Yeah. I guess I’m a bit used to it? It seems normal to me. I’ve been like this for over a decade now. Just working, getting by, and minding my own business. I have a cat. It doesn’t bother me a whole lot like you might imagine. But even as a kid all my interactions with other people were pretty negative. So I kind of associated other people with being hurt and saw getting to be alone as an escape. I see myself as like a modern version of the hermit who lives in the woods.

Edit: To be clear by saying yes to estranged I mean like I keep them at arms length. I see them from time to time. But I don’t tell them anything, and I don’t trust them. I mostly just interact with them to be polite.

Yeah I guess my perspective is scewed by being one of those people. I pretty much have no one that knows what I do day to day. There are people who might wonder where I went and call the cops when I don’t show up to certain places but they’d have literally 0 leads unless I was stupid enough to leave a digital paper trail or something.

He was clearly a threat. I’m so glad they’re keeping us safe!

I don’t think you understand just how big of a difference it is. Flying on a plane is one of the most regulated things ever, and despite crashes getting tons of media attention actully dying on a commercial flight is so rare that you are basically in no more danger on a plane than you are just sitting on a random bench in the park.

To put this in perspective in the year 2023 72 people died worldwide from aviation accidents.

In that same year 40k people died in the US alone from car accidents.

To put it further into perspective more people die on planes from random health events that just happened to occur while they were on a plane, like a cardiac event, than they do from actual plane related accidents.

Oh, yeah. What your descrbing isn’t what I meant at all by the wilderness. I was talking like, actual wilderness. Not even managed necessarily. If you don’t want to be found there shouldn’t be a parking lot or a visitor center to the area you go. That should be obvious. I’m talking like literally just drive out into the middle of a national forest until the roads end and then just start walking. If there are trails your in the wrong area.

If you are curious about the disappearances tho you should look into Missing 411 (fair warning there are a lot of conspiracy theories surrounding it). The missing people are real, but people get weird about it if you look at the wrong corners of the internet lol.

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Yeah the pentagon already came out in support of the soldier according to the article too. Punishing them for doing their job like this would cause basically every NCO to be livid. Idk that the military could afford to do that.

Do you know if those are this phenomenon vs just like people dying by accident out there? I imagine a lot of people just die by accident on hikes too.

Isn’t that a good thing then? They won’t kill themselves because they’ll change their mind on the hike. Problem solved.

Typically Americans are the ones going to other countries and installing dictatorships.

Usually its the people who actually ARE liberals calling you a liberal.

Solar power that vacuum sealer lol

You don’t do it on the trail dude. Do you know how many people go missing and are never found in national parks every year? Look up Missing 411. If you think somoene is just gonna stumble across you then you have no concept of how vast these lands are. We’re talking about pure wilderness that is hundreds of miles across.

Your dead body still gives off methane. If you aren’t hermetically sealing your body prior to death you might as well be an oil executive.

That’s assuming the Free VPNs aren’t run BY law enforcement as honey pots

Js people go missing hiking all the time its much simpler to just hike out into the wilderness and do it there. They’re not gonna find you.

You better commit suicide in an environmentally friendly way!

Free VPN use is like worse than not using one tbh. Like if its free its definitely monitoring you. And who knows what else its doing. It’s about as safe as going to the dark alley downtown and accepting some “Free samples” from the guy selling weed out of his jacket.