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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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    Yea, THC vapes are also illegal in most jurisdictions. People still buy and use them.

    there’s some unknowns in the industry, but it’s been around for 20 years now

    Yet I know of no studies that would look into health of people who are exclusively vaping across even a 5 year span. It’s not “some unknowns”, we barely know anything about it.

    e liquid are all GRAS

    This is one of the most wild takes I’ve heard. Something being safe to eat or put on your skin does not mean you can inhale it and expect no harm. One of the most common examples would be benzaldehyde, which is used as a food additive and in vapes, as a gas it causes irritation to respiratory passages.

    The worst part is that sometimes you don’t even have to specify a lot of it in the list of ingredients. You can read article 4.2.2.1 of this document, for example.

    much safer means of nicotine

    And nicotine patches beat both of those by a mile in this regard.

    it’s a means of lowering risk

    The best way of lowering the risk is using proper, well established methods for quitting smoking before resorting to something like vaping.


  • You can start with the Wikipedia article. The problematic part here is that we have no long-term studies about vaping and even less studies about people who exclusively vape. There are plenty of studies that indicate that there is a lot of nasty stuff mixed in the aerosol that vapes produce, like this one.

    Another thing is that people who are selling these are the same people who sell tobacco and they have decades of experience mudding the research field.

    I in general despise vaping as it made a lot of younger people pick up nicotine and it is far more addictive when you are young.

    And, well, yes, I am exaggerating with that statement, but the problem is that we don’t know for certain. Substitution therapy exists, but I just can’t support it when whatever you are using is wildly underresearched.

















  • Systems built on unspoken rules break outside of isolated communities, considering this is very much a global community, I doubt such a system would work in the first place. Would be actually cool to have various degrees of warning tags to then choose on the client side what to unblur automatically and what not to, though.


  • For me NSFW is something that can get me fired if somebody sees it on my screen during working hours or something that can put the consumer of the content at risk, like gore images making hemophobic people faint. I can see how this image can be a bit disturbing, but I don’t think a piece of leather should be censored, as it dilutes the meaning for the tag too much.

    I’d then click on something NSFW thinking there is just another piece of leather with feathers under the tag… I don’t think I need to explain this one.