Ah, man. I have kids. I have to watch the clock.

I cried the first time I watched it, and then cried the second time I watched it when it started. Some of it was fixable, but some of them were failed by the societal system and not because of motivation or friends. Sometimes people are just sick, and they need help, and the day to day combined with lack of access to affordable mental health plus the stigma of being mentally unwell…the jumpers’ pain caused pain for those that knew them, but I really respected how honest about their grief and yet still caring those people were.

I guess my point is, yeah, there’s some great points about all of life’s problems being solvable on the way down, for the guy that did survive. But suicide for a lot of people doesn’t feel like wanting to die. There was an author that wrote about people jumping from the towers at 9/11, and it wasn’t that they wanted to die, but they were more afraid of the fire than of what was out the window. Jumpers don’t always want to die, but being where they are is so inescapable that death is less scary, even a painful one.

But again, that’s why we need better mental health advocacy and better pay for those that work in the field, and less punishment for people that feel any sort of feelings in the job force.

If you’ve ever been in a college town, they get up to some stupid shit in there and I don’t mean drugs. Try to pee doing a handstand. Try to pee with someone else doing the hands from behind. Everyone trying to pee with no hands while singing. And that’s the light stuff

I feel like this should be posted over a bathroom in a bar where people try to take risky bathroom moves. Just throw them off enough they get startled and only use the toilet as intended.

In a hunter/gatherer society, most of the time was spent together. Women and men helped gather, though women did the bulk and the food processing. Taking down a large animal was calorie taxing, and there was no refrigerator so meat was a feast time while gathering still happened, and was sorted and stored, and then the group was back together to a) rest after the hunt or b) be a woman and continue the constant maintenance of children, food, clothing, etc.

Like lions, men brought food to buy in to society that was matriarchal. You see it in elephants and deer, younger men/older boys are expected to look after smaller children when the adults are doing the heavy lifting. Society only demands work first instead of family because that’s what’s been sold to you and now you’re stuck in the system. Having a family, having a tribe, biological or not, strengthens the group. If you can hunt and she can fish and I can cook and she can weave, we’re okay, as long as we work together.

Oh, I see you're familiar with Arizona

I think you're right to have skepticism about a case where there were motivations to take a public figure and have them say whatever, especially Russia in its current state. She very quite possibly did it intentionally. Maybe she did it accidentally. Or maybe someone said "this is what you have to say. Plead guilty and say you did it on accident, and they'll let you go." And then they didn't.

Is that his child? I don’t know, I’m asking. If so, no matter what dad says he’s going to have an easier time getting into good schools, getting good coaches, excellent training camps, not having to work a dead end job to hone his skill (if footy is what he wants to do or is good at or even if none of the above)

If it isn’t his child, what does this statement have to do with anything?

If getting motivated meant I could snap my fingers and be the child of a wildly successful anything I’d do it. Not saying I wouldn’t work hard at whatever that thing is but I definitely wouldn’t be walking in on hard work alone.

Idk this is a weird post.