4D chess?

The gaping hole left by not having Ødegaard in the team is painful.

Awesome, thanks for the info. Really appreciate it!

Much appreciated. There's a few brands relatively new to the EU e.g Haier. Any thoughts on their quality? Or is this something you really can't go cheaper on?

You mean more frequently meaning smaller loads, right? At the moment it's about one 8kg load every 1.5 days, so in winter it's not long enough to dry. Might try a fan setup in the immediate term though and see how it goes.

I looked at those and figured the additional cost, plus only one load being washed at a time may be a bit annoying... But realistically, I'll have to see if one load per day is enough. Thanks!

EU based, but thanks for the message either way!

Hard disagree. Tipping should be abolished and restaurants forced to pay a living wage should be the only regulation around tipping.

The 5 year price graph is much nicer to view.

I have a life to attend to.

In theory, similar bans should apply to all harmful substances e.g. fizzy drinks, alcohol, fast food etc. This is obviously an extreme take and difficult, if not impossible, to do in practice.

I also drink, have consumed illegal substances and consume fast-food on a rare basis.

My reasoning is that I do not want extensive costs being lumped into the general public to pay for the needed health care, due to the availability of harmful, non-beneficial products in our society. I do not believe extra tax on these products is appropriate or sufficient as these products tend to be used by those with lower education or lower income groups - and it is not fair to further burden these groups in life.

I will never forgive the ABC for going the clickbait route.

The reasons are: 1- governments will not regulate as it accounts for $7 Billion in tax revenue. 2- sporting organisations receive a considerable amount in advertising revenue.

It's clear you don't understand grouping from this conversation.

IQOS may not be big in all markets, but their share is not negligible.

The juul lawsuit triggered a lot of regulation changes and created legal precedent.

That is all I have time for.

I have a friend like you whom I love to send into the chasm that is his own mind. The physicist has the attitude needed to deal with these thoughts - does it even matter? Ultimately, until we know our existence is false, we might as well keep on appreciating what we experience, right?

Would anyone really start vaping just to blow clouds of flavoured smoke?

I'm not being facetious here, genuinely curious.

I mean mothers don't decide for adults either, hopefully. But I think you missed my point.

We know that: Tobacco and alcohol companies tried (and still do try) very hard to get kids to smoke & drink, because a child who smokes/drinks will likely become a significant customer for life.

Regulators also know this, so they began aiming at removing the marketing which was clearly influential to age groups not legally allowed to consume alcohol/cigarettes. I know for example Australia banned alcohol ads during kids tv shows, tobacco advertising has been banned since the 90's.

Then along came vaping, which was neither a tobacco or alcohol product and could circumvent the regulations in place.

There is a significant young population size who will take up smoking/vaping for its social appeal - whatever that is. Let's call them pot #1.

There is also a significant young population who will try smoking/vaping, realise it tastes like ass or is too much effort and decide to not continue with it. Let's call them pot #2.

Pot #1, which it sounds like would include you for cigarettes, cannot be influenced and these regulations trying to reduce smoking/vaping would annoy them.

Pot #2 however can be influenced as long as those factors are address, e.g. ban the selling of the child friendly flavours, reducing exposure and limiting supply.

By reducing pot #2 for harmful activities like drinking, smoking and vaping, you reduce the burden on your public health system in the long term.

The big vape companies have been bought out by the big tobacco companies now, so they are one in the same.

Naah in all for the ban on fruity flavours. A lot of people, myself include, growing up didn't smoke because it tasted like trash. Imagine if cigarettes tasted like hot chocolate!

It doesn't remove all vapers, but it doesn't increase the numbers either.

Ive watched very little epl this season, but here are my shit takes after getting some time off this weekend and watching 4 games:

Liverpool are a force to be reckoned with at the moment, and potentially this season. The fact that a new coach has managed to maintain their fluidity and how clinical they can be is pretty hectic, plus having an on-fire Salah doesn't hurt.

ESR will not thrive at Fulham. Either the injury has really done a number on him, but more likely the football of relegation battle teams just doesn't suit his play style. I hope this changes soon as he starts getting consistent minutes.

Ten Hag may be the first manager sacked if United don't win next match. Losing like that at Old Trafford isn't going to help his stock much.

Spurs won't make the top 4 with their squad. Son needs a vicious striker to really show his potential, similar (but obvs not as good as) Ødegaard.

I really hope Sterling can come and give Saka a break. Man has been going non-stop since the 2021 season and I feel it is showing.

But that is not "using hydrocarbons as a battery" as your comment mentioned.

I'm going to put myself on the block here. Rice didn't lose it for us, our front 3 did (again) we had numerous chances in the first half which a clinical striker would have put to bed. We were all over them for 70% of the first half and only managed one goal from a horrendous error from Dunk.

If Rice didn't get sent off, we probably would have won it - but we should have put the game to bed before half time. Take the lesson on the chin, then be more ruthless against spuds.

Shit all round, but it was a great ball in and Gabriel's poor challenge. He only had one chance and didn't make it.