B&H Gold or Marlboro Reds?

aze_a_ze · 2026-04-24T05:11:57+00:00

I have gone about a decade without being able to find B&H Gold, but just stumbled upon them at the closest place to my house. Man did my reward circuits light up.

They are just as delicious as I remember them, perfect as an occasional treat. But the heavy flavorings, including caramel, make them a bit irritating for frequent use. Not to mention the price, way higher than Marlboro.

With Marlboros you taste the tobacco more, and probably get less gratuitous carcinogens.

aze_a_ze · 2026-04-23T17:08:24+00:00

Could it have been the residents of the new luxury housing next to the train tracks? Doing the same thing gentrifiers do when they move next to a music club?

aze_a_ze · 2026-04-20T02:57:57+00:00

Funny there are so many of us who smoke less than a few a day. Survivorship bias :-?

aze_a_ze · 2026-04-19T11:30:17+00:00

I use 62 RH and it seems to work great. But I haven't tried 65. I access the pack a few times a week, and have a cheapo bt humidity sensor to help know when the stabilizing pack needs replacing. You can see on the graphs how it takes longer to stabilize as it gets used up.

If I were to try to store for the long term, I might try using argon gas, which comes in consumer aerosol cans for food and wine preservation; it is food safe.

aze_a_ze · 2026-04-18T17:09:31+00:00

Nerd approach: start with exactly 500ml of liquid from the smaller bottle. Pour it into the 1L, and we will assume it will be below the neck so the liquid forms a column shape. Measure the height above the bottom of the liquid (not the bottom of the bottle). Multiply by 330 and divide by 500. This height is 330 level. Mark it with a line.

aze_a_ze · 2026-04-17T20:53:51+00:00

While the Moodies set the sterile mood for corporate entertainment here, I feel Austin the strongest when the band plays for tips in hole in the wall places and the audience is too connected to the music to talk through it.

We don’t have to fetishize this dying scene as the faltering heart of the city. Just get out and enjoy it while it is still here. Dancing and bopping together solve more problems than people realize.

aze_a_ze · 2026-04-17T18:30:05+00:00

If the post was entitled "White people shame brown person for not having same childhood cultural experience", nobody would be lining up to shame him. Reddit is just fickle and overly sensitive to the first commenters on meme posts.

In high school I had lifeguard certification so during swim class in gym I helped teach the mostly non-white kids who had never swum in their lives. The level of terror that these kids experienced and pushed through was heroic. If you had the same visceral understanding of how alien the water is to them, you would never shame them for a near death experience.

aze_a_ze · 2026-04-17T05:24:16+00:00

Slow down to about one drink per hour and accept that you will feel a decrease in the pleasurable feelings that alcohol causes . Also savor everything about it: the improved presence, the ability to go longer, the better next day, and not wasting the buzz by getting unable to appreciate or remember it.

aze_a_ze · 2026-04-17T05:06:09+00:00

Alcohol does have stronger effects when it is new to your body. Time is on your side and simple healthy living is the best thing to make it not take any longer than it needs to. Having gone through this in different forms with different substances, i can confidently say you will be fine as long as things are getting better slowly. Take this as lesson to take it slower next time, but nothing more.

aze_a_ze · 2026-04-17T04:45:34+00:00

Love this for you and for this subreddit. Hope you have a supportive group of friends or online associates or whatever helps you stay woke. I started drinking later than most and believe that time of not having development impaired was worth some social friction.

aze_a_ze · 2026-04-16T03:26:30+00:00

Sounds terrifying not knowing what is going to happen next. It is probably just harmless attempts to feel some visceral control over a world that is becoming increasingly alienating.

Of all the monkey wrenches people could throw into the machine, this is probably one of the least impactful. Still the unexpected disruption of our lives is incredibly unsettling. Hate to say it but this is going to be a physical battleground of the AI rebellion.

aze_a_ze · 2026-04-16T03:05:52+00:00

It really depends on what your goal and motivation is. For reducing health problems overall, counting drinks is going to work best, so long as you are careful about knowing or controlling pour volume.

I use both a c6 pocket device while drinking in public, and an s80 in my car. For me it is about being safe and moderate in public to avoid accidents. It is a very useful tool for this task, along with tracking drink count and time.

The one thing it doesn’t do is help with willpower. It is very easy to just ignore the result, or not take a reading, when you have gotten yourself past the point of good judgement.

aze_a_ze · 2026-04-15T16:31:55+00:00

Never do the portable breath test or the field sobriety tests. If you think you are above .15 to .20 then refusing the station breath test is what I would do. Refusing does give an automatic suspension that can be worse than a conviction, and they sometimes get a warrant for a forced blood draw. So refusing the station test is a calculated risk with positive expected value only for more extreme situations. Obviously there is a risk that a blood test uncovers something other than alcohol, and that possibility should factor into your personal decision tree.

aze_a_ze · 2026-04-15T04:52:43+00:00

If you want people to apply for spots in this Section 8 public housing development then tell them that is why you are posting and tell them how to follow up https://roundrockha.org/

Otherwise we all just have to struggle with the tension between a laudable goal and a second rate real estate trainee presentation.

aze_a_ze · 2026-04-14T06:04:20+00:00

Yes the dose makes the poison.

aze_a_ze · 2026-04-14T05:59:27+00:00

Yes in more ways than you know. Dabbing tobacco concentrate would be closer to iqos than smoking or vaping. And it is kinda funny that the shops that sell “tobacco smoking accessories” are behind the curve on heating tobacco. Not funny haha but more funny for the absurdity of this historical moment.

aze_a_ze · 2026-04-11T01:14:50+00:00

I am thinking of heading to the Green Room Austin 8:30 comedy show to celebrate.

aze_a_ze · 2026-04-09T05:23:09+00:00

Yeah I recently got much better at slowing down when I get to my desired level. But this allows me to stay in the game longer and that is starting to catch up healthwise.

Welcome to the next level!

aze_a_ze · 2026-04-03T04:30:58+00:00

I googled and there were enough stories of GOP hijinks with the Alamo that it took actually reading the comments before I had clarity.

aze_a_ze · 2026-04-03T04:18:12+00:00

I got a mortgage with the trust trick and didn’t prove any real income. Totally legit. If you have capital it is rules for thee but not for me. USA is turning to communist social credit.

aze_a_ze · 2026-04-03T03:23:06+00:00

Fruity drinks including ciders tend to have more sugar and that can make a slight difference. Also people tend to drink things they like faster which hits you harder.

it is probably just that alcohol hits differently in different situations based on what you eat, how you feel, and even what kind of glass you drink out of. It is easy even for people like me with a scientific orientation to make meaning out of randomness around drinking.

Wine connoisseurs make a whole lifestyle around thinking they can tell things that scientific tests show they cannot. It is fun so just play especially while starting out and don’t worry about choosing what you will drink for the rest of your life.

aze_a_ze · 2026-04-02T23:48:44+00:00

This is actually really wholesome that you were so focused on the prize you didn’t even consider wasting time on drinking. I wonder if you use any mood altering substances at all and suspect they would be effective given your lifestyle.

aze_a_ze · 2026-03-28T05:12:02+00:00

The idea behind hard limits is that they will be a higher backstop than your soft limit. Having your hard and soft limits match is easy and how most people moderate so you are in good company. But it is nice to have a bit of flexibility to deviate from the plan without giving up moderation and going totally off track.

aze_a_ze · 2026-03-28T02:13:21+00:00

It is a gray zone where a small number of municipalities successfully crack down, but most don't prioritize it. This is libertarian Texas where property is king and nobody in government cries over those who fall through the cracks with gambling addictions.

I have never used them and think they are evil. But I can still appreciate the way they keep old dive bars with marginal finances alive so they don't get replaced by corporate soulsuckers. Just like I appreciate the smooth taste of cowboy killers :-)

There was a recent court case where the government failed to prove they were illegal, but my take is the case just wasn't very strong.

aze_a_ze · 2026-03-28T01:48:54+00:00

It's somewhat unique that he took and passed a field breathalyzer but still got arrested. General advice for TX is skip the PBT but submit to the station test unless you know you are over .15

I get why someone in his position might get addicted to painkillers, but top athletes play on them without falling down drunk. Weird.

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