Yeah if being runover was a concern I'd definitely also not listen to music for sure.
I do actually like those sounds as well, just not every day on my way out for chores obviously.
It's interesting how some people by way of their responses seem to suggest "a walk" and "a run" are something special a unique, and not their main and only way of getting around, probably as a result of car-centric design of some places and zoning laws?
I take it that's the case for you as well, because of how you phrased "a walk or a run"? I've personally never gone for "a run" as an adult, but I rack up thousands of steps daily just getting my groceries home so I can eat food.
How the fuck is the DC-10 still flying. We all know that shit killed the Concorde, right? Like it's such a busted piece of crap that it had aluminium shit flying off of it down on the runway, and that's the debris that caused the Concorde crash?
I think if anything being humbled by some random website that showed that suicide wasn't a good idea not because it's wrong to die or some sentimental bullshit about being loved or whatever, which no one can really tell you as they don't know and for all they know it could absolutely be true that you're unloved and unneeded, but because statistically I'd fuck it up and be in pure agony for minutes with most methods - actually prepared me for how harsh life could be quite well.
Actually being shown truthful and detailed information about suicide methods helped me avoid it as a youth. That website has since been taken down due to bs regs or some shit. If I were young now I'd probably ask a chatbot and I'd hope they give me crystal clear, honest details and instructions, that shit should be widely accessible.
On the other hand all those helplines and social ads are just depressing to see, they feel patronising and frankly gross, if anything it's them that should be banned.
Specifically they care about him being a hypocrite about having gay sex. Emphasis on the "having gay sex" part. Actually they don't care about him being a hypocrite.
./TEXT/001/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030716.txt:6:Ask him if Putin has the photos of Trump blowing Bubba?
./TEXT/001/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015032.txt:698:And remember that awful piece of gossip—the one Lucianne Goldberg initiated in order to get attention from the press for her—that I kept a blue dress stained with Clinton’s dried ejaculation as a souvenir? Well, Jonathan Brandmeier on KLSX invited listeners to call in and suggest euphemisms for presidential semen. My favorite was “Bubba butter.” Apparently, my role is to serve as a vehicle for the destruction of taboos.
./TEXT/001/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022673.txt:73:figure in the Western world); dissections of handwritten flight logs for the financier's private 727 aircraft that frequently capture Bubba
./TEXT/001/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022624.txt:212:Bubba Clinton is only the first to be exposed.
./TEXT/001/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022624.txt:702:Good thing it was on here for a moment or two, because once the powers that be get their paws on this, Bubba,
./TEXT/001/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022624.txt:704:By the time 2016 rolls around, Hillary and the co-president (Bubba) will be scrubbed squeaky clean and she'll
./TEXT/001/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030719.txt:18:Ask him if Putin has the photos of Trump blowing Bubba?
./TEXT/001/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022684.txt:78:capture Bubba at 30,000 feet; and extensive allegations from a woman, Virginia Roberts, who claims she was Epstein's sex slave as
I went to check that second occurance of 'bubba' to see if it's referring to the same person:
Here's the result with some extra surrounding text for context as to where it comes from:
The Autobiography of Monica Lewinsky
The following is an exclusive excerpt from an autobiography-in-progressy by Monica Lewinsky, titled Going Down in History. The manuscript was leaked to The Realist by, of course, a reliable source.
Back home in Brentwood, I’ve been listening to talk radio a lot. Ronn Owens on KABC had listeners phone in with nothing but jokes about me for a solid hour. First he warned the audience that if they were easily offended, they should tune out. I have never felt so objectified in my life, and yet, at the same time, I found the program quite riveting.
The best call came from a nine-year-old who said, “Bill Clinton violated the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not put thy rod in thy staff.” The worst call came from a man who asked, “What do the Titanic and Monica Lewinsky have in common?” The answer was, “They both have dead seamen (semen) floating in the hull.”
And remember that awful piece of gossip—the one Lucianne Goldberg initiated in order to get attention from the press for her—that I kept a blue dress stained with Clinton’s dried ejaculation as a souvenir? Well, Jonathan Brandmeier on KLSX invited listeners to call in and suggest euphemisms for presidential semen. My favorite was “Bubba butter.” Apparently, my role is to serve as a vehicle for the destruction of taboos.
Emphasis mine.
Jesus christ lol I can't believe it's real, Bubba really is Bill Clinton.
Of course we don't know the context for that convo from Mark (Jeffrey's brother), he could've been making a joke like alluding to finding compromising materials on Trump or something, but he could be implying that this is something that actually happened too.
That's fair, would be good if you could post a source for this claim though?
Because while this wouldn't be outlandish, there are many tiny communist parties in the west that are not putler psyops, but just dysfunctional fringe orgs.
Think systemically like the other guy said. Under capitalism consumption is purpose. I can't blame people for wanting purpose. If you dislike consumerism, you need to create a system that gives people purpose in something else.
I also think that theoretically there's not anything wrong with consumerism as long as the profits are distributed amongst the workers fairly, like with a cooperative with worker-owner-shareholders who democratically decide their own working conditions and hours and output.
With a large enough amount of stakeholders in that business (workers) who all have democratic decision-making power over the business, I doubt they would collectively decide to shit up the planet with waste or poison consumers since none of them would be shielded by extreme wealth from the effects of all that.
Sometimes people just want the shiny thing, thats okay. I think it would actually shine a bit better if it wasn't made by slave or sweatshop labour in the global south and the profits didn't all go evaporate in some private equity ponzi scheme.
In the UK, they make you pledge allegiance to serve the crown at the citizenship ceremony, which symbolically establishes that your loyalties lie with the British throne and therefore the state.
In practice, if drafted or if I for some reason volunteer, I would side with whoever I actually sided with morally and ideologically.
e.g. I'd choose the West over the current Fascist Russian regime, but theoretically back a progressive Russia against a Fascist West and so on.
This could mean anything from actively serving to dodging the draft to civilian resistance in case of occupation.
Theoretically a foreign legion isn't anything too uncommon. There were some Russians fighting alongside Ukraine against Russia last I checked. Being in that case a Ukrainian citizen would only help.
In case of service I imagine there would be the problem of inevitable racism towards me from the natives while in service if people of my nationality/ethnicity are the current enemy, especially if it's like the Japanese internment camps in the US level of hate, so that would be a consideration, plus more practical/logistical matters like which language I can actually speak properly enough to function in critical situations etc.
This is an interesting question though, is there historical accounts of such groups like this I wonder?
You owe it to others to try to be a good person, or at least, not a deliberately bad one. That is the social contract we all have to sign.
You only owe it to yourself to be good-at-stuff, at least you should if not for capitalism but that's besides the point.
Not everyone can be good-at-stuff, but everyone can try to be a good-person.
If they succeed in the latter so much it causes them to fail at the former due to a sense of superiority and over-inflated egos then they have failed more spectacularly at an easier task than you.
At least that's my take on it.
Now with the pep talk out of the way, practically speaking - you need to start making an exit out of that environment. Once they catch on they will no doubt pick on the odd one out, and the fact you're already insecure will make you that much more an easy target. So I'd say go before this whole thing blows up, just my 2 cents.
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