I have a couple of ideas.

First would be making tobacco a specialty item, to be sold solely on specialty shops. Take it out of the supermarkets, convenience stores, gas stations, etc. Put it in an enclosed, reserved space, with knowledgeable people behind the counter to actually teach a customer on tobacco and smoking and we have a start.

Second would be to end specific tobacco blends that invite to grab a cigarette after another. I work around smokers and the more conscious ones mention there are such blends, while others satisfy after just one, whatever that may mean.

Third measure would be to make tobacco expensive and perhaps even cap the price. I worked with a person that said he’d quit the day a pack cost 10€. We’ve been farther from that but the cheapest pack available on the market is 5,5€ which is cheaper than the average pack was when I had that talk with my coworker. Twenty years back. I wonder how the companies manage to put such cheap product on the market today and not then.

Next would be to move the culture forward and bring back the notion of smoking as an indulgence and not an escape. My country, in the 60’s and 70’s, during a civil war, dispensed cigarette packs to soldiers where it was stamped “Have a cigar and relax.” It did wonders to boosts the tobacco consumption in the country. Previously it was mostly confined to more afluent people, who would usually smoke the pipe or high quality cigars, which is a better form of tobacco.

And where is tobacco a part of curriculum?

Not enough. Most people simply ignore tobacco as a substance and do not talk with their children, family and friends about it. It is addictive, it is dangerous for health but it should never be banned as it is being attempted on several countries.

Tobacco should be treated as a luxury, an indulgence, not something to label as a drug and criminalize. As you state and very well: this is prohibition. Puritanism never works and this will not be an exception.

Because teaching temperance takes too long. And regulate the companies is too much of a hassle.

Let me go get some popcorn. The show from the software houses/publishers is going to be wonderful to watch.

If it was, that would be an achievement.

I have to ask: the games are being recomplied for which OS’s?

I’m going to get nightmares.

Where is this?

I’ve worked in office space with computers, handling sensible data, and there wasn’t an anti-virus solution. Ever.

I am at a loss of words for how non-sensical this is.

Be careful and don’t dig yourself into a hole.

Someone more knownedgeable than me will follow shortly but that’s a cheeky way to ilustrate Ohm’s Law.

This is devious. And part of the list of reasons I do not eat food items offered by colleagues.

That sounds as a quote lifted from cinema or anime. And my intuition tells me it is but I can’t recall it.

And there’s the Chemical Brothers, too.

Good point.

I am not a cat person. That given: silly or invoking Cthulhu?

“Everybody would have guns, everybody would have drugs and nobody would be in charge.”

Well… Makes more sense than trying to robotize cars. The track is fixed and speeds and rights of passage are imposed by plain physics.

But you need tracks to implement autonomous freight trains.

Nope. Get me back to the starting point but grant me my memories from my past life.

I sincerely don’t know what is going on but after installing that package I was made aware that apparently the camera I have connected to my computer has a built in microphone. But which is apparently not useable as a recording device. So I have to wonder to where is that sound going.

Edit: something is seriously wrong. The microphone I have built-in to my headphones started working when I first added the package. After I disconnected the USB camera, it stopped registering on the system. And now it does not pick uo sound to record on Audacity.