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In Italy, cigarette packs carry shocking pictures of diseased lungs, tumors, and other severe health effects, yet they fail to deter smokers. It’s essentially a cultural problem.


> yet they fail to deter smokers.

The existing ones, sure - you get used to it. But for non-smokers, that's a visible indicator of what you're bringing on yourself if you start smoking, so it has a deterring value. It helps you to present an abstract idea into something palpable that you can't ignore that easily.


Something has deterred smokers: the overall rate of adults who smoke has fallen from 50% to 25% in the last 50 years [0] - the source gives measures by gender and birth cohort, but you can aggregate them any way you want to see a big drop off.

[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2566030/


I have been thinking why not take similar actions against alcohol as with tobacco. Add warning labels, increase taxes to huge number. Maybe ban anything but 94% pure stuff. No more any type of flavourings like they did with menthol.


I suppose that they just keep referring to the website in their chats, and probably they have selected the search function, so before every reply, the crawler hits the website


Could you point me to some European banks that integrate your product? My current bank doesn't have something similar, and I would like to have an option to view all my subscriptions at a glance


Genuine Question: What problem did you encounter within the Mail App?


Where do I begin? I guess saying that using thunderbird or neomux is a huge upgrade. Just the ability to filter or add tags is huge. But I don't know an alternative in iOS which frequently doesn't even update and inline displays pdfs making it easier for scammers


Not the original commenter, but it regularly fails to update emails unless it is restarted. Last 2 major iOS versions have had the same problem for me. That’s a fundamental functionality failure in my book.


This! Continuously restart app to read new mail.


Thanks! I didn't notice it because I only have manual mail fetch. But I did notice frequent crashes of the app when you open heavy email (e.g with lots of images)


It's pretty embarrassing that Apple doesn't bother fixing this issue.


I really love this app, but I'm not a fan of the subscription model. While I understand the business reasoning, I'd much prefer having the option to purchase individual presets instead of committing to a full subscription.

I recently used the B/W preset by Greg Williams during my trip to Iceland, and the results were fantastic. The grainy texture it added to my photos was exactly what I was looking for and really enhanced the dramatic Icelandic landscapes.


I'm still waiting for the integration of messages from 3rd party apps under the DMA discipline (e.g you can message with someone on telegram from whatsapp)


That won't happen with Whatsapp. 3rd parties don't want META using the messages of their users for ad and AI training, like Signal.


Quite interesting, do you have some documentation of your platform and capabilities? Your landing page is quite synthetic


hey! we're working with an initial set of customers, and plan to launch full capabilities soon. stay tuned :)


Can confirm, peak Star Wars. All the references to the original movies are on point


> All the references to the original movies are on point

How I Met Your Mother was a very popular show.

But when I watched it, I was struck by the fact that in many, many places where an ordinary sitcom would have a joke, HIMYM instead had a continuity reference. Everything about the structure of the scene would suggest that the reference had been a comical beat, and the laugh track would play, but there was not even the faintest suggestion of... a joke.

If I want to hear about things that happened in the original movies, I can watch them. Does referring to them improve Andor somehow?


I think it's a personal preference. I personally like very subtle references to the classic trilogy: a non-fan can still follow the scene without problems, but for a fan, the same scene can carry a stronger impact and deeper meaning.

I believe this more intense effect, at least for me, stems from the connection to the unique 'pathos' of the original three films. That's my two cents.


I'm experiencing the same problem with my Google Home ecosystem. One day I can turn off the living room lights with the simple phrase "Turn off Living Room Lights," and then randomly for two straight days it doesn't understand my command


Google has caught a serious case of FOMO. Every major/minor player is scrambling to blend search with LLMs.


This is no simple case of FOMO. I'd rather say that this is a classic case of the Innovators Dilemma. It's their Kodak Moment.


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