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  • I'm sorry for your loss. That's a heavy thing to deal with, and to go through it three times is pretty brutal.

    Suicide hotlines are still a thing. Exactly how they work and how to contact them will vary depending on your region. They're almost certainly in need of more operators, and while I'm sure they'll give you some advice for helping people going through it, I'm not sure what kind of experience you need to work or volunteer with them (again, that will vary with region).

    I will caution you that it's an extremely difficult job. That's not to dissuade you from going out to help people - but to help others you have to help yourself first so you need to be aware what kind of toll that work can have on people.

    Regarding my own suicidality and with men in particular there comes a fear of vulnerability. Suicide is one of the heaviest, most personal things a person can go through. Oftentimes our culture, or upbringing, or gender norms prevent people from opening up emotionally. Suicide is taboo and the suicidal often struggle with feelings of guilt, and talking about it brings in a fear of rejection or ridicule.

    The advice I can offer is to try and foster an environment where people can open up to you judgment-free. If you're willing to be vulnerable around others that sets an example that they can be vulnerable around you. Hearing about suicide is also an upsetting thing, and if you have a history with several victims you might naturally be upset to hear someone is considering it a fourth time. If your feelings are explosive, try to rein them in - an outburst likely means they won't open up to you again.

    Because the fear of opening up is real, it might be difficult to recognize the warning signs. This isn't a failure on your part, the victim is literally hiding it from everyone. Most people expect the suicidal to be depressed, but people will often socially mask their feelings by overcompensating with an appearance of happiness. However, if there is someone who you fear is considering suicide and is outwardly depressed, and then one day out of the blue they're suddenly fine - that can be a signal they've decided to end their life which somewhat paradoxically brings about a feeling of peace. In either case, when somebody starts giving away treasured possessions (sentimental, expensive, or things they use every day), that's a pretty clear warning.

    I'd also advise you to check out some resources online. There are associations for suicide prevention and mental health in general that have some fantastic resources available to the general public. While not specifically what you asked for, here is a toolkit for people who have lost someone to suicide.


    There is one more thing I'd like to add. It might be upsetting, but its intent is to give you peace of mind: you can't help everyone. That's not a cop-out or callousness either. In psychiatry there is a concept of resistance which implies a couple things.

    First, a patient is likely to resist any psychiatric intervention - therapy is difficult, it can hurt you emotionally, and the patient's disordered behaviour is often a coping mechanism that they've learned to deal with their life - even if they want to be fixed they might not want to lose their coping methods or lifestyle.

    Second, a therapist is unable to help a patient that does not want to help themselves. You can try every trick in the book, but if they're really not into it then there's no way to help them. That's not a personal failing on the therapist's part. Now technically in the case of suicide you might be able to point to how a doctor can force someone into a hospital if they're at imminent risk of suicide - but stripping someone of their autonomy and pumping them full of drugs until the danger passes is the exact kind of behaviour that would prevent someone from opening up again.

    I am really sorry you're going through it. Don't beat yourself up, and try to remember them as they were before they got sick

  • I'm agoraphobic. It's practically impossible living your life without leaving your house though.

    Even taking out the trash or checking my mailbox can be an ordeal. I'd much rather have a regular phobia, like spiders, snakes, clowns, or something easier to avoid.

  • I'm not an expert, but from personal experience I would hazard it's mostly due to not having time to cook. And perhaps more than not having time, it's not having the energy.

    After work, I don't want to cook. I might be physically exhausted from my job, or cognitively drained from dealing with bullshit. Some people work several jobs, some people have hours-long commutes. Then there's obligations like childcare, family, or maintaining your social life. So some people literally don't have enough hours in the day, and for others although there are technically enough hours, the time must be spent on recharging your batteries.

    Some people recommend batch cooking and meal prep to counter this, but I personally find it untenable. It's challenging to find the will to make a single meal, making one that's five times larger is an ordeal. Add to it that I don't really want to eat the same thing every day, and it's a tough nut to crack.

    There are almost certainly people who don't know how to cook. Public education has been gutted in the US, so to learn cooking you probably have to rely on either your parents teaching you, or having the motivation to learn it yourself. If your parents are also struggling to find the time to cook, they probably don't have the time to teach you either. Self-taught learning can be a crapshoot for most people: it can be too open-ended to know where to start, or discouraging when you fall into a newbie pitfall, or you focus on the wrong things.

    That's not to say it can't be done. Self-teaching is a valuable skill that will take you far, but perhaps ironically, you have to learn how to do it yourself. Partly due to its nature, and also see above where public education has been gutted.

    As for it being cheaper: maybe, but not likely. Some meals it might become cheaper to purchase that way due to economies of scale in processing, but it's almost certainly going to be cheaper to buy the raw ingredients yourself. Exceptions might apply for stale-dated food: something that the grocer was going to discard but gave it a second life by processing means they might be able to afford to lower the price. If you're not picky about what you're eating, a ready-made meal that's about to expire will probably be discounted. I still don't think it would be cheaper than buying ingredients, but it's definitely cheaper than a restaurant.

    One thing not mentioned is access to equipment. I don't have a rotisserie or a deep fryer. Some people might not have a full size oven, or are forced to do most of their cooking on a hot plate. Still others might not have access to a kitchen at all.

  • Same thing, isn't it?

  • I think the urban/rural divide is a global phenomenon, but yeah some of my fellow Canadians are truly unhinged. My next door neighbour (not rural) was sporting his Trump 2020 hat well into the 20's and had openly hateful views that he couldn't wait to tell you about. I didn't get it - it's not like he was able to vote for him - but I guess MAGA isn't meant to be understood.

    We've always been a little american. For the people who broadcast TV is still relevant for, we get overwhelmingly more US channels than Canadian content. We're also a petrodollar and have a crazy large cattle industry. Something like 66% of Canadians live within 100km of the border, and if you expand that to 200km it becomes 80% - just a day trip away.

    Canadians have always had this image of being a cuddly, polite, apologetic people, but it doesn't really hold up to scrutiny. Especially if you're indigenous.

  • You owned up to it immediately and confessed to it even though it brought you to tears

    If I was your mom I'd be proud of you

  • Have you ever seen a cat play with their food? I don't think I'd want to live there

  • That, and using live actors would be immersion-breaking

  • Stick to your convictions, don't listen to the shills from Big Roy. There's only one Roy and good golly is he a slut

    Source: Roy is pronounced like 'roi' which is French for 'king' which is a person who fucks everyone

  • The technology wouldn't work. There's too much variance in things like the angle the camera is viewing from versus glare from the windshield to get a reliable corpus of data to train from. Even then, the seatbelt isn't super visible, it's easily obscured by shadow or body shape or even the colour of your clothing.

    The false positive rate would probably match the true positive rate - which is to say it's a total coin toss and not something you want to rely on for enforcement

    In fairness though, I think that's probably the same for inattentive driving. You probably could do some video processing instead of simple image classification, but that's a massive increase in complexity for dubious gain.

  • I actually support socialism, I think it's the only way we're going to get see an equitable society. I would have assumed putting it in a thread about things that are "nice to have" showed that support, but I guess that wasn't clear.

    I do talk about how foreign influence causes things to collapse. I'm not sure about the statistics, but I would think in most cases communism has failed because of intervention from capitalist society. This is a condemnation of capitalism, not communism.

    The people who can't be trusted are the "rich assholes." The vast majority of us are not rich assholes, so I really don't see how your rant about the tragedy of the commons applies. We both agree that the tragedy of the commons is a fallacy.

    If you tear down the people who generally agree with you, you'll have a much more difficult time building that better tomorrow.

  • fr fr smh

  • I'm prepared to get raked over the coals because this is a hot topic on the fedi, but Communism

    It sounds great on paper. It's never worked though, either because domestic power corrupts, or foreign influence destabilizes it for their own ends.

    In fairness, the same can be said about the free market and democracy. No matter what system you live under, rich assholes will throw you and your grandma into the grinder to make an extra dollar that they won't even spend.

    I don't think that means we shouldn't try to do better. The common thread behind corruption everywhere is that it's driven by rich assholes, so maybe that's the place to start excising the disease from.

  • During the Covid years, all our 24-hour groceries changed back to a 12-hour model

    You can't even get fast food after midnight here, fuck third shift workers amirite?

  • Oh yeah, I should have been more clear: editing as you go is a totally valid way to do it. It's generally how I prefer to write (why write it twice if I can write it once?), but some people can really struggle with it.

    Whether it's in the moment or retrospectively, any professional work probably should be edited. I have found that editing in the moment or even yesterday's work causes me to miss things. There's certainly something to be had by letting things percolate and then reviewing with fresh eyes.

    Starting was always the hardest part for me. Editing yesterday's work was a good way to get over writer's block. Another trick I liked was when I finished for a session it was sometimes helpful to end in the middle of a sentence. Starting from nothing is hard, but even just finishing an incomplete thought can get the ball rolling.

  • I wrote a couple of novels, never got published though

    For me, the big thing was participating in National Novel Writing Month. If you're not familiar, NaNoWriMo takes place in November, and it's a community where people get together to try writing a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. It's become pretty commercial now, but the key thing that seemed to keep people going was community and routine.

    If you don't take any days off, that's 1667 words every day. That came out to about three pages in my word processor, and I thought three pages was pretty doable. The routine helped get over some writer's block I'd been struggling with, and it's something that has been repeated often as advice from famous authors.

    Taking a day off made it a lot harder the next day. Not just for making up the word count, because I'd take a day off only if I was ahead of quota. But when your momentum comes to a rest it becomes a lot harder to kick off the motivation. So the trick if you want to do it is to do it, but then you gotta do it or you won't do it.

    Another thing to keep in mind - your writing doesn't have to be good. In fact, it's pretty encouraged to spit out garbage if it keeps you writing because you can edit it later. If you edit as you go and try to skip the drafting process, it's like trying to do two things at once - both things suffer for it. In retrospect, editing was probably the more challenging part of writing.

  • It's just Snorlax, Slowpokes, and Slaking. We're just hanging out watching old movies

    We don't even have to fight, if you bring snacks I'll give you a badge

  • Friend, this is the internet

    I'm going to need that converted to bananas

    Are you sure this is kitchenware and not like a planting pot? Those holes could be for drainage

  • Thanks for including the red line - I originally saw a regular bowl and was thinking that's just how bowls work so they don't spill out all the time

    Spiral is kind of weird though. Maybe if you're mixing something by swirling the bowl it might help keep liquid in. But I'm leaning towards it just being a kooky design

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world

    How do you respond to "hey, how are you" when you feel like garbage?