Coffee

Dopamine

Going out to eat. I try to limit myself to 3 times a week.

Understandable. Can be a good thing though, as long as you don't take the easy route!

My smartphone. Unfortunately.

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.

Sweets. I have a huge sweet tooth.

Reading academic books that freak people out when they come over to my place and get me labeled as a pretentious douche.

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.

What's your favorite to go to?

Oh wow. Do you have any problems with heartburn or anything? The acidity of tea eats at me

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.

got any recommendations?

Food

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.

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.

Yeah. The Identity Trap.

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

Make your own. It's pretty easy. It's just water and flavorings and sugar and you boil it down slowly.

Syrup in the fridge made this way will store for weeks and you can customize how strong/weak you want your soda to taste.

I knew people who eat out 3 times a day.

They always complained about how broke they were and how expensive life is..

Nicotine, and to a very mild degree alcohol

Caffeine, I love it.

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.

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.

Internet...

But also constantly thinking about past memories... nostalgia?

My computer, in full working order, with Internet access.

If any of that goes wrong, I'm in a very bad place.

Porn, Video Games and Youtube Shorts. The Holy Trifecta of Loneliness .

Edging

"But it's impossible to be addicted to weed."

- People who don't realize you can be addicted to literally anything.

I knew a guy who was addicted to ibuprofen. He wasn't even taking it for pain.

Oh really?? I didn't know they did anything besides overpriced water at concerts, lol. I'll check it out, hell yeah.

Blood clotting's mini-boss

16 year old me was addicted to one part of my own body. Escapism is a helluva drug.

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.

My preferred choice is the Husky 34 in T Handle Edger. I love edging in my garden.

More espresso, less depresso.

What about when you hang out outside on a weekend, then that is easily two meals outside.

Do you not hang out outside that long or do you go home for lunch and go back out?

MJ is my longest lasting friendship outside of my own sister

Damn dude... You really have to quit those YouTube shorts.

Do what I did and get perma-banned from Reddit. Then you'll just be addicted to Lemmy. 😤

Yeah, I used the LeechBlock browser addon for that. Worked ok, though I was often tempted to override it. 😅

But what else should I jerk off to then?

Same... I drink an embarrassing amount of diet soda. I'm like a chain-drinker, to be honest, and I'm almost never without one. When one runs out I get another.

I like to add a splash of regular when I use a fountain soda machine, which is the best way to drink soda anyway, imo.

Benadryl. I have always struggled to sleep.

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.

Nah, we tend to either stay home or when we go out to do things on the weekends they're quick errands and we're right back home.

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.