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Dec 27, 2023 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
It's been...
189,388,800 seconds
3,156,480 minutes
52,608 hours
2192 days
313 weeks...
Since my last drink of alcohol.
I quit on Boxing Day 2017.
Best decision of my life.
Want to end your dependency on an addictive neurotoxin that robs your sleep? Happy to help!
Step 1: Decide.
2/"You can only accept the gift of alcohol-free living if you stop denying you have a problem. This is a bitter pill to swallow, and it tastes worse than that first sip of alcohol you took years ago, that one you had to force yourself to drink because it tasted so foul.
Foul because alcohol is a toxin, and your entire body was screaming, 'WTF, yo? You trying to poison me?' But you prevailed, mimicking the adults around you, you kept drinking until your body and mind adapted, learning to accept the neurotoxins as the 'new normal,' while the seed of your addiction grew..."
1/When Covidmania was kicking off, I asked whether one should indulge people's unhinged hysteria about a disease with a 99.7% survival rate where the proposed mitigations (masks, lockdowns, forced jabs) were not supported by objective data.
2/In other words, I was asking, do you indulge crazy people in their doom-and-gloom, #catastrophizing fantasies, or do you tell people they're acting nuts and need to stop?
