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juliebean

@ juliebean @lemm.ee

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  • What's something that's taken for granted that occasionally makes you think, wait wtf?

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  • of course the shortest distance is a straight line, that's literally the definition of a straight line.

  • More Google Spyware to Enjoy!

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  • thanks for the heads up and the link!

  • USA: Do I still file federal taxes if the federal government collapses?

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  • if you think it's all likely to fall apart soon, file asap if you're expecting to get money back, but put it off as long as possible if you're gonna have to pay them more. if the government is going down, might as well get your piece of it while you can.

  • New Runescape-like online co-op dungeon crawler tops Steam charts with "Overwhelmingly Positive" reviews

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  • graphics and UI-wise, it definitely gives me runescape vibes, even if the gameplay is totally different.

  • Are there any characters that you think are NPD-coded?

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  • to cite one example, just last night i happened to watch the episode "I Second That Emotion". in this, bender is so upset that others are paying attention to nibbler instead of him at nibbler's birthday party that he makes a big cake with his own name in huge letters, and when nibbler eats it before everyone else can see it and recognize how great bender is, he flushes nibbler down the toilet.

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  • if you can forget why you ever loved your family, couldn't you also forget the things you've done and seen and approach them with new wonder and never get bored?

    that's quite besides the point though. i feel like you're focusing too much on the 'forever' aspect. obviously, if you really feel like you've 100%ed reality and want to, you can choose to die, but i don't think you'd be likely to reach that point because the universe is not a static place. the world is constantly changing, so by the time you'd seen 'everything' that same everything would be different.

    also, i've found that relationships can certainly wither even within a normal human lifespan, if not maintained, but if they are, you'll be reminded of why you love each other regularly enough to not forget.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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?

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

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

  • World of Warcraft has a currency problem: more than 500 kinds of tender can currently be used in the 20-year-old game

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  • 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.

  • What's your favorite unbelievable fact?

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  • fun fact: the blind spot is because our optical sensors are installed backwards and that hole is so the optic nerve can pass back through the back of the eye to the brain. some other critters with independently evolved vision systems, such as cephalopods, avoided this particular evolutionary pitfall.

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    WE ARE MOVING TO LEMMY.WORLD!!

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  • if you're concerned about defederation, why would you go to lemmy.world, which seems no better on that front than lbz?

  • What is the worst, most incorrect way to eat a pizza?

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  • take a bit from the outer perimeter, rotate the zza slightly, then take another bite. repeat until you've spiral-noshed the whole thing

  • Would you trust yourself with infinite wealth?

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  • according to this list, nobody has gotten a billion from a lottery, yet. but sure, i guess that is the way to get rich, without having to exploit others. i also feel like i ought to point out that i never accused anyone of being evil geniuses, just evil.

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  • Would you trust yourself with infinite wealth?

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  • i think super rich people do fucked up shit because:

    1. that's the only way you become mega-rich, and
    2. they want more

    if i already have 'infinite' money, why would i want more, and since i'm getting this via magic or something, there's no incentive to be evil in order to become or remain mega-rich. in short, yeah, i reckon i'd be alright, and we'd all be better off in the long run.