pixeltree

I first started having suicidal ideation in middle school. Two out the the three coworkers I'm close to are on the same antidepressant as me. It's been weird watching depression become widespread and talked about over the last decade or so.

Well then what happens if I kill myself again

I just want somebody I can play strategic (in the looser sense) board games with at a level compatible with me tbh.

Are there any American made printers?

Imagine for a second, that you've been looked down on, seriously, in your career, for being a man. Imagine it's a common attitude that men are only suitable for manual labor. You study, learn, and work hard to become a male pioneer of space travel. You've put up with all the discouragement for being male, overcome it all. And then, when you actually get up to the space station with your colleagues, they give you more shit for being male. It doesn't really matter if they're joking, because to you, it's the reality that you face. We might find that kind of joke funny because it's kind of absurdist. To us, it's not something that would happen seriously. But, there are people out there who legitimately hold that belief and women have to deal eith them. We don't. I think that's really the core of it. To the jokers, it's funny, because it's not reality. To the jokee, it's how life is sometimes, it's not absurd, it's not fake, it's not a joke.

Of course, context matters, what you and your close friends and family find funny and joke about is entirely up to you all. Just the workplace, with people you're not close to, is definitely not the time and place for it.

Out of curiosity, why does sex need a purpose? Why should it be or not be for anything in particular? What makes it any different from, say, juggling?

Sex work isn't just prostitution, by the way. It's anyone making a living off of sexual content. If you're shooting porn or are a cam girl, you're a sex worker as well.

Prostitution is problematic in that currently, because it's an illegal service, it's largely being performed by people who don't have a choice in the matter. Human trafficking is a huge problem. If prostitution were legalized and regulated, if the societal "we" changed our collective attitudes towards it, life would improve for a lot of people. I struggle to phrase this next bit in a tactful way. If you're against improving the lives of so many people because it doesn't align with your view of sex should be for, that's pretty shitty of you. Not saying that's the case, I don't live inside your head, but that's how I see it.

What people don't realize is that the extinction of humanity has already begun. The population is going to start plummeting as the rate of people not having children accelerates and the elderly start dying off. As climate change worsens, food production is going to procedurally decrease, and as the workforce shrinks logistics will fail. There will be widespread famine, people are going to be priced out of being able to eat. There will be violence over this, but the damage is done--no amount of revolution will be enough to restore the production and transportation of food to high enough levels to feed everyone. As more and more people die off, the problem will only accelerate. "Oh rich people will survive", people say. Sure, but for how long? With a global failure of logistics and communication, it's not like your money would really be able to buy much, if you can even access your wealth. Humanity is fucked, enjoy life while you can now. If you can.

I do what I can, reduce consumption and minimize waste, but it's not like it'll matter. It's still worth it to try, though. It's like a heroic last stand, just on a much much much slower and less glorious scale.

He's still sharp, and there's literally no one I trust more to do the job tbh.

Can't have america without political dynasties

From what it sounds like, the song isn't "criticizing hamas", it's celebrating the mass murder and systematic starvation of an entire ethnic group of people. That's fucked up. If isreal wasn't systematically starving an ethnic group to death and systematically murdering journalists and people providing aid, there wouldn't be much upset about isreal waging war against hamas, because then it would actually be war against hamas and not genocide of the palestinian people.

Dean Kamen is so cool to me, because he's pretty unknown but has had such a positive impact on the world, especially with his STEM outreach to school kids. I got to meet him once briefly after the FRC national championship in 2014, he was going somewhere but still stopped to talk to us briefly and I thanked him and he signed my team hat.

I do appreciate the poetry posting