One of my sons didn’t care my wife (used to) post his pics. The other at times, nearly violently, opposed having his pix online since he was about five or six years old.

To be fair, until about a decade ago, they did generally steal pick the best of available options.

The geolocators at Bellingcat would have it in five minutes.

Better put a /s on that friend.

Meaning no offense to any of the posters here, but these mostly feel like classic Ask Metafilter DTMF replies.

I hope OP finds a solution, but we are just internet people making guesses about a big life decision without enough context.

Are you me?

Black cabs in London are alive and well, but I fear The Knowledge is not long for this world.

~Don’t kill spider friends please~

Yeah alas the subreddit for it did a lot of the heavy lifting for me - they took apart every study (I helped) and had some good sidebar (or was it pinned, been so long I cannot remember) info to counter the “dumb reactionary shit.” I am pretty sure the sub got baninated, but I haven’t been back to reddit since I rage quit after the API debacle.

When I first started vaping in 2011 (after smoking two packs a day for decades), there were a lot of solid, research-based web boards, but I think social media killed them, as it did so much.

I am someone who used to do medical research for a lot of money. I’ve interviewed chairs of FDA committees, trial designers, and active trial leads on phase III (mostly) research in pharma and biologics. I still have access to PupMed via my old friends.

My guy/gal/nonbinary pal: pls see the references in this https://medicpro.london/2025/05/08/vaping-and-popcorn-lung-separating-fact-from-fiction/ Diacetyl has been widely banned since 2014 in all but the most trash Chinese vape juice, and quality vendors never used it in the first place.

Also the supposed cases of popcorn come from one source. Some dude in California who cut his cannabis juice with it, and in every single case the kids that got sick were using his juice in vape pens, not actually vaping. It’s Friday night here and I’d rather not track the story down but if you really want it I’ll find it.

As a former life long smoker, vaping (which is the front line treatment for cessation in the UK) saved my life. Now, however, the shops pushing disposable vapes with super high nicotine salts on to kids - which is illegal almost everywhere - they need to die in a fire. The kids don’t get hooked on "vape;’ they get hooked on nicotina because those damn things are the equivalent of smoking two or three regular cigarets in one puff.

That was a good read, well done! I’d be interested if you ever reconsider Startpage. I’ve had good success with that on my work computer.

Data? No, because there is none. And I have read every.single.study. They are all fucked in some way or another whether it’s methodology or the stats or the sample size/composition. Not a single real in vivo study. None. There is exactly one researcher in Greece doing decent work, and that’s it. I took a career change from my previous and now present career and worked in pharma and biotech research.

Off topic, bur why is OP banned?

100% agree. With climate change, folks are not going to stop coming, not going to just stay at home and die. We have to urgently reform the whole immigration system with an emphasis on integration.

And by integration I don’t mean giving up their own cultures or language, but rather that life is better for people when they are comfortable in their environment. You won’t get comfortable if no one shows you how the culture works, which, it’s been my experience, they don’t.

NL would probably take you. Check out: https://dutchpat.nl/finances-admin/taxation-system/netherlands-30-percent-ruling-expat-guide/

We’re still fighting here and still have a free press. Join us.

My fellow Europeans, fight! Keep fighting until we drive them back to their basements!

For work at any given point I have 17-20 tabs open. It’s totally useful for me to sort them into tabs to cut out the “noise” when I’m doing research.

No! And I updooted this one too, for good measure.