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What's your favorite small indulgence? Something that is pure luxury, occasional, but small.
-- Scheduling a day so that I can work out with no time crunch at precisely 10:00am. That is the PR time. Fully awake, stretched, nothing can fatigue me yet, ready to go.
-- Taking the long way home to drive through the woods with the windows down, with some kind of iced beverage. With a podcast, with my wife, with my dog. Just depends on who or what I'm hiding from.
-- Buying end of week out of money options on whims and hunches for small sums of money, then spending all week monitoring them to figure out the exact moment to sell. Very very narrow net positive over time, but it's fun in the way poker is fun.
I found cashew butter to be underwhelming. Peanuts are quite plain and peanut butter is delicious, so seeing as cashews are already delicious I was expecting cashew butter to be even better. Turns out it was kind of plain.
It's an acquired taste, I found. Initially I found it to be ... unusual. I really like cashews, which are sort of creamy / tasteless, but cashew butter had a much stronger taste (for me!) But I soon loved it and ate way too much straight off the spoon. (It was really hard to get where I for 2-3 during Covid, and supplies have not returned to pre-pandemic levels just yet.)
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Idk about your local theaters, but ours have started showing a lot of classics. You pretty much have to check the website to find them.
Am outside the US (assuming you're inside...) But our local cinemas show almost nothing that isn't mainstream and current. Unfortunate, but also it's providers responding to the market. The great films I watched in those places years ago, often it was just me and a couple of others who showed up.
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Having a Sunday morning breakfast by myself at the local diner counter, with bottomless coffee and taking 90 minutes or more to eat, drink, and read.
Prefer the booth against the wall so no one can come at you from behind.
How’s life in the Wild West?
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Say more about “Arguments Won”?
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Cigars! I've been getting into them since I stopped smoking cigs/spliffs/vaping and man they are so nice. The occasional cigar, especially with friends and a nice beer or glass of whisky, is hard to beat.
Also, ice cream and a bubble bath. Mmm.
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Diet soda.
Have you tried Coke Zero?
Yes, there was Coke Zero, but now there is just Coke Zero Sugar with a slightly different taste and formula.
I’d say the bulk of my diet soda consumption at various points has been Coke Zero Sugar.
The number of calories and sugar in a regular bottle (or can) of Coke is eye-popping when you start paying attention.
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I spend an entire day without internet or phone, except my Kindle. It makes for a good mental reset.
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Listening to other people’s conversations. I’m extremely curious, so if I have a spare half hour somewhere in public, it’s a fun indulgence.
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Cookie butter.
Darn Tough socks.
Reading Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality again (again).
EDIT: Posting on the Motte!
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