Sorry to scare you. I’m not by any means a doctor, but from what I understand it tends to be an issue more with people who are already predisposed. So it’s probably not something most people have to be too concerned about.

The skin on kiwis is high in oxalates, so if you are prone to kidney stones, be careful.

I have always gnawed on raw pasta, too. Love it. People always think its weird that I eat the leaves with my strawberries.

Well people have frequently mistaken me for a woman most of my life and thats happened to me a few times. Its intrusive and irritating to be told I should look a certain way, especially by a stranger and I would consider it rude to say to anyone unsolicited.

Thats not to say its not worse for women having to deal with the objectification layer, too.

I can see that, personally I was and have been a staunch atheist since well before I touched any psychedelics and it has not changed my mind. To each their own and I think it can absolutely help in finding meaning in life whether or not that comes in the form of a higher power. Tripping alone has been great for me but I admit its always riskier.

I think if anything psychedelics have solidified for me the idea that I’m just meat, but in a very freeing way.

I did, but I did stick with it for years before dropping the vape too. There was a transition period where my smoking dropped in frequency before I was totally done, so it wasn’t immediate for me, but all my friends smoked around that time so that didn’t exactly help. I was nicotine free for a few years after that until recently when I picked up the synthetic pouches under some extra stress. Do with that what you will. Its not a perfect solution, but I do think the vape was very helpful in quitting cigarettes because of the similar sensation that I never got from the gum or patches. Harm reduction tends to be more effective than elimination right off the bat.

Edit: it might be worth noting I do still use a dry herb vape for cannabis and occasionally smoke that, but the noticeable consequences are much less than they were from smoking tobacco or even vaping nicotine/pg/vg. Someday I’ll completely drop the nicotine pouches too, but overall I feel pretty decent about where I’m at.

As soon as the cereal starts to float, I stop pouring milk.

I’ve never heard of him, who is he and what did he do?

Up Top by Busty and the Bass is a great one if you’re looking for some tasty bass.

Captain Hook by Vulfpeck is also a favorite.

Seconded. One hell of a show too.

Animals as Leaders, Thessa, Pomegranate Tiger, Myth of I, and Fractalize are great ones.

Stoort Neer and Vildjharta both have some really good instrumental albums.

Gore., Monolord, '68, and The Damned Things are all a little less heavy than what you might be looking for, but they are all great and have mostly clean vocals.

Polyphia and Chon are also both incredible but probably fall a little closer to something other than Metal.

Country Curious by Lola Kirke

Suffer in Heaven by Chelsea Grin

Hard Groove by The RH Factor

Empress Rising by Monolord

Old RockHounds Never Die by Odetta Hartman

Barefoot Surrender by Barefoot Surrender

Yours Until the War is Over by Amigo the Devil

Science Fiction by Church of the Cosmic Skull

Bilo IV by David Maxim Micic

Quiet World by Native Construct

More Power. More Pain. by Gideon

Here are some of my favorites in no particular order from no particular genre that aren’t generally well known as far as I am aware. I hope you enjoy some of them!

The cat food I get has the plastic Velcro at the top. It’s pretty handy.

Opioids can be pretty rough for me the next day, too and I’ve never even taken the real heavy ones. But otherwise I agree, alcohol is the worst.

Counterstrike and Tarkov because I’m too bad at them to have any fun playing myself, but I really enjoy watching competitive matches or streamers raids here and there.

Also, Dark Souls 1-3 and Skyrim. I’ve played them all so much and still play through here and there, but I like to watch challenge runs and see all the modded or otherwise ridiculous playthroughs that I don’t have the patience to commit to myself.

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Lilacs. They smell just like shit to me. I grew up near a house that had a huge section of them and had to walk by them frequently.