Harold
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As a chocaholic nothing would bring me more pleasure than for Cadburys to collapse.
They betrayed everyone when they closed down their factory in Birmingham and sold to a filthy American conglomerate.
A glass an a half in every dairy milk ended up three glugs of palm oil and a cheap labour plant in Poland.
Boycott the cunts
Sue 🇬🇧🏴@suespeaksup
Cadbury eggs stacking up on shelves… reduced everywhere… and still no one’s buying. People can taste the difference. Cheaper ingredients, palm oil, higher prices it’s not the same chocolate anymore. Consumers aren’t stupid. They’ve just stopped buying it!!
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The $46 billion vape industry hired flavor chemists to solve a specific problem: nicotine tastes bitter. The human tongue has T2R receptors that detect nicotine and trigger aversion. So the industry reverse-engineered the problem. They loaded e-liquids with fruity aromatic compounds like farnesol, farnesene, and ethyl butyrate that suppress the bitterness signal and activate sweetness perception through the orbitofrontal cortex instead.
Turns out they built something more powerful than a nicotine delivery system.
A 2023 study in the Journal of Neuroscience found that green apple vape flavorants, with zero nicotine present, independently fire dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area and increase dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens. The same reward circuitry that nicotine hijacks. The flavor chemicals alone were producing reward-seeking behavior in mice. A separate study found strawberry additives significantly increased nicotine vapor sampling, meaning the fruit smell made subjects inhale more of the drug without any conscious decision to do so.
95% of vape users choose flavored products. The industry has always framed this as “consumer preference.” The neuroscience says the flavors are pharmacologically active compounds that directly alter brain reward circuits and increase drug intake.
Now look at what those compounds do once the device gets tossed. The UK was discarding 5 million disposable vapes per week before the ban. The aromatic volatiles don’t stop broadcasting once the device is empty. Orthonasal olfaction, the same pathway that makes you smell a strawberry from across a room, works identically in mammals. A squirrel’s olfactory system processes fruity volatiles through the same receptor families humans use. The signal reads as food.
Nobody saw squirrels gnawing on Marlboro butts for 60 years. Vapes show up and suddenly there’s footage from London, Philadelphia, and Wales. The animals are chewing on lithium batteries wrapped in candy-scented plastic because the flavor engineering worked exactly as designed on a nervous system it was never tested on.
The lithium in those discarded vapes equals 5,000 electric vehicle batteries per year. Oxford researchers found the cells inside can cycle 450+ times, but the product is built to be used once and thrown in a park.
A squirrel holding a blueberry vape on a Brixton fence is the most honest product review the flavor chemists have ever received.
New York Post@nypost
Squirrels are 'vaping' e-cigarettes after mistaking fruity aromas for food trib.al/IvZIB0D
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Girl next to me in middle school had one of these and I asked to borrow a pen one time and when she handed me the pen she went “ewww your hands are wet” and the whole class heard but they were not wet. My hands were not wet.
Nostalgia@NostalgiaFolder
the Spacemaker pencil box
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Now do Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington
Leading Report@LeadingReport
BREAKING: Kurt Cobain’s de-th ‘was a hom*cide’ as shocking new private forensic findings question the su*cide ruling, per Daily Mail.
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Or just listen to the music you enjoy.
aurora ⚸@lynchianbush
listening to exclusively old music is pretentious but only listening to new music is a sign of low intelligence and i'd rather be pretentious
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