• a_blanqui_slate [none/use name, any]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    > be me

    > year is 2053

    > mechaBernie’s envelopment of the capital is nearly complete

    > President Buttigieg vows to calmly and civilly fight to the bitter end

    > Kissinger has flown back to his 1950’s moon base.

    > Steiner doesn’t attack

    > 253rd Mechanized Posting division overruns Discourse positions in San Francisico Bay Area

    > Get back to rear area after 36 hours of heavy fighting

    > sit down to eat some rich

    > Holy shit this guy tastes just like veal.

  • betelgeuse [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    You know when conservatives post those awful boiled meat images and pretend it’s gourmet cuisine? This guy is the health version of that. He’s the color of boiled chicken.

    All those supplements and lotions and creams and serums are just leftover products. They don’t exist because they work and the people who make them want to give you something that works. It’s that there was a bunch of spare goo from some other industrial process and they found a way to package it and sell it. And even for the things that are honestly grown, they will quickly become diluted and adulterated because all mass products must become cheaper to make over time.

    The rich can’t live forever because the system that creates them will end up pricing them out of immortality. The science will be junk science because actual studies were sold out to be marketing for dubious products. The doctors will be paid to say whatever.

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      I disagree. I strive for a world in which humans have rational control over things, after the economy and nature so that we don’t have to spend a lot of time and keep it going, there is no reason not to have rational control over the adverse effects of aging.

      • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        We have to agree to disagree. I find the prospect of a world where humans have rational control over nature terrifying.

        Last comment on this bc I feel like I am wasting my breath:

        Let’s say we eliminate aging, and we all look like we’re 25 until we keel over at age 200 or whatever. No more wrinkles, no more gray hair.

        I believe that would be a worse state of the world. We will have lost something beautiful.

        • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.net
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          Let’s say we eliminate myopia, either with lenses or lasers, and we all see like we’re 10 for the rest of our lives. No more blurriness, no more inability to read.

          I believe that would be a worse state of the world. We will have lost something beautiful.

          very-intelligent

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          I find the prospect of a world where humans have rational control over nature terrifying.

          Because we’re not wise enough? Human nature can change. We can grow wiser as a species — especially if we live longer.

          No more wrinkles, no more gray hair… We will have lost something beautiful

          Wrinkles aren’t just cosmetic, they form as the connective tissue in your skin breaks down, making your skin thinner, more fragile, and less elastic. This in turn limits what you can do and experience.

          I don’t find that beautiful. What I find beautiful is the stuff that comes along with it. Gaining perspective, watching your children and grandchildren grow up, guiding the next generation, focusing less on yourself.

          I don’t think we need to slowly decay to have these features in the world.

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            Wrinkles aren’t just cosmetic, they form as the connective tissue in your skin breaks down, making your skin thinner, more fragile, and less elastic. This in turn limits what you can do and experience.

            You’re exactly right.

            No more wrinkles, no more gray hair… We will have lost something beautiful

            This is what lack of scientific literacy does to a MF. Ask any older person and they’ll tell you that being old (wrinkles, aches, etc) sucks. It’s a shame that some people don’t get that.

        • JuneFall [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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          I don’t care so much about how I look, but about the hurt and the choice not a community or me can do in regards to aging. I mean currently medication and good food and good infrastructure can people have 90 years of life expectancy, if you look at workers in more shitty situations they are dying like 20 years earlier. This is an injustice and it will stay an injustice in communism if there would be ways for people to live longer. That is a debate and choice that has to be then be done.

          There is nothing holy in the arbitrary life expectancy that material conditions and evolutions “gave” us. I do see how a “change” in population might be seen as beautiful, but I believe that we will not become immortal (but even if we did), so it just is a question about communist reproduction of society. It might ensure that more people can care for a child? In any case currently it is mostly utopian, but the reality is that we can increase the life span of people by decades as society. That is something that Cuba does and they have my support for that. With medication that is upcoming people will likely have a higher quality of life till the climate catastrophe disrupts the production of those, how to distribute them for me is an analogous question. Especially since a few comrades of mine would be dead already without medication.

  • Juiceyb [any]@hexbear.net
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    So the show Silicon Valley was a documentary more than a comedy show. Like I have seen it multiple times now and I am starting to get its point more and more especially as it comes to capital. No wonder our boy recommended it michael-laugh RIP bud

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      No that’s another vampire guy I think they based it on Peter Thiel that has just random young guys give him blood, wonder how many tech guys are doing it.

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        Quite a bit, you can get it commercially and it only costs a couple hundred per appointment per month (for the lowest tier of blood) and some health insurances cover it after deductibles

        It is a bit more expensive to reserve a personal blood boy/girl but you can choose the exact traits you want from the person you’re getting it from and is worth it imo

        I personally have a cute fit blonde blood girl with sparkling light blue eyes to help with my feminization process