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Independent thinker valuing discussions grounded in reason, not emotions.

I say unpopular things but never something I know to be untrue. Always open to hear good-faith counter arguments. My goal is to engage in dialogue that seeks truth rather than scoring points.

  • What would be the most pleasant form of euthanasia?

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  • Yeah, that's the thing with gasses like nitrogen, helium or carbon monoxide: it feels like breathing air except since it contains no oxygen you'll just go from feeling light headed to passing out and suffocating. CO2 would otherwise work the same way except that inhaling pure CO2 instantly causes panic and the sense of suffocation.

    Infact, I've heard of people who euthanize pet rodents with CO2 and recommend others doing the same which is terrifyingly bad advice. That's a fucking awful way to go. Just imagine being so ignorant and doing that to your pet. Makes me feel sick to even think about it.

  • How worried should US people be about "tariffs"? Should I invest in upgrading my equipment ASAP?

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  • My comment clearly states that it's about life in general. Not everything is about the U.S.

  • What would be the most pleasant form of euthanasia?

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  • I don't know about pleasant but I imagine breathing in nitrogen is among the least unpleasant ways to go. You first pass out and then suffocate while you're unconscious. I believe that carbon monoxide acts in a similar fashion.

  • How much do you pay for your phone plan, what do you get in return and in which country?

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  • Finland.

    19€/month for unlimited everything.

  • How worried should US people be about "tariffs"? Should I invest in upgrading my equipment ASAP?

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  • The future doesn’t look too bright at the moment, but what’s the alternative? You’ve just got to play the hand you’ve been dealt. In Buddhism, they call it “the second arrow” when you’re in a bad situation but make it worse by overthinking it. Looking back on my life, I can think of countless times I worried about something that never even happened. I’d essentially tortured myself mentally for no reason - and that seems counterproductive.

    I try to live in a way where I don’t contribute to making things worse, and wherever I can, I try to nudge things in the right direction. Beyond that, I avoid worrying any more than I already do, because intellectually, I know it’s probably wasted effort and a form of self-harm.

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  • So, because you can point to one example where the worst-case scenario happened, we should live our lives constantly fearing the worst? Is that really what you’re arguing for here?

  • What news sources do you follow with which you generally disagree?

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  • The only news site I follow is my country’s equivalent of the BBC, which leans left. Lemmy also skews heavily to the left, but the podcasts I listen to tend to be more centrist or center-right from my perspective - though some might argue that someone like Joe Rogan is far-right, which I disagree with.

    I don’t align myself with any particular side. I form my opinions on an issue-by-issue basis rather than adopting the beliefs of "my side" - whatever that may be - as a package deal. I’ve been on the right, and I’ve been on the left, but I’ve since settled somewhere in the middle. I feel like I have a fairly accurate understanding of both perspectives and can often argue for most hot topics from either side’s point of view.

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  • In life it's generally safe assumption that the vast majority of things we worry about never happen or if they do it won't be as bad as we thought.

  • What's the most immersive video game that you've played?

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  • In my case it's definitely DayZ. It's an open-world zombie-survival multiplayer game.

    I'm not a huge gamer myself but that one has always stood out to me above all the others. Once you've spent hours into a character you seriously don't want to get killed. The map is massive and there's only 60 other people at best so you often don't even run into anyone - only hear the occasional gunshot in the distance. Wearing headphones lets you hear 360-degree sounds and the proximity voice chat I think is pretty cool feature too. It's often jokingly called hiking simulator since you, for the most part, just run in a forests.

    It's also the only game where I've genuinely felt bad about shooting another player. Self-defence is a different case but just cold blood murder only because I can has multiple times left me feeling kinda shitty, so nowdays I just try and talk to people and then usually I get shot instead. I've also often felt absolutely terrified, hiding in a corner of a room in a house hiding from another player who I've just realized is close to me. I haven't felt anything like that with any other game and have felt that DayZ is quite unique in that sense.

    I must add, thought, that those flight simulator cockpits that people have built for themselves seem kind of intriguing too.

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  • It's the "I like/don't like the sound of that button"

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  • There are people on the far left who also hate jews just as passionately as the nazies do. The fact that you can't even aknowledge this shows that you're not a rational thinker and thus I don't need to waste my time with you.

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  • No, I’m saying you’ll find antisemites on both the far left and the far right - not that everyone on the far left hates Jews. Not everyone on the far right does either.

    If you’re going to argue that there are no antisemites on the far left whatsoever, then there’s nothing to discuss here.

  • Does anybody else always find themselves sending large enthusiastic texts to people but don't usually receive such texts?

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  • I feel like I'm the only one who shares things I've been up to recently and usually the responses I get back are passive at best. Then when I intentionally stop messaging them and waiting for someone else to say something first the group chat dies down for a week. I feel like it's time to move on and leave these "friends" behind.

  • If you were a rich man... What would you do?

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  • move to Finland first

    It's dark, wet and cold in here.

  • If you were a rich man... What would you do?

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  • To me "rich" means someone whose passive income exceeds their spending.

    So if I was rich I'd stop working and instead pursue my personal interests. Ideally I'd buy a property somewhere remote and close to water with a lot of land and start building a homestead of some sort.

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  • I haven't said a world about Israel.

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  • I'm talking about the hatred of jews.

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  • How does this relate to what I said?