Amazing how awesome a little comfort is when you can just ignore others who don't have what you have, and ignore how little separates you from them. Injury, illness, mistakes, accusations, random layoffs... Its all so fragile.
this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2025
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For me, it's injury. I've been in a residential treatment program ever since I got a TBI in 2022
Just being able to bathe regularly and not deal with parasites is really a big deal.
One little cut away from a horrific prolonged gangrenous death
Fucking Hannibal, one of the greatest military generals in history, died in exile in Assyria after he cut his thumb on his sword and went septic.
Maybe the finest improvement to our camp was adding an outdoor shower. Water's pumped into a 68G barrel with a few tiny chlorine tabs. Gravity drains nicely.
Just being able to easily wash my face and hands is a boon.
I've started showering every day because I stream on Twitch and TikTok Live and I don't want to look like a hobo
Right thing wrong reason :/
Modern medicine is nothing shy of witchcraft, it's incredible that people choose willingly to ignore it.
Its a miracle if insurance actually approves the claims tho for life saving medicine. The chemo patient doesn't need anti nausea pills, they can just throw up (double points if its a child) - a recent news story I read. Right now I'm waiting for my insurance to authorize use of med equipment at home for a bone stimulation medication, my collarbone isn't fully healed after 3 full months
They just believe that they should train their immune system to fight disease and use prayer to cover the rest instead of your black magic vaccines. Their opinion is that it works better and opinions can't be wrong. /s
I'm in an almost constant state of knowing and feeling this. The vast majority of people would call my life poor and bad, but I'm incredibly grateful and in awe of the things I have and get to experience. It's not easy though, because almost everyone around me has more and extremely few don't feel like spoiled brats that take everything for granted and just want more and more no matter who it hurts and the impact it has on our world.
Shout out to indoor plumbing yo
Not dying of a cold is neat and all, but I can't help but wonder if not knowing those things exist would be better then having them.
and your one random medical accident away from losing all that, in some uncivilized countries
Just like in the old days, even a king
Anon discovers gratitude.
they talked about it a lot in the residential treatment program i was in for two years
If you give a slave an iphone they are still a slave.
i suppose you're right. but they won't have anything to charge it with
Yes. We have gained wild material wealth relatively compared to a thousand years ago. However, we traded the shared community or village we had for the wealth.
I guess you're talking about like WAY back in the past, like even before Eridu (the first city). So that would be like pre-5000 B.C. Back then, I suppose the family and the community were stronger because you kinda had to be. You didn't have the option of disconnecting from reality like we do now
Chances are anon is or will soon be a wizard.
OP is the user of civilization. In which way is he the product if he has gotten those things essentially for free?