Oh no… I’m that weirdo that likes the Papermate mechanicals.
They are just so simple and reliable. You could crush one and still get it to write again if you needed too and it had the eraser (that sucked) built right in that you never used but felt good looking at it and squeezing against your thumbnail when you were bored. Just had to put better quality lead in it.

But man Zebra makes the pens and pencil I would actually intend to use if I was planning it.

My great grandmother that had one that was:

Stop masturbating under that apple tree.

Maybe sounded better in Polish.

People have absolutely gotten to a point where they don’t want any criticism even if it is meant to help us come up with plans.

No plan or idea should be single in origin and it’s by the back and forth we find plans… But people are either right or wrong with no in-between in western culture.

Are you speaking for me?

It boils down to a collection of reasonable thoughts and requests for a good protest and while I am participating through the sheer audacity that I purchase something every day like the people doing shein hauls makes me cringe it does not change my normal economic activity and therefore doesn’t change the companies you hope to take notice bottom line.

It’s about having people actually take some time to have critical thoughts about their actions and the ones we want to do to make changes.

Your dismissal is exactly how this fails to enact change.

Thank God you also are fine again tomorrow.

That would be something. Just every week we perform less and less economic activity to build up to something. Man a protest where we start at 1 day and build up to the whole week would be actually impressive.

Still likely have limited scope for who could actually participate but definitely be a bit more flushed out. Give time to build up steam and momentum and get a planned reaction.

Because this is the best people who are trying to be singular in deciding a low impact protest for their followers think of and rush to make it happen because instant gratification of a shorter turnaround time feels better with our shorter attention span.

I’m still quite annoyed that this is still thought of as some community action when it is more or less a small group of people getting some of their friends across a large global space to agree that it sounds good and then hope everyone else just agrees and does it with no end goal in sight.

It’s reactionary action without purpose or action.

Hey, did you know that half of all day to day retail spending is done by the economically top 10% of the US population.
These are people who for the most part don’t care about economic hardships of the lower classes and have closer to 65% of the liquid assets.

They already under spend for their wealth and likely also won’t care about this. And will spend or not and make no impact.

Not to be negative, but to be realistic.
This is pointless.
Like literally without a point or purpose but to “show those business we mean business” and that isn’t an actual point and they don’t care about a 1 day shopping freeze.

The reach on this with it already being the day of the protest is already a major hinderance to any progress hoped to be achieved and then we still don’t have a point.

Honestly we need to be deciding what change we actually want to have occur and start steering the ship that way little action at a time as possible but instead let’s just keep trying to make 1 day events a thing with the shock the wealthy see of us standing together enough to make them see the light of God and turn around and change for us. I’m sure that will eventually work even though it never has.

Yeah, the logic seems sound but is a bit what-about.

The problem is that it is a lot of luck and some strong resolve but the luck is very important.
People should grab the reigns of their life and try to get out of a bad situation but if life paths barely work for motivation then life paths to get out of sharing the same odds does make it quite the uphill battle.

I just want to recognize that as trying so hard to get that perfect life turnaround is like winning the lottery and while people shouldn’t stop trying I don’t want them to be burned out by the lack of response to their efforts in this complicated world.

In life there really isn’t correct answers. There are your answers. Everything comes with a heavy dose of reality being complicated.
I would say it doesn’t really speak to motivation. Their motivation was to leave everything behind and start over which isn’t very motivating past being able to do so. It doesn’t lead to happiness it just changes the days you have which may feel better while it still feels new.

Everything we share is a chance for others to understand us more. It might not be deep but it is a perspective shared that I’m just pushing back against.

Is it really pessimistic to just disagree with a point of view that I find to be a poor message or is it that way cause you want to assume the motivation is correct to handling life?

Why can’t it just be that this is my perspective that I share out for others?

They think they have figured out some other secret other than freedom to make mistakes because they have the financial backing to make them is what sets them apart.

Life is full of people thinking that if other follow their exact steps it will work without realizing the things they have differently, such as money and resources, even just skills or biological quirks, do make quite the difference in being able to followed.

I’m not against them sharing it worked for them but that’s as far as I feel it goes.

What an almost hilariously awful response.

I’m probably better off blocked by you but what an utter disappointment to being offered to offer more to the conversation.

Sure. I use words that I find match more to the tone of meaning I intend to convey rather than a 1 to 1 of repeating it for the sake of repeating it.

Do you have anything to add to this other than that 2 words I used are not identical?
I’d be interested in your take on reality rather than a pedantic interjection to make it so you feel like you contributed.

Please share if you have more but I will consider using simpler prose if that’s all you want to add.

Oh I am always in favor of life. Suicide is messy, painful and leaves a lot of people with less in their life.

It’s just not a solution as much as a new start point searching for something that doesn’t exist and will likely lead you back to having to do it again.

People can do what they need to or want but I see no comfort for those that follow trying to get a better life. That is why I feel sad seeing people recommending it I guess.
We don’t find utopia on the other side of tomorrow, just more tomorrows.

That’s very much easier said than done. Aa life is often not so easy to find a better version of but more often a different version.

The advice of stay alive because at least you keep experiencing new things is good advice. Trying for better is a nice idea but a message of do what it takes to make your life “better” is… Fantasy in a way that feels off to me.

I could tell the story of the night I tried to drown myself and all that changed since then but it wouldn’t be better persay. Just changed. The story would sound like meandering prose and little purpose.

I don’t understand the myth of better. It causes misery more in those that do not find it.

There is surprisingly little you must do to simply exist.

Sooo… Pushed a huge reset button on their relationships and…
I still don’t get this. This kind of advice doesn’t exactly work for anyone but the person speaking. No one can exactly follow the life of another as we are all completely different.

I guess the point that you have some level of free will and can make personal choices is new to some people but that isn’t a fix and doesn’t really resolve anything for depression.

It’s trying a different tactic to handling life but it negates what was causing them misery in the first place. Which is the monotony of life itself to a degree.

This tosses all that in favor of denying finding purpose for just exploding your existence to see if you can build it new in a way that might make you happy but likely will need another reset when it stops working.

I just don’t get it.

Have sex, do communism.

Words to live by.

Some dogs are just rare oddities. I had a black lab make it to 18 it seemed purely out of spite for how bad it’s younger years had been.

Probably helped that I was willing to carry it out to the grass and sit with her for like half an hour while she got the strength to go to the bathroom.