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[AlleeCat]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-tweet-ruined-justine-saccos-life.html?_r=1

Yeknow, suddenly this whole thing seems worse.

Can someone summarise this? I lost interest after no-one attempted to hijack or blow up the plane.

Basically someone makes a single stupid comment and their life gets completely ruined because of it. Of course, I don't approve of any of the things these people said or did but you don't completely ruin someone's entire life over a single tweet. I've probably said some stupid things in the past but I'd rather not be forced off the internet because of them.

Seriously? Guy gets fired for making a penis joke to his friend? What the hell is that about?


In other news, to the guy I live with sitting next to me: Take a shower. It smells like you haven't in a week. I know we have them, and I know they work. I hate breathing through my mouth.

[Helgoland]

Have you considered telling them as opposed to telling random internet people via an anpnymous forum? To me that seems much more likely to bring about success and wellsmellingness.

[AlleeCat]

I can't, unfortunately. There's been a no contact order between us for a while now.

[GiglameshDespair]

So you're sitting together?

[AlleeCat]

Yes. There are two computers next to each other in this room. He is (was) on one, and I am on one.

[Jopax]

Leave an anonymous note telling him he's a stinkyface. Play oblivious to its existance if asked about it.

[Helgoland]

Even better, leave hotel-size shampoo on his desk
If you don't mind me asking: Why is there a no-contact order?

[Bohandas]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-tweet-ruined-justine-saccos-life.html?_r=1

Yeknow, suddenly this whole thing seems worse.

Can someone summarise this? I lost interest after no-one attempted to hijack or blow up the plane.

Basically someone makes a single stupid comment and their life gets completely ruined because of it. Of course, I don't approve of any of the things these people said

I do. That was a funny joke

[AlleeCat]

Even better, leave hotel-size shampoo on his desk
If you don't mind me asking: Why is there a no-contact order?

Because of a thing that happened a couple months ago which I've already posted about on this very thread. It's honestly kind of hard to explain quickly.

[Bauglir]

Oh hey that giant essay is due this Monday, not the one following like I had thought. oops

[IronTomato]

I don't even know what to say anymore, I can't enjoy anything anymore or feel anything except angry and my family refuses to do anything about it, except for my brother who insists on making it worse for his own amusement because he's a sadistic piece of shit.

Also, I can only ever spend time with that piece of shit. I have no friends to speak of because I'm too cold to allow people to get to know me. Even my family doesn't actually have any idea what I'm really like, and instead I have to deal with being labeled as having whatever kind of personality they think I have. I'm never going to ask that girl out because I'm too scared of expressing myself to people.

The fact that people act like I still have some reason not to kill myself at this point is fucking ridiculous.

[Spehss _]

I don't even know what to say anymore, I can't enjoy anything anymore or feel anything except angry

I've felt like this. Don't feel like it now. Doesn't mean I won't feel like this in the future, either, but I don't feel like it now.

The fact that people act like I still have some reason not to kill myself at this point is fucking ridiculous.

I've also felt like this. Multiple times. Don't feel like this at the moment either. Will probably feel like this again in the future, but not at the moment.

Emotions are temporary. Eventually you feel different. Suicide is permanent. When you're dead, you're dead. You probably won't feel less dead after you're dead.

[AlleeCat]

Unless reincarnation is a thing in which case you'll get better eventually. But I wouldn't count on it.

[Helgoland]

Emotions are temporary. Eventually you feel different.

This is not true in that generality. I firmly believe that any honest discussion of suicide should acknowledge the possibility of treatment-resistant depression and other such illnesses.

That having been said, you shouldn't kill yourself. I'd bet a whole lot of money on you not being such a person.

[Spehss _]

Emotions are temporary. Eventually you feel different.

This is not true in that generality. I firmly believe that any honest discussion of suicide should acknowledge the possibility of treatment-resistant depression and other such illnesses.

...Well yeah, there's that possibility. I was just saying that based on my personal experience, the suicidal feelings come and go.

Obviously, personal experience of one person may not apply to another and as such your mileage may vary.

Unless reincarnation is a thing in which case you'll get better eventually. But I wouldn't count on it.

I said "probably won't get less dead". Probably.