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    From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to MRO on Wed Jan 6 14:01:00 2021
    his 3 sons are such nice boys and they idolized him. and the mom is nuts and th
    y have to go live with her now. he was separated from the wife. i dunno she bro
    ght a lot of drama.

    If he managed to get custody, she must have brought plenty of drama.
    Having a spouse or co-parent who causes a lot of drama is a real strain on one's sense of self.


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  • From Vlk-451@VERT/INREALM to MRO on Thu Jan 7 04:02:35 2021
    Re: covid suicides
    By: MRO to All on Tue Jan 05 2021 12:13 am

    i just found out that a former close friend who drifted away
    killed himself after christmas.

    Because of covid, his business was suffering and he was losing everything. His great truck, his house that he was so proud of and his livelyhood.

    blew his brains out. father of 5.
    he pushed other people away too. he was depressed but hiding it well.

    That's absolutely fucked up.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Dumas Walker on Thu Jan 7 01:38:27 2021
    Re: covid suicides
    By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Wed Jan 06 2021 02:01 pm

    his 3 sons are such nice boys and they idolized him. and the mom is
    nuts and
    th
    y have to go live with her now. he was separated from the wife. i dunno
    she
    bro
    ght a lot of drama.

    If he managed to get custody, she must have brought plenty of drama. Having a spouse or co-parent who causes a lot of drama is a real strain on one's sense of self.

    no, she just didnt want the boys. they had younger twin daughters and she took those.she probably liked the attention she got with them.
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  • From Dr. What@VERT/DMINE to Dumas Walker on Thu Jan 7 09:45:00 2021
    Dumas Walker wrote to MRO <=-

    That is really sad. I lost my closest childhood friend to suicide over
    12 years ago. He left a wife and kid. He hid it well until the last
    day or two apparently. Unlike COVID we never really knew what pushed
    him to it.

    Had a guy in my area who did that. Everything seemed fine. He seemed happy. Had a good job, nice girlfriend, was sociable.

    Then he killed himself and no one knew why.

    Society puts pressure on everyone in different ways. Today that pressure
    is mostly political (whether you are anxious about the presidential election
    or COVID). But everyone has a breaking point and what different people do when they break will be wildly different.

    2021 will be an interesting year. "Interesting" as in the Chinese curse:
    May you live in interesting times.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Dr. What on Wed Jan 6 12:51:00 2021
    Dr. What wrote to MRO <=-

    MRO wrote to All <=-

    i just found out that a former close friend who drifted away
    killed himself after christmas.

    I wonder if he'll be listed as a COVID death.
    The gov't response to COVID has already killed more people than COVID.

    And now we know what a complete lack of empathy looks like.



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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to DR. WHAT on Fri Jan 8 16:34:00 2021
    2021 will be an interesting year. "Interesting" as in the Chinese curse:
    May you live in interesting times.

    Yup. Eight days in and it has already been so.


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  • From Dr. What@VERT/DMINE to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Jan 9 10:39:00 2021
    poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Dr. What <=-

    i just found out that a former close friend who drifted away
    killed himself after christmas.

    I wonder if he'll be listed as a COVID death.
    The gov't response to COVID has already killed more people than COVID.

    And now we know what a complete lack of empathy looks like.

    The term is "sympathy" not "empathy".

    I cannot feel the same feelings (empathy) because I don't know the person who committed suicide.

    But I cannot feel sympathy either because I'm too angry about the gov't causing the suicide in the first place.


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