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People who think a standard/large sized backyard garden can be anything near their caloric requirements are just as disconnected from where their food comes from as ppl who just eat fast food

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A few years ago while trying to find ways to commit suicide as painlessly as possible, I came across a PDF of Dr. Paul Quinnett's The Forever Decision. Thinking it might go into actual methods of suicide (I read an article once that actually did that and was trying to find it again) I started to read it, and I think I only got about two pages in before I was crying too much to actually see the words.

I downloaded the PDF to my hard drive and I open it again whenever I'm feeling too suicidal to do much else, but not enough to start booking a ride to the hospital. And every time without fail I only go up to a few pages before backing off and choosing to live another day just because suicide suddenly seems even more unbearable than whatever the hell upset me in the first place.

All the book really does is [I'm pulling a summary from GoodReads here as, again, I've read no more than 5 pages] "discusses the social aspects of suicide, the right to die, anger, loneliness, depression, stress, hopelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, the consequences of a suicide attempt, and how to get help."

But it also starts with the author kindly asking the reader to complete the book before going through with anything, and for some reason I'm compelled to really just try to read it all before finalizing everything. Despite not yet completing it (hopefully never will) I think I can safely say it's saved my life at least a few times now.

It's intentionally legal to copy and redistribute this book to keep it as accessible as possible, and it's very easy to find, but here's a link for it anyways.

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when sartre said "hell is other people" he failed to mention that heaven is also other people

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ROUND 2: The Black Parade vs. Fame Monster

My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade (2006)

Genre: Emo, alternative rock, pop-punk

Singles: Welcome to the Black Parade, Famous Last Words, I Don't Love You, Teenagers

Grammys: N/A

RIAA Certification: 4x Platinum

Rolling Stone Rank: 361

A titan of the emo genre, My Chemical Romance's third album was haunted by a troubled production as the band fretted over whether they had reached the end of their ascent to fame with Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge. The Black Parade was an ambitious response to these anxieties: a concept album centering life and death as themes and channeled through the reflections of its terminal protagonist, the Patient, on his own long and troubled life. The Black Parade would launch MCR to global stardom and leave an impact for years to come on alternative music.

Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster (2009)

Genre: Electropop

Singles: Bad Romance, Telephone, Alejandro, Dance in the Dark

Grammys: Six nominations (including AOTY), Music Video/Short Form, Pop Vocal Album, Female Pop Vocal Performance

RIAA Certification: 5x Platinum

Rolling Stone Rank: N/A

Originally planned as a deluxe reissue of Lady Gaga's debut album The Fame, the artist's distaste for reissues would reshape the project into a new album in its own right. Gaga herself describes The Fame Monster as a "yin and yang" complement to The Fame, which can be felt as the album veers into pseudo-gothic stylings and themes of obsession, abuse, shame, and cannibalistic love amid its decadent electropop. The album is crediting with pushing EDM to the forefront of popular music in the late 2000s and early 2010s, with its sound and Gaga's image setting the standard for stardom in the years following.

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I think it's best to err on the side of caution and NOT tell an artist their work looks like a preexisting property or character, but if you SIMPLY MUST make the comparison be heard, maybe double check the comments to see if the same comparison hasn't already been made 30 times

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On This Day In Homestuck:

July 9th, 2010

Vriska is introduced.

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I am fucking BEGGING people to include proper sources when talking about news and current events. A screenshot of a headline or a social media post is not a proper source.

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Sapphics who don't like fat girls are so weird to me. You're supposed to like girl. Why wouldn't you want more girl per girl

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every time I mention how many days sober I am I appreciate people congratulating me and telling me to keep up the good work. it is nice. but I also wish that milestones in addiction recovery weren’t still so pinned to length of sobriety/abstinence

yeah yeah I’m 50 days sober who cares. how about the fact that, when I do drink, it tends to be nipped in the bud after two days nowadays instead of weeks or months? how about the fact that drinking has been condensed to a six pack because I’m at the end of my tether, instead of browning out every night? how about my friend who has decided to stop drinking alone, and is actually sticking to that? recovery doesn’t always look like sobriety and I wish it was more normal to talk about that. yknow. when addiction is normal to talk about at all

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If you are making calls to Republican politicians about not supporting certain bills, remember to stick to Republican scripts. No trying to play on their emotions. Don't talk about people dying or marginalized people being hurt or anything like that. That doesn't work on them.

Instead, focus on:

Cost. These Republican bills have MASSIVE costs that either tax payers take the brunt of or it goes into the national debt.

Withholding your vote. You weren't going to vote for them anyway, but they have absolutely no way of knowing that. Even if you've said in other places, they are not researching every single person who calls to see who's a Republican. You're just another constituent using your vote as leverage. Take advantage of that.

Hard-working Americans/working class Americans/veterans/etc. Figure out the specific group of people that politician campaigns the hardest to and talk about them and how they'll be hurt by whatever is happening.

Trump's stupid fucking bill isn't cruel and evil and it's not going to kill millions of people, it's a huge financial strain that will drastically increase the national debt while hurting working class Americans who just need a bit of help and you would never consider voting for someone who would support it.

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nothing makes me go "ooooh we are NOT the same" quite like reading some post about how people talk with their parents about their interests. what do you mean you told your father about stevebucky. what do you mean he asked further questions

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i cannot do another round of "is shaving feminist?" discourse again, i simply cannot do it. is shaving feminist? no! do feminists shave their bodies? yes! is this a deep betrayal of principles? not really! do some women actually shave for the mythical "sensory reasons"? well, considering that my number one reason for shaving my legs in the summer is because my ceiling fan blows on the hair and i'm constantly having mini freakouts that i've got a bug crawling on me, i'd imagine some do! is it okay for a woman to say to herself "i realize i'm mostly doing this because i don't want to be treated worse by people in the world who find my unshaven legs disgusting, but i'm still going to do it because i don't think suffering for no reason is virtuous" and shave? yes! will yelling at her to "think critically about her choices" until she agrees with you actually work? no! does any of this make it any easier to get an abortion in this country? nope! have we replaced the "is this pop star a feminist?" discourse of the 2010s with "are your personal choices antithetical to the tenets of feminism?" discourse in the 2020s, none of which is conveniently focused on the actual loci of power?? hahahahahahaaaaa

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i think some users on this website have either no idea or forgot that they live in echo chambers and doesn't compute that there are a lot of issues that the average person simply doesn't know about