...We can make nicotine bird feeders, which have little hookah straws, through which critters can enjoy life. 🤔
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The squirrels were sighted shortly afterwards in a poorly modified Subaru WRX.
Disposable vapes are genuinely evil. With the lithium inside the batteries they are significantly more dangerous than throwing a cigarette out your car window. They have chips inside them with metals that can be recycled and they are made of a hard plastic that'll be around for thousands if years. Whenever I mention this to people I know they agree with me that it's evil but continue to use disposable vapes because it's more convenient. I keep telling my roommates that it's massively cheaper to get a refillable one and they always agree but never buy one. Every time I go to the vape shop to get juice and coils I drop off a literal tub of disposable vapes from my roommates.
I'm so tired of people being complacent in this and I'm tired of making this rant. People will get nervous about batteries when they see a phone explode in someone's pocket but they'll throw that shit on the ground or in the trash without a second thought. Just go back to smoking if you wanna throw shit on the ground. It's better for the environment and public safety that way anyway.
Have you seen this shit?
Factory workers test 1000 of these contraptions per day.
it's truly evil.
Human beings will get extinct due choosing convenience over sustainability.
Wtf that's all kinds of messed up
Welcome to capitalism.
Consume shit that harms you while also harming poor workers and the environment
That's so incredibly messed up
It reminds me of the radium girls
I wish there was a $1/vape return scheme. Like we do here where I live with pop bottles. People would pick them out of the trash to return.
Yeah, I'm not one for banning things willy nilly, but disposable vapes need banned. I'd much rather people vape a liquid refilled repairable vape like the kids used when I was young, but even pod type vapes are better. This is just reprehensibly avoidable e waste.
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I vape cannabis. Whenever I go to the dispensary, it always surprises me how many disposable products there are. Some strains it's not even possible to buy them as non-disposable carts at some of the IL dispensaries I go to. I always try to pick standalone carts, but I have also had it where I've ordered a cart online and they ended up trying to give me a disposable replacement without asking.
It's nuts to me that people are buying these rechargeable things with batteries to throw out as a default (it's definitely seems more popular than re-usable carts at dispensaries I've been to). Why wouldn't you want your own device with your settings saved if you vape versus using some random piece of shit attached to the very expensive goop you're smoking? I don't get disposables at all. You start saving money after 3 or so carts if you buy your own battery.
Even worse: if you wanted to recycle one of them many are designed with housings that make it nearly impossible to open them up and replace the cartridge.
Those things clog/shit the bed so easily that I've become a master maintainer of them. But that's pretty much what I did in the army, only with radios.
Why vape in the first place?
I like nicotine
Using it to quit smoking is a good idea, and the only one actually.
But disposable !? FUCK ME this world is doomed...
Replacing a cig with something that has no immediate downsides and is always available. Hmm
I remember reading somewhere that vaping is more addictive than smoking. Sure it is not as bad as smoking health wise but the bar is set extremely low.
I believe it, it can have a much higher nicotine concentration if you want it to and vape juice is tasty.
The one saving grace of cigarettes are that they taste like garbage so it's harder to get proper addicted to them. But a good vape will taste like candy even to a non smoker, so you can get drunk with your buddy one night and take a couple rips off of his watermelon flavored vape and exit that night with an intense craving for more, ask me how I know.
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Used to be a pack a day smoker. Personally I don't think it's better for my health, but I don't smell like an ash tray so I got that going for me.
Really? It didn't make you feel better either?
When I got rid of cigarettes and started vaping, the differences were noticeable within a week or two, and they were astronomical. No more couching, no more headaches, less difficulty breathing, more energy, no more hoarse throat. Food tasted better too!
Now, I know, this is not to say that vaping is healthy, but it does seem to suggest that it is at the very least healthier (or less unhealthy, if you want) than smoking cigarettes, unless feeling much better and getting rid of pain is a sign of worse health? In addition my clothes didn't stink anymore and vaping is way cheaper too.
Admittedly it took me almost 3 years, but I eventually got my nicotine content down to zero.
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The tobacco-toting treehopper
What tobacco? The whole point of a vape is that it doesn't burn tobacco...
They just wanted to do some alliteration
Why stop there? A terrifying tobacco-toting treehoper named Terry the terrible tarantula towers above in tree tops.
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Not the onion but NY Post, which is almost the onion
It's not a satirical outlet. It's just lies half the time
Only half? Thats generous
This is horrible
for real. squirrels need to switch to a plant based, biodegradable alternative
They need to switch to Linux.
Tried vaping linux once, now I'm hooked
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