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When I was 14 I went to live alone in a motel room in Vermont (long story). I had little money left for food, and one weekend had to go without food at all. But
by satisfice 2y ago
When I was 14 I went to live alone in a motel room in Vermont (long story). I had little money left for food, and one weekend had to go without food at all. But I had a bag of sugar, so I reasoned that I could live on sugar alone— it was calories after all.
I discovered that eating nothing but granulated sugar for 48 hours made me quite sick.
Watching companies force chat interfaces into everything is like watching a bunch of kids discover that you can’t live on a diet of sugar. They won’t listen until it makes them good and sick.
- kurthr 2y agoThis reminds me of the time I had a horrible ant infestation in my dorm room shared kitchen (also had a horrible room mate infestation, but separate story). Lines of ants everywhere through the kitchen, but I had a 5lb bag of sugar. Went outside, found the ant hill right next to the building window and dumped the bag of sugar on the hill. Half of it was gone in a day! The next day a little more, but there were NO more ants in the house. The next day there was still sugar left and the day after that. The ants started stopped coming out of the hill much, and I think they had filled up their nest with so much sugar they weren't getting any other nutrients. After a week there was still sugar, but they didn't come back into the kitchen for the rest of the term, when I moved out.
- satisfice 2y agoI love this story. And I love when people reply to me with another story.