Return of nicotine addiction of the youth.
Latest trend besides the god damned vapes: nicotine-infused toothpicks the kids in 7th grade are casually twirling around their mouths during class.
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I remember a couple grades older than me in high school (I'm mid 30s) were getting in trouble for having cinnamon soaked tooth picks on them. What a world of change we live in.
I was just thinking about those cinnamon tooth picks reading their comment! I haven't seen those since I left Miami. God I miss those things! I fell asleep on the tri rail with one in my mouth and woke up looking like I had the most horrific case of ringworm on my cheek.
FWIW it's ridiculously easy and cheap to make your own. Just be sure to the dilute the Cinnamon oil before soaking or you will burn your tongue.
And there are dozens of other oils that work really well, including mixing! Orange cinnamon is great
Fucking brilliant! Maybe I'll bring the light to these godless local heathens who have never had one.
Funny enough, those have actually been around for a while, I remember seeing them as a "smoking alternative" sometime around 2013? But pretty sure they were around before that. Also aren't zyns or whatever still popular? Why not just stick with that?
Nicotine was bound to stick around though. It's basically a "legal" mini-high and doesn't have all the smell and cancer stigma (yet, pretty sure those things still ruin your lungs) that traditional burning cigs do. That industry wasn't gonna fold without a fight.
Answer's easy though. Signing up to advertisement delivery platforms, wether it be TikTok, or YouTube or even Amazon Prime with comemrcials.
Basically everything on the internet now we would have called “spyware” before 2000…
Right but they're mostly not too up in your face with the spyware. They're not hiding it either,but you could forgive a tech-illiterate for not seeing it.
The advertisements though, they're fucking all over the place. The "free internet" isn't even dead. These poor sods just choose to go with the advertisements instead.
That the internet is not a good thing.
Twenty years ago, even some more, the internet was something that brought me hope for humanity: A democratic network of knowledge open to anyone for both participation and access. I truly expected this to improve the lifes of those in less fortunate countries and backgrounds, and help reduce conflicts between people by understanding each other.
Yeah, a bit too much "we are the world", but you read about the pioneers of the internet and this was a shared belief.
Turns out it was like Cyberpunk, but like boring.
It's more of a billionaire nazi propaganda problem. Imagine if they bought up the newspapers and tv stations and there was literally no alternitive
That's exactly what happened in Hungary, Slovakia, Russia... terrestrial news stations and papers all have people at the helm that have ties to their government.
I don't think it's much different in the US either.
All the dystopia, none of the mantis blades.
I think the Internet is still a good thing, it's just become so pervasive and ubiquitous that it's easy to ignore when it's not a bad thing. Humans are really good at noticing bad things, which makes sense from an evolutionary perspective. They stand out more starkly against a neutral background.
I remember watching the Arab Spring unfold. Twitter being a guiding light through the darkness for so many people whos government tried to control available communication.
Such high hopes for people back then.
Occupy Wall Street and Me Too, also. I thought we were headed in the right direction. Fast forward... We got this.
All that has happened with the consolidation of social media into a propaganda arm for governments and corporations makes the fediverse decentralized network an important step forward in the right direction.
If there were another "??? Spring", could the fediverse be a tool for communication central to a movement still remains a question.
Social media made the internet not worth it. I had high hopes also but humanity sucks as seen when we are all interconnected with global squares.
Nothing really, it’s just hard to care because everything is what we already had but with advertising and spying everywhere.
Fascism.
Holding a mobile telephone horiztonally in front of yourself and shouting at it, then moving it to the side of your head, holding it sticking out from your ear horizontally to listen to what the other person says... instead of just holding it in one place to do both, like a telephone.
Coal rollers. The active embrace of our collective demise.
I feel like those aren't new. I think they're just pretty rare, so most people don't find out about them.
How the fuck to sixty-seven someone?
Be sure to tip your waitresses! I’ll show myself out…
For one, it's six seven, not sixty-seven. That's the first trip up.
As for the second, assuming I understand correctly: It literally means nothing. It's just a thing to say. And it's funny when adults are baffled and can't understand.
I did see someone point out that six times seven equals fourty-two. Which is neat.
Someone told Me it evolex out of how 420 and 69 are funny
It's mostly the same as how you would sixty-nine someone except you unfurl your proboscis first.
Ixnay on the roboscispay in front of the umanshay!
Same as the shocker sixtynine , minus the two in the pink.
Tipping at kiosks.............
Omfg, if you're over 25, that's when you start struggling to understand technology, because the alzheimers is starting to set in? Things are getting dumber, not smarter.
Idiocracy incarnate
Just put me on a fucking Iceberg already.