• Smoogs@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    consider it this way: getting old may suck. getting old, sick and having strokes sucks way more and just makes you miserable and a burden to a bunch of people who didnt deserve it. you wont be taking it out your enemy. just hurting yourself and finding more reasons to hate yourself.

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      6 hours ago

      We have locked everything anyone needs to live a decent life behind a massive paywall, make a habit of eliminating any way besides debt to make it over the massive paywall, and then scientists do research on people’s coping mechanisms so that others can use that as a way to feel righteous condemning a stranger’s habits.

      Notice how you didn’t spend a moment discussing where relief for any of the very real problems I mentioned is coming from because you likely know it isn’t.

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        6 hours ago

        Nope. And that’s not why I didn’t discuss it.

        There are things you are definitely responsible to yourself for. Such as you’re decisions of what you are doing to you’re own body with what you are cognitively aware of consuming. Such as smoking or too much alcohol or food.

        You’re just talking about all things that seem impossible to control just to get the focus off yourself.

        That’s how an addict would speak. That’s an old addict trick.

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          Nah, I wrote that and this sober dude, just as I spend the vast majority of my waking time.

          The point is that these very real problems have no solutions but somehow the only thing we can do in these threads is handwring and concern troll people coping with them.

          There is lots of online encouragement to live a long, sober life in an unaffordable, polluted hellscape.

          I’m not attached to a bottle, but having a beer at the end of a long day provides a lot more relief than podcast bro pseudoscientific bullshit about meditation and wellness which is the only alternative on offer. (Because we live in a country where everything is purposely broken and the only way sold to fix it is for each of us individually to be perfect.)