• Mac@mander.xyz
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            You grow some pretty flowers, read good books, and go for walks.
            You’ll die eventually, yes, might as well try to enjoy what you can along the way.

          • Monument@lemmy.sdf.org
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            You connect with someone, pool your resources and efforts, and live together.
            If nothing else, you’ll have someone to miss you when you choke to death.

            But seriously, all we have is each other. Some folks may never partner up romantically, but they can still build their own sense of community and family. Cooking for 2 is easier than cooking for 1, and cooking for 4 is even easier still. According to realtor.com’s July rental report, a single bedroom apartment in the U.S. averages $1600, and a 2 bedroom is $1900. Splitting that 2 bedroom with a roommate is way more economical than going it alone. Paying bills, planning things, having a vehicle break down, needing to share housework — Life is just easier with community. Many hands make light work.

            I’m not trying to paint a rosy picture. It seems right now that capitalism has “won.” With rare exception we’re all peasants, and we all face the same grim reality of being captive to systems that lower our quality of life and increase our challenges to strip every ounce of value from us and the environment around us. Maybe together, we can make it suck less, or at least try to.

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    For those of you who thought, gee who else has…

    Ray Ewry (USA) - A track and field athlete who competed in the early 20th century. Ewry is reported to have died in 1937 by choking on food.

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      It kind of makes a perverse sort of sense. As an athlete (at least of the cyclist sort), you need a huge amount of calories and you also are all about speed. Putting those two together is definitely a risk.

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    4 months ago

    How incredibly sad. Reminds me of that one Six Feet Under episode beginning with an identical premise.