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A nonplussed character wearing a feathered leather hat and a backpack full to bursting says to a disgruntled man "aight it's been real but im disappearing into the woods forever."

The would-be hermit turns only his eyes toward the man as he raises his arms in frustration and shouts "you can't just fuck off into the woods, you have to stay here!"

The man's expression softens into confusion as his conversational parter's backpack comes to the fore of his vision as he simply departs. A narrator adds "but he could. And he did."

The traveler is seen at great distance as the man continues looking on. The narrator continues. "And no one ever saw him again."

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[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Plenty of homeless camps in the woods get busted each year.

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

"Oh no, I'll have to pretend to leave and then move 200 meters and no one will find me for 8 months."

Really, the biggest issue is not dying. That's the thinker

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

When the cops bust a homeless camp... they don't just let the homeless people go. Also, after they find one, they patrol the area periodically... there are common sites they crop up. Sorry, it's just not that easy to escape to unoccupied land, that is unpoliced. It's a nice dream, but it's not the reality of the world.

[-] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

Also, after they find one, they patrol the area periodically… there are common sites they crop up. Sorry, it’s just not that easy to escape to unoccupied land, that is unpoliced.

i think you are mixing two things together. these homeless people are not adventurer types that want to get off the grid for the sake of it - they just don't have the roof over their head, but need to camp as close to civilization as possible, so they could still scavenge its scraps. they could go further, but there would be no supermarket to dumpster dive to.

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago
[-] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

you beg to differ what? that clip supports literally every word i said. it is in the city, full of found/bought/stolen merchandise, including fuel, they would not have access to in the wilderness.

[-] bertlewirth@lemy.lol 6 points 6 days ago

ah, the Ted Kaszinski way, minus the bombing of course.

[-] drath@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

You can always add the bombing later

[-] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

but you need to add math proof earlier.

[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

I'm getting to that point myself (and yes, I've had survival training)

[-] OwOarchist@pawb.social 83 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

(No one ever saw him again because he starved to death in a remote gully 7 months later, in the depth of winter.)

(But on the plus side, he never had to attend another Teams meeting or see another Facebook meme.)

[-] jimmy90@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

his name was ted kasinski

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 week ago

Oh shit, he got 7 whole months without politics and llms??

[-] aksdb@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Ne, he actually tried to live in the forest first, but he had to witness how forest workers constantly cut down trees left and right and that made him sad again and he had to flee further.

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

Into the sub-forest, like that time I retreated to the sub-basement because my parents were fighting too much.

[-] Techlos@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 week ago

i know someone who did that... buggered off into the qld bush to brew moonshine and grow ganja.

Every couple of years he'll hit me up on IRC and send deep cut psytrance bootlegs, fun times.

[-] hogmomma@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Yeah, cool, but IRC? I genuinely didn't know that was a thing anymore.

there's even selfhosted clients for it now like The Lounge.

[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

What the hell that sounds like the coolest person ever

[-] nastronot@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 week ago
[-] BrainBow65@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

I can assure you it's not just a masculine urge

[-] nastronot@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

Indeed. I should have blanked it out but I also had the masculine urge to be lazy

[-] limelight79@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

A woman my wife works with took in a teenage boy (a relative, but I don't remember the connection) whose mother walked into the woods one day and disappeared. Her car was found, she wasn't. I think the father had passed away already, so when the mother vanished, the kid had no one else.

Poor kid lost his mother, then had to move cross country, losing all of his friends, too. A shit situation for everyone involved.

[-] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

Inb4 he got eaten by a bear several days into his new life.

[-] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

good news is - after you die, they will make a movie and after seeing it, a few dozen people will try to replicate your steps and die in the process, so you will inspire quite a few people!

[-] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Proenneke The linked person did this for a couple decades in alaska. Yearly trades with a friend who came over by seaplane and landed on the local lake. they exchanged some goods, i think Proenneke made some oils from the wilderness and the visitor brought like medicine and shoes or something. He eventually had to come back to society because he couldn't chop enough wood to keep himself warm in the winter anymore.

Richard(Dick) Filmed himself setting up and his first year or couple years. This was edited into 3 or 2 films (Alone in the wilderness). you should look for them online, they are available for free if you look in the right spots. I think there's 4 hours of edited film in total of his story.

[-] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago

He went back to society because he was 83, i think it's fair... (he visited family durimg the time he lived in Alaska).

[-] MoffKalast@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

nonplussed character

nonplussed /nɒnˈplʌst/ The word nonplussed traditionally means surprised, confused, and unsure how to react (left at a loss for what to say or do).

TIL, if I heard this word used in a less clear context I'd assume it's like tier 3 lgbt slang or something lmao.

[-] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 week ago

Nonplussed is one of those words that means the opposite of what i think it would, intuitively.

[-] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 7 points 1 week ago

My plan too, was supposed to have done it by now. But I have debt thanks to my parents, and them too to take care of.

But I will start saving in secret again when I can and fuck off somewhere.

One day, no one will ever see me again, and many will certainly celebrate.

But I'd like to remind those people, they contributed to make this world unlivable in the first place.

I want to leave because there is no fair way for me to exist within the system.

[-] historicaldocuments@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I have debt thanks to my parents, and them too to take care of. [...] I will start saving in secret again when I can

May you find your patch of woods one day.

[-] Quexotic@infosec.pub 5 points 1 week ago
[-] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 1 week ago

Until they came to cut the forest down...

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

You can't just fuck off into the plains you need to stay here!

But they could. And they did.

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 4 points 1 week ago

Hrm, I see this meme just prior to certain elections...

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

Look, there's plenty of posts trying to suppress votes. I get that. That's not what this is. I'm certain this has nothing to do with the election. Are we only allowed to make posts that tell people to vote near an election?

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

If, realistically, inspiring like 2 people worldwide to escape into the wilderness is enough to sway an election, I'll eat my shoe. There's always an upcoming election

[-] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago

Even those 2 can still vote and then disappear into the woods.

It is not like they would lose anything doing that.

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