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Cake day: August 30th, 2023

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  • Actually, drugs, but small amounts of drugs. Ketamine and mushrooms in therapeutic doses, coupled with small changes to your habits to make yourself feel a little better or a little more productive, every day. And letting yourself off the hook when you can’t make that happen. Also, this seems to have gotten somewhat lost in the internet age, but confiding in people in person. All these things won’t change your life—I mean, they could, but often they won’t. But they can help you get back on the path to fixing yourself.








  • I don’t think that’s actually true. Have the metrics for what we consider poverty changed and adapted with inflation and the perfecting of corporate wealth hoarding? “Poverty” is an ambiguous term, and relative poverty is real. That doesn’t show in a standard-line “poverty” metric. What was considered “extreme poverty” is the lowest, but that’s people living on under $1.90/day. I couldn’t even find information on that metric being updated to reflect the current high inflation and profit-explosion landscape.

    Also: if you technically pull people out of poverty by outsourcing to the lowest paying, least labor regulated parts of the world, is the fact that extreme poverty went away in those areas even a good thing?