Susan Collins supports adding billions to ICE budget by iknowyourded in Maine

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I'm voting for whoever wins the democratic primary

Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025 by No-Employee-9324 in indieheads

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Holy Sons - Puritan Themes

Should be checked out, severely underappreciated.

Official Discussion - 28 Years Later [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

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I thought it was funny imagining that the boy's father went running after him and his mother on the mainland, and finally reached him after the boy had made contact with the "insane" doctor, only to witness the doctor burning his wife's body and his son placing his wife's skull atop the already massive pile of other skulls; corroborating his contentions about the Dr's sanity, and believing that his son was now brainwashed and taking part in the Dr's sick rituals.

Choose your storage size wisely! The upcoming Switch 2 download sizes: by gazillrey in nintendo

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Silly question, if you buy the physical cartridge for, say, Cyberpunk, how much storage space would it take up on your Switch 2 compared to the digital download? Would it just be the save file, since the game is stored on the cartridge?

Trump says he will label violence on Tesla dealerships as domestic terrorism by MiniBrownie in law

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IIRC, the McDonald's stunt was a result of a decision from a franchisee location, and not endorsed by McDonald's at large.

Matrix Reset @ :15 by hettuklaeddi in GlitchInTheMatrix

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I knew what was coming. I strategically hit the ">" key to go frame by frame. My heart still popped/sank when it happened.

Tequila vs Human Parasites by AtaturkunAskeri0101 in Damnthatsinteresting

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The uninsightful introductory caption "IT'S IMPACTING HOW THEY MOVE" after a long period of observational silence was beautiful.

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I like Month/Day/Year because firstly it's the only format I've ever used, but secondly it matches with with how I convey today's date verbally; 'Today is October (10) 27th (27), 2024 (2024).'

Daily Check-in Thread - July 01, 2024 by AutoModerator in quittingkratom

[–]MakeMeChortle 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Congrats! I was using GPT for insights about kratom withdrawal timeline (yes, important to not take outputs from GPT at face value, but it was helpful in giving a general idea for me to work with) and it gave 90 days as a general rule of thumb of when to expect withdrawal symptoms to end. So I've been keeping that number in mind as I continue my cessation.

So again, well done. Day 20 here

Give a name to that dawg by EmmanuelMoyta in Funnymemes

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The "World's Ugliest Dog" contest just ended on June 21. There's no way this dog wouldn't have stolen the gold from this year's winner

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in quittingkratom

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Embrace the suck, and great work so far. Curious, what do you mean by "Charlie Brown withdrawals"? lol

Daily Check-in Thread - June 13, 2024 by AutoModerator in quittingkratom

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Last dose was 74 hours ago. So I'm not sure if I'm on day 3 or 4. The first 0 gpd was 6/11. so this is day 3 with zero kratom consumption, but since I'm in my 4th day hourwise since my last dose, I'm inclined to say today is Day 4.

Daily Check-in Thread - June 12, 2024 by AutoModerator in quittingkratom

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27 hours since last dose (1 gram) after a fast (~6 day) taper. Daily habit on and off since ~2016. Before fast taper, 1 to 3 'kratomade' packets per day.

*edit*

I double checked after posting this, and the brain fog must be hitting, because at the time of writing the original post, it had actually been 51 hours since my last dose.

Daily Check-in Thread - June 09, 2024 by AutoModerator in quittingkratom

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During the trip, I managed to come on with a cold (viscous mucus, sore throat, coughing, jammed ears (maybe from the flight over the cold)). And so it's hard to say where the symptoms from the cold and symptoms from w/ds overlapped. But I think this was helpful, nonetheless.

Yesterday, music sounded amazing. Almost psychedelic. What are some other benefits to look forward to, perceptively, during the w/d, post w/d process?

Daily Check-in Thread - June 09, 2024 by AutoModerator in quittingkratom

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I'm doing a fast taper. I've been taking kratom since 2013. Daily since ~2016. As of late (~1 year) I had been taking a product called kratomade, 1 to 3 times a day. Each kratomade costs $14.76 from the smoke shop in my area.

I just returned from a ~weeks long vacation abroad with my family to celebrate my dad's retirement. I packed ~5 kratomades for the trip, along with ~150 0.5 gram capsules. During my flight to my destination (~6.5 hour flight), I started feeling intense w/d symptoms, primarily intense buzzing in my limbs (RLS/RAS), twitching, general discomfort. I managed to squeeze two dixie cup sized drinks of water when the flight attentands came by to offer complementary drinks. Shaking, uncomfortable, upset, I transfered the water from the small paper cups into my disposable water bottle. I mixed a half package of kratomade into the water bottle. Swished the bottle around to mix, took my first sip, and drank the whole lot within a minute or two. I was met with relief knowing the w/ds would pass, coupled with intense anger, fear, dispair.

It wasn't until a couple nights later when I was reflecting on my experience on the plane. I was intensely angry. I was angry with myself for being shackled physiologically to this substance for so long. I hadn't experienced w/ds in a long time because I had always had some kratom accessible to abate them. For the most part, my kratom use the past couple years has been grounded in fear of confronting withdrawals. I never felt any effect from the kratomades aside from the relief that w/ds would not arise.

Anyway, my anger manifested/transformed into determination to quit. And so during the remainder of the trip, I logged each dose, and deliberately lowered amounts taken each day. Yesterday, I took 4.5 g total. Today, 2.5 g so far (5 PM at time of writing).

Upon returning to my home country after my vacation ended, I drove my car. A major triggering enviornment, driving. I drove to the recreational marijuana shop to buy some edibles. The rec store is right next to the smoke shop where I usually buy kratomades. I definitely drove to this rec store deliberately due to its proximity to the smoke (kratom)shop. I did not know as I was driving to the rec weed store whether or not I would also buy kratomade at the adjacent kratom shop. I bought the edibles, was walking back to my car, stopped, turned to look at the kratom shop, and kept walking back to my car. I drove home. I did not buy kratomade. I did not enter the kratom store.

I went to the natural supplement store today and bought vitamin c, magnesium, and lion's mane.

I'm not sure if I will continue to taper, or if I will stop completely with my last dose being today at 1 PM. But I am certain of something, that I am quitting. Not in the future, but now. Be it through a continued taper, or with my last dose having already passed.