The goal of this post is to function as a vent post. Tell us what’s on your mind, yell, post pics, do whatever to clear your mind.

So yesterday my father in law and I went to this lake for a morning swim. It was 8 degrees celsius (46F) outside, the water was probably of a similar temperature. There were a few fishermen walking around in special wetsuits as to not get hypothermia and they were staring in disbelief at two guys walking into the water in underwear.

It was cold as fuck to the point that the cold water did nothing but hurt my skin. I swam for around ten minutes I think and the entire time I kept thinking: why would anyone do this? Why do humans feel the need to go to great lengths to do stupid shit like this? Surely it has to be more than just adrenaline.

Did I enjoy swimming in cold water? I don’t know. It made feel alive-ish. Would I do it again? It does have a certain lure to it.

It did make me think about people bragging about ‘suffering’. For example, my gf and I want to try to keep the heating off until at least the 21st of December, because shit is expensive yo. But when someone mentions that they already have the heating on, I start feeling proud of myself in a way. Because I don’t have the heating on yet, and I’m fine. Money is not even what I think about then, just that I am able to tolerate more cold or something stupid like that. I have no idea why I do that. It’s completely in line with my ideology and party work. But it still happens. Why do humans do this?

Also: FUCK CAPITALISM

  • ButtigiegMineralMap
    6•1 year ago

    Ugh I hate how everything is going in the US rn. Tech oligarchs doin mass layoffs before holidays,Biden BARELY does student debt relief and it’s being challenged by a motherfucking Judge. Not congress itself but some wanker judge. G20 is not doing actual work on climate change this decade, everything for climate change is like “oh yay we funded a thing that’ll work in 2050!”, like wtf we don’t have 30 years to dick around and continue on our path. Getting emissions back to 2007 levels or whatever is still not enough. I hate that despite Bernie’s problems, we won’t have a decent candidate like him in a while. He was arrested in the early 60s for resisting arrest at a protest in Chicago. He used to read Eugene V Debs speeches. It’s very upsetting that Bernie is like, the furthest left that the US is willing to go, and even then, people call him a communist sigh