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smoking being “benign” in the short term and non intoxicating, a break from work, easy social crutch, &c make it harder to quit than it would be otherwise. i mean it sucks and it can rly wrap it’s tentacles around your brain but it was still easier to quit than opes or smth on a willpower and subjective misery standpoint quitting smoking isn’t at all np hard it’s just hard
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fart simpson posted:it’s computer lingo for “almost impossible” lol
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shitface posted:this is horrible advice and won’t work for most people. unless you fix the thinking that drives you to do it there is a very high relapse of, iirc, 90%. the physical addiction part of smoking is relatively easy to kick, it’s all the bullshit “good things” smokers believe about it will drive them back to it. it’s funny how wrong you are in this post, that I’m thinking it either must be a bit or bait, or mb you’re more sheltered than normal it’s absolutely calming it’s a drug in itself. I found em very calming from the very first cig so that’s obviously not withdrawal, and ppl with various mental disorders find therapeutic value in smoking, I definitely did at points. most ppl would place its value as less than its harm but that’s a choice for us all to make isn’t it? after sex cigs can absolutely hit harder, if you don’t understand how good it can feel to smoke when there’s a cascade of good feels and chemicals in your head and body then idk man. it’s similar to smoking after dropping the plunger or smoking when rolling or… & it’s not oxygen deprivation lol. i know what that feels like and it’s nothing like cigs
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Aug 17, 2023 14:46
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your post reads like an anti drug psa and just as uninformed lol
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Aug 17, 2023 14:52
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I am now compelled to defend cigs. smoking is good for you, it’s like smoking your vitamins
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Aug 17, 2023 14:58
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Dijkstracula posted:allan carr's book was talked about on this american life a few weeks ago and it doesn't come out looking great, mostly incurious pseudoscience that happens to align with working with people sometimes lol that’s weird. like why lie it’s not like it’s hard to make an argument against smoking, lying about basic facts is a good way to get ppl to not trust anything you’re saying
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Aug 17, 2023 15:39
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cig cravings as some variation of the halting problem
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Aug 17, 2023 15:40
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big O is rly easy? idk what’s not to get
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post hole digger posted:they come from the earth ✌️
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Aug 17, 2023 16:12
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:nah. researchers that should know better gently caress up often, e.g. writing O(2^n) when they mean 2^(O(n)), writing O when they mean Omega, plus the folklore definitions of big-o over multiple variables is straight up incorrect. I know in practice poo poo can be tricky sometimes, I remember having to do this poo poo in uni, but the fundamental idea of ‘some algorithms run faster, or slower, than others’ and by what degree isn’t tough like, conceptually to wrap your head around
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Aug 17, 2023 16:15
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shitface posted:you choked your rear end off on your first cigarette. everyone does. 10,000+ later you’re convinced it was a whale of a time. this is the hosed up poo poo smokers tell themselves that ensure that they will never stop. nicotine is like that tng episode where everyone walks around cumming in the turbolift with their AR headsets on nah it was smooth as hell and delicious, I was transported straight to flavour town. It was the most enjoyable cig I had just on its own, before I permanently tainted my brain with other substances at least eventually cigs became only enjoyable to me on certain substances, like opiates, as they acted like a leash for my high and recreated the rush of IV drugs in miniature. its why so many junkies smoke cigs poo poo it feels too good not to what got me to quit was cuz my doc wouldn’t prescribe me hrt if I didn’t. otherwise what got me to quit was smoking during a flu, which caused me to cough up blood for a week. very spooky & gross. finally it just doesn’t feel anywhere as good as it used to, it’s rly not the same on maintenance drugs, so there’s no real desire to smoke anymore. it’s been… 5 years? more? since I stopped smoking
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how long ago was what? my first cig I was 15 in Italy, I think in the city of Perugia. I bummed a malboro red from a friend, it was absurdly delicious and felt better than it had any right to. I ended up buying packs of lucky strikes and gauloises, the latter of which was one of my goto brands for a while as I could get em in Canada and then I smoked for … a decade? maybe slightly longer, but not by much
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Aug 17, 2023 16:54
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well-read undead posted:in my experience of doing actual programming for money, big O notation is something talked about in interviews and literally nowhere else. i've never heard a programmer mention big O while actually doing a job agreed tho having a general sense of time and space complexity and how performant or not your poo poo is is a thing any programmer should be aware of at least on some level also agreed
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Aug 17, 2023 23:17
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if something feels good, it’s good for you. so, smoking is good for you. also there’s no such thing as too much of a good thing
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Achmed Jones posted:this thread is confusing and i don't like it cigarette computer
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Aug 18, 2023 03:37
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Poopernickel posted:I quit smoking about 15 years ago. I still miss nicotine, and probably always will. it’s easy mode socializing among other social pariahs at least lol but yeah I still think about smoking from time to time it can be annoying. if I ever crack and pursue safe supply, that will realistically get me to start smoking again. for now I smoke too much weed instead
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coke is the worst, shits gross impure and expensive, and much too short lived. love to be subjected to ppls gross egos and the most annoying conversations at way too loud a volume (why are so many cokeheads and ex users So Loud it’s as if coke fucks with your hearing)
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