Oh, I did too initially; I just happened to see this article in a different community where someone who actually read the article provided the line about the sanctions.

Although I did skim it before replying to you to make sure the quote wasn’t being taken out of context.

But the title is absolute rage bait.

For complying with government sanctions against Russia?

Context is important:

In this instance, the cutoff was sought by the European Union (EU), in an attempt to pressure Russia to back off its assaults on Ukraine.

If it’s not now, it will in the future.

If someone is asking strangers for help to stop a behavior, you should believe that the behavior is an issue.

Would you ask this if the question was about alcohol?

This is just shifting addictions to another unhealthy parasocial relationship.

Someone with this type of issue needs to shift their focus to something different than idolizing a person, fictional or not.

Or anything involving the outside world. Nature walks, bird watching, geocaching, etc. Doesn’t need to be anything competitive or strenuous.

I don’t, but I have cone-rod dystrophy.

Talk to a doctor first. The keto diet does have very real health risks.

It depends on your exercise. I do HIIT, and regularly burn about 800 Calories an hour. On leg day I can sometimes hit 1k.

Just a friendly fyi in case it wasn’t a speech to text thing, but it’s hunger pangs.

Surgery

I own a switch 1, switch lite, and deck. The first two are gathering dust, though.

Would a hand crank electric generator for a doorbell count?

I have a lamp my grandfather made out of an old moonshine jug in like the 40s.

Does she do it for her fuckups, though?

If you don’t have to sit through a bunch of ‘meetings that could have been emails’ on a daily basis, you likely won’t have a use case for it.

But in my last job I was a systems engineer for a web development company. I had to be included on all of the dev calls in case an infrastructure question came up that I needed to answer, and so I was vaguely aware of what the devs were doing.

This software would have been a lifesaver, because my ADHD doesn’t let me listen to stuff like that for a straight hour or two.

No blanket, but I can’t sleep without a sheet of some sort. I usually use a cooling sheet