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

thanks for the heads up and the link!

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.

haven’t seen it, but this gave me an idea for an even more impractical design that i wanna make now. ya’ll ever hear of the Christ the Redeemer statue?

i mean, i guess i’d feel safe, but probably not super comfortable, given that they are all three very dead.

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

that is just an oft-repeated myth that capitalism uses to perpetuate itself.

in Steambot Chronicles, it sucks that your character can’t wear the fancy dress.

ETA: one criticism for two games, i love both project zomboid and terraria, but both of them suck to try to get working with a controller.

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.

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.

if marx was alive today, he’d be, like, crazy old.

wait, are you saying the lightweight DE crowd hates Xfce? what do they like then?

not boring! they’re giving you an opportunity to learn about pando, which is a hella cool tree.

honestly, kinda refreshing to see a business not changing their shit constantly just to change shit. it’s not the nicest pen, but it works.

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.

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.

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.

i bet it’ll burn down the crematorium.

water’s density is 100g/dl, not 10, so, not quite as severe as you said. the article said that the patient’s cholesterol levels were roughly four times normal.

(that is italy)