Good on ya, I've been in a shitty situation but I'm aiming for moderation rather than abstinence but neither is easy and both are, .... roads to traverse. (My previous housing situation was full of crackheads which is not where I'm at.)

Whatever it takes. I've been keeping myself structured with early morning appointments and one family member who's helping me despite most of my family probably wishing I was just dead. I'm lucky in that regard, I have someone who gives a shit and monetarily made that clear. (Beyond prayer and hopes, which are fuckin' useless.) If I didn't have just that single one thread, I dunno where I'd be.

I still have that map book on my shelf and whenever I see it, I think of that trip and all those people we met.

Awesome. Truly.

I use Ublock Origin with Firefox and it works well on my win10 laptop. I use Brave on my Ipad and it works "alright-ish" but well enough. There are a lot of options to remove the ads. Highly recommend checking some out.

Free (government funded) AI workshop for resumes, coverletters, and job hunting.

Most of it was useless but some of it was extremely informative.

I forget the exact statistic (from StatsCanada per my instructor) but a high percent (50-75) of resumes get auto-rejected by something called ATS. Basically an automated system for HR. And sometimes it can be something as simple as the system noticing you're using AI...

Let that sink in for a sec there. AI rejecting you for using... AI. OOF.

Bring up newer Star Trek and Star Wars around nerds and watch the world burn. 😈

I've been scheduling things early when I could've scheduled them in the afternoon just to keep me from sleeping all morning and help keep me/create somewhat of a routine.

Day drinking. :)

My grandmother would only buy homeless people food if they accepted a bible with it.

In my 20s I had something of the opposite and had a number of women interested in me who were themselves in relationships, while I was not. Enough of a ratio compared to women who were single who were interested in me (which was not a high number) that I started to wonder why.

I'm not particularly outgoing either. Probably just statistics/chance, but I always wondered if there was something to it I was unconsciously contributing to.

Watch a movie/show you're very familiar with, the kind of movie you know line for line in some (or many) parts.
Watch it in insert language and you'll have an exact comparison for those lines already stuck.

You'd have to advertise an anti-advertisement campaign. 🥲

But seriously, I think most of this concern would fall under a subsection of a comprehensive Privacy Act.

Depending on how serious you are (but maybe not "police" serious) and also your financial situation, this is the kind of stuff a Private Investigator can do.