Sounds painful with a high possibility of breaking bones then drowning while conscious. I’d recommend an inert gas that’s not CO2 and readily available, like nitrogen or something (CO2 buildup in the blood is what gives the sensation of suffocation). If you’re worried about people finding you and a mess, get an enema and stay a bit dehydrated first, and also ensure your body’s found within the first 2-3 days if possible (the first thing your corpse does is shit itself, and rot sets in pretty quickly).

This of course presumes you’re making the decision to end yourself while of sound mind, not in some panic, feeling trapped or completely hopeless. There’s usually a way out that’s not as permanent and can lead to future positive interactions that make continued living worth the pain. That said, I’ll never judge someone whose pain outweighs their will to live.

I’ve always preferred IBM’s Plex Mono, specifically the Nerd Fonts version.

All right," said Susan. “I’m not stupid. You’re saying humans need… fantasies to make life bearable.”

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

“Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—”

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

“So we can believe the big ones?”

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

“They’re not the same at all!”

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME…SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

“Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what’s the point—”

MY POINT EXACTLY.

Yeah it turns out a whole bunch of English words are spelled more like a linguistic history lesson than anything approaching a useful system of phonetics. It might as well be pictographic with letters being helpful hints at this point. I wish there could be spelling reform in the anglosphere, but it’s hard enough to get people to agree within any one of the majority English-speaking countries, let alone between them.

Adjacent to this is either A) info dumping and feeling the other person start zoning out, or (possibly worse) B) info dumping and feeling yourself start zoning out mid-sentence.

I hope we get there soon with RISC-V.

Aviary?

Yes, I tested through 23andMe and then downloaded my genes. Occasionally I compare them to recent studies with https://codegene.eu, which is how I learned a bit about a cholesterol metabolism gene mutation increasing the probability of Alzheimer’s.

My attitude to privacy is probably more complacent than it should be.

I have one allele of the soapy gene variant at rs2741762, and I really like cilantro and coriander. But I also like any weird or different smells, it appears as if I smell everything a little more strongly, and nothing is truly disgusting for me taste-wise (texture though: can’t stand anything that has a vein-like quality). I have ADHD though, and one emergent behavior from that is pursuing the interesting/novel over the good, smells included.

My wife is my ex-girlfriend, but we’re still dating. She gets mildly amused when I point this out, but she might just be humoring me.

Trump apparently likes his well-done steaks with ketchup.

illustration: https://youtu.be/_eTsrtZdAJc

You want to get their interest, but as this might be one of those deal breaker questions, you should get it out of the way early. There’s no shame in breaking up from an incompatibility in attraction or sexual preference, but there should be some shame at sticking with it expecting another person to change for you.

The sun is made of plasma, and its energy is predominantly from hydrogen fusing into helium. Plasma is what happens when atoms are so energetic that their electrons get stripped from themselves and are bouncing around in a sea of atomic nuclei and other electrons, which does a lot of things with electromagnetism. All that plasma moving around at crazy speeds and low density is what causes a sort of electromagnetic convection in addition to the normal heat-based kind, which is how you get sunspots and solar flares.

As far as fire without carbon, any metal that can oxidize can burn, because it’s the reaction with oxygen that releases heat. The issue there is that it’s usually not self-sustaining because most of the oxidized metal stays on the surface, so there’s no more metal exposed to oxygen. You can get around this by increasing the surface area of the metal, maybe by having it in dust form (so if you had fine enough iron dust, for instance, you could burn it into rust without needing carbon, and that would very much be the image of fire). You also don’t need oxygen in molecular form (i.e. O2), it can be part of other metals (like iron oxide, rust), and that will burn with other metals so long as the chemical reaction is self-sustaining (famously, like the thermite, which is rust powder and aluminum powder mixed together at high enough temperatures). These fires aren’t “normal” but I think they count.

As far as fire without oxygen at all, while not “normal” and I don’t think that counts under strict definitions, there are exothermic (heat-producing) reduction-oxidation reactions that are very close, like when hydrogen gas and fluorine gas combine to make hydrofluoric acid, and those might be close enough that they can look like fire in the right environment (which, again, those environments would be far from normal).

It makes sense that it would be, even if it’s the same person, I’d want plausible deniability after that too.

Fire is a sustained chemical reaction where carbon-based molecules are broken up and combine with oxygen, releasing carbon dioxide, sometimes methane, and heat (and thus light), which primes the remaining carbon-based molecules for continued chemical reactions with oxygen.

Same for me, my only difficulty is discerning whether the commenter is promoting relevant discussion or doing some variant of gishgallop or sealioning.

It’s not enough to reign in assholes, the system has to be designed in such a way that carriers of “dark triad” traits (i.e. the usual bad faith actors in a system) are still incentivized to contribute to or improve society without gradually dismantling it to increase their wealth/power/status. That’s a hard problem to solve.