The point was like, vapes contain only 4 food-safe ingridients, should be obvious that by it’s nature it must be at least somewhat safer than burning tobacco which releases over a 100 obviously toxic elements. Nobody was ever claiming that vape is completely safe. But big tobacco doesn’t like competition, so they’ve funded a lot of sham research where scientists would e.g. jam a vape into a smoke analyzer and run it full blast until the cotton catches fire, the coils melt or batteries blow up, disregarding that it’s physically impossible to inhale the resulting mess. Then they poisoned people with IQOS-like products and ran advertising campaigns for JUUL(partly owned by PM) explicitly aimed for children. Then paid a bunch of news outlets to run stories about it but shift the blame at vapes. That aside from pretty blatant lobbying as cigarette tax makes a pretty hefty government income in a lot of countries.

You’re giving too much credit to bears. They can chomp your face just because they feelt like it, or out of pure curiosity, and won’t even notice you struggling to fight them off. Check some stories of zookepers and circus workers killed by them, you’ll find that wild animals are completely unpredictable.

Just like the recent US-brokered “peace deal” between Armenia and Azerbaijan, where Armenia gave up everything and the violent dictator Aliev pinky promised not to attack them again…

I don’t see it as that big of a problem, countries with exclaves exist, could be something like Armenian-Azerbaijani solution with mutual corridors (though this one has shown to fail miserably). The fact that Fatah and Hamas went their own direction is a bit more of an issue. My position is simple, though - Israel should fuck off all occupied territories, including those of Syria and Lebanon, and lift all blockades they have enacted. They can put as many walls and iron domes as they want, but fuck off the territory that doesn’t belong to them. Whether Palestine re-unites after that or remains as two independent states is then up to Palestinian people to decide.

I recognize Palestinian people’s right to identity, autonomy, self-governance, sovereignity, freedom of movement, etcetc. But I can’t in all honesty say that I recognize the two de-facto disjointed and powerless entities under Israeli occupation and control as a singular state, if any at all.

Freedom to Gaza, end to West Bank apartheid, glory to Arstozka