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i actually kinda knew someone who found themselves in this situation, found it incredibly distressing in like a deep philosophical way, and later killed themselves. idk if it was causal but… :/

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Chaos

@chaosprime

· Dec 23, 2021

guy who knows how to be completely happy whenever he wants, but doesn't feel like it

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Dec 24, 2021

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they wrote a blog post about it. i’d actually be curious for

@nickcammarata

’s reaction to it. keep in mind the person who wrote this killed themselves… i’m not sure of the timing but somewhere between a few months to a year after writing this squirrelinhell.blogspot.com/2017/12/happin

QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Dec 24, 2021

i heard about this suicide at around the same time as 3 others, all of people i was sort of peripherally connected to and didn't know well. here is a thing i wrote about that (on a medium dose of acid iirc)

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(crossposted from Facebook) Four people I knew killed themselves last year. At least. Frances I knew as a dancer. I went to her memorial. I met her friends. They had nothing but amazing things to s…

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the first time i heard someone say “happiness is something you choose” was from a person like that, which has made me keep a guard up against the idea

QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Dec 24, 2021

i think that is more true than i used to think it was but there's some weirdnesses here i am still a bit wary of

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