MystikIncarnate

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.

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.

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.

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.

That's not really what the meme is saying.

It's more, if my life were to end spontaneously, I would be okay with that. As long as I'm still alive, however, I will continue to make efforts to stay alive.

The feeling, which I share, is more acceptance/apathy, more than giving up when things go wrong. I don't want to starve to death as much as the next person. But I Thanos snapped his fingers and I was dusted, that's good. I'm okay with that.

I don't want to die painfully, I don't seek death. I just don't have any strong feelings about not existing anymore.

My main thing that pushes me towards being a striminal is that every service has all exclusive content.

If I wasn't too watch star trek or star wars, hello Disney+. Stranger things? Netflix. The list is long, I won't bore you with what you're probably aware of.

Moving to bring a striminal, as they say, you can watch what you want, when you want, where you want. You get everything in one place, and don't have to flip flop between services to simply see what's available.

The cost of all of the services is a problem, sure, because it's so damn costly for all of them combined. But that's not my primary factor. It's just so damned inconvenient to maintain so many disconnected accounts, and agglutinate all of the information into a sensible list of what's new or available across all services.

I just want it to be easy and they've intentionally made it not easy.

I won't comment if, or how many Linux ISOs I may or may not have.

This is exactly the first thing that comes to mind. There's surely a large number of average people, who don't care or have any interest in what Elon has been doing, or anything else....

People who can't readily afford to just throw away a vehicle because the owner of the company is a shithead.

But yeah. Fuck cyber trucks. Never liked those eyesores anyways

I saw the writing on the wall when Tesla actively worked against people attempting to repair their vehicles. They wouldn't sell parts for a long time.

They made it into a walled garden. If you owned an EV, you fit into one of two categories: Tesla owners, and everyone else.

IMO, they thought that since they were the only game in town for a while, and have been the largest player in the EV space, they can do whatever they want. Over time, that has not worked out in their favor.

Every product they have must be tracked and traced to a user account. There's no way to own/operate a Tesla without an account.... Mostly. And because of this, I've been heard saying that, I like the technology and on average, the vehicles Tesla makes, but I don't like the company, or their business practices, so I would probably never own one.

The only practical way to get by is to hack the software in the vehicle, and to me, that really shouldn't be necessary. But it is. They're worse than John Deere in my books.

I'm any case, I generally don't support vandalism, especially when it's in the realm of "destruction of property". The people who bought the cars could be victims all the same, so I don't want to presume that someone has the means to just throw out a $100k+ vehicle because the owner of the company that made it is a tosser.

No. I more feel sympathy for those folks. They didn't ask for this. They're not necessarily guilty of anything simply because they own/drive a Tesla.

I would associate most of these concepts with GNU more than Linux.

Richard Stallman is a hero.

Torvalds isn't half bad either

I've always liked Torvalds' blunt style.

Sometimes it works against him, but at least he's consistent about it.

Also, where do I sign up for my atheist card?

Fair enough. I honestly just think they can't see the forest because of all the trees in the way.

They'll cry foul on someone insisting on being called by they/them pronouns, arguing that it's an incorrect usage of they/them, or whatever the argument of the week is, then immediately use they/them pronouns for an individual in a different context without batting an eye, or even realizing what they've done.

Ignorance and hypocrisy.