#vapes

[stupidjewishwhiteboy]

Elizabeth Tsurkov (the Russian-Israeli academic who was kidnapped in Iraq by a pro-Iranian militia, who was released a few months ago) has written an article in the Atlantic titled “ I was Kidnapped by Idiots” which is a fascinating read if you can get access to it. My favorite part is when she was being initially held the men holding her were apparently ordered not to torture her (this was eventually changed, and Tsurkov spends a lot of time explaining how very good they were at torture when they were so incompetent at every else). Anyways, apparently they tried to improvise with other interrogation techniques Tsurkov assumes they got from movies they had watched. Her main interrogator tries to do the whole “blowing smoke in your face” thing, except he was using a vape, so what Tsurkov got blown in her face was in fact just strawberry flavored vapor. It….did not have the intended effect

[3liza]

hello. you can crack open any of these "disposables" like an oyster and refill them. you don't need to throw a lithium battery away just because the e-juice ran out. buy some e-juice. it's cheap. or make your own. you can drip it into the top of the sponge in there or take the sponge out and soak it or use a syringe to saturate the sponge from top to bottom directly. be careful not to rip the delicate little wires off the circuitboard or the battery, but even if you did, you could re-solder it. "disposable" vapes are one of the biggest consumer scams going rn and it makes me really mad

the lithium and cobalt in these batteries are being destructively mined from multiple places in the world including Congo. you can save an enormous amount of money, time, and avoid contributing to mineral exploitation all at once with this one weird trick

edit: please don't refill nicotine vapes with weed oil or weed vapes with nicotine liquid. different kinds of vapes and also there will be an oil/water problem. refill nicotine vapes with nicotine liquid and weed vapes with weed oil. don't cross-contaminate. I don't think anything catastrophic will happen, I just think it will break the vape and waste your time

[nocternalrandomness]

A C-17 flying out of Elmendorf AFB Alaska vapes as it pulls up hard behind the camera ship

[fireheartedpup]

Don't throw away or recycle vapes. Or anything with a lithium ion battery.

[lozer-boy]

joints are cool. cigarettes are cool. blunts are cool. cigars are cool. hawaiin triple berry explosion vapes are not cool. not once have I ever seen someone hitting a plastic cartridge or pen and thought “holy shit they look freaking awesome!!”

[ask-georgeharrison]

Have you ever tried a vape?

I don’t know what that is.

[catharticjello]

trying to quit nic but i need it to study and to clean and to think and exercise and to have fun and to breathe. I am in a never ending cycle of shame and relapse.