naevaTheRat
@naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Despite all my rage I’m still a rat refreshing this page.
I use arch btw
- Comment on Policy banning vape sales outside of pharmacies to go before Senate, health minister says 3 days ago:
The giant corps are the ones massively involved in the black market :(
It’s probably not realistic to say no upside, as people usually do stuff for reasons even if it’s terrible overall. Like a bizarrely high proportion of people with schitzophrenia take nicotine so there probably is something it’s doing that helps in the moment.
There’s gonna be a market one way or the other. IMHO the government should step in to make it tightly controlled and low profit (if not nationalised). Also we should lynch everyone who’s ever taken a dollar of tobacco money but idk how broad support for that is.
- Comment on Policy banning vape sales outside of pharmacies to go before Senate, health minister says 3 days ago:
Oh you’re that dipshit. Makes sense that you’re pearlclutching
- Comment on Policy banning vape sales outside of pharmacies to go before Senate, health minister says 3 days ago:
This is completely off topic from what I was talking about with the other person, I really don’t know what you’re chiming in here for.
- Comment on Policy banning vape sales outside of pharmacies to go before Senate, health minister says 3 days ago:
That is a separate issue. I’m trying to understand what their specific health concerns are, why it is they feel any amount of vaping represents an antisocial immediate health hazard distinct from say driving while unhealthy, tired or whatever or taking drugs known to increase violent tendencies like alcohol.
There is something they feel is different and I’m trying to unpick what it is. Like is there a specific chemical they believe even trace vaping exceeds safe limits of? a class like VOCs but are they also afraid to be around a stove etc? Is it fear of lack of regulations meaning unknown contamination could be present? Is it lack of precedent of characterised harms? (e.g. standing next to a stove while cooking seems about as unhealthy as being near most* vapes but we tend to be comfortable with poorly ventilated stoves and not with vapes because stoves are boring).
They unfortunately seem to thing my curiosity represents some hostility, despite having stated that I am in favour of regulation and basically just have a couple of quibbles with this law ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Policy banning vape sales outside of pharmacies to go before Senate, health minister says 4 days ago:
I will could you answer my question about fog machines though?
- Comment on Policy banning vape sales outside of pharmacies to go before Senate, health minister says 4 days ago:
For both of our convenience I would really appreciate it if you just listed the specific concerns you had in mind, along with a primary source.
If a primary source is too much because you believe something is “common knowledge” (e.g. asking for a primary source on why to look both ways before crossing the road is a bit pedantic) a relevant Wikipedia page about the immediate health concern would be fine.
Let’s exclude popcorn lung (diacetyl damage) for aforementioned reasons.
I’d also like to ask, are you concerned about fog machines which also make a vapour of vegetable glycerine? Or are your concerns limited to flavour compounds and trace nicotine exposure?
- Comment on Policy banning vape sales outside of pharmacies to go before Senate, health minister says 4 days ago:
What is the immediate health effect of a nearby vaper? Like seriously I actually don’t know of any solid evidence. In it’s most basic formulation it is literally just a fog machine.
- Comment on Policy banning vape sales outside of pharmacies to go before Senate, health minister says 4 days ago:
Oh but don’t they?
People who don’t do cardio might be more likely to have a heart attack while driving, or otherwise drive at a lower level of alertness (cardio improved cognitive performance and slows decline) hence increasing their chances of hitting someone.
Or perhaps they cost the state more in health (tbh probably like smokers they cost less but this is the common justification for the sin tax on smoking) which damages your ability to get your health issues attended too.
People drinking alcohol are more likely to engage in violence, and do actually pose a risk to people around them statistically.
Obvs this stuff is reaching, but so is most of the health stuff on vaping so far (most harm demonstrated is due to ‘popcorn lung’ which is basically a result of lack of regulation meaning a certain flavour got used despite this known side effect) and the point is we need to consider degrees.
We live in a society and there aren’t super clear boundaries on what we ought to be able to do. The current proposed law, which again I’m broadly in favour of, does massively fuck up by placing vapes under the TGA. That means they need to be regulated as medical devices which means unless you can show a vape has a medical reason to be on the market it wont be approved.
Since that will never happen (except, maybe as a cessation tool but the TGA will have high standards of evidence) this is still a ban on vaping, just the long way round. Note how CBD is legal and OTC except there are no approved CBD products for OTC.
- Comment on Policy banning vape sales outside of pharmacies to go before Senate, health minister says 5 days ago:
The problem is this applies equally well to stuff like eating fast food or not doing cardio 3x a week.
I’m an ex smoker for context, I hate this fucking shit but we don’t offer any real support to prevent addiction and just punish people for it.
I’m 100% plain packaging and selling behind counter (for all drugs, all products really ought to have advertising bans and plain packaging but I’ll never win that one). I’m also in favour of making addicting stuff boring. But after that people are ultimately free to make bad choices (I write, sprawled with terrible posture, a glass of wine, and some chips) and leaving the TGA to authorise these will mean none get approved and a black market will be created anyway.
- Comment on Unpopular opinion 6 days ago:
- Comment on Unpopular opinion 6 days ago:
I have legit lost sleep over the first quote from “they thought they were free” listed here:
- Comment on So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off? 6 days ago:
Yeah but you understand the difference between the state and the people who lived there right? Like Jewish settlers came from Europe, to the place Palestinian people were and had been living in.
They have a connection to the state of Palestinian (inasmuch as it exists given differing degrees of recognition) by way of having moral rights to continue living on the land they live on regardless of what some lines on a map call it.
- Comment on Making ends meat: Australians can save up to $20 a kg [on meat] by changing where they shop 1 week ago:
Eh iron isn’t very meaningfull. Most beans and lentils and stuff are pretty rich in it. Anemia is usually caused by bleeding or iron malabsorption over diet. Stuff like eating cheese with meals inhibits iron absorption because of calcium amounts.
kJ are but mostly because meats and seeds are very fatty which for everyone not starving makes them even worse sources.
- Comment on Making ends meat: Australians can save up to $20 a kg [on meat] by changing where they shop 1 week ago:
Probs worth comparing kJ energy too as raw mass isn’t the whole picture. Like trying to get your rdi from peanuts will be interesting…
It is also worth some thoughts about complete protein combos and digestibility but unless you are literally trying to avoid starvation and accidentally just eat lentils and rice for all your meals you will be fine.
In general, unless you’re a professional athlete a budget diet that meets your needs will look something like oat or baked bean breakfast (BBs you’ll want some extra energy from bread or whatever), leftovers from last night for lunch, a dinner rotating through beans and lentils. Daal, curries, stews and so on. Random reasonal veg and some greens to get variety. Greens can be pricey, but if you have a garden or a patch of ground you know isn’t poisoned warrigal greens grow like a weed, dandelion greens taste pretty nice, and so does milk thistle actually! just learn to ID them and never pick from roadside.
That’s how I’ve avoided starvation while also eating well in the past.
- Comment on Making ends meat: Australians can save up to $20 a kg [on meat] by changing where they shop 1 week ago:
Oooh that’s a tricky one. May as well ask what’s the best curry!
I actually favour tvp (don’t buy in colesworth, more than 8 bucks a kilo is criminal extortion, get it in 10 kg bags online) or black bean burgers.
Try these:
Also colesworth/aldis etc will extort you on the price of lentils/legumes/pulses. I’ve seen dried beans costing as much as 10 bucks a kilo lmfao. Check out Indian and chinese catering grocers or bulk sellers online (shipping varies, keep that on mind). Pre recession my price was 2 bucks a kilo for most of my bulk protein sources, now 4 to 8 but that’s capitalism baby.
- Comment on Making ends meat: Australians can save up to $20 a kg [on meat] by changing where they shop 1 week ago:
Butchers don’t want you to know this but kidney beans beat cow on protein content gram for gram. They’re also cheaper and more ethical.
Meat is a luxury good, in both the financial and moral sense.
- Comment on Amnesty International urges Australia to prioritise human rights during Chinese Premier Li Qiang’s visit 2 weeks ago:
It always feels weird to me when we talk about the Australian political establishment having some influence on human rights.
Domestically the government runs media blackout concentration camps, we have ever increasing police state laws, disregard climate change action (human rights is a massive component of why).
Obvs it would be great if nation states stopped doing tyrannical nation state stuff but umm what’s the angle of the Australian Parliament here?
- Comment on An ounce of prevention: Now is the time to take action on H5N1 avian flu, because the stakes are enormous 2 weeks ago:
If you want to keep farming animals frequent pandemics are the price 🤷♀️
- Comment on Keeping pet cats indoors would save millions of native animals and billions of dollars. So what's stopping us? 1 month ago:
Balls vs literally thousands of wildlife. What a hard decision?
Letting a desexed cat roam is literally hatred for this land. Do you want more feral cats? desex pets, it’s again basic responsibility.
- Comment on Keeping pet cats indoors would save millions of native animals and billions of dollars. So what's stopping us? 1 month ago:
Benefits for cats: No FIV infections, no car injuries, safe temperatures, no fights, no parasites.
Benefits for wildlife: no murder, fewer vectors, no loss of habitat to cats
Benefits for community: No digging up poop while gardening, no roaming cats triggering sensor lights/setting off other pets/damaging property with claws, no toxo transmission, no digging up poo while gardening/losing plants to cat piss
Cons to cats: Keepers must provide entertainment
Cons to keepers: Exercise the level of basic responsibility every other keeper of pets is expected to, or parent with children.
Issue: Controversial???
- Comment on David McBride vs Goliath in a nutshell 1 month ago:
Yep, totally evil authoritarianism. No excuses, this is a clear act of tyranny.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
It challenges something people have been indoctrinated with and causes them to question their moral character.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
lmfao people have been vegan thousands of years ago e.g. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ma'arri
beans and rice are poverty foods, not luxury. Meat is a luxury food.
- Comment on EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 6 - Release Date Trailer 1 month ago:
From vicious giant insects who have once again come back
- Comment on kissies 1 month ago:
- Comment on kissies 1 month ago:
Ok, that makes some sense. You seem stuck on this more than I would expect which is very confusing but makes sense in the context of asd
- Comment on kissies 1 month ago:
I don’t mean this is a disparaging way, I’m just trying to understand your unusual behaviour. Are you autistic?
- Comment on kissies 1 month ago:
what on earth is wrong with you?
- Comment on kissies 1 month ago:
that you were an enigma wrapped in a mystery? why on earth does this matter to you?
If it’s so important to you that you’re no stranger to mess then send me a picture with your hands in someone’s abdominal cavity and be done with it. You don’t like body fluids on your face, woooh join the parade, you’re so special. There are billions of you, what does it matter?
- Comment on kissies 1 month ago:
Either way you’re not out there with your elbows in grease trap filth haha