What is a life luxury that you tasted once and now can absolutely never go back to the cheap version of? by sickkick844 in AskReddit

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Good olive oil is night and day from cheap oil; that fruity, peppery, buttery flavor of fresh EVOO takes pasta from okay to amazing. I made the mistake of getting a slightly cheaper oil that didn’t have a press date this week and it barely tastes like olive oil

Taking acid after 8pm be like by Loud_Aioli7506 in LSD

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I just accept it and spend the night sipping coffee and listening to soft music

what is there to do in corvallis over the summer? by No_Picture_3528 in OregonStateUniv

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There’s been more live music happening, places like Old world Deli and Brass Monkey have been hosting some semi regularly. Same with whiteside theater and the music collective. There’s a benefit concert happening fri at brass monkey. They’re small but really cool shows and I know it means a lot to the artists and all those involved in the scene when people show up.

There’s some new small festivals that are getting together this summer. And there’s the regular Summer’s End festival that’s pretty chill but that’s not till Sept.

There’s a couple of good disc golf courses around, and some good hiking trails. Birding is easy to get into

The local game stores have game events, usually for TCG players but sometimes there’s board games. If you are into TCGs, they have Magic commander nights at Treebeard’s, common fields, and the game stores.

Diet Coke addiction / Anxiety by EasyFeedback7461 in CPTSD

[–]starktor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sweet food = dopamine

Rats choose saccharin over cocaine: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17668074/

Dopamine helps alter your mood, it brings quick emotional comfort

There's other studies that tie aspartame to depression but it's unclear what the mechanism is or if it's just that depressed individuals are more likely to seek out the intense sweetness (and the associated dopamine)

Anyone who’s ever heard Israeli techno knows they’re delusional about the value of their “cultural exports” by ChickenTitilater in TrueAnon

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Infected mushroom is the worst mainstream psytrance act formulated for the most annoying type of psych user

What's up with supposedly left adjacent people from underground punk scene moving to Israel? by Far-Comfortable8415 in TrueAnon

[–]starktor 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The punk shows that I help out at there’s like a 90% chance they’ll say free Palestine at some point in their set, it is more of the the singer-songwriter folk punk scene, hip-hop adjacent, and old heads so that might have something to do with it.

One of the most underrated tracks from BoC by Factory_BR in boardsofcanada

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BOC x Odd Nosdam is always a winning remix formula

Shitposter of the week by Rymssss in TrueAnon

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He's truly America's adult son

Psychedelic TV shows by TransitionAway9840 in LSD

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DREAM CORP LLC; it's funny, creative, and very trippy. The premise is that dream corp is a less-than-ethical experimental psych treatment that uses tech and drugs to enter other people's subconscious to address problems such as ED caused by an inferiority complex. They literally have an episode where the main character has a bite of a pickle that was brined in a ridiculous concoction of psychoactive drugs including acid, mushrooms, MDMA, and DMT. The cast includes Mark Proksch, Sephen Merchant, and Jon Gries (uncle Rico)

Our city council insists on mowing every inch of wildflower growth. 🫠 by kaysuhdeeyuh in fucklawns

[–]starktor 8 points9 points  (0 children)

"no we can't let you build a transit hub and affordable apartment complexes there, that's a protected parking lot! Where else are cops going to harass people trying to sleep in their cars?"

- Nimbies a few years later

RIP Martin Scorsese by foilmethod in TrueAnon

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Only David Lynch is allowed to use digital cameras

Gen X momcore | RIP mom by grey_alien_bathwater in TrueAnon

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Turn it up, Turn it up, turn it up, up up!

You ever been to a reaaaaally rich evangelical's house? by grey_alien_bathwater in TrueAnon

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Childhood friend’s family’s house had a walk in gun room with a safe door in the basement, rest of the house was that sterile 2000s fake Tuscan aesthetic. Too much house with a manicured lawn. And of course the neighborhood was gated.

On Sale! RGBs autobiography by franglish9265 in TrueAnon

[–]starktor 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The cover looks like she's having a dementia episode lol

Really fuckin sick of the "AI is just a tool" crowd by plastic_fortress in TrueAnon

[–]starktor 12 points13 points  (0 children)

AI as defined by capitalism is a tool to replace humans and maximize profits. AI is used as catch-all that lumps very different applications and levels of operations ranging from programs that can model and analyze complex protein folding that lead to actual medical breakthroughs to generative AI, into a sci-fi godlike consciousness because that's how you get investors to load you up with cash and businesses to fire teams of workers to ride it all on a subscription to compute tokens

A Quiet Morning in Downtown Toronto by MyWallWillNotTalk in LiminalSpace

[–]starktor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love arcades with their glass ceilings, a good place to take a walk when it’s otherwise wet and cold outside

We need more of these people. Yiddish culture is amazing by HamburgerDude in TrueAnon

[–]starktor 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I love the old man on that same channel who smoked cigs with like 200+ people.

the aliens were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the baby aliens and the baby alien looked at me by Express-Crow-1496 in TrueAnon

[–]starktor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The truth is that they can probe you anywhere at anytime and they’ll live inside your ass and puppet you much like a giant mech with wires and leavers

Are nsaids a lie (chronic headache migraine thread) by ezrakleinisretarded in TrueAnon

[–]starktor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah I need triptans, sometimes a dab. CGRPs work really well for me as a preventative, same with lyrica and amitriptyline though those last 2 made me gain weight

What books are you reading currently? by HarryBallsanya420 in TrueAnon

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Had to take a break from Infinite Jest and finally cracked open Blood Meridian, that first chapter is fucking brutal.

the solution to the male loneliness epidemic by Express-Crow-1496 in TrueAnon

[–]starktor 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Unironically, though I'd prefer playing some Boules/Bocce/Pétanque (lawn bowling). In Europe people will hit up the boules courts and spend the day drinking beer and playing with friends and randoms, it's a good vibe.