Wow, thats pretty sweet.

I get the question is kind of nebulous. I’ve gotten some great answers though!

That’s an excellent answer I respect the engineering a ton as well.

That’s a pretty reasonable answer haha.

Hopefully with a metal back that doesn’t hurt all the time.

The competition aspect makes alot of sense. Especially when I consider both the preparation and execution go into it. I think if I was the builder I’d HAVE to be the driver/racer too though.

Yeah, thats the main understanding I have of it. Just seems like an odd way to express your personality.

That’s true, both can be used as status symbols. At least with a watch, once you buy it, mission complete. No need to go throwing new gears in it to make it tick louder.

I’d be careful throwing diagnostics around. Last thing you want is the individual doing some internet doctoring. Could lead to them excusing their behaviors due to self diagnosed nonsense or self medicating based on an uneducated hunch. Not saying you sound wrong necessarily, just dont wanna add fuel to the fire. The person in question should ABSOLUTELY seek professional help and ask these questions as soon as possible.

Surely these cuts mean our taxes will drop dramatically… right…

No that’s extremely not normal. I’d also heavily question someone like this. Mostly how they genuinely feel about their romantic partner. Typically a romantic partnership is built on a type of friendship. It sounds like the person doesn’t understand platonic relationships. I’m extremely skeptical they would be able to have healthy romantic relationships without that understanding.

Oh yeah big time. I see it primarily in discussions about religion. Progressive people like to act as though any Christian has the same mentality as the Westboro Baptist church cult. Its a real bummer.

My numbers were not contradicted. Look at the table on page. 32. If you don’t count jails, group homes, “unknown”, or cars as public places your total is around 18% taking place in public. I recognize that the rates wouldnt likely be even among modes of suicide. But, you’re asking for data thats incredible difficult to specifically find. My original statement is that public suicides are uncommon but not unheard. The data I provided supports that statement. I will absolutely concede that I haven’t been able to link specific modality to public though. If you find data that disproves the below please provide it.

Natural area (park, woods, open land)

1,816 =4.4%

Street / highway 1,163 =2.8%

Hotel / motel 946=2.3%

Parking lot / garage / public transport 718= 1.7%

Park / playground / sports area 330 = <1%

Bridge 316 = <1%

Commercial / retail area 316 = <1%

Railroad tracks 256 = <1%

Other location 1,321 =3.2%

Yeah that’s pretty much what I’ve gathered from this thread and conversations I’ve had. Both sides see themselves as morally and intellectually superior. I don’t see much willing cohesion being possible on the extreme sides of either. Luckily the majority of people seem to fall in the middle.

My stance is anyone using any belief system to excuse hate is wrong.

That’s your response to me saying the facts you tried to present have been proven untrue? You’re the one gaslighting and spreading unproven information because you desperately want it to help the narrative you’ve created for the world.

https://wonder.cdc.gov/

https://www.cdc.gov/nvdrs/

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/ss/pdfs/ss7405a1-H.pdf

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/ss/pdfs/ss7305a1-H.pdf

"Hanging/Suffocation Suicides: According to CDC WONDER data, hanging and suffocation accounted for approximately 25–26% of all suicide deaths in recent years.

Public Place Suicides: NVDRS data indicates that about 22–25% of all suicides occur in public places.

Estimation: By applying the public place percentage to the hanging/suffocation suicides, we estimate that approximately 10–15% of hanging/suffocation suicides occur in public places."

I take the story personally and thats probably unhealthy… Shocking amount of suicide and denial of that suicide in my personal life. Anyway, I couldn’t get that data together specifically the way you wanted. Closest I could gather was a listing of public suicides over a ten year span 2013-2023.On average around 45,000 people commit suicide a year, about 12,000 of that by hanging. Public is where the numbers got more difficult but there is some info out there, I’ll post it below. Numbers below represent a single year based on averages from the 10 year span. So its not common but also nowhere near close to unheard of. I had an AI try to compile specifically hanging public suicides and it said between 10-15% of hanging suicides happen in public. I can include the prompts I used to get you there if you dont trust me. Sources it used were the CDC, National Center for Health Statistics and the National Violent Death Reporting System.

Motor vehicle — 2,363.

Natural area — 1,895.

Street or highway — 1,209.

Hotel or motel — 1,032.

Park/playground/sports/athletic area — 719.

Parking lot / public garage / public transport — 700.

Jail or prison — 654.

Commercial / retail area — 475.

Bridge — 323.

Railroad tracks — 285.

Hospital / medical facility — 178.

Yeah, I pointed out the currently available evidence. Also disproved the legitimacy of a parallel situation. The misinformation got significantly more upvotes as the factual information and article I linked. People want this to be a hate crime and no amount of proof will dissuade them from believing it is.

Solid