Suck_on_my_Presence

What's your addiction?

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Mar 3 at 5:07pmWeb
Show threadSuck_on_my_PresenceMar 3

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.

Show threadAskewLordMar 3
Make your own. It’s pretty easy.
Show threadotacon239Mar 3
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.
Show threadSuck_on_my_PresenceMar 3
Oh really?? I didn’t know they did anything besides overpriced water at concerts, lol. I’ll check it out, hell yeah.
Show threadproleMar 4

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.

Show threadotacon239Mar 4
I mean, that’s their model, yeah. That’s exactly what it is.
Show threadproleMar 4
Yeah I mean I knew that… It was still weird to open a can of something and have it taste so watered down.
Show threadquediuspayuMar 3
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.
Show threadNefaraMar 4
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.
Show threadlowspeedchaseMar 3
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Show threadAnebMar 3
MJ is my longest lasting friendship outside of my own sister
Show threadjdrMar 4
Inside this person’s sister it’s too wet to smoke
Show threadabbadon420Mar 3
Coffee
Show threadSnausagesinaBlanketMar 3
More espresso, less depresso.
Show threadRhynoplazMar 3
Dopamine
Show threadceigidMar 3
Understandable. Can be a good thing though, as long as you don’t take the easy route!
Show threadyaroto98Mar 3
Going out to eat. I try to limit nyself to 3 times a week.
Show threadSuck_on_my_PresenceMar 3
What’s your favorite to go to?
Show threadyaroto98Mar 3

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.

Show threadAskewLordMar 3
I knew people who eat out 3 times a day.
Show threadyaroto98Mar 3
True. One thing that helps is I hate delivery apps. I only use them when work gives out gift cards. The food is always cold and garbage when I finally get it. And not using those helps save money a lot too.
Show threadaffenlehrerMar 3
My smartphone. Unfortunately.
Show threadChippys_mittensMar 3
Big chillin
Show threadthesohoriotsMar 3
Unsweetened iced tea. I go through a couple gallons a week. But it can’t have preservatives/bitterants in it (citric acid is common) because those taste nasty, so it’s hard to just go buy a gallon somewhere. I’d make it myself but it’s hard to keep up with the pace.
Show threadSuck_on_my_PresenceMar 3
Oh wow. Do you have any problems with heartburn or anything? The acidity of tea eats at me
Show threadthesohoriotsMar 3
I do, but for other reasons. Some teas are way stronger than others (orange pekoe can be particularly harsh) but doing a cold brew method is more gentle. I like Moroccan mint green tea as a luxury item once in a while, and it’s pretty soothing on the stomach.
Show threadcattywampasMar 3
Sweets. I have a huge sweet tooth.
Show threadSuck_on_my_PresenceMar 3
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.
Show threadcattywampasMar 4
Lmao I love baking, so you see my issue here. Nothing like making a beautiful pan of cinnamon rolls and eating half.
Show threadAskewLordMar 3
Reading academic books that freak people out when they come over to my place.
Show threaddisregardableMar 3
got any recommendations?
Show threadAskewLordMar 3

Yeah. The Identity Trap.

Great book on how/why our universities and politics are so fucked up the past 10 years.

Show threadCompactFlaxMar 3

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.

Show threadIWW4Mar 3
Food
Show threadSomeonelolMar 4
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 it as a means of breathing, even if it’s with a vape pen at a really small dose it can cause huge cravings.
Show threadneidu3Mar 3
Nicotine, and to a very mild degree alcohol
Show threadHermit_LailokenMar 3
Caffeine, I love it.
Show threadCodenameDarlenMar 3
Reddit and Lemmy, I can’t stop opening Reddit and Lenny every few minutes, I’m completely sick
Show threadSuck_on_my_PresenceMar 3
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.
Show threadfizzleMar 3

God, me too.

I use a self hosted front end for reddit so at least im not logging in there but sweet jesus.

Show threadwhalerossMar 4
I use an app called Lock Me Out to ensure that I don’t get into bad habits of scrolling too long.
Show thread「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)Mar 3

Internet…

But also constantly thinking about past memories… nostalgia?

Show threadproleMar 4
Have you considered writing a memoir
Show thread「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)Mar 4

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)

Show threadLouNekoMar 3
Porn, Video Games and Youtube Shorts. The Holy Trifecta of Loneliness .
Show threadtheprogressivist Mar 3
Edging
Show threadgigastasioMar 3

Oh yes! Finally someone other than me!

Dude I just got the DeWalt DCED400B and lemme tell ya, I have never had a smoother edging experience. The edges of my walk and driveway look like they were done by a professional. There’s just nothing more satisfying.

Listen, as a fellow edger, I don’t mind telling you that I sometimes take it out and do a little during the winter too. People think I’m weird, but it helps me get a head start on that first spring lawn cleanup.

You gotta tell me about your gear!

Show threadtheprogressivist Mar 3
My preferred choice is the Husky 34 in T Handle Edger. I love edging in my garden.
Show threadSnausagesinaBlanketMar 3
My wife edges me. Its awesome.
Show threadgigastasioMar 3
You guys must have a surgeon on a retainer.
Show threadMarshezezzMar 3
Nicotine but I just use pouches now instead of smoking, nasty fucking addiction. I’m also an alcoholic big time so I don’t drink. I like drugs…
Show threadthethrilloftime69Mar 3
Benadryl. I have always struggled to sleep.
Show threadSuck_on_my_PresenceMar 3
Oof, I’ve been there. Cutting back of it suuucks
Show threadhateisrealityMar 4

Benadryl is linked to dementia…

-also someone who needs help sleeping.

Show threadproleMar 4
Have you taken enough to encounter the shadow people?
Show thread🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 Mar 3
Nicotine.
Show threadAssassassinMar 3
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.
Show threadproleMar 4
2025 made me an alcoholic
Show threadAssassassinMar 4
Understandable