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Sterile bubbles?? Made of what, plastic? But what of the microplastics? I upvoted your comment because I, too, am tired of the constant doom and gloom rhetoric

Sterile bubbles?? Made of what, plastic? But what of the microplastics? I upvoted your comment because I, too, am tired of the constant doom and gloom rhetoric. It turns out that practically anything and everything we are exposed to as we live our lives can have negative effects on us. I'm gonna keep using scented candles, and if they want to be the death of me, well, they will just have to get in line behind basically everything else on this planet.

JohnBooty 4y ago
constant doom and gloom rhetoric That's a take you share with many, without a doubt. I view it more like performance optimization. Clear correlation between CO2 levels and cognition. Clear correlation between "air quality" in general and health. I try to optimize for those things when possible. When I deviate from that I'd at least like it to be an informed decision. Do you think there's a happy middle ground between "doom and gloom" and "utter ignorance?" I do. Many of us find knowledge more comforting than ignorance. I still use my gas stove. I'm just more conscientious about it now. Candles... yeah I don't use them enough for it to be a factor. Hell, I even burn incense sometimes and that's literally designed to flood the air with particulates. (Japanese incense burns a bit more cleanly, FWIW) I just like to be informed, I suppose. I'm gonna keep using scented candles Me too. and if they want to be the death of me, well A candle has roughly the effect of one resting person in terms of heat and CO2. That's... small. Nobody is claiming that's bad or that you shouldn't use them, and certainly not Carmack in the linked tweet. If you've willfully misinterpreted his tweet as "doom and gloom" or "candles are gonna kill us, don't use 'em" than that is a very conscious choice you have made, and one unrelated to reality.
- guntherhermann 4y ago
  > Nobody is claiming that's bad or that you shouldn't use them, and certainly not Carmack in the linked tweet. Are you not reading all the other comments on this thread? Haha. They might not be outright saying "don't use them", but there are several comments in this thread that say 'if you use candles then you don't care about improving health safety.' I certainly get that vibe from a lot of the comments here, even if I detest scented candles and wish my partner would stop using them!
  - medstrom 4y ago
    You got an example of such a post? Only one I see is maybe dekhn's post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34427789 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34427789 But because someone says that "candles produce soot and other molecules which have been shown to be harmful", it doesn't mean the speaker is in a doom and gloom mindset: that's an interpretation you make.

JohnBooty 4y ago

constant doom and gloom rhetoric That's a take you share with many, without a doubt. I view it more like performance optimization. Clear correlation between CO2 levels and cognition. Clear correlation between "air quality" in general and health. I try to optimize for those things when possible. When I deviate from that I'd at least like it to be an informed decision. Do you think there's a happy middle ground between "doom and gloom" and "utter ignorance?" I do. Many of us find knowledge more comforting than ignorance. I still use my gas stove. I'm just more conscientious about it now. Candles... yeah I don't use them enough for it to be a factor. Hell, I even burn incense sometimes and that's literally designed to flood the air with particulates. (Japanese incense burns a bit more cleanly, FWIW) I just like to be informed, I suppose. I'm gonna keep using scented candles Me too. and if they want to be the death of me, well A candle has roughly the effect of one resting person in terms of heat and CO2. That's... small. Nobody is claiming that's bad or that you shouldn't use them, and certainly not Carmack in the linked tweet. If you've willfully misinterpreted his tweet as "doom and gloom" or "candles are gonna kill us, don't use 'em" than that is a very conscious choice you have made, and one unrelated to reality.

guntherhermann 4y ago
> Nobody is claiming that's bad or that you shouldn't use them, and certainly not Carmack in the linked tweet. Are you not reading all the other comments on this thread? Haha. They might not be outright saying "don't use them", but there are several comments in this thread that say 'if you use candles then you don't care about improving health safety.' I certainly get that vibe from a lot of the comments here, even if I detest scented candles and wish my partner would stop using them!
- medstrom 4y ago
  You got an example of such a post? Only one I see is maybe dekhn's post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34427789 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34427789 But because someone says that "candles produce soot and other molecules which have been shown to be harmful", it doesn't mean the speaker is in a doom and gloom mindset: that's an interpretation you make.