I like the taste of cigarettes, cigars, and (especially) pipes more than I like the taste of coffee, and I really like coffee.

All those things you mentioned were big losses; I really do think there after-meal smoke was the hardest to let go of. Someone posted something about how cigarettes are actually bad for your digestion, but it doesn’t feel like it. In fact, it feels like the opposite.

Aw, man. If I survive my wife, I’m going to take smoking back up again. By then, cancer from smoking is statistically unlikely to be what gets me.

What did it do?

I mean no shade, but I was honestly expecting as I scrolled down that this would be posted in c/ABoringDystopia

It’s a great backup to have, that’s for sure. I drink mostly cold brew, but sometimes I run out and there are a few days before I brew more. Aeropress is a fantastic way to brew a quick cup.

Oops you did it again, you played with my brain, made me smoooke again. Oops you gave me lung cancer, and emphysema, and I diiieed!

Tee hee

I was one of the lucky ones. Quitting wasn’t hard; I just went cold turkey. In the past 25 years I’ve smoked maybe 6 or 7? Half of those, I was out in Singapore with a bunch of sales people from my company, and seriously, they just kept offering them and eventually I smoked a couple. But, I’ve never been prone to addiction, thank goodness, because I have no willpower to speak of.

For me, it’s situational. At first, it’d be after dinner was the worst cravings, but also seeing people light up in movies - only in movies theaters, though. But just random. The last time I had a craving was probably 6 or 7 years ago… until this series of ads. And it’s been bad, because I mainly smoked Camels, and Lucky Strikes when I lived in Germany. If these ads had been for Marlborough, or some other brands, it wouldn’t be so bad, but OP’d been choosing my favorites.

Of you’re 8 years out, you can do it. Especially if you stay away from situations where people offer them to you. It’s way easier, for me at least, to not buy a pack than it is to turn down a friendly offer.

You know, I never dream about smoking. Maybe I use to; I don’t remember. But good luck! You’re going great.

This is one I wish I hadn’t stopped to think about.

PixelFed is also part of the FediVerse and uses ActivityPub, meaning people using Mastodon clients can follow PixelFed accounts.

You can run it yourself, but if you’re not able to for whatever reason, there are a ton of established servers.

I quit smoking nearly 30 years ago. This series of vintage ads is one of the few times I’ve felt the urge to have another smoke.

You gotta stop these, man. Seriously. Addicts never completely recover. One ad is fine, but this is, like, 3 in a day! You’re killing me, over here.

Absolutely. The German term equivalent to writing “Sincerely,” at the end of letters is “Mitt freundlichen grußen,” and it was (is?) often written as “M.f.G.” There’s even a song by the German pop/rock band Die Fantastischen Vier titled “M.f.G.” The lyrics are almost entirely various abbreviations (here’s a version of the song with the lyrics, but not the video).

Mine too. I look specifically for this feature when buying.

I still do a TP dab-dry first; even with a heated fan, it takes forever to fully dry with only the fan. But a couple of TP squares to dab most of the water away, and the fan makes fast work of the rest.

Nice kit. The Ukrainians will figure out how to take them down; Ukraine has been impressing me with their innovation and creativity all throughout this invasion.

Slava Ukranini

Yeah, this one’s a lap cat too. I’ve loved all our cats, but it’s great when they’re snugglers. Tissot has a thing, though, that we say for him: “Both hands! No devices!” When he’s on you, he wants your full attention. It can make getting things done difficult, but it’s probably healthy that he forces us to take breaks from our computers.

Does Zoey shed much? We adopted Tissot when he was 5, and I expected him to create a nightmare for the vacuums, but strangely he doesn’t really shed much, for all the long hair he has. Loves to be brushed, but we never get anything off him! Is Zoey the same way?

Oh, yeah; that’s a good one. I’ve read sci-fi books that are almost this, but less obvious about it; Libertarian wet dreams. I mean, fair enough, there’s plenty of communist fiction. But sometimes it gets a bit absurd.

One of my favorite all-time sci-fi trilogies is The Golden Age trilogy by John C. Wright. And it’s a sort of libertarian fantasy: übermensch against the forces of evil (which aren’t socialists; it’s not that kind of libertarian fantasy) who triumphs mainly by force of sheer will. Great books, and I think the ending is about the best I could imagine, because it inverts the entire libertarian message. The libertarian ideal society exists because The Gods allow it to. It’s kind of like Anarchy Park in whichever Larry Niven book that was: anything goes, except violation of other’s freedom, all enforced by all-mighty AI cops. It’s such a funny caveat.

Incidentally, I didn’t know about that Prisoners Dilemma strategy; thanks! I learned something new today.

I believe this is the article that kicked off support for the idea. Thankfully it’s not a Medium-requires-an-account article

Thank you, that’s one I’m going to read.

“Toxic masculinity,” for instance, a lot of people misunderstand to mean that masculinity is toxic.

Whatt‽‽ ϞϞ(๑⚈ ○ ⚈๑) I thought I was practicing the non toxic version of masculinity!

But I don’t know if this challenge to them is the same as a challenge to Popper.

Well, thanks for the link, in any case. My reading comprehension and analytic skills aren’t completely undeveloped, and while I’ve been known to fall for brief periods for clever sounding schemes*, I’m generally skeptical enough to read between the lines.

I think I have to admit I don’t actually know what Popper has to say on the matter. Though, I get the impression these two authors might agree, at least broadly, and are simply viewing the same problem through different lenses.

He wasn’t the first, but he was the first to really coin the term that stuck. It’s hard to read, if for no other reason than it’s philosophy and my eyes tend to glaze over.

That is, resolving the paradox might be interesting to someone if paradoxes bother them

Yeah, I think it’s a paradox only to absolutists, and I distrust absolutists. There are physical laws of nature that are absolute, and even then we find exceptions; but trying to hold to philosophical absolutes leads to people like Ayn Rand, and Libertarians. So, to paraphrase possibly the best scene in any movie ever, “the code is more what you call guidelines, than actual rules”.

• I once thought flat tax was a great idea, believing it’d get us closer to European-style “finally I don’t have to sorry about this shit for two while months every year” taxes; before a friend pointed out the disproportionate impact a flat tax has on different economic stratuses. Stratusi? Whatever.

I’m honestly not sure why he doesn’t just have all of SCOTUS murdered, and if anyone in Congress moves against him, have then eliminated as well. Do Trump in, whole he’s at it. Full on blood bath.

Tell me why not?

So many Far Sides come to mind.

Wireguard really changed the landscape, for me, and my entire approach to networking. Suddenly, VPNs became fast and easy, and where previously impractical for casual (hobbyist) admins, it made creating enterprise-grade secure subnets easy. It’s astonishingly stable and reliable, such that my initial concerns about cutting off all access except through the VPN - once a truly nerve-wracking concept - is now a no-brainer. It’s made my network administration easier and more secure. My firewalls are simpler.

Wireguard is one of the biggest high-impact, low-visibility networking game changers I’ve seen in decades.

Is there a source for that response? It sounds good, and I’d like to read a reasoned argument for the paraphrase.

He says thank you, and you’re pretty, too.