I can see the headlines now. “This just in! Global advertising halted because of some shitty vandalism! World saved from crushing depressive corporatocracy!”
If you’re “tired of fighting” it still costs you little to nothing to support those fighting, or at least not speak condescendingly about the fight they are fighting. Something about your comment tells me you weren’t fighting much in the first place.
Don’t even need to attempt suicide, you just tell the doctor you’re THINKING about suicide and they will lock you up for a couple weeks vacation :-)
recommend getting your affairs in order before doing this though, otherwise you’ll start missing bill payments. pay all your bills a couple months in advance then enjoy psych ward vacation stress-free.
Take this advice with a grain of salt, the doc might not let you out after just a few days, and that weekend might be a good bit of a year if they feel the need to tune in psychofarmaka before release
Anyone who has ever been in a long term psych ward as a visitor or patient (where I come from anyway) would not want to go there for any reason. Half those guys don’t even know how to play cribbage.
And those who has been and want to go back are usually in need of more help than just a weekend off “normal life”. I just wanted to warn against trying to use a suicide attempt to get the holiday off in case anyone got that idea.
I know that before I started to work on my autism I sometimes took things too literal without regarding all possible consequences. Suicide is too dangerous to both the individual and all around to try to “fake” an attempt for any reason, and if you feel that suicide is a viable option to get out of a life situation please reach out to family, friends or even a hotline or a “soul care giver” just to get it out in the open. To try and bear the pain alone does not work that well.
In all seriousness, a person I grew up with tends to enter into psychiatric care around time of year either voluntarily or not because its a time around their first “attempt” and is very hard for them (one reason I know what’s it’s like to visit a ward).
Ive been in a similar situation and it took me about 10 years of work to get mentally healthy, and I am now 36 and been working in the mental health sphere (both young people primarily with neurodivergence and elder people with a combination of physical and mental issues) for a few years where my experiences are a great asset.
Your person might have it super rough, but each time he/she admits herself rather than being forced is a great step to mental health and it should be focused on with positive light. It is never too late to get better, and a misstep is only a failure if the person gives up, otherwise it’s just a hiccup and those happens.
Remember to also take care of yourself and make sure to have healthy boundaries. A close person are never a professional mental health worker with responsibilities and need to remember that so they don’t drown. A person need to be in a good position to be able to help, or it will just devolve into another person feeling unwell.
If you are interested in helping your person or anyone else with mental health, I recommend practicing enforcing personal boundaries as much as possible and when you (you as in anyone reading) feel secure and safe with your boundaries take a course. There might be MHFA courses or similar where you live.
While the comic combined with the text has a bit of an edgy vibe, I agree with the overall message. Advertising was just decided upon to be an acceptable way to force people to look at whatever. And no, it’s not always an option to “just don’t look at it if you don’t like it”. I fucking hate those advertising TVs that get set up all over my city, they grab your attention even more than regular billboards.
They’ve been putting those blinding boards all over the place where I live, I think they’re supposed to dim at night but they’re not properly maintained and fuck whoever thought putting super bright moving images right next to roads is safe and should be allowed.
fuck whoever thought putting super bright moving images right next to roads is safe and should be allowed.
I agree fuck ads and all but 90% of the drivers are too distracted by their phones to even see the ad. 😜
Though I guess this might grab the remaining 10% that were trying to actually pay attention to the road (a hypothetical percentage I cannot claim to personally have encountered).
A 12 or 20 gauge shotgun with a 28" barrel, and maybe a full choke, holds a nice pattern when shot from distances, say like from a slowly moving car to something as tall as a billboard.
I'll pay for all of the subscriptions required to not see ads when the companies I work for pay me enough money to afford it.
Have you seen the prices on these subscription sites?
Every single website you go to wants $20 a month to not show you ads, and for some all that will do is decrease the number of ads you are shown.
If you cycle through the same 10 to 15 websites then that's $200 to $300 a month just to look at the internet that you're paying $100 a month to look at.
Did Banksy draw or write this? What’s the connection?
EDIT: Here’s an explanation from the artist who drew the comic:
This quote was taken from Banksy’s 2004 book Cut It Out. Some of the passage was inspired/appropriated from an essay by artist Sean Tejaratchi. I rearranged the last couple of sentences for this comic.
I used to be able to drink a lot, but I stopped over covid and now I’m pretty green after, like, one glass of wine. Cider is instant vomit mode. Pathetic. Now it’s just Coronas and sadness.
I think that words have meaning. And the meaning can be true, but pronunciation is not part of the true part. It is only the color of the arrow pointing at truth.
I pronounce oil differently than my cousin in Texas, and I pronounce car differently than my uncle in New Jersey. And to use pre-Modern English (~1500) era spelling ideas we would spell those words differently and probably use different alphabets. And spelling became a standard thing in English around 1750 when Johnson’s dictionary became so celebrated and a primary reference.
So there is slippage in spelling and pronunciation.
Drinking in my 30s really meant that I won’t get much of a buzz, but will feel bloated and get a headache later. Also, unless I do all my drinking early in the day, I won’t get a good night’s sleep because my heart will be racing.
So…only have 2-3 drinks max for the day and do it before the sun sets so I have the evening to process it. Or don’t bother at all since the benefits don’t really outweigh the cost. Staying hydrated throughout is important but doesn’t really fix any of the aforementioned issues.
Hydration is definitely key. I used to think light beer was well engineered because I rarely got sick off it, but it really just has the water built in…
If I start hydrating early during the day, keep to clear liquor, limit my intake, stop in the early evening, and take some electrolytes at bedtime, I can usually mitigate 90% of the hangover. I will still have terrible sleep.
But, why am I doing all this? It’s just easier to stay sober these days.
We should just go ahead and pronounce all acronyms the way their unabbreviated forms’ first syllable letters are said. Just ignore we treat individual letters differently than the words they came from.
The CIA should sound like “see ya” Department of Transportation “Duht” Internal Revenue Service “ears”
It wasn’t a real suggestion. A bit of hyperbole and exaggeration due to the pointless debate over jig/gif. We have a long precedent of pronouncing acronyms as initialisms and not enunciating the letters as they were pronounced in their original word. While I think the original argument over jif/gif was for fun, some can’t let it go.
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