Watching that sub collapse from the influx of people realising something was wrong with the world always amused me, I tried my best to stop people blowing up over Sam Carana posts, doomsday apocalypse predictions, the newest fad political posturing/doomsday devices.
There was a lot of great information there; it was pretty much the only reason I kept reddit around. Thanks for modding.
There has to be someone without to create the demand for capitalism to work, I totally support what you’re saying and in a perfect world those people wouldn’t suffer but there is still an imbalance of power between capitalists and workers and that tension means both sides have to be perpetually hyper vigilant in protecting their own interests against each other.
Mind you, I don’t think communism is a good system either; humanity should be considering new forms of governance given our technological advancements have solved a lot of problems that these systems initially intended to.
Anyway that’s my perspective, appreciate you asking for an elaboration hopefully it’s some food for thought even if you don’t agree with me.
I disagree capitalism requires a bottom class that has to suffer for it to function, that makes it an inherently bad system regardless of government intervention.
I support this kind of protest, but let’s not get this twisted: this is only happening to make people feel better about themselves,
I went to this protest, I don’t expect Israel to do anything in response except call me an anti-semite. I do however, expect the Australian government to listen to it’s consitutents and take a hard stance against this fascist regime.
Barotrauma, I checked it out on a free to play weekend a few months back and have been hooked since
Lots of tinkering and the modding community is extensive, best played with friends but the single player is good too
Oh shit PS5 has no games?
How did the cat garden end up going?
These things are great for charcuterie boards
Cigarettes have a myriad of carcinogens like toluene, benzene, formadelhyde, hexamine, napthaline and acetone
Stating that vapes are more toxic than cigarettes over one metric is disingenuous journalism.
I’m not disagreeing about the lead content but studies like this get picked up by journalists with the comprehension of a tomato and are then misconstrued into these fear-creating headlines for engagement.
The adoption of vapes tremendously ate into the big tobacco profits, its an extremely effective way of getting off cigarettes. (for better or worse)
If we instead listened to these studies and developed a similar form of nicotine replacement therapy with harm minimisation in mind under industry regulation we’d do far more for smokers, vapers and our healthcare systems than any fear mongering ‘don’t do it!’ campaigns which time and time again do not work.
If you read the paper, it assumes a 100% absorption rate of the heavy metals emitted.
I’m not here to defend vapes but I think that is a seriously overlooked flaw in this study. Most people don’t puff a cigarette/vape and hold it in their lungs until it’s completely absorbed.
Couldn’t see anything about the bioavailability of these carcinogens via lungs factored into the absorption rate either.
Ontop of that the sample size from this study is abysmal and from the same manufacturer and there is also a declared conflict of interest.
IMO more studies need to be done before we can conclusively determine the damage and risks of disposable vapes.
And they have the gall to act like they’re better than you because you’re working a mininum wage job on a Sunday.
Yeah as a chef I only learnt how to dice, chiffonade, brunoise, batonnete, julienne and tourne all sorts of food cause it looks cool.
Different shapes and sizes is extremely important, it’s why salt flakes taste different to iodized salt because of surface area or why a thicker slice of ham will taste different to a thinner one.
Also if you cant cut something consistently half of its going to overcook and half of its going to undercook.
That doesn’t mean we should stop trying for a better world however.