Squirrel seen 'vaping' in London park(www.telegraph.co.uk)
24 pointsby walterbell6 hours ago7 comments
  • beardyw41 minutes ago
    Seems to have been flagged, possibly because it doesn't have AI in the title.

    Otherwise it is a discussion about technology.

  • senectus13 hours ago
    >A squirrel has been filmed appearing to vape in a London park…

    the words "Appearing to" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this tabloid article

    • tonyedgecombe2 hours ago
      It's the Telegraph, garbage media for people who can read.
  • csomar3 hours ago
    Soon he'll have to join the productive workforce so that he can afford cartridges. We might also observe a new wave of crimes from squirrels so that they can afford this new vice.
    • Imustaskforhelp2 hours ago
      Would he be able to afford rent though in this economy, his days of eating acorns on trees and moving from one tree to another without paying rent are gone :-)

      Most likely the squirrel is gonna create a meme coin and pump and dump it and become a influencer.

      (On a more serious note, I am not sure if some ACTUAL Human being might create a meme coin or something about this squirrel... so there is some irony to it)

  • brtkwr5 hours ago
    Vapes are possibly the worst things invented since cigarettes.
    • mslt4 hours ago
      Nuclear arms and fentanyl come to mind as worse
  • 4gotunameagain4 hours ago
    Why on earth are disposable vapes still legal. It is such an incredible waste. You know that the cohort they are marketed to are not going to dispose them responsibly.

    Each one has a rechargeable battery, and most of them end up in landfills.

    It is such a waste. Ban them.

    • AngryDataan hour ago
      Because governments want their sin tax money and refillable vapes don't generate nearly the amount of tax that disposable nicotine products provide.
    • globular-toast3 hours ago
      They're not. They've been banned in the UK for a while now. But I think the reusable ones are still cheap enough for people to be careless or just chuck them.
      • Ferret74463 hours ago
        Welcome to another episode of regulation backfiring. People want disposable vapes, the government bans them, so companies find a way to provide technically rechargeable vapes that are disposable, now it creates even more waste, the customers suffer, the government pats itself on the back for making the world slightly worse. Tune in for the next episode: age verification for computing devices!
        • 4gotunameagain21 minutes ago
          A backfiring regulation once in a while is much much better than a corporate dystopia wild west.
  • FrustratedMonky4 hours ago
    I didn't see any puff of smoke. Probably just playing with it
  • andrewstuart4 hours ago
    I knew a guy who had a dog that ate cigarette butts.