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New Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cuts in c/[email protected]
New Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cuts in c/[email protected]
New Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cuts in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Smoking is awful, disgusting, and through the diseases it causes puts a massive burden on the healthcare system... buuuut, educational campaigns to encourage people to stop and limiting it in media/banning advertisements is definitely the way to go over yet another prohibition law.

A Spanish agency became so sick of models and influencers that they created their own with AI — and she’s raking in up to $11,000 a month in c/[email protected]
Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

If the game is set in the "real world", an advertisement for a fake brand of a real product is, to me at least, more immersion breaking than it being a real brand for that product. Now if the game isn't set in our world it's a completely different story.

The Feds' Vehicle 'Kill Switch' Mandate Is a Gross (and Dangerous) Violation of Privacy | Jon Miltimore in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

They can be a source of egregious right wing propaganda undermining our democracy at every turn (which they are), and also occasionally still have legitimate grievances with our legislators sneaking bullshit like this into otherwise critical legislation.

Valve rocks in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If only Valve could learn to count to three they'd be the perfect game studio.