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Due to Activity sort constantly bumping older topics to the top, the "Knights of New" are especially important here on Tildes
So if you want to encourage people to post more content, please take time to occasionally check the New sort. If you leave a comment on new topics you are interested in and want to see more discussion on, it will help them thrive. No pressure, and please don't just leave a comment for the sake of commenting, but just a gentle reminder to try your best to look out for the newly submitted content, and the people who submit it.
Happy Tildying everyone. :)
The irony is that without comments on this post, it also dropped off quickly.
Hah. Yeah, but if people stop by ~tildes they should still see it for a while yet, even with Activity sort. So visiting group pages occasionally is just as important as visiting New, IMO.
I could always make an inflammatory statement that offends literally everyone and makes me look evil.
I've actually got a good one about chocolate.
I actually can't eat chocolate... it makes me have panic attacks. So go for it!! :P j/k... about the "go for it part", not the panic attacks :(
The part that makes me look evil is surprisingly innocuous:
The first half of the statement is left as an exercise to the reader.
I think the majority of people underappreciate the effects of caffeine, theobromine, and the other psychoactive compounds in chocolate and coffee. Another community I'll miss from reddit is /r/decaf (although it has turned pretty woo-woo and no longer about consumption in moderation).
Yeah, it's definitely the caffeine for me. I can't drink coffee or soda with caffeine either, for the same reason. Thankfully, herbal tea is more my jam, and I'm not a huge soda person anyways though.
I used to get jitters with coffee especially when low on food. I’m not a coffee snob but my favourite espresso bar’s owner doesn’t do decaf and told me about how the blend, quality of grain and how they’re washed matters. With his coffee I can have 4-5 cappuccino and never get jitters. Not so with others.
I’m converted away from decaf since then.
I can’t eat chocolate either. It doesn’t give me panic attacks, I’m just allergic to cocoa. I’m surprised to come across another person with an adverse reaction to it though.
Yeah, it's certainly doesn't seem very common does it? People in real life usually look at me funny when I tell them I can't eat chocolate. :( Well, I suppose I "can" eat it... but I won't have a very good time afterwards, so I would rather not. :P
Both my brother and I have found that coffee gives us elevated anxiety, so I can see how that could be the case. I've gotten more sensitive to it as I've gotten older, so I wonder if eventually the amount in chocolate will cause it as well. Has chocolate always caused that for you?
Yes, chocolate has always upset my stomach, but it is a much stronger reaction now than it was when I was a kid. Same with coffee/soda. I used to somewhat regularly drink them when I was younger, and they would caused an elevated heart rate, but it was still tolerable. Nowadays I can't touch any of it, at all, or I feel incredibly ill, my heart goes crazy, and I have a full blown panic attack every single time I have some. I know this because I still do try them every once in a while, because I actually do like the taste of coffee and chocolate, I'm an idiot, and sometimes convince myself that maybe this next time I try some it will be different. :P
Although one thing I have also noticed recently is even decaff coffee (which I only tried for the first time a few years ago) also makes me have the same reaction too, just very slightly milder. So I don't think it's entirely the caffeine, and maybe I am actually allergic to something in common in them all besides caffeine. Or maybe its just anticipatory anxiety. I honestly don't know at this point. All I know for sure is that I really should just stay away from them entirely, and stop making myself sick for no reason.
re decaf: decaffeinated coffee still has some caffeine in it, IIRC something like 3% what regular coffee has. It sounds like you may be sufficiently hypersensitive to caffeine that your body is still picking up on that trace amount.
That's an unfortunate situation to be in, it always sucks to have to give up something so nice because your body just won't cooperate.
Oh, I didn't realize it still had caffeine in it. But now it totally makes sense why I still have a reaction to it. Thanks for the info!
I have pretty much cut out coffee for the same reason. I used to drink way too much. Definitely raises my anxiety levels and can cause panic attacks for me.
I drink a few cups of tea instead now, wakes me up but doesn't trigger my fight or flight instincts.
in the (in)famous words of a good friend, spoken casually 10+ years ago, forevermore quoted in our home on at least a weekly basis : "I like X, I just don't like what it does to me"
I don’t think it’s that uncommon. I’m exactly the same with most of the periodic table.
I read that most people who are allergic to chocolate are actually allergic to cockroaches.
Do you know is this because of unsanitary processing or storage of the cocoa or is there some similar chemical compound (allergin) found in both?
It was apparently due to ground up cockroaches in the cocoa, which would lead me to believe that it was caused by unsanitary storage/processing.
However, upon looking it up, there was an article fact checking it that said the whole cockroach idea is false.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/11/03/fact-check-cockroaches-dont-cause-chocolate-allergies/8520695002/
That is both interesting and really gross at the same time. I looked it up and saw a bunch of articles and social media posts about it. I also saw an article from USA Today that was doing a fact check on it with the FDA, which said the claim was false.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/11/03/fact-check-cockroaches-dont-cause-chocolate-allergies/8520695002/
I’m not sure whether USA Today is generally a credible source, but it seems like they dug into it enough.
Yeah, people usually are surprised when I tell them I’m allergic, and then they say how awful it must be to be allergic to it. I usually reply that I don’t mind it too much. There is something about eating something and having it almost kill you that makes it much less attractive.
I’ve had panic attacks otherwise, and they are not fun at all. It seems like a good reason to not eat chocolate!
how did you make the discovery or finally link that eating chocolate gives you panic attacks? it would be quite low on my list of suspicions, well behind "well what did I hear/read today that upset me" because i didn't even know foods can cause them
I pretty much always knew that chocolate didn't quite sit well with me, but I enjoyed it so didn't care and ate it often when I was younger anyways. I didn't fully make the connection between it and my panic attacks until a psychiatrist had me track all my attacks (and their severity) in a journal, and also my food intake every day as well, to identify potential triggers. That's when chocolate, coffee, soda and other caffeinated things (e.g. green tea, energy drinks, etc) stood out as being likely triggers. So ever since then I have tried my best to avoid caffeine, which has reduced my panic attack frequency by quite a lot. I still have them several times a week, but that's not nearly as bad as when I was younger and often had several attacks per day.
Pretty soon we might hit the activity levels where it's time to think about exemplary tokens for submissions. I wonder which group will be the first one to have the 'omg the content is coming too fast' problem.
I found this by sorting by new because I was making the same observation that OP discussed!
I'm a fan of having "new" as my default sort.
I'm still too addicted to All Activity to change my default to something else, but I bounce back and forth between them all a lot now.
This takes me back haha, bless the Knights of New.
Personally, I’ve already got a soft routine of checking posts / comments / posting that I hope keeps some momentum up for others.
I’ve got a vast bookmark / archive of stuff that’s still interesting but would never get love on the other site.
And I’ve got enough shameless self promo to last a long time too ;)
I try to split my browsing into 2 halves. I spend a set amount of time on activity, then I try to spend an amount on New. I'm a reply kind of guy and normally not a conversation starter. So it's harder for me to make a first post on any subject. But I do try and succeed from time to time.
Tildes is slow enough still that I just have the entire thing auto-sorted by new. It makes it feel more alive when the 'front page' is constantly seeing new posts.
Bump. (/s)