source says 1 squirrel, nyp says its an epidemic
this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2026
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...We can make nicotine bird feeders, which have little hookah straws, through which critters can enjoy life. 🤔
Disposable vapes are genuinely evil. With the lithium inside the batteries they are significantly more dangerous than throwing a cigarette out your car window. They have chips inside them with metals that can be recycled and they are made of a hard plastic that'll be around for thousands if years. Whenever I mention this to people I know they agree with me that it's evil but continue to use disposable vapes because it's more convenient. I keep telling my roommates that it's massively cheaper to get a refillable one and they always agree but never buy one. Every time I go to the vape shop to get juice and coils I drop off a literal tub of disposable vapes from my roommates.
I'm so tired of people being complacent in this and I'm tired of making this rant. People will get nervous about batteries when they see a phone explode in someone's pocket but they'll throw that shit on the ground or in the trash without a second thought. Just go back to smoking if you wanna throw shit on the ground. It's better for the environment and public safety that way anyway.
They're vaping. They're not intelligent to begin with.
Blame Trump
Have you seen this shit?
Factory workers test 1000 of these contraptions per day.
it's truly evil.
Human beings will get extinct due choosing convenience over sustainability.
Wtf that's all kinds of messed up
Welcome to capitalism.
Consume shit that harms you while also harming poor workers and the environment
That's so incredibly messed up
It reminds me of the radium girls
Why vape in the first place?
I like nicotine
Using it to quit smoking is a good idea, and the only one actually.
But disposable !? FUCK ME this world is doomed...
Replacing a cig with something that has no immediate downsides and is always available. Hmm
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Yeah, I'm not one for banning things willy nilly, but disposable vapes need banned. I'd much rather people vape a liquid refilled repairable vape like the kids used when I was young, but even pod type vapes are better. This is just reprehensibly avoidable e waste.
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I wish there was a $1/vape return scheme. Like we do here where I live with pop bottles. People would pick them out of the trash to return.
I vape cannabis. Whenever I go to the dispensary, it always surprises me how many disposable products there are. Some strains it's not even possible to buy them as non-disposable carts at some of the IL dispensaries I go to. I always try to pick standalone carts, but I have also had it where I've ordered a cart online and they ended up trying to give me a disposable replacement without asking.
It's nuts to me that people are buying these rechargeable things with batteries to throw out as a default (it's definitely seems more popular than re-usable carts at dispensaries I've been to). Why wouldn't you want your own device with your settings saved if you vape versus using some random piece of shit attached to the very expensive goop you're smoking? I don't get disposables at all. You start saving money after 3 or so carts if you buy your own battery.
Even worse: if you wanted to recycle one of them many are designed with housings that make it nearly impossible to open them up and replace the cartridge.
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The squirrels were sighted shortly afterwards in a poorly modified Subaru WRX.
Not the onion but NY Post, which is almost the onion
This is horrible
for real. squirrels need to switch to a plant based, biodegradable alternative
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The tobacco-toting treehopper
What tobacco? The whole point of a vape is that it doesn't burn tobacco...
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But everything is fine
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