The whole no fruty flavors has always seemed an out of touch rule. Kids using any addictive substances is not good, but a few decades ago it was commonplace for kids to be cought smoking analog cigs. Ecigs are safer and have gotten more people to quit than just about anything, but they are also easier for a non smoker to get into. I think the problem is with how kids are getting access to them (from shady illegal online dealers mostly).
That said before big tobacco got involved the older style nicotine isolate vapes were much better at actually getting people to quit smoking. They don’t give the same level of instant nicotine high you can get from the modern salt nicotine and if you are trying to ween off of nicotine they lessen or remove the cravings. It also helped they weren’t cool, my favorite world I’ve heard people call them was ‘mouth fedora’
The Nanny State strikes again. Now sponsored by even more Evil Corporations!
US is like a bad b-movie. The villains do everything they can to destroy the people. The companies are all evil.
You’ve found the plot! The twist is that this is what asymmetric warfare looks like, decades in the making. The US is currently losing the Cold War against the USSR, which began 5 years before Putin was born so it was his entire upbringing. He doesn’t need to maintain tight control of Donny, but merely let him wreak whatever havoc he will. The leopard face-eating will mostly just be sad because everything will be so badly damaged by the time the red team really understands how badly they’ve been had. Corporate greed is a reliable villain to rise to the occasion, that merely needed some unshackling. Billionaires gonna oligarch if you give them half a chance. Helping capitalism to self-destruct is possibly the ultimate communist victory.
I feel like, having read your comment, I should stop feeling so grumpy about Russia fucking with us. We can’t get thru this late-stage capitalist nonsense fast enough.
Nope, the next stages will be worse. Climate change is baked in and being in the 99% is gonna suck.
Is fascism a sub-stage of late-stage capitalism, or a subsequent stage?
One of the subsequent stages is AI-powered robot weapons, which I predict will be used on the domestic populace before too long, but also fits in the bad b-movie theme:
This Tuesday, while America was obsessively watching the latest bizarre twists in Trump’s Iran debacle, Whiskey Pete’s Pentagon rolled out a $1.5 trillion budget request that contained a line item almost nobody’s talking about: a 24,000 percent increase, from $225 million last year to $54.6 billion this year, for an outfit called the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group.
That’s the largest year-over-year jump for any program in the entire defense budget, and it’s earmarked to build out AI-driven autonomous human-killing systems inside the Special Operations Command headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida.
Yo dawg, I heard you like DAWGs.
So I put AI inside a human-killing system so it can simulate killing people while it kills people!
They didn’t tell Ender that the “training missions” were all real battles until after he won the war, so that he wouldn’t have to grapple with ethics in real time. That was the essence of the Game.
Fucking spoilers!
throws book in the trash
That was on my To Read list.
What’s up with fruity e-cigs?!
Makary’s insiders said the former Johns Hopkins University cancer surgeon resigned after Trump forced his hand on authorizing fruit-flavored e-cigarettes. Makary had reportedly been resisting the sign-offs out of concern that the kid-friendly flavors could again entice youth use and addiction—something public health officials and experts have for years worked to combat. But Makary’s stance was in conflict with Trump’s “save vaping” campaign promise—and with the tobacco industry’s interests.
Earlier this month, The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump had called Makary over a weekend to scold him for not moving fast enough to authorize flavored vapes, particularly menthol, mango, and blueberry flavors from the Los Angeles manufacturer Glas. The FDA authorized those flavored products days later and issued a new policy that would make it easier to market flavored vapes.
Wow, only complained about one company? How big is that kick back?
It’s surprising how cheap most politicians are, and I wouldn’t think he’s any different.
My brain first registered that as gay-ish e-cigs
I hate Trump and republicans, but good. Let adults do what they want. We shouldn’t lose our rights to police other people’s kids. If adults want fruity e-cigs they should be able to have them.
you’re not even able to get healthy food on a daily basis anymore.
so yeah, let’s also reduce the regulation in favor for these big corporations that… for sure… will be totally reasonable and won’t screw up kids with addictive products directly served in schools without parents supervision.
Both could exist. Letting flavored e cigs exist doesn’t take away the ability to get healthy food.
Also directly served in schools is a lie. No school in USA or abroad is selling this or “serving it directly” to children.
When I was young we drank flavored alcohol doesn’t mean they should take it away from adults who choose to consume it.
These laws didn’t even ban them, they just lead to the current disposables market which are allows by loophole:
- Cheaper and easier to obtain, usually sold in gas stations
- Typically cheaper elements, meaning heavy metals
- Cheaper batteries meaning more fires
- So. Much. More. Ewaste.
Going back makes it easier for people with custom mods to obtain ejuice which is like the millennial equivalent to smoking half and half out of a wooden pipe.
Also every weed dispensary I’ve ever been too has had flavored vape carts/pods and disposables, usually flavored via natural terpenes taken from weed or other plants.
I mean e-cigs are already legal. Adding flavor to them doesn’t make it worse for you.
It’s like if beer was legal, but fruit-flavored beer wasn’t
We’re not discussing food. Letting adults have flavored vapes doesn’t mean that kids will eat unhealthy foods. That’s another issue entirely.
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