As for me:
Due to Christmas rapidly approaching my place earns increasing amounts of money.
It would be so easy to just snag a whole day of store income and forever vanish into another country.

  • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
    291·
    6 days ago

    I’ve been struggling with the opinion for many years now that blowing up oil infrastructure is not only morally sound, but not doing it is a moral failure.

    I’m not the right kind of person to get out there and do it myself, but you aren’t going to catch me condemning someone who does.

    • communism@lemmy.ml
      4·
      5 days ago

      Don’t say that on social media. If you’re gonna do that, just do it. Climate activists have done it before and it’s most certainly more effective than the majority of climate activism I see.

    • donkeyass@lemmy.sdf.org
      5·
      6 days ago

      I understand the dangers of climate change and pollution and I fully support moving away from oil as an energy source. But I’m genuinely curious about how you see destroying oil infrastructure playing out.

      • danciestlobster@lemm.ee
        7·
        6 days ago

        There have been groups doing this for quite a while in many detrimental industries. There was a documentary a while back about one of them (earth liberation front) that eventually got caught. They did extensive work to ensure workers at those facilities weren’t injured and it was just property destruction.

        I have to think if enough property was destroyed the owners would run out of money and investors to build more

        • donkeyass@lemmy.sdf.org
          2·
          5 days ago

          Sure, but we are a long way from not being dependent on oil even by the most aggressive timelines. Destroying a significant amount of oil infrastructure while we still use it would cripple supply chains, transportation, etc and we wouldn’t be able to move to renewable sources as quickly because there would be significantly fewer resources available.

          Like I said, I’m fully supportive of moving away from oil because I know how damaging it is. But I just don’t see a realistic way to get rid of oil that quickly.

          • danciestlobster@lemm.ee
            2·
            4 days ago

            Yeah I mean you are right. I guess I am getting impatient waiting for society to decide this is a big enough problem to need to address it, and crippling the oil industry, while having a LOT of other negative ramifications, would essentially force people to use less oil and find alternatives/do without immediately. Ideally that wouldn’t be a necessary intermediate step to progress but it feels like no progress for so long it starts sounding appealing to force the issue

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    47·
    6 days ago

    Definitely don’t rob the store Mandy. Disappearing is much harder than it seems before you try it. It is getting hard to find and claim a birth certificate of someone plausible and reinvent yourself.

    I’m one step away from concluding that if I can’t survive and am facing homelessness with my physical disability, I should consider that what it is, an act of war.

    • Mandy@sh.itjust.worksOP
      14·
      6 days ago

      Dont worry, i wont
      But as intrusive thoughts sometime do? getting kinda loud ya know

      Edit: thank you for the consolation

  • DerKommissar@lemmy.mlEnglish
    101·
    5 days ago

    I’ve been advised by my legal team to remain silent on this subject.

    Shoutouts my boy Robin Hoodie, though.

    • SirSamuel@lemmy.world
      511·
      6 days ago

      23 years ago I met a guy at work that was really cool. We became friends of a sort, in the way that a shy introvert considers friends. Every once in a while he’d invite me to hang out with his friends, which was always a good time. I’m not sure if he considered me a friend. I always felt like an outsider in those groups. But he was kind to me, and I love him. Eventually we both moved away from that area. I’m not good at keeping in touch, especially over long distances. For instance, my brother lives a couple of states away, I love him to death, and we talk maybe once a year.

      So I’d call my friend every once in a while, and we’d catch up.

      Eighteen years ago I lost my friend to depression. The details aren’t important. How he did it. Who found him. The 3 am phone call. But it was 18 years ago. It still hurts. You think you’ll always have someone, that they’re just a phone call away. That you’ll get to hear their weird take on that thing we’d always argue about. That you’ll get to hear his latest poem…

      And you’ll always wonder if you could’ve done something to help them stay.

      People don’t realize that they bring light to the world. That they’ll be missed. That there will be a hole in the world where they were. That they are loved more deeply and profoundly than they can know. The memory of them is a poor substitute for their presence.

      Don’t go too soon. You will be missed.

      • rhadamanth_nemes@lemmy.world
        71·
        5 days ago

        Is it fair to latch the world onto people thinking like this? To chain them to suffering for years and years because any random person they interact with might be sad later?

        It sucks that you feel pain from losing a friend, but does that pain outweigh the pain they were trying to escape from?

      • TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.ml
        2·
        5 days ago

        Those who seem to have it so together often don’t. Hope you don’t blame yourself in any way and that you’re managing it the best you can.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
      16·
      5 days ago

      I’ve heard the trick is never looking back. The moment you get in touch with your old life they can find you.

      Take note OP. If you’re gonna do an exit scam you get everything in cash (somehow, it can be deliberately hard for this reason) and shed old technology and connections like a snake skin.

    • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      6 days ago

      That, or joining some hardcore cult because the weight of responsibility is tiring and it’s so easy to delegate your will to some bullshit explanation of how everything is and what everyone should be doing. Many flies can’t lie how eating shit is calming.

  • TechnoCat@lemm.ee
    20·
    6 days ago

    Buy every delicious treat you see in the store. Fill the cart with donuts and pie.

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
    18·
    6 days ago

    All the ones that are bad ideas. My impulse filter is thin and the harmless but weird ones just happen.

    Anyway, thanks for being my only friends, Lemmy.

  • FollyDolly@lemmy.world
    7·
    5 days ago

    Sometimes I just want to go back to bed, and never leave it again. No more going to work, no more grocery shopping, no more chores, just me laying in my bed cozy and warm.

  • pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    81·
    5 days ago

    I’ve had suicidal ideation going on for longer than I haven’t, almost 2/3rds of my life. I have suicidal intrusive thoughts all the time but discarding them is second nature to me at this point and I only struggle with them when things get really bad, like the past several months

  • InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works@sh.itjust.works
    10·
    6 days ago

    I’d never do it, but… break all the stuff.
    It only ever happens in these tiny stores with a bunch of ornaments and shit.
    Shelves and shelves packed with knickknacks and other fragile whatnots where you risk toppling half the store if you turned around too fast…

  • Mister Neon@lemmy.world
    12·
    6 days ago

    Crack all the glow sticks.

    I bought a bunch of equipment for a bugout bag. I bought a dozen glow sticks. I now have eleven glow sticks.