Americans have a weird idea that fast food isn't just mostly the same ingredients you see in a store + sugar and preservatives and that by cooking you somehow elevate the ingredients to a higher quality.
"I prescribe a healthy dose of talking to AI every day 24/7, you should outsource every single decision, thought and opinion to the chatbot and attempt to disconnect your limbic system, this is so that we may all ascend for the rapture. When that holy day comes, make sure to down it with a big gulp of your one and only cherry soda flavoured saviour!"
Also, FYI, when scientists say "blue light" they don't mean literally the colour blue, they mean short wavelength light typically emitted by LEDs.
As far as the hue goes, the results in animal testing have been inconsistent, there's a paper from 2022 that says it has no influence, and this one from 2020 that actually found the opposite to be the case https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)31368-5
In my personal experience I do the exact opposite of all conventional advice as admittedly a diagnosed ADHDer.
I cannot sleep without a good scroll and never have, before phones I had books and before I could read as a child I had music and my mom to read to me.
As an adult if I keep listening to something or reading something intently while comfy I will eventually and fairly quickly fall asleep.
I also sleep much better when I sleep immediately after or while scrolling/reading/doing anything than if I try to sleep "normally".
The number one way for me personally not to fall asleep is to "try" to sleep. Any sort of "ritual" around sleeping or attempt to deprive myself of stimulation and my mind will go pretty crazy with infinite thoughts and infinite random bullshit and I will fling out of bed in an hour full of energy and start projects, after working on something for 10-20 min I'll feel sleepy again and could even fall asleep while doing them easily, much more so than in plain dark.
It also helps me to not have any sort of ritual and just sleep whenever I feel sleepy if the circumstances allow. I have no idea why or how neurotypicals have sleep schedules and I've given up on understanding it. For me, as long as I get 8 hours or so it doesn't actually matter at all when I get them, i will feel as fresh and awake waking up at 3AM as I would at 10PM or 7AM as long as I get my hours.
So I pretty much get 8 hours, and sometimes more every day and I feel nice and fresh when I wake up usually with sad exceptions during particularly rough work weeks where I end up staying up way late.
All's I'm saying is YMMV, I've never had any issues with sleep nor do I feel particularly tired, I don't drink coffee nor alcohol, but if I ever explain this to a doctor they go nuts and assume I have insomnia, they try to offer "treatment" when I literally don't have any problems with this at all.
Benzos. Pretty convinced I had a minor seizure discontinuing that shook me awake with what I experienced as like a flashbang inside my brain.
Psychologically it was quite easy to make the decision to stop and taper down etc. as the drug had accomplished what I wanted from it and I no longer had a solid justification for it, but physically it was an endurance marathon, didn't unclench my jaw for what felt like weeks.
Sleep was rare and awful. My leg was so restless I'd work up a sweat just shaking it trying to not freak the fuck out. It was like a panic attack that just didn't go away for weeks.
Other than that I don't think I've ever had any serious addictions, nor any psychological addictions at all which is what I think people usually mean by "addiction" as opposed to physical dependence, but yeah.
Yikes! That's the one switch you do not want to be activating without pilot input. Glad no injuries occurred and flight landed safely.
I remember when I first played MSFS I didn't know the proper shutdown procedure on the Fenix A320 so I just hit both of the overhead fire switches and was kind of impressed with how quickly the whole plane just cleanly shut off to many lulz from my girlfriend.
That sucks. For what it's worth all the victorian/edwardian partitioned slumlord mcmansions I lived in had more mold and nutty neighbours than internet, one was on one of those condemnded-to-be suburb streets that had literally no signal, but had 5G+ the second you crossed the road. Never seen anything like it.
The only place that had openreach optic fiber and gigabit speeds on offer was a brutalist apartment block built in the 2010s which was great. Between that and swapping out the decrepit southeasterns for the luxury of avanti trains, traveling north of the M25 is like going decades into the future. London and Surrey feel like peasant villages compared to the luxury of the Norf.
I remember making fun of VLC users on /a/ and flexing my MPC-HC/MadVR setup that made my laptop fans rev and the screen flash just going fullscreen. That was over a decade ago now. Good times.
I’m assuming everyone here listens to music somewhat regularly, but I’m curious about how much you care about it. And i specifically want to know about your enjoyment regardless if it's considered a timeless masterpiece or just a meme song.
I care about it a great deal. I have no genre or time/era preferences and will listen to basically anything that is interesting in some way or simply connects with me on an emotional level, though I do love a good interpretation of genre convention too.
Do you care about having decent enough devices to enjoy it or do you just buy the cheapest pair of earbuds to silence the world around you?
I'm no audiophile but I invested in some DT1990s years back paired with a nice EQ and a Bravo V2/FiiO E10K that serve me well to this day.
Do you have favorite albums or do you just hit play on a random playlist and zone out?
Neither. Weird dichotomy.
I have favourite albums and artists, but most artists I like these days aren't really "album artists" and most music I regularly enjoy are artists from 2010s onwards or from pre-1990s era of singles dominating. Even with the album era of 90s-2010s when CDs really sealed the deal on albums as the default, I don't regularly listen to albums as a whole.
I make my own playlists and I mostly use them as a collection of songs I like where I pick out the individual ones and listen to those on repeat, until I pick out the next song. No shuffle, no algorithm/autoplay ever. Most playlists are either genre themed or hyper personal life arcs. I must have spent hundreds of hours making them, curating and sorting them.
Do you ever listen to music just to enjoy it and nothing else?
Yes
Do you talk with passion about your favorite songs/albums/artists?
And yeah I talk about my favourite music all the time, maybe even too much, it seems that music as a whole is less and less appreciated with time, which is a shame, but it is what it is.
Do you spend time searching for music?
Yes. But these days Spotify's suggestions at the bottom of my personal playlists do do a lot of the work for me. However I also find lots of artists through word of mouth from the people around me, music featured in other media and through artist collabs.
Americans have a weird idea that fast food isn't just mostly the same ingredients you see in a store + sugar and preservatives and that by cooking you somehow elevate the ingredients to a higher quality.