Just relax
To achieve your desires, cultivate a serene mindset. When you maintain a calm and collected demeanor, you can face challenges with clarity and focus. Remember, relaxation is the key to unlocking your potential.
Listen to your inner compass: When you find yourself mentally pushing for a specific outcome, pay attention. Notice the tension in your body and mind. When that feeling arises, release it. Take a seat and explore why you’re experiencing this resistance. In truth, it stems from a fear that you lack the capacity to manifest what you envision. Instead of force, consider that lasting achievements emerge from a different source, one that flows effortlessly.
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so: masking: good, unequivocally. please mask and please educate others on why they should mask to make the world safer for immune compromised people to participate in.
however: masking is not my policy focus and it shouldn't be yours, either. masking is a very good mitigation against droplet-born illnesses and a slightly less effective (but still very good) mitigation against airborne illnesses, but its place in the pyramid of mitigation demands is pretty low, for several reasons:
it's an individual mitigation, not a systemic one. the best mitigations to make public life more accessible affect everyone without distributing the majority of the effort among individuals (who may not be able to comply, may not have access to education on how to comply, or may be actively malicious).
it's a post-hoc mitigation, or to put it another way, it's a band-aid over the underlying problem. even if it was possible to enforce, universal masking still wouldn't address the underlying problem that it is dangerous for sick people and immune compromised people to be in the same public locations to begin with. this is a solvable problem! we have created the societal conditions for this problem!
here are my policy focuses:
upgraded air filtration and ventilation systems for all public buildings. appropriate ventilation should be just as bog-standard as appropriately clean running water. an indoor venue without a ventilation system capable of performing 5 complete air changes per hour should be like encountering a public restroom without any sinks or hand sanitizer stations whatsoever.
enforced paid sick leave for all employees until 3-5 days without symptoms. the vast majority of respiratory and food-borne illnesses circulate through industry sectors where employees come into work while experiencing symptoms. a taco bell worker should never be making food while experiencing strep throat symptoms, even without a strep diagnosis.
enforced virtual schooling options for sick students. the other vast majority of respiratory and food-borne illnesses circulate through schools. the proximity of so many kids and teenagers together indoors (with little to no proper ventilation and high levels of physical activity) means that if even one person comes to school sick, hundreds will be infected in the following few days. those students will most likely infect their parents as well. allowing students to complete all readings and coursework through sites like blackboard or compass while sick will cut down massively on disease transmission.
accessible testing for everyone. not just for COVID; if there's a test for any contagious illness capable of being performed outside of lab conditions, there should be a regulated option for performing that test at home (similar to COVID rapid tests). if a test can only be performed under lab conditions, there should be a government-subsidized program to provide free of charge testing to anyone who needs it, through urgent cares and pharmacies.
the last thing to note is that these things stack; upgraded ventilation systems in all public buildings mean that students and employees get sick less often to begin with, making it less burdensome for students and employees to be absent due to sickness, and making it more likely that sick individuals will choose to stay home themselves (since it's not so costly for them).
masking is great! keep masking! please use masking as a rhetorical "this is what we can do as individuals to make public life safer while we're pushing for drastic policy changes," and don't get complacent in either direction--don't assume that masking is all you need to do or an acceptable forever-solution, and equally, don't fall prey to thinking that pushing for policy change "makes up" for not masking in public. it's not a game with scores and sides; masking is a material thing you can do to help the individual people you interact with one by one, and policy changes are what's going to make the entirety of public life safer for all immune compromised people.
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the type of guy who would never help anyone without proper payment or reasoning, but just seeing you sulking and upset about how your familiar cat is upset, since he tried very hard on a recent test and still failed, and the next thing he knows he's offering tutoring sessions to the little gremlin if it means it'll cheer you up
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The new you
Knowing that the subconscious stores a number, a big one, of memories a person could think are in the oblivion, which they aren't, let's erase the painful ones.
There are various methods for erasing memories stored in the subconscious. One approach involves creating new connections with existing memories. By actively replacing and transforming outdated conditioning with a fresh, more empowering belief system, one can gradually erase entrenched behavioral patterns.
Another way is to employ visualization. An image of the person liberated from negative conditioning and past trauma, and immersed in a state of wellness, freedom, love and joy. This way, one can rewire the subconscious toward a more positive orientation through repeated visualization.
If creating mental images proves challenging, another highly effective method involves working with affirmations. One repetitively reciting affirmations or mantras, with the intention of embedding the new belief system into the subconscious mind. Something like: "Today, I embrace happiness and peace. I release myself from old patterns, welcoming fresh possibilities, novel experiences, and a heightened state of well-being."This statement can be tailored to suit individual needs and repeated as necessary.
Remember, our thoughts and beliefs shape our reality, so let's remain mindful of them and focus on what we desire. Let's discard limiting patterns of the past and embrace new, empowering ways of thinking and being. Let's bring it into existence.
May your journey be filled with peace, joy, love, and all things positive.
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If you can directly damage the enemy or their profits, do so.
If you can't directly damage the enemy, go to a protest or event.
If you can't go to a protest or event, support those who do by providing food, transportation, and/or other needs.
If you can't directly support protesters, donate to those who do.
If you can't donate, get to know the people around you, and talk with them about building a better world.
Ask yourself: what is one more thing I can do to help fight back? Then, do that thing.
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Want to hug and kiss my close friends :(
Want to be totally cool and awesome with them :(
Want to express that I would throw myself off a bridge for them if it was like a saw trap :(
Want to talk to them for hours and hours :(
Want to learn stuff I'll never need to know from them :(
Want to pretend like we're a couple for discounts and to look even more badass and close bc amatonormative society but also bc it would be silly and fun :(
Want to inside jokes :(
Want to bite stab maim anyone who makes them sad :(
Want to sit in comfortable silence for hours :(
Want to cuddle :(
Fwend..
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