I can recall an 'artisinal' chocolate brand in Brooklyn doing this about fifteen years ago, taking cocoa from the Dominican Republic to Brooklyn via sailboat.
The author's name seemed vaguely familiar. He was involved in the 2011 email leaks from Stratfor and spent time in prison for it. Although the article notes that he "declared political asylum in the United Kingdom in 2021 and currently lives in London", it looks as though his request for asylum was denied earlier this year.
Addons are one part of it. At my current job at a financial services company, there are plugins to access the firm's internal analytics library, the risk system, as well as to integrate with the front end trading systems and external vendors such as Bloomberg.
In New York, the Staten Island Ferry is free, but you still pass through turnstiles to enter. I assume that that is how they get usage data even though no one needs to buy tickets.
I'm embarrassed that people put so much stock in a gloss of Steinbeck. The original text that is paraphrased to produce this ``quotation'' says something completely different than what people ascribe to it.
A different answer from AA, but there are medications such as naltrexone or campral that can help reduce cravings.
I personally have not tried it, but some people use a system called The Sinclair Method (TSM) whereby you take naltrexone prior to drinking, and it is supposed to reduce both the enjoyment you get from alcohol as well as your craving for it, so you would end up drinking much less than normal. I know on reddit, r/Alcoholism_Medication/ has a lot of discussion and resources on it.
https://ediblebrooklyn.com/2011/the-mast-brothers-live-up-to...