wow, there are some really steaming takes on anarchism in the comments here.

no, i didn’t, there’s a fair few communities there i’m in, and it’d be a shame to lose them.

oh no! i hope they can get back up somewhere. anyone know what’s going on, if their admin is posting about this elsewhere or something?

i don’t think any of those four fellows in the OP killed themselves, and in fact, they all lived to ripe old ages.

maybe it’s to distinguish from all the other funky shaped tortilla chips you can get these days? like, there’s ones that are little strips, or whole round tiny tortillas, or weird little bowl shapes.

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

is there meant to be an image here, or is that the joke, somehow?

i think it was the same troll, actually.

did you just suggest a ratio as an irrational number?

Grothendieck’s Prime tripped me up in a maths competition in high school. i had manually stored a list of primes in my calculator, and one of the puzzles involved primes and deducing the combination to a lock from certain clues. my list of primes erroneously included 57, which almost made my team fail the level, until i realized my error.

he lost it at an underground lake, where bilbo found it. gollum found the ring in a river, or rather, his friend found it in a river, and then gollum killed him and took it from him.

holy crow i wish this was real.