Spending money they don't have on crap they don't need.
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Eating the vast majority of food found in supermarkets.
Aside from raw veggies and plain cuts of meat, about 80% of any food you can buy from any kind of store is classified as “highly processed”, and is therefore complicit in obesity, endocrine disruption, Type 2 diabetes, dementia, and a whole host of health issues that were rare in ancient times.
And yes, pretty much all “healthy” foods are also considered “highly processed”.
Allow me to buy the finest natural ingredients and highly process them myself, in a process know as "cooking"...
I understand that it is a simplification, but highly processed as a criterion always feels stupid to me. Fine French cuisine means literally highly processing the shit out of food, for example.
The big issue is companies cutting corners and making the lowest quality food they can trick their customers into buying. That usually includes things like truckloads of sugar and salt.
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5 day work week. Always seemed odd to me as a child and now that I'm seeing how broken a lot of retirees in their 50s and 60s are it's pretty clear to me that it's a terrible idea.
Imagine being able to retire in your 50s and 60s instead of never.
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Smoking
corpo social media
*social media
The fediverse is definitely better but there's no way this shit is good for us haha
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Vote for candidates that represent Israel
Regularly taking melatonin to sleep. It's a hormone and hasn't been studied nearly enough to understand all of the side effects it has.
From talking to a guy I used to know who was studying Neuroscience... Working around Fluorescent lights is apparently insanely harmful..
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Um smoking weed. I do constantly but I know it will affect my health and quality of life. I've smoked for 7 years but I mostly through a bong or vapor carts that aren't smoke
I think that advertising is much more harmful than commonly thought of
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consuming short-form content; the behavior can be compared to getting a quick hit from your vape whenever you get bored.
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using facebook
only sleep 3 hours a day till the weekend