You get dancing penguins either way.

Suicide hotlines are very much still a thing, and you typically don’t need any kind of license or degree. I think many are volunteers.

There are also likely outreach programs in your area, if you search for them, and they frequently need volunteers. Helping people to access services is one of the more effective ways to prevent deaths, especially for high-risk populations like: addiction, lgbt, homeless.

If you’re looking to make a (paying) career change for this, there are also entry level jobs in behavioral health at inpatient and outpatient centers.

I personally tire of the politics too, but there isn’t a “no politics” rule in lemmyshitpost, so it’s fair game. People have brought it up before, but it seems like the wider community prefers the less restrictive posting rules.

Don’t even joke about that

It’s bean too long.

Yeah, I’d probably hide in the walls this time. Maybe even the attic.

The universe wants peanut butter today, apparently.

Of course! But you lose your warranty because of corporate greed.

It’s a good word to learn. Thank you.

(excuse me, I just need to google something totally unrelated really quick…)

Ah, yes! It is indeed my eponymous maneuver.

Basically nobody would switch hands and aim with the other eye like that. You have a dominant hand and eye when shooting.

He could be ambidextrous, I guess, but it’s still very unnatural to do this.

(edit: and yes, the floating stock, lol)

It took me until the second play to realize what was wrong. What was he thinking??

Here’s the formatting. Voyager makes it easy though. You just choose “spoiler” when writing a comment, and it sets it up for you.

I commend you for checking.

Ironically a very good reason to try therapy

Therapy is helpful, but you don’t need to go for everything, just like you wouldn’t go to the doctor every time you have a cold or allergies.

Ug, sorry to re-traumatize then. First I’ve seen it.

I dropped it in the body of the post for reference so that people finding this later can follow.

It was this one:

Nice one, lol. I tacked this on to the post too.