A_Kanuck

Right now, I'm a 2nd year student in university doing Computer Science.

In my later years of high school and first few years in university, my parents (especially my dad), have been very much forcing me to study and getting yelling at me over a single bad mark. While it did give me good marks, it made me so stressed out that one day I just decided that I couldn't handle it anymore and resisted. At the time I also thought that if my parents kept on managing me like that, then I'll never really learn how to be truly independent and take control of myself.

After that, they did leave me alone. However, the next semester after that, I failed a course - something which has never happened before. I told myself that it was just a hard course at the time.

This semester, I have lowered my course load from 5 courses to 3. However, I'm always missing or being late to my classes (either it's because of bad time management, having to rely on the bus, or I just don't bother to show up, or I just woke up too late because of my sleep problems) and have a lot of missing quizzes/assignments. I also have never managed to pay attention during lectures and get myself to study as much as I need to and do my assignments on time (and no, I've found that rewarding myself doesn't really work). I just got my 1st midterm mark back and it was a 50%. I fear that this semester may go the same as the last one.

Over the last few semesters, because my dad has stopped forcing me to wake up at 7 AM, my sleep schedule has gone terrible. For example, yesterday I got to bed at 5 AM and get up at 2 PM and if I need to be at school by 11 AM, I get to bed only at around 2 - 3 AM and wake up at 9 - 10 AM and am usually late. Despite my efforts to force myself to go to bed earlier, I've failed. I believe the only thing that can make me go to bed and wake up on time is if either someone else was forcing me to or I had a completely unavoidable and super important reason to which I'd even be willing to sacrifice sleep for (and most days I just don't feel like that). I've tried melatonin and setting an alarm clock far away from my bed and it didn't really help.

I just feel like I really suck and am ashamed of what I've become. Any advice?

Honestly, I believe that this whole "Team Canada" response to Donald Trump's tariffs is just stupid and it will only end up hurting Canada much more than it would hurt the US. Compared to the US, our economy is so weak that the US wouldn't even care if we put 100% tariffs on all goods coming from the US into Canada or completely stopped buying all goods from the US.

I think that a much better response to Trump's tariffs would be to simply fix the Canadian border and stop relying on a single country for most of our trade. But no, thanks to Justin Trudeau, our parliament is currently prorogued, meaning that we currently can't pass any legislation and actually get to dealing with the problem and the Liberals refuse to un-prorogue parliament to buy time for the Liberals to allow them to choose their leader. Instead of actually solving the problem, they manufacture a crisis out of this whole scenario (when the solution is so simple).

Also, before you start saying that I'm not for Canada, I have to say that I am a Canadian citizen and that I want Canada to do well. I just don't agree with the Liberal "Team Canada" approach.

I also think that while Mark Carney is most likely going to become the leader of the Liberal party and our unelected Prime Minister, he's only going to make things worse for Canada. Here are my reasons:

1. He and the WEF were behind all of Justin Trudeau's bad policies. For example, it was initially Mark Carney's idea to implement the Carbon Tax, which has only made basically everything much more expensive and it ironically doesn't even help the environment at all. Not only that, but some of the same Liberal ministers who used to support the Carbon Tax are going against it. Mark Carney, however says that he's going to implement a permanent Carbon Tax.

2. He's a member of the WEF, a group that in my opinion appears on the surface to want to do things like end racism, end world hunger, stop climate change, and stuff like that, but when you dig deeper, they're downright power-hungry communists. For example, the WEF once had this ad (which they now deleted because nobody liked what they were saying), which you can watch here: https://youtu.be/omAk1gMyw7E. They literally say in the beginning "You'll own nothing. And you'll be happy. Whatever you want you'll rent and it'll be delivered by drone". Isn't that literally how ownership was in the USSR, except without the drones? I highly recommend watching the video and paying close attention to what they're saying. They also pride themselves in infiltrating cabinets in various countries including Canada (which I think is the exact definition of foreign interference): https://youtu.be/daE0jthD5F8. Not to mention that Klaus Schwab himself says that Vladimir Putin was educated by the WEF.

3. There are 2 basic principles for doing a psyop: message amplification and message suppression. Message amplification is basically when a certain message is being amplified, for example by using bots on social media that only say one thing or make the popular news organizations only say only the message that you want them to say. Message suppression is punishing those who give a message opposing yours and/or erasing their messages. I've noticed that there a lot of bots on Mark Carney's Facebook account that basically say positive things about him like "I've previously considered voting Conservative, but after this I've completely changed my mind! Voting for Mark Carney!". You can tell that most of the "people" who say stuff like this on his Facebook account are just bots. In addition, most of the mainstream news media, which is by the way mostly funded by the federal government and therefore have an interest in telling only the message that the government wants them to say, has recently become all pro Mark Carney, while the independent news media (which are not funded by government) are saying a different message. This is screaming psyop for me.

I don't mean to offend anyone here. I'm just voicing my opinion.