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Cake day: February 16th, 2024

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  • Ah yes “who cares about your science, this is what I feel like”, as if subjective experiences have never fooled anyone?

    The plural or anecdote isn’t evidence.

    It’s not “without evidence” and I didn’t attribute it to you. Don’t you think I take care to take breaks from my meds to see that I don’t have a) a physical dependency b) a psychological need (addiction)? It’s not always possible, as sleeping is then slightly harder, but I try to test that out with at least a few week break every year, because it’s healthy.

    You do realise the nature of addiction is such that when you actually suffer from it, you’ll make yourself believe you don’t?

    It reminds me of those people who adamantly demand that caffeine has zero effect on them (as they drink it frequently and still sleep and don’t notice effects from it.) While everyone around them is annoyed to fuck by their constant jittering and foot tapping.

    I’m not saying you have a problem. But alcohol does reduce your quality of sleep. Your “but I don’t feel that way” won’t discredit all the science which shows it does. Sorry. I’m not telling what to do or judging you in any way ffs.




  • As an extra, I take one shot of liquor an hour before I go to bed. After an hour all the alcohol is metabolized (do not go to sleep with a measurable blood alcohol level!) so I’m relaxed and mellow and ready for sleep.

    It might help get to sleep, but it harms the quality of your sleep. So does my ambien of course, but less so than alcohol, as it’s actually a pharmaceutical designed for that. But it is a drug to get to sleep, primarily.

    https://www.wmchealth.org/blogs/the-truth-about-nightcaps-ditch-the-drink-get-a-go-783

    Alcohol interferes with the crucial rapid eye movement (REM) sleep stage, impacting memory, learning and mood.

    Get some sort of cheap health wristband activity thingy if you want to follow your sleep better. I’ve liked mine, got it last year for 39€. It shows the amount of REM, deep and light sleeps. It might be that you do sleep better with a single drink, but generally science does tend to agree that it reduces quality of sleep. However a few times when I’ve been properly drunk, I’ve actually slept like twice as much and thus gotten more REM sleep, and felt more relaxed when I woke up. But I would say that alcohol does reduce my quality of sleep most of the time, even if it doesn’t necessarily feel like that.

    But again, not judging I don’t know what works for you and I take ambien pretty much every night so that’s pretty comparable to one shot imo



  • Basic sleep hygiene, no large meals in the evening, try to avoid blue light (blue light filters for screens or avoid screens), try to cool bedoom down before going to bed. Earplugs might help as well. Complete darkness. All those nasty power leds, tape on them. I myself have smart lights so I can’t make them red and real dim so as to avoid any disturbance through light.

    Aside from that, melatonin ~30-60 min before hopping into bed and often an ambien 30-5 min before.

    Then again that’s even when I do smoke. And I’m understating my medication slightly.

    For me the best substitute when I quit weed was genuinely Terry Pratchett novels. They’re sort of whimsical and provoking humorous thoughts. Much like weed often does. And the books are exceedingly good natured, even the baddies aren’t really that evil. Usually they’re more like arbitrary concepts.

    So tldr sleep hygiene and reading under a somewhat low light while the room cools down and when it gets too cold and you’re getting tired of reading, close the window and hop into a crispy bed.

    Should help at least. Some of these things at least. Probably. Maybe.



  • I mean I do agree with you. Planned obsolescence and whatnot is very real.

    But also, fixing a car from 70’s is very different than trying to fix a car from this millenium.

    As technology improves and becomes more detailed, it might also get harder to repair. This isn’t to be taken as a defense of companies which have used planned obsolescence. But even if there was a very user friendly car company, I think it would be more complex to adjust your valves today than it was 30-40 years ago.



  • The removed heads are weirdly disturbing.

    They are a bit, yeah. :D

    But we were kinda young and making faces and whatnot so I thought I’d spare them. Would’ve just drawn a circle with paint but the eraser function was so easily available in the photo browser so I tried it, seems to work well.

    Yeah it was a few years old camera from school so assuming it’s 2004 model wouldn’t be far off.

    I thought the descriptions would’ve shown up better but if you open open the photos there are a few descriptions I think I mention 2007 somewhere.


  • Yeah I had some proper flashbacks trying to find these.

    Almost thought I’d lost the album, but no, it was just that I had had a camera on loan from the school which I used on that trip so it wasn’t in my DSLR folder.

    God, yeah, almost two decades. I just don’t want to say that as I lived more during that trip than I have for a few years. And the few years surrounding that I lived more than I have in the past 10.

    I’ve been sick.

    I want another life.

    *starts desperately hopping around punching a fist in the air, hoping an invisible brick box will appear pushing out a 1UP*