puff [comrade/them]

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Cake day: September 15th, 2022

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  • I KNOW THE ANSWER TO THIS!!!

    E-cigarettes are regulated by the Chinese government and fall under the state tobacco monopoly. They are legal to manufacture in any flavour but only legal to sell in China in traditional cigarette flavours, i.e. tobacco and menthol. Any flavour can be exported out of China, which is why the US is full of fruit flavored vapes from China despite none of them being authorized for sale in the US by the FDA. That fruit flavoured vapes are not for sale in China is not ideal since flavours are associated with more switching away from cigarettes (harm reduction) than are tobacco/menthol vapes (yes, vaping is much less harmful than smoking, the chemistry and toxicology data are very clear about this) but this system is still better than in the US where every single product has to be arbitrarily reviewed individually and they’ve only approved ONE menthol vape (insanity). In China the manufacturer just notifies the state monopoly of the product and its technical specifications and as long as they meet the clearly-defined state requirements it can be sold. The US has no clear requirements which means their ‘reviews’ are lengthy and capricious.







  • Super unpopular opinion: if I ask someone what their hobbies are and they say “Watching Disney/Netflix, reading Harry Potter, and playing videogames lol” I see that as a red flag. I try not to judge because we’re all trapped in hyperconsumerism but I can’t imagine my main focus in life just being to lap up the next shit slop. Sorry but that just doesn’t strike me as someone I’m compatible with socially. Happy for them though, or sad, idk.







  • I didn’t say Red Star OS was developed entirely in the DPRK, that’s a straw man argument, and you don’t understand the difference between personal property and private property. That the Cuban OS is partially closed source is unsurprising for national security reasons (not for making profit, which is the issue). There’s nothing morally wrong with building off the work of a privately owned company, in fact stealing back from private companies is an incredibly good practice since the labour they use is stolen in the first place. China is currently doing precisely this by allowing foreign capital to access their enormous labour pool in exchange for development of their productive forces (factories, machines, computers, other technology). It’s not a great system but Chinese workers are getting the better end of the deal, and it sets up a future in which more of the economy can be communally owned again. Idk why you’re on hexbear if you disagree with all of this. Hexbear is not a liberal website.