Aesthesiaphilia @ Aesthesiaphilia @kbin.social

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Just the vast majority, but yes. Why are you so against this?

No, but it can be a red flag if you live in a diverse area but don't have a diverse set of friends.

It's an offensive, racist phrase with a history of usage by racists. Black people will punch you if you call them that. What else is there to consider? It's a slur. Don't use it. End of story.

The vast majority would not care about "person of color".

Have any of you ever actually met a Black person? What kind of sheltered white hell is this?

I appreciate that there is historical context, but

No, I don't think you do.

My current job gives me plenty of sick time, so my #1 concern is whether I'm contagious. I like my job, and I like my coworkers, so I don't want to harm them or the workplace.

If it's something like a hangover, then I'll decide based on how I feel and how badly I'm needed that day.

Zoomers lol

Context, man, this post needs context! It seriously sounds like you're mildly infuriated that you're being asked to do your job until you explain that you're actually pissed off at the other workers for not doing their job.

Sorry. Poe's Law. There's plenty of people in this thread making that statement seriously.

Yeah, and it's all from bullshit THC additive stuff. Not from nicotine vaping. If I add rat poison to my apple juice, it doesn't mean apple juice is harmful.

This is the shit I'm talking about, conflating harmful with not harmful.

Specifically came here to mention the "Celsius is dumb" exception to the "metric is better" argument!

Research shows it's around 95% better than cigarettes.

Why can't we just enforce laws against selling to minors, rather than ban a product that I, an adult, enjoy consuming and is much better for my health?

It's not though. Your inhaling nicotine - which does not cause cancer or any other health issues - and water vapor. Probably burns your throat which can't be too great, but no internal damage except from the mental standpoint of addiction.

Speaks more to your social circle and probably your age. I used vapes to quit. And then my state effectively banned them, so I went back to cigarettes.

I am addicted to nicotine, and that was fine when there was a legal way for me to get nicotine without carcinogens.

We already have laws banning sale of vapes to children. Why can't I, an adult, have a sweet flavored vape? I can legally buy weed gummies and flavored alcohol. Flavor bans are ridiculous.

There are. Vapes are orders of magnitude less harmful than cigarettes.

Funny enough, it's also aspects of the US government. There was a huge tobacco settlement across multiple states. The states opted to receive their settlement funds over a period of decades. The payout amount is tied to the number of cigarette smokers, NOT the number of vapers.

AND THEN, a bunch of state governments leveraged those predicted future funds into short term loans that they used to plug budget holes.

Enter vaping. The number of cigarette smokers begins to nose dive.

Enter an unholy union of cash strapped state governments and big tobacco money, and the perfect catalyst in a tiny number of stupid teenagers getting sketchy fake weed from China and dying from it. WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF UNTIL CHILDREN!! Boom, bans.

Nicotine itself is highly addictive but not terribly harmful. All the harmful shit is in the tar and other crap in cigarettes.

I personally used vaping to totally quit cigarettes. It was excellent. And now in my state vaping is effectively banned. We have to turn to black market mods and shit. It's horrible, and in 40 years it's going to be a massive "how the fuck did we let this happen" part of our history along with subprime mortgages and zero tolerance laws.

and there have been some health questions about the oils that serve as a medium for the nicotine and how healthy they are to inhale.

Yeah, by fear mongering satanic panic moms and by monied interests

Nicotine vapes are orders of magnitude more safe than cigarettes. All the research shows it, and the medical establishment is full of cowards with "vapes lead to cigarettes" bullshit.

The only harmful vape chemicals (on any scale close to cigarettes) are sketchy fake weed from China. 100% of the popcorn lung cases stem from that.

Probably get you flagged for CP nowadays