Haha, I see. Good on you!

Tbh I think I can understand why people do it. For some using various substances are a quick and simple way to relax/numb unwanted emotions/etc… Some start because of peer pressure. For others it’s just learned behaviour (you’re more likely to become a smoker if your parents are).

Personally, I’ve never as much as tried cigarettes because it just never appealed to me and I had mostly non-smoking friends and family. But I definitely have other bad habits I shouldn’t have gotten into and have trouble getting rid of, so I get the feeling.

Wait, even as a child? Where are you from if I may ask?

Never have I ever as much as tried anything you can smoke (cigarettes, joints, shisha…).

Only interesting if you’re romantically attracted to women, though.

It seems like more and more internet spaces are being taken over by bots. At some point the internet will just be AI talking to itself, while humans will return entirely to offline communication.

I keep hearing about that hillbilly book of his and how it’s supposedly such a good read. But all I’ve seen and heard from him I find really lacklustre and uninspiring. It’s just the usual redpilled mAsCuLiNe Qcumber nonsense. So what gives? Did he write a great book and then turn dumb? Or was the book bad to begin with?

I can crack the knuckles of my big toes at will (only moving my toes, no hands involved).

I mean it makes some sense as memes take less effort to post (they can also just be copied from r/anarchychess or similar places) and lead to some quick upvotes. I’m still confused about chess@lemmy.ml having so little activity though.

Old School Runescape.

Also, I’m really confused as to why chess doesn’t have an active community on Lemmy. Online chess has seen a big boom in recent years, and the demographics of chess players and Lemmy users should have a lot of overlap (i.e. the nerdy IT people), but for some reason the chess community here is more or less dead. Only anarchychess is active, which is great, but I’d love to have an active replacement for r/chess.