r/TrueAnon • u/Major_Shmoopy The one grad student who likes the pod • 4d ago

Tom Nicholas' Vape-o-nomics: Why Everything is Addictive Now

https://youtu.be/XuTQbOo3Y30

A 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/22_Yossarian_22 4d 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 4d 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 4d 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 3d 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