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Sweets. I have a huge sweet tooth.
I'm right here with you in this boat. I'm just really glad I hate baking or else I'm sure I'd weigh far far too much.
I dunno if might help - but I had a problem with reddit (before switching to Lemmy). I ended up putting an app timer on it for an hour every weekday and 2 on weekends. Honestly, it helped a lot for me.
Do what I did and get perma-banned from Reddit. Then you'll just be addicted to Lemmy. 😤
I use an app called Lock Me Out to ensure that I don't get into bad habits of scrolling too long.
I recommend getting into some other hobbies that require your attention.
God, me too.
I use a self hosted front end for reddit so at least im not logging in there but sweet jesus.
Internet...
But also constantly thinking about past memories... nostalgia?
Have you considered writing a memoir
Yes...
Unfortunately I've been just been binge watching a bunch of random stuff and been procrastinating on it...
Don't worry... I'll get that done some day...
5 decades later...
"Eh, I'll work on it tomorrow..."
(My most recent binge-watch is Frieren... lots of flashbacks... just like I go through a lot of "flashbacks" everyday lol... it's so poetic, so rhymey)
Porn, Video Games and Youtube Shorts. The Holy Trifecta of Loneliness .
Damn dude... You really have to quit those YouTube shorts.
But what else should I jerk off to then?
Going out to eat. I try to limit myself to 3 times a week.
What's your favorite to go to?
On Saturdays for lunch we let the kids pick. Me and my wife work from home, on Tuesdays she gets to pick where we go for our lunch date and Thursdays I get to pick.
The wife likes to pick sushi, panera, taco bell, and a good local burger joint.
I like to pick Qdoba, Firehouse, Burger King, local Indian place, chick-fil-a, and random new places around town.
I knew people who eat out 3 times a day.
They always complained about how broke they were and how expensive life is..
What about when you hang out outside on a weekend, then that is easily two meals outside.
Do you not hang out outside that long or do you go home for lunch and go back out?
Soda for me.
I love it.
I hate it.
I just wish so much that there were half sugar sodas out there. All the synthetic sugars of the diet or 0 calorie ones taste like garbage.
I've been cutting the ones I drink by pouring a can of eltzer water in with the regular can of soda, but I think even that tastes a little strange compared to just watering things down.
Make your own. It's pretty easy. It's just water and flavorings and sugar and you boil it down slowly.
Syrup in the fridge made this way will store for weeks and you can customize how strong/weak you want your soda to taste.
I drink a lot of plain carbonated water. I mean carbonated water with powerful bubbles like most sodas. Some carbonated waters are awfully bad with weak ass bubbles indistinguishable from something that was left open the day before and went flat.
Same... I drink an embarrassing amount of diet soda. I'm like a chain-drinker, to be honest, and I'm almost never without one. When one runs out I get another.
I like to add a splash of regular when I use a fountain soda machine, which is the best way to drink soda anyway, imo.
Liquid Death has some great low-sugar sodas. I’ve been a strong fan of their Doctor Death. Their tea is also super low in sugar.
Oh really?? I didn't know they did anything besides overpriced water at concerts, lol. I'll check it out, hell yeah.
Only tried Liquid Death once, and it was Arnold Palmer I believe. Just tasted like watered down iced tea...
I think the flavor was called "dead billionaire" though which gave me a chuckle.
There are some lower sugar sodas, or hybrid sodas that use fruit juice along with Stevia or monkfruit in order to cut the weird taste. Olipop is my favorite, and Spindrift has some good flavors.
That's the real insidious substance in the US. Unlike other vices, food is actually necessary to live so every time one has to eat they run the risk of a relapse. Imagine nicotine addicts still needing to use it as a means of breathing, even if it's with a vape pen at a really small dose it can cause huge cravings.
My computer, in full working order, with Internet access.
If any of that goes wrong, I'm in a very bad place.
Blue cheese. Specifically double cream blue cheese spread on triscuits.
I used to think blue cheese tasted like play-doh...
Hobbies, I can't get enough of them, gotta collect 'em all. Every couple months it's a new fixation.
Weed got me through the hell that was last year, and it sure as shit looks like it's gonna be just as useful this year.
Food
It might be an eating disorder
I avoid talking to my therapist about it because I don't want to confront the truth.
Music, I NEED it on nearly all the time or I’ll drive myself insane repeating parts of songs in my head. Only turn it off to sleep
How do you find enough stuff to listen to ?
I have a lot of artists I like so there’s usually new music even without checking out new playlists, although that works great too. Honestly the biggest part is probably just that if I really love a song I don’t mind hearing it super often, so I’m usually perfectly happy just hitting shuffle on my library and vibing with whatever’s on
I have a lot of artists I like
Damn that must be great. I have like 1-2 songs I like from ~10 artists
Oh wow, have you tried listening to other artists and not found anything you like?
Yes, I often try to put on playlists, listen to the albums the songs I enjoy come from, let the algorithm choose for me, but nothing seems to please my ears, sadly
Ironically just stumbled on this: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/64775117
I’d say coffee, because I have a low level dependency on morning caffeine and high level emotional dependence. I’d say alcohol, because I tend to binge drink weekends.
But really, it’s my smartphone. I can cut alcohol and caffeine out easily, but I can’t lose the smartphone, which means it’s always there ready for me to dissociate.
Reading academic books that freak people out when they come over to my place and get me labeled as a pretentious douche.
Opening outlook, checking my email, closing outlook. Repeat.
Also weed and lemmy
Caffeine. It's perhaps a boring answer but I have a physical dependence on caffeine.
Benadryl. I have always struggled to sleep.
Oof, I've been there. Cutting back of it suuucks
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