Nothing punitive or carceral, nor punishment related, nor negativity related should ever be tied to healing, recovery, rebuilding one's life or anything that makes a person feel worse about himself, herself, or themself. We know enough now to understand that punishment, loss
and/or reminders of past traumas and/or losses have no business and play nothing but a negative role, in rebuilding self-esteem, self-worth, self-love, community and the meaningful things we all need to create lives for ourselves that we feel are worth living. Especially in
exceedingly early ‘sobriety’, ‘abstinence’ and/or the traditional deprivations of one’s substance(s) of choice when people have had their only coping mechanism ripped away from them, under the ancient and provenly ineffective current model of ‘recovery’.
The author @johannhari101 , wrote the book ‘Chasing the Scream The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs’ said in his now famous Ted talk ‘Everything You Think You Know About Addiction is Wrong’:
“For 100 years now we've been singing war songs about addicts, when all along we should have been singing love songs to them. Because the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection.”
While 12 Step ideology works for many, I was harmed significantly by the church & the Judeo-Christian values of attending 5-6 meetings a week for 3 years - just so I could prove to myself & be able to testify in circumstances like this, it felt duplicitous & CONTINUED HURTING ME
People have successfully sued their state governments AND WON when forced to go to 12 step meetings on the basis that it violated their religious freedoms. It has likely has not happened on a larger scale because of socioeconomic disparities and the cost of
efficacious legal representation. The author of this piece should be commended 4 saying out loud what so many of us feel but whisper in secret out of fear that we will be ostracized, criticized & judged right out of the program 4 daring to criticize the Holy Father himself Bill W
He was mortal, cheated on his wife, and experimented with LSD later in life as he went through great bouts of depression. I AM NOT JUDGING HIM FOR THIS. Simply pointing out hypocrisies that many die-hard 12 steppers are not even aware of.
@Transition46 you could not be MORE wrong if this is your plan. WHEN WILL YOU LEARN? Punishment ≠Healing and don't get me started on expanding involuntary commitment measures - the research has been in forever & IT DOES NOT WORK.
It exists for everyone EXCEPT the people victimized by it. I was 23 when my father died and within less than 1 year had been involuntarily committed by a family who chose their deeply flawed morality over loving me despite my use of alcohol, multiple times,
was given antipsychotic medication that caused me to gain 75 + lbs in a matter of months and less than one year after my father died, I was deemed 'treatment-resistant' by psychiatrists b/c antidepressants didn't work and told electroshock was my last hope. MY LAST HOPE?!?
All because nobody tried love first.
I went through a lot of trauma as a child and adult and while far from perfect I am fighting these messages despite what I've been through. You see 'tough love' is neither. B/c what's tough is the love given despite witnessing the suffering a person is experiencing.
YOU CANNOT FORCE A PERSON TO HEAL. @MassGovernor are you listening because I understand you're going to build a so-called trauma-informed prison for women for $50,000,000 in MA by 2024. You might as well try to light a match submerged beneath the surface of the Charles River.
We don't listen to scientists about climate change, we don't listen to sociologists and Harm Reduction MDs re: addiction, we don't listen to people w/lived experience who DO possess the capacity to speak eloquently about their lives. We listen to centrists & lobbyists & polls
& billionaires & those with political, financial, cultural, & social capital. We heal in relationships. We heal when we are truly & non-judgementally heard & given the opportunity to be our authentic selves. & define ourselves as a person first, born with the same rights, each 1.
"For love is but the heart's immortal thirst to be truly known and all forgiven."
- Henry Van Dyke
@ReadReadj @DrKimSue @Mad_In_America @MITUKteam @SusanSered @PLSMA @SenWarren @RepKClark @MA_Senate @PsychRecovery @patdeegan @Advocates_Inc @harvardmed
@SMOCMA @HarmReductionB1 @Mayor_Spicer @massnonprofit @AOC @RepPressley @MassDPH @APA @APAPsychiatric @MGHPsychiatry
@BrookeM_Feldman @billkinkle @SentencingProj @DrSarahWakeman @SchrebersSister @heymelody
@maiasz @ACLU @ACLU_Mass @felicejfreyer @_eleven13_ @BostonGlobe @wbz @BOSUsersUnion @WCVB @7News @The_BMC @McLeanEducation @McLeanHospital

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"Ban" is a verb meaning to "officially or legally prohibit" something. If the Biden administration is not approving new fracking permits, how is that not "officially or legally prohibiting" new fracking permits?


The economy is bleeding, and the Biden administration's response is to cripple one of the few industries that has been consistently employing people throughout this crisis.

But, his allies in the media don't want him to take that PR hit, so they run cover and play word games. Biden's exact words were "We are not going to ban fracking. Period." The "Period." there would imply that ANY ban is off the table.

If you are going to prohibit via executive order - which is nothing more than a law passed outside of the normal legislative process - anything, you are "legally" prohibiting it. There are legal consequences to violating that regulation.

So yes, definitionally, Biden has "legally prohibited" fracking in some way, shape, or form, which is the opposite of his campaign statements.

In other words, he lied.

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कुछ लोग कहते हैं की व्यक्ति मरकर सबसे पहले कौवे के रूप में जन्म लेता है और उसे खाना खिलाने से वह भोजन पितरों को मिलता है

शायद हम सबने अपने घर के किसी बड़े बुज़ुर्ग, किसी पंडित या ज्योतिषाचार्य से ये सुना होगा। वे अनगिनत किस्से सुनाएंगे, कहेंगे बड़े बुज़ुर्ग कह गए इसीलिए ऐसा करना

शायद ही हमें कोई इसके पीछे का वैज्ञानिक कारण बता सके।

हमारे ऋषि मुनि और पौराणिक काल में रहने वाले लोग मुर्ख नहीं थे! कभी सोचियेगा कौवों को पितृ पक्ष में खिलाई खीर हमारे पूर्वजों तक कैसे पहुंचेगी?

हमारे ऋषि मुनि विद्वान थे, वे जो बात करते या कहते थे उसके पीछे कोई न कोई वैज्ञानिक कारण छुपा होता था।

एक बहुत रोचक तथ्य है पितृ पक्ष, भादो( भाद्रपद) प्रकृति और काक के बीच।

एक बात जो कह सकते कि हम सब ने स्वतः उग आये पीपल या बरगद का पेड़/ पौधा किसी न किसी दीवार, पुरानी

इमारत, पर्वत या अट्टालिकाओं पर ज़रूर देखा होगा। देखा है न?

ज़रा सोचिये पीपल या बरगद की बीज कैसे पहुंचे होंगे वहाँ तक? इनके बीज इतने हल्के भी नहीं होते के हवा उन्हें उड़ाके ले जा सके।
Recently, the @CNIL issued a decision regarding the GDPR compliance of an unknown French adtech company named "Vectaury". It may seem like small fry, but the decision has potential wide-ranging impacts for Google, the IAB framework, and today's adtech. It's thread time! 👇

It's all in French, but if you're up for it you can read:
• Their blog post (lacks the most interesting details):
https://t.co/PHkDcOT1hy
• Their high-level legal decision: https://t.co/hwpiEvjodt
• The full notification: https://t.co/QQB7rfynha

I've read it so you needn't!

Vectaury was collecting geolocation data in order to create profiles (eg. people who often go to this or that type of shop) so as to power ad targeting. They operate through embedded SDKs and ad bidding, making them invisible to users.

The @CNIL notes that profiling based off of geolocation presents particular risks since it reveals people's movements and habits. As risky, the processing requires consent — this will be the heart of their assessment.

Interesting point: they justify the decision in part because of how many people COULD be targeted in this way (rather than how many have — though they note that too). Because it's on a phone, and many have phones, it is considered large-scale processing no matter what.