I refuse to even touch No Man's Sky. I'm sure the game is fine at this point, but I refuse to support a company that thought they could get away with what they attempted to do. Just like KSP2 - sure, they labeled it "Early Access" but they charged full game prices for that thing back in February. It's been half a year later, and there has been literal zero movement on their release roadmap.
It just depends on how many 'moist ingredients are on a sandwich for me though. Like, I can't stand when a sandwich is just absolutely soaked with wet ingredients.
Mind if I ask how you do your sourdough? I had a starter that I tended to for months, but my sourdough always came out super dense and not risen. It was almost like the yeast didn't work as hard as they should...any ideas to what I could be doing wrong?
You know, I used to always add mayo as well, but I found that with a toasted sandwich like that. It's honestly better without and tastier. I did breakfast sandwiches like this with homegrown jalapenos and tomatoes, with sausage, egg, and pepper jack. Your tomatoes and eggs are already very wet ingredients, the mayo just makes it over the top, and heart attack inducing. Didn't think it was worth it. I did toast with a little bacon grease though.
Well...that should have been obvious. It's the digital version of, "Behold this doll I made from your hair and fingernail clippings. It's a representation of my love and patience....for you. Would you like to go on a date with me? Wait....where are you going?"
That's a good point. I guess I have an issue with labeling psychological addictions to specific things then as I dont think it's so much the "this thing" that's addicting as it's something that you've psychologically latched onto.
Treating a generalized psychological addiction seems like it would be pretty straightforward in terms of treating vs a chemical or physiological addiction. But I'm not a therapist, and I'm sure there is a great reason as to why these things are labeled the way they are. Apologies for my stubbornness on this subject.
You make several good points, and apologize for omitting your crucial point. I agree that anything that provides some "effect" could become psychologically addicting (for example, you could become addicted to NSAIDs). And I agree that I downplay THC addiction due to my personal anecdotal experience. But I'm hesitant to believe that the THC (or cannabis, in general) is the root cause for the addiction, and not the human that uses it. Would we treat someone for THC addiction, specifically? Or would it be better to treat the habit-forming characteristics of said person?
If you can be "psychologically addicted" to anything, then why label marijuana specifically as "addicting"? We don't label wintergreen mints as psychologically addicting, even though some people will routinely crush a bag of them in one sitting. It seems that we're misattributing the human, habit-forming parts of ourselves (or possibly our need for pleasure) as a negative-characteristic of marijuana, and I don't think that's being genuine to the problems.
Articles like this only further the demonization of marijuana and give cause to ban it.
By your argument then, it's not the weed thats addicting. It's a human, habit-forming mechanism. You said it yourself, that you "can make an addiction out of literally anything."
So, I'm still at the same impasse. Why blame weed for what is clearly a human issue? It seems to me that we need to figure out better coping mechanisms, and how to break bad habits. Articles like this will only demonize cannabis, especially in a time when things are about to change for the better.
I don't know how I feel about this. I regularly smoke/use edibles, and I get that it can easily become habitual. You get home afterwork, smoke a bowl, and get on with your life.
But not once have I ever felt that I NEED to smoke. I've been using for over 4 years now. I grow my own. I make my own oils and edibles. I've never felt that it's something that I need to do. For example, I can very easily stop for a few weeks and suffer literally zero withdrawal from it. So, I don't really understand what's so "addicting" about it.
I don't get racism. I just don't. How your self worth can become so inherently tied up with the color of your skin should be fucking embarrassing.
I mean seriously, do you have no other accomplishments or have you acheived so little in life, that your only source of pride is that your were born white? The life of a racist is tragic.
Just started the Vorkosigan Saga. It's okay. It's growing on me, but I don't think it's anything to write home about. I'll stick it out through the first book and see how it goes.
The queen that was sacrificed several turns back has finally awoken one of the Great Old Ones! Behold Yog Sothoth as he begins crawling in from the top right.
The white king realizes he made a mistake and offers to make a temporary truce with the black army in a desperate attempt to stave off the end of the world.
Blacks investment in nuclear research has finally paid off, and they've managed to build their first nuclear weapon that they've lovingly named, "The Magnus Carlsen".