Tedesche

@Tedesche@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Overpopulation will only become an issue due to the artificial scarcity and greed of capitalism rather than the actual population⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  <Snickers in North Korean.>

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Funny ⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Religious people are objectively the worst.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No, that’s a fact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Xenogears. Just off the top of my head.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I suppose because it’s insulting to the fact that there are good games out there that actually deserve attention.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If it was an RPG that was even close to contending for that title, I would acquiesce to it. As it stands, I think the burden of proof is on the person making the claim. Personal taste is personal taste, and that’s fine, but if you’re going to make bold claims like this, you should have to be burdened with the duty of backing it up. I don’t accept that this reporter’s personal opinion matters more than the RPG fans’ opinions as a whole. For them to make such a bold claim on such a public forum means they need to provide substantial evidence for it.

  Let’s get back to basics though: this was a bold statement done in an article title to get clicks. You can tell talk till sunrise about a person’s right to have their own opinion, but this isn’t really what’s going on. This is a journalist making a hyperbolic statement to get clicks. Fuck them. Fuck them and their marketing strategy. Tell me it’s not exactly that: a marketing strategy. Tell me it’s not a ploy to bolster the author’s career. Tell me there’s something substantial underneath this that warrants serious attention, rather than a click-bait article that’s meant to incite anger and garner clicks that way. How much does your contention that this reflects a genuine opinion stand up to the idea that it’s just a cheap attention grab?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “The greatest RPG ever made?” Not even close. Why do titles need to be this hyperbolic?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epstein puts my morality into perspective⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Morality and laws are for the plebs. If you’re rich or powerful enough, you get to do whatever you want, so long as you don’t harm another rich or powerful person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Viewers like you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To you. To others, it means something quite different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a balancing act. You have to learn how to gauge when you’re getting overly-stressed/depressed by news consumption and stop doing it. Limit yourself to engaging with it in short bursts, so you can keep up with the general knowledge of what’s happening, while not getting bogged down in the details.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who's got the morbs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The unsightly morbin’ dour drainers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you see magic eye pictures?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I couldn’t for most of my life, but then I just tried about two years ago and it clicked. I’ve been able to ever since. It’s a cognitive skill. Once you learn it, it’s like riding a bike. I hate to make it sound as exclusive as it is, because that’s what turned me off of it to begin with, but it really is true. Just figure it out and it’s like a code that you can decode at will.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really see how that’s possible, but okay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, well, I guess stupid people gonna suffer then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see how you could survive a shotgun blast to the back or top of your mouth, much less a bomb. At the very least, the brain stem is vaporized, and you can’t survive without that. I suppose if you turned the barrel to the side and just blew out your cheek and jaw, perhaps, but that’s being stupid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, my point was simply that it’s not hard to kill yourself, like the OP asserted. Obviously, many people would have other considerations in mind (e.g. pain, the state of your body afterwards, etc).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is NOT difficult to kill yourself intentionally, at all.

  • Make a simple, strong slip knot to use as a noose, secure it somewhere that will support your body weight, tie your hands behind your back so that you can’t easily get out of the restraints, and jump off a ledge of some kind. It won’t break your neck and you’ll die agonizingly, but you will almost certainly die of asphyxiation. Even more effective if you tie yourself up in weights and jump into deep water.
  • Shotgun. Easily procurable in America. Stick in mouth with buckshot and pull trigger. Messy, but effective.
  • Lots of ways to make powerful bombs with materials you can find in stores. Make one and set it off in your mouth.
  • Lock yourself in a room with carbon monoxide. So long as no one’s coming to get you, it’s a nice, peaceful way to go out.
  • Snort a sugar cube’s worth of fentanyl.
  • Sever any major artery and get in a bathtub full of water so the wound can’t seal easily. Cope with the pain until you pass out. As long as no one finds you, you dead.

  I could go on, but I think I’ve been morbid enough.

  Thankfully, suicidal impulses are just that: impulses. They are relatively short-lived (10-20 minutes on average) and then they pass. You may still be depressed, but the urge to end it all is no longer there, for most people. One of the best things you can do when you’re feeling suicidal is just to go to sleep. When you wake up, you’ll likely feel better. The vast majority of people who attempt suicide and live regret it almost immediately, and most of them do not attempt it again.

  However, there are people who enter long suicidal states, where they’ve genuinely made up their mind to end their lives. With these people, no matter what the psychiatric intervention is, short of permanently restraining them, they will almost always find a way to kill themselves. The truth is you cannot stop a person who is truly intent on ending their life. And I for one am very thankful for that, because living should always be a choice. We should not be in the business of forcing people to live torturous, agonizing lives from which there is no real escape or remedy. Everyone should have the option of “getting off the ride” if they so choose. Ultimately, it’s no one’s business but their own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Viewers like you⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What is this “long history” you speak of? Point to it for me. Demonstrate you know what you’re talking about.

  Believe me, I have no love of conservatives, but you still have to back up your points with facts.

  It’s very easy to debunk Trump’s points with facts because he has none.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Viewers like you⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LOL, then your point is garbage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Viewers like you⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would recommend we stop using a term altogether and simply make our points. Words can always be deconstructed and redefined. The fact that we create and cling to them is our own fault. “Woke” was a term created by the Left and redefined by the Right. It’s very frustrating to me how we’ve totally cooperated with way the Right is redefining the term by responding to it as though they have a legit understanding of it. Which we have done simply by responding. So many of us are like “they don’t know what it means!” But they do. We defined it for them, and now we just don’t like that they’re using it to attack us. The definition of “woke” is “liberal bullshit.” And it has meaning to all conservatives; the fact that liberals think it’s meaningless doesn’t matter. We don’t even use the term anymore, because we’ve acquiesced to the conservative definition. That means they’ve won, with respect to that specific term. So, stop using it. Let them have it. Move on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Viewers like you⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooh, sick burn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Viewers like you⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re just plain wrong. As evidenced by the mainstream media using it as such. They’re not pandering to Nazis. They’re pandering to mainstream liberals, and they see it as a negative term. Go cry to them. Boo-hoo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Viewers like you⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yea, because right wing propaganda has turned it into a pejorative.

  LOL, it hasn’t done that in its own. Stop giving them more influence than they’re due. Woke language even has librarais cringing, and it’s not because they oppose the message.

  Woke messaging has a problem with exaggeration, the same as all political messaging does. You guys say things like “all gender identities are social constructs,” when that’s clearly not the case. You say things like “all racism is due to systemic racism,” when clearly that’s not the case. People see this. They’re not stupid. They see that your assertions are wrong. I align with the message, I really do, but I’m tired of “woke” messengers fucking up our message with their hyperbolic bullshit. This plays right into Trump’s hands! And until you dipshits see it, he will continue to take advantage and win. So, I’m sorry if you don’t like me pointing it out, but you’re the fucking problem!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Viewers like you⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s real simple: woke has a negative connotation for a reason. I won’t deny that the context is complex, but if you think most people react positively to the phrase, you’re living under a rock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Viewers like you⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For someone who’s so “woke” you’re really societally unaware. But I guess that might be the point….

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's not⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Coach Z?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe stop labeling them the “enemy” with posts like these?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna mute this one⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds like wherever you are does not have adequate services for their homeless population. That’s a serious problem, and I would obviously advocate for the expansion of said services over sleep-prevention measures added to park benches.

  But I am a therapist with experience working with homeless people, and contrary to what you apparently think, my experience does give me expertise on their lives. Where I live, they do have options. I’m sorry your state doesn’t serve its homeless population as well as mine. We can both agree that’s a bad thing. What we disagree on is that this simple park benches feature is/isn’t an “attack” on homeless people. I also hold the position that methadone clinics are a disservice to opioid addicts—due to my extensive experience with that population who are still addicted to opioids, and whose methadone clinics actively encourage them to remain on methadone rather than titrate off of it. Are you going to tell me that being against that is an “attack” on heroin addicts?

  I’m sorry you’ve had the experiences you’ve had, but my position is entirely defensible, and you haven’t presented me with any evidence to the contrary. Moreover, your contention that I’m a “bad” therapist because of it speaks volumes about your naïveté regarding my profession.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna mute this one⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As I said to another commenter, “anti-homeless” measures like these make zero sense if there aren’t resources for the homeless available. I’m sorry, it doesn’t sound like resources were available to you, and that truly sucks. Your state should do better.

  However, in places where resources are available, homeless people still sometimes refuse to utilize them, and then measures like this become valid and utilitarian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna mute this one⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not where I live. There are plenty of options for the homeless in my city, but we still have problems with homeless people taking up public space because they would rather be left alone and not address their problems.

  Do you think I’m lying? Can you not empathize with this problem? Do you really think all homeless people flock to the resources available to them? None of them resort to vagrancy at all? Do you think the inventors of these bench features had steepled fingers and were like, “Let’s fuck these homeless MFers even harder!”?

  Providing resources only goes so far. As a therapist, I can easily tell you that merely making help available does not guarantee the needy will come get help. Sometimes, you have to make it impossible for people to escape the consequences of their actions before they’ll do the work necessary to get better.