There’s quite a difference going from being a disorganised area of towns/counties to being a part of the Roman empire to the sort of difference that it was a few thousand years later.
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.
And from science I know it affects the quality of your sleep.
You do whatever you like but don’t argue against science with some shitty reasoning you made up. That really screams alcohol problem.
So it sounds like acetaldehyde and acetate don’t impact my sleep negatively at all.
Oh yes you just must be immune and the science is wrong, gotcha
You’re thinking that when you don’t have alcohol in your blood and it’s broken down by your body, that “it’s not in your system”? The breakdown produces for instance acetaldehyde and then further into acetate. That’s why people get hangovers and are still sick a long time after the buzz has worn off and there’s no alcohol in their blood.
If you drink alcohol today, the metabolites are still detectable in urine for a few days. No-one just ever tests for those, but actual BAC.
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
They accidentally deposited one cheque in the 50’s.
It’s not like its any money on a government scale. Hell, even on a personal level it’s cheap as fuck for an annual rent. My small duplex has a highers rent than what America pays in rent for gitmo; ~4000$
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’ve gone on a gluten and dairy free diet. Not ouf of some fad, but because I think I have NCGS, Non-celiac gluten sensitivity.
The difference it’s made is massive. I used to think no way those lifestyle hos ranting about their gluten free diets isn’t bullshit, but for at least 1/10 of them, it’s real with all probability.
And it’s not just stomach issues that they cause.
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.
Wallace, if he isn’t a dick about weed smell.
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*
I’ve censored two of the faces, because those guys actually have lives and might care. Probably not, but I’m not gonna risk it don’t care to ring up permission about 18 year old photos lol. Windows edit tool eraser is pretty good nowadays, I’m sure it’s enough.
I’m gonna tag some of the others here. @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
Alright cap, I’ll see if I can find the ext hard drive and post at least an image or two once I’m back on PC
*edit here
https://lemmy.world/comment/14311082
Do I have to go to my computer and start sharing photos?
edit Here you go.
The only answer here I agree with.
There’s no specific task, job or skill everyone needs to master. Everyone should know the basics of a lot of things, but the only thing you really need to master is yourself.
Good comment 5/5 would give free silver