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Re: R U OK?

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Post by Viliam1234 » Sat, Sep 12, 2020, 1:35 PM UTC

parliament32 wrote: post #148

ericmcer wrote: post #142

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My favorite example of this comes from my ~10 years working at grocery stores before I made it into the tech industry. An older lady would come in and just clean us out of our cheap ground beef. This was at trader joe's, we sold 1 pound plastic wrapped cubes for $2.99. She would come in and buy ~20 every week. I finally asked her what she was doing with all this ground beef and she explained how it was for her two bi…

I don't want this to sound like an attack but what's the issue? Heaven forbid someone feeds their pets the food they're supposed to eat instead of some hyper-processed and unregulated sawdust pellets.

Governments spend a lot of money on agricultural subventions, especially on meat and milk production. So from the perspective how the taxpayer money is spent, these specific pets probably got more financial support than several poor families combined.

Of course, this is mostly a problem of the system being designed so that it is trivial to abuse it. But currently, the system is what it is, and the lady's behavior is what it is.

Re: R U OK?

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Post by Ma8ee » Sat, Sep 12, 2020, 9:26 PM UTC

justforyou wrote: post #202

Ma8ee wrote: post #175

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Yes, but most of those problems have other, less wasteful solutions. We don’t have to live sprawled out far away from our workplaces, and we don’t each and every one need to move our own 1500 kg vehicle to get somewhere in urban areas.

The notion of vehicles ro travel distances is not the problem. Engineering said vehicles as mechanically inefficient depreciating status symbols is the problem.

It certainly is. Even if the cars were cheap and electrical, they would still be noisy (road noise), dangerous (mostly to pedestrians and bicyclists) and use up ridiculous amount of real estate for streets and parking that should be used for better things.

Re: R U OK?

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Post by birksherty » Wed, Sep 16, 2020, 9:28 AM UTC

dragonsky67 wrote: post #195

cmehdy wrote: post #144

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Death is always close. You can always throw yourself under a train, or a car can hit you while crossing the road. Heart attack. Robbery. Whatever it is. Keeping some distance between you and a designed act to end yourself comfortably is helpful because when you're in a state of despair you do need to take some perspective before impulsively acting. Impulses are powerful and very often not something we actually wanted…

Please dont ever suggest people end it all by throwing themselves under a car, train truck or anything else controlled by somebody. Nobody should ever have to live with the fact they were driving a vehicle that somebody used to end it all. Why distroy two lives. Pretty selfish making somebody live with the consequences of your decision.

I don't agree. Society does not allow others to leave when they wish peacefully, so if that happens they will have have to live with the consequences. You can't have it both ways.

Re: R U OK?

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Post by hackerman123469 » Wed, Sep 16, 2020, 2:11 PM UTC

slx26 wrote: post #88

hackerman123469 wrote: post #72

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You're right you don't sound depressed. You however, sound very very negative.

People with mental health problems will be negative and tricky to deal with. If you can't help, just stay away, but please refrain from criticising, don't make it even harder for them.

I don't think you should lecture me on mental health problems. I am already diagnosed with mental health problems.

I was just asserting what he said and what it came off as.