Not at all! Many people feel depressed and overwhelmed late at night, when they're most tired. It's the reason my partner and I have a rule not to make plans or talk about finances before bed, because it all seems doom n gloom.
I feel like it must vary. Because I've stayed up late and found myself quivering against a wall hearing things, and other times pulled all-nighters without issue. I guess for the latter I was busy doing things rather than just fretting.
I can't believe no one's mentioned tea. I still drink coffee, but I've replaced my second cup of the day with a pot of green tea, and I'm really into it! For one, it lasts longer than a cup of coffee. And it's warming in the cold months, and refreshing in the hot months.
Gotta shit before you can do shit. Even if you only did 1 hour of extra shit today, if you did it without burning yourself out that extra little bit, then you're winning. It's like regenerative/sustainable productivity.
That's an unfortunately side-effect of living in a particularly politically charged time. The internet in particular is an awful place to explore these topics as an outsider, because you can't read almost any kind of context, tone, or intention.
Think of it like getting into cigars online (or any community). You join a cigar forum and lurk a whole bunch, and only after you've learned how things work do you try to make your own post. You don't just sign up and be like "Cohibas suck, and Cubans are overrated" - you've got to build up some goodwill first, lol
Absolutely. Just to piggy back, number one: bigotry is almost always an emotional reaction (facts barely enter into it), and number two: people rarely change their minds in real-time. Instead, they have an interaction (or usually several) and then, very privately and imperceptibly -- even to themselves -- start to challenge their previous assumptions when no one is looking at their faces.
That's not to say that facts don't matter, but if facts aren't behind your opinion in the first place, challenging them won't change much.
Yeah! That's the perfect way to put it, thank you. It's like a foreign extra flavour - a certain cowiness that I didn't notice growing up. Cow milk used to taste like "default milk," where everything else was a variation on that normal base. But now it's one of the "other" milks, because I taste it so infrequently.
I'm not vegan or even vegetarian, so I feel pretty impartial on this. My partner uses oat milk for their coffee, and over the years I just got used to using it straight, or in cereals, etc. Now I greatly prefer it. It's just "milk" for me now.
Never thought it would happen, but getting cow milk when I'm out feels off - that mouth-feel you mention; just doesn't sit right anymore. It really is an acquired taste.
I usually forget I'm using it. Exception is for work - I frequently have to specify
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