This country only gives a shit about genitals when it’s trans people receiving treatment for their disorders.

When it’s actual children being mutilated against their will because their parents are so deeply schizophrenic they believe it is the will of people that don’t exist that they mutilate children, it’s all muh “community leaders” this and “concerns” that.

Not that I don’t believe you, but I’d really like to know what specifically was in your post, because you seem to dance around it without ever mentioning it, in a sort of “states’ rights” esque way, with the obvious follow up question being “states’ rights to do what?”.

IRL not everything can be solved on pure principle, if you were genuinely hateful or inappropriate, then by tolerating you, intolerance would only increase.

It’s a meme ya dunce. I think it’s meant to be edgy. And I don’t think it’s glorifying vaping, it looks like typical /r/drugscieclejerk

2003 for what we now know as vapes. Close enough tbqh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_cigarette

Yeah your statement doesn’t contradict mine, as far as we know they are harmless. But we also know really well too, these things have been studied up and down since the 90s and still nothing was really found.

The *blends" thing idk about, the only ingredients out there that go into vape juice are VG, PG, nicotine and flavouring, there aren’t any legal variations on that, this is usually pretty well regulated in the first world.

It is going to be very funny when all the morons who downvoted me die slaving away for the man having missed out on a lifetime of nicotine, wondering what could have been, what they could have achieved with just a bit of sweet stimulant juice, and imma die all the same due to some unrelated causes having lived a full life

Jesus that’s messed up. Not only are vapes harmless as far as we know but outright bans and such harsh penalties for what should be none of the government’s business. Vietnam really fell down the paternalistic hole eh.

Edit: wow yall downvoters really agree with them? ban something like that? Sugar taxes too I bet? What next, red meat?

I don’t watch porn and I don’t like it, I don’t like gooners and I think overall it’s harmful to society for vague, vibes-based reasons not yet firmly established by any evidence whatsoever, just like you all with vaping, so what, I should want to ban that too?

No, that would be fucking crazy.

Unironically you all could use some nicotine to think a bit more clearly. This is authoritarian overreach pure and simple, whatever side of the political spectrum you’re on that made you think this is anything remotely ok, it’s the wrong one.

I wish them well in this experiment. Hopefully this doesn’t mean outsourcing a public service to American big tech megacorps

Gotta say I much prefer a 500kcal Starbucks drink to any bitter swill for 10 quid most independent cafes can muster.

Thomas the tank engine. They are similar.

I just don’t shop around, I come for X and buy X and even if Y seems good I’d never buy it on the spot.

Yeah just be autistic.

I’m not though - just use uBlock Origin, Sponsorblock, etc.

As for IRL, that’s an unsolved problem, it’s kinda best to just tune them out mentally though.

Meh, just more millenial slave mentality copium.

I understand being done with everything, but it’s no excuse to portray that attitude as some sort of victory

It’s not revolutionary to gaslight yourself out of your needs and wants, it’s just a way of giving up. “Consumerism” was just a word used by defeated late 20th century progressives to remove any association with anti-capitalist ideas that at the time were represented in the public consciousness by the increasingly uncouth and imperalist USSR, before green politics got flooded with anti-industry kooks.

Yeah, you’re right, but also, the commenter above isn’t just being mean for the sake of it, there is a real issue at the heart of it.

The issue is that having 1 person come around to your side implies the millions that don’t and won’t.

Some of those people simply don’t share any underlying morals in common so that’s fine, you’ll never see eye to eye in ideas because your goals are ultimately different.

Some of those people also just don’t care and/or don’t know.

Some people will never care, and that’s fine too, but some of those people will care if they do know.

Spreading information to those people is tough when you don’t have backing of the govcorp media ecosystem and it doesn’t help when the ideas you want to get across are sophisticated, boring and fairly nuanced and require lots of context.

It also doesn’t help that this would-be progressive in their ignorance could be damaging to the cause when misinformed, which means that sometimes you have to argue against this person and potentially turn them off the movement forever, because you never really know whether it’s possible to sway someone until you do.

That’s what makes ignorance trolling or JAQing so effective because progressives will either have to waste time explaining openly to someone who will never agree and only feigns ignorance, or risk being potentially a confrontational asshole with a genuinely ignorant person.

It also doesn’t help morale of said progressive when confronted with all that, that many of us simply learned about this information on our own, we never asked anybody of anything, we just explored enough perspectives on issues we cared about until our bullshit-o-meters were finely tuned enough to find truth and construct a path from reality now to future we’d like.

On the other hand, convincing some people who are actually sway-able to not want the world to function like a war crime can be like pulling teeth, people are zealous defenders of their opinions because it reflects badly on their self-esteem if they are misinformed and someone else isn’t, especially in the Information Age.

I speak from a progressive viewpoint but it’s just as true for any real ideological position, information is the fuel that turns simple moral beliefs into functional ideology.

For as long as we live in a democracy, we need to somehow solve the systemic issue of ignorance at scale without inventing a ministry of truth type situation and being able to effectively counter trolling and JAQing/sealioning while also treating those asking questions with the utmost care and having the emotional stamina to do that when many of us had nothing of the sort.

It’s a tough position, even describing it or explaining it is tough enough already when fewer and fewer people even seem to even just read at all.

Then there is often just confusion over what someone open to information actually wants, e.g. the Adam Something guide to dating video he made where he said that teenage and adolescent men want instructions and not philosophical musings on the concept of dating and purpose and approach came as a genuine shock to me, because from my, non-male perspective I can’t imagine anyone needing instructions or explanations of that sort of thing.

Barely felt like it at all. Whole summer without a decently consistent nice warm spell, just middlingly warm and cloudy, never proper beach weather. Winter weather came very early too in August and hasn’t left at all. 2018 - 2023 all at least felt like they had proper summers.

Don’t get me wrong, obviously increasing global average temperatures are bad for the strain they put on infrastructure and how they affect small poor global south island nations disproportionately, but in this country with humidity of 80%+ and wind makes even 10°C feel worse than a sunny day at -20°C , and summers barely get above 30°C which is where proper hot weather starts.

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Ironically these youtubers and what they do are the evidence (and to an extent cause) of a social contract circling the gutter, but not for any of the reasons they would have you believe.

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No, they’re just on payroll of the corpos.

Racists sure love their little Dubai holidays lol. You ever seen a leftist go to Dubai? Me neither