Villains, and their Villainy

[rain_gryphon]

So, after updating my phone to Android 10, I suddenly had Candy Crush, and a whole lot of other trash apps installed. They're not showing as installs in my Google Lbrary, so I have to think TracFone is at fault. Most distressing.

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I was going to buy a Vicks inhaler at the store earlier, but while dithering between the Vicks model and the (much cheaper) store brand, noticed that the Vicks packaging now says "scented inhaler". That's right. There's nothing in it anymore - just menthol and pine scent. You're paying $6 for a pocket air-freshener (and it only freshens one nostril at a time, too). The $3 store brand still has l-methamphetamine in it as always, so it's evidently not any sort of regulatory madness or the like.

Comments

[moonhare]

My phone is at version 11. The only thing I found odd was that google tricked me into a free sign-up for YouTube ad-free (their music player appeared on my pc as well with some sort of special. And my phone had some wonky blink when I check it.

“ There's nothing in it anymore - just menthol and pine scent.”
Ewww, sounds like the green sawdust the school janitors used to clean up after sick kids...

[rain_gryphon]

Oh yeah. Our barfdust was strongly wintergreen scented. For some reason, the barfdust lived in its own cognitive space, and never contaminated anything else, so that I continued to enjoy wintergreen LifeSavers. I haven't a clue why.

[thewayne]

And very high odds that the store inhaler is either made by Vicks or by the company that makes Vicks.

[rain_gryphon]

I'd not be a bit surprised.

[pyesetz]

L-methamphetamine clears your nose by activating the TAAR1 receptor.  D-methamphetamine also activates this receptor, but also induces euphoria.  So if the government bans L-meth, you will be forced by medical need to purchase D-meth on the black market, dilute it, and then pour it into one of your old Vicks containers.

[rain_gryphon]

Yeah, I'll go hang out with all ma homies here.