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subru··on Psilocybin-assisted group therapy for demoralization in long-term AIDS survivors
You now believe there's an afterlife where you'll suffer eternally if you do or don't take particular actions in life?
subru··on The Rise of The Social Media Vigilante
This exposes a risk of not using social media. One could be ostracized or harassed due to false content on social media and never know precisely why. Imagine the paranoia that would create, given the clear temptation for people to subtly harass the accused.
subru··on Job applicants over 40 filtered out by employers
Why? I'm not asking for help and I'm in no imminent danger to myself or others. I've made no plan nor have I announced any plan.

I've been like this for the majority of my life and my circumstances have deteriorated significantly over the past 18 months. I don't want "emergency services". That's part of the problem; people are afraid to speak up due to not only the stigma but also the risk of having someone misinterpret the situation and presume there's some acute risk, when there isn't.. which only complicates the situation.

I'm homeless and broke, on top of a shit ton of other problems. I've been suicidal for most of my life. My career prospects are bleak. What exactly do you believe your efforts, while well intentioned, will achieve? I assure you that you'd not only complicate my situation further, you'd probably make it worse.

My point was that statistically it's becoming more likely that, at some point in the future, I will be at risk for completing suicide. Wanting help and wanting to be dead don't have cross over or gray areas in some cases. Please don't invade my privacy. I've had enough of that already.

subru··on Job applicants over 40 filtered out by employers
I've been broke many times and I assure you it is not universally a great motivator.
subru··on Job applicants over 40 filtered out by employers
Good advice, however I've already done that: people are the same, and I am the same person. Therefore not interested.
subru··on Job applicants over 40 filtered out by employers
Thanks for your offer.
subru··on Job applicants over 40 filtered out by employers
That really sucks. Glad you made it through.
subru··on Job applicants over 40 filtered out by employers
Thanks. Don't want to, though.
subru··on Job applicants over 40 filtered out by employers
i suspect that making the correct choices is necessary to assure this
subru··on Job applicants over 40 filtered out by employers
Yes, already did. Thanks.
subru··on Job applicants over 40 filtered out by employers
Yes, lifetime technologist. Burned.
subru··on Job applicants over 40 filtered out by employers
I will be 40 next year. Humans are expendable; we have to make our own worth. If we don't do that, we end up like I am right now: a year from 40, homeless, broke, in a lot of debt, out of work, failed startup, facing a felony on false accusation.

Life is challenging for me now, and this article directly applies to me. Oh, and there's that thing about being a white male and suicide. Now imagine being a kind of intimidating looking type in a very non white anti trump area.

Tribalism is real. Had I stuck with my tribe early on I'd be more secure. My demise is probable at this time.

I am solid in my desire to self terminate yet lack the ability to overcome fear of death. I stay alive but it's closer than ever. It's almost a humane thing to let me go. I wouldn't wish my brain on anyone.

Good luck all.

subru··on Popular People Live Longer
You make a loose assessment about my ability to construct cohesive paragraphs, and suggest I should seek help to see if there's something wrong with me that might be causing such jibberish to emanate from my broken brain.

If you're right, it's death that I seek, not help.

subru··on Popular People Live Longer
What job or home?

I'm in tune with the universe, I knew three days ago to get out of where I was at 7:59am. I was given this message. Sure enough the yellow truck showed up at 7:59am.

I just want to die now. I don't like the nature of reality, humanity, and how I fit into it all.

subru··on Popular People Live Longer
May I ask how my life has offered great meaning to you?
subru··on Popular People Live Longer
I did research this a bit somewhat recently. People who have self immolated in protest have mixed results in realizing any change for their cause. I believe the guy who did this outside a powerful government official's office during the Vietnam war did manage to generate influence.
subru··on Popular People Live Longer
That I am able only to produce "meaningless word salad" as you put it is yet another reminder of why I am out of here.

Everything is fine. The world will go on without me. The only thing wrong is that I'm still alive.

You want me to study philosophy? My issues with the primal nature of humanity is merely the surface issue. I decided long ago as a child that such behaviors are enough reason to never procreate and planted the strong seed of incessant suicidality.

Ive already spent a lifetime exploring complexity. Enough already.

subru··on Popular People Live Longer
Thanks for advice. This is long term. I don't need nor want er. I want to die.

This is a lifetime desire. I decided as a child this world was shit. I've since seen more and more reasons to never procreate, and my desire to die has been consistent.

I've seen enough of this world. Thank you again. You're doing your part. Some people just want out, however.

subru··on Popular People Live Longer
The points that you bring up are precisely why I wish to self terminate, Yet our old saw the very reason why I am unable to complete the job. What a miserable existence to be stuck between the unending desire to die and the knowledge that death could actually be an infinitely worse fate.

They're also the basis for why I rationalize against procreation, at least for myself

subru··on Popular People Live Longer
I have considered suicide for the past 30 years. I tried very hard to build a life in the confines of whatever limitations I've been given and/or created for myself. I determine that the nature of humanity is to seek power. This study reminds me of why this world is total bullshit. I've notified to be part of this world anymore. I'm connected into this universe more than I ever have been. There is a black hole awaiting me
subru··on Ether Prices Plunge in GDAX Exchange Flash Crash
For the uninitiated, this often serves to gobble up anyone who had a resting stop loss order on that exchange all the way down to the low price. Ostensibly crypto markets don't account for circuit breaker scenarios. Very much wild Wild West.
subru··on Polynesian people used a kind of binary number system 600 years ago (2013)
Imagine you had two fingers and not ten. Try counting in binary. That should clear up the anomaly.
subru··on Secret Algorithms Threaten the Rule of Law
For one, Quora engages in social experimentation, including implying their mental illness diagnosis via suggested content. This scratches the surface; their techniques are rather insidious.
subru··on We’ve lost the internet, it’s all about damage control now
There needs to be a tech innovation that bypasses the internet, with a value add to make it compelling enough, at least for the tech crowd initially. Such innovation needs to be rooted in a plan that carries the long view regarding risk management that was missed the first time around.

Otherwise, yes, it's too late.

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