Sometimes that works but typically people spread out and smoke on both ends of the bus stop, or people will be smoking as they walk around.
The wind blows the shit around as well, it doesn't really take much of it to start the headache going.
You can also find rare legitimately interesting user curated lists with some kind of stated perspective.
Idk a better method than getting lucky with checking what lists your favourite albums are on, but I did find a gem titled something like "The First String" for stuff with interesting focus on guitar, which ranged from American Primitivism, noise improv, to Surf Rock from Egypt.
I don't really get all the stuff about how you don't get to know your coworkers if you don't have a happy hour, because if there's one thing I know about coworkers at work it's that people talk all the time about basically anything.
Only times that are categorically quiet is during evening or weekend shifts when you have like 4 people and at least half of them are dead tired just trying to do a competent job.
Like most obnoxious conspiracy guys, it's very amorphous and depends on what they can say to be superior in the moment.
Often they want it to be the former, but typically only the latter actually has concrete proof of it happening in various circumstances(and rarely if ever as a discrete commercial venture.)
It basically comes off to me as a more antisocial and obnoxious version of the JFK truth circles, which I already think is practically worthless to really engage with in a political sense.
Like that's too mainstream and accepted for these guys, so they go for something more radical and edgy. The same thing was sort of happening with satanic panic shit for a while too but that tended to edge more right wing IME.
I really hope this isn't becoming a trend but this is the second time I've had twitter show me someone who is acting extremely superior about their ideological position that you're basically not a real leftist unless you loudly believe that snuff films are real.
Like just you're basically a dumb fucking hog who might as well be an average lib if you just kind of assume they are an urban legend but don't actually care.
I definitely get what people are concerned with in regards to backlash and direct retaliation.
But at the same time for how long can the waters just remain basically stagnant on shit like this? Public protest isn't a viable strategy in the west in regards to reliably extracting victories in the time span people fucking need them to happen.
It makes sense that any place that is convenient to smoke that also permits you to smoke, will also be a place thats convenient for anyone to be at or pass by.
Can't really solve that unless you can only smoke in inconvenient spots by law.
Which I wouldn't be opposed to, but my bias is obvious.