foobBar [he/him]

smelling scents on myself drives me nuts ngl. I usually use something mild that I don't smell, but I used a sample size of some new deodorant brand recently and it gave me this nasty sour smell that really stuck around and I never went nose-blind to it. Just disgusting.

Also personally if I were to make a comment about you smelling nice it would be a compliment, if it was overpowering I probably just wouldn't comment at all

Honestly if I'm not in fairly close proximity to someone I don't want to smell them. If someone just quickly walks by where I'm sitting like 5+ feet away and I get a strong whiff of scent from just that, they've way overdone it, in my opinion. And if my memory serves axe smells kinda nasty and the people that wear it often really overspray it. Strong scents have been known to give me a headache (axe and febreeze were the biggest culprits) but I also just don't like them even if that doesn't happen, even if it's a "pleasant" smell.

Maybe it's because I don't want to be expected to always douse myself in something to smell like sunshine and rainbows, idk. I am just a human, I wear lightly scented deodorant/antiperspirant at most, I do my best to stay clean and not smell, but I have no interest in smelling like orange blossoms or "musk" or whatever, I'd rather just smell like myself, or nothing.

If you wash yourself and wear antiperspirant (or simply don't get super sweaty) why should you have to wear scents

why are people always so eager to die on the jesse singal hill

Pretty sure she cited listening to Blocked and Reported and not hearing anything transphobic. IIRC that's the same podcast that got the slop king banned from here (the guy with the torrent feeds of all the left podcasts). It's treat defenders all the way down folks

cenk I'm not surprised, ana always seemed a bit better but I guess not. Their takes on trans issues are, or at least started out as, just uneducated and often falling into right wing bait, but their outright refusal to learn, and leaning into the right wing ragebait when confronted took it to a whole other level. They could honestly have most of the same disagreements and while they'd still get some justified hate from trans people, it'd be 10x less harmful, if they just learned a bit more about the topic and then aired their disagreements in a way that didn't platform transphobic fascists all the time.

we need a regular version of this emote

I mean it's possible. Twitter moreso than other social media is reliant on public access IMO. Most people don't have accounts, way fewer users than facebook, instagram, etc. but it's a go-to for finding any public figure, public announcements, breaking news, etc. so requiring a login undermines a lot of their appeal/value. Not that they don't have the mass to make such a transition, but I think it would hurt them more than other companies. And if it's publicly accessible via twitter.com or the android app, then those APIs can be reverse engineered and used

plastic stays winning

Glasscels seething

it's doing better than some of the alternatives rn. obviously not scalable but wcyd

feels like a purposefully weak example (small homogenous wealthy town during a national downward trend in crime post 2020), but its still true. And they cite new york as well.

images are easy just put them on hexbear.net

videos are harder but their is peertube.

Yep. If it's publicly available online you are more limited technically and legally in what you can do to clamp down on use that you don't like, be it nitter or ad blocking or whatever.

Oh shit, the fork actually works

Posting from it rn

I don't think you can attribute all of the gains in smoking rates since 2005/10 to vapes. but certainly some, yeah. Still, like 30 points of reduction were achieved by conventional means that didn't involve just, giving people the addictive ingredient without the especially poisonous parts, and like 5% reduction has been achieved since vaping was introduced

As for the comparison to alcohol, I'm not here to be the alcohol defender, it absolutely wrecks many peoples lives, even those it doesn't kill, but usage =/= addictiveness, and the addictiveness is what makes me personally uncomfortable with nicotine, as it interferes with making an informed choice. Neither are good, and I don't think saying nicotine is "better" really means much besides personal preference.

Also the fuck is the "anti-smoking industry"? The article is citing the New Zealand government and the Asthma foundation. Not unbiased sources to be sure, but hardly an industry, it's literally just (one aspect of) public health.

No. The vast majority of smoking reduction was achieved before vaporizers were commonplace, through things like pervasive education, taxation, and banning indoor smoking, etc.

Let adults vape, of course, but the industry has been incredibly successful at selling vapes to teens which is pretty fuckin predatory and unquestionably bad. At least with a cigarette there's more of an initial ick factor that turns people off and they don't come in varying doses that can be dialed up over time.

Maybe all the alcoholics in my family just died before I was born and the smokers didn't but idk about the second part either. I'm just uncomfy with addictive substances I guess, and I don't think alcohol is addictive for most people, even if its obviously a literal poison.

It's just because it was going down for years and now it is going up. Liberals thought that nicotine addiction was going to be a thing of the past because the next generation just knew better.

It's a net positive for sure but nicotine and shit isn't good for you even when it isn't in a cigarette.

Yeah my area has them and they are really cool, though I will say, idk about your area but in mine where the system is mature, the ebikes are now about as expensive as getting an uber/lyft depending on the route. they seem to cost more every year, pretty sure the rates doubled or tripled since introducing ebikes and scooters, and the regular bikes are less but a significant fraction of that, and have to be returned to stations (which they now have no incentive to maintain or expand the network of). Presumably somewhere around the price of just paying a gig worker to come drive you is the most the market will pay so of course, there we are. It was actually originally a non profit but it got semi-privatized as soon as they successfully proved out the concept for a few years. Oh and now the program is insolvent so idk it'll probably get worse somehow.

juuls are sold with up to 59 mg/mL, they're nuts

welp, that's like one train project in NYC and a bunch of trucking projects, essentially. typical

thats odd, doesn't happen on my account but there must be something different.

What browser are you using? And you're setting the pronouns boxes to "he/him" and "none/use name" and then clicking Save, yeah?