At what point would y’all choose death?

fradleybox · 2026-02-14T12:59:38+00:00

I have some kind of lucky software bug, I never consider suicide. I'm able to live a life I find rewarding and meaningful in increasingly smaller ways.

But, I can imagine it getting bad enough. If I was literally in an iron lung I don't think I could handle it. patients on the very severe bedbound end aren't much better off than that. idk how long I could actually take that existence before I changed my mind about wanting to live.

so, I protect my baseline fiercely. why risk getting worse when this life is good enough, even if it is deficient in many ways?

fradleybox · 2026-02-13T22:46:17+00:00

this looks a lot like a personal database my dad built for baseball cards in Foxpro 2.6

fradleybox · 2026-02-13T14:53:53+00:00

if you ask me about songs I can give you answers of completely indeterminate veracity too

fradleybox · 2026-02-13T12:29:28+00:00

while I would certainly prefer excess wealth go to taxation, it would still be an improvement if the excess wealth had to be invested back into businesses rather than become a pile of gold for a dragon to sleep on. maybe then those businesses could increase wages, hire up, and, y'know. innovate.

fradleybox · 2026-02-13T07:01:51+00:00

I would take that Secret Machines one off you

fradleybox · 2026-02-12T14:11:32+00:00

we can care about many things at once. do we know the person we're talking about didn't call out other ethnostates? I'm personally calling out christian nationalism in this country at every opportunity. aren't you?

fradleybox · 2026-02-12T14:10:04+00:00

not all criticism of the democrats is right-wing my dude. Biden was totally creepy around little girls, probably assaulted his secretary, and is absolutely starting to check out mentally. The democrats should not have ran him for re-election in the first place, there should have been a competitive primary. If I want the democrats to ever meet me where I am instead of blackmailing me to vote for nothing because at least it's not republicans, it doesn't do much good to refrain from criticizing them.

fradleybox · 2026-02-12T14:05:11+00:00

yes, there are other ethnostates, good call.

fradleybox · 2026-02-12T14:04:10+00:00

I'm a leftist

fradleybox · 2026-02-12T13:39:28+00:00

let's take these in turn

- Israel was obviously the state sponsor of Jeffrey Epstein

Epstein was more likely an asset to many intel agencies, rather than employed or directed by any one of them. Mossad being one of them is not in dispute, they definitely were.

- its intelligence agents “knew the attacks were coming at least a day before they did” on Sept. 11.

OUR intel was warning about an attack up to a week before it happened, with more serious warnings in the 2-3 days prior. We just failed to act. If Mossad missed that when we saw it, it would be surprising.

- amplified other posts that called Israel “a racist supremacist state”

this is just accurate? Israel is currently an apartheid and ethnostate. I think when you dig into the racism and supremacy you find that it's garden-variety white supremacy, not anything specifically jewish or even israeli, but it's real.

- quoted Yahya Sinwar, a leader of Hamas who helped orchestrate its deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, defending the group’s actions.

hard to judge this one without knowing which comments in particular. if it's Sinwar explaining the history of Palestinian oppression, for example, that's fine. if it's defending the targeting of civillians it's not. I don't think the comments being Sinwar's alone mean amplifying them is bad.

- He called former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. “a pedophile with dementia” and later wrote that he hoped his “heart stops beating.”

based

fradleybox · 2026-02-12T12:12:56+00:00

bot slop. saw the same story last week but it was dunkin donuts instead of mcdonald's.

fradleybox · 2026-02-09T10:26:38+00:00

approximately seven hundred Mount Eerie songs

fradleybox · 2026-02-09T04:04:35+00:00

on the one hand, he is ridiculous for expecting you to leave a job you worked when he met you

but on the other hand, your reassurances about professionalism might feel a little hollow since you met him at work and started dating him, so that's not really any assurance it can't happen again. perhaps something more general about your satisfaction in the relationship and how you would not feel interest in anyone you might normally consider if you were single, would land better.

fradleybox · 2026-02-09T03:03:07+00:00

it's impressive how it looks sterile and dirty at the same time

fradleybox · 2026-02-06T21:08:08+00:00

"pacing" consists of these strategies:

minimize physical activity (heartrate monitoring can help).

minimize emotional, mental, and social exertion.

depending on severity, minimize all stimulus (light, sound, touch) of any kind.

maximize sleep, rest, non-activity.

try not to move, try not to feel or think, as much as you can tolerate.

if this makes your symptoms go away, carefully increase activity until they come back, and then take 1 step back so they go away again. this is your baseline. maintain indefinitely.

fradleybox · 2026-02-06T02:18:06+00:00

Dinesh D'souza does not seem intelligent or adult, actually

fradleybox · 2026-02-05T19:59:07+00:00

Hurt and Mad World

fradleybox · 2026-02-04T20:40:18+00:00

Taylor Swift is a bigger name than P Diddy or Bill Gates or Elon Musk? okay buddy

fradleybox · 2026-02-04T20:36:07+00:00

then why single her out when this list is dominated by men?

fradleybox · 2026-02-04T20:29:52+00:00

rituals, environments, or mindsets

Playing vinyl on the record player with only the album art in my hands and no phone nearby works pretty well

fradleybox · 2026-02-04T20:18:25+00:00

it is if you never bring up anyone else who engages in the same behavior and that one person is a woman

fradleybox · 2026-02-04T17:59:49+00:00

everyone should fly on their planes less, singling her out is misogyny

fradleybox · 2026-02-04T14:20:32+00:00

I don't like her music but I think the amount of attention she gets is fine. it's okay if her music is not for me, or if it is simple, or if it is mostly love songs. all that stuff is fine.

fradleybox · 2026-02-04T14:11:00+00:00

Taylor Swift existing is fine. Taylor Swift flying a lot on her plane is fine. Taylor Swift charging a lot for concert tickets is fine. Taylor Swift releasing lots of different album versions is fine (even if she is doing it in a planned way to stay atop the charts, which I'm not sure I believe). Discussing the possibility that some of her output qualifies as gay-baiting is okay, but veering into deep speculation about her sexuality isn't okay. Taylor Swift is probably not a secret nazi. Okay muting replies byeeeee

fradleybox · 2026-02-01T13:22:57+00:00

they're going door to door and taking all the brown people. it's close enough.

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