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[–] 36 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Meh. Do I regret some of my inactions? Hell, I do. Do I regret some of my awful moves/decisions 400% more? I fucking do. The amount of cringeworthy brain cramps I get for just thinking of them for a split second make me wish they were just another one of my regretful inactions, instead.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I once heard cringing at your past self is a sign of personal growth!

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  • [–] 26 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    The other day I saw some dude throw his cigarette on the ground before getting on line in front me to get carded to enter a bar. For a long moment I considered picking it up and going "hey, you dropped this" and handing it back to him.

    But I didn't, because there's no way that ends happily.

    But man, fuck people who litter.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 months ago

    Fuck that, I look forward to the inaction. I only do shit to facilitate not doing shit later!

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago

    Can confirm that this is not true at allllllllll

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Selection bias. You don't spend any time thinking about the occasions when inaction was the right choice, because they seem unremarkable from everyday events.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Not the claim though. It's about the inactions you do notice and supposedly will regret the most, compared to actions you regret taking.

    I don't really agree with the post, but your comment has nothing to do with the statement…

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Oh, I disagree.

    You regret the inactions that you think about, because you think about them, specifically as instances where you failed to act and that led to unfortunate consequences.

    Disregarding the good outcomes of inaction is very relevant, because when you are mired in that regret it is the inaction that you are thinking of as being the failure, rather than the circumstances surrounding that situation. This leads you to the mistaken conclusion that inaction itself is the problem.

    As it's been said, "It is possible to commit no mistakes, and still lose. That is not a weakness, that is life."

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    My greatest regrets are all actions that ended up hurting someone. Even the inactions I regret most are related to not preventing pain which I had the power to do something about.

    I think this post is talking about a different kind of regret or comes from someone with very different life experience than me.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    You miss every shot you don't take.

    Arm yourself today! 2A is for everyone.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Eh, depends.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    Like 30+ years of not thinking about it for a moment, and now suddenly you've got Satan by Orbital stuck in my head.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    I should really do something about that... later tho...

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Reminds me of that woman in Germany who jumped into the polar bear enclosure at the Berlin zoo to swim with the bears.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Warning: hindsight hazardEveryone here could've bought Bitcoin in 2010.

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    Doing nothing feels good now tho

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    kind of bullshit for children?

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  • [–] -2 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    As someone who is only alive today because of all the suicide attempts I didn't make, respectfully shove this up your ass.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 3 months ago (4 children)
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  • [–] [S] 12 points 3 months ago

    You caught me, I posted this to the public shitpost community specifically to piss off you, a total stranger! You should probably take it personally XD

    May we be better strangers in the future!

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I mean, why are you browsing a shitpost community then?

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    Uh… ditto? You clearly don’t like my comment but yet you replied to it.

    On top of that, you’re still pissy that someone posted shitpost content in an actual shitpost community.

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