Ah.

Well, remind yourself that theres a war going on and maybe don’t get too homesick. I don’t know how long you can stay abroad, but treat it as temporary and make the memories last. As another commenter said, you can talk to strangers online if you still feel lonely.

And if you don’t have much to talk about, think about if you have any movies or tv show you love, or want to discuss. You can often find a subreddit (please forgive me for recommending Reddit, I know Lemmy doesn’t like talking about Reddit) about the tv show / movie, and discuss with strangers about it. Its fun to talk about theories or give opinions on which characters you like, if you side with certain organizations in the fictional universe or oppose them, etc. There are also many hobby based subreddits which you can talk to strangers about. Just stay away from the political subreddits, those are quite toxic.

This may seem very “parasocial” but like there are some youtubers that are quite wholesome watch. My favorite is Jacksepticeye. Its mainly a gaming youtube channel with variety of stuff. He never had any major controversies and his commentary is quite interesting and humorus.

Do you happen to like cats? I have a cat and its quite uplifting and helps with my depression. I mean it doesn’t cure depression, it helps me feel less lonely. I mean I got my cat because one night I just felt lonely and so I went looking for cats in shelters and met my cat. Consider adopting a cat, if you have the means to do so. They’re fun!

What exactly is “our country”?

“WHAT? I CANT HEAR YOU THE TRAIN IS TOO LOUD!” pulls lever

But like

There are Truths, There are lies.

A truth is still the truth even if a majority believes in that.

A lie is still a lie even if a majority believes in that.

When you learn something, you independenly think about it using logics to ascertain its truthfulness.

Of course, humans can only experience reality subjectively, there’s no guarantee you always find the truth.

Like the idea of “Killing people is bad”

Why?

Well I don’t want that happening to me.

If I kill someone, someone else could see me doing that and their relatives could seek revenge.

If I get away with killing without consequences, then others will also think its okay, which would make it normal to kill people, which increase the likelihood me being the victim of a killing.

Therefore. Killing is bad.

Like that. You think using logic to decide for yourself if you should believe in something.

“If you believe murder is wrong because society told you murder is wrong, is murder really wrong?”

Whaaa?

Yea I got one. Nada. 0 PPM (or whatever the measurement unit is called) Its just depression.

I’m gonna get another carbon monixide detector to make sure. But its 99% the depression.

You pull the lever, then pew pew pew the other person near the lever.

Boom.

Did I solve it?

Where’s my prize?

Wait a minute, gotta shoot everyone else related too. Don’t want to face any revenge.

Automatic Weaponry goes brrrr

No witnesses

Okay I saved 1 of my loved ones.

Bingo?

Now theres only one color of people.

Wait am I a racist?

Nah. Kids are easily influenced.

You take 100 kids and feed nazi propaganda all the time. 99 of them will become nazis.

We all hate nazis, but if you were put in the same environment as the nazi, chances are, you’ll become a nazi.

The Meaning of Life

20+ years and counting…

😑

RFK Jr. about to legalize date rape drugs. Mark. My. Words.

Are these the same worms that got into RFK Jr’s brain after his meeting with his russian handler?

AI SWAT Teams?

AI Soldiers?

AI Politicians? (assasination risks)

🤔

Doing political stuff for Christmas is one way to ensure you have a nazi kid forever. Just ignore the politics, give a normal gift. Love will conquer all the hatred that he has. Good luck.

Sounds like me, I was diagnosed with depression.

You might want to see a doctor. Maybe medication, maybe therapy, maybe other forms of, what I consider to be experimental treatments, like TMS or ECT, do not try the last 2 until you’ve exhaused your options.

I’m still dealing with depression, medications no longer works, might need to keep trying different medications. Ugh its rough. I feel you.

(Also, did you ever get infected with Covid? That can also cause cognitive issues. Other health problems can also cause depression and brain fog.)

Perhaps Europeans?

How do you criminally charge an organization? Like who’s reponsible? CEO? Stockholders? The Board of Directors?

Oh we’ll get lockdowns

Anyone who’s even looks like the people of the country where the first case is identified will be locked down… in concentration camps.

Not really. Not to be dismissive of the harms of a 2nd term trump.

But you have to understand what American history has been.

People were literally enslaved in the early days, then the country was literally at war with itself over slavery. Then Jim Crow and Segregation. Black people were lynched. White mobs would kill black people.

Chinese people were targeted by the Chinese Exclusion Act and banned from entry, some were US Citizens too and they weren’t except either.

The US had a major economic crash in 1929. Got into 2 world wars. American Citizens of Japanese ancestry were literally arrested and held in camps because of their ancestry. Went through cols war, the red scare, mccathyism. People randomly getting accused of being “communists” and arrested. Unions get cracked down. Protests were brutally suppressed, more violently than in modern day. Black people protesting for their rights and took a bus down south got burned. Civil Rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. literally got assassinated.

That is the American history.

And here we are, through such a shitty history, democracy survived, and voting rights expanded to so many people. First to Black people, then to Women.

Back then a majority of the population supported segregation, institutionalized racism. But today, a majority of people are okay with interracial marriage.

I have high hopes we can survive another trump term.

It won’t be pleasent, but we’ll survive.

If trump died before the Electoral Votes are cast, they wouldn’t be bound to vote for him and can vote for anyone, but its almost certainly going to be vance. Then either vance or RNC picks someone else to be the new VP to tells the electors to now instead of voting: [Pres: trump VP: vance] its now [Pres: vance VP: whoever they find to take this role]

If both trump and vance died before the electoral votes are cast, then RNC find 2 new people to tell their electors to vote for.

(Remember Electors are selected by their parties and are usually party loyalists that aren’t gonna vote for the opposing party. Think of people like Former President Obama being an elector in his state for the democratic ticket, he aint voting trump ever, and same thing with a loyal maga supporter, they aint ever switching to vote Democrat.)

If trump died after the electoral votes are cast, vance takes the oath and become 47th president, VP is empty. vance can appoint someone to be VP with simple majority of both houses.

If both trump and vance died after the electoral votes are cast, the speaker of the house, mike johnson, swears in as Acting President (after being required to resign as speaker of the house) for the rest of the term or until someone else above them in the line of sucession becomes available to be acting president. (We dont know what happens if acting president mike johnson nominates a VP since the new VP would be above him in the line of sucession)

Only VP takes the title of “President”, everyone else in the line of sucession is not designated by the constitution but is only statutory.