What about Tiananmen Square…?!? That was kinda cool for the CCP!
I wasn’t there but maybe someone here was.
Oh wait.
No.
They were all killed and then turned to mush by tanks repeatedly driving over the bodies and then hosed dune the drains.
GLORY TO THE CCP AND HOW WONDERFUL THEY ARE TO ALL THE PEOPLE.
Worrying what other people think of me.
I know I shouldn’t care, but it’s hard not to.Exactly! even when they don’t care enough to remember me.
Biting my nails
I bit my nails my whole life. One day I tasted lime. I hadn’t eaten anything with lime for 3 days. I had wiped my ass maybe 10 minutes prior. That experience yucked me out of biting for good. Been over 2 years now since I’ve so much as nibbled.
Ok so game plan: eat some limes, wait three days, take a shit, profit
But seriously, though, thank you for this story. It will be difficult not to think of this every time I bite my nails now.
Spending too much time on lemmy
I want to stop eating food that is making me overweight.
Have you tried healthy alternatives tho? While i was never overweight, like most people i did enjoy unhealthy food way more than healthy food. But after a lot of trying, i get as excited for roasted Brussel sprouts and asparagus as i was for deep fried bullshit. There is a lot of food that isn’t as boring as it seems and it’s also healthy.
My friend has a history of overeating and was about 70 lbs heavier than she is now. She started a keto diet that helped her get to her current weight/size, and now employs a modified diet where she goes keto regularly rather than stay on a strict diet all the time. It seems to work well for her since she can regularly eat whatever she wants between breaks. If you’re interested, I could ask her for online resources. Let me know 🙂👍
Than you kind stranger. I am actually doing modified keto now with no salt. Thanks again!
I started counting calories. And it’s works pretty well. Maybe give it a try.
Opening Instagram instead of Lemmy or Mastodon :(
Pro tip: delete the app on your phone. Needing to put in the website into the browser breaks the misscle memory and you can then easier replace it with something else.
makes link to Instagram.com on home screen
Unfortunately I haven’t yet convinced all my friends to go elsewhere, so I still need it as a communication platform
This isn’t a personal habit but flying. If I could never ever in my life ever have to go through a stupid security theater checkpoint at an airport and then board a plane and sit like a sardine for hours on end…
Too bad I live in public transit shithole USA
I live in the US too, but thanks to my patented secret* I rarely fly at all!
*Being poor
I just splurged and took a flight on JSX airlines, which is effectively a semi-private jet.
The cost was roughly double what Southwest would be.
What I got for my money was:
No TSA. Just a cursory screening that took the same amount of time as just walking without stopping
No terminal. Instead you go directly to the hangar equipped with leather couches and free espresso (though no food options)
You can carry on liquids
Only need to show up twenty minutes before departure
Free checked bags that are waiting for you plane side when you land. No baggage claim. It’s just… Right there waiting for you.
Free drinks and snacks including alcohol which were served as doubles by default
Free Wi-Fi
No seats next to mine. The plane is fifteen rows of one seat on each side of the plane
The flight attendant gave service like it was the seventies - like it really mattered that every passenger had everything they needed. She even noticed a passenger with a blazer folded across his nap, so she took it and hung it in the closet in the front of the plane.
Naturally, the big airlines are trying to shut JSX down, including but not limited to a campaign that such an operation is a threat to national security. I find it ironic that Southwest is leading this litigation after themselves fighting through decades of court cases and legislation for the right to fly out of Dallas unencumbered.
They don’t fly many places, but if they have a route I want available, I will certainly consider flying them again
I believe you that if you’re paying 2x a traditional ticket price you get a better experience, but I would really just prefer high speed rail lines that can service many people at once, not a boutique experience catered to the wealthy.
Being depressed.
Same. I got kicked out of a therapy group for the self-destructive today, fifth time something like this happened based on rumors that made people in charge think “we make a living encouraging people to be satisfied with life, but this woman doesn’t deserve it.”
It sounds like that those therapy groups suck, honestly.
I’ve never tried groups, but I found a really amazing therapist so they exist, hope you find one who helps you.
Before that stroke of luck, I found a few books that helped me a lot with self sabotaging and other issues. If you’re interested, I could share.
Best of luck out there.
Owning a car. I want to walk in a city made for people. I can’t afford to move.
Same. My work is only a mile away but there are hardly any sidewalks and I often have to walk next to roads going like 40 mph. Plus all of the intersections and crosswalks are catered for car travel, meaning there has to be absolutely zero cars to give you the signal to walk. Crossing a single crosswalk “legally” takes like 5 or 10 mins of waiting.
In Amsterdam the crosswalks are catered for pedestrians and you typically only need to wait 15-30 seconds as they don’t mind stopping a few cars.
I live in a major city but like I’m in a bad neighborhood so there’s only one grocery store within 5 miles. It makes no sense. A food desert in a major city so that I’m forced to drive just to like get screws from a hardware store or toilet paper or something
Our US city (pop 180k, metro 600k) is just about to lose the last downtown grocery store.
Generations of city councils have allowed (or encouraged!) the demolition of all housing in the city core to replace it with parking lots.
There’s almost no one left downtown so the city itself is dying. It’s just kind of rotting away. There’s currently at least some effort to reverse the trend, but the vice grip that car oriented everything has on people is terrifying to politicians.
All those dang tiny time wasters that happen every day. Needing to eat and drink… That kind of stuff. Can’t stop because I obviously enjoy being healthy.
What about Tiananmen Square…?!? That was kinda cool for the CCP!
I wasn’t there but maybe someone here was.
Oh wait.
No.
They were all killed and then turned to mush by tanks repeatedly driving over the bodies and then hosed dune the drains.
GLORY TO THE CCP AND HOW WONDERFUL THEY ARE TO ALL THE PEOPLE.
Taking Ambien. I’d never sleep again though because of my other meds.
Does the Ambien work for you? Does it have negatives for you? Have you tried other stuff? Husband, son, and i all tried it and hated it. Husband now uses trazadone. I use CBN. Son worked to improve his general health.
Yes it works, the side effects are amazing. I have a friend who decoupaged her dishwasher with New York City subway maps on it, and I myself catfished a prominent white supremacist into sending me penis pictures and then hosted a spontaneous antifa meeting discussing it. You really get disinhibited.
My son stumbled downstairs and outside in an ice storm wearing only pajama pants.
I think one day it might be pulled from the market. It also affects memory. But I wouldn’t sleep for years without it. Hope your son was ok.
Agree. I talked to a guy a few years ago at a cannabis convention who thought cbn would be the next big sleep med after rescheduling. It was a good experience with the kid. We thought he was using illegal drugs, so finding out that he took 30 Ambien in 10 days was helpful.
That must have been WILD.
Do you get crazy dreams? I sleep fine but almost never dream, and heard. Ambien gives you wild dreams and have always wanted to take it specifically for the dreams lol
It’s not so much the dreams, it’s the loony things I do on it. One night I hosted a whole antifa meeting in my group where we talked extensively about a very famous white supremacist we catfished into sending me penis pictures and I was high as a kite the whole time.
Vaping nicotine. I know I can stop but it’s just a very difficult challenge for me. Still better than smoking cigs but I really need to let this vice go.
Nicotine is 7 times more addictive than heroin. It’s unlikely you’ll be able to stop.
I made it a month once. It’s really seated as more of a psychological addiction for me. I am going to try reading Allen Carr’s “The Easy Way” for quitting vaping to see if I can start the brainwashing process of not “needing” this fix.
Hyper bitchass comment
The statements are both true. Also, the best way to get someone to accomplish something is to tell them it can’t be done.
Maybe if it’s like doing the washing or sweeping the floor or something. For addicts it’s just confirmation that they shouldn’t try.
Maybe they shouldn’t.
When I quit smoking I holed myself up in a dark room with provisions to last a week. It was hell but it worked.
Check out Allan Carr Easy Way. It really really really works
That’s the plan! I read it originally to quit cigs but ended up picking up the vapes.
I quit 3.5 years ago using that book and have had 0 cravings since.
The fact that electronic interfaces keep getting worse and more complicated. It’s basically a race to the bottom at this point. I truly feel for the older generations. I don’t just mean the current older generation, I mean all older generations. As a person gets older, they have a harder time understanding change. And yet the world is basically removing the ability to do things without electronics. When the current group that is 20 years old, when you guys get to be 80, the interfaces will have changed so much, you basically will be screwed.
Watched my gramma slip into “i can’t change the channel on the tv with a remote that only has 2 buttons” from can you fix the vcr (press the tv/video button) again
I had to go to urgent care the other day and the only way to check in was to scan a QR code and fill out a god awful, half broken form on a random third party website. There were no error messages. The site would timeout if you spent too long on one page, so you’d have to start over. The amount of people who had all sorts of issues is nuts.
This was “an upgrade”
Now imagine if you are 85. I do not understand why companies make change for the sake of change.
Overthinking while drawing. I’ll think to myself “is this too little contrast? Too much? Are the shadows too blurry here? Does this fur look flat? It looks flat. Is the form too blurry around here? Let’s try again!” I’ve always been considered a perfectionist, and that’s one of the reasons I blame for a long time between submitting drawings!
