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I'm sorry, I'm not sure I understand. Who are "they," and what is "that" in your initial reply?

So? That's their problem. There are people who'd dance on my grave if I died tomorrow, too, and what they think has just as little bearing on my decision to keep living. Categorically irrelevant. You can't show someone the beauty and joy of living by dragging them through shame. Worse still, pegging your self-worth to others' suffering creates an implicit threshold, a thought stuck in the back of your mind: "What if the suffering I cause now is more than the momentary pain I'd cause by stopping?"

It feels good to tell people things like this. It's one of the most awful things to hear.

For years I lived right by the sea. I had plenty of alcohol and medications. the prevailing currents would've swept my body across the border into a hostile country, where no one who found it would've cared. I don't live to spare anyone else's feelings, not least those who would mourn me as dead for living the life I want to live. I live because I deserve it, I deserve my family's respect and care while we're both here, and I don't need anyone else's shame.

To live on solely for obligation and guilt isn't living at all, and anyone who wishes that on someone else just so they can remain a half-dead trophy they can congratulate themselves for "saving" can eat shit. If you're reading this and you need to hear something, keep going. Keep trying. We live in an insane world; sometimes you have to try the same thing over and over so you can get different results. Live another day and see what happens. Not for anyone else, but because it's a shame to miss out on this wild a ride.

This post honestly just pisses me off. Your life is worth living. Not your parents' child's life. Yours.

The tantalizingly close rat forcefem universe

edit: Actually this isn't worth dignifying with a response in the first place.

Who cares about whether it'll benefit the business, the business owners want a place to park their car out front of their workplace, and it doesn't matter who pays, how much, or if it's in blood.

Always fascinating how upset people get about someone being slightly weird on the website for weird people.

Are you aware that Bedouin exist? That an area not being solid fields and cities on a map doesn't mean people can just be resettled there without consequences? How Palestinians feel about Egypt, by and large?

counter strike tWo

In retrospect, the idea that creating a globally accepted alternative to the dollar would come with zero consequences to the system of global free trade it props up might just be the funniest bit of half-baked cryptobro ideology.

Yeah, it's only once the photons in front of it could already have gotten there, so it's like photons from the tail end of the pulse are catching up to the front as it emerges, even though they haven't even entered the cloud yet.

I think it comes free with a deeply embedded belief in the coming thousand year space reich- sorry, millenarian kingdom of heaven- sorry, era of cosmic endowment after infinite growth and Progress inevitably consume all available resources on earth. If growth is infinite, then eventually we'll need to put everything in space, so we may as well solve all the annoying little problems of practicality ahead of time to get a head start on manifest destiny. There are many roads to get there, but it's all but unavoidable once you start sincerely believing in exponential curves.