What's something you want to stop doing but can't actually stop?

Owning a car. I want to walk in a city made for people. I can't afford to move.

Being depressed.

Eating out of stress or boredom instead of when I'm actually hungry. I am getting better, but still, sometimes work pisses me off so much it's back to angrily stuffing whatever food I have on hand into my gaping maw...

I want to stop ruminating about things I wish I would have said or some stupid thing I did say or why did I do that

Working “full time”. I love what I actually do at work (generally) but like… doing it 9-6 five days a week is so fucking draining. It feels like working defined hours for the sake of working in those hours. Obviously for most jobs the hours spent working do matter, but for software development it may actually be counterproductive as being tired fucks up your productivity hard

This isn’t a personal habit but flying. If I could never ever in my life ever have to go through a stupid security theater checkpoint at an airport and then board a plane and sit like a sardine for hours on end…

Too bad I live in public transit shithole USA

Nothing. As in procrastinate by doing basically nothing.

Fucking eating just too much that I can't meet my weight loss goals.

I'm not overweight by any means, but if I don't fix my diet, all the exercise I do isn't worth nearly as much.

Ageing

right now, job hunting, but as soon as i can stop job hunting, my answer will change to working.

Worrying. Anxiety sucks..

Opening Instagram instead of Lemmy or Mastodon :(

Working.

Chewing nicotine gum.

Havent had a smoke in years but trying to give the gum up means I turn into a raging asshole.

Worrying what other people think of me.
I know I shouldn’t care, but it’s hard not to.

Vaping nicotine. I know I can stop but it’s just a very difficult challenge for me. Still better than smoking cigs but I really need to let this vice go.

Thinking, I wish my brain would just stop.

Being angry at the world.

I want to stop being a perfectionist. I tend to overthink very simple tasks, trying to make sure I do things in the most efficient manner. Agonize over mistakes. I find it funny that I'm so critical of myself but I would never think to apply that to other people. I'm working on it, it's just very difficult

Overthinking everything and being a "perfectionist". So hard to finish or even start doing anything.

The fact that electronic interfaces keep getting worse and more complicated. It's basically a race to the bottom at this point. I truly feel for the older generations. I don't just mean the current older generation, I mean all older generations. As a person gets older, they have a harder time understanding change. And yet the world is basically removing the ability to do things without electronics. When the current group that is 20 years old, when you guys get to be 80, the interfaces will have changed so much, you basically will be screwed.

Me: I wish I could stop paying taxes. Genie: poof Wish granted! Me: Woah...I don't feel so good! Genie: It's a fatal heart attack.

Sweets. I’ve been through a ton of dental work the past year partly because of my love for sweets and desserts. Now that my teeth are on their way to recovery, it’s the risk of diabetes this time.

Thinking about a selfish heartless cunt.

All those dang tiny time wasters that happen every day. Needing to eat and drink... That kind of stuff. Can't stop because I obviously enjoy being healthy.

I want to stop eating food that is making me overweight.

I would love to stop having, not sure if they would technically be termed as flashbacks or PTSD-related anxiety attacks, but either way if those came with an off button that would be great.

Upside: sometimes my smart watch thinks I did an hour of exercise while I'm actually just sitting there with a heart rate of 120+ and it congratulates me 🥰

If that doesn't count because it's something I can't really control, then probably picking at my cuticles. Bad habit I've had since I was a toddler that I've never been able to fully kick.

Buying tiny thinkcentres like the m710q.

It's the best ever bang for the buck for almost anything except gaming. IMO of course.

Two DDR4 slots, an ssd Plus a 2.5drive.

Mint runs perfektly.

USB 3, some 6 of them IIRC.

Super silent.

You can get one for like 40€ or the double for a quad core.

Plug in two screens and just hack away.

🥰

Eating fast food. I do a ton of driving for my job and am frequently hours from home. I could pack my own meals, but the company covers lunch if I'm away from the office. I don't have to stop for any health reason, I just don't really like the taste after five years of the same things over and over. I'd be more ok with it if there were more options, but I'm in a rural part of the country.

Spending too much time on lemmy

Dreading the future.

Biting my nails

Daydreaming. I'm sick of it, but I keep going there.

Overthinking while drawing. I'll think to myself "is this too little contrast? Too much? Are the shadows too blurry here? Does this fur look flat? It looks flat. Is the form too blurry around here? Let's try again!" I've always been considered a perfectionist, and that's one of the reasons I blame for a long time between submitting drawings!

Eating out of stress or boredom instead of when I'm actually hungry. I am getting better, but still, sometimes work pisses me off so much it's back to angrily stuffing whatever food I have on hand into my gaping maw...

Hating the state of the union.

Taking Ambien. I'd never sleep again though because of my other meds.

Living with with family instead of my own and watch porn.

Eating Slim Jims.

playing games

Being obsessed about having the biggest positive impact on the world.

drifting away from focus

What about Tiananmen Square…?!? That was kinda cool for the CCP!

I wasn’t there but maybe someone here was.

Oh wait.

No.

They were all killed and then turned to mush by tanks repeatedly driving over the bodies and then hosed dune the drains.

GLORY TO THE CCP AND HOW WONDERFUL THEY ARE TO ALL THE PEOPLE.