The Kiwi Farms was targeted with a historic DDoS attack last week. Confirmed reports of 2.8Tbps on an individual provider, topping 4.8Tbps when known volumes are added together, and possibly up to 8Tbps if the attacker is believed. This is the third of fourth largest recorded.
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I have put down about 3 liters of lager a day for at least 20 years, consistently. Not much more but not much less.. I know a few real alcoholics and I don't count myself among them; I don't hide it or lie about it or feel shame about it, but I definitely abuse alcohol. As someone said earlier in this thread it's an effective but expensive coping mechanism (in terms of life expectancy).. When I choose not to drink, I don't drink, but so far I inevitably eventually choose to go back to it. I do not miss work, I keep up on my obligations. I'm not dealing with childhood trauma, I don't have it that bad overall. I do a job others shy away from, I thrive in it. I have very few real but fierce friends. People exhaust me, but many people confide in me. I am always thinking, remembering, trying to solve problems. I only experience silence when I'm deep in the woods. Alcohol temporarily turns down the noise otherwise.
I do not know what happens next or what will happen eventually. I will try to figure it out.
Always starts as band aid. You're okay, you're loved by someone. People tire me too, but a quiet mind can be acquired without alcohol. The noise only gets louder with it. Just give it a try for a week?
I have put down about 3 liters of lager a day for at least 20 years, consistently. Not much more but not much less.. I know a few real alcoholics and I don't count myself among them; I don't hide it or lie about it or feel shame about it, but I definitely abuse alcohol.
I was the same, but with wine in the end (I can't drink much beer without feeling bloated and shitty), and an extra decade. I was putting away a couple of bottles if wine a night, plus whiskey on the weekends (especially a few morning whiskeys).
I never really felt shame, except that all the bottle shops in town knew me as a regular. In the end though, it became difficult to have a night off. I have 10 years of drinking on you, but I think it would have been much easier to stop after 20 years.
If you're thinking about stopping, today is better than tomorrow, even if it's just for a month or a year.
Eh, it's more of a storytelling and creativity thing. Some degree of sobriety is necessary for complex plots. I don't play, but my brother does and it sounds great.
Eh, it's more of a storytelling and creativity thing. Some degree of sobriety is necessary for complex plots. I don't play, but my brother does and it sounds great.
On an unrelated note I've looked into this relatively popular normie app here for making friends and I swear 4/5 couple posts are "board games and d&d". Really seems like the most lukewarm way to hang out with people. "I love board games" is the most vague of hobbies but also better than "going for walks".
Anyway. Man, the growing heat is making it tough not to want to drink. The only thing holding me back is the fear of drinking to the point it actually becomes a problem. The whole "you call that addiction? I've sucked dick for crack". I can and want to stop drinking, others barely entertain the notion. I should just, balls up.
I've had attempts at breaking sobriety ruined by the store being out or closed on holidays. There's a single store open in the other end of the town and I had no car at the time, so instead of taking it as His will, I went "nah bruv" and biked an hour to/from in heavy snow just to get drunk. That shit was a fucking low point.
Once drinking becomes literal labor it's beyond the molecule of fun it might otherwise have been. I had 3 heavy beers for the first time in probably years on a warm day. The second the taste hit my tongue it lost all appeal and at that point I fought through every sip, unsure whether I'd even get drunk. Whole thing was misery. I swear the few times I've had beers at a party, I've socialized so much I never got buzzed, simply from thinking "oh yeah im drunk time to talk to people".
I saw a post on reddit ages ago about how the redditor makes his own kombucha because drinking it "scratches the itch" of wanting to drink something pungent and powerful. I found that white wine vinegar scratches that itch for me. I will have an entire tablespoon of the stuff, and I actually enjoy it. It also settles my stomach, because oftentimes acid reflux and discomfort can actually be caused by a lack of acidity in the gut. Hence the recent apple cider vinegar craze.
I also enjoy having white wine vinegar diluted in water, might add more stuff and make some posca.
I'm just now realizing that I'm making mocktails like Patrick Tomlinson, but at least my coping mechanism doesn't involve grinding nigglets into niggeronni!
Apparently, balsamic vinegar made the traditional way might scratch that itch too. It's supposed to be good on everything from cheese, to strawberries, to vanilla ice cream. Might invest some of the saved money and saved calories into this.
Go to bed several hours before everyone else because they all caved to the social pressure to go party. Wake up stupid early and have the entire slope and its pristine powder snow to yourself. No chance of accidentally impaling someone's toddler while moving at warp speed. Yeah, I like where this is going.
I've looked into this relatively popular normie app here for making friends and I swear 4/5 couple posts are "board games and d&d". Really seems like the most lukewarm way to hang out with people. "I love board games" is the most vague of hobbies but also better than "going for walks".
I have tried those normie apps before and had a blast making friends while playing board games and going for walks. You won't believe how much more fun it is to have conversations in nature while not having an alcohol-atrophied brain.
I have tried those normie apps before and had a blast making friends while playing board games and going for walks. You won't believe how much more fun it is to have conversations in nature while not having an alcohol-atrophied brain
It reads like Tinder all the same. Women posing with requirements, dudes begging for attention and roughly half the posts are just "me 54 friend?"
It does seem more appealing, able to hit up people with no romantic attraction or expectations, but the app is clearly for outcasts. Half are early retirees and the other got tens of diagnosis.
And nobody reacts or replies, just like dating apps.
Anyway: Working weekends kills the drinking urge quite a bit. It really is just a boredom thing just like eating.
