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noroute, (edited ) in What are your "poor person" money life hacks?

You can buy all kinds of necessities cheap on AliExpress for $1.99 or when they have sales every month for $1.79 this special section only available on there mobile app. Also most cities have food-banks or some churches giving out free food and clothing. There is also a Freecycle.org community kind of like craigslist but for free stuff.

kalkulat, (edited ) in What are some productive things to do when you wake up in the middle of the night and can't get back to sleep for a few hours?
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Save up a stash of Interesting audiobooks, podcasts for times you’re feeling like it’ll take an hour or more. (Not -too-interesting.) Boring ones once you feel like keeping your eyes closed.

Weirdfish,

I’ve found that listening to material I already know works best. If it’s new, then I pay attention, if I’ve already heard the story multiple times I zone right out.

30 min sleep timer and hardcore history of the Mongols works every time.

kalkulat,
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Makes sense. I can get away with material I know sometimes… but if it’s a different performance, that’s enough to spoil the effect.

sntx, in What do you want for Christmas?

A massage - back, shoulders and neck

Today, in [EXPERIMENTAL] What are your hidden gem medications/drugs/substances and what makes them ideal for your usecase [**Bolded Substance Name (Brand/Street Name)** + New Paragraph folks]

CBG For migraines Works as well as my prescriptions work less side effects. Many people use it as a preventative.

EdibleFriend, in What gifts are you getting for your friends and family members?
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2 ceramics from anna collete hunt

danileonis, in What gifts are you getting for your friends and family members?
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Try with home decor, a plant or a good lamp is always a good gift.

bestusername, in What would be some of your top choices of things to see if you were the size of an ant?
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An open bag of sugar!

Chetzemoka, (edited ) in [EXPERIMENTAL] What are your hidden gem medications/drugs/substances and what makes them ideal for your usecase [**Bolded Substance Name (Brand/Street Name)** + New Paragraph folks]

Coenzyme Q10

Energy, mitochondrial support, antioxidant

Personally, I think everyone should be taking this. Extremely safe, improves cardiac outcomes, some evidence that it can reverse damage in chronic kidney disease. Most people won’t feel different, but I take high dose CoQ10 for mitochondrial dysfunction, and I can tell you it definitely has a huge impact. Love this stuff.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8092430/

www.mdpi.com/2076-3921/8/2/44#:~:text=Chronic Kid….

HubertManne, in What would be some of your top choices of things to see if you were the size of an ant?
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panties or even better. no panties.

Duallight, in What are the best e-readers on the market?

I have a kobo libra 2, but have had kindle paperwhites in the past. The kobo is the better experience IMO, for 3 big reasons. 1, physical buttons. The buttons on the side also mean there’s a good place to hold the device, where on my old paperwhite I would accidentally skip to the next page constantly. Someone with smaller hands probably won’t mind as much though. 2, easier to get library books. Overdrive is built in, so I don’t have to go find my phone to search for books. 3, more customizable with the fonts and layouts and I can load in custom fonts really easy. That being said, my partner has the newest Kindle, and she adores that thing and hates how big the kobo is.

cheese_greater, (edited ) in [EXPERIMENTAL] What are your hidden gem medications/drugs/substances and what makes them ideal for your usecase [**Bolded Substance Name (Brand/Street Name)** + New Paragraph folks]

Naltrexone

I will start with naltrexone, which can help people who have difficulty regulating their drinking have a more natural and sustainable relationship with alcohol should they choose to not cut it out of their lives entirely.

I consider this the closest thing to a “cure” for drinking problems but it required discipline and it doesn’t prevent actual impairment, only the buzz and liking/compulsion to keep overdoing it that day/session

Drusas,

It's also used for opioid abuse disorders. Truly a miracle drug.

cheese_greater, (edited )

I want to more rigorously experiment with it and other compulsive things I have challenges with, it seems the opioidergic system mediates liking and the compulsive attachment that flows from that so I’m curious to what extent its effect is extensible to other problematic habits, chemical or otherwise

cheese_greater, (edited )

Can you expand on its actual use (like Vivitrol?) My understanding is its primarily used to treat alcoholism/AUD but maybe Vivitrol is used for both…

Drusas,

I can't comment on it personally, no, I've just heard and read about it some.

This article, for example, mentions dosage guidelines: https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/naltrexone-oral-route/proper-use/drg-20068408

cheese_greater, (edited )

[not snarky ;)] Pretty sure my understanding is correct, I’ve read about it before

Chetzemoka,

Low Dose Naltrexone is amazing for all kinds of chronic pain and inflammation.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3962576/

cheese_greater, (edited ) in [EXPERIMENTAL] What are your hidden gem medications/drugs/substances and what makes them ideal for your usecase [**Bolded Substance Name (Brand/Street Name)** + New Paragraph folks]

DMT (dimethyltryptamine)

can, (edited )

Allowed for a sense of peace with my own mortality.


Is it necessary to leave empty replies like this though? I would like to have more replies to read too but I think it’s better to just let people come up with them.

(speaking as a user, not as a mod. Forgot lemmy always shows the icon)

cheese_greater,
  • What was your particular orientation with that previously, like we’re all sort of shifty about death but I don’t think much about it (like before I was born, that doesn’t scare me so I kinda dont get the inverse of that)
  • do you have a condition that makes this all the more prescient or timely
  • any articulable messages you can share that encapsulate the experience we can try to glean from?
can,
  • roughly the same with added suicidal ideation
  • no
  • no
NaibofTabr, in What are the best e-readers on the market?

I have a Poke 2 Color and I have to do disagree with your opinion of Onyx. This device is very well made, battery life is fantastic even with active use, and the software isn’t locked down like Kindle.

antrosapien, in Former religious lemmings, what made you quit religion or stop being a believer?

I went down the rabbit hole of the Ancestral simulation, the Boltzmann brain, simulation hypothesis and these shows like matrix and westworld made more sense than any other religious text

AmosBurton, in How many tabs do you have open?

68(I realize how close it is) on my phone. My PC gets shut down daily so it cannot accumulate too many but normally I have 2 browsers with ~4-8 tabs unless I’m researching something, then it’s 193,646,691

ctag,
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I definitely empathize with the research tab balloon.

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