Umthisguy

TIL the word "gatekeeping" really triggers people.

I've also been where you are. Sometimes life is just very exhausting and feels like way too much work for no payoff. But it can get better. If I can work my way out of the deepest self loathing and depression pit, you can. There are a lot of drugs out there, it took me years and dozens of tries to find one that finally worked (an NDRI). And it took me even longer to find a good therapist (which I know is very difficult, good therapists are really hard to come by). But it can happen. Getting outside every day for a little vitamin D, eating healthy, and regular excercise are great first steps to getting yourself a little more energy and feeling a little more like you can handle daily trials. Also, regular sleep. Getting on a sleeping pill, to be able to choose when I sleep and for how long, drastically improved my mood and energy levels.

And time really helps. You said you're feeling hopeless and want to give up. But honestly, the resignation got me started on the right path. If nothing helps and there's nothing you can do, you might as well keep going. The time is gonna pass anyway. You're going to die someday and it's your choice if you decide to end it sooner, although I'd really encourage you to call a suicide hotline before you go through with that decision because you could not only be hurting yourself but people who may love you. Whether you believe it or not. It will hurt someone. But why not stick around and just let life take it's course? If it's all hopeless, why not just let it play out and see where this ride you can't control takes you? Maybe it's always miserable, but that's nothing you haven't dealt with already, right? You won't always have the strong feelings you're going through now. It will pass.

This is the perfect example of a strawman fallacy. I didn't say no one else in the world was hunting. I asked a question. Interesting how your first reaction is to immediately attack a position I didn't take. That's what I mean about the impulsive responses.

In any case, which laws from which countries are you referring to specifically?

So, to summarize, your answer to the question is people should be allowed to own guns to hunt with restrictions?

What if I want to hunt so I can eat meat without supporting factory farming?

Just playing devils advocate here, I agree we need gun control in the US. But saying "fuck responsible gun owners" seems pretty black and white.

It seems to me that the media loves to latch onto gun stories to further polarize the US. Divide and conquer is the oldest trick in the book. Republicans don't want anyone thinking. They want emotional reactivity and sensationalized, impulsive retorts with lack of reasoning from both "sides" and nothing close to nuanced thought.

Like what? An infinite decimal that seems random that we can calculate down to more and more precision?

That's pretty easily answerable, if that's what you're asking. Pi is how we measure the circumfrence of a circle, amoung other things. But a circle has no edges. So how can we use numbers to calculate the infinitely smooth line of a circle with no corners if numbers inherently make precise, "edged" digits?

You use an infinite number. Precisely, Pi, which we calculated by taking the circumference of a circle and dividing it by the diameter. The more precise we can measure the circumference and diameter, the more digits of pi we can get. The more digits of Pi we get, the more accurately we can measure the circumference of a different circle we don't already know.

TDLR: Pi is like that because circles don't have edges, so we need a number that doesn't end, otherwise when we calculate a circle and, say, put it into a computer, it'll have little edges. The less numbers of Pi we have, the more noticeable and numerous the circles' edges. Its like the difference between having a screen with more or less pixels.

It's a good book. Entertaining, insightful, emotionally human. Just not a great book. I would have expected Children of Time to blow it out of the water.