If I can scare you into drinking less acidic and sugary drinks: I was raised in a soda home. In 7th home economics class we did an assignment where we calculated the cans of soda we had on average. I thought my classmates were trolling me because they drank maybe 4 cans of soda a week while I was having around 40. I have had a lot of tooth decay later in life and had many teeth pulled. Turn around and treat it like a cigarette addiction. Some sugar in your life won’t kill you but watch out for habitual over-consumption.

Yep! Every food company in America has slowly been upping their sugar content in one way or another and it’s not just cause it may/may not taste better or last longer. Secret addiction runs deep with sugar. Starting with less sugar water is a great start. It is very, very hard to kick. Educate yourself and good luck!

And it’s also worth combining the sparkling water with the juice! If the sparkling water is just making you crave it anyways. Basically instant soda. Start with 4:1 ratio or to taste and you’ll be surprised after a month or two just how little juice you have to add to the water to taste it. Getting a sodastream with little sugar free flavor squirts made a huge difference to me being able to ditch a childhood sugar addiction.

I have recently comes to term with my faith. I grew up missionary Baptist and it wasn’t charismatic or anything but even as a kid it kindof feels ridiculous and I started to just try to take the moral lessons and that’s all. Science and astrophysics have always interested me at a hobbiest level but it wasn’t until recently the way it all works it quite beautiful. I am fully atheist but it’s all so ridiculous I would accept a God somehow started this all, but not really. Explore approachable science books, podcasts, and YouTube videos (and other federated stuff, if it exists). It is so fucking miraculous we exist in this vast empty void that (at the same time) is unimaginably large. Our planet and life is a miracle. Even if microbes exist out there, the fact we got to the point of “reason” is crazy! Any tip of quantum physics rules one way or the other and the universe is something else entirely. The way atoms come together and how we use them today is a species is miraculous. Humanity could really do anything if we were convicted enough. The whole “we are made of star stuff” is also quite deep when you go through the whole cycle with it. We are quite literally the universe somehow scraping itself together through energy, time, and space to culminate (for now) in some piece of itself that can question itself and move indepdently, reason, etc. Dope. If there is any reason to be good to one another is that we are soooo special. All life. And this planet! Hippy status activated. I don’t know if this changes my behavior but it can be some good feelings to pocket for rainy days.

Don’t speak to me like that, mortal.

People slingshot around the moon. BuT tHe tOiLeT bRoKeee

Not a reliable source here, I had to take an eastern world history class between 1500 - 1900 in college and I very much didn’t want to be there. Opium was big product in west china from the poppy plants and seeds that grew easily there. So the times I know of they were using ships for some trade already. There was a divided nation and Japan was known for coming in and pillaging and fucking things up over and over. Britain came into the scene, took advantage of that, and established a colonial trade of tea. Opiate use was used as a way to control the local people, at times, made illegal at times. It was just a cluster fuck for decades and a bit of the reason opium isn’t normalized in Europe today as eastern cultures grabbed back power over their industries. Idk. You are better off going on a Wikipedia dive!

Opium was a major problem in parts of history. Especially China/Silk Road times

I experimented with milk varieties over the years and it is VERY dependent on brand, type of milk, and time. I only add time because if you stick to any brand for any amount of time you will inevitably come to a day where you see they changed the recipe and cheapened out somehow. The cheap oat milks are always the worst and emulate a 1% dairy option IMO. It’s all about your opinion. If you just want oat milk as a coffee creamer, I would recommend finding an oat option that is sold a creamer. They are overpriced and can be too sweet so watch sugar content on the back labels before buying. Explore!

What happens in the tribe stays in the tribe

The switch from Premiere Pro to Davinci Resolve was happiness every step of the way. Current workplace uses premiere pro… it’s like a time capsule. Barely any changes in 7 years and still subscription.

Thank you for your service. Any interest I would have is gone.

I also see hoomans as collections of their individual pieces and am disgusted by their carbon-based appendages. One tried “speaking” to me by contracting disgusting throat muscles while exhaling air and flapping their boney-ingestion bear trap hole in strange ways. I saw small clouds of bacteria, viruses, and spit fly out of this hole. It was all very terrifying but I was horny. Worked out fine. Flesh bag’s aren’t so bad.

2026 after the “SAVE America act”

Everyone is saying great ideas. I would like to add that as someone’s physical fitness and “beauty” declines rich people can use money to compensate. Whatever the myriad of things they want to fill in their life like to remain relevant, smiled at, and feel like they are in control and worth being respected. You can buy people to smile and serve you. You can find other sickos that respect your money power. Etc. just one aspect of already greedy foundations. Some people just can’t handle the idea of quietly hanging out in peace.

Same for the most part. There was a period of time where it seemed like every post and comment was angry. Silly fights over semantics. That still happens but it seems like less. I see more and more English speaking European influence. Still lots of angry Linux guys but Linux seems to be in a winning season so it’s chill.

My last boss was this way! Horrible way to go about living. I gave as little personal 1-to-1 time as possible. The more time he got from me the more he would slowly hint as his whacko conservative ways.

I have absolutely seen this and experienced this. Although, I don’t think it’s much different from any teenager or young person working shitty jobs in any decade I’ve lived or seen in media. The silent teen staring you down at fast food is timeless.

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What a callback. We had one in a red and black plaid dustcover!