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Negative thoughts can be more complicated. I will recommend you start by drinking a glass of water, having a bite to eat and/or taking a short nap. Negative thoughts can have multiple causes, but they tend to be more persistent when you are hungry, tired and thirsty.

For "bad habits," it generally works better to find a better way to meet your needs than to try to deny yourself something. For example, trying to eat healthier is generally a better approach to weight loss than restricting how much you eat.

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Really minor nit: You could drop one of your nows.

Tangentially, my sons told me that when they start card tricks with an unopened pack of cards and strongly highlight that fact like it proves the cards have not been tampered with, the trick there is that card decks all start in the same order. So an unopened deck will come with a particular card order and they can know the order of the cards and can use that fact to help them with their card trick. It is part of how they fool the audience.

Welcome.

Hi, I'm Viktor. More to come, in the meantime you can contact me via twitter, linkedin, or via email at at .

More links and a pgp key at Keybase.

Made with ️ in Nice.

Should say something more like:

Welcome.

Hi, I'm Viktor Vojnovski. I do (stuff you do, reasons why people would look for you online). You can also find me on twitter @vojnovski. Here is my linkedin profile. You can email me via ViktorVojnovski at .

I can also be found on Keybase.

Made with ️ in Nice, France.

As others have said, it really should be ViktorVojnovski.com.

Edited to reflect updated location info.

Re your update. My suggested edits don't add a lot more words. But they do replace completely empty fluff ("More to come, in the meantime ...") with actual useful info. That empty fluff is apparently also a lie if there is no intent to actually add more info.

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Sending food to starving countries often isn't a panacea. Frequently, the same political problems that caused the starvation in the first place prevent the food from getting distributed to the people who most need it. If it does get distributed, it can change the tastes of locals, who will now want to purchase a Western diet that they can't really afford. This leads to more hunger as people reject a diet of affordable local traditional foods and spend money on meat and wheat and other products beyond their means.

The first half of the book is a political piece. The second half is a vegetarian cookbook. It is one of the best books I have read.

But most people can't just up and move wherever they want. The jobs are mostly in the expensive big cities. Even services like Task Rabbit, Amazon Flex or Uber are mostly only available in a short list of very large cities.

Meanwhile, we have torn down about 80 percent of SROs and the like and the default expectation is that young, single people should get a roommate. There is a dearth of genuinely affordable housing near jobs that would allow people to live alone and make ends meet working an entry level job. Those options mostly do not exist.

Pretending this isn't a problem because you found a solution that works for you is pretty LA LA LA not listening. Detroit has affordable housing because so many locals are in dire straits that a charity was created not that long ago to pay the water bills of people getting their water cut off: https://www.detroitwaterproject.org

So, basically, your life works because you saw opportunity amidst this debacle, not because everything is fine in the US.

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I think we can again work to lighten the burden of work for the average worker without disenfranchising large numbers of people.

I used to write about that on my old blog, but I probably won't continue to write about it. Here is at least a partial list of those writings:

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/p/ir2.html

I imagine there are quite a few factors, but I think that is a good thought. Walking a great deal -- sometimes on the order of many hours a day -- has played a large role in my successful efforts to improve my health. I am convinced that moving lymph is a very big part of that.