the management class always devalue the efforts of those doing actual work. their exorbitant salaries couldn't be justified any other way.

You're welcome.

I quit after over 20 years. It was really, really hard. I still crave them. Won't start again, just because quitting was so incredibly difficult. But, yeah. I, uh, think about it... Both sides of it.

Be aware, I cherry picked the information you had asked for from a much larger work. Just "Chapter 3 - The health effects of active smoking" has 37 sections. Everyone but the one I linked above has a list of negative effects. Have a look at the rest of it, too.

Chapter 3 Index: https://www.tobaccoinaustralia.org.au/chapter-3-health-effects

Don't just confirm your biases. Look at the whole picture.

Wish you the best.

https://www.tobaccoinaustralia.org.au/chapter-3-health-effects/3-28-health-benefits-of-smoking-

There's reason to believe there are specific benefits from smoking tobacco. It's just that they are pretty much always outweighed by the negative effects of smoking in the long term.

the dog enjoyed it, the parade was at least worth something

Either that or you're right with a galosh.

Trying to find the tiny "show more results" button sandwiched between the first page of shit results and the weird AI bubbles of shit results just to find semi-decent shit on pages 2-3 makes me wish i was dead every single time.

If you don't accept adding and subtracting numbers as allowed mathematical transactions, multiplication doesn't make sense at all. It isn't arbitrary. It's fundamental basic accounting.

Pemdas is mostly just factoring, kinda. That's how you should think of it.

2x4 is really 2+2+2+2.

That first 2+(anything else) can't be acted/operated upon until you've resolved more nested operations down to a comparable level.

That's it. It's not arbitrary. It's not magic. It's just doing similar actions at the same time in a meaningful way. It's just factoring the activities.

Rich people don't want to sell their stocks yet. So we all can't act like adults and admit everything is fucked or their fake assets will start to lose value before they've convinced you to become so invested in the charade that you're willing to buy them.

Georgian COBOL on a Babbage engine powered by a water wheel from a now defunct diversion of the Hudson being bandied around like it's the latest fucking macOS. The decals are clearly peeling, but the world's on fire and everyone has stock they don't want to sell yet, so we're riding this ship to bedrock and that's final, mister.

Cherish the richness of the experience. Don't try to get over it. Hold every little detail tightly in your heart. The pain, the love, the loss, the ecstasy. All of it. Soon enough we'll all be nothing at all.
It only hurts because it was worth it. Don't let yourself forget a single thing.

(and the tighter you hold on, the faster the sharp edges will wear away because nothing at all is ever even slightly fair.)