Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "people were killing themselves 200 years ago for almost the same exact reasons that they do today"

• Today Is the Tomorrow You were Promised Yesterday : 200 years of Information
• Ground rush
• After today, for two people, the world will never be the same
• Why do computer geeks feel they were born in the wrong time?
• people do, on the whole, have the right to be who they want to be
• he was alive, and some of the other people, they were carbon copies
• What do girls think about guys who think about what other people think about girls and what they do?
• Why Do People Pigeonhole themselves?
• They made the sunrise for people like us just so we have an excuse for why we're still up.
• I really came to understand that they were just real people who wanted to live real lives and be treated equally as opposed to, for example, wanting to destroy us.
• I fixed my body image issues by looking at people as if they were dogs
• A Year Ago Today (superdoc)
• It was 30 years ago today, Miyamoto taught the kids to play... (e2poll)
• The reason people go to war is because they don't understand the feelings of others.
• Reasons toilets swirl the way they do
• I was wrong as a child, to think old people were stupid for asking me where the day had gone. Now I understand... we older people do not live.
• Even Years Ago
• And if terrorists wanted to communicate secretly, mightn't they just do so by collaborating on a 'draft' here at e2? Can the NSA check on our drafts? Who knows? Inquiring minds want to know, Jay!
• If you insist on killing defenseless animals, do it properly
• Treatment of corporations
• People want what they cannot have
• Stupid movie reviews are killing people
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• What do stars do? They shine.
• It's always a good idea to tell people you love them if you do
• they carry but they do not understand
• What people talk about when they can't think of anything to talk about
• If people weren't meant to be eaten, they wouldn't be made of meat!
• why the so-called normal people do crazy stuff
• So... what do we do now that we're happy?
• This email is a response to your email of a year ago sent on February 6, 2000
• Where do dogs get their Vitamin C from, when they don't eat fruits?
• The Salamander Girl Part II: What Reasons Do You Need
• B Battery
• I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I almost believe that they are real
• why I love people today
• cat haters
• what desire will make foolish people do
• Black People Hate Me and They Hate My Glasses
• Too many people say "I love you" when they mean "I like you"
• 90% of people think they are of above average intelligence
• why I do have to get so deep with people all the time just to gently let them down 2 weeks later
• I haven't bought a piece of furniture in almost 3 years
• A rambling letter to the girl I met years ago
• Kids aren't cute; they just do stupid things
• Now you do what they told ya
• a weather report from five hundred thousand years ago?
• Mediocre people do exceptional things all the time
• Never do card tricks for the people you play poker with
• Think of something you always wanted to do, but are afraid of. Do it today.
• Why do people vote against their interests?
• The goggles, they do nothing
• They do not know how immortal, but I know
• The Meaning of Love Eight Years Ago
• What Happened to You, What'd They Do, Billy Lee
• Do they know those days are golden? Build a rocket boys
• The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture
• People who argue, using terms they refuse to define
• play dumb
• You can't make an omelet without killing a few people
• Those torpedo bombers didn't do a darn thing did they
• When you kill people they die
• When people say "All-American", they seldom mean me.
• How years of imposed political correctness have affected my perception of people
• If the Sharks Were People
• Too many people say nothing when they mean "I love you"
• Tell people they're beautiful and they will change the world
• The people we have met in the last 5 years, & will we remember them in 10 more
• Things you give people that they keep
• do you think i can get all my ideas out? so they aren't lost?
• Where do you want to go today?
• Remembering all those years ago
• Things that would have seemed unbelievable about 11 years ago
• Going to a movie on the opening night
• Honk if your horn is broken: Where do they get these stupid stickers?
• Why do bad things happen to good people?
• Why some people do not enjoy being in nature
• Things that people do more over and over that I haven't even done once
• What Do You Care What Other People Think?
• The distance between two atoms was the distance between 6 months ago and today
• Why do people believe in God?
• Where the hell do you think you're going today?
• Evil people do not further the perseverance of the superior man.
• For tactical reasons, we do not currently advocate the use of violence or sorcery against private individuals.
• just because they never bothered to really do
• Where do they go? (The words unsaid)
• Why do Mac people also use Linux?
• they don't know what they'd do without me
• No One Ever Listens Do They, 'Lyssa
• My kisses, they do not fade
• Mostly I hear you in my voice, as people do in dreams
• If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread
• Sex doesn't ruin friendships; people do.
• 20 Years in the Dakota
• Fuckin' magnets, how do they work?
• We pander to each other because we love each other so much and we'd do anything to keep each other and it's made us sensitive and it's fucking killing us all.
• no exact amounts since I have no idea how many people you feed
• What Happened to You, What'd They Do, Billy Lee (for Cormac McCarthy)
• What do you mean people around here speak Spanish
• I Do Not Want To Be One Of Those People
• Only the devil would play the same five songs over and over
• Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
• If there were more people like you, there would be less people
• Thinking you know more about computers than the tech you just called
• There were people on the Titanic who waved away the dessert trolley
• Creative ways of killing people
• Do We Really Need Another Reason to Hate Mosquitoes?
• Dead people are not sleeping. They are dead.
• The problem with people who think life is inexpressibly beautiful is that they so often try to express it anyway
• People with suntans don't look healthy, they look ignorant
• People you haven't seen in years
• Fun for 2 years as a little kid, school for 16 or 20 years, then work until you die.
• Dumb things people wish they hadn't said
• You say "the internet" but you mean "the world wide web"
• Right-wing doesn't automatically mean racist
• How to herd people in public
• This dance is called: Two People, Trying to Occupy the Same Space at the Same Time
• I recall the last 20 years as succinctly as I can in one node: bear with me
• people were milling around at my wake, whispering and glancing. afterwards, my wife took a twirl with the embalmer
• The same people with different names
• Dogs are for wimps who don't have the guts to bite people themselves
• Where do they go when they walk out and leave the body behind?
• Twenty years ago
• I became a fish and a hundred years passed in a blurred stream. I remember it from long ago.
• All Those Years Ago
• 20 Years and Twelve Iron Novembers: Thanks for Everything2
• I almost killed Tony Blackburn
• Covid-19: masks work, we figured that out YEARS ago
• Today, I almost got killed by Darth Vader
• I am clothed when other people go almost naked through the frozen cities in winter
• This essay was due a year ago
• 20 Years of Dischord
• I get more done after midnight than most people do all day
• What did you do for your mother today?
• Movies where people do 31337 h4x0RiNg on a Macintosh PowerBook
• Made direct amends to such people wherever possible except when to do so would injure them or others
• Why do people on TV eat so much?
• Guns don't kill people. Wait, guns do kill people.
• Why people put quotes around words on signs
• Where do they keep the car keys when they transport cars?
• Why do some people enjoy being in nature?
• Winners don't do drugs, they just sell them
• Why do so many people wear glasses?
• Laughter reaction to acting abusively
• We do more after 2am than most people do all day.
• Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
• Why do today what you can postpone until tomorrow?
• All People That on Earth Do Dwell
• how do they feel, those unblinking eyes?
• Shall I tell you stories of other stars: stars that you love, that deserve your love. Stars that do not disappoint, and disgust, and disgrace your love. Oh, I have hope they exist for your sake!
• How do cows get all their nutrients, when they only eat grass?
• I do not think that they will sing to me.
• Do blind people dream?
• A reason to do something
• Here comes another resilient thing: Let's do the killing
• We all know what beautiful eyes are like, what they do to you.
• Wedding rings and half-born ideas you lose down the toilet. Why do they go?
• Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
• You've been slowly taking me over for nearly a year, do you know that?
• Son, do you know how fast you were going?
• I'm just realizing, at 20 years of age, that I enjoy classical music
• Guns don't kill people. Skeletons do.
• You do realise that this is going to be our lives for the next ten years?
• The Salamander Girl, Part II: What Reasons Do you Need
• The one thing I wanted more than anything was for someone, just once, to tell me they don't know what they'd do without me
• What reasons do you need
• Stuff White People Do
• the years do roll on
• Ten "extra toppings" received by the "20 fun things to do while ordering a pizza" guy
• Do they care it's Christmas time?
• What do girls think about guys when they catch guys staring at their breasts, but the guy is actually trying to read her shirt?
• Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass go, do not collect $200.
• We don't have time. Not like they do.
• may you make mistakes large enough to learn from, but small enough that they do not destroy you
• Words which mean more than you think they do at the time.
• Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces
• Horses: do they love us back?
• If I were Twenty-One I would "do the next thing"
• Google's 20 year Usenet archive

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