The science isn't fully decided on vapes - AFAIK the PG/VG and nicotine are relatively harmless (though nicotine does carry some heart/stroke risks) but the flavours are generally only tested for safety when taken orally, not when atomised and inhaled. Flavourless vape juice is therefore probably safe, though hardly anybody sells it, it's kinda unpleasant, and it does still carry some health risks.
Lol I remember it being "SmokeFree 2020" when I was a teenager, guess that didn't quite work out!
Also, I gotta wonder if banning vape alternatives such as nicotine pouches a few years back might have slightly impacted the availability/accessibility of vapes. Still reckon that was a bloody drongo move.
Eh religious holidays can easily change in meaning - my country is mostly irreligious and we celebrate christmas by having barbecues outside and visiting the beach, despite it originally being a pagan ceremony celebrating the passing of winter solstice!
I used to run FreeBSD on my laptop on high school, worked pretty good - even stuff like wifi and bluetooth with a bit of effort - but the battery life was atrocious compared to Linux or Windows.
Lol yeah sure just like how the Trail of Tears and transatlantic slave trade never actually happened, rather they were fabricated by China to discredit the peaceful and freedom loving American government
So you'd be fine with a free speech instance hosted in, say, Saskatchewan, Canada; where their laws prohibit online hate speech targeted towards groups such as trans people and ethnic/religious minorities?
Allowing hate also kills discussion - I don't see particularly many trans users joining in with the "fun" over on exploding heads, for example.
Every single "free speech" website ends up turning into a hateful circlejerky echo chamber where discussion that doesn't align with the agenda is shut down hard.
Which definition of "free speech" are you using? Do you want "free speech" as defined by US law, which heavily regulates what you can say? Or are you using the Canadian legal definition? How about Article 19 of the UDHR?
Does your definition of "free speech" include hate speech? How about disinformation? Slander? Planning to murder the President of the USA or the King of the Commonwealth Realms? Organising genocide? Child pornography?
What do you mean by free speech? You want to share classified government information? Wanna tell people how to buy drugs online? Share links to torrents and other piracy websites? Or do you just want to call people slurs and tell trans people to kill themselves?
Their rule agains slurs obviously isn't enforced considering it's full of anti-trans slurs and "jokes" about trans folk killing themselves.
Do you really think that a community that's full of nothing but hate and amazing posts like "why do women disrespect or avoid nice guys and go for the players and bad boys" is gonna be healthier long-term than one that fosters respectful discussion?
And, more generally, where you're walking through - going for a jog through an asbestos mine or corpo toxin dumping site prolly won't extend your lifespan!
That smoking is generally far worse for individuals and society than vaping is.