Yeah, this happens to me. On ritalin lp it’s not that bad because it happens just before I actually go to bed, but whatever I was on before was awful for a few hours of constant snacking.

The main thing I tried to keep in mind is that I’m not in any sense hungry (although it can feel like that) and that’s why having one more snack won’t stop the feeling (even if it feels good at the time). Instead, I’m craving simple sensation and easy dopamine so I try to replace the cravings for unhealthy snacks with alternatives.

My cravings are for salty, crunchy things and that normally ends up in me eating bags of chips or crackers/toast and thick butter. But anytime I’ve had left over roast vegetables, that are a bit blackened and carmalised and well-seasoned I discovered that I’d just as happily eat a piece of roast cauliflower or carrot as a bread stick. the key is that they’re a satisfying texture and salty / spicy. If I just had a bag of carrot sticks I’d eat one or two then want something more intense and reach for the bag of tortilla chips.

I’ve even had some success recently with crushed ice and a dash of lemon juice. With a cupful of tangy ice I can relax in the evening and keep reaching for another piece to cronch down on. And because it’s cold and hard it recreates that “I shouldn’t have more, I should wait, oh what the hell” that I get with snacks I’m “not allowed” and I think that the giving into temptation is itself a dopamine hit.

The use of a pretend quote is one thing, but what is the middle quotation mark doing?

Manny’s Milk “We’ll deliver that white cream” that puts a smile on your wife’s face"

Is everyone too distracted by the cringe to be infuriated at the punctuation? Wtf is happening with those quotation marks?

Doesnt work for me. 25 is too long if I’m struggling, and if I start getting into it, a five minutes break spoils my flow. I’ve had more success with “I know you don’t want to do this, so let’s just do as much as we can in 10 minutes”. And sometimes ten minutes is all I need to break a tasks back (writing some email I’d been avoiding), or I kinda get into it and am fine to continue. And if I’m really stressed and just want to escape even after starting, then I go spend some time de-stressing and try something else.

I just meant upvote, but I half remembered some lemmy folks hating certain terms because they’re from reddit (like calling communities subs) , and I thought upvote was one of them. However, I couldn’t remember the lemmy equivalent, so I said uplemmyed. But taking time to do a quick search, upvote seems to be widely used, so I’m not sure what term I was thinking of…

Absolutely. Movies are often slow, and because they rely on visual storytelling more than tv, so I can’t even be doing something else while watching them. A trick that worked for me was starting 15/20 minutes into the movie, that way stuff is actually happening rather than some slow setup, and I get the extra challenge of trying to figure out what’s happening and what I’ve missed which keeps my brain busy. Then, if I enjoy the movie, I’ve got an extra 15 minutes to watch later as a bonus!

I commented at the same time as you, otherwise I’d have replied to you directly. It is a real tweet, but satire, Jack Kimble is not a real politician (he purports to represent California’s 54th district, out of 52).

Up lemmyed, funny, but for anyone else confused about the satire https://www.truthorfiction.com/rep-jack-kimble-a-whopping-25-of-american-students-are-in-the-bottom/

How did your day go? Was it okay? Were you superefficent? Or just a bit wired?

Zoloft been in use since 1991, and “Is that your phone?” was a perfectly cromulent thing to say in the 90s, meaning “do I hear your land-line ringing?” not “is that your pocket computer on the table there?”

Absolutely this. I can only speak for myself, and I know that some folks are so starved for representation that they are happy with anything and that’s fine, but for me poor representation is just as bad as none at all.

I’m a guy married to a guy, and I do like to see queer characters and same sex romance options. But playing DA: Origin and crushing on Alastair, only to have the option of Zevran… It kinda feels like the games is telling me “gay men are campy and promiscuous, a sensitive and strong guy like Alistair is clearly heterosexual”. It didn’t make me feel included or represented, quite the opposite.

Obviously, times change, and sometimes these clumsy first steps are how we get to somewhere better. But as well as disappointing me, I understand why awkward ‘woke’ representation rubs people the wrong way. If I as a queer man find the gay character tokenistic, underdeveloped and kinda annoying then it doesn’t surprise me that other folks would too. And being willing to say “this is good representation, but that is shallow box ticking” would help us all get to better place.

Thia is exactly the video I was thinking of. I only came across his channel recently, and it is an absolute pleasure.

Must make turning corners, parking and dealing with hazards a wild experience.

Yeah, that’s how I felt about Jonathan Majors as Kang. “He’s great! Got this fun, wild, sensitive vibe, but there’s this dark and menacing core lurking beneath.” uhuh.

The lol per pixel ratio of this meme was significantly above the mean

Don’t know why you’re getting down voted. Bots and media manipulation are a thing, Russia and many governments are almost certainly doing it on different scales. But you make a good point that our own governments are doing it do, and even before social media stories were prompted or hushed up for reasons other than newsworthiness or public interest. That’s not a conspiracy theory, that’s basic media history of the last century.

I also have difficulties sleeping, and if I don’t have access to my various strategies I can’t get to sleep because of over thinking, and waking frequently and immediately overthink and can’t get back to sleep.

My main ‘trick’ is finding the right audiobook and playing that as I go to sleep. It’s a bit of trial and error, to find something that works, but it gives me something to focus on as I try to fall asleep so I don’t think about my day or stress or start getting ideas for some project… And when I wake up in the middle of the night, I turn it back on and I fall back asleep in minutes.

Right book (or podcast or whatever) : for me it needs to be a story I know (so that I don’t care about hearing what happens next, and don’t get too confused if I miss sections by sleeping), not too distressing / dark (especially as I’m falling asleep I find violent descriptions can jar me awake), relaxing narration (no music or unexpected noises, nice voice, not too upbeat). Non fiction can also work really well.

Right method : what works for me is playing audiobook on an old phone that i keep under my pillow, with no other apps or WiFi, just the audiobook app and a redshift app (Twilight). To begin with I might listen to the book normally for a bit to get familiar, then I’ll gradually turn down the volume as I’m getting tired and as it gets quieter I have to keep still otherwise I can’t hear it over my rustling the bedsheets. If I feel like I’m too engaged and alert I adjust down the playback speed, so the Narrator gets slower and slower, and that usually makes me sleepier.

If you’re not used to it, I can imagine it taking a while to adjust, but it’s totally solved my issues, and now serves as a immediate sleep trigger for me. When I put on my book, I’m usually asleep within ten minutes. And it’s even faster at returning me to sleep in the middle of the night. And it’s something I’ve done now for years, so I’ve got loads more tips if anyone’s interested but this is already tldr…