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Re:Coffee drinkers display a distinct pattern of brain funct... by StavrosK on Friday April 30, 2021 @03:36AM (#26990738)
I'm generally (and a little counterintuitively) against improving the quality of things I try. I noticed that the hedonic treadmill makes it so that my level of enjoyment is the same as the lower-quality thing, it just makes it so I can't go back.

For example, I used to have these shitty speakers, but I'd enjoy music very much all the same. Then, I got great speakers, and could hear all the nuances, but I enjoyed music the same amount, the only difference is that I now needed expensive speakers to do it.

From then on, I decided that ignorance in these matters is usually bliss, and avoid (for example) looking at OLED TVs as the blacks on my TV don't bother me, but they would start to if I bought an OLED TV and I could never go back.

Re:Coffee drinkers display a distinct pattern of brain funct... by tpoacher on Friday April 30, 2021 @04:36AM (#26991076)
hahah, that's a nice philosophy.

thanks for "expounding" it :p

Re:Coffee drinkers display a distinct pattern of brain funct... by StavrosK on Friday April 30, 2021 @04:44AM (#26991123)
Haha, you're very welcome!