Not much different than a fully stocked fridge with alcoholic beverages.
Consume responsibly, we're all adults.
Palantir and other tech companies are stocking offices with tobacco products
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#12The opening line - “puff puff pass the spreadsheets” - was written by someone with absolutely no idea what that means
Hey, that is the kind of corporate lingo I can get behind.
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#13I'll take one addiction and a possible oral cancer for the company, thank you so much. No, I understand it's not guaranteed, but I am seriously flabbergasted by the careless actions of some companies...
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#14Now there is a perk that is going to get expensive, and boy it is going to suck when theres a downturn or new facilities manager who decides to cut back and stop offering them.
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#15“While the pouches are considered a tobacco product, they don’t contain any tobacco, and are instead made from the plant fiber cellulose” It’s just Zyn, which doesn’t seem that dramatically different than coffee. But maybe that’s because I don’t drink coffee or use nicotine
Coffee doesn’t give you mouth cancer
These kind of synthetic nicotine products aren't carcinogenic. They were originally developed as a safer replacement for the traditional Swedish practice of stuffing a bag of tobacco in your mouth, although after acquisition by Phillip Morris they've become common among people who never used tobacco in the first place. (As the article gestures towards, they are "tobacco products" under US law because of their nicotine content, even though they contain no tobacco leaf.)
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Coffee doesn’t give you mouth cancer
Does nicotine?
No, //cancer stems from the carcinogens in the burning / heating of tobacco//. Nicotine is not cancerous in itself any more than caffeine.
I'm not a doctor though so while I might sound sure it's based on what I've read on the topic over the many years.
Edit : rightly corrected its not just heating and burning, its tobacco and others in general. But nicotine itself is not cancerous.
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#17Not much different than a fully stocked fridge with alcoholic beverages. Consume responsibly, we're all adults.
I agree to a point. Although, alcohol (when consumed responsibly) has a social element to it, so companies having a "beers on Friday after 4pm" just feels different than "here's nicotine so you can be more productive and make us more money." They are serving different functions.
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#18It's even funnier actually. Yes, Palantir does have free Zyn vending machines in every office, but the Zyn is only for visiting customers. Employees are explicitly prohibited from using the machines.
Just vice signaling all the way down.
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#19“While the pouches are considered a tobacco product, they don’t contain any tobacco, and are instead made from the plant fiber cellulose” It’s just Zyn, which doesn’t seem that dramatically different than coffee. But maybe that’s because I don’t drink coffee or use nicotine
Nicotine is addictive, much more so than coffee
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#20The opening line - “puff puff pass the spreadsheets” - was written by someone with absolutely no idea what that means
you mean AI?