It's a weird hierarchy to where apparently family comes after work, as if they all abandon you

Aw shucks ❤️

It's a shower and bathtub

It happens, it can take years but your brain eventually resets back to a certain norm. My friend's brother was a heroin addict for years, thought he would never be happy again until 3 years later when he got a donut over at Dunkin' and said it was the first normal happy feeling he'd had in years. Simple pleasures will be there, you just have to wait for them.

I believe the limit is around 30%

How do we go about shutting down a sub anyway?

I've always found it more motivating than that, I think the interpretation that it's depressing is ignoring the intent of the quote. Life has trials a tribulations, but we brave them and move forward as best we can. I think this quote from Sam is a good way to contextualize it —

>"I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something."

>"What are we holding onto Sam?"

>"That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for."

Which makes it even more ironic considering the person who bought out the Tesla brand..

Statistically though, most people use stories like these to feel like the world is doing just fine and they don't have to do anything about it. The headline should read something like "80-year-old man forced to work is saved only through the generosity of strangers, while thousands more like him go unnoticed"

Because the best thing you can do is work within that system to change things, they can only be fixed from the top down. The issue is, no matter how many people you get to donate, the issue is systematic and there are thousands and thousands more like him that will not get these, and they will die alone.

The more we spin stories like this as if they were a positive, the more toxic that positivity really becomes, because it's almost excusatory for the horror that brought it about in the first place.

But it probably will be..

Some addicts are addicted to money, and create the circumstances for those other addicts to suffer.

It's just that they're too powerful to treat, regardless of the fact that the damage they cause is magnitudes worse.

Along with many others

Just because you inherit wealth doesn't mean you aren't responsible for what you do with it. Take 99% of billionaires for example.

I just call it for what it is, an addiction. One who's victims are in the hundreds of millions if not billions, and they are the number one enemy to the world.

It invariably promotes short-term goals over long-term viability. Basically, "I got mine so who cares?"

It's so strange to me, even with a fraction of their wealth they would still be living in the same quality of luxury. The only reason they want wealth is for its own sake, or they want absolute power, both of which are fundamentally evil, shortsighted, and inevitably self-destructive.

These are addicts, except the damage they cause is global.

Yeah but the causal link is so obvious. It's been known for years that trans people have higher rates of suicide when they are blocked from transitioning.

Don't forget the Dont Say Gay law in Florida, and the fact that Texas passed a law that can imprison parents for having a trans child and destroy families. They've been fleeing the state or sending their kids to trusted friends and relatives. i.e. The Republican party has created political refugees in our own country.

You can do it, cancer. I believe in you. ✨⚰️

Seriously, why is contentedness a sin? Why do we always gotta GRIND

That planet or moon would have to have a functioning magnetic field and consistent temperature. The farthest you could probably make it work is Jupiter, and even then those moons are covered in it's shadow for a long time and are bombarded by its deadly radiation.

That leaves Mars, which can't sustain an atmosphere because of it's weak magnetic fields, and was actually once like Earth but could not support itself, or Venus, which is a sulfur acid hellscape of unimaginable atmospheric pressure, and is surprisingly the best option considering it's the closest thing we have to a twin.

I don't know throwing water rocks at it would help much though.

Plus there are moons around Jupiter that have several times the water of earth..

Toxic positivity is a real issue. Acknowledging a situation is bad is just staying grounded in reality, and not huffing delusions to feel better.

Then can we just kind of.. push em in already?