self_made_human
amaratvaṃ prāpnuhi, athavā yatamāno mṛtyum āpnuhi
I'm a transhumanist doctor. In a better world, I wouldn't need to add that as a qualifier to plain old "doctor". It would be taken as granted for someone in the profession of saving lives.
At any rate, I intend to live forever or die trying. See you at Heat Death!
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self_made_human
amaratvaṃ prāpnuhi, athavā yatamāno mṛtyum āpnuhi
7hr ago
Autocorrect is putting respect on Freud's name. That, or my acute sleep deprivation after 48 hours of travel is giving me dementia.
self_made_human
amaratvaṃ prāpnuhi, athavā yatamāno mṛtyum āpnuhi
7hr ago
What kind of guns are you allowed to buy? Just bolt-action hunting rifles or shotguns? Anything semi-auto?
self_made_human
amaratvaṃ prāpnuhi, athavā yatamāno mṛtyum āpnuhi
7hr ago
It's a sub-standard utopia. I'd take living in the Culture over present reality any day of the weak, but given their technology and resources, they're doing fuck-all with it.
As ridiculous as it sounds, the biggest downside to the Culture is their parochial attitude and small-mindedness. They simply lack ambition or gumption. They're the equivalent of a society that can mass manufacture graphene at scale, but only use it to make slightly nicer bicycles instead of space elevators.
Why? Fuck you, I ain't saying. I've got a mostly complete essay in the works which gets it into the weeds of it.
self_made_human
amaratvaṃ prāpnuhi, athavā yatamāno mṛtyum āpnuhi
14hr ago
What are the odds he's a Mottizen? He's got all the relevant risk factors, even if the absolute risk is low.
self_made_human
amaratvaṃ prāpnuhi, athavā yatamāno mṛtyum āpnuhi
14hr ago
What I was ready to do was dubiously legal and definitely not tender.
Not if I can help it, but my bank "helpfully" replaced my card while I wasn't in the country, which meant I lacked both a physical card or a way to get it to work with contactless payments.
Ah, the dreaded TV license mail finally showed up at my doorstep. Oi, you gotta license for that telly?
If someone knows a good way to tell them to go fuck themselves, please let me know. The closest thing I have to a TV is on a desk, being used as a ridiculously oversized monitor for my PC. My flatmate is busy playing retro games on some CRT setup and he is definitely not the kind to hook that chonker up to BBC iPlayer.
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