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Haha very fucking funny hackerman. (seriously, that was weird lol, guess someone deleted something)

holy fuck that other poster was right look at your EYES. woah.

i saw this person (can't remember pronouns sorrry) listed strong triggering to specific drug discussion and was thinking of something like this myself when pondering how to keep them safe

This is an extremely important addition to the discourse. I don't check profiles, assuming it was posted there, so I'd easily not notice that and with lax posting discipline, could cause harm to someone like that.

It's incredible how much this flies over the heads of the average person I talk to about security shit.

btw go listen to Front 242 if u like industrial. pretty cool number now that I'm looking at it again.

dont reply to me or my threads ever again and ruin this.

I don't know anything about marijuana/THC addiction to have an opinion.

Runs in my family. It's an incredibly disrespected plant. Shit ruins lives just as effectively as anything else if it's done too early, too much, too long or if you just got dealt a shitty hand. I take breaks but I always come back to it, it's impossible for me to know if that's entirely free of addiction factors. It's definitely habit forming which is another aspect of addiction that is sort of under appreciated.

Still don't have a strong opinion on how it should be treated on HB, my personal biases are too strong.

tru tru. please leave your quote copy intact for the bemusement of other simple minded proles like myself.

Together though-

CW for pics of animal products

That's a really apt comparison that I totally glossed over somehow on first reading. Definitely a potential solution to the "fuzzy area" drugs and casual discussion.

Also is a good backstop for the core of my concern- are vegans going to be triggered into eating meat? Nah. These stakes are higher.

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Asking the real questions. Like why are there not more blunt smoking emojis (for me to use responsibly in a CW'd posting environment?)

Yeah I feel like a casual mention of sucking down cigs while you cope with a situation is not something CW worthy.

The fuzziness of this question (where to draw the line) might indicate we need to think more about just nudging the culture if and when it backslides, requesting mods move threads to the appropriate communities and perhaps make zero changes to the actual function of the site.

Edit: to clarify, I also think casually mentioning a drug use in passing of any kind is possibly low-risk, hence the "in-depth" part of my post. It's when things get focused and upbears and replies draw attention to them that they start to gain more visibility and more likely to expose vulnerable people or draw them into the "collective rationalisation" of normalised substance use.

I explicitly left alcohol out because I don't care to struggle over it. But we probably should treat it with more respect than the general public in this regard.

Weed, probably yes, even though I blazeit. Tobacco, I don't have an opinion even though I'm a nic fiend.

I'm not sure how to resolve the problem of where to draw the line, it's a worthwhile discussion to have. My positions on what's "okay" and what's "not okay" are all basically emotional / irrational / vibes based. So I'm not able to really contribute usefully.

Even demarcating a subset of substances (alcohol, tobacco and fire ass weed) as "okay" is sort of irresponsible towards our younger and/or more vulnerable-for-other-reasons users.

But like, they are also a component of almost every culture on the planet and have been since at least the old dead dude they dug out of the glacier, or was it the dead dude in china with the hemp seeds? (or are they the same thing? wait was that a dude? lol)

This is a serious and seriously hard thing to figure out though. I would not want to be the admin who told hexbear they can't talk about their vape without a spoiler and content warning that's for damn sure.

I'm not sure the trio of generally acceptable "california-sober" drugs have the same reach as far as deep and damaging addiction and subsequent trigger risks go compared to "hard" drugs or "interesting" drugs that are habit forming and risky to use regularly.