Smoking kills 8 million people worldwide every year. I think it's worth pushing the alternatives.

Doesn't sound the same, but I have the excellently named Exploding Head Syndrome. Could be something related?

I'm suspicious of every sub that has reopened after they said they wouldn't. Reddit in general isn't a comfortable place any more

Did we really expect this to go any other way?

Thanks for the update. Sounds like you're having an "exciting" time. You've done a great job so far and I hope that the additional help you are receiving means that you might be able to take some time off in the near future, for your own sake.

Edit: buy Ernest a coffee for those able to contribute

An adult should be able to do whatever the fuck they want, as long as it doesn't impact other people. Vaping doesn't emit any carcinogens or toxic substances, and 10 times less nicotine than smoking does. At the end of the day, vaping does far less harm than smoking, and it's easier to reduce the amount of nicotine consumed with vaping. Nicotine also has health benefits, such as slowing down the onset of Parkinson's.

If teenagers are vaping then that's an enforcement issue, but at the same time I would be less worried if I found a vape in my kid's bedroom than a packet of cigarettes. Teenagers will experiement with substances. Nicotne vapes are way down the list of ones I would be worried about.

Maybe compared to a generation ago things are better, but over the past few years there has definitely been a ramp up in anti-trans rhetoric, both from the media and right wing politicians.

Bathroom bills, legislation against gender affirming care, even media and literature bans in the US. And in the UK the Tories are increasingly trying to single out trans people, (unsuccessfully) excluding them from bans on conversion therapy. Even the PM was recently recorded making anti-trans jokes.

Last year Yougov published data showing an overall decrease in support for trans people compared to 2018.

It is better than it was a long time ago, yes, but it's not better than it was more recently.

I like to pronounce Jog with a soft J sound, like yog, which I think came from Anchorman. This has now evolved into things like yoghurt having a hard J at the beginning.

It's hard to describe how much pleasure I get from shouting "Yog down there and grab us a pack of Joghurts" at the kids in the supermarket. The eye roll almost makes the whole supermarket experience worth it.

Saying that vapes are dangerous is misinformation at best. Vaping got you off smoking cigarettes (congrats btw), which are far more dangerous. Yes, you may have consumed more nicotine, but you didn't consume any of the other thousands of toxic or even carcinogenic chemicals present in cigarette smoke.

I finally caved in to the hype and bought Dave the Diver. It's very enjoyable. There's nothing revolutionary about it so far but it's very well put together, and funny in a way that I haven't seen in a video game since the old point and click games.

Just think, somebody probably got paid to come up with that name. How do I get that job?

New sub for the project https://www.reddit.com/r/SyncforLemmy/

MVP in 4-6 weeks

It's awful when it happens but it's so infrequent for me that it's not too bad. Since having kids though it has evolved from a loud crash or bang to the sound of one of the kids screaming. My partner thinks I'm a complete loon when I go running into the kid's room for seemingly no reason, just to find them sleeping peacefully.

We've got the local village "carnival" today, complete with overpriced fair in the park afterwards. I usually try to ignore it because I'm a grumpy old sod, but my eldest is walking in it with school so I have to be enthusiastic.

Which bit is false?

From the first link:

The key finding of this study is that e-cigarettes emit significant amounts of nicotine but do not emit significant amounts of CO and VOCs. We also found that the level of secondhand exposure to nicotine depends on the e-cigarette brand. However, the emissions of nicotine from e-cigarettes were significantly lower than those of tobacco cigarettes.

Vinegar seems to work pretty well, albeit temporarily. Downside(?) is that you smell like vinegar.

My worst nightmare. I haven't been to the barbers for just over 12 years now (thanks male pattern baldness), and I'm not sure I trust anyone with my beard except myself. If I mess it up at least I'm only mad at me.

Yours looks alright though tbh, I'd maybe just trim the bottom off that goatee bit but maybe wait till after the ZZ Top convention.

I think we are on the same page. I'm not trans myself, but I've definitely noticed increasing anti-trans sentiment amongst people I talk to. I agree that a lot of that is in reaction to increased media presence, but I also think that a lot of this is the typical pushing of the "us vs them" mentality that people in power find useful, it's just the people defined as "them" has shifted.

I'm still optimistic, but we need to be aware of these things, and push back against them when they crop up, otherwise that optimism will be in vain.

I'm a middle aged man with a family, two cats and a mortgage. I don't want to be having to fight for common decency to fellow humans, but increasingly feel like I'm being pushed to it. I'm tired, and I just want to potter about in my garden with a cup of tea.

A good film, a spoon and some shame to bury deep, deep down beneath all that delicious cream.

Weird. Like someone messing with an aux cord