well, category "how to avoid making friends" :-D
@Simx72 me too
if anyone knows where to get water gun powerful enough for sniping, PLEASE let me know
@FoxesInLove On a Lake Champlain tour boat almost 30 years ago there was a "No Smoking" sign with a fire extinguisher next to it. They meant it.
Unfortunately, if I ever had a photo it's been lost.
@FoxesInLove I get the feel of this, these people are addicts though, addicts who sometimes will negativly impact their friends and comrades in order to feed their addiction.
I would say they need help, but as is often the case, many don't want to be helped.
It's the normalizing of this that concerns me most though. But capitalism thrives on individualism.
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@GLaDTheresCake I'm very aware of the dynamic and issue, I have a weak throat, even an hour outside with some smokers can affect me for some days.
I also have quite some friends who are addicted, proclaiming willingly or not. They know my situation, and smoke anyway. Resulting either in leaving me out of conversation or leaving me with a hurtful throat. But they are my friends, so assume it's the best they can do. 🤷🏼♀️
@GLaDTheresCake the italian hackmeeting I just visited is I feel a very prime example of conflicting needs. But also notice a lack of awareness. So I'm considering maybe facilitating an open and drugs friendly and anti specieist (another issue was a fear of dogs) discussion on the social implications of our actions.
I'm curious what would come out of a discussion that isn't focused on banning anything as is often the case.
@GLaDTheresCake @wmd Yeah, it is still seen as rebellious to smoke in my experience. Meanwhile I have started getting outright asthma attacks to it.
Currently navigating the fact my otherwise very nice neighbours smoke outside their front door and sometimes on their balcony and I need to slam the ventilation to avoid getting an asthma attack. But there is literally no other option unless they go all the way out of the apartment building.
Like what do you do. —Vi
@wmd
I recently was on a protest against the German government cutting social services and, even on rock concerts, I've never inhaled that much smoke.
I suppose it makes sense that there's a crossover between smokers and service dependants or stressed social workers,
but that was the first time that smoke gave me a full on panic attack.
Luckily I was there with a group of social workers who took me aside for a moment and gave me chewing gum.
Snoipin's a good job, mate.

Nice, but not quite the range I'd like.
Might be hard to do with liquid water though.
@wonka @grutzifix @FoxesInLove
A serious enginnered laminar flow nozzle makes it well possible to shoot one "bolt" of water over several ten meters
You might be interested to read https://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/45523/water-fountain-laminar-flow-options-using-a-3d-printer-can-the-default-be-sign
But thats precision machining orders of magnitude beyond plastic toy water squirt guns

I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but it is the best I can find! Laminar flow from a garden hose: All of the YouTube DIYs show a PVC pipe with the same sequence: Some sort of evener-o...
@Laberpferd I'll have a read... But I probably don't have the capacity to build something like that myself then. Too bad.