I like having a high quality camera, mp3 player, and gps in my pocket.
Have you ever heard the phrase “fake it till you make it”? Your thoughts become your reality. If you say you are powerless then you are.
It would seem she’s still abusing you. Maybe record your transactions, including pickups on a GoPro. Another reasonable (but painful) solution is to explain to your daughters that you can no longer interact with their mother in any way. Lots of options before you throw in the towel.
I’ve switched to ökocat, which is basically just wood pellets. I think it’s made in the USA, but I much prefer it to traditional clay. I’ve seen some people on YouTube demonstrating how to use wood pellets from a farm/feed store, and it ends up being dirt cheap. The main difference I think is that okocat clumps, while the sawdust type wood pellets disintegrate when wet, requiring a slightly different cleaning approach (but still easy). Might be worth looking into wood-based litter since Canada has lots of trees.
Yeah it’s better than in 1995.
- Vehicles have gotten much more efficient, quieter, and safer (for the occupants)
- Electric-assist bicycles
- Smartphones and fiber internet
- Making orders, reservations, and appointments online rather than with agents or phone calls
- Less crime
- More organic food choices
- Better coffee roasters
- More artisan bread bakers
- More locally made fine beer, wine, and cheese
- Less air pollution (including cigarette smoke)
- Better television and movies at home
- Affordable solar energy, batteries and off-grid living
I’m sure there more I’m not thinking of. I’d have a hard time going back to 1995.
Relating to people in person about online media or TV has always been cringe to me. If somebody is telling me about something they saw I tell them to text it to me. Movies and books are sort of a different story - they have enough depth to generate some interesting conversation.
It’s much better to relate to people in person about 3D in person things. In order to do that you need to do some of those things. Foraging, baking bread, art, live music, meditation, dance, martial arts, or anything else that happens in person.
I still pop into Reddit for a few subs and they’re not really that interesting to be honest.
Pick something fringe that you have a belief about, like Bigfoot. Look at the evidence, really look at first hand interviews. How many witnesses before it becomes plausible? Do those hundreds of people really get off on making things up?
You could do this with anything, even western medicine. It takes practice to figure out which part of your understanding was just accepted as truth, and which part you have evidence for.
The biggest bias that everybody has is thinking that a million people can’t be wrong. That surely some other expert would have discovered it if there was anything there.
I recently heard of some physics-breaking experiment that had been repeated by a few YouTubers. Two large torus magnets with opposite ends clamped close together. This object falls slower than one of the same mass and size.
You don’t get a bipolar 1 disorder without a manic episode lasting 7 days. That would be: little to no sleep, on top of the world, no inhibition, for a week or more. If you haven’t had that it could be bipolar 2.
Rivian’s financial statements provide insight into its per-unit losses, though calculating an exact figure requires analyzing multiple variables. The company’s cost of goods sold (COGS), which includes direct production expenses, regularly exceeds revenue, leading to negative gross margins. According to its latest SEC filings, Rivian reported a gross loss per vehicle of approximately $39,000 in 2023, though this figure fluctuates based on production volume and operational efficiencies.
Not exactly a number they put in a press release, but as a publicly traded company it is published quarterly.
Rivian is losing about $30k per vehicle, but with much lower production numbers.
In addition to particulate nucleation sites, which help precipitation, combustion also creates new H2O vapor by consuming oxygen and freeing hydrogen from its carbon bond in fuel. While most may view this image as a simple CO2 equation, that’s not weather modification; it’s climate modification.
In an off-grid mountain community in the southern Sierra, a lifelong resident said in the pub that it used to rain every afternoon in the summer when he was young. Compared to now where it rains about every 10 days. By my estimate that was about the time smog was at its worst in the state, a time of 10mpg and muscle cars. I wonder if his memory was already an altered condition from natural.
If that is the case at least it could radicalize your daughters to fight for human rights. Even that would be a better outcome for your family than suicide.
You are going through a tough time like I will never know. Just know that at this time you are free. You are not bound unless you bind yourself. And that means you can choose what to do next, and your choices may improve your situation. You are in a mind prison but I cannot break you out. I’m just showing you that the door is open for when you choose to walk out.