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MGuy wrote:Suicide rates across the board seem uncomfortably high. I'm going to have to do a quick look up to see what's going on in countries like Finland that has it up so high.

Thats gun suicides and it would be because its cleaner (for the person doing, not the guy cleaning it up) than the other methods.

The presence of guns makes suicide attempts more likely to "succeed" and thus increases the death rate from suicide without necessarily increasing the number of suicide attempts. Overall, the United States is a medium suicide rate country. But the US's suicide attempt rate is actually low.

Basically, the US has the 34th highest suicide rate in the world with 13.7, and the United Kingdom has the 109th highest suicide rate in the world at 7.6. But basically half of the successful suicides in the US are done with firearms. So if people didn't have guns and tried to kill themselves with a handful of Tylenol like British depressed people do, the US would also be a low suicide country.

The fact that we have firearms where sad people can get them kills over twenty thousand Americans per year. Every twenty five minutes an American dies a totally preventable death from self harm related to the fact that we leave dangerous man killing weaponry lying around. The ostentatious insanity of our gun policies can't be stressed enough.

This isn't secret or anything. There are countries that have a huge despair problem and have enormous numbers of people killing themselves in ways and for reasons that are difficult to understand or deal with. The US is not like that. We all know what the problem is, and we could save tens of thousands of lives every year just by not letting Mitch McConnel block action on guns. It's really honestly that simple.

-Username17

FrankTrollman wrote:The presence of guns makes suicide attempts more likely to "succeed" and thus increases the death rate from suicide without necessarily increasing the number of suicide attempts. Overall, the United States is a medium suicide rate country. But the US's suicide attempt rate is actually low.

Basically, the US has the 34th highest suicide rate in the world with 13.7, and the United Kingdom has the 109th highest suicide rate in the world at 7.6. But basically half of the successful suicides in the US are done with firearms. So if people didn't have guns and tried to kill themselves with a handful of Tylenol like British depressedpeople do, the US would also be a low suicide country.

Related, more men die by suicide in the world than women, but women are the ones that make more suicide attempts.

My mental age today: 12

For those who want to know what it says in German (rather than what it sounds like in English) is 'we are looking for you'.

deaddmwalking wrote:For those who want to know what it says in German (rather than what it sounds like in English) is 'we are looking for you'.

I assume so they can suchen dich?

i don't get it ._.

Stahlseele wrote:i don't get it ._.

In an American accent, the "ch" is pronounced te same as "ck".

-Username17

FrankTrollman wrote:

Stahlseele wrote:i don't get it ._.

In an American accent, the "ch" is pronounced te same as "ck".

-Username17

Thank you!

Am I losing my mind or did someone sculpt Cthulu as a vagina?

It's hard to say. I've never been able to tell the difference between a vagina and Cthulu.

That's Takayuki Takeya's sculpt:
https://www.goodsmile.info/en/product/8 ... hulhu.html


He's great

Honestly cannot tell if that was real or satire....

*sigh*

I kept reading that article wondering where his outrage was. And then I read the headline again and realized it was "crazy for" not "angry over".

The Outrage Machine is working too well.

More on-topic... I imagine that Karloff would be so pleased with the state of food now. You can buy cilantro and fresh jalapeños readily available at any ordinary grocery. Hell, lots of stores sell fresh-made guacamole.

It never ceases to amaze me how food has changed. I look back at the old Joy of Cooking, and "fresh coriander" was a rare ethnic herb that they really didn't know what to do with. At least in my kitchen, it's a pretty normal thing to have - I put it in Latin and SE Asian cuisines. I am so grateful that I live now.