Um now I’m just a supportive cis who hangs out here sometimes. So you can feel free to ignore.

But I understand this cycle of depression. I’m working out of it myself for different reasons. (Namely having to move back home due to a severe medical issue (now resolved, I’m ok) but am working on figuring out how to go back to work and move back out. My parents are trumpies, and while they know I didn’t vote for Trump and that I hate everything about Fox News they have no idea that I’m leftist too (not that they know anything about the left except we’re all radical apparently), and Mom is just starting to figure out that I’m atheist too. I’m not out about that to them either)

But don’t let it make you feel like you’re not trans enough to be called trans. You don’t have a bar to meet here. If you identify as a girl/woman, then you are. This “I’m not trans anymore” talk is just the depression being allowed to talk. Don’t let it talk loud enough to determine who you are.

Just imagine Trump’s face on your depression and punch the fucking shit out of it.

You got this, girl.

That’s… why I’m here

Every tobacco smoker is gross.

Maybe that’s a product of the old “every swan is white” kind of fallacy (don’t know the name of it offhand), but I’ve never met a habitual smoker that didn’t cause physical pain to be around. They stink, their clothes stink, their car stinks, their room stinks, and maybe their whole house.

“Stinks” may be just an opinion, but it seems to be almost universally agreed on (again, in my experience).

I’ve always looked down on them and judged them for consciously coding to smell like that, especially because all they get from it is keeping the symptoms of withdrawal away. They don’t get “high”, they don’t even get “relaxed” (except in the manner of relief from withdrawal symptoms). Literally all they get is smelling like poison and a priority pass to the lung cancer ride.

Not to mention possibly causing mild symptoms to everyone else nearby.

Also everyone doing it now wasn’t born back when they thought it was beneficial or even neutral. It’s always been the most reliable route to cancer in everyone alive today’s life.

So I think all smokers are stupid and stinky at the very best, and intentionally malicious at worst.

Given that there is absolutely no benefit at all, and given the definite danger of it to you and others, I deem smokers are just bad people in general.

On the more stupid end of the spectrum, they’re more stupid than bad, but even the very “best” tobacco for is stupid AF.

So to answer, no I don’t consume tobacco, and that is why.

Alcohol I believe is at least not as addictive, but is a bad choice for most of the same reasons. Typically they have to go more out of control to present an offensive odor, and if kept away from driving or sharp things, much less danger to others.

Their motivations seem more apparent since they do get high from it (drunk is basically just the word for a high specifically from alcohol). I also think that (not pushing this as I don’t know definitively) alcohol does less cumulative damage over time when used responsibly.

I drank occasionally (aka like 2x a week at the extreme high end) for a few years, and while I didn’t ever get a hangover exactly, I did black out once and started getting headaches regularly, so it quickly became more of a negative than a positive. Haven’t touched it for over 9 years, except for one sip of champagne for a toast at my brother’s wedding. And it was kinda gross in my opinion. Never did like the taste of alcohol, but being drunk was fun as a while as a kid, and enjoying doing something my parents wouldn’t like (coming out of a pretty conservative household) was part of it.

But almost no one just smokes occasionally. Plenty of drinkers drink occasionally. And if they’re not driving, they’re likely being annoying at worst. I don’t judge them nearly as harshly as tobacco smokers.

I’m fine with weed enjoyers. Whether you smoke it, vape it, or eat it, I’m interested in all of it. But it does still have an odor problem. Tobacco smells bad kinda universally (in my opinion), and that tar in it makes it super gross. I’ve never seen weed smoke “set in” to anything and make any permanent kinda smell. Maybe because I keep it cleaned up, maybe just because it’s not as oppressive in the first place.

Obviously I’m biased in how “bad” the smells are in relation to each other, but weed smell does seem to dissipate more. In my case I dry vape it, mostly through a window so it goes outside. None of my shit smells like weed. The room smells a bit when I’m emptying abv and loading new, but as soon as it’s put away it’s like it was never there.

So anyway, no. I don’t do either. And if you smoke tobacco (at least often or regularly), we are probably not friends. And you would definitely not be my SO. Smoking goes on the “ick” list for sure. Probably the textbook example of an ick.

It’s just video game DLC but in real life.

Or better yet, everyone appears to be whatever the new mono-race is, but in mirrors and other reflections and photos, racists see their least favorite race.

That way they still get to suffer.

I was using it with a 3070 just fine. Not necessarily sold on it, but so far so good.

I mean it’s dead, (for now) because my CPU died to the fate of belonging to the wrong Intel generation.

Now after finding a lottery ticket I will buy a new board and CPU, and a new GPU next in priority (since it does still work, but I won’t be buying Nvidia or Intel anymore.

Meanwhile cis me as I scroll through here on the equivalent of /r/all (I can’t be remember this app’s version of it) and feel mine hide inside me for a second as I read the o-word. xD

This sounds like stretching the word “celebrity” pretty far.

And Kari Lake.

Every single person who fears anti fascism deserves death. Full stop. President, House, Senate, ICE, janitor. No exceptions.

Instead, he should improve humanity by dying. So much easier and everyone would be so much happier.