(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.)

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

https://www.timesnowworld.com/rest-of-world-news/christopher-thomas-knight-maine-forest-disappearance-article-154300950

This guy's got thebest tips.

Until they came to cut the forest down...

We laugh but this is what we should do

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