• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
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      8 months ago

      I think the idea is that their life on this island is more enjoyable than their previous life. So they decide they want to stay there after all.

      Which honestly is understandable on an emotional level sometimes but realistically they would be dead after a few weeks from unclean water, wildlife, infection, illness, etc

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        I mean if they’ve been there for two years I’m sure that means they’ve learned how to purify water at least to a drinkable state, but also, has the rescue beacon even been working.

        I bet the dude never actually turned it on and has just pretended he did, playing the long game to get the lady to wanna spend time with him.

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        Yeah, I get wanting to unplug and get away, but the first serious illness or injury will have them wishing they still had a way to call for help.

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          Even beyond that, I think this sentiment is easy to get into from the comfort of climate controlled, weatherproof structures, with abundant food that doesn’t require months of forethought and planning to farm or energy expenditure to hunt or gather. I’d love to chuck up materialism and peer pressure, but I’m firmly attached to the various infrastructures that make my life so comfortable.

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              When my mom had to poop as a kid, she had to stand on two planks of wood and squat over a hole in the ground, out in the open. I love my toilet.

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                Well that’s nature’s toilet, not nature’s FLUSH toilet. Its also far from modern civilization. It works okay for one or two people in an area they don’t live in. It doesn’t work so well for massive populations on top of one another. I’d even argue that without flush toilets we wouldn’t have modern civilization.

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          I don’t think that the beacon works that way. The way I interpreted the comic the beacon has been active for the two years and still no help arrived.

          Destroying it doesn’t really change anything, most likely it wasn’t working anyhow because otherwise you aren’t stranded for two years. It might just make it easier to accept rescue isn’t coming. And doing it voluntary because you prefer the lifestyle could be good moral boost.

          But yes, if you are voluntary on an island you want means to contact help. What Masafumi Nagasaki did sounds pretty sweet sometimes. Living naked and alone on an island just getting groceries every few weeks for 30 years.

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      8 months ago

      People missing the fact this comic is using humor and hyperbole to make a point about the things that make us miserable.

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        Or maybe people make themselves miserable because they don’t realize that there’s nothing really stopping them from doing all the things listed in the comic could be done in the comfort of their home.

        Well I suppose to do hunting you’d have to leave your house, but I think it’s something that’s far more enjoyable if you don’t have to worry about starving if you fail.

        The real joke is people so far removed from nature they don’t have a concept of how harsh it is,

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      You didn’t miss anything, it’s a terrible comic. It’s just saying the castaway wants to stay and the woman says yup 3 times in a row. The beacon is unexplained and makes no difference. There’s no point, no punch line, no depth, no dimension. It’s a small sentence about leaving material trappings that didn’t even need 3 panels, an island or a companion.

      He says a thing, she’s say yup 3 times, they’re on an island…