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Old 09-23-2024, 06:57 PM   #541
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nothing about living makes sense if we don't die

but still, no amount of philosophy can smooth over how much it's going to suck when it's our turn
when it's actually "our turn", we won't have time to consider how much it "sucks."

born 2 die, baby

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Old 09-24-2024, 10:32 PM   #542
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I don't know, there's so much shit to do in the world that I don't think I'd get bored if I lived for 1,000 years. I could spend one lifetime as a musician, another lifetime as an astrophysicist, another lifetime as a screenwriter, another one as a circus clown, etc. Hell, I could probably become a world leader at some point as a lark. I could live lives all over the world and meet a lot of people. I could become an expert on several topics and master several skills.
I have a POC vampire friend who's been roaming the streets of LA for over a hundred years and he says it's awesome and a good time being immortal. I'll believe him before any of this nonsense

 
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Old 09-25-2024, 06:00 AM   #543
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Though concerns about heat death of the universe, or even just the end of life on earth, or even just the end of comfortable human civilization, are all concerns that would make me not want to be literally immortal, I don't think I'd turn down living for a very, very long time, granted that:

1. I remain ageless instead of getting some Tithonus bum deal.

2. I have some procedure in place to easily make new identities so that the government and anyone else fail to notice that I'm 467 years old instead of the age I appear to be.

3. Despite creating new identities, I'm still able to effortlessly transfer my wealth from identity to identity.

I know there's the whole "you'll see everyone you love die" thing, but I'm sure that by the death of my fifth wife, I'll get used to it and learn to just cherish the time I spend with people even more.

I don't know, there's so much shit to do in the world that I don't think I'd get bored if I lived for 1,000 years. I could spend one lifetime as a musician, another lifetime as an astrophysicist, another lifetime as a screenwriter, another one as a circus clown, etc. Hell, I could probably become a world leader at some point as a lark. I could live lives all over the world and meet a lot of people. I could become an expert on several topics and master several skills.
Add a bit of sword fighting and this would make a hell of an 80’s movie. Or maybe a remake with the Witcher bloke.

 
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Old 09-25-2024, 02:28 PM   #544
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Old 09-25-2024, 06:03 PM   #545
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Old 09-27-2024, 02:10 PM   #546
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That possessed medium, Derek Acorah, said he'd make definite contact from the other side after he "passed over". He's been dead four years now and no one has heard a peep from him.

 
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Old 10-09-2024, 10:34 PM   #547
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Fonz in Seattle. Met Mike McCready. Fuckin’ A.

 
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Old 10-10-2024, 04:24 AM   #548
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Fonz in Seattle. Met Mike McCready. Fuckin’ A.
fucking a man?

 
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Old 10-10-2024, 11:47 AM   #549
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I'm an immortalist, so it's impossible to say when I'll be middle aged.

In seriousness, though, how long would you guys like to be alive in your current form? I mean, if you could live as long as you wanted, and you were (or became) pretty happy and healthy, how long would you stick around? Would you go on indefinitely? Would you combine with technology if there were clear benefits?
I would upload my consciousness to like a supercomputer or something. Death is terrifying to me, but so is immortality. There are no good options.

 
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Old 10-10-2024, 04:00 PM   #550
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Good news! I just uploaded your mind to a supercomputer. No need to thank me. You can now take comfort in the fact that even if you suddenly get hit by a truck or vaporized into a fine mist by a nuclear strike, you won't really be dead!

 
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Old 10-11-2024, 07:44 AM   #551
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Death is terrifying to me, but so is immortality. There are no good options.
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fucking a man?
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Old 10-18-2024, 02:07 AM   #552
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Before the algorithms, we had our feeds filled with content chosen by out of touch executives, and in some ways automation and soulless optimisation are more democratic, and an improvement on that

 
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Old 10-25-2024, 01:34 PM   #554
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Old 10-28-2024, 08:19 AM   #555
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I am in Tokyo for a week. The food is very good.

 
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Avoid the trains at rush hour!

 
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Old 10-28-2024, 04:52 PM   #557
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I remember someone saying that Tokyo is the loneliest city on the planet, but I don't know how someone could quantify that.

 
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I am in Tokyo for a week. The food is very good.
Are you lonely?

 
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Old 10-31-2024, 02:17 AM   #560
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You know you're in Asia...


 
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Old 10-31-2024, 02:20 AM   #561
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We are in Tokyo in Shinjuku city. It is Thursday and American Halloween night. We did not realize that Halloween has become a drunken mess here. It's kind of like St Patricks day. A lot of tourists come here for Halloween just to get fucked up.

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles...0m/0na/025000c

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TOKYO -- The Shinjuku Ward government in Japan's capital has asked people not to come to the area for Halloween celebrations, following a similar announcement by neighboring Shibuya Ward last year. Both areas are also stepping up measures against street drinking, which means that crowds on Oct. 31 will be dispersed and may cause chaos elsewhere in Tokyo.

Large crowds causing a commotion in the spirit of Halloween festivity could lead to a stampede. In 2018, a crowd overturned a light truck in Shibuya. Readers may also remember the 2022 crowd crush in Seoul's nightlife area Itaewon that killed 159 people.

 
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You know you're in Asia...

I would not know I am in Asia from seeing this sign because I haven't traveled enough to know what kinds of signs are to be expected in different locales.

If I woke up and saw this sign, I would think I was still in Canada (especially because of the English) before assuming that I had been kidnapped and taken to Asia, and that my captors (who are trafficking me) care not for my dietary preferences (I still eat meat, but they clearly didn't even ask first because what if I didn't? Rude traffickers).

 
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I would not know I am in Asia from seeing this sign because I haven't traveled enough to know what kinds of signs are to be expected in different locales.

If I woke up and saw this sign, I would think I was still in Canada (especially because of the English) before assuming that I had been kidnapped and taken to Asia, and that my captors (who are trafficking me) care not for my dietary preferences (I still eat meat, but they clearly didn't even ask first because what if I didn't? Rude traffickers).


Just look for a Buddhist temple. The usually serve vegetarian meals.

 
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