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A combination of minimalism and travel! I have a Lotus on its way to me from the Exchange, and I pretty exclusively use manual vapes so I have a bevy of 8mm devices and a few 9mm ones. One stem with two heads would be ever-so-slightly more minimalistic to throw in a bag with a Lotus, Dani...

These look amazing!! Do the heads detach from the stems? I would love to get just like one of the stems and both the .1 and .05g bowls in one order!

So again, do you have any videos of the device in action? You've come in with some bold claims that I am not nearly educated enough in organic chemistry to understand, and you have people in this thread demonstrating knowledge that contradicts your claims. It is on the claimant to prove their...

I've been using Colibri since I started vaping in 2021, and it works beautifully! I buy in bulk when I can since it doesn't go bad for well over a year.

For anyone interested in a more modern, 21st century review of archeological evidence, I highly, HIGHLY recommend David Graeber and David Wengrow's "The Dawn of Everything". It is incredibly well-sourced and points out how much Jared Diamond cherry-picks his favorite instances of people meeting...

Sure, but archeological evidence is pretty clear about how humans die, and frequently see large stretches of time in which buried humans generally die of natural causes or obvious accidents and there is very limited evidence of warfare or interpersonal violence. Murders still happen in, say...

Diamond cherry-picks data and denies agency to peoples of the past, and has a deep, foundational materialistic view of the world that he doesn't back up with good anthropology. The reality is that violence is one option built into our DNA. The idea that violence is somehow innate in ALL humans...

Anthropological evidence of organized, state-based war is scant once you extend about a myriad into the past. The Hobbesian idea of a permanent state of natural warfare has been pretty well debunked at this point, and the Rousseauian idea of a pure, zero-violence Garden of Eden-like existence is...

If a market is free, it is exploitable. Capitalism actually always leads to monopolies and abuses of workers' rights. Any fighting against those things has been done by workers at the expense of capitalists, and the last time we had significant work reform it took many, many dead bodies. If the...

Yes. I have answers to all this. The answers are all yes. American hegemonic power has toppled dozens of governments in the Global South. We've killed millions and millions of people between globally-induced famines, wars, pollution, and climate change. If you got sick in this country and didn't...

Indeed, extreme, and I would argue it became necessary when plainclothes officers began abducting legal residents off the streets without identifying themselves. Secret police disappearing people is kind of exactly why minorities have long armed themselves. The only way to deal with a rogue...

Some friends have asked me recently why I've taken to carrying a firearm when I go out and about, considering I do not care about physical stuff getting robbed, and I never find myself being targeted anyway. This is why. Please note, I am not advocating violence. I am reminding folks that...

What are you talking about? We've always been at war with Eastasia Iran.

Because capitalism meant we moved much of our manufacturing offshore for cheaper prices to take advantage of slave labor in the Global South. We would have to democratize resource production if we wanted to move supply chain production back to the US, and that will not happen with oligarchs who...

I *think* you're being serious in asking if the vape world is exempt from trade wars, so I will answer as if you are being serious. No, there is no reason vapes will be exempt from tariffs. Tariffs will only hurt consumers in the United States because we have outsourced our entire supply chain...

This also works as a potential solution to VAS! Channel your own energy into providing things for other people, and you still get the dopamine hit but you don't have to have nearly as much random crap!! I've bought about half a dozen vapcaps for others and given away about a third of the total...

@emily is right on!! Humans in Western cultures in particular are currently expected to spend more money in order to solve their problems, and they are expected to create problem that can be solved by spending money. We are taught that products like vaporizers can be refined to perfection and...

The more that the working class sees that being a class traitor only leads to more pain, the quicker we develop class solidarity. I feel terrible for this person who just was hoping for a way to care for herself and her family, and I feel rage for the NYPD and entire criminal justice system for...

I didn't vote for Trump. I'm perfectly capable of criticizing anyone who votes for anyone. Whether that criticism is worth listening to or not depends completely on what the audience of the critique believes. It doesn't have to be so all in. Shades of gray, friend, shades of gray. Also, I...

There's a wonderful book called "Everything for Everyone" that describes a near-future world in which billionaires and trillionaires escape to Mars starting in the early 2030's as global capitalist power structures are pushed to collapse by climate change and greed. In the novel, the revolution...