As for me:
Due to Christmas rapidly approaching my place earns increasing amounts of money.
It would be so easy to just snag a whole day of store income and forever vanish into another country.

52 points

Petting ducks at the park

permalink
report
reply
14 points

Someone likes to live on the edge

permalink
report
parent
reply
7 points

They’re free. You can just take one. No one will stop you.

permalink
report
parent
reply
6 points

The ducks might.

permalink
report
parent
reply
3 points

Only if you have no skill…git güd foo

permalink
report
parent
reply
46 points

Definitely don’t rob the store Mandy. Disappearing is much harder than it seems before you try it. It is getting hard to find and claim a birth certificate of someone plausible and reinvent yourself.

I’m one step away from concluding that if I can’t survive and am facing homelessness with my physical disability, I should consider that what it is, an act of war.

permalink
report
reply
13 points
*

Dont worry, i wont
But as intrusive thoughts sometime do? getting kinda loud ya know

Edit: thank you for the consolation

permalink
report
parent
reply
31 points

Honestly? The forever nap; I already tried once this year and shit hasn’t been looking up since then.

permalink
report
reply
52 points

23 years ago I met a guy at work that was really cool. We became friends of a sort, in the way that a shy introvert considers friends. Every once in a while he’d invite me to hang out with his friends, which was always a good time. I’m not sure if he considered me a friend. I always felt like an outsider in those groups. But he was kind to me, and I love him. Eventually we both moved away from that area. I’m not good at keeping in touch, especially over long distances. For instance, my brother lives a couple of states away, I love him to death, and we talk maybe once a year.

So I’d call my friend every once in a while, and we’d catch up.

Eighteen years ago I lost my friend to depression. The details aren’t important. How he did it. Who found him. The 3 am phone call. But it was 18 years ago. It still hurts. You think you’ll always have someone, that they’re just a phone call away. That you’ll get to hear their weird take on that thing we’d always argue about. That you’ll get to hear his latest poem…

And you’ll always wonder if you could’ve done something to help them stay.

People don’t realize that they bring light to the world. That they’ll be missed. That there will be a hole in the world where they were. That they are loved more deeply and profoundly than they can know. The memory of them is a poor substitute for their presence.

Don’t go too soon. You will be missed.

permalink
report
parent
reply
7 points

Is it fair to latch the world onto people thinking like this? To chain them to suffering for years and years because any random person they interact with might be sad later?

It sucks that you feel pain from losing a friend, but does that pain outweigh the pain they were trying to escape from?

permalink
report
parent
reply
11 points

Anyone planning on doing this, please think of the CEO’s…

permalink
report
parent
reply
3 points

I’m with you. This year has been incredibly difficult

permalink
report
parent
reply
28 points
*

I’ve been struggling with the opinion for many years now that blowing up oil infrastructure is not only morally sound, but not doing it is a moral failure.

I’m not the right kind of person to get out there and do it myself, but you aren’t going to catch me condemning someone who does.

permalink
report
reply
7 points

buy a drone, it’s a fun hobby

permalink
report
parent
reply
4 points

I understand the dangers of climate change and pollution and I fully support moving away from oil as an energy source. But I’m genuinely curious about how you see destroying oil infrastructure playing out.

permalink
report
parent
reply
6 points

There have been groups doing this for quite a while in many detrimental industries. There was a documentary a while back about one of them (earth liberation front) that eventually got caught. They did extensive work to ensure workers at those facilities weren’t injured and it was just property destruction.

I have to think if enough property was destroyed the owners would run out of money and investors to build more

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points

Sure, but we are a long way from not being dependent on oil even by the most aggressive timelines. Destroying a significant amount of oil infrastructure while we still use it would cripple supply chains, transportation, etc and we wouldn’t be able to move to renewable sources as quickly because there would be significantly fewer resources available.

Like I said, I’m fully supportive of moving away from oil because I know how damaging it is. But I just don’t see a realistic way to get rid of oil that quickly.

permalink
report
parent
reply
4 points

Don’t say that on social media. If you’re gonna do that, just do it. Climate activists have done it before and it’s most certainly more effective than the majority of climate activism I see.

permalink
report
parent
reply
27 points

There is one on everybody’s mind in light of recent events lol

permalink
report
reply
16 points
*

There’s was nothing off the cuff about that dude’s actions, though. He was very smart, and if he’s caught because he could only afford a hostel it’ll feel unfair.

permalink
report
parent
reply
10 points

Touche, online keyboard warrior aint cut out for whatever this man did.

Best we can do is press X to pay respects

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points

Involuntary demotion

permalink
report
parent
reply
-3 points

Main reason not to do it, is to see if this AI revolution leads to something better.

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point

They have no moat, but boats are expensive

permalink
report
parent
reply

Asklemmy

!asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Create post

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it’s welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Icon by @Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de

Community stats

  • 7.1K

    Monthly active users

  • 3.7K

    Posts

  • 82K

    Comments