MystikIncarnate

joined 2 years ago
[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 months ago

I don't have strong feelings one way or another, with one exception: why in the hell did anyone think it was okay to own a person and why the fuck did it continue for as long as it did?

That's seriously fucked up.

I'm not a person of color, so I don't think my opinion matters much in the discussion. Black history is just a part of the history of humanity. It should not be erased, it should be viewed as a lesson, like most of the rest of history.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

They forget. We burned down the white house once, and we'll fucking do it again.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

As long as their line goes up, they don't give a fuck about the environment.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 months ago

Honestly, at this point, this sounds like the optimistic outlook.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

AFAIK: Gentoo used to be just source repos, but times have changed. Gentoo repos now have binaries. You can opt out of them, so it's up to you.

With binaries, it works like any other distro. Download the updated binaries, install, done.

If you go from source, then it will download all the source code, and do the whole makefile thing, and install the new binaries when the compile is done, every time you do an update.

So the direct answer to your question is: it depends. If you're compiling everything then yes, you need to recompile everything that is updated. If you're going to opt for binaries in the package manager, then no.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 months ago

Was Valentine's recently?

Time has lost all meaning

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

As a person who did this for a job in my youth, may I first say, fuck you and the horse you rode in on.

As a worker, collecting stray carts that people left around the parking lot ate up the most time and was the least productive time I've ever spent while working. Also, at the store I worked at was fairly popular, on busy days, just collecting carts from the corrales took up enough time that I didn't really have time left over to make up for you being a lazy asshole.

As a consumer, I put away other people's stray carts, not only for the reasons above but because I don't want the cart demon to direct the carts into my car and cause it any damage. I also don't want my discarded cart to end up causing damage to anyone else's car. So fuck you for creating an easily avoidable problem that has the potential to damage my property. You suck.

Objectively, returning your cart is the correct, and proper path to take. However, nobody will arrest you, or fine you for not doing it. It is purely voluntary, but universally recognized as the right thing to do. Since you do not do it, what does that mean about you as a person? I think it means you're a dickhead.

Stop being selfish and lazy, then justifying it with "someone gets paid to do that". No, that's not the reason. The reason is that you're a terrible person, an asshole, and a dickhead.

So I reiterate: fuck you, and the horse you rode in on.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I'm not American, but it seems to me, that to get to where you currently are, the legislative branch probably needed to be already busted.

This just shines a spotlight on how busted.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

I think it depends on the speed of the train. If it's not going very fast, yeah, probably.

But stand in front of a bullet train and you'll be a mist before you can register any pain.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

I have nothing but sympathy for your plight. I hope you feel better and the ideations are, at the very least, subdued. (Hopefully entirely eliminated at some point).

Only once was I in such a bad place to have ideations. I got out of that place and it's incredibly brave to experience that and continue on in spite of it. It's something that most people don't understand until they live through it at least once. I don't assume what worked for me would work for you. I am not a doctor or medical professional. I hope your medical support team has helped you and I hope they continue to help you.

All that being said, I'm the kind of person who doesn't have any strong feelings about ceasing to exist. I don't want to die; dying sounds like a horrible, painful, and unpleasant experience. I don't seek death at all, and thankfully, at least for now, I do not have any ideations. However, if I were to suddenly stop existing as a living person, I am not opposed to it as a concept.

For me, and people like me, it's more apathy and indifference to living, than it is a wanton desire to not be alive. The two are very very different.

None of this should diminish the fact that some struggle with a desire to continue to live at all. For those who fight those thoughts: please, get help if you have not already done so. There are people who care about you and want good things for you. If you can't bring yourself to do it for yourself, then do it for them. You are valuable. You are worthy.

All the best, from an Internet stranger.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

How did you get this picture of me?

Seriously though. If I die, I don't have any strong feelings about that. I do however, have strong feelings about how I die. I don't want to go out from some drug overdose, starvation, by getting crushed by gravity (fall damage), or in some violent crime.

But if I can just blink out of existence.... That's okay with me. Get hit by a train and turned into mist, okay. Seems oddly specific but I can go with it.... Snapped out of existence by Thanos. Awesome, seems like it should be painless.

Stabbed 47 times, in the street for the Nickles in my pocket? No thanks. That sounds horrible. Starving? Choking on my own vomit from a drug overdose? Getting shot and bleeding out on the sidewalk? Falling to my death? No thanks. All of those seem like really unpleasant and painful ways to die.

I don't actively seek death, but if it comes for me, I am a willing participant.

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