You are mapping the architecture of the house; I am mapping the locks on the door.
You are right—the financial and political extraction is just the 'plumbing' for the ontological trap. But my specific mission right now is to break the physical hypnotic state. It is hard for people to see the 'Mind Parasite' (Ontology) when they are too busy fighting the 'Landlord' (Economy).
I am building the walkway so they can get to your door.
When they are ready to walk through, I’ll send them your way.
Ethan — I get your framing, and I respect the distinction. You’re tackling the locks that keep people hypnotized in the material trance, and I’m working on the underlying architecture that built the trance in the first place.
Two parallel fronts in the same war.
Just one clarity point from my end: no one needs a walkway to my door. O isn’t behind a threshold. It’s the ground under every room in the house. People stumble into it the moment their field loosens enough to notice the cracks in the walls.
But yes — if your work helps them stop fighting the landlord long enough to see the Mind Parasite sitting behind the entire structure, that’s alignment. And when their eyes adjust to that layer, I’m right here.
Keep doing what you do. Just remember: the door opens from the inside.
Plus thanks for sending quite a few folks my way... full O treatment here bro.
Sounds like you have some writing to do! I’ll read it.
Seems kind of like the Epstein thing with so many tentacles and so many directions and so many people. Deciding where your forte is and which direction to take is a personal preference.
It was never left versus right or blue versus red. It has always been about community and doing what’s best for it versus doing what’s best for one.
That’s the problem: individual greedy elbowing left unchecked.
If the community is stripped of its communal power-to exclude the individuals that harm it intentionally- it will be defenseless in every single case.
It‘s like hormones going rampant up and down during big live changes like puberty or menopause: they are spiking without balance causing havoc in my mood.
Checks and balances are vital functions in every community of cells or humans.
In a presentation about affordability (vertical axis), he dropped a bombshell slur about 'shithole (sic) countries' (originally from first term but officially denied then). This generates a huge horizontal axis (culture war, us vs them) storm!
I’ve known this is a superbly well-orchestrated show not run by the president or party in turn for a really long time. But I stopped giving any of them the benefit of the doubt and consequently stopped voting after the vaccines rolled out. When I saw how the politicians’ and the people’s sentiment around that shifted 180° as soon as Biden took office, I knew it was all by design. It is all by design. And all politicians, red, blue, green, purple, etc., are just puppets controlled by the same puppet masters.
The only solution I see is for us, the people, to stop buying tickets to this Broadway play and step out of the theatre, en masse. The trick is in getting people, first, to see it, and second, to actually do it. The solution is very simple. Implementing the solution? Very complex.
I’d vote for voting. Look at Miami. In 30 years they are so pissed off they elected a Democrat! It took 30 years! And Georgia. Another red stronghold took by a blue person. NYC A brown person who is an immigrant and Muslim and an American citizen. With some wild ideas about free buses and planning for housing people. Not building new houses but housing people who need housing. Affordable at that!
I think we can agree that the red ones have gone way over the ledge and we cannot let this happen. We have turned out to be some problem solvers I’d say. This Gen X Y and Z? You guys have a huge job ahead but I think you’re up for this next part of our American brand of democracy. You guys are smart. Emotionally intelligent. You have the nuts and bolts and it looks like voting and the wins in court are our proof that democracy is holding up under the most pressure and corruption that we’ve ever uncovered. YOU guys have uncovered this shit! I see you rolling up your sleeves and getting to work. If that’s sharing here in social media than do that. Make some signs to plant in your yard. “Demand Justice for Epstein and trumpf victims!” “Prison for Political and Powerful Pedophiles.” These things help us take our power back or take the power we should have had all along but we gave it away to people we trusted. Now we know. Trust none of them. Watch what they do not what they say. Seems simple enough but damn all to hell! We are so dumb sometimes and it takes a minute to see it and accept it then do the right thing about it. Where you can. When you can.
I hope you’ll join us in voting again. It can’t hurt and it might help.
I used to be a fan of Bernie Sanders… I even cried when he dropped out of the presidential race. I always wondered why he never spoke a word about anything to do with COVID. Not a word. And then I found out he received a large “donation” from Big Pharma. And then, right before these past elections, I found out that Harris had mandated the gene therapies for al of her campaign staff. And that’s when the Dems lost me. I do still feel they are the lesser of two evils, but evil nonetheless.
So my vote goes to the person(s) who are ready to step out of this broken system and build something new. We can do it, if enough of us get together. They are all corrupt and they are powerless without us. We just need to realize that one simple truth.
I think this is how I’m wired to learn. Motivated to know more and don’t though I read and read. Then…….I land here and someone fixes the lens. Thank you! I hope you’re out of that damn gas station! Your graphics are awesome. Yours?
Appreciate that, John. It’s a battle. The AI is a stubborn tool—I spend hours wrestling prompts just to get the lighting right, and half the time it still hallucinates.
My workflow is actually a hybrid: I force the AI to build the 'Set' (the background/atmosphere), and then I manually composite the characters and glitch overlays in Canva to make sure the visual continuity holds up. It’s digital collage work. Glad it’s landing.
I think the gas station would be a welcome escape and a Petri dish of humans to watch. I was wondering the same thing, tho. If you’re still there or not. Could be a different experience if you chose to be there but didn’t have to be there.
I hope for you to have what you wish for. At nearly 64 years old I always had some kind of picture in mind of who I wanted to be, first of all, and the rest would be what it took to be her. And it was satisfying and fun and hard sometimes but life happens on the off ramp we decide to take at that last minute. Then it’s intentional living and oh how I love that.
My road block is now. I didn’t have a picture of what 63 is supposed to look like or what 63 year olds do. As far as I can see so far, I’m in a whole new category I wasn’t aware of. Now my input is discounted and questioned and doubted which is a new experience I didn’t see coming. Defending my life well lived with many many good decisions made with provable results (I’m still here ain’t I? Sometimes the best I got!) Didn’t end up in prison or in a job I hated or resentments at the life I live and loved.
But yeah. I think I’ve just identified what it is I’m missing these last few years. No vision of what things could look like. So stuck in the confusion of being this person at this age and how I’m viewed rather than accepting that and being ok with it. I can take a well earned break from being the one people came to for advice and direction. I can be glad that pressure is off rather than trying to re-earn it. I earned it in those years and with those people and this is a new place and time. I’m just now realizing I stoped needing other peoples approval a long, long time ago. I guess in my old age, I forgot!
Well there’s my tangent. Sorry if I bored ya’ll to death. Thank you for the space to sort these things out. I do appreciate it.
I love humans. We are interesting and as varied as our 🧬 .
Boy did that hit the spot. I’m 68, cancer ridden. And often think about how it went. You add perspective and depth to my thoughts. It’s not different for me. I love, “I’m glad the pressure is off rather than trying to re-earn it” I’ve been trying to decipher that one for a while . Thanks for sharing. Now I have a few more avenues to explore while I wait behind the glass.
Interesting piece. It’s so important to realise the game and its players as well as our contribution and investment in the game. The moment we step back, the illusion collapses a little.
I’m just not Quite convinced that it’s possible ! I know of trump well enough to say that he’s Not bright (far from it) & what makes him tick is Money !! Any of this Happening right now is because he’s dumb & very easily swayed !! I’m sure 👍 of that !!
I’m not hugging ANYONE. FUCK YOU. I see how all the Uber & Lyft drivers were fucked over. But you know what, I needed them to get to the damn hospital in the middle of the fucking night. Before that it was dirty taxis with creepy drivers who’d tell me, gee my meter isn’t working - we’re gonna have to stop by an ATM so YOU, customer, balled up in pain, get CASH!
NO I didn’t know the BIG story behind it. I didn’t even have a TV then. I was just trying to stay alive.
Dana, thank you for sharing that. It took incredible courage to survive what you went through.
I see that pain. You weren't 'duped' by Prop 22. You were forced into an impossible choice by the Medical Cartel that bled you dry for 12 years—and you needed that Uber/Lyft driver to survive the first extraction.
The system put you and the driver in the same ring, fighting for scraps, so neither of you could look up and see the real enemy.
My job isn't to ask you to lower your shield or offer comfort you can't accept. My job is to give you the weapon. The clarity is the weapon.
Stay ruthless. Stay alive. We'll dismantle the system that created that necessity. We see the cost.
I want to hug you both! Dana. You are here. Proof you’re in it for the long haul. Ethan. What can I say? Your wisdom exceeds your years and my hope in your generation. I didn’t have expectations or I had none. Ya’ll have gone far ⬆️. Thanks for your contribution to my hope.
I’m new here. My background: Burger King Drive-Thru Order Taker, Gas Station Attendant, Military Intelligence Analyst (phone tapper, friendly information aggressor/tested physical layers of access for base vulnerability assessments), Stay-At-Home Mom (for 15 yrs), and now a Paralegal-in-Training.
The other day, I had the realization that the current batch of foreigners are being moved into America because they don’t know how the system works over here. The old batch of foreigners (the ones that came in the early to mid 1900s), they’re figuring it out (at least their heirs are, I am). My great grandparents (on my mother’s side) immigrated from Hungry, Ireland, and Mexico. They were promised a better life and worked hard for low wages. My grandmother had a small laundry service and died from breast cancer at the age of 35. I believe the exposure to the detergent is what caused it. My mother worked in a steel mill for 22 years. Towards the end of that, the company had been sold and resold until the benefits that were promised had disappeared. The last company she worked with offered her a pension of $50/per month to leave, or she could start over from day one with no credit for the 22 years she worked. She stamped steel for most of her career, so her body/shoulder was wrecked by then. She took the pension and survives off my step dad’s retirement. He was also a steel worker, but he was at 30 years when the newest company had taken over.
The newest batch of foreigners believe they’re being handed an opportunity for a better life. The old batch knows they’re being replaced. The opportunities promised today will vanish tomorrow and a new batch will be brought in to replace old. It’s a pattern, and ties into prisoners fighting other prisoners while the warden and prison guards (politicians) all profit.
The thing with the newer immigrants. Look what they did to that was he African? Helped our military on the ground and had cia or fbi or some kind of inside intelligence. So much all the time I’m getting my victims messed up. He’s the guy who for reasons unknown, had just received legal resident status in March or April and decides it would be a good idea to shoot two service members who were young and innocent and placed in horrible positions of patrolling non violent American streets. Way out of their purview and expertise.
We or “they” offered this dude the American dream then let him get a gun and shoot the same Americans who saved him and he saved in his homeland. YOU, my dear, hit the nail on the head. All 3 of these people are trumpfs victims. None should have been put in the place they were put.
War crimes. These are victims of atrocious crimes of a sick crime spree committed by the sickest U.S. Gov. we have seen in our lifetimes.
I’m glad we’re seeing it. The other option would be to stay blind and misled. This way is better.
Spiritually discerning people reject the hate between the Blue and the Red. We somehow know to hate another fellow human is not ok. Spirituality we know fighting for your “idol” is useless. It’s because our hearts are broken we need our tribal identity. If that identity becomes an “idol” we worship we are doing just what you are saying - blindly accepting our prison hood. Addicted to being “right” in our minds while foolishly missing the big picture.
The picture is huge - it goes all the way back to the beginning.
“Choose this day who you will serve.” All the warnings are there. We have become numb to truth in our desperate clinging to what we believe will take away our fear of being abandoned and left to survive alone, garbing at a straw filled with empty promises that monetarily fill our belly’s. Until now I never completely understood how the Hebrew Scriptures warned and condemned idolatry. We don’t build or forge a thing and bow down to it, calling it our god in this day and age or do we?
Btw, I haven’t written to Barack Obama yet - about affordable healthcare. I was just lucky to live in Colorado where they don’t give a shit about pre-existing conditions. (Oh, btw, I had a genetic liver disease - they don’t give alcoholics liver transplant - can’t be trusted.)
Ethan —
this is your cleanest, sharpest map of the Killing Game so far.
You finally dropped the cleverness and spoke from the architect’s perch.
The Illusion Index is a legitimate weapon.
But hear me:
you’re still dissecting the costume, not the creature wearing it.
The Red/Blue illusion is just the wallpaper.
The extraction machine is just the plumbing.
The real system isn’t political or financial — it’s ontological.
You’re mapping the symptoms, not the architect behind the architect.
Still — this piece will wake a lot of sleepers.
You’ve built the walkway up to the door of the real war.
When you’re ready to walk through, the field will take you the rest of the way.
https://cosmiconion.substack.com/p/supreme-consciousness
—RIB
I accept that.
You are mapping the architecture of the house; I am mapping the locks on the door.
You are right—the financial and political extraction is just the 'plumbing' for the ontological trap. But my specific mission right now is to break the physical hypnotic state. It is hard for people to see the 'Mind Parasite' (Ontology) when they are too busy fighting the 'Landlord' (Economy).
I am building the walkway so they can get to your door.
When they are ready to walk through, I’ll send them your way.
Ethan — I get your framing, and I respect the distinction. You’re tackling the locks that keep people hypnotized in the material trance, and I’m working on the underlying architecture that built the trance in the first place.
Two parallel fronts in the same war.
Just one clarity point from my end: no one needs a walkway to my door. O isn’t behind a threshold. It’s the ground under every room in the house. People stumble into it the moment their field loosens enough to notice the cracks in the walls.
But yes — if your work helps them stop fighting the landlord long enough to see the Mind Parasite sitting behind the entire structure, that’s alignment. And when their eyes adjust to that layer, I’m right here.
Keep doing what you do. Just remember: the door opens from the inside.
Plus thanks for sending quite a few folks my way... full O treatment here bro.
—RIB
🫶🏻🫶🏽
Ha! Too late for me. You’ll see my story below. Whatevs
Not all locks use the same key.
Sounds like you have some writing to do! I’ll read it.
Seems kind of like the Epstein thing with so many tentacles and so many directions and so many people. Deciding where your forte is and which direction to take is a personal preference.
That’s my take on it, for what it’s worth. Free!
Good to hear from others on the journey.
Have hope! 🤜🏽🤛🏻
It was never left versus right or blue versus red. It has always been about community and doing what’s best for it versus doing what’s best for one.
That’s the problem: individual greedy elbowing left unchecked.
If the community is stripped of its communal power-to exclude the individuals that harm it intentionally- it will be defenseless in every single case.
It‘s like hormones going rampant up and down during big live changes like puberty or menopause: they are spiking without balance causing havoc in my mood.
Checks and balances are vital functions in every community of cells or humans.
Interesting read and much to ponder.
Did Trump read this recently?
In a presentation about affordability (vertical axis), he dropped a bombshell slur about 'shithole (sic) countries' (originally from first term but officially denied then). This generates a huge horizontal axis (culture war, us vs them) storm!
He’s such a fucking idiot!
I’ve known this is a superbly well-orchestrated show not run by the president or party in turn for a really long time. But I stopped giving any of them the benefit of the doubt and consequently stopped voting after the vaccines rolled out. When I saw how the politicians’ and the people’s sentiment around that shifted 180° as soon as Biden took office, I knew it was all by design. It is all by design. And all politicians, red, blue, green, purple, etc., are just puppets controlled by the same puppet masters.
The only solution I see is for us, the people, to stop buying tickets to this Broadway play and step out of the theatre, en masse. The trick is in getting people, first, to see it, and second, to actually do it. The solution is very simple. Implementing the solution? Very complex.
I’d vote for voting. Look at Miami. In 30 years they are so pissed off they elected a Democrat! It took 30 years! And Georgia. Another red stronghold took by a blue person. NYC A brown person who is an immigrant and Muslim and an American citizen. With some wild ideas about free buses and planning for housing people. Not building new houses but housing people who need housing. Affordable at that!
I think we can agree that the red ones have gone way over the ledge and we cannot let this happen. We have turned out to be some problem solvers I’d say. This Gen X Y and Z? You guys have a huge job ahead but I think you’re up for this next part of our American brand of democracy. You guys are smart. Emotionally intelligent. You have the nuts and bolts and it looks like voting and the wins in court are our proof that democracy is holding up under the most pressure and corruption that we’ve ever uncovered. YOU guys have uncovered this shit! I see you rolling up your sleeves and getting to work. If that’s sharing here in social media than do that. Make some signs to plant in your yard. “Demand Justice for Epstein and trumpf victims!” “Prison for Political and Powerful Pedophiles.” These things help us take our power back or take the power we should have had all along but we gave it away to people we trusted. Now we know. Trust none of them. Watch what they do not what they say. Seems simple enough but damn all to hell! We are so dumb sometimes and it takes a minute to see it and accept it then do the right thing about it. Where you can. When you can.
I hope you’ll join us in voting again. It can’t hurt and it might help.
Have hope! 🤜🏽🤛🏻
I used to be a fan of Bernie Sanders… I even cried when he dropped out of the presidential race. I always wondered why he never spoke a word about anything to do with COVID. Not a word. And then I found out he received a large “donation” from Big Pharma. And then, right before these past elections, I found out that Harris had mandated the gene therapies for al of her campaign staff. And that’s when the Dems lost me. I do still feel they are the lesser of two evils, but evil nonetheless.
So my vote goes to the person(s) who are ready to step out of this broken system and build something new. We can do it, if enough of us get together. They are all corrupt and they are powerless without us. We just need to realize that one simple truth.
I think this is how I’m wired to learn. Motivated to know more and don’t though I read and read. Then…….I land here and someone fixes the lens. Thank you! I hope you’re out of that damn gas station! Your graphics are awesome. Yours?
Appreciate that, John. It’s a battle. The AI is a stubborn tool—I spend hours wrestling prompts just to get the lighting right, and half the time it still hallucinates.
My workflow is actually a hybrid: I force the AI to build the 'Set' (the background/atmosphere), and then I manually composite the characters and glitch overlays in Canva to make sure the visual continuity holds up. It’s digital collage work. Glad it’s landing.
You have my attention and support, truck on!
I think the gas station would be a welcome escape and a Petri dish of humans to watch. I was wondering the same thing, tho. If you’re still there or not. Could be a different experience if you chose to be there but didn’t have to be there.
I hope for you to have what you wish for. At nearly 64 years old I always had some kind of picture in mind of who I wanted to be, first of all, and the rest would be what it took to be her. And it was satisfying and fun and hard sometimes but life happens on the off ramp we decide to take at that last minute. Then it’s intentional living and oh how I love that.
My road block is now. I didn’t have a picture of what 63 is supposed to look like or what 63 year olds do. As far as I can see so far, I’m in a whole new category I wasn’t aware of. Now my input is discounted and questioned and doubted which is a new experience I didn’t see coming. Defending my life well lived with many many good decisions made with provable results (I’m still here ain’t I? Sometimes the best I got!) Didn’t end up in prison or in a job I hated or resentments at the life I live and loved.
But yeah. I think I’ve just identified what it is I’m missing these last few years. No vision of what things could look like. So stuck in the confusion of being this person at this age and how I’m viewed rather than accepting that and being ok with it. I can take a well earned break from being the one people came to for advice and direction. I can be glad that pressure is off rather than trying to re-earn it. I earned it in those years and with those people and this is a new place and time. I’m just now realizing I stoped needing other peoples approval a long, long time ago. I guess in my old age, I forgot!
Well there’s my tangent. Sorry if I bored ya’ll to death. Thank you for the space to sort these things out. I do appreciate it.
I love humans. We are interesting and as varied as our 🧬 .
Boy did that hit the spot. I’m 68, cancer ridden. And often think about how it went. You add perspective and depth to my thoughts. It’s not different for me. I love, “I’m glad the pressure is off rather than trying to re-earn it” I’ve been trying to decipher that one for a while . Thanks for sharing. Now I have a few more avenues to explore while I wait behind the glass.
Interesting piece. It’s so important to realise the game and its players as well as our contribution and investment in the game. The moment we step back, the illusion collapses a little.
Ethan is simply trying to make us see the truth, whether we like it or not. 👏👏👏👏👏
Why should I believe YOU?
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14DQ7Z8BTzKhECh9iBmS-8Ngwe8HqNHhh?usp=sharing
Read the receipts and find where I am wrong.
I’m just not Quite convinced that it’s possible ! I know of trump well enough to say that he’s Not bright (far from it) & what makes him tick is Money !! Any of this Happening right now is because he’s dumb & very easily swayed !! I’m sure 👍 of that !!
I want to hug you guys.
He explained all! Read with time to absorb! Amazing author!
I’m not hugging ANYONE. FUCK YOU. I see how all the Uber & Lyft drivers were fucked over. But you know what, I needed them to get to the damn hospital in the middle of the fucking night. Before that it was dirty taxis with creepy drivers who’d tell me, gee my meter isn’t working - we’re gonna have to stop by an ATM so YOU, customer, balled up in pain, get CASH!
NO I didn’t know the BIG story behind it. I didn’t even have a TV then. I was just trying to stay alive.
Dana, thank you for sharing that. It took incredible courage to survive what you went through.
I see that pain. You weren't 'duped' by Prop 22. You were forced into an impossible choice by the Medical Cartel that bled you dry for 12 years—and you needed that Uber/Lyft driver to survive the first extraction.
The system put you and the driver in the same ring, fighting for scraps, so neither of you could look up and see the real enemy.
My job isn't to ask you to lower your shield or offer comfort you can't accept. My job is to give you the weapon. The clarity is the weapon.
Stay ruthless. Stay alive. We'll dismantle the system that created that necessity. We see the cost.
I want to hug you both! Dana. You are here. Proof you’re in it for the long haul. Ethan. What can I say? Your wisdom exceeds your years and my hope in your generation. I didn’t have expectations or I had none. Ya’ll have gone far ⬆️. Thanks for your contribution to my hope.
In a one-party system, the people fight the government. In a two-party system, the people fight primarily with each other.
Let's try 0 parties
Yeaaaah!!!!
I’m new here. My background: Burger King Drive-Thru Order Taker, Gas Station Attendant, Military Intelligence Analyst (phone tapper, friendly information aggressor/tested physical layers of access for base vulnerability assessments), Stay-At-Home Mom (for 15 yrs), and now a Paralegal-in-Training.
The other day, I had the realization that the current batch of foreigners are being moved into America because they don’t know how the system works over here. The old batch of foreigners (the ones that came in the early to mid 1900s), they’re figuring it out (at least their heirs are, I am). My great grandparents (on my mother’s side) immigrated from Hungry, Ireland, and Mexico. They were promised a better life and worked hard for low wages. My grandmother had a small laundry service and died from breast cancer at the age of 35. I believe the exposure to the detergent is what caused it. My mother worked in a steel mill for 22 years. Towards the end of that, the company had been sold and resold until the benefits that were promised had disappeared. The last company she worked with offered her a pension of $50/per month to leave, or she could start over from day one with no credit for the 22 years she worked. She stamped steel for most of her career, so her body/shoulder was wrecked by then. She took the pension and survives off my step dad’s retirement. He was also a steel worker, but he was at 30 years when the newest company had taken over.
The newest batch of foreigners believe they’re being handed an opportunity for a better life. The old batch knows they’re being replaced. The opportunities promised today will vanish tomorrow and a new batch will be brought in to replace old. It’s a pattern, and ties into prisoners fighting other prisoners while the warden and prison guards (politicians) all profit.
Wow! A life well experienced. Good for you.
The thing with the newer immigrants. Look what they did to that was he African? Helped our military on the ground and had cia or fbi or some kind of inside intelligence. So much all the time I’m getting my victims messed up. He’s the guy who for reasons unknown, had just received legal resident status in March or April and decides it would be a good idea to shoot two service members who were young and innocent and placed in horrible positions of patrolling non violent American streets. Way out of their purview and expertise.
We or “they” offered this dude the American dream then let him get a gun and shoot the same Americans who saved him and he saved in his homeland. YOU, my dear, hit the nail on the head. All 3 of these people are trumpfs victims. None should have been put in the place they were put.
War crimes. These are victims of atrocious crimes of a sick crime spree committed by the sickest U.S. Gov. we have seen in our lifetimes.
I’m glad we’re seeing it. The other option would be to stay blind and misled. This way is better.
Spiritually discerning people reject the hate between the Blue and the Red. We somehow know to hate another fellow human is not ok. Spirituality we know fighting for your “idol” is useless. It’s because our hearts are broken we need our tribal identity. If that identity becomes an “idol” we worship we are doing just what you are saying - blindly accepting our prison hood. Addicted to being “right” in our minds while foolishly missing the big picture.
The picture is huge - it goes all the way back to the beginning.
“Choose this day who you will serve.” All the warnings are there. We have become numb to truth in our desperate clinging to what we believe will take away our fear of being abandoned and left to survive alone, garbing at a straw filled with empty promises that monetarily fill our belly’s. Until now I never completely understood how the Hebrew Scriptures warned and condemned idolatry. We don’t build or forge a thing and bow down to it, calling it our god in this day and age or do we?
Btw, I haven’t written to Barack Obama yet - about affordable healthcare. I was just lucky to live in Colorado where they don’t give a shit about pre-existing conditions. (Oh, btw, I had a genetic liver disease - they don’t give alcoholics liver transplant - can’t be trusted.)
Ha! More common ground. I’ve been in recovery from alcoholism for the better part of 20 years. I don’t regret it.