That is true for every addiction, like gambling, it’s not the opioid that makes you not functioning per se, I met some people that you couldn’t believe they were junkies because even if the substance was their priority it wasn’t at the expense of everything else. Alcohol abuse it’s the worst, I saw people devastated from it and it’s legal…

Because the moment you don’t have any for whatever reason withdrawal is horrible, you can’t function properly without it… also you have to consider the risk of overdosing, for opioids is very high if you’re not careful

Oh shit you caught me! But you don’t know which one I am…

Offering me to do drugs together one last time even if he knew I was clean since a few years (this is not only cringe but also shitty, luckily I was in a good period so I refused) Then about 5 years after our separation he called my mom to tell her that he was still in love with me 🤦‍♀️

Everything he tried was cringe, not funny…

This is so cool! Did you ever find all of them?

Italy: when I took my license I had to learn on a manual car because the exam car has a manual transmission but my first car was automatic (a bit uncommon here 15 years ago) so I forgot how to drive a manual, then I bought my first RV and I had to re-learn on a 30+ years vehicle but after that I never forgot. Now I like driving manual cars but if you live in a city it’s better an automatic one

Yeah I didn’t think about the phone number, I made my google account a long time ago and they didn’t use to ask you for your number but now every service needs it for “security” reasons

Yeah I don’t know if it counts as a boycott, I’m vegetarian but I don’t buy meat for our family also, my husband eat meat only when someone gift him (we are in a rural area so it happens)

I don’t understand, even if I use a google login I haven’t necessarily give my real name to google so why is it safer for them? Anyone can create a new email with google and particularly people sharing illegal material wouldn’t use their real personal email so what’s the point?

Fast fashion companies

I buy on Amazon only if I got some gift card (because im broke af and those are free money) but never with the fast shipment

Fast foods, Starbucks and similar

Delivery companies like Uber eats or Glovo

Meat

I don’t buy not-reusable products (like toothbrushes, razors, cotton) with a few exceptions, where I can I buy the eco or tech versions

Quando ero piccola mio papà mi prestava il suo Motorola, quello classico con l’antenna che si sollevava e lo sportellino davanti, poi mi sono comprata un Motorola con i soldi delle paghette, non so che modello fosse, era senza sportellino e con l’antenna fissa, ma ero così contenta di avere un telefono mio anche se era una ciofeca!

Poi è arrivata la moda dei Nokia e mi sono fatta regalare credo fosse il 3310 con le cover intercambiabili e sembrava un salto di qualità incredibile per quei tempi

Un telefono che invidiavo molto a una mia amica era l’alcatel trasparente, era un periodo in cui andavano di moda i prodotti elettronici trasparenti, c’era anche il Game Boy!

Un mio amico diceva “che ti venga un cancro al culo” adesso capisco dove l’ha sentita

In Italian when you can’t swear with a “vaffanculo” (f you) you can say “vai a quel paese” that’s “go to that country” And specifically in Milanese dialect you can also say “va a ciapà i rat” “go catching rats”

Coursera is not free but it’s nice, they have a ton of courses, you can pay a monthly fee and follow them at your own pace

You said it perfectly, mindfulness is not the absence of thoughts but the awareness that they always come and go and you have to learn not to stagnate on them and letting them go, like a flow on a river or clouds in the sky. For me visualizations like those work well but other people focus on breathing or on their bodies

I use apple products as main devices since I was 16 and bought my first Mac, I’m not a fan girl, these are all shitty companies so Android/Google, Apple or Windows for me it’s the same but I have to say that the way iOS works is super intuitive to me, it’s like my brain works the same way (obviously there’s some stupid stuff like the way Settings are arranged) and I have also Android devices form various brands but I wouldn’t change my iphone/mac even if I have to buy everything refurbished because the cost is prohibitive!

The keyboard is ok, I registered many abbreviations so writing is very simple; Safari works fine and you can install adblockers, or if you want you can download another browser, just without extensions;

If you are a geek and privacy focused I agree that a de-googled Android is the best but for the average joe an iphone works well

I didn’t even began to count! I was asking what kind of drug they were using, I remember the nurse saying it was not opioid and then black! The strangest thing for me is that you fall asleep suddenly and abruptly so is different from a normal sleep

I have a (little) garden with fruit and vegetables and only a few have bugs inside, like other commenters said when they have bugs they also have a hole so they become inedible before I pick them. I don’t use pesticides and sometimes I find an ant or a worm, mostly inside figs, apples and pears, and when there are wasps inside you can spot them when the fruit is still on the tree and leave them alone!

I love chrysalism when I’m in an RV