The weekend doesn't count surely?
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This is how I decline into drinking too much. I'm currently on a good path though.
keep it up, i, a random stranger, am proud of you!
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Maybe deeper richer rewards and the paradigms of thought that support them might reproduce the incentive structure of capital a little less?
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Google says wholesale for a kilo (brick) is about $20k
Buying a brick if coke may be 20k, but buying a brik, breaking a mansion windoe and 0arasite skull with it, and taking a few bricks of it's coke before its guards get you? That's $0.81 at home depot.
Truly; virtue is worth more than its weight in gold.
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Rough Week 523: The little treat is now two whole cheesecakes. I should feel ashamed, but I feel nothing without my little treat.
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Guess I grossly miscalculated that. Still not in the ballpark of a little treat price. Not that one could physically handle a brick of coke anyway.
Big treat
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Repeat after me, "food is not a reward."
Don't reward your kid's good behavior with food, you're not training a dog.
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That feels quite sad, honestly… I wish you all to find fulfillment and happiness without the need for sugar supplements
all good mate. ive got weed
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I think this is buy design. Capitalism zaps your energy by forcing you to pay the bills and leaves no energy for fun. Lazy fun means consuming. Food, drugs, tech, media, etc.
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Repeat after me, "food is not a reward."
Don't reward your kid's good behavior with food, you're not training a dog.
Well said. Have an upvote.
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People don't have holidays anymore these days?
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People don't have holidays anymore these days?
I just assume OOP is American. In the civilised world they definitely do.
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It gets even worse. My little treat is alcohol.
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"It's just this once" every time.
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I think this is buy design. Capitalism zaps your energy by forcing you to pay the bills and leaves no energy for fun. Lazy fun means consuming. Food, drugs, tech, media, etc.
I don't know if I'd go so far as to say it's by design, but I definitely share your observation that capitalism doesn't leave much time and energy you would need to pursue hobbies, and it's way easier to get a dopamine high by consuming.
Even if this phenomenon is not by design, it is definitely synergizing very well with capitalism, and therefore there are people who exploit it and, in turn, support capitalism with their actions.
It is actually a depressing example of Niklas Luhmann's systems theory, which states that every system inherently tends to stabilize itself.
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Unless you know more than ChatGPT, I've earned this fentanyl drip.
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We all need to be reinforced. That doesn’t change when we become adults. If the little treat isn’t working you are being punished too much or need a different little treat. If the little treat hurts you, such as alcohol, try to find a functionally similar treat that doesn’t. Mine was Boba and fancy coffee for a while.
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meanwhile
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It gets even worse. My little treat is alcohol.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Alcohol becomes your own internal voice, your own thinking working out complex feats of logic and reasoning for why it's okay just one more day and then before long that's your whole life, just that constant hum of background rationalization to get your boost. What steps you have to take to go stop by the Circle K or grocery store after work, or in the middle of the night, or during lunch. The whole while you are confident that it's your own free-will so it can't be a problem.
So anyway, it sucks and hurts inside and out, but escaping before you lose days, months and years to the shit will save your life. I have no idea why such an addictive substance is sold in every convenience store. Our species makes no sense.
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Repeat after me, "food is not a reward."
Don't reward your kid's good behavior with food, you're not training a dog.
I would definitely argue that you shouldn't train dogs with food either, at least not in quantities that it's viewed as "food." Tiny bits that have flavor give a little reward which is great for establishing behavior, but rewarding with praise after a while makes for much more engaged and less food-obsessed pets.
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It gets even worse. My little treat is alcohol.
Oof. Me too.
