city lights turn on through the fog, it looks magical.

  • Video Ads Are Coming to All Your Uber Apps
  • Agreed.. Augmented reality is going to be a nightmare hahah

    There are ways around adds; alternative apps, addblockers, roms and privacy focused browsers. The only mandatory adds are on street corners imo

    If adblockers didn't work, I'd be living alone in the woods somewhere.

  • tell me a story
  • My brother and I were on holiday in Hawaii. Not the tourist part, but a hidden hippie village where clothes are optional.

    I'd planned to hire a car, but one was only available a couple of days after we arrived. Our accomadation was a 3hr walk from any food, save the (very tasty) homegrown organic breakfast served at the place we were staying.

    So we spend the first day walking, talking and enjoying the scenery. We take a detour in the hopes of scoping out a local bike hire place. We find it just as rain starts coming down in earnest. It's closed.

    It'll be late by the time we get back to the accomadation, but that's fine. Phones have lights. Not a problem.

    Later, we're walking down a slim road lined with bushes and trees. It's dark and still warm. We're two hours from the accomadation, phone lights out, listening to music and stepping off the road each time a car passes.

    It's basically one tarmac road with a driveway every two hundred metres. A truck puts its blinker on and pulls over just ahead of us.

    The driver asks us where we're headed. We say up the road. He says he'll give us a lift, he just needs to collect some stuff from a place he's been staying. Nothing seemed dodgy, locals had already been very helpful and friendly.

    We're getting air, gripping the trailer, sitting in the back of this truck as it speeds through the jungle of trees. This driver knows the area.

    We pull up to a house/castle. It's a two storey house, with the flat stone facade of a fortress. It's completely dark. Nobody is home so I'm already feeling this is off.

    Driver says he'll just be a moment. He heads into the house through the back, using his phone light. A dog starts barking. He's not turning any house lights on. He brings out some basic bedding, we help tuck it into the back of his truck. Okay, he was staying here temporarily, makes some sense..

    Then he's on the second floor, still using his phone light, throwing things out a window, telling us to load it up! A wall clock shaped like a ships wheel. A drawer, like from a chest of drawers filled with random junk.

    Nope. We left. Got the address and walked off into the darkness. Called the police for an hour, and the next day, but didn't get anyone on the phone.

    That's the story of how my brother and i accidentally helped rob someone... We think.

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