juliebean

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[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

i know they aren't mutually exclusive claims, they just seem unrelated, which is why your shift in topic seemed unexpected to me. maybe they're not for you? do you want to die eventually because you think you have to anyway? is this a general policy of not wanting things that seem difficult to get? personally, there's loads of things i'd like that are currently anywhere from difficult to impossible to achieve.

i just can't bring myself to see the prospect of everyone i know and love withering away and ceasing to exist within a century as anything other than a horrible tragedy. maybe it's unavoidable (though i have some hope that it isn't), but that doesn't mean i have to like it.

[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

do you want your kid to die someday as well? what if your quality of life didn't have to become bad? immortalists such as myself (that is, people who don't want people to have to die, and support scientific efforts to make that a reality) don't want people to just, like, persist in a state of unending geriatric decrepitude, we want folks to be able to live as long and healthy lives as possible.

[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

i feel like you've shifted the goalposts, here. previously, you said you didn't want to live forever, now you're just saying you can't live forever.

also, we absolutely do have genetic engineering. it's been a thing since the 70s. the covid-19 vaccine, for instance, was a feat of genetic engineering. furthermore, techniques such as gene therapy can indeed modify the genetic information of adults.

P.S. i assumed you meant physically, rather than psychically, but if you did mean the latter, then i have no idea what you're talking about.

[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

if you don't want to die now, and you don't want to live forever, is there some specific age/time you would like to die, if you didn't have to?

[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago (6 children)

pushing off dying as long as possible, if done successfully, is living forever though? do you not see the contradiction in what you wrote?

[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago (13 children)

i think most people don't really want to die. and they like living for all sorts of reasons. i hope you can think of at least a few reasons you'd like to go on living as well.

[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 49 points 5 months ago (1 children)

i didn't get any prompts, and read the article, so i'll quickly answer.

  1. the guy is obsessed with penile behaviour as a measure of overall health, for some reason, and measured the nocturnal boners of himself, as well as his 19 year old son, as a point of comparison.
  2. the son shared his dick metrics himself. seems he's well and fully invested in his father's phallocentric longevity scheme.
[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 20 points 5 months ago (5 children)

rather more of them than on earth, according to the article.

Wowhead, the database of Warcraft items, lists 1,203 types of currency in the game. To be fair, some of those have been retired, and others are currency for a single item or purpose—but in comparison, the entire world (not of Warcraft) only has 180.

[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

what's the association of noodles?

[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

i don't think we ought to be implying that colonization is cool.

[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

maybe something derived from dekotora? it has most of the same associations as the term we're looking to replace while not having racist or pejorative origins. deko?

[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

i'm the only one in my friend group that uses linux, but everyone else has like one or two specific apps they need for work that keep them tied to windows, and if those apps were available on linux, they'd jump ship in a heartbeat.

i'm a fry cook, so my work doesn't care what OS i run.

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