Seems less stinky and less gross than cigarettes and loose tobacco. Also less electronic waste than disposable vaping. Less lung cancer probably, but not sure about oral cancer.

Why are nicotine patches illegal in Canada?

I’m honestly amazed the windows 11 percentage is that high.

What, Elon’s cyber trucks weren’t good enough for them?

If you’re really saving 20% in file size with XL, adding back a very compressed preview image that takes up one or two percent isn’t going to cost you much.

All you have to do is add a small traditional JPEG image at the start of the file. It doesn’t have to be high resolution or more than a couple of kb. The new format decoder would know this, and skip the traditional jpeg “header”, rendering the newer file format embedded in the image.

I would be more excited about JPEG XL if it was backward compatible. Not looking forward to yet another image standard that requires OS and hardware upgrades simply so servers can save a few bytes.

When you are in pain, you will try just about anything. Especially if traditional medicine has failed you, or you can’t afford to go the doctor or have no prescription medication coverage.

If they are still in business by then.

Some of the companies on this list will be fine after the bubble pops because they make other products, and they didn’t do that stock swap circle jerk.

Some researchers believe that no level of lead is “safe” and that the effects of exposure are cumulative.

https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/50-years-research-shows-there-no-safe-level-childhood-lead-exposure

Stupid Stellantis. Just one leadership fuck up after another.

I dunno. Microsoft, Apple, and Google have other products besides AI. They also have tons of cash. I don’t think it’s going to impact them as much.

Nvidia, Oracle, and OpenAI are the ones who will take the brunt. A lot of their value is investment between each other.

AMD will probably take a hit as well, since OpenAI is a huge customer.

Look for the other post that’s going around with the circle/arrows infographic.

China isn’t Canada’s friend. Spending money on Chinese goods means you are funding Russia’s war against Ukraine.

If you need to import something, why not import it from the EU? They make EVs. As does South Korea.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-provides-intelligence-russia-ukraine-targets-ukrainian-intelligence-says-2025-10-04/

It was lost a long time ago when Texas had its huge outbreak. Now Alberta has just solidified it.

Sodium ion batteries are eventually replacing Lead Acid 12V in cars.

https://www.kmdpower.com/news/12v-sodium-ion-vs-lead-acid-best-battery-for-rvs-and-boats/

Surprisingly good news.

I wonder if the pouches biodegrade, or if they are made from something like nylon.

You could compress the hell out of the traditional jpeg codec/layer part of the image. It’d be there for backwards compatibility. It only has to be readable by older clients and “acceptable” quality.

See “49kb” example here — totally acceptable image quality for backwards compatibility.

https://res.cloudinary.com/thewebmaster/image/upload/c_scale,f_auto,q_auto,w_1250/images/blog/jpeg-images-definitive-guide/JPEG_Quality_vs_Size.png

I know what Betamax is.