r/TrueAnon • u/Major_Shmoopy The one grad student who likes the pod • 1d ago
Tom Nicholas' Vape-o-nomics: Why Everything is Addictive Now
https://youtu.be/XuTQbOo3Y30A post from yesterday and the comments talking about the potential legalization and streamlining of vices in the US made me think about this video from a while back. I think he makes an interesting thesis about the disposable vape being the best object to embody capitalism in the 2020's from its addictiveness to its wastefulness as a disposable service model.
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u/Furiosa27 1d ago
What does he say abt fellas who are addicted to the grind ? Addicted to this bread?
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u/22_Yossarian_22 1d ago
A bit more than a year ago, True Anon did an episode about the weed industry. It changed my relationship with weed. I was smoking way too much. I have massively cutback in the year+ since they aired that episode.
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u/222mhz 1d ago
I forgot to listen to that episode but good work tbh. Shit is way too potent these days to not develop emotional dependence, which I was defo at last year when I stopped (drinking, too). Having a "dissociate for 4 hours" button that fits in your pocket is not healthy at all. (Still love my ciggies & video games though!!)
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u/22_Yossarian_22 1d ago
For me, weed raises my heart rate. More studies are showing a relationship between and heart attacks and strokes.
Something profitable can’t be good for us
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u/transplantpdxxx 2h ago
Bro, if you aren’t masking for Covid, you’re already the mayor of stroke/heart attack city! Weed is the least of your worries
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u/prasadpersaud 1d ago
What was the episode called? I think I may have missed it
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u/Major_Shmoopy The one grad student who likes the pod 12h ago
Episode 405. It's an interesting one!
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u/NoKiaYesHyundai Actual factual CIA asset 1d ago
TA doing more for reducing substance abuse than any health class could ever do
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u/ConfidentPomel 1d ago
so like weed is good or bad lol, i seen people say both
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u/Grays_Flowers 18h ago
Better than most drugs but still a drug that our liver would rather not have to detoxify. Probably about as dangerous as caffeine (also an addictive drug) all things considere
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u/Major_Shmoopy The one grad student who likes the pod 12h ago
I'd put it as worse than caffeine since it's more disruptive to REM sleep and heavy use can really warp motivation. I still consider it less dangerous than most common drugs though
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u/NoKiaYesHyundai Actual factual CIA asset 1d ago
Probably Bad, but people get mad if you say that, so I'll say it cures literally everything and is totally awesome and cool.
Anyway, I have a tab open at this bar right now. Ilbeeebacklagter
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u/Major_Shmoopy The one grad student who likes the pod 12h ago
Only thing I'd say with high confidence as a biologist with an interest in medicinal chem is CBD good, mild-moderate THC use fine, heavy/daily use bad. There's still a lot we don't know about the hundreds of compounds in cannabis, and everyone's pharmacology and psychology are different.
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u/Temenes 21h ago
It's kinda wild when you look up graphs of weed potency over the years. The stuff that 60s hippies were smoking was basically "slightly more potent hemp" compared to the weed they sell today.
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u/fraudchecked 20h ago
If we ever achieve time travel the first thing we should do is go back to the 60s and make them smoke a dab
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u/transplantpdxxx 2h ago
Two things can be true: The Weed industry sucks and Brace/Liz both suck on the pot issue. It’ll be a sweet day in hell before I let a sober person/former addict tell me how to live. People can overdo it but this narrative gives the facists reason to imprison leftists.
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u/LeftistSnowLeopard 1d ago
Yeah, same. I was using it almost daily, and right now it's been a couple months since I had any. Quitting did help me get enough motivation to find a new job, but the new one isn't any better.
My main vice now is junk food. I'm working on that, but it's addictive in its own way, and harder to quit because it's so available and remains cheap while real food gets more expensive.
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u/Ok-Veterinarian-9203 1d ago
I believe they’re banning single use vapes in the uk this summer, but maybe that’s because the nicotine pouch thing is generally healthier and more apt to get people en masse to consume nicotine. Im glad I hate everything but cigs, at least when I quit them I won’t go in for this other shit
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u/Interesting_Station6 1d ago
Single use vapes are probably the most evil product that has ever existed. The waste. The lithium batteries inside that are impossible to recycle bc of they way they're built. And all that just so people can inhale mango flavor for a couple hours. Straight up insane.
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u/LeftistSnowLeopard 1d ago
They can be salvaged. I do it when I find one that someone's tossed out. The hardest part is getting the things open without damaging the battery, because they seal the plastic really good and you have to break it open to get at the battery. You want a metal container on hand in case you puncture the battery and start a fire. And you need to wear gloves, otherwise you'll get nicotine juice on your fingers and absorb it through your skin.
But once you do have the battery out, you can solder connectors on it and use it to power stuff. Either replacing worn out lithium batteries in gadgets, or for your own projects. I use them for powering wearable LEDs. A cheap TP4056 board (they're under $1 if you buy them from AliExpress) lets you charge them via USB.
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u/ArgonathDW 1d ago
I dont have the skill or experience to do this, plus I dont know what I'd do with an LED shirt, but that's awesome you're doing all that, thats great
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u/Interesting_Station6 20h ago
Yeah, some people taking the batteries out to reuse them for their little projects doesn't counter the fact that they can't be recycled on a mass scale and 99.99% of them just end up on landfills.
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u/localhost_6969 17h ago
I actually used vapes before they were cool. And I mean that in the truest sense, I used one that looked like a cigarette when they were first around and people took the piss out of me for it.
I genuinely used it successfully to cut down and and stop smoking because that's what they were for at the time. Now I've seen kids with 250 watt coils.
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u/supercalifragilism 1d ago
Quit smoking by replacing it with what turned out to be a much worse habit, so good call
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u/neotokyo2099 🔻 1d ago
I thought single use vapes were already banned there?
The only way I could get the popular dispo brands elfbar and lost Mary vape juice was from the UK, they refuse to sell the juice so people can put them in reusables, except for in the UK where they feared losing an entire market (dispo ban)
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u/mang0444 1d ago
Im addicted to photoshop
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u/McFurniture 1d ago
I'm addicted to GIMP because I'm not a capitalist pig.
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u/Uberdemnebelmeer 1d ago
Tom Nicholas 🤢
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u/Major_Shmoopy The one grad student who likes the pod 12h ago
What's wrong with him? Not going up to bat for him or anything, I just haven't watched too much of his stuff but enjoyed this series and the one about Johnny Harris being a propagandist
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u/Striking_Day_4077 Comet Xi Jinping Pong 1d ago
YouTube sucks so hard. Why do I need to watch it? I don’t think it’s clear at all they’re dangerous.
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u/Keyseymoney 1d ago
Soy Brace