3 ms·
>. I'm going to be dead in a few months if I can't work something out. why would you be dead? Can't tell if this is a troll post.
by dominotw 7y ago
>. I'm going to be dead in a few months if I can't work something out.
why would you be dead? Can't tell if this is a troll post.
- smcphile 7y agoI initially had that the same thoughts, but by quickly scanning the person’s comment history, and also seeing that it goes a long way back, it’s clear to me that they’re not a troll. But, yes, I also don’t get (when thinking from my perhaps too strictly rational and pragmatic point of view) what would imply death being only a few months away.
- brendanw 7y agoNegative thought spiral. Life is rough for the OP right now; negative thoughts are begetting negative thoughts. I think most folks have been there, with variance in magnitude.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoHe has ten Euros a week in donations. If he can't come up with solutions and find more resources, there's nothing crazy about predicting "The path I'm on could actually end in my death in the not too distant future." Is everyone on HN this oblivious to that fact? Do most well-heeled people just find it impossible to recognize that "I have no money currently and no means to reliably make money and it's been a persistent problem that isn't resolving." is, in actual fact, a life-threatening situation and this isn't hyperbole? Because, wow, if most rich people are that amazingly obtuse, that might go a long ways towards explaining the horrifyingly callous treatment I've been subjected to over the years.
- dominotw 7y agopeople are dying of starvation in Netherlands?
- DoreenMichele 7y agoIn the US, homeless people have a much lower life expectancy than housed people and other categories of poor people also generally have lower life expectancies. You don't have to be pronounced dead from literal starvation for poverty to kill you. I guess that's a "yes, well-heeled people really are completely oblivious to what actual poverty means." Which would explain an awful lot of super shitty policies in the world.
- dominotw 7y agoyou are really reaching here, Lower life expectancy doesn't mean "dead in a few months". Are you really saying poor ppl in Netherlands have a life expectancy of few months? Also, lol at all your other irrelevant points, I grew up in one of the poorest parts of Africa. You clearly have no idea what poverty means. Funny how ppl who lived all their lives in a first world country think they know what poverty is.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoI'm saying homeless people can die on the street in fairly short time frames and being concerned that such circumstances are a genuine threat to survival isn't just someone being completely histrionic or deluded.
- dominotw 7y agoYes I agree with you. I shouldnt have been cynical/dismissive in my original comment.