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They also use vibrations to sense partners but I don’t know if they can tell gender from that

Tortoises use sight and have a good sense of sight to be fair but they also use scent from the cloaca to gather information about things like sex of a partner

he knows what he’s doing

I like mine but I have my phone set so that only a small handful of critical apps have notifications on and the watch basically only has notifications for messaging, email, and calendar reminders

Notifications were a great idea but apple and google ruined them by allowing advertising to fuck the whole system up. They should be forced to use their power to create a multiple lane environment for notifications - critical notifications and advertising related notifications need to have clear identifiers so I can identify them easily and opt out of what doesn’t matter to me.

They’ve instead gone with this system of allowing app developers to self regulate and many abuse it. Some give a granular system within their app to allow promotional notifications to be turned off but many do not. A lot who do silently turn settings back on with app updates and such, and after 6 months you’re suddenly getting a sea of promotional notifications again.

It trains you to just ignore notifications. Now they have AI summaries of the sea of notifications instead of just fixing the root of the problem, which is that 80% of your notifications are fucking garbage. But you can’t install an adblocker for this, you just have to stop using amazon, corporate social media, and shitty mobile games (net win though)

Advertising is cancer and ruins the world. Destroy advertising. If you work in advertising you’re a scumbag. Aaab (all advertisers are bastards)

roblox has a lot of pedophiles, that’s kind of similar I think

Congrats on quitting. Shit is super hard

To clarify things from my post: I didn’t even touch upon the environmental harm from vaping. If you use disposable vapes you’re kind of a shithead that is wasting a ton of lithium, that is mined by literal slaves, for your 2 day smoking device that you’ll probably not recycle properly. People recycle these batteries to power e bikes and literal homes. Vape shops with racks of these plastic boxes filled with single use 18650 (or similar high discharge) batteries are an environmental disaster

Nicotine pouches and gum lower the lung risk but are another space where long term risk is unknown.

They do irritate the gums and raise the risk of gum disease

Nicotine in general, gum or pouch, negatively impacts brain development and strains the cardiovascular system.

The acidity from the pouches still irritates the airway and oral mucosa and the constant increase of mucus production can lead to chronic bronchitis

The vasoconstriction effect of nicotine means that there is still potential lung involvement due to decreased blood flow even though it is not inhaled

Nicotine in low doses has some effects similar to adderall or methylphenidate but unlike those medications it tends to increase blood pressure and on long timelines create cardiovascular problems even in low doses. additionally it’s far more addictive (though tbf this is possibly/probably due to ease of access) and most users tend to use a fairly substantial amount, 20-40mg for a pack a day smoker, 35mg for someone who burns through a 5% juul pod in a day, etc

The gum is typically used short term and is actually marketed as a cessation device so that’s one thing but the pouches are huge now as you’ve said. It’s somewhat telling that for a minute they were big with the right wing grifter crowd

Vaping is less carcinogenic than smoking by a significant degree but it is carcinogenic

Acrolein, a carcinogen, forms in small amounts from the breakdown of glycerin during heating

If a “dry hit” occurs the effect is worsened, acrolein forms in higher amounts, and formaldehyde (another carcinogen) can occur from the breakdown of both glycerin and propylene glycol

Vaping still leads to inflammation and oxidative stress in the lungs and long term use will almost certainly lead to irreversible damage

Harm reduction is important. Vaping is likely better than smoking but it is not yet clear whether that is the case. It is likely the case based on short term anecdotal data from people who have switched but this does not mean that long term use won’t create more severe lung issues over a period of 20-30 years. We don’t know.

In the meantime for further harm reduction to reduce risk you can vape with low temperatures as this mitigates much of the carcinogen risk, you can use reusable devices and frequently change coils and ensure the coil is saturated, and you can use a liquid that is free of flavorings as these present much of the “unknown” variables.

Or you can work to quit. It is challenging. I smoked and vaped, I know it is tremendously hard. But frankly these companies don’t deserve your money. They’re all fucking scumbags

Even if it didn’t (it will) his administration is doing all kinds of nasty rollbacks on climate initiatives and regulations related to the environment sooooo

The crime was socializing the losses and privatizing the gains

Bailout should’ve included nationalizing the banks involved and stiff criminal penalties for those involved in running it. But Obama and democrats in general would never dream of prioritizing the average citizen over their donors.

As a result you and I had trillions stolen from us to make those rich people even more rich and save them from the consequences of their actions. thanks obama, glad you didn’t upset your Wall Street bros

What are you trying to find

I ended up picking up smoking in college in the early 2000s and I have to wonder if the constant exposure to second hand smoke in places I worked, in cars from family members, etc, was a factor

I was disgusted at the time but then I fell into it. I quit eventually, which was a nightmare, but I do think the exposure to second hand nicotine from the age of like 2 was maybe a factor

I remember working in restaurants in high school, coming home, showering, and the stench of cigarette smoke just releasing itself from my hair

Fun times

I can’t wait to see how this will fuck up the season numbering even more