I get it 100%. The circumstances that led to her quitting the first time (a medical thing) aren’t able to be replicated. Also, the circumstances of her relapse (her father’s death) were sharp to say the least.

Where do you draw the line? At what point do you say, “this is us.” “That is not us.” ? I could just as easily turn a blind eye to hoarding. It’s not dissimilar. But I refuse to live like people who live in garbage. If my wife was addicted to piles of junk, few would argue against me taking a stand against it. Pick an addiction; they all have social connotations. What if she was an abusive alcoholic? I can say no to that right? What if she was a functional alcoholic? Am I within my rights as a husband to put conditions on behaviors that represent “us”?

The family I grew up in has a zero smoking policy. I have a zero smoking policy. I love my wife, but I will never support her addiction.

I’m trying not to to be an asshole about it. She knows my stance and I’m not budging. That said, I don’t throw it in her face. In fact, I only told her once that I won’t do the vow renewal until she quits. We have an otherwise perfect marriage.

We haven’t had the vape conversation, but I’m not in favor of that either. You don’t quit drinking by switching from beer to vodka. I honestly don’t know how I would feel about her switching to vape. I hate the smell of her addiction but that’s not my biggest issue. I hate the effect on her health but that’s not the complete picture either. I hate the concept of a smoking addiction. It’s not my identity, and I don’t want it to be the identity of us as a couple. We are blue collar AF, but I still feel like her smoking diminishes us.

I used to be proud of her for quitting and staying quit. Now I’m not anymore.

My wife and my 10th anniversary is coming up this year. She quit smoking before we got married. Years later I told her how proud I was of her quitting because it would have been a requirement of mine before saying our vows.

5 years ago she started smoking again when her father died of COVID. I was patient with her in the beginning but I have become increasingly frustrated with her unwillingness to quit. We have been looking forward to a 10th anniversary vow renewal but I told her I won’t do it unless she quits. I told her I wouldn’t have married a smoker. I will not remarry her while she is a smoker.

Am I being an asshole here?

Android… is a Linux phone…?

Computational shotgun.

Also there’s the issue of h2o2 introducing oxygen to the wound. So while yes, some bacteria may be killed, you are encouraging others to grow. “Bacteria” isn’t a single thing. It’s a whole ecosystem. It’s like, ok great you killed all the wolves. Now we have bears.

I’ve been trying to figure out if there are fewer bots here. I think there are. If there’s any substantive difference between the two that’s it.

Regardless of how long you survive, your body both living and dead would be the single most potent bioweapon on earth.

Trees absorb MOST of their water through the soil, but are absolutely capable of absorbing water directly into their leaves. Google “Foliar uptake”

So, trees with more steps?

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I believe that the polar plot of prime numbers that reveals spirals and rays and when extended out to millions of numbers shows deeper fractals and geometric patterns is a glimpse into the structure of something we haven’t yet discovered.

Maybe it’s the higher dimensional structure of a photon, maybe it’s something we don’t even know about, but the fact that math describes everything in our universe EXCEPT prime numbers sounds like nonsense. There’s something staring us right in the face that we can’t see yet.

The next logical step is to use chat gpt to retroactively add product placement to existing novels. The enshittification will follow you.

A pharmaceutical salesman who is secretly a CIA agent

Imterdimensional crime boss, day 1. Two of yourself means you have a rock solid alibi at all times. How could I have possibly committed a crime while I’m at the DMV renewing my license? Even if I’m caught on camera I dgaf. He ain’t me. Don’t need to run from the cops if you can portal to a different universe. All you need to do is to figure out one good crime and repeat for literal infinite profit.

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