All good, I’ve been there too :)

My guy they (formerly I) know. After you’re hooked it feels out of your control. It becomes a mechanism your brain uses to alleviate stress or to relax. For me, for a long time, it helped me socialize, as I was alone in a new city, working a serving job. After it became a part of who I was, stopping wasn’t just ceasing buying and smoking cigarettes, it was now changing my identity and my personality.

I’ve quit now but I’m here to tell you its big ask of someone, and you shouldn’t judge folks who try and fail, but treat it as a vallient effort, and encourage them to try again.

I hear you though, having been a non smoker for a few years now I can smell it and I know what you mean. Just try to remember those are real people behind the addiction, and that for those of us old farts, some of us thought it made us look cool, and were led into it, despite the warnings.

Hey I’ve been there, and after reflecting on it, the truth is, (at least from my perspective), you don’t really, truely want it yet. Don’t take that as judgement, I’m certainly not in a place to judge, but I’ve kicked severeral multi-year addictions, and weed was one I had the pleasure of just “deciding to quit”. For me quitting weed came with breaking a friendship of the longtime smoking buddy I had, though after getting off of it and reflecting, I realize he was just using me as a convenient spot to store his weed. YMMV, but I think you got this, and hopefully my experience lends some light onto your difficulties with quitting.

S6E4 Game Changers dropped literally yesterday and you wasted no time recycling the joke

Isn’t that… Just like… How you write titles and names?

I think it would look wrong if the title didn’t use title casing.

My solution is to host a virtual machine with my dev workstation, and use Windows or Mac for business admin stuff like email, slack, etc.

It doesn’t have to be a compromise

You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.

Any change to appease you would be a compromise, you understand this, yes?

Friend, this is not the way to change minds. It is possible this person merely wishes to verify or discredit the opinions and hot takes by consuming the primary source. Watching a single interview isn’t necessarily a slippery slope. In fact, given the opportunity to do so, they might come to the same conclusions as you regarding Putin. Now though, whether they watch it or not, you’ve represented us (the folks that agree this war is unjustifiable) in a way that indicates we’re completely closed off to reason.

Edit: I didn’t notice this was the same commenter who said:

Don’t listen to them. First thing putin asked was “do you want a talk show or a serious conversation?” You don’t need to agree with him but the whole interview was a reasonable and civilized attempt to show the russian perspective to western audiences.

I don’t totally agree with this take, I think this interview was more an attempt to present to the more gullible and easy-to-sway westerners (Tucker Carlson’s base) of Putin’s extremely outdated and downright mideval philosophy regarding justifications for war in the modern era.

I think my point still stands though: “Don’t feed the trolls.” Telling them to fuck off plays right into their hands. I don’t want to make any assumptions about this commenter’s intentions, but if they are indeed trolling, making you say something reactionary was likely their intent.

I think it is simply saying that the named groups may get filtered out by this process, without making any claim regarding other groups.