Happened to me as a kid. This huge spider came crawling over my shoulder, but so engrossed was I in the show I was watching, I didn't notice the monstrosity until it was right in front of my face. I sat up and tried to scream, but no noise came out. I didn't go into that room again for days.

Xia is failing to realize that the original post isn't about self owned businesses, so their point doesn't make sense in this context. Based on their other comments, they either don't understand how discussions, debates, or arguments work, or they're a troll, or they're overly saturated on capitalist propoganda.

You can try to see how far you can skip it on a lake or pond.

I was told books 1-4 and then the last few were amazing. I wasn't enraptured by the first few, so I put it down as well. I didn't want to slog through 5 more books in the hopes I'd potentially enjoy 4 more.

I used to think getting groceries would be a weekly or biweekly thing. I'm in that fucking store every day and a half to four days.

This is my first time seeing this garbage. Which way to the mountains of Lammoth? I need to scream.

I don't see the link to the onion?

No idea, I was discussing hypotheticals.

Quoting an article about safe use of nitrogen, it is odorless, tasteless, and colorless. At extreme low levels of oxygen, nitrogen can cause unconsciousness and death in seconds and without warning.

I'm not talking about the chimps who executed this guy designing the system, I'm talking about qualified scientists designing it. The beauty is, you don't need a medical doctor to monitor oxygen levels if you rapidly remove the oxygen and add nitrogen. Send in slightly chilled nitrogen and the air will rise above it. Relief valve up top spits out the oxygen. Homeboy is unconsciousness before he realizes why the air just got cold.

The freediver will hold his breath confidently for four minutes, exhale, suck in pure nitrogen, and be out in a breath or two.

I agree that the state does lie and incompetently kills people, but we can design a system that does it well. I just don't agree they should ever use it.

All options do not require a medical professional to administer. It does not take someone with a doctor's knowledge or skill to make an airproof chamber. It won't take a doctor to set up a system to add air to the chamber. You don't need to be a doctor to rig a way to flood the chamber with another gas and remove the oxygen. Non-doctors can wheel him in, strapped to a bed. Then the regular pre-PhD's can operate the system. Now the scientists and engineers to design this death trap may have doctorates, but they don't need medical licenses. Design it well enough and a chimp or small child can operate the chamber controls. You will need a medical professional to declare death, though.

I enjoy survival games. First played Minecraft, I enjoy Empyrion, put a few hours a week into Valheim. I started Conan Exiles, but found out about the slavery aspect after stumbling upon the options in the game. I thought that was distasteful, but I enjoyed the other aspects of the game.

In Palworld, can you still progress through the game without enslaving and working these creatures to death? In Pokemon, you travel around with your buddies, and you form connections with your team. From what I'm hearing about Palworld is you have minions who you exploit.

Is it an option to play the game with that companion feel of Pokemon, where my monster buddies are helping me out for the benefit of us all? Versus just using monsters for my own benefit? I want to play the game, but I'm not going to get any enjoyment out of taskmastery and buggery.

I agree that ethics aren't binary, and the threshold of your selection is defined by which evils you're willing to tolerate. How much grey are you willing to support?

I don't believe the slope to nihilism is that slippery. I was merely trying to advocate for OP's mental wellbeing. If they're able to find a soap they like that isn't related to the company they're trying to avoid, good for them.

However, undoubtedly, whatever company they select will have some shades of grey. For the sake of argument, let's say Company A is supporting a war OP disagrees with. Company B is committing wage theft and is polluting the environment worse than Company A.

Now OP has to decide. Short of making their own soap, they have to support something they might not be completely comfortable with. Or, which is the point I was originally trying to make, is that we all have to deal with shady companies doing awful things and there is little we can do about it. So OP might as well use the soap that makes them happy with how their skin feels.

Or perhaps OP could shoplift the soap they prefer. They get the skin they enjoy without having to support big box stores or they company that makes the soap. We have options here.