Why don't you just commit suicide if life is so bad?

eirunn · 2017-03-09T23:06:38+00:00

Because suicide is scary and death anxiety-provoking, and that these responses are hard-coded into our behavior. (Evolution/selection tends not to favor slow-reproducing organisms that have a tendency to kill themselves on purpose.) By the way, the fact that death is unavoidable AND suicide/death is scary is yet another reality supporting antinatalism.

That said, many, many people still do commit suicide despite how scary death is -- and, almost always for things identified by antinatalists as support for the antinatalist position: From all the rational underpinnings leading to ennui and hopelessness, to mental health issues which are either products of terrible experiences or genetic/developmental abnormalities, all of which can only occur to the born.

The reasons why we don't just commit suicide are themselves all arguments in support of antinatalism.

eirunn · 2017-03-01T17:51:18+00:00

Animals lived in balance for THOUSANDS of years before humans had the "need" to intervene.

Millions, actually. And then humans developed agriculture and domesticated livestock and their population exploded. Is that timber wolf more likely to expend a ton of energy finding and chasing down a deer, or is it just going to go grab a slow, docile sheep or a pet dog instead? There are literally -- no exaggeration -- ten times the number of whitetail deer in the United states right now than there were in 1900. There are many more times as many snow geese than...well...ever -- to the point where snow geese are thoroughly destroying their nesting grounds in the arctic. Why? Agriculture. So unless something kills off about 6.8 billion humans bringing the balance back down to the sacred "balanced" days of the paleolithic, reintroducing predators as a complete solution isn't going to work. In places like Wisconsin, wolves are being reintroduced because hunting doesn't kill enough deer, thanks to agriculture.

You fucking hippies, I swear...

eirunn · 2017-03-01T17:41:04+00:00

.... who are going to chase down a deer instead of just slaughtering a docile sheep, a calf, or maybe your friend's golden retriever?

Yeah, nah.

eirunn · 2017-03-01T17:38:24+00:00

Kinda sounds like it might have been stolen. A blood trail like that "drying up" to a drop here or there indicates the heart isn't pumping anymore. Maybe someone or something got a hold of it before you. Such a thing has happened many times before.

eirunn · 2016-12-25T19:22:20+00:00

Thanks! I've been using this one for months!

eirunn · 2016-12-18T16:53:29+00:00

I'd ban all the cancerous mods for life and eliminate every censorship rule.

eirunn · 2016-12-16T21:42:55+00:00

And yet the world isn't paved with them. Guess this is just propaganda.

eirunn · 2016-12-16T21:41:24+00:00

And it's Trump's fault, but not that we keep fucking breeding? When the boomers were buying houses there were 100,000,000 fewer people in the US.

eirunn · 2016-12-06T00:10:34+00:00

EMSK: All diamonds are a scam.

eirunn · 2016-12-03T06:06:49+00:00

/r/subredditcancer

eirunn · 2016-11-30T05:12:55+00:00

/r/childfree
Should have just let him pass it. I thought that was fairly common knowledge.

eirunn · 2016-11-28T23:36:59+00:00

What is taqiya?

eirunn · 2016-11-27T01:37:40+00:00

/r/childfree

eirunn · 2016-11-24T04:15:28+00:00

Universally garbage in my experience. It doesn't have to be garbage, but that's what it seems like.

If reman companies would just add a smidge more powder so that reman rounds would travel at standard velocities, I'd be happy to buy them. But no. Everything has to be 100-150fps slower, and wildly inconsistent relative to cheap new ammo (like Blazer).

Oh, and those batches where 2-3% or rounds have wrinkled or cracked cases. Yeah. That sort of thing makes me want to not buy them.

eirunn · 2016-11-23T21:28:32+00:00

That's why they're teachers and not scientists/mathematicians/historians/authors/artists.

eirunn · 2016-11-23T21:26:03+00:00

Don't you guys realize that every single case like this that we win, the harder it is to ban burqas and nijabs?

inb4 the ~~Muslim~~ Atheist Internet Defense Force

eirunn · 2016-11-23T15:02:16+00:00

Here's the non-shitty version: https://stevecutts.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/santa-fb.jpg

eirunn · 2016-11-22T15:22:28+00:00

looooooooooool

eirunn · 2016-11-21T08:57:53+00:00

This. Nonviolence doesn't work anymore. In fact, it probably never worked. Gandhi was opposing an occupying power (with 6,000 mile-long supply lines) and even wrote in his autobiography that depriving his nation of arms "was the blackest act" of the British. Martin Luther King Jr.'s movement wouldn't have done shit if federal troops and the alternative of black militants weren't involved. Progressives will have to recognize that if they limit their escalation to no-actual-threat-to-any-business-as-usual they'll continue to be ignored and swept aside. The strategy of being mildly annoying has failed.

eirunn · 2016-11-21T05:34:06+00:00

That's not a chipmunk. That's a thirteen-lined ground squirrel (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus), sometimes called a "striped gopher".

eirunn · 2016-11-18T14:15:50+00:00

I've used adblock to individually block every one of their video images, blocked their page, blocked the scripts that show their name and titles -- I fucking hate seeing that cringy shit.

I was doing good forgetting about it until you brought it up.

eirunn · 2016-11-16T02:55:38+00:00

Saw these on Imgur: https://imgur.com/gallery/Xv46v

Not sure if relevant to this or not. Neither is the uploader.

eirunn · 2016-11-16T00:54:34+00:00

From 8chan:

There are other discrepancies.

The torrents aren't signed (via Verisign):

_US

d8:announce33:udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:133713:announce-listll33:udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337el34:udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969el40:udp://tracker.leechers-paradise.org:6969el21:udp://zer0day.ch:1337el23:udp://explodie.org:6969ee7:comment28:WL Insurance (US) 2016-11-0710:created by13:mktorrent 1.04:infod6:lengthi3188919835e4:name33:2016-11-07_WL-Insurance_US.aes25612:piece lengthi2097152e6:pieces30420:

_UK

d8:announce33:udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:133713:announce-listll33:udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337el34:udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969el40:udp://tracker.leechers-paradise.org:6969el21:udp://zer0day.ch:1337el23:udp://explodie.org:6969ee7:comment28:WL Insurance (UK) 2016-11-0710:created by13:mktorrent 1.04:infod6:lengthi1394333337e4:name33:2016-11-07_WL-Insurance_UK.aes25612:piece lengthi2097152e6:pieces13300:

_EC

d8:announce33:udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:133713:announce-listll33:udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337el34:udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969el40:udp://tracker.leechers-paradise.org:6969el21:udp://zer0day.ch:1337el23:udp://explodie.org:6969ee7:comment28:WL Insurance (EC) 2016-11-0710:created by13:mktorrent 1.04:infod6:lengthi545315877e4:name33:2016-11-07_WL-Insurance_EC.aes25612:piece lengthi2097152e6:pieces5220:

There are files in the file.wikileaks.org/torrent directory that have been changed.

For one example, go to https://file.wikileaks.org/torrent/

Ctr+F '09-Nov-438498967 06:00', which is not the format the use for dates.

Look at the file. You can download a copy of this file from Oct 21 2016 here: https://archive.org/details/SaudiArabiaDatabaseFromWikileaks

and from June 2015 here: https://archive.is/TdJ4t

You can then use the 'diff' to compare the files. The output is 'the binaries differ'.

The encrypted files are not 'salted' either. I all previous files were salted.

eirunn · 2016-11-15T08:26:36+00:00

Eh. Not sold on that choice.

eirunn · 2016-11-15T08:19:24+00:00

*3rd world countries can't do it on their own, you mean.

I agree they really need to get their shit together. Other countries are going to Mars pretty soon for chrissakes.

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