only reason I still go there is my mental support subreddits. r/stopdrinking, r/CPTSD, r/RaisedByNarcissists…

If those communites were thriving here, I’d never go back to reddit again 🫤

Pro-Tip: If you lay down in the shower with a bath pillow, you can collect a bunch of water in your groin, before releasing it like a wave. Feels fuckin’ Great. You can also point your toes at the shower, to get’em real nice and warm. Put a small damp cloth over your eyes and the bridge of your nose, and you can fuckin’ fall asleep. Feels like your back in the womb.

When I was struggling with alcoholism, I hit a low point and ended up having to move back in with my parents. They made me start taking that, “antabuse” stuff. It, uh, didn’t work. I’d continue drinking with it, and the only thing that would happen is I would break out in giant red splotches. Never got sick from it. Didn’t do a damn thing.

What DID help, was living in a safe space with my wife, far away, with access to weed. Living in that supportive helpful environment was the trick that finally lead me to realize “ya know, if ever there was a future where I lost all of this great stuff I have going for me, surely it would be the future where I keep drinking.” For some reason getting high always helps me put things in perspective and process trauma, and dang if it didn’t end up working that day. I went from drinking a bottle of bourbon a day, to nothing. Sober now almost 7 years. I owe it all to my (now ex)wife and my ability to use weed without police fucking me over for it.

The study you linked doesn’t include the text of the study?

it’s so much food, and stupid filling, but only like 2000 calories for the whole thing! When I want to lose weight, I can either stick very strictly to JUST that food, and I’ll lose about a pound or 2 a week with zero activity. However, I’m also an amateur bodybuilder, so I gotta keep up with my gym time at least 3 times a week, so if I maintain that activity PLUS keep to this diet, I’ll lose a pound of belly fat every 2 days. It’s pretty dope.

I like to get real sexy and svelt, get down to like 155 (I’m 5’8" Male) for the summer and for my birthday, once I hit my birthday, I’m allowed to eat whatever the fuck I want until I feel the itch to lose weight again. I’ll balloon up to like 185 or 190 in the winter with all my snacking and extra chocolate, but all the while I keep myself from going too crazy by sticking with my usual meal plan.

My guide to life is “everything in moderation, but especially moderation”

Shit I always thought I had a little 'tism… Yeah I’ve eaten pretty much the same meal plan every day for over a decade. Soup and Sandwiches! Can’t go wrong with a bowl of soup and a sandwich for dinner, nope nope!

Breakfast is Steelcut Oatmeal made with splenda, cinnamon, and a dash of salt. 2 cups of coffee, each with splenda, pinch of salt and cinnamon.

Lunch I don’t eat, just power through with caffeine.

Dinner is two open-face turkey sandwiches. Scirachi aoli, cheddar cheese, smoked turkey, turkey pepperoni, jalepenos, topped with a nice bed of crunchy lettuce. A can of high-protein soup, with some tobasco and (a lot of) extra beans thrown in, microwaved for 6 minutes, then pop in some Italian seasoned croutons, let them soak up the soup for like 15-20 min while you eat the sandwiches, turns that bad boy into a delicious bready stew. Add to the dinner a pound bag of baby carrots, and a big ass iceberg/cabbage salad with whatever dressing for a great big bolus of fiber.

For dessert, Get you a sugar-free package of pudding in your fav flavor (Banana Cream and Pistachio), mix it with 3 cups of cold fat-free milk, let that sit while you eat din-din, then pour some rice krispies over the pudding, and eat it layer by layer, adding rice krispies for mouth feel as you go.

Fucking delicious. I’ve eaten that everyday for around 15 years now? I’ve gotten better recently, and have started having pizza nights, where I replace the soup and sandwiches with a whole pizza, but yeah, 99.9% of the time, soup and sandwiches. Classic combo. The best combo.

Are all republicans just genuinely dumb as a fucking brick?

Maybe the central theme of a functional democracy should be education, because it seems to destroy conservative agendas (because the conservative agenda is based on idiocy, hate, and racism)

No. Blunck is German, and Hefti is Swiss-German, meaning their great grand-parents or whatever immigrated here.

Jeff Tweedy is, I think, the greatest American lyricist of his generation. His stuff always hits. But for some reason, Wilco- She’s a Jar and it’s chorus, has always stuck with me.

"Just climb aboard

The tracks of a trains arm

In my fragile family tree

And watch me floating inches above

The people under me"

Another one from Jeff’s (I’ve seen him in concert 5 times already, I can call him Jeff) solo Album, Jeff Tweedy- I know what it’s like

"When the lights are dim

In my window I have a twin

I’m always looking out

And he’s always looking in

I know what it’s like

Starting over again"

And then, finally, from one of the greatest flows in the rap game, MF DOOM- Figaro, and this weird ass lyric that has lived rent-free in my head since I heard it

"Off pride tykes talk wide through scar meat

Off sides like how Worf rides with Starfleet"

They didn’t call 911, the school “security” officer followed the kid home, escalated the situation, refused to leave after the kid and parents told her to, then just walked into this families home, escalating it even further before her backup decides to shoot the child 9 fucking times.

Meanwhile, the kid only ever picked up the knife because he felt threatened by the cops, which… he was. Stalking someone to their home and verbally accosting them while doing so, making vague threats; “you better not hit me,” is seriously fucked up. She goaded an emotionally distressed teenager into having a reaction, and then killed him for it in front of his parents.

Jodi Hefti and Kyle Blunck should be in prison.

Guys, please, if you’re not shooting at the secret police, then you shouldn’t be shooting. C’mon, man.

See this irks me, because if I was in charge, I’d want to spur the economy by building giant cool shit too. Course, I’m thinking more like the Colossus of Rhodes, or those two giant mountain king statues from LOTR (Argonath). But anything that could be seen as a monument to this absolute vile traitor, is too much. After he’s imprisoned and dies his pathetic lil death, that name should be stripped from all records, buildings, everything. His name, forever synonymous with a repulsive pathetic evil clown.

I’m addicted to DOTA 2, but I sometimes will play other single player games. I bought and downloaded Witcher 3, Cyberpunk and RDR2, but I can’t get into them. If I’m not playing with other people, it just seems kinda… lonely? I like games where I can log on and chat/communicate with other players. I’m alone enough in my real life, so anytime I can spend with even just virtual friends is something I value.

I dunno, I started the cyberpunk game, was going the street kid route, and the guy it puts you with… The guy put a gun to you, and all of a sudden we’re friends? No. I’m from a shitty family and that shit gave me mad anxiety. I got into the tutorial level, stopped to do something else, came back, and every time i try to load the game back up to play, it crashes.

So yeah, back to DOTA 2

You know, if I was the head of a multinational organization that’s infamous for poisoning children, stealing water, and bribing officials… I’d be worried about my personal safety.

Ya know evil people, committing evil actions, count on good people doing nothing.

yup, I’d go further and say that if it’s the same size as your thumbnail, it’s still a chip. Any smaller and it becomes crumb. Big crumb, but crumb.

So, they made it a “suggestion” to not contaminate the environment, got rid of a bunch of security requirements (Who needs security at a plant powering our cities anyway??), AND are upping the amount of radiation exposure someone can have before they seek treatment.

So, basically a bunch of evil shit. huh, whuda’thunk the same people that saw the increased incidence of new cancers with all the PFAS in our water and food, and decided to roll back regulations on it while introducing a brand-new PFAS laden pesticide for all our crops! Wonderful! We’ll all get cancer and die early deaths because of them!

They’re making literally everything worse, murdering us in the street, arresting dissidents, covering up their crimes, and stealing billions while they do it.

remember when they wasted $608 million dollars building alligator alcatraz, just to have it flood continuously, and almost 2000 inmates go missing?

Yeah, they murdered a lot of those inmates.

Courage the cowardly (misnomer, he is very brave boi) dog and it’s not even close

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Yeah, For some reason women having periods means that they delight in dismissing us whenever we’re sick. I remember my ex-wife making fun of me when I had the flu, and using her supposed position of authority on all things related to pain to just -not- take care of me at all. One of the many reasons she’s an ex.