Not necessarily direct social skill things, but stuff that could put you in slightly more comfortable circumstances to work on it:

-Karaoke. If you like singing, this is a no brainer. You then have easy introductory topics (song choices, music, telling people they did a good job, etc.). Where I am the demographics are pretty wide, it may skew older where you are.

-If you have interest in doing so, see if you can join a band, maybe with an eye to doing some low-tier gigs (or high-tier, that’d be up to you and your bandmates).

-It’s hard mode, but like singing and playing music in public? Get a busking permit! Interact with the strangers passing by, etc. Best case scenario, you make some pocket change. Worst case scenario, you do something you like that puts you in front of people in a non-bar setting.

Working in something you’re passionate about and at least sort of good at can put you a little more at ease, sometimes.

Rob a bank, stowaway on a container ship, free climb a mountain or skyscraper, take out a bunch of loans and spend it on whatever, scam a bunch of dangerous people, the sky’s the limit. I’d actually say think bigger.

I’m not going to pretend it’s a good answer because it cuts in many directions, but the following has been my thinking on this:

Because if you have nothing to live for, you have nothing holding you back from taking massive risks. Take the massive risk over your own life. Suicide can come later, once you’ve done something risky and cool first that requires a meatsuit. As far as we know you only get one of those, and there’s far more than you might think that only requires one of 'em and infinite risk tolerance.

Not comfortable with the risk? Why, if you have nothing to live for? Tease that out and you can work in the other direction.

My most common recommendation is campus-fm.com, which is a frontend for listening to a bunch of North American college radio stations. Wide net but may help you find various shows whose programming you dig.

Real talk, it’s your common mass produced and internationally sold beers that suck. S’ok, a lot of mass produced Canadian beer sucks too (lookin’ at you, Alexander Keith’s. Pride of Nova Scotia indeed.)

The issue is that the good stuff doesn’t often make it outside of your borders. I’ve had decent beer when actually in the U.S before.

Will say I will drink a cold PBR if there’s no other valid choice, but if someone just has Coors or Bud (especially Bud - but especially Bud Light) I’ll stick with water. Only other American beer that reaches Canada I’d probably drink is Lucky Lager, but that’s more out of nostalgia for west coast teenaged mayham than its own merits, and Kokanee would produce the same effect and caveat anyway.

Edit: After thinking about it more, I’ve enjoyed Sam Adams limited releases before, and we get those sometimes.

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Should have sent them an invoice for your pentesting services.

https://youtu.be/dERcdvcXuE0&t=0m21s

[Edit for better choice]

Don’t look at me, RCMP

Darkness as your eyes close -> Probably some cool shit as your brain functions start shutting down -> literally nothing.

Real talk, as a kid Final Fantasy Legend on the Game Boy is how I got exposed to this kind of thinking, and the implications have lived rent free in my head to this day.

It’s a bit on the nose, but that kinda lends itself to a kid picking up on it.

Here’s my take - if there’s any merit to the heaven and hell stuff, it’s purely in the last minutes of you actually dying (assuming a not-sudden death). Something your brain might conjure up before you go, premised on your remaining memories and attitudes towards life. If you mostly feel guilt about what you’ve done in your life, it will probably be an experience akin to hell. Joy, and a bittersweet sadness about leaving this world? Probably closer to heaven. And perhaps many various experiences in between that don’t neatly map to this. All mostly a play of the last final, firing synapses before the curtain falls.

If we take this approach, what does it say about living? Well, I’d say that it’s important to live as fully and well as you can. Do good things. Make good connections with other humans and love people worth loving. Help people out. Have a laugh, read a good book once and a while. Live a life that, when it’s all said and done, has honestly good material to draw from in those final moments before oblivion.

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Day 24. Fuck I’ve missed weed in the past 48 hours.

Purely for the purpose of fairness/general interest, here’s what I’ve found from Dessaline in this thread re: debunking on various topics. What you make of them and their merit is up to you, I’m just here cruising this thread for jokes myself.

Will say I think they’d be better served with adding the links when saying this, or under deleted comments saying “topic was x, debunked here [link]”, but that’s just me. I also cannot say for certainty I’ve captured every relevant post, particularly re: the content of removed comments [going into the mod log is an extra step I’m not doing rn, but you could if you wanted and try cross-referencing]

https://lemmy.ml/comment/16149912

https://lemmy.ml/comment/16149886

https://lemmy.ml/comment/16136497

https://lemmy.ml/comment/16135781

Edit: Removed one link, as it’s a different instance of the same message. Again, think I’m missing stuff but I’m about go offline, so out of time.

Yes.

Pink Flamingos is currently preserved by the U.S. National Film Registry, selected in 2021. If selection was happening even a couple years from now, I have a hard time imagining that happening.

There’s some countries OP’s model could work in. But at least a dual model that includes citizen preservation efforts is warranted (and with it the relevant legislation to avoid it being a criminal act - though pirates gonna pirate, and I love 'em for it).

Depends on who exactly you mean, but thinking of the ‘high school bullies’ of my day in general, mostly prison.

Frame it in a cheap glass case with a little placard that says “Break glass in case of cereal emergency”

Someone got really drunk and was in the bathroom willing to take all comers at a work function.

It was a shame, I liked working with them.