JesterRaiin @ jesterraiin @lemmy.world

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Yes.

https://www.wimhofmethod.com/cold-therapy

I curse Death that she didn't take me in my sleep.

$498

optional keyboard cover for an extra $101.

Ah, I understand. It's an attempt to replicate Steve "unwashed" Jobs' strategy, where buying overpriced stuff makes you BETTER, DIFFERENT and UNIQUE. Am I right?

Truth is dramatic.

Threat to Public Safety

Dude, you forgot which of two worlds is the real one. Hint: it's not the Internet.

Ingratiation.

Also, check what Ben Franklin effect and Foot-in-the-door technique are. 😉

updating hard disc firmware

😆

using WinRAR

And that's how I know that voting should be a privilege, not a right.

Some people prefer accidental strokes of luck, others enjoy planned projects. 😎

I have no idea whom I'm talking to in the 'Net.

Neither have you. Nor anybody else...

I think that in the future the phenomenon of our identity will be understood in wildly different fashion to how we approach it now.

It won't be pretty by our current standards, I suspect.

Can you give me an example?

Of course, but bear in mind it's going to be a crude, primitive example.

Imagine me talking to - unknown fact to me - a pedophile over the Internet. For reasons unknown I made him angry. Angry enough to stalk me, invade the privacy of my home and steal my child, just to make me suffer because he felt I did him wrong.

My anonymity protects me against such an occurrence.

Advertisement. Malware. Scams. Abuse of trust. Current and future exploits that I have no knowledge, or understanding of.

No. I don't enjoy being anonymous, but the problem lies in bodies, organizations, and people abusing the non-anonymity.

It's like

• so you enjoy wearing a space-suit
• not really, I'd rather run around butt-naked, but given that the environment is so deadly, I'd die if I were to strip off of my space-suit

Do you understand the difference?

Because we do not enjoy the invasion on our privacy.

I disagree with the idea that it's some sort of natural "killswitch". Our bodies change, grow, evolve all the time. There are mistakes on the way - for example, I bear scars that are nothing but a quick, dirty and imperfect way for my body to heal from wounds I got. Cancer is pretty much the same, a flaw in design, body following misinterpreted natural directive, nothing more.

But that being said: I expect the ultimate cure of cancer to appear during our lifetimes. I mean, I have at best 15 years of life before me, but I still consider it enough to see such a cure.

That's well said, but I think you're forgetting about something: it's one thing to judge a guy based on his beliefs. But it's his attitude, how he explains his position, how he discusses it is entirely another pair of galoshes, so to speak.

Imagine a guy, who calmly explains that he was doing some research and based on sources he finds credible, he rejects the theory of evolution. You'd probably find such a discussant, and a discussion with him enjoyable, possibly fun, perhaps even enough to revise a few ideas of yours.

Now imagine a guy, who, with fiery eyes and in semi-coherent manner calls you names and insults you the moment you observe that the evolution is real. "Okkkkkkkkk..."

The fact is, that whether we come from the world of pure faith, or follow cold scientific model, at some point we all have to put our trust that some axioms given to us by other people are, well, "axioms" - things we don't question, that we take for granted. In reality, there are no axioms. Just some approximations we can't deny. Yet.

Weren't they right? I mean, the people wildly gesturing at everything around?

I don't know how far away from such a vision we are, but I know it for the fact, that my great-grandparents, living not that long ago, wouldn't understood a thing about the Internet. From their perspective, we're living in SF futuristic era of wonders.

I agree. The technological level of the future will probably provide some ways to quickly, effortlessly and painlessly switch one's gender to the point it won't be considered worth mentioning.

"Oh looky, it's Gabriel, pardon Gabriela - I see you chose to appear as female today. Clever choice! And this dress is amazing!"