Doubt they have a returns desk.

Of course. Independence can not be fostered by dependence, either on ourselves or others.

Where I suspect OP is going to struggle is everyone telling them to find what they need inside isn’t going to make sense to them.

If they’ve never felt that external love and validation they’re not going to find it in themselves. We learn and grow up by watching others.

Monkey see, monkey do applies to relationships, including those with ourselves.

Comes with a price.

Speaking generally, as I don’t know you, most isolated people have a desire, drive or yearning for connection.

Its a feature of the species, baring the rare exceptions that prove the rule.

I think if you expect to be able to function without relationships which affirm who you are then you’re in for an uphill battle.

Humans need each other. For so many things including validation, though the word means different things to different people.

The counterpoint is that mental illness can be every bit as dibilitating, intractable and painful as physical illness.

There’s a long history of mental health being brushed off and seen as less significant than physical health which has caused a lot of personal and social problems.

The counterpoint to that is that people can recover from mental illness in a way which is not always possible for physical illness, the type of illness which is most relevant to euthanasia legislation.

The counterpoint to that is our societies rarely provide what people need to recover from the most serious, or even moderate, mental health issues.

So there’s some contradictions built into this within our cultures. Personally I come down where you are, that it’s a bad idea to make permanent choices without a sound mind.

War is complicated and messy, it’s not a linear scale from strongest to weakest.

A lot of overlapping and interacting measures.

I agree.

This is political theatre to try and gain support for “doing something” whilst wasting time on doing actually nothing.

None

I love her in everything I’ve seen her in.

I’ve seen her live and she had the same energy, it was great.

And I agree, she’s quality on taskmaster. Who else can stand up to Greg the way she does?

Bottom Left told him to do it.

Green Midday

Is that a shark in the water?

Why is the Fin… Jelly?

Is the man’s hands and feet were there… Who was sat on the toilet?

It doesn’t.

It makes it seem like everyone is struggling coz you don’t hear from anyone else.

Sign up with a pension company and pay money into it like any other monthly bill.

I’m in the UK so might be different elsewhere.

Same.

Also self employed. Got plenty of work lined up, savings, pension, cheap mortgage.

Each year looks a little better than the last one.

I think part of the reason it seems everyone is struggling is because of two reasons.

One, lots of people are struggling. Two, no one wants to hear from the few who aren’t.

The environmental impacts are real and substantial, though still on the same scale as video streaming which didn’t get the same reaction, so that’s not the whole story.

And both are dwarfed by the meat industry. Be fair to become vegetarian and continue using AI a bit.

Well, geology will take care of some of that over the next few million years.

In the meantime, the debate over whether it should be part of the UK will continue in a much shorter timescale.

Are you aware Scotland is a part of Britain? 😀

I just had AI rewrite two pages of text from 1st person to 3rd person to use in different marketing material.

I had AI reformat text I’d pulled from a PDF that had weird line breaks.

In both cases, it wasn’t doing any “writing” but the end result was AI assisted.

Its a glorified spellchecker, treat it like one.