# (Old) Alexa, start the MMP

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**Created:** [January 20, 2025, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-alexa-start-the-mmp/1013150 "2025-01-20T12:09:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2025, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-alexa-start-the-mmp/1013150/395 "2025-01-25T21:14:45Z")

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> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#):
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> > [@Chefguy](#):
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> > It’s only been five days and it’s only going to get worse until it all implodes. Pace yourself, live our lives until it’s over. Please.
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> Agreed. I’ll continue to resist as much as I can, staying informed, engaging proactively and positively in local governance, holding state politician’s feet to the fire with emails and phone calls to their offices and certainly never, ever missing submitting a ballot no matter how local or mundane the ballot. I volunteer several times a year as a polling place judge so that everybody can vote their conscience through the ballot box, even though we might disagree heartily.
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> I’m intentionally avoiding doomscrolling on FaceBook or Next Door, I choose my forums here carefully. No TV news, no CNN, etc. I read two newspaper daily, the NYT and my pathetic local paper on line through the public library. Plus news or opinion stories that get offered here on the Dope. Backing away from Doomscrolling starting the morning of Nov 6th helped greatly.
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> Maybe you can helpfully ‘break’ the tv for a few days so she can detox and detach from all the agita, gloom and doom about which we mere civilian mortals can do so little. p

I am trying to keep a balance of being informed and maintaining sanity but I have not quite figured that out yet.

Some of it has impacted me personally so I need access to whatever information is out there.

I am already noting a huge increase in anxiety and subsequent paralytic anhedonia. I’m trying but it’s a process.

Anhedonia/anxiety was so bad today I could not motivate myself to go the store for essentials.

But I’m a chubby girl so I will survive.

I have peanut butter cups and Pepsi.

Will try again tomorrow.

Right now I am trying to motivate myself to get a shower and get dressed lol!

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