Druid

I’ll be honest, I’m guilty of using Chat GPT at times for stuff I know barely anything about and know I probably won’t be able to find through research as quickly as I’d like to. I always try the old-fashioned way of using a search engine first, go through reddit and forums and stuff, but sometimes I just need to use AI for a good first pointer

No he doesn’t. But it’s the easiest way for me to cope and deal with the situation. I don’t have the patience or the mental fortitude to try and convince or convert my family to abstain from alcohol. I’d rather avoid the situation and look out for my own well-being than be exposed to their drinking. I know it’s not the healthiest strategy, but it’s what’s been helping me the past few years

I like this analogy so much and it’s so on-point. Thanks writing this up

Pressure quite often. Social pressure, psychological pressure. It can be a form of de-escelation out of fear what would happen if you rejected the person. Not entirely the same situation, but that’s the reason I can’t say no that easily to my alcoholic brother’s shenanigans. Imagine what women go through on a daily basis

Sorry :D I must have been around 10ish when I was shown the creature creator demo before the full game came out. Not sure about the timeline afterwards but shouldn’t have been too much later for the final release

I had one a couple years ago but I chewed through it and didn’t get around to getting a new one. Not sure if I’m still grinding my teeth at night

Good advice, thanks

Try setting reminders for yourself if you’re prone to do that and look up exercises to massage your jaw joints and muscles around them. Constantly clenching your jaw may lead to headaches, neck pain, and problems with posture - not even touching upon grinding down your teeth if you do that at night like I did for many years - so it’s really not to be fooled around with.

Man, you brought some memories back. That was my childhood

Unlikely, yes. Both would likely be required

No, it was not meant as a moral argument but the ecological impact of eating honey and supporting honey farming and beekeeping, as stated in my comment. The ethical argument is the same with any other animal that could be, but shouldn’t be from my point of view, exploited for our gain.

Plus there’s a difference between harvesting the literal nourishment of a species that requires it for their own suatainment and using them for crops and their pollination: one of them is easily avoidable and unnecessary, the other is a necessary evil but ultimately still required if I want to keep on living.

The most ecological and ethically sound conclusion then would be to just stop existing, but I don’t have a deathwish, so that’s the least harmful option out of the ones I have.

Capitalism is founded on exploitation of other people, our environment, animals, whatnot, so I don’t have any other option until capitalism is overturned and another form of governing rule is established, desirable but currently not possible, so all I can do is minimise the impact I have on the environment, on animals, on other people as much as possible.

About the call for boycotts: Sure, if it were up to me, I’d rather humanity abstain from animal exploitation as a whole, but I’m not evangelising people to come over to veganism. Either you want to make a change one way or another or you don’t - not gonna bother trying to convince people. I’m over that.

Honeybees destroy ecosystems because they’re more efficient at pollination than wild bees are, so there’s an ecological nuance to abstaining from honey. Apart from that, there’s the ethical component of taking away food that the bees produce for themselves that’s not ours for the taking.

Used to hate Arizona quite a bit because it felt super bougie and expensive for what’s essentially just a regular ice tea. Developed a taste for it over the years and like it quite a bit nowadays because it’s partly sweetened with stevia which makes it taste very pleasantly. Quite unfortunate that most of the flavours sold here aren’t vegan because they insist on 0,1% of honey in the ingredients

My SO keeps telling me that liking salt & vinegar chips is the piss kink of snacky foods. I don’t like that comparison :c