BigBenis
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- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 1 week ago:
It’s certainly plausible to survive the initial bombings by taking adequate shelter, you may even be able to stock up enough provisions to survive for several months. The problem is what follows.
Nuclear winter is hypothesized to change the climate to the point where growing food is impossible, potentially for several years. Any animals you can hunt before they eventually succumb to starvation will have been poisoned by the fallout, their meat contaminated.
The fallout will spread across the globe, making the air you breathe toxic, either by radiation poisoning or by any number of harmful construction materials such as asbestos which is now particleized and floating freely.
If by some miracle you do still cling to life by this point, you will either be completely alone or surrounded by people just as desperate to survive as you are. Only in fiction do either of those situations end well.
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 1 week ago:
Yeah, the heightened potential for nuclear annihilation is terrifying but there’s frankly nothing you can do to survive it. Even if you somehow lived though the bombings, there’s no corner of the globe where starvation nor irradiation would not reach. The Earth would be uninhabitable and death would be certain for most land animals.
It’s a tragic way to die and for the human race to cease to be. But it’s only death and that’s certain to happen one way or another. There are countless other ways you could die that are both within and beyond your control. Many are far more likely to happen than nuclear war. Do you fret about being killed in an accident every time you step into a car?
I know it’s a lot easier said than done but try to live in the now rather than the future. Plan for tomorrow but recognize that, unlike the present, the future is not guaranteed. Don’t take the present for granted, go do things that bring you fulfillment now because ultimately that is the only time that you have control over.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
In summary: Image
- Comment on Priorities 2 weeks ago:
Oh wow, that’s actually a really neat fact and explains a lot. TIL!
- Comment on Priorities 2 weeks ago:
The idea that you’re “supposed” to spend $X on a ring is absurd. Are you getting engaged to show off your wealth or to commit to a relationship? What does spending excessive amounts of money on a trinket have anything to do with the latter?
- Comment on Priorities 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t call myself frugal by any means, I generally support people spending their money on nice things that they find value in so long as they’re not living beyond their means.
That being said, IMHO dropping $5k on a ring makes you a god damn idiot.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 2 weeks ago:
I never pre-order. I broke that rule exactly once and pre-ordered No Man’s Sky, boy did they make a fool out of me. Never again.
There are plenty of games I play that are on early access, the qualifier is whether the game is in a playable state and is fun to play (by account of online reviews or friend’s recommendations).
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Gotta cancel midterm elections
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 4 weeks ago:
Another idea could be to see if local small businesses would be willing to sell your wares! I’ve seen stuff like handmade earrings and trinkets for sale at the register at small coffee shops in my town, plenty of other businesses also have paintings and photographs by local artists on the walls for sale. I have no insight on those agreements are made but I’d imagine they would ask for a commission.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 4 weeks ago:
You may have already looked into it and I’m not sure what the farmer’s market scene is where you are but I often see small scale makers selling wares at mine!
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 4 weeks ago:
“Turn your hobby into a business!”, they said. “It’ll be fun!”, they said.
- Comment on Thanks, Google. Very cool. 4 weeks ago:
My EV charging app sent me a wrapped-style email the other day. Full of stuff like the station that I used most often. It’s too much.
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 5 weeks ago:
The fundamental argument here is that it’s not the system which incentivizes abusers that is the problem but rather the abusers who exploit the system. Sure, we can have another working class revolution, keep capitalism around and build institutions that keep exploitation in check but given enough time those with capital and the power that it represents will chip away at those institutions, continuing the cycle and harming people in the process.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
This doesn’t bother me. It would bother me if 220 * 2 = 540. The equation in this meme should be something like 11 * 11= 121.
- Comment on Big Brother Is Watching Your Online Criticism of ICE Crackdowns 5 weeks ago:
Big Brother can suck my dick.
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 5 weeks ago:
47 Six pack is back.
Dayum, good for you!
- Comment on wow, I just found out that Donald Trump has been awarded inaugural FIFA Peace Prize 5 weeks ago:
Nobel should award Obama the inaugural Nobel World Cup. Trump would absolutely lose his shit.
- Comment on Statistically, probably with the beetles. 🪲 1 month ago:
Bees. So long as I stay on their good side they’re chill and they’ll protect me from the other options that want to eat me.
- Comment on Haha, Russia 🤏 1 month ago:
To be fair, it’s still at least 25% the size of the continental US, which isn’t insignificant. But that’s far from being about the same size as Africa as the projection depicts, not to mention only ~20% of it is even remotely hospitable.
- Comment on Screw your zodiac sign, tell me... 1 month ago:
Holy shit! #6 unlocked some deep memories that have been hidden away deep in my subconscious for at least 20 years.
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 1 month ago:
They perceive any act in service to anybody but themselves as weakness. People say they’re like this because they’re afraid of being seen as feminine and that may be true for some but I think many others just want to live in a world where they have no accountability and can take whatever they want while being praised by the people around them for the scraps they leave behind.
- Comment on Deep throat 2 months ago:
At this point I feel like it’s totally plausible that the real reason he’s fighting so hard to keep the Epstein files locked away is not because they implicate him in the sex trafficking of underaged children but rather they reveal that he engaged in gay sex with his now political rivals.
- Comment on grindr dump (in post body) 2 months ago:
As a human being, human beings are the worst. If it wasn’t for our tendency to completely dominate our environments, I don’t know why the world would put up with us.
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 2 months ago:
Microsoft are a bunch of pussies also release the Epstein files!
- Comment on i enjoy using drugs and that will never change 2 months ago:
I’ve been using cannabis for years and I love it. I am generally careful when it comes to developing dependencies. I check myself every once in a while and I don’t self medicate or pretend I’m taking it for pain or sleep or whatever. I take it because I like being high and I’m not ashamed of it.
I am worried about long-term effects. Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s really freak me out and it would suck if there turned out to be a link there. But there’s a good chance something else will kill me before I get there and I’m not sure I want to give up something I so thoroughly enjoy just to live a little longer.
I tried taking a hiatus in January. I read about mental clarity coming back and feeling more rested. I felt none of those things. I also didn’t feel any intense cravings or withdrawal symptoms. Just boredom and dissatisfaction with life in general and I don’t have a lot of hope of that changing with or without weed.
- Comment on Manic Stew 2 months ago:
Dissociative Banana Bread
- Comment on Fucking math... 2 months ago:
That’s a neat trick but also 4% of 75 = (1% of 75) * 4 = 0.75 * 4 = 1.5 * 2 = 3
- Comment on A young woman was sexually assaulted while out DoorDashing. Two days after she reported the assault to DoorDash, they deactivated her account and she can't access the money she's owed. 2 months ago:
Fuck I fucking hate this fucking country
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 2 months ago:
I was chatting with some folks the other day and somebody was going on about how they had gotten asymptomatic long-COVID from the vaccine. When asked about her sources her response was that AI had pointed her to studies and you could viscerally feel everybody else’s cringe.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 2 months ago:
I’m resisting the urge to jump to conclusions, however I can’t help but observe that objectively there seems to be a common denominator in your situation. Either way, it sucks that that’s been your experience and I hope things change for the better for you.
