• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    As a person who quit smoking before vaping was created, I wholeheartedly support anyone who vapes as a way to get off cigarettes. Those things’ll kill ya.

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      I’m 62. I retired in January. In February, my 30-year marriage ended. I’m living alone for the first time in decades, and I never really did it very long before (a few years in my late 20s. It’s very strange. at this age.

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        2 months ago

        Wow—that is a lot of major life events crammed into 2025. Be nice to yourself. Often.

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          Thanks, I appreciate that. I’m not really enjoying 2025 so far (I’ll just mention that I’m pretty far left leaning as well, so you can understand that country/world events are stressful).

          We had planned on selling our house in CA and moving to WA. Now my wife has gone to NM to live with our son, and I’m getting ready to sell the CA house so we can each buy one. I’ve decided to stay in the same area of CA (where I grew up, where all my friends are), which means my house will be a small condo since prices here are super high. So that’s adding to the stress, but compared to the marriage ending thing it feels more minor.

          I know things will settle out, but it’s been hard to take.

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      2 months ago

      I did for about two months before COVID, then immediately needed a roommate to afford to live again.

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      2 months ago

      There are definitely patty cake cool bumps when you become a parent of a toddler and a grandparent of a toddler. In those moments your coolness is off the chart.

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      2 months ago

      Na, juuls use a salt crystal delivery system, vapes use an oil base concentrate.

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        2 months ago

        Salt nic is not exclusive to Juul, and only weed vapes use an oil. Vape juice is propylene glycol and vegetable glycerol with flavoring and nicotine.

        (Source here is me, went to vapes to successfully quit smoking back when there was more threading than a 510, when mods were a milled tube and a button or flashlight guts, with an rca connector on top so you could switch between different thread types. It sucks what its become, it was really helpful for me to quit nicotine completelt by having a vape.)

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          You are very wrong about only weed vapes using an oil, but that’s not the point anyways, so…

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            I think you’re misunderstanding - weed vapes can use oil (and more, such as dry flower), but nic vapes are not oil based.

            So only weed vapes would use an oil. Not that weed vapes are exclusively oil. Based on your reply I am assuming thats what’s being confused here.

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              I have made nic vape before. It is suspended in a glycol/glycerin compound. That’s what’s in a cartridge. I believe other nic vape products are not, but it is very much available.

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    As a 52 year old that has been skateboarding since the 1970’s I take great offense with anyone that tries to gatekeep skateboarding. Skateboards are always cool.

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      I remember patty-cake games being super popular in elementary school, and it switched to hacky sack games in late middle school through high school. I think the graph is accurate.

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    2 months ago

    I want this graph for every drug and substance ever used by humankind

    Siri serve me as you are obliged to by the user agreement and get to work

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    2 months ago

    I would change the ‘complaining about young’ people with ‘complaining about everything’.

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    2 months ago

    Is drinking age not a big thing in other countries? In the US there would be a drop from 19/20 birthdays and a spike at 21 that drops down again for 22.

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      Drinking age is 18 in most of the world (with 16 also applying some places). Additionally, my impression is that it’s not as big a deal for 16-17 year olds to get ahold of alcohol in other places.

      Where I’m from, the drinking age is 18, but it’s not uncommon or a big deal for people to get some beer or drinks for their 17th birthday party.

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      I think it’s a type of vape, but it was popular a while ago and I haven’t heard much since. Maybe this is an old meme?

      Edit: quick search with an AI result appearing to pull from a pdf from a site against kids getting tobacco: JUUL’s popularity peaked in late 2018 and early 2019, reaching over 70% of the US e-cigarette market. Since then, its market share has declined, falling to 42% by July 2020 and 36% by March 2022.

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    2 months ago

    I was wondering why there was a spike at 70 but then i realized