Vape-o-nomics: Why Everything is Addictive Now
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  • A video about disposable vapes, and how addiction became the goal of every single company on the planet.
  •  averyminya   ( @averyminya@beehaw.org ) 
    69•4 months ago

    I just want to say I hate disposable vapes with a passion, they are so terrible for the environment because people inevitably litter them, leaving the plastic and batteries to leech into the environment, let alone the nicotine remnants.

    If you use nicotine, please switch to a refillable vaporizer.

    •  Sonori   ( @sonori@beehaw.org ) OP
      40•4 months ago

      Personally, the thing that gets me the most about the whole thing is that the vast majority of the singe use ones you find lying next to the road have perfectly good rechargeable lithium batteries in them. No charging port or easy way to refill them, but for two cent change pins on the main circuit board and a change in the molding the same device could easily be used for a decade or more.

    •  Transporter Room 3   ( @Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website ) 
      25•4 months ago

      I pick up all the ones I see because I’m collecting the batteries out of them. After making sure they won’t spontaneously combust through damaged seals or corrosion, they get a piece of painters tape over all the metal, and placed in a fireproof battery charging bag.

      I intend to make little rc things out of these, or in some cases I’ve managed to replace the 2 AA batteries in electronics with a few vape batteries in parallel.

      With the right testing equipment and know-how (safety first when dealing with things that can burn your life down) You can do quite a bit with these.

      And holy shit the amount I find while just walking or biking around is insane, these things are an environmental disaster and I’ve tried to get people I know to at least switch to refillable tanks, but they’re “too expensive” (only up-front, long term they are many orders of magnitude cheaper) and “it’s too much work to clean/replace coils” (alcohol and cotton batting for both cleaning and coil filler work nicely) which just tells me they care more about their minor convenience than the entire goddamn planet.

      I don’t even fucking vape and I know these things!

    •  ag_roberston_author   ( @ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org ) English
      6•4 months ago

      Well you can watch it ad free on Nebula, as linked in the video description. I honestly can’t hate on him for that decision, he needs to eat as much as the rest of us, and unless we’re paying for a Nebula subscription, video sponsors are the only way to do that.

        •  ag_roberston_author   ( @ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org ) English
          1•4 months ago

          Because YouTube and Twitch are notorious for reducing ad payments or demontising creators. Have you forgotten about the adpocalypse already? Patreon also increased their fees with very little notice in 2019.

          It’d honestly be an idiotic move to not take a video sponsor if they’re offered, because that is guaranteed and likely upfront, supplemental income to support the creation of videos.

          Nebula is collectively creator owned, so it’s the only one of those that won’t fuck over creators for more money, but as I said, not a lot of people are paying for subscriptions. It’s small, the per-creator payouts are probably even less than Youtube.

          And finally, the real answer: Man’s gotta eat. Simple.

          All of that considered, I didn’t even see the sponsor ads you’re complaining about because I have Sponsorblock skip them automatically.