In my early 20’s, broke-ass hippie-ish acidhead days, my friends and I made it thru several 12hr long trips without money for smokes by just tricking our brains. We would take straws or broken pencils or whathaveyou, just to hold in our hands while we were frying. IT. FUCKING. WORKED. Every time.

At my age now, and the baggage I hold onto, getting psychedelic is less appealing than it was back then. But it’s not hard to use that headspace to flip switches in your brain. Especially if you’re going into it with that intention.

My pépère found out he had COPD at 70something, while smoking almost 3 packs a day of GPC’s.

He quit cold-turkey just to spite everyone who said he couldn’t.

Stay on that wagon!! I’m going on 25 years of a pack a day…

I’ve “quit” a few times during that, and all it took was for me to convince myself that a “puff or two won’t hurt” which turns into “a cigarette or two won’t hurt”

Before you know it all that hard work is down the drain…

I need to print this out in poster size and pin it up in every room if my home and workspace lol

Veggies have never been a problem for me. Fruit always has been tho.

My solution for that is making a smoothie every morning while I wait for my coffee to brew.

You’re welcome to join us on slrpnk.net. We’re a safe and inclusive space, and also we’re defederated from most of the shittier instances by default.

Most of us are here! If you’re just joining us, Welcome to the Party!

Good thing we’re not on one of those!

Umm… username checks out? Lol

^{(It feels weird saying that here on lemmy)}

Oh, it definitely happens here and everywhere else on the Internet. It seems to be just part of the human condition.

But since this post is bagging on reddit, and I’m still mad at the company’s recent decisions, I figured I’d not rock the boat and just bag on reddit too lol

In my early years of reddit, it always seemed like a place where people really knew what they were talking about. It was exciting!

That is… until I started posting about things that I really knew about and I quickly realized that most redditors had no clue and were talking out their asses, however convincing it actually sounded.

Anywhere in the vicinity will work. Whether is surrounding your veggies, interspersed within, or a separate patch off to the side somewhere.

These bugs know how to find what they’re looking for. Don’t overthink it.

“I’m fine.”

It was in one of them state’s that believe if you’re getting tipped, then your hourly wage should only be a fraction of the state’s minimum.

Someone I worked with did something similar. This was close to 25 years ago, at a popular drive thru corporate coffee chain. I took no part in these shenanigans myself, but I got a cut each night we worked together just for looking away as it happened.

Basically, her whole hustle revolved around the fact that the cash register at the drive thru window had been broken and not working for ages. She had memorized the prices for every single item sold there. So when someone ordered at the drive thru, she would tally up their whole order in her head, but then go around to the main counter’s register and ring the entire order up as just a small coffee. She’d then take their money, give them the change that was due, but put the difference into the tip cup.

This went on for about a month until I just couldn’t stand the overall work environment. It’s still to this day the only service industry “job” I’ve ever had. I hated it so much that even all that extra free money couldn’t keep me there.

Hating that one month so much is also the reason I tip service workers as best I can, still to this day.

Mortifying, infuriating, and heartbreaking…

This is a very well written article if you can stomach it’s content

Baraka and Samsara are both amazing films

This is a great comment, and I believe the best addition to the thread.

I think you may really like this 4 part music/art video series.

Filastine - Abandon
From the description: Abandon bridges video art, documentary, and music to explore how we sell our time on earth, and how we could imagine to get free. Each of the four episodes profiles a unique personal revolt against low-valued work: an Indonesian miner, a Portuguese maid, American office workers, and Spain’s scrap metal salvagers.