lattrommi

I agree with you. I had a drinking problem. I tried AA and other methods to stop drinking and they never even came close to helping. One day I discovered that for me, alcohol and opiates did not mix and made me violently ill without fail.

Using that to my advantage, I became addicted to opiates, knowing I couldn’t drink while on them. It broke my mental addiction to alcohol a few months after the physical addiction was gone. Breaking the mental addiction was the critical part. Once I knew I no longer wanted to drink, I knew it no longer had control over me.

Breaking the opiate addiction afterwards was easy because I never really wanted to do it in the first place. I never had the mental addiction. I just drank until the opiate physical addiction was gone, then stopped drinking because I already didn’t want to, it was only a tool being used.

I don’t recommend anyone try this method though. It very likely will kill anyone who attempts it. I wanted to share because for me, it confirms what you said, forcing an addict to get ‘clean’ will only make it harder for them to do so. In my opinion.

I know a lot of ‘meth heads’. Most of them were prescribed Adderall as kids but as adults it became harder and harder to obtain prescriptions and they eventually turned to alternative solutions to get their medication.

Correction, “knew”, I knew a lot of meth heads. Most of them died from opiates added to their medication they didn’t know about. Fun fact: no one has ever died from a meth overdose. It’s always meth in combination with something else, usually opiates.

I mention this because there’s a stigma with meth prevalent in society and it is very unfair in my opinion. There are meth users and meth heads. A meth user is capable of living a very normal life. A meth head is created by society, mental illness, malnutrition and poverty. Just my opinion.

If you give them money and they spend it on drugs, maybe it’s because they still did not have enough money to believe they could live a normal life.

If they destroy an apartment given to them, maybe that apartment was cheaply made and not fit for humans in the first place. Maybe if it were worth caring about, they would care about it.

Mental health treatment ≠ addiction treatment

An addict is more likely to stop being an addict once their normal human needs are fulfilled.

A mentally ill person does not stop being mentally ill, unless a cure exists. Their symptoms can be mitigated or reduced at best.

Pay attention to my use of the words “maybe” and “more likely”, these are not absolutes and that’s most of my issue with your comment. If you give SOME of them money, they’ll spend it on drugs. If you give Some of them an apartment, they will destroy it. Others however, might spend that money on an apartment and nice clothes to interview for jobs with.

These are all just my opinions. I am someone who has destroyed apartments, spent money inappropriately on drugs and alcohol, and did not care about anything for a decade unless it modified my state of consciousness. It took love and patience from a couple people and it wasn’t easy for them. It took a couple years and wasn’t cheap, but I think it worked and I am lucky to have those people make the effort. I believe it’s a solution that should be attempted more. Giving someone money or an apartment is a short term fix that ignores the problems. Giving someone love and patience is a long term solution that difficult but has better odds the longer it is done. There’s always exceptions though, some people are just fucked.

https://drive.proton.me/urls/BY95EE8R34#gLCTVSw3zq6v

https://theauthoritarians.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/TheAuthoritarians.pdf

https://www.asmallgroup.net/wp-content/uploads/CES_jan2007.pdf

I accidentally sent that before adding the message that went with it.

Those should be read in order. Don’t let the titles fool you.

It starts off bleak. It ends just as bleak but with a tiny light, which is almost certainly going to be extinguished.

I might have more to say, but that’s quite a lot of reading I already linked. I don’t expect anyone to actually read it all, I only hope 3-4 people do. Then they share it and 3-4 more check it out.

Strange that I can’t find anything about it online anymore. I swear I read once that Snowden used ATR as a cover by travelling with them, or had a song of theirs play as a signal to a Wikileaks contact when making a drop of leaked data or something along those lines. Pretty sure Snowden has stated he liked the band a lot too but can’t find that either.

All I found was that their album Reset was based of Snowden’s revelations. I want to believe there is more to it than that, but I admit I may be wrong. My mind may have fabricated this info, it hasn’t been the first time but it doesn’t feel like that, I’m fairly certain I read about a connection before.

More likely, the article I read has been purged from the internet or is being blacklisted from search engines, which I’m sure sounds like a tinfoil hat conspiracy theory, so easily could be true these days.

He’s a hero solely for trying to save Atari Teenage Riot.

It’s sad that only 10% of the data he leaked ever made it to the public. From what I’ve read, the unreleased stuff has been lost. I could be wrong and don’t have a source handy for that.

I’d let him hide out in my apartment.

what if you could bypass that with a draftkings tattoo directly on your butt?

What if a robot came and gathered all your dirty clothes, made listings for them on craigslist (or whatever people use now), marked up above MSRP or whatever you paid (people will still buy them, even used, even at a higher price than new, if you include a note saying they were owned by a woman, whether they were or not), shipped them to the interested buyers, used the proceeds from those sales to purchase new, identical clothing to what you previously owned?

Are you sure it wasn’t Perdue? The Sackler family did have their fingers in things all over the world, including art galleries, oil and media. They are a very secretive family and remove shit regularly from the internet if it paints them in a bad light.

Could it be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sackler_family

the purpose of my second paragraph is the explanation, I can’t find the evidence and don’t remember any of it except a vague recollection about a pro wrestler beimg a victim but don’t even recall his name.

Jim Carrey is a serial killer.

I used to think it was simply some unhinged person trolling 4chan and reddit. Over the years I’ve seen it come up a few times and each time the evidence is just slightly more convincing.

So I go down the rabbit hole and seek out the previous iteration I had seen but they are just poof! gone. Stripped from the internet. Removed irrevocably, including references to it from newer accounts and comments.

The writing style of these rants started to show a lack of consistant writing style. As if they were written by different people. The writing style is pointed out as an argument that it wasn’t just one lone nutjob reposting his same rant. Or was it? I can’t find the commentary anymore. I can’t cross check what I can’t find.

Either one or a few individuals are playing the long game really well, or one very powerful multimillionaire has murdered dozens of people and constantly scours the internet clean of any evidence pointing towards him.

The rabbit hole goes deep and looks completely different, yet somehow the same, every time.

Everyone wants that.

I get that your not into the idea of biking. For the sake of the environment I want to mention that I live at the top of a hill where the first soap box derby tournament was held. If you’ve ever seen one of those, it’s a pretty steep hill they race down. My ebike goes up it with no problems other than from cars on the road. I don’t even have to pedal, I just push a little lever and up it goes. This city is 5th highest in murder rate in the U.S. and auto thefts are just as bad but a good lock and smart parking helps. Oh and I have all the balance of a newborn kitten on a pile of fresh laundry.

Ripley and Sarah Conner. My dream women. Sad since if a woman like either of them existed, they surely would not be interested in me. That’s not self deprecation, that’s simply an understood fact of reality. My best hope would be maybe Dana Sculley or Clarice Starling if I’m lucky and 90% of all other men disappeared from earth suddenly, both still excellent role models in my opinion…

Can you pay someone to ride a bike while you sit comfortably in a little covered wagon behind the bike?

Allow me to refer people to my take on this from more than a year ago: https://lemmy.ml/post/29140189/18217726

The website has zero changes that I can see, compared to when I wrote the linked comment except additional outfits for the barbie jeep.

Neutral for both Left and Right Handed https://store.kde.org/p/999823

[⋅] Sewing #art #equipment

Start off small, try sewing scrap cloth A to scrap cloth B. If you don’t hate it and your neck or fingers don’t hurt too much after, it might be the hobby critical post-apocalypse life skill you needed. Next thing you know you’ll have upgraded to leather and sewing fake cat ears onto all your hats or using wire to add strips of stainless steel to leather gloves to give them that sweet medieval guantlet look. Even if you don’t descend that far into the sewing void, knowing how to quickly stitch up the crotch of pants that rip open unepectedly is one of those things you will always appreciate.

I vote in every election I can. I have never had my vote for president actually matter or count.

My state has a site where I can look up my name and see which elections I’ve voted in.

• My first election was Gore Bush with the hanging chads, my vote had gotten thrown out.

• I was unable to vote in the next 2 elections because I was in jail both times. Not for anything that would remove my voting rights, just illegal botany.

• The second time Obama ran I couldn’t vote because the voting location had been moved the day before and I didn’t get to the new location in time.

• At this point I had become quite jaded with the election system. So for the dumpster fire of 2016 I did a write in and wrote “any bum off the street”.

• Realizing my vote may have helped bring about the worst, for the next election I took great care to ensure I voted correctly. The state voter lookup does not show that I voted that election. I did. It is very infuriating.

• Voted for Harris and liked her before she was cool. The reason? She helped a pedophile get out of jail. Confusing, I know. You see, a man had been sentenced and was serving time then the laws changed, with the new laws setting maximum term limits for certain offenses. The person had already served multiple years more than the maximum sentence allowed but still was on the old laws and had several years left. Harris secured his release. That is why I liked her as a candidate, she was willing to defend a pedophile to ensure justice was served as the law was written. That requires an amount of integrity and courage that few have in my opinion. Then a pedophile got elected instead.

As for other parties, the PSL has been very active around my city lately. I’ve gone to a few of their meetings and protests but am not a member, I just want to protest. Next election I don’t think will matter. Everything will be rigged or the results will be ignored. I’m preparing for that. I’m training in first aid, marksmenship, gardening and I’ve built a secluded underground shelter. The shelter is laughable and will not save anyone but it did build my upper body strength up.

I would sooner vote with a brick than vote for anything even slightly resembling the current CiC.