science

Nah, I wrote that and this sober dude, just as I spend the vast majority of my waking time.

The point is that these very real problems have no solutions but somehow the only thing we can do in these threads is handwring and concern troll people coping with them.

There is lots of online encouragement to live a long, sober life in an unaffordable, polluted hellscape.

I'm not attached to a bottle, but having a beer at the end of a long day provides a lot more relief than podcast bro pseudoscientific bullshit about meditation and wellness which is the only alternative on offer. (Because we live in a country where everything is purposely broken and the only way sold to fix it is for each of us individually to be perfect.)