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And he delivered. López Obrador’s government doubled the minimum wage in real terms, while expanding social programmes and cash transfers for pensioners and the young, among others. It clamped down on the practice of outsourcing workers to avoid paying benefits and legislated that union contracts be put to democratic votes.

Carlos Slim sold TracFone in 2020? Answers a lot.

But wait! There’s more!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallelujah_(Leonard_Cohen_song)#%3A~%3Atext=11+External+links-%2CHistory%2Cversions+of+the+same+line.

Cohen is reputed to have written between 80[7] and 180[8] draft verses for “Hallelujah”—a number affected by having many versions of the same line.[9] He claimed 150 draft verses, substantiated by his notebooks containing manifold revisions and additions, and by contemporary interviews.[10] In a writing session in New York’s Royalton Hotel, Cohen is famously said to have been reduced to sitting on the floor in his underwear, filling notebooks, banging his head on the floor.

I know this because I love that song and was obsessed with it for a year or two.

I know there are a lot more people with many more loose lips, but somehow cracking the enigma code and the Manhattan project maintained secrecy somehow. I guess.

Oh how the mighty are fallen…

If people only knew how many anti/sec professionals do this, this would be in a zone with ASCII art, not Wired, but frankly, after what Poulson and Lamo did to Chelsea Manning, I really don’t expect better from the media specifically marketed to those with an interest in anything tech related. I did before that happened, but after the absolute apathy from the public sector, if not outright hostility toward Ms. Manning, I expected and do expect the absolute worst, for the sake of sweet, profitable clicks. What I continue to be surprised about is how utterly bottomless this particular hole is. Really a black hole more than a mere abyss.

I think consciously cuing the subconscious is key. Verbally, aloud is how I do it, but other ways may work, I just don’t know them.

When this happens to me, I ask my subconscious to talk to me. Sometimes it does when I fall asleep again in very explicit and usually symbolic, but easy to instantly understand dreams. It’s been… wild. And liberating, when I do the healing work.

Any sci-fi by Ray Bradbury, Aldous Huxley Phillip K.Dick, some by Robert Heinlein iirc.

1. You are not broken. You’re unwell, and you can heal.

2. Those things you mentioned are unwell behaviors.

3. What matters is you’re not well and you need to get better. You do that with therapy, exploring the behaviors, then a. What am I feeling, b. What triggered that feeling, c. What wound got touched that tripped the trigger d. What healthy self-talk would facilitate healing the wound, the source of this particular trigger, feeling, self talk.

4. Seriously, get a good therapist trained and paid to explore these things with you. The Internet ain’t it. While we all may or not mean well, many of us think "normative” means healthy normal, and it doesn’t. We could easily and inadvertently cause your health to get worse, rather than better.

5. I’m not wishing you luck, because you don’t need that. You need a therapist, the will to work on yourself, a lot of self forgiveness, self compassion, self love. I started with self -talk. Would I say to a friend what I said to myself? Them I’ve no business talking to myself that way. I won’t say it will be fast or easy. With patience, diligence, love and forgiveness, you can and will get better. I believe in you!

He couldn’t trust me and felt I didn’t respect him which is crazy because I showed him more love and respect than I had for myself.

Why on earth would anyone trust, love, respect anyone who can not trust, love, respect themselves?

Ice cream.

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This is solid advice and shouldn’t be down voted simply for fishing disliking the idea or commenter.

For now.

Oh, I see it too. I’m just a “keep getting up until you can’t” kind of person. Apathy at home and entertainment culture in general serves the money masters well. I’m just wondering if the public will actually move or continue circuses, once the bread is gone.

And yet you’re thinking about it, a lot more than most people do. Maybe there’s nothing much you can actively do, maybe there is. You’re being hard on yourself when you’ve only just begun the first step, which is thinking about a problem. Give yourself a little time and grace. I will.

I can’t get on board with doomerism anymore. It’s giving up our power and either we have it, reclaim if or don’t. I’m seeing a lot of denial, "oh look a squirrel!” and hopelessness. None of these serve us.

I’d say those some are spot on. Governments love the "look what that country is doing!” while doing the same or worse, surreptitiously. Prestidigitation, really.

Acknowledge.

I have a feeling a whole bunch of people are about to start caring, when they see normal things being used as excuses to arrest friends, family, colleagues.