joaomarrom

it's an alligator alcatraz world out there, what a time to be alive

Trump has recently proposed a 500% tariff on goods from countries that trade with Russia, including India and China (who buy ~70% of Russia's oil output), as well as a 10% additional tariff on goods from countries that "align themselves with BRICS.

this shit again

I don’t like nicotine gum or pouches

Same, it's the possibility of replacing the smoke break ritual that did it for me.

corruption syphons for the rich

"the problem is crony capitalism, sweety"

I was listening to Sia's Chandelier (one of the best pop songs of all time IMO) recently and it got me thinking about how different pop culture discourse has become in a post-Qanon world, because people would go absolutely fucking insane if the music video for Chandelier and especially Elastic Heart were released today.

I remember watching these videos roughly ten years ago when they came out and thinking they were poignant and beautiful, and that Maddie Ziegler was incredibly expressive and talented. Nowadays I feel legit uncomfortable watching the very same piece of media. Sometimes it blows my mind how much the world changed after 2016.

TLW has one of my favorite VFX shots of all time, which is that part where the T-Rex headbutts a bus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVIS31ghLNQ

Jean-Baptiste's Bellend

Found out today about the copepods in NYC's tap water and this is legit one of the weirdest facts I've learned of in a very long time lmao imagine having tap water that's not vegan and kosher

That's true. Still, I feel just fine after all these years, and my lung capacity is way better than it used to be when I smoked cigs. That's not to say that it's perfectly safe, absolutely nobody should ever start vaping unless it's for harm reduction.

My guess is that if you get a larger system with better quality parts, it’s going to be safer generally than smaller/and more disposable oriented stuff.

I'm a former smoker, vaping for the last ten years on rebuildable tanks with box mods. I had been smoking cigarettes for about ten years before I made the switch. Anecdotally, I can say that my vapes feel way way way less harmful than cigarettes.

I will not touch a disposable vape, and I think they are absolutely a harmful product. This study shows that it's harmful for your body, but I didn't need to know this problem in order to identify that casually throwing away a device with a battery in it is a big no-no. Disposable vapes are incredibly wasteful products.