I don’t have anyone I’d want to remove and I’m also not so naive to think it wouldn’t come with major unpredictable consequences.

Carbon monoxide similarly replaces the oxygen in your red blood cells. There are even suicide tutorials online by using carbon monoxide as it’s a painless way to go.

Also, this is not advice and it’s also potenttially lethal to the people coming to save you. Don’t do it and if you do, for the very least, leave a sign warning others about it.

Yeah, that’s the thing with gasses like nitrogen, helium or carbon monoxide: it feels like breathing air except since it contains no oxygen you’ll just go from feeling light headed to passing out and suffocating. CO2 would otherwise work the same way except that inhaling pure CO2 instantly causes panic and the sense of suffocation.

Infact, I’ve heard of people who euthanize pet rodents with CO2 and recommend others doing the same which is terrifyingly bad advice. That’s a fucking awful way to go. Just imagine being so ignorant and doing that to your pet. Makes me feel sick to even think about it.

My comment clearly states that it’s about life in general. Not everything is about the U.S.

I don’t know about pleasant but I imagine breathing in nitrogen is among the least unpleasant ways to go. You first pass out and then suffocate while you’re unconscious. I believe that carbon monoxide acts in a similar fashion.

Finland.

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The future doesn’t look too bright at the moment, but what’s the alternative? You’ve just got to play the hand you’ve been dealt. In Buddhism, they call it “the second arrow” when you’re in a bad situation but make it worse by overthinking it. Looking back on my life, I can think of countless times I worried about something that never even happened. I’d essentially tortured myself mentally for no reason - and that seems counterproductive.

I try to live in a way where I don’t contribute to making things worse, and wherever I can, I try to nudge things in the right direction. Beyond that, I avoid worrying any more than I already do, because intellectually, I know it’s probably wasted effort and a form of self-harm.

So, because you can point to one example where the worst-case scenario happened, we should live our lives constantly fearing the worst? Is that really what you’re arguing for here?

The only news site I follow is my country’s equivalent of the BBC, which leans left. Lemmy also skews heavily to the left, but the podcasts I listen to tend to be more centrist or center-right from my perspective - though some might argue that someone like Joe Rogan is far-right, which I disagree with.

I don’t align myself with any particular side. I form my opinions on an issue-by-issue basis rather than adopting the beliefs of “my side” - whatever that may be - as a package deal. I’ve been on the right, and I’ve been on the left, but I’ve since settled somewhere in the middle. I feel like I have a fairly accurate understanding of both perspectives and can often argue for most hot topics from either side’s point of view.

In life it’s generally safe assumption that the vast majority of things we worry about never happen or if they do it won’t be as bad as we thought.

In my case it’s definitely DayZ. It’s an open-world zombie-survival multiplayer game.

I’m not a huge gamer myself but that one has always stood out to me above all the others. Once you’ve spent hours into a character you seriously don’t want to get killed. The map is massive and there’s only 60 other people at best so you often don’t even run into anyone - only hear the occasional gunshot in the distance. Wearing headphones lets you hear 360-degree sounds and the proximity voice chat I think is pretty cool feature too. It’s often jokingly called hiking simulator since you, for the most part, just run in a forests.

It’s also the only game where I’ve genuinely felt bad about shooting another player. Self-defence is a different case but just cold blood murder only because I can has multiple times left me feeling kinda shitty, so nowdays I just try and talk to people and then usually I get shot instead. I’ve also often felt absolutely terrified, hiding in a corner of a room in a house hiding from another player who I’ve just realized is close to me. I haven’t felt anything like that with any other game and have felt that DayZ is quite unique in that sense.

I must add, thought, that those flight simulator cockpits that people have built for themselves seem kind of intriguing too.

I down- and upvoted this comment.

It’s the “I like/don’t like the sound of that button”

I feel like I’m the only one who shares things I’ve been up to recently and usually the responses I get back are passive at best. Then when I intentionally stop messaging them and waiting for someone else to say something first the group chat dies down for a week. I feel like it’s time to move on and leave these “friends” behind.

move to Finland first

It’s dark, wet and cold in here.

To me “rich” means someone whose passive income exceeds their spending.

So if I was rich I’d stop working and instead pursue my personal interests. Ideally I’d buy a property somewhere remote and close to water with a lot of land and start building a homestead of some sort.

I don’t have a microwave oven.

Both of them. I take this kinds of things really hard and it takes me months to recover. I really hope I wouldn’t need to go thru that ever again.

Well this is what I mean. Either what he did is not good or if it is, he didn’t have any meaningful part in it.

Very few things are all good or all bad but I see this as a net-positive thing, or for the very least, step in the right direction.

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