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Croatian music teacher Frane Selak cheated death an astonishing seven times. He survived a train crash, a plane crash, a bus crash, two car explosions, and a car plunging off a cliff. After this he won a million on the lottery, solidifying his reputation as the world's luckiest, unlucky man.

In 1962 his train derailed into a frozen river killing 17 people. He survived with only a broken hand, and a few scratches, and bruises.

A year later while in an aircraft the door suddenly came off, and the teacher flew out of the plane. Everyone lost their lives in the plane crash except Frane Salak who landed on a haystack, and awoke in hospital a few days later with minor injuries.

In 1966 he was travelling on a bus that crashed and fell into a river.

In 1970 he was driving his car when it caught fire, and he just managed to get out before it exploded.

Three years later another of his cars caught fire, and he survived again.

In 1995 in Zagreb he was hit by a bus and survived with minor injuries.

The following year he drove into a parapet to avoid a truck coming from the opposite direction. He was thrown out of his car and left hanging from a tree, only to see his car explode 100 meters below.

In 2003 Frane Salak won 1 million dollars in the Croatian lottery.

Frane Salak was married 5 times, but he lost his life in 2016 he was 87 years, and he finally succumbed to complications of a heart attack in 1998, and died in a Los Angeles hospital.

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Heartbreak sucks! Is love worth that pain?
Let’s imagine a perfect world in which everyone ultimately finds their soulmate. How many heartbreaks would be too many to continue going through the motions? Is true love worth nearly endless pain with no end in sight?

I miss the 2000s so very much, all the way up until about 2008. After that, everything went to absolute shit so bad, such that now I feel I live in a dystopian nightmare.

These were the days before economic turmoil (before 08 of course), the all-consuming big-tech disruption, and before the woke/PC garbage ruined everything. Not everything had to be politically motivated either.

Life was a bit more simpler back then and more laid back. You had cool tech but knew when to take a break and play outside with adventure and friends. Exploring the backyard, the creeks, riding bikes, making trails in the backyard woods... some examples.

This is before everyone lost their ever fucking minds. There was still decorum and manners. No AI face recognition when you walk into Walmart. No leftist mobs burning down businesses, terrorizing their neighbors, and barging into churches to berate congregants. That shit didn't fly back then, and if kids and teens participated in that, their asses would be beat. Adults were actually more like adults, and boy scouts were actually the BOY Scouts for the boys. Kids were actually able to be kids without trying to indoctrinate them with sexually/developmentally inappropriate shit. Drag queens performances in school would have been an outright national outrage.

You could crack jokes back then that are now offensive to hypersensitive snowflakes.

Most of all, I miss my family being together and when family actually meant something. Now, this whole "boundaries" movement and family members blocking one another even just something ridiculous as a political disagreement... it is all disheartening to say the least.

And of course, the culture I miss:

Florida nurse barred after social media post refusing anesthesia for Republican patients -
Attorney General James Uthmeier says Erik Martindale violated his ethical duty to treat all patients regardless of political beliefs - www.wptv.com/.../florida-nurse-loses-license-after-social-media-post-refusing-anesthesia-for-republican-patients