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Are you in the states? I am, and once I started reading labels, I couldn’t believe how much sugar was in everything. From bread to jar sauce, peanut butter, fuckin, soup. Like, it’s incredible where you find sugar.

I’m fat from other stuff,mostly inactivity, but far from diabetic, and it’s because I’ve been avoiding the hidden sugars in processed and ultra processed foods for over a decade. Read the labels, get grossed out, avoid. If I’m having sugar, it’s my choice, not because they sneak 5g of sugar in a half cup of jar sauce, or 6g in a slice of bread. Know what’s sweet? Red bell peppers. Avoid sugar a week, and then have a red bell pepper. You’re taste buds will explode with its sweetness.

A number of years ago, I was about 28 years old. My neighbor was my coworker, about 25, and we were friends.

One day he was having a small get together and invited me over. About 8 people, all 21-26 years of age. They were doing dabs. I did a couple, and wanted to do something fun, a game or something. Everyone at that “party” had done so many dabs they were couch zombies, falling asleep. I left from boredom.

It was so weird to me, and sad. I hope you’re feeling better these days with your relationship to dabbing.

I joined a crafts group with my therapist solely for practicing socialization. It helps a lot more than I thought it would. I’m no artist, but it doesn’t matter for this.

I’ve been using Tuta Calander for about a year now, the free version. I like it.

Where I go for care, they blow my phone up for two days sending me texts to check in for my appointment.

I fucking love it. While I try to make appointments on the same days everytime to help, and use my calander, those text reminders are fantastic. The day of, if I haven’t checked in yet, the text shoots out first thing in the morning, a little “hey! You have an appointment today!” And it’s very helpful.

If I can’t get to the store by no later than 11am on a weekday, I don’t go.

Love the quiet hours. Peak hours are brutal and no one looks happy to be there either

Cost is an issue for me, I buy the import stuff when it goes on sale. The semolina/flour is different. Imported, good pasta, is white, American pastas/cheap stuff is yellow.

The flour is different over there. I buy imported pasta because I like it better, and in southern New England, we’ve many descendants from Italian immigrants. Providence has like a hundred Italian specialty stores, I have three Italian bakeries within 10 miles, it’s huge business here.

I made ravioli by hand one time, no machine, and it took all day, 6+ hours, and they came out mediocre. It’s always time or money.

Yes and No, it’s general cleaner/disinfectant. It’s called Pinesol because there is pine oil in it. The name brand stuff no longer has real pine oil, it’s not that sustainable at scale, but the store brand I get does. Here’s the label

“Pine oil is a disinfectant that is mildly antiseptic” Wikipedia

When I moved into my husband’s house, I noticed he only used pinesol. I thought it fucking weird. 6 years later, I only use pinesol.

I clean relatively often. I’ll use bleach in the bathroom once a year maybe, the rest of the time it’s Pinesol. We have a litter box in our bathroom, that I clean 3 times a week, and usually just clean the whole bathroom down at the same time. It’s clean in there.

My own thoughts and inspirations come to me most often in the quiet times. I like saying hello to the birds. If I feel exhausted, I count my footsteps like you would music. 1234, 2234, 3234, 4234, and so on. I like hearing the winds, the trees crack as they sway, the squirrels hunting their forage. I listen out for other voices, and enjoy feeling connected to the rest of the world, a desire driven by isolation and loneliness, rarely do I find that sense of community in a podcast. The old man who walks my neighborhood every morning, does not have in headphones, he waves and smiles to every passerby, sometimes, his simple gesture, is the only kind/happy moment of my day.

People are different, it may be boring for you, but my ADD keeps my brain busy, and my CPTSD has me want to hear my surroundings vividly. I jump scare very easily, to avoid that, I use the power of, hearing one coming. I know I’m boring, but I don’t think it’s because I don’t listen to stuff while walking. Nothingness carries something within it, the interpretation only being found by the self. And to note, when I was younger I always had music. Things have just changed with age, it’s shocking I know, but as time moves, I want to slow it down, and appreciate everything I can. I crave quiet more than ever.

My husband is completely different, and more like you, where he spends most of his waking hours listening to podcasts and such. People are different, and that doesn’t make one better than the other.

You don’t have to tear others down, to make yourself feel better. I could call you a robot (hypothetically, I’m not, do you) for putting in your headphones like everyone else does. I’m on our states University campus kind of often. The amount of young people with headphones in, eye on screens, even as they get their meals or cross the street, is very odd to see for me. It honestly feels a bit like culture shock everytime I am up there. They walk into staff without looking or apologizing, and if you people watch for an hour or so, you’ll notice the majority plug themselves in. While I don’t think one is better than the other, it’s just different process. I find it amusing you call the ones who unplug robots however. We used to clown of people who had Bluetooth ear pieces in the early 00’s, it was the universal sign someone was a douche. Now everyone has airpods and the like. White socks, white shoes, white earbuds, head down in screen, it’s the standard look at the university by me.

It’s just amusing to see how things have changed in 25 years, from bluetooth sales douches, to today being called a robot for not plugging in, and instead paying attention to one’s environment out and about.

We have our first Sikh Mayor in Connecticut! Many Red towns flipped blue, some for the first time in 70 years!

I have 30 hours in house flipper 2 since getting it 5 days ago. I wish I could live in the homes I make

Just because it was the first laws/human organization, doesn’t mean it has a place in today’s society.

P.2025 has been decades in the making. They have been systemically cutting funding for education for as long as I’ve been alive. Add in social media and it’s manufactured division, it has been a perfect shit storm for a takeover.

Note, I’m agreeing with you and adding a thought here. I’ve always figured it would need to get ugly if any meaningful change were to happen, how ugly does it need to get? This is the only question I have now.

No of course not, but it still exposes a person to a culture different than what they may be used to.