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PaperclipPerfector  3mo ago (text post)   1441 thread views

Wellness Wednesday for April 15, 2026

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

  • Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.

  • Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.

  • Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.

  • Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).

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Why contain it? Let it spill over into the schools and churches, let the headaches pile up in the streets. In the end, they'll beg us to brew more.

Try just getting less addicted this time. Maybe you drink 2 cups of coffee instead of 4, and maybe you drink one day on, one day off, like resistance training your caffeine sensitivity. Quitting is unthinkable. It tastes so good. What would your life be without coffee? Come on, all your friends are doing it.

It's bizarre that I recognised that quote without having to look it up, even though I've never gotten further than the first ~3 hours of Deus Ex.

Nice DX reference!

What is a spendcel? Someone who copes by spending lots of money on crap? But you still seethe after applying the cope?

Thanks! A spendcel is someone who buys something he wanted and yet feels regret at having paid as much as he did, yet probably could not resisted the temptation of buying it. JC Denton was a seething spendcel when he was buying Jock all those beers, or when he was forced to give his only candy bar to some dumb kid.

Much overlap with poorcel, I assume.

Indeed. Spendcel is just something I came up with on a whim for this account name. I find names (and passwords!) are better just going full stream-of-consciousness.

Yeah. I know. I now realize that coffee was pretty much the only reason I ever went to work. Without coffee, I really have nothing to look forward to.

Which just means I'm one step ahead of everyone else, in my view.

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