Streptember

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I don't want to die.

What if I die in my sleep.

What if the house catches fire and I can't escape in time because I was asleep.

There are so many other things I could be doing.

I don't have enough life left.

What if I miss something important or cool.

What if there's a burglar when I'm asleep and it goes south and they murder me.

What if I have an aneurysm in my sleep.

What if I have a stroke in my sleep.

What if I have a heart attack in my sleep.

What if there's a gas leak and the house explodes while I'm asleep.

What if there's a CO leak and I just asphyxiate.

What if I just never wake up for no discernible reason.

I wanna play more video games.

I wanna browse the internet more.

I don't want to have the bad thoughts come back like they always do when I try to sleep.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Christian in what sense?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35PUIhDUFZo

Very relevant.

Basically, it's a combination of new foods and exposure to new bacteria.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

It doesn't, but that doesn't mean people can't believe that it does.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Beliefs and personal convictions muck that up a bit though.

There's a sadly significant portion of people who truly believe that being gay is hurting other people.

Whether they believe it only because they were told to or for some personal reason, they believe it nonetheless.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

What's out so far is good.

It's split up so that the releases after launch continue the main story of the expansion and are included in the price, so no more buying an expansion then having to be playing at a specific time or pay for the follow-up story.

The next part releases tomorrow, so we'll see how that stacks up.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

GW2 for the past 11 years, except for a stretch where I played ESO for a few months.

Community's mostly great. Cooperation between players is strongly fostered by the game's design (no kill or resource stealing, no competing for drops, etc), so players tend to get along in almost every PvE situation.

Lore is good, but not nearly as expanded upon as Warcraft's.

Gameplay is what makes it IMO. Skill effects and some gear skins can be a bit obnoxious, especially when you're in large groups for open world and World vs World, but it's still enjoyable. Don't play normal PvP, so can't comment on that.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

*bad new overwatch

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Highway 145, mile marker 78.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ultimately, the ideal (but incredibly unrealistic) solution would be a global, coordinated effort to immediately remove from power everyone who abuses their power along with a dedication to continuing to do so whenever another pops up, regardless of the personal cost. Bringing them down with us is only slightly less unrealistic.

I ultimately have no desire to see them suffer, I simply want them out of power, and I think that for the sake of the future, it's worth any cost that they might pay.

As John Brown said: “I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.” And he was right about that. If we cannot achieve a better future with little bloodshed, then we owe it to the future to achieve it with any amount of bloodshed necessary.

No amount of suffering that those in power experience could ever match the amount of suffering that forever failing to remedy the problem will cause to the quadrillions of humans that could exist in the future or even just the billions that exist now. If we humans unable to band together to eliminate threats, even those from within, then we will suffer like this forever. It's better to try and fail than to passively allow it to continue for the rest of history.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

If all there is is suffering for us, then why not ensure that those in power are along for the ride with us?

[–] [email protected] 54 points 10 months ago

It is.

Lack of sleep and leisure time will do more damage in the long run than the short term benefits of 16+ hours of learning a day will ever do good.

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