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- Comment on Anon creates a mystery 2 days ago:
I can appreciate that aspect of interactions shaping your sociability. When I was a teenager I once wrote in my diary that, “my favorite people to speak to are strangers.” I enjoyed talking to people I’d never meet again because the potential for abuse, emotional manipulation, etc, was lower. When the conversation was done, they would functionally disappear and there would be no consequences. The internet is quite a large pool of strangers.
However, I’m not really a hermit. I have a friend I see once a month or so, and a partner who I live with. I also work out of a field office staffed with co-workers, who I see on an almost daily basis. I do also see my family members from time to time out of what I image is a similar feeling of obligation.
Probably most of my communication is with my coworkers and my partner.
Do you feel at odds with your identity as a modern hermit? Or, do you enjoy it?
- Comment on Anon creates a mystery 3 days ago:
Really? I mean, not to pry, that’s a difficult situation to be in. Are you completely estranged from your family?
- Comment on Anon creates a mystery 3 days ago:
At the risk of being a contrarian, even that scenario of driving into a national park until you can’t drive and then walking is probably a guarantee of you being found. National parks are managed land and they’re pretty popular. You’re also leaving your car behind, either on a designated access road or a fire lane which makes finding you more of an inevitability than anything else.
Part of what I do for work are wildlife surveys. People tend to steal the cameras or the SD cards. Something I’ve noticed is that when I look for places to put cameras, specifically to avoid capturing humans, I still get humans on them, or the cameras are sometimes tampered with. I think this is a sort of confirmation bias. Anywhere you or I go, someone else is likely to go. Even if we’re trying to hide, we still have shared common biases.
The least likely places for humans to go are the ones selected at random via GIS on a map. I select 10 random points in the management unit then i rule out the obvious bad ones that intersect with an access road or some kind of facility. The trouble with these points is that they tend to be really hard to access.
But you know what? I do think this is kind of splitting hairs. Obviously there are always remote areas, and a determined person could hike for many hundreds of miles.
I think the bigger factor in “disappearing”, whether it’s for some nefarious reason such as suicide or not, is how well known you are. Are there people who are motivated to find you? Are the local police well funded? Are there land management staff here willing to look for you? How many years will your spouse, parent, child look for closure? I think for most affluent people, enough of these factors align to make them easy to find. Those most capable of disappearing are those who have nobody. Unprivileged people, who don’t have the support structure that they need. This sort of person can disappear even in a well populated area. Where I live, there are many road signs warning of human trafficking. I suppose human trafficking is probably the leading cause of true disappearance, since the victims often fall into that category of person who has nobody.
- Comment on Anon creates a mystery 3 days ago:
In my experience, police are tipped by the family of missing people that the victim was a frequent visitor of the preserve. The police ask for access, but aren’t really equipped to survey / don’t have maps, so we join in person. I get the vibe that as folks contemplate killing themselves in a natural area, they visit it more frequently leading up to the event, so it’s kind of obvious. I mean, humans don’t disappear. If it’s a normal person, hiding somewhere, they are either at a friend’s house, the bar, or in the woods.
The other category of people are the ones who just kill themselves in the parking lot or guest areas. Truly, these people can fuck right off. Its a horrible thing to come to work and find a dead body hanging off the observation tower.
We manage less than 100k acres, the longest public trails here are probably only 15 miles long, and we have maybe 3 million people nearby. So, people don’t usually die by accident on ours, at leat not in mysterious ways. Distressed hikers are usually found by other hikers before dying. Most accidental deaths I’ve seen have been drowning due to swimming in undesignated areas.
Reflecting on this response, our police might just be better funded than more rural land management areas. Like, the last search i was involved in was extensive and prolonged. On BLM land way out there, maybe people do disappear, but working in environmental lands management has taught me that truly empty natural land doesn’t really exist in most places with reasonably sized populations. Chances are, if you walked out there, someone else will too, at least in public lands.
- Comment on Anon creates a mystery 3 days ago:
As someone who’s underpaid to work in a nature preserve, please don’t do this. So many of my coworkers have ptsd from finding / cleaning up bodies.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Some people describe visual hallucinations as a component of body dysmorphia. Folks like this with serious eating disorders (like, going to kill themselves serious) are actually acting out of a delusion, not misinformed, rational thought.
- Comment on Looking to sext? Let's cha& s'np:CiraPXVM 4 months ago:
CEO of sex and gaming… Is that you?
- Comment on On an emergency power supply with AC and DC electrical plugs, which do I use to charge or power appliances? 5 months ago:
Are you looking for suggestions for a battery backup? How much are you willing to spend?
- Comment on Videogame pirates tell other pirates to shut up about it after Subnautica 2 developers are taunted with illicit copies 5 months ago:
“You can’t steal a digital game” is borderline sovereign citizen talk. Artists operate within the structure of society. Just because the medium in which they deploy their art is digital and most distribution platforms feasible have licenses with unsavory terms, theft is not automatically justified.
That sort of logic could extend to the idea that it’s okay to squat in a particular ocupied house because the owner doesn’t own it, a bank does, and the money is imaginary, and the bank’s policies are unfair. There is something valid and authentic to the sentiment, but practically speaking, you’re still just being an asshole.
That is to say, extenuating circumstances may modify that. If you can’t afford a game, or if you really hate the developers, more people may agree with you. If you would freeze to death outside of the home, or, if the home’s current occupants occupy it unfairly, then perhaps people would be more empathetic.
But to declare that the wholesale theft of digital goods as fine just because you don’t like the platform is anarchy without any of the nuance of anarchy.
- Comment on How do people force themselves to write something, even if they're NOT inspired? 6 months ago:
Try recording yourself talking about the subject out loud in private. Like, in a car. I use a program called audacity to make a transcript, then I take parts I like to write. I find it’s easier to talk about things than write when experiencing block.
- Comment on I am about to learn everything. 6 months ago:
Bro don’t exaggerate, Factorio came out in early access in 2016. That’s only… 10… Years ago… 💀💀💀💀💀💀
- Comment on A handy reference guide for you 7 months ago:
I love how this is formatted like a poem
- Comment on Ups and downs 7 months ago:
🥵🥵🥵
- Comment on Anon didn't like the loot 8 months ago:
I got elden ring recently. Played it for maybe 4 hours so far. I am utterly convinced that the narrative style is tounge and cheek. Like, actually a joke. That isn’t to say it’s not deep, or interesting on face value, but it’s just so immediate; such a firehose of wackyness… It reminds me of metalgear, so much in its way of being simultaneously non-serious and serious.
- Comment on The world wants you to stop playing call of duty and go to the range 8 months ago:
At this point it’s literally cheaper and easier to fight WWIII IRL.
- Comment on There's still life left in them! 9 months ago:
🥵🥵🥵🥵
- Comment on A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad 9 months ago:
Yeah, I don’t know how I feel about celebraing an indie dev deleting their game while the biggest games such as arc raiders succeed despite overt ai use that actually displaces voice actors at the company.
- Comment on Gadgets for people who don't trust the government 10 months ago:
I built several nodes. I think it’s most useful as an asset tracking tool, but the battery life isn’t great. Like, I have a couple premade credit card sized nodes. It’s pretty neat to ping them and get their gps. But, to be honest, your money for that application would probably be better spent on an iPhone and apples tags.
For communication: there are dubiously legal, cheap radios you can get off Amazon that would probably be 100% more useful.
I did enjoy it, though, and I still have some nodes. Also, it’s illegal to send encrypted messages over mestastic.
- Comment on We all have those dreams 10 months ago:
I had a dream that fucking Kevin came into the house with a raw chicken like fucking Dionysius, and he just laughed, swinging it around, spraying chicken juice all over everyone and everything. I am so mad.
- Comment on If you were dropped into a pool of people's spit and prevented from getting out, would you melt to death? 10 months ago:
🥵🥵🥵
- Comment on Skydiver dangles at 15,000 feet after parachute catches on plane’s tail in Australia 11 months ago:
Lucky to survive! What harrowing footage!
- Comment on Do we have a deal or what? 1 year ago:
How could I say no to a face like that?
- Comment on Le Penguini 1 year ago:
Serious question: what sort of crimes do I have to commit to be reincarnated as a penguin in Australia but not Antarctica?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Life’s too short to pick your partners based on other people’s aesthetic preferences. The whole, ‘is this guy too young for me thing’ is a more complicated choice IMO. Maybe you’re over thinking it. Have you been on any dates recently?
- Comment on Fresh 1 year ago:
I wonder if this actually happened to someone or this is the a case of armchair survivalism.
- Comment on Company agrees to 4-day week at full pay—worker reveals dramatic result 1 year ago:
I feel very lucky to work 4 10 hour days rather than 5 8s. Though, it does often feel like a waste of time when we all spend the last hour and a half taking.
- Comment on Official poster for "Zootopia 2" 1 year ago:
Me irl
- Comment on Bungie appears to have plagarized an artist's work and style in their extraction shooter "Marathon" according to this Bluesky post 1 year ago:
The lead art director of marathon has followed her since before the game began development and he still stole her shit wholesale. Disgusting.
- Comment on Nintendo responds to suggestion that AI-generated images used in Mario Kart World [Eurogamer] 1 year ago:
This accusation and evidence is so flimsy and immaterial. These don’t look like ai generated images. They don’t have closed composition, they are off center, and the text looks good. They look like distant lod 3d models or maybe some concept art.
- Comment on 11-year-old boy died cycling home after bus driver "beeped and startled him" before collision — but coroner concludes driving in line with Highway Code 1 year ago:
Reading the story… it sucks for everyone involved. This is one reason I never honk at motorcycles or bicyclist.
