intensely_human @ intensely_human @lemm.ee

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The medical examiner’s office determined the manner of death to be suicide

Suicide is not a “manner of death”. A manner of death is something like “hanging” or “gunshot wound” or “cardiac arrest”.

I wonder if they’re leaving the actual manner of death unstated as a trap to see if anyone reveals knowledge of how he died.

Also, this is an amazing portrait:

It depends. How exactly do you expect to find yourself up in a fight with a pelican?

Yes. That was how I discovered the concept of overtraining.

It’s especially easy to overtrain if the rest of your life is stressful.

As a libertarian I have no problem with communism as Marx envisioned it: people spontaneously sharing because they feel like it.

That kind of communism is free.

The problem is when people use guns and governments to force others to “share” against their will. Marx believed that was a necessary step, that would produce the abundance that would allow people to relax and work spontaneously for the collective.

What Marx failed to understand is the most productive economic plan is letting people do what they want (free markets), and that what people want to do is trade.

Absolutely not true

My understanding is that one of them doesn’t talk to him.

How many wars started during Trump’s last Presidency?

You don't need a world war once you've created Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia.

Did you not read 1984?

Being tough and being respectful are not in opposition

• FDA

Especially in America, where access to healthcare is gatekept by a special class of people whose permission you need to obtain healthcare.

Imagine if you needed a prescription for new clothes, and couldn’t buy new clothes until someone else signed a sheet of paper saying you were allowed to buy a pair of jeans.

That’s not in any way a free market.

Hard to say.

I certainly hope not, given how an “eat the rich” society generally becomes an “eat your children” society in short order.

Remember the forgotten ones

collecting

Maybe they think a child abuser who has just received a beating is more likely, not less likely, to go on and abuse children.

Think about it: do you really think a man who beats his children is gonna be a better dad after he gets beaten up?

Violence is a complex subject, and people’s instinct to solve problems with beating up people they’re frustrated with is a curse of humanity, no matter how obvious a solution it may seem in the moment.

Some people, lots of people actually, and with good reason, think that violence begets violence.

What were your reasons to live before they got eliminated?

No. It’s all part of a scheme to make money. That’s it. People aren’t against you; they’re for themselves.

And I guess working on yourself and trying to improve aren’t exactly attractable qualities.

My dad always says to me: “If you want to find the right person, be the right person”.

All these years, and I still have to put the phone on speaker and set it next to my laptop and use the Audacity app on my laptop to record a call.