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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

When did "cigarettes smoked per day" become the standard unit of measurement for negative impacts on health?

[–] SheeEttin 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And they say it's Americans that will use anything but the metric system.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

1 pack a day is about 2.7 milideath/1000s for us metric folks

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

milli/1000s

Son, go get dad’s 223. The imperialists are on the lawn again.

[–] XbSuper 3 points 1 year ago

When they made them public enemy number 1.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

They're just trying to make it relatable to people. (Un?)fortunately, cigarettes per day hasn't been relatable to people since the '90s.

[–] _number8_ 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

damn i should switch to smoking

[–] YeOldGrim 1 points 1 year ago

Just don't get the packet with whatever warning applies to you, and you'll be fine 🤪

[–] AllonzeeLV 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hyper competitive global market Capitalism, that infects every aspect of our lives, teaches us to compete against each other as enemies. The zero sum mindsets of "you have to lose so I can feel like I've won" and "You're poverty makes me feel wealthier by comparison" and "look at those selfish homeless people lowering my property values by greedily continuing to exist while destitude."

As end stage capitalism continues to progress and the top level capitalists fight to consume one another's empires of dirt in their desperation for new growth/metastasis on a finite, overpopulated, already raped and pillaged world, what did you expect? That after a lifetime of being taught to be greedy, selfish, and sociopathic, oh sorry, rationally self-interested, we'd make lots of friends and have lots of next gen capital battery babies along the way?

Fuck off. This is what live together or die alone looks like. Anything less would make us filthy commie socialists or something after all, amirite?

[–] egeres 5 points 1 year ago

Very noble on their side, but I would bet no government is going to do actual shit about this

[–] Lemminary 4 points 1 year ago

Eh, I'm fine with my voluntary isolation. I have no trouble making friends at all. In fact, every weekend when I go out and I meet someone new, and it's either a decent time or a miserable experience like this past weekend. I've yet to be able to say that it was a great pleasure meeting anyone in the past 4 years save for one person and even he does some shady shit that I have to put up with. Why does it have to be like this? It's insane.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The government noticing social murder for the first time, huh?

[–] ChemicalPilgrim 2 points 1 year ago

Leave me alone WHO, always in my DMs

[–] mydude 1 points 1 year ago

Good thing we didnt follow The Great Barrington Declaration then... https://gbdeclaration.org/

[–] agitatedpotato -1 points 1 year ago

uwu did WHO senpai just notice me?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

Laughs in Introvert.