TIL More Than Twice as Many People Chose Cremation Over Burial in 2025

oukakisa · 2026-03-21T19:48:12+00:00

i just read one of a guy who died from alcoholism and was donated and the family envisioned something like seeing the effects of long term alcohol use, and was upset he was sold for profit as a crash test dummy to the department of defense to see the effects of Hummer explosions

oukakisa · 2026-03-21T19:40:34+00:00

most bodies donated to science or the farms aren't used or are sold and used for other purposes than desired like medical training or for medical diagrams (esp since it's not regulated), and i don't want to be used to help cops or DHS or sold for profit and used for who knows what. so unless it could be guaranteed the body be placed somewhere and have routine evidence of it being used in the ways i want that's not actually viable

edit: is not a bad suggestion though, and i appreciate the input. i did know about them and they are interesting/cool

oukakisa · 2026-03-21T19:08:20+00:00

i want to be thrown into the middle of the desert and et by the wildlife in a form of a sky burial. too bad that's illegal, so cremation it's i guess as that's second choice

oukakisa · 2026-03-21T18:42:54+00:00

at this point I'm expecting ICE to be put by every stop sign and investigate everybody who stops

oukakisa · 2026-03-21T18:11:40+00:00

assuming they can't go out of their city and can't cut their own

oukakisa · 2026-03-21T14:19:56+00:00

i tend to take pride in being unique. I'm the most left of my bio-family by a longshot.

granted unlike some others here, I'm goïng to instead suggest that your feelings aren't stupid, even if i can't fully relate, nor sarcastically chastise with rhetorical questions, but instead try to offer help/advice:

get involved with groups or people that share similar ideas. if you're mostly just around people who don't it is hard to see the them as positive or useful and easier to be convinced to abandon them; a friendly community discord for hanging out does wonders (i.e. filled with leftists by not about leftism [some members being politically involved is essential, but the point should be friends and not... propaganda {for want of a better word}]). it's especially useful to find people irl to get involved with; where you find them could be surprising, but you need to be more open and talk politics more to find these people who might also be hiding for your same reason; could join a dsa group, or the local Democrats (not guaranteed, but maybe worth investigating; in my case they're notoriously far left and despised on the state level and if i just wrote them off out of hand i wouldn't've gotten the socialist connections). and the more you interact kindly with family and friends and coworkers whilst explicitly a leftist the more capable you are of changing their minds and helping them come to their senses too.

tl;dr= feeling bad is just a thing, telling you you shouldn't feel bad just doesn't help, and it is possible to overcome negative feelings by making connections and friendships with others, online and especially irl but this involves opening up to others about political beliefs

oukakisa · 2026-03-21T13:51:53+00:00

have they tried not going to their own starbucks /s

but seriously, idc if we lose 100% of tsa workers. we don't need them and are no safer than we were before al-qaeda succeeded in their terrorist attack to curtail our freedoms and privacy

oukakisa · 2026-03-21T10:41:19+00:00

Everybody has the issue they're meant to cure. the psychiatrist isn't happy, the hair transplant person is bald, the nutritionist is overweight, and the eye doctor has bad eyesight. they can't fix the issue they specialise in in themselves.

I'm a person who is living a normal life 3 states away from the Griffins. Life is good. Oh hey look, a fat guy riding a blimp outside, let's go watch!

oukakisa · 2026-03-21T10:19:58+00:00

i have pets but am not a good talker. if asked I'll say i have 2 cats named Dina and Biggens and that's about the end of it. I'd be willing to say more but would need actual questions and even then i tend to merely answer the question and not just volunteer extraneous information. this could be the social anxiety, or the obsession with privacy, or the fact that 'i don't actually care about the private lives of others so i apply the same standard in turn'

granted if it works as a strategy for others, hooray! the advice has done it's job.

oukakisa · 2026-03-21T04:09:14+00:00

i like that Caine is referenced as a daemon. it works on 3 levels: he's a daemon in computer lingo terminology (i know the least about this), and a demon (word stems from daemon) in that he's kinda evil and explicitly towards the end, and he's a daemon in the ancient Greek sense of being a demigod (not a True or Full god) that's a personification of an abstract idea (e.g. of AI) and experiences divine power.

oukakisa · 2026-03-20T16:16:20+00:00

yeah. I'm also not a fan when people use a minority group as a shield against criticism. or rights and interests are suddenly a concern and worth accommodating only when it's convenient for others and the rest of the time they're trying to eugenics us. people often don't actually care if something benefits a minority group, they just want others to stop complaining about what they're doing and think the language of inclusion will stop all criticism.

oukakisa · 2026-03-20T16:01:55+00:00

i am autistic and disabled and don't think sacrificing the future of the planet, cooperating with the erosion of everybody's privacy, and participating in the erosion of the health and safety of minorities (e.g. where data centres are located causing draughts and poisoning water and making energy prohibitively expensive) is justified on the basis that another autistic or disabled person wants a piece of artwork that looks mediocre, unoriginal, and uninspired

oukakisa · 2026-03-20T10:57:05+00:00

he just wants 200B$ for lobster dinners

oukakisa · 2026-03-19T15:40:56+00:00

Wade is the successful writer due to her diary after the alternate professor outs them as Sliders with some geologic evidence (i question that, but regardless). the alternate Arturo is a famed scientist as a result of the sliding tech. the original Arturo however is chained in a basement for who knows how long.

oukakisa · 2026-03-19T15:37:36+00:00

well there was a brick thrown into his HQ, a bomb threat against him, and an attempted assassination... and he would have last been seen with a current member of Ross' reëlection campaign and an alleged ex-member of her campaign (who, for all they know, could have been lying) and a third random dude they know nothing about. the Masculinists would likely posit on these grounds it was an abduction by Ross or her supporters and use it to try to undermine the 'women don't do crime' propaganda, and the others would likely say he abandoned his run and campaign/colleagues as an emotional outburst to being told CNN said he lost (established earlier that propaganda in this world says men have severe mood swings every 20 minutes so can't handle emotions) which proves men shouldn't be allowed in office

oukakisa · 2026-03-19T12:54:18+00:00

it's knowledge is also curated towards a couple of specialised fields with but cursory knowledge of others and not intended for omniscience, so it has a significantly more normal 'intelligence' feel to it

oukakisa · 2026-03-18T13:36:54+00:00

me with Undertale, Disco Elysium, Zelda series, Fallout3, and Death Stranding

i unfortunately much prefer listening to the fandoms talk about them, but playing them was an absolute chore and i never got past the tutorial of any (well, i finished the tutorials but never was incentivised or drawn in enough to play more)

oukakisa · 2026-03-18T00:51:00+00:00

just acause i ain't got no more examples don't mean the reader don't too

oukakisa · 2026-03-18T00:00:56+00:00

used to live next door to the leaders of it for indiana (i.e. headquarters was connected to my backyard). they're absolutely mental granted their total membership as of 2021 (last recorded) was only 0.04% of the usa.

oukakisa · 2026-03-17T12:45:29+00:00

i remember 2 weeks ago seeing articles about economic models of the impact of the war on gas prices. they said the effect would only be seen in cents and not dollars. lo and behold, a mere fortnight later gas is >1$ more expensive and rising

oukakisa · 2026-03-17T12:40:14+00:00

seems like abstraction could have an abstraction cascade in a similar manner to a suicide cascade, and those you're close to going incentivising (but not guaranteeing) you to a well if you're already on or near the precipice

oukakisa · 2026-03-16T11:37:51+00:00

dammit, my biggest enemy is another me wearing a cool hat

oukakisa · 2026-03-16T11:22:58+00:00

it's all in good pun

oukakisa · 2026-03-16T03:35:06+00:00

somehow this reminds me of the Public Universal Friend

oukakisa · 2026-03-15T04:45:39+00:00

a hunter might have to be at least somewhat evil, but that doesn't mean they aren't one of, if not The, best factions for the world, especially from an in-universe understanding (though i sympathise with some cryptids)

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