Thank you! I really think it’s wild how so many people have caffeine addictions and so few try to quit, but then the few of us that have have very different experiences with quiting

I was assigned a battle class vessel but with a science class crew. I make it work and I’m honestly happy with what I got ultimately, but some fleets within the Meatfleet consider me a betrayal to my class and are disgusted at how I just take my battle class vessel on science missons and remain a pacificst

I think you replied to the wrong person?

Ah you’re right. I was trying to respond to OP but clearly not paying close enough attention

Thank you for answering anyways! Super interesting learning more of other people’s experiences and experimenting with what works well for me.

It’s crazy how these meat ships we’re given to pilot and maintain just don’t come with instructions and the instructions written by other folks based on their experiences piloting and maintaining their meat ships just aren’t fully transferrable

Out of curiosity, did you pick up a new habit when quitting coffee? When I was reducing with the goal of quitting I’d literally put a water bottle next to my coffee mug and drink the ice cold water every time I found myself reaching for the coffee, and now I get the same caffeine withdrawal symptoms if I don’t drink enough water in the morning, as well as just generally drinking about 1.5-2 gallons of water a day

Its a pretty sweet and heartwarming conclusion that some people really need to see

Interesting observation lemmy user SatansMaggotyCumFart

How are you spending so much? I spend half that on gas per week (rural area so I easily put 200-400 miles a week on the car) and your weekly grocery budget is about my monthly budget for a family of 4

As someone with 2 preschool aged kids I absolutely agree

Ah you’ve met my in-laws i see!

I got one for work. It literally just pastes into ChatGPT

I have memories of some random afternoons at the consulting firm my mom worked at, where everyone’s just poking at spreadsheets. I can’t imagine how cool the memory of going into the server farm and doing some hardware work there would be

Folder structures are a bizarre thing for many people

When learning about this I learned that in the analog days folks would actually put physical folders inside of physical folders and it both makes tons of sense and is mind blowing at the same time. -Late Millennial born to IT parents

With the amount of password resets I have to do at work, I can’t say I’m shocked

qbittorrent search makes it stupid easy too

Signing the photo on the camera would achieve this, but ultimately that’s just rehashing the debate back when this Photoshop thing was new. History shows us that some will fight it but ultimately new artistic tools will create new artistic styles and niches

And I use AI to determine the right brightness level for my phone screen (that was a feature added several android versions ago)

UN, which… failed to keep dictatorships out

The UN while created with noble intentions certainly fell for the paradox of tolerance. They tolerate the dictatorships and human rights abusers because if they didn’t they’d be much less empowered to take action against them, or worse they’d form their own competing UN made up of nations motivated to join them and you’d just end up with another NATO and Warsaw Pact for example. It’s damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

Ultimately the challenge comes down to how do you ultimately tame the leaders of the world who have absolute power. The founding fathers of the United States of America thought they had the solution with democracy and the many checks and balances they implemented into this new form of government they setup, but even that has its challenges and failures that they never could have forseen. The UN was the next experiment, trying to take the similar principles onto the world stage, and it’s been less successful (but at least has had some successes)

I know a dude who’s a retired doctor specializing in sports medicine (he was the team doctor for a Big 10 college football team), and he smokes like a chimney. He likes to joke that he’s the 1/10 doctors that they don’t quote on TV ads

Just a reminder, this shithead crossed state lines to dump gas on the fire of a protest

The “crossed state lines” thing really irks me because does nobody know that maps exist? I’m thinking about crossing state lines today because I need to get more baby wipes. Shithead went to the next town over, which just so happened to be in a different state.

But let’s also not forget he went and partied with KKK members immediately after posting his crowdfunded bail, just in case there’s any questions on how much of a shithead he is

My wife worked in a factory for a while that was air-conditioned but didn’t have appropriate ventilation to actually circulate the air throughout the plant so it might have simply been better to just open all of the big dock doors and let the crosswind do its thing. It would easily be 90 degrees F inside during the summer. It was nice and comfy in the offices though!