Basically you use them at points where you’d usually put a period, but you don’t want to add as much of a pause.
ETA:
For example
My wife said she would like tea; coffee would have been my choice.
could also be written as
My wife said she would like tea. Coffee would have been my choice.
but it wouldn’t sound as nice.
One was awarded over 7 times as much in damages as the other.
Everyone is a potential rapist
Do you use the term “realist” to mean “someone who focuses on arbitrary negative events to excuse their self-harming behavior of actively avoiding personal growth and progress”?
You seem like a very relaxed person
Is an Archy a small version of an Archer?
unapologetically
He did apologize
I assumed that it was given that I exclude the example (with the implication of it not usually being the case for people considering suicide).
no social life
I struggle to imagine a scenario where you actually have no chance of rebuilding a social life. What are you, a lighthouse keeper living far from any city and getting your groceries airdropped?
You may not be in a situation where rebuilding a social life is trivial, but 50 years is enough time to learn how to find friends even in sub-optimal situations (e.g. at a grocery store). It is enough time to weed through different people until you find some that match you.
Even looking at anecdotes (“We met on WoW”)
You seem to be focusing your points on the lonelyness crisis, which is a real issue. Spending a decade without a social life is terrible, and I understand why someone who arrives at this point may consider their future to be hopeless.
But while it may be understandable that a person considers suicide in this situation, it is not a rational (as in: long-term optimal) decision. A person in this situation may be exhausted, may be at or past a breaking point where they do no longer find the strength to keep on trying, and make the decision to commit suicide.
This decision derives from a temporary, emotionally charged state. (I consider fatique an emotion here.)
The rational (as in: long-term optimal) decision would be to keep trying. To keep going on until it just so happens that you exchange a few words with a stranger. Until it just so happens that you get to build foundational social skills, easing the possibility to approach others. Until it just so happens that you get an opportunity to talk to someone, and get to know them. Or maybe one day, out of a wind of confidence (or desperation) you approach just the right person. Or maybe that person approaches you. Or maybe you take to more unusual manners of getting to know people, that you find to work for you.
And once you found a start, you can build off it. You can extend your social circle, find a partner, start a family, and live happily ever after.
Quit the bs, I’ve been trying for a decade and it doesn’t work
You have many years to go, and once you find a ledge to stand on, they will all be worth it.
There is no “rational” reasoning that leads to the conclusion that you’ll never be happy (unless you’re in an actively harmful situation, such as a torture prison or with an extreme chronic disease).
You cannot tell whether you’ll be happy, you cannot know who you’ll be ten years in the future.
Claiming that you won’t ever be happy simply because you haven’t been happy so far is short sighted and narrow minded.
Suicide is always unreasonable.
It doesn’t matter if a drug is prescribed sometimes. Both amphetamines and opioids are prescribed sometimes. But watch out kids - the amphetamines and opioids sold by the nice guy at the street corner are very bad. If you got marijuana prescribed - that’s cool, take it as prescribed. If you didn’t get it prescribed - it’s a drug like any other.
Alcohol is also bad.
Restraining order against whom? An unknown person using throwaway phone numbers?
Oh I certainly do give people shit for taking prescription drugs without a prescriptionn.
Watch me criticize current Israeli behaviour as well as past German behaviour (as a German)
This is my medicine bro, I need it for my condition of not being stoned
Tl;dr: They use proper workflows for building the OS.
No Idea why they advertise this on their end-customer facing sites.
Source: https://universal-blue.org/
we’re doing better than basically every other 1st world country
You must have a very unusual definition of first world.
Why not?
If you think the political message isn’t core to that movie then, well, you’re one of the dipshits being discussed
No need to be rude.
I didn’t watch fight club. I have no idea what it’s about. If it is intended to educate people on political issues, great. If it is intended to entertain and only discusses political issues subtly in the background, great. If it is intended to entertain, but fails at doing so because of presenting a political message in a manner that hinders entertainment, not great.
Am I misreading their comment or is everyone else? The top level comment said “The love of a woman pales in comparison to …”, meaning the love of a woman is less valuable. The gp comment says " clearly you’re not married". Since they’re arguing against the top level comment, they are arguing against the love of a woman being less valuable. So they’re saying the love of a woman is more valuable. So they’re saying “wife good”.