Today marks my sixth anniversary of giving-up alcohol.

Alcohol was killing me, ruining my life, and destroying relationships. I existed solely for my next drink.

The six years since my last drink have seen personal growth, improved health, and contentment. Giving-up was the hardest thing I’ve ever done but also the best.

If you have an addiction, be a hero and ASK FOR HELP!

"Ad blockers are unethical—ads are how they pay to keep the lights on!”

Exactly. It's how THEY pay to keep the lights on. It's not how I pay for anything. I didn't agree to see ads, although I'm ok with some ads; what I definitely didn't do is agree to be tracked and profiled and have arbitrary third-party code running on my computer just so I could read this awful, pointless, SEO-ified shitfest of an article that doesn't come close to answering the question I was googling.

#enshittification

Remember when we found out that tobacco companies knew the damage their products did, but went on pretending they were safe? And soon after, there were class actions and advertising restrictions and massively hiked taxes?

Fossil fuel companies have known for decades the damage their products do, but they've been pretending they were safe. Can we get on that ASAP, please?

It's not just Elon. The hyper-wealthy are showing us that too much money is bad for people's mental health and reality-comprehension.

For their own good, we need to tax them until they are merely rich.

https://www.salon.com/2023/07/17/billionaires-arent-doing-great--for-their-mental-health-time-to-drastically-raise-their/