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I'm watching a liveblog of a guy legitimately trying a "breatharian" lifestyle. No food. No drink. Sunlight only. Final destination.
Thursday, 13-Sep-12 14:39:14 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark Tell me how that goes for him.
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@anarchycarcino I am assuming the updates will just become less coherent until they stop altogether.
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@ceruleanspark Reminds me of this girl who An Heroed and gave a 30 day live stream count down timer.
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@anarchycarcino Well, yesterday was day 7. He's reporting stomach and chest pains and fairly frequent auditory hallucinations. Also exhibiting all the normal symptoms of regular starvation
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@ceruleanspark Isn't 7 days when dehydration really gets you?
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@ceruleanspark And this blog isn't being considered a long-form suicide note?
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@scribus Actually that's how it was linked to me, so yeah, that's what people think.
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@ceruleanspark Oh, well I'll be.
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@anarchycarcino Well, today is day 8 and he didn't update yet, so maybe.
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@ceruleanspark Painful way to go really
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@anarchycarcino In england, it's the only legal way to commit suicide.
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@ceruleanspark It would be awful to commit suicide only to en up in jail.
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@ceruleanspark Illegal suicide. Haha. Funny.
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@eaglehooves Generally it's more for people who hold up traffic threatening to jump off a bridge and then don't kill themselves. You're typically arrested and then "Sectioned" (commited to a mental home) under the mental health act.
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@ceruleanspark That makes sense. Way it's worded is just kinda amusing.
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@ceruleanspark As a fun bonus, if you're "sectioned", even if you make a full recovery, you get to spend the rest of your life in the same employment bracket as someone with a conviction for child molestation.
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@ceruleanspark It seems like every time I learn something new, I hate this world more and wish I didn't know about it...
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@omni It's "unintended consequences" at its finest. The rule was originally intended to stop people with potentially dangerous mental problems working with vulnerable people, but of course, it was written too generically, and now anyone with "sectioned" on their record automatically fails a records check.
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@ceruleanspark It's always the same, but nobody ever learns from the mistakes they make nor do they try to rectify it as soon as possible... It's saddening, and even sickening...
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@omni Under our previous government, pretty much all laws were written as knee jerk responses to the mass media, so they're about as well thought out as you'd expect.
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@ceruleanspark I like the word "previous" in that sentence. Let's hope the current one if slightly less dumb.
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@omni No. The current government is currently working on a platform of "Screw the poor, the unemployed and the disabled". They're currently trying to dismantle our healthcare system for their own personal profit.
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@ceruleanspark Why are always the idiotic selfish ****s the ones with power? Democracy is such a failed system...
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@omni And yet again, a chat filter makes a relatively mild word sound much worse. Oh well...
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@omni English democracy is fundamentally broken on both a mechanical and legislative level.
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@ceruleanspark The sad part is, you can say that about a LOT of "democracies".
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@omni To be fair, they deserve 'much worse'. And by 'to be fair' I mean 'to be honest'.
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@omni Ooo! *raises hoof* I know one!
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@thelastgherkin Fair enough, I just generally try to keep my language as mild as possible, even when swearing, so I hate chat filters there :x
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@omni We had a chance at sorting out some of the mechanics by changing how votes are counted, but unfortunately, the "alternative vote" campaign was run by a gang of reddit-style-libertarians so smugly convinced that they would win because they were "in the right" that they neglected to do any real campaigning, awareness raising, or anything more than sitting around jerking eachother off about how great they were.
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@ceruleanspark and now it'll probably be another full generation, if not longer, before we're presented with the opportunity to get rid of the hilariously broken First Past the Post system we use now.
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@ceruleanspark Is that better or worse than the electoral college that has the president of the US decided by 9 states?
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@eaglehooves It's about the same. Depending on where you live in england, your vote is worth more or less than 1. The average UK voter has 0.2 votes.
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