I’ll be straight with it. I’m a smoker, I smoke inside, I have a PC that is also inside. I want to clean my PC thoroughly to buy it a few more years. I know about the q tip method, and the compressed air, and general methods of cleaning out gunk and junk from PC parts. But this boy is way too gunked up for a regular cleaning. So, I reckon, the easiest way to clean it is to dunk the dirtiest parts in a bath of isopropyl alcohol. I was considering acetone at first, but it’s way too strong of a solvent, and alcohol should be better at dissolving organic residues. Is this a good idea?
I hereby submit this query to the council, and await judgement.
It seems like we should be doing the opposite, you seem to understand tech just fine and are very ignorant about health.
I studied medicine. I have a diploma. I know nothing about the tech accept that it’s made of metal and crystals and plastic. And it has lightning in it.
Did you study it in kindergarten and nowhere else? Because whether or not your lungs are “self cleaning” or not has absolutely nothing to do with how dangerous smoking is.
Do you really want to have a discussion about that? Because I am more than happy to explain my reasoning.
The biological body has the capacity to regenerate and self clean. If you live in a place with lots of smog, that’s the equivalant of smoking cigarettes. It’s like with any harmful thing, moderation is the key. If I smoke up to 5 cigarettes a day and live in a place with little to no smog, I’m much less likely to suffer adverse effects to my lungs and throat than not smoking at all and living in a place with lots of smog.
In addition, I suspect I have some genetic immunity. My great grandfather smoked more than a pack a day for decades, and he lived to like 95 years old.
Now, about the lung self-cleaning thing. As cells divide, new cells take their place, and old cells are either metabolised by the body or shed off like skin. Inside your lungs, tissue that’s damaged by smoking can be healed, as long as it isn’t too severe. Aside from that, lungs secrete mucus when irritated, which is then expelled along with the irritant (in most cases. Things like asbestos and fiberglass just stay in there). Through this natural process, the lungs clean themselves from the inside. As long as the rate of intake of the irritant does not exceed tha capacity for the lungs to expell that irritant, the situation doesn’t get worse.
That is my reasoning. Feel free to give me your take.
Sewers are self cleaning. If you throw a pipe bomb in there it ain’t gonna matter how self cleaning it is.
I don’t really need to argue the case when there’s decades of science showing that smoking isn’t safe in any amount (including smog).
I’m not arguing withg that. I never said it’s healthy. I never said it’s safe. I just explained my personal justification for keeping this habit. It’s not AS unhealthy if you do it only moderately. Can you people stop telling me how to live my life? It’s annoying af. And has nothing to do with the question that was asked.
In theme with your analogy, what you’re doing is butting in when two people are arguing over how to clean a room and saying “have you considered not getting it dirty or not having the building there at all?”
The problem with explaining personal bad habits and then justifying them with “I have a diploma” is that you are pretending to be an expert and you are influencing others who might not know. People like you are literally exactly why RFK is in charge of health in this country right now and why people are not taking vaccines as much. The death toll is already insane because of the misinformation like what you are spreading. Your “personal justifications” are putting me and billions of others at risk. I take immunosuppressants so it puts me even more at risk (misinformation from people like you).
Keep your badly justified medical opinions that result in more deaths to yourself. You didn’t need to bring it up, and when you did you made it a moral requirement for @Typhoon@lemmy.ca, @ameancow@lemmy.world and more to correct.
Smoking isn’t healthy. You spreading lies and using your diploma to justify it will cause deaths, if it hasn’t already (your nonchalance definitely doesn’t end at a single comment on a forum).