I don’t know why suddenly the bar for comparison is the world generally decades ago. We were comparing countries. My point stands, most European countries have higher smoking rates than in the US. Even if there are a few exceptions.

Not sure where you’re comparing to but compared to the US the difference is stark. I expect to see the occasional smoker on your average US city block, but in Europe it feels like I cannot go outside any building without the doors being surrounded by smokers. Anecdotally my experience is very different to yours and also this map indicates my experience is not isolated. Compared to the US just about all the European countries have a higher density of smokers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_consumption_by_country

I will say that in the rural US the smoking rate “feels” higher than even the European countries I’ve visited. Maybe you’re from the rural US? It feels like the rate in US cities is extremely lower than in the rural south

Get laid

You went and counted the words. That says more than I could

You just confirmed what I said. “One of the safest”

And yeah you wrote way more shit than you should ever expect people to read. Maybe abstain from writing 10,000 words ever but especially if you’re wrong

I didn’t read this novel but you’re arguing nicotine isn’t unhealthy and that makes you wrong

Have you been literally anywhere in Europe? Smoking is not a dinosaur waiting to die

That’s interesting. Learn something new every day. Thanks

Ah, yeah I normally would only need to do that in the context of signing a contract, which I do using Gimp or Photoshop.

Have you tried these? https://www.lifewire.com/best-free-pdf-editors-4147622

Depends on the platform I’m on. There are so many options. SumatraPDF on windows, whatever default app pop os has, preview on Mac, builtin android PDF viewer. I assume you’re on windows because you mentioned acrobat. There are several options beside sumatra. I think many are decent.

Png is not always lossless. It also supports compression. But your point stands, it’s not the best compression

Why would you use acrobat? I haven’t used it in many years and use PDFs all the time

What a stupid argument

You’re pitiful

That was my reaction too. People do but I’m not sure I understand. One thing, you could be much more easily on the hook for any copyright issue even if accidental. Also you’re paying for a new service. I’d rather just occasionally do some local maintenance and pay the $2 a month extra to keep my machine running which I’d likely do anyhow.

I tried jellyfin before I decided to buy the Plex lifetime pass and it just flat out would not boot. The docker container kept failing and I tried various things to troubleshoot. Made me sad but I felt like it was time to finally commit to Plex after using it for like 8 years…

Yeah and it was banned for being heavily used by awful criminals. Probably not a big deal to switch hosts even if you didn’t self host for some reason

Yeah too bad that I was on a host heavily associated with CSAM /s

They’re aware of baiting clicks

I actually think the multiverse concept is a super annoying and obvious cash grab. At no point did I think “oh cool these movies connect”. From the first moment to me it read as “oh they’re planning to make 100 movies and tying them together is just a tactic to con people into seeing all 100 the same way people have watched plenty of sequels they know will suck, but they just want to finish the trilogy”. Then the first time I heard it referred to as the “Marvel Cinematic Universe” I threw up in my mouth. I’ll never understand how people didn’t get bored and jaded after… 10 years max. We’re now sailing past 20 years from where I see this as all starting and it’s still some of the most popular shit of all time.