I don’t know about marijuana withdrawals but when I’m having a tough time going to sleep I try listening to those guided meditation videos on YouTube.

I learned about meditation fairly Young so I’ve got a bit more practice than some people, but most of the ones that are like an hour long or so are enough to send me off to lala land

I think Amazon didn’t care, so even if someone inside the company figured it out Amazon was just like, it’s not our problem to deal with.

I can see how it happens though.

No one was doing any oversight on their practices. If you were running a referral affiliate link system, it must have seemed like honey was doing a really good job bringing customers to you.

I’m just kind of disappointed that nobody inside the company ever spoke up or blew any whistles and said “Hey, this is at best unethical if not entirely illegal and either way exposes us to the risk of a massive lawsuit, maybe we should just actually do our jobs instead of stealing the work of other people.”

Any food that gets labeled as a “superfood” quickly falls prey to over farming, causing the nutrition quality of the food to plummet because the food is being grown too rapidly to absorb the nutrition from the environment the way that it did before it was aggressively over farmed by profit seeking corporations, causing it to quickly cease being any kind of a superfood.

There’s a very simple solution to this, and I’m honestly not quite sure why no one is doing it.

Make ads voluntary. Make them separate from the rest of the experience.

Make it so that you can watch ads and answer surveys based off of the ads in order to get credits which then allow you to watch videos.

Alternatively, make it so that you can purchase the credits out right.

Everyone fucking wins.

I don’t know why people are so stupid as to not even contemplate the easiest and most satisfying solution to all of the problems.

When I was a kid I read that mint flavorings can help the blood vessels in your head dilate, increasing the amount of blood flow to your brain and therefore helping you do better on studying and tests.

Whenever I have a test to study for or to take, I made it a point to keep some sort of mint flavored candy around, and consistently across the board I have always done better on tests than my peers.

That being said, it is entirely plausible that this is a placebo effect, but I like my placebo and it works for me. Perhaps it will work for you as well.