I'm experimenting with a simple ritual: if Claude is out, I'm out.
I'll just go for a walk outside.
And I don't mean "if I can't access Claude to do my work", I mean, just in general - I'll just ping claude.ai from time to time and use Claude's breaks as a break reminder.
As near as I can tell, nobody use crypto for day-to-day transactions because it's deflationary. People do use crypto to buy illicit drugs and guns, pay ransoms, launder money, avoid taxes. Drug cartels settle debts, and oligarchs evade sanctions with it. It looks like particular oligarchs take anonymous crypto as bribes. That's all crime.
Occasionally people speculate using crypto, which isn't technically illegal, but does shade off into unethical. Crypto seems to enable new methods of scams ("rug pulls"), and make older scams easier in the category of "speculation".
One provable method to controlling or even curing depression is consistent and rigorous exercise. Society wants pills to shortcut the work required. You see it with GLP-1 as well.
my answer which seems to be increasingly unpopular is: "depression kills. attack it with all the tools available. see your pri care doc for an SSRI and be willing to work with them with dosage and medication for effectiveness and comfort. exercise, preferably exercise a lot. try the talking cure. go to church or something like that."
a lot of people have problems with some of those things and in that case do all the others. like personally i find it hard to not get exercise, i can't get it how people hate going to the gym, but i know a lot of people find it hard.
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