Anti-Vaping Ads Want You to Vape

Anti-Vaping Ads Want You To Vape
by Maggie Mae Fish

This  is something I've suspected for a long time, before vapes even existed.  The reason why so many anti-smoking ads (and so many anti-drug ads in  general) are so weird or terminally uncool is because they're actually pro-smoking (or pro-drug) in deference to Big Tobacco. Both pro-vape (or pro-cigarette) and anti-smoker. That is, they don't care about the victims of nicotine addiction and other addictions, and are in fact actively hostile towards them, but they sure do want those same people to buy those drugs so the rich get richer.

Reverse psychology. It works.

Haven't watched anything else this person made so I won't venture an opinion on her other work, but I agree with this one. Also, this disclaimer goes double  for anything algorithmically recommended under this video, lol.

Geometrical Musings

I may be a square but squares have those sharp pointy edges. Built-in defense system.

Circles can keep their rolling ability. I'll make do.

The Gifts of Plants

Fruits are pretty amazing things from the perspective of animals like ourselves. Plants give us tasty and nutritious treats that are not used to help feed themselves like leaves are. These take quite a bit of energy to produce, though, so it may seem a bit puzzling at first that plants do this at all.

However, if we look at it from the plant's perspective, it's clear that this energy can benefit the plant as well. Because it can enable a larger geographic distribution for its seeds than would otherwise be possible. And so animals are enlisted in some brief plant childcare in exchange for food. 

I think there's an implicit agreement here that as humans, we often exempt ourselves from. I think to honor radically different lifeforms from ourselves like plants we should think about how we can place ourselves back into the stream of life around us to facilitate these sorts of activities, keeping in mind that we have additional abilities we can use to aid plants that other animals may not possess.