Tedesche

Shouldn’t be removed in the first place, outside of medically necessary procedures.

Adults are just large five-year-olds.

Ah, well, they don’t need to worry about being caught or identified, they can just stop you in the street. I thought you were referring to scammers or something.

would be very useful if masked men approach you and try to photograph you with a potentially illegal biometric collection application.

Anyone trying to collect biometric information in such a brazen manner is not bright enough to use it for anything useful. There are so many more subtle and clandestine ways to obtain it that don’t risk being caught or identified.

Looks like you’re the one who got it. 😉

Degenerates like you should be put in camps

LOL, reported. I hope you someday learn how to recognize that you’re the very thing you hate.

Everyone in and out of academics knows labeling speech “violent” is an attempt to get it censored. Stop being naïve.

Actually, it’s usually a Nationalist tactic to paint any/all opposition as being treasonous, thereby laying the groundwork for targeting them with the military.

Can you believe some people like working at an office? COVID taught me I cannot work from home. I need a physical separation between work and home, otherwise I feel like I’m always at work. There are benefits to working from both home and work. There should be options. This notion that working from home is always better than working at work is self-centered drivel.

<Snickers in North Korean.>

It is NOT difficult to kill yourself intentionally, at all.

• Make a simple, strong slip knot to use as a noose, secure it somewhere that will support your body weight, tie your hands behind your back so that you can’t easily get out of the restraints, and jump off a ledge of some kind. It won’t break your neck and you’ll die agonizingly, but you will almost certainly die of asphyxiation. Even more effective if you tie yourself up in weights and jump into deep water.
• Shotgun. Easily procurable in America. Stick in mouth with buckshot and pull trigger. Messy, but effective.
• Lots of ways to make powerful bombs with materials you can find in stores. Make one and set it off in your mouth.
• Lock yourself in a room with carbon monoxide. So long as no one’s coming to get you, it’s a nice, peaceful way to go out.
• Snort a sugar cube’s worth of fentanyl.
• Sever any major artery and get in a bathtub full of water so the wound can’t seal easily. Cope with the pain until you pass out. As long as no one finds you, you dead.

I could go on, but I think I’ve been morbid enough.

Thankfully, suicidal impulses are just that: impulses. They are relatively short-lived (10-20 minutes on average) and then they pass. You may still be depressed, but the urge to end it all is no longer there, for most people. One of the best things you can do when you’re feeling suicidal is just to go to sleep. When you wake up, you’ll likely feel better. The vast majority of people who attempt suicide and live regret it almost immediately, and most of them do not attempt it again.

However, there are people who enter long suicidal states, where they’ve genuinely made up their mind to end their lives. With these people, no matter what the psychiatric intervention is, short of permanently restraining them, they will almost always find a way to kill themselves. The truth is you cannot stop a person who is truly intent on ending their life. And I for one am very thankful for that, because living should always be a choice. We should not be in the business of forcing people to live torturous, agonizing lives from which there is no real escape or remedy. Everyone should have the option of “getting off the ride” if they so choose. Ultimately, it’s no one’s business but their own.

Agreed. I never thought it would happen in my lifetime, but it looks like we’re going to have Star Trek computers pretty soon.

There is some truth to this in that one of the first distinctions infants learn to make is “good/bad” or “pleasure/pain,” in terms of its ability to analyze its own emotional states.

That being said, it’s still an increíble oversimplification of even an infant’s mind.

Yeah, people will probably get angry and say mean things to you but those are just words which can be ignored. Offence is taken, not given.

This is naïve. The no one likes being insulted and downvoted for expressing their views. Sure, it doesn’t bother some people as much as others, but it’s not a conscious choice to “just ignore it,” as though that will prevent any negative feelings. The reality is that people with unpopular views stay silent to avoid these consequences, and that’s an entirely rational choice. You would do better to spend your time chastising people who attack those with unpopular views than to try to convince those with unpopular views to willingly expose themselves to online abuse.