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[Max™]

So... I was sensibly chuckling over the self-aware comment about it all being confusing.

Then I get to the next page, scroll down and under a sample of Trumpian nonsense I read:

FADE In

GOAT DICK IN THE BOY T-HAULUS

GOAT DICK IN THE BOY T-HULUS

I could barely read further because I was in full on convulsive laughter already, and it just got worse as I scrolled down to the repetitions of GOAT-GOAT-GOAT-etc.

The first few sample text images didn't really catch me, though the civil war one was a chuckleworthy start.

Then I noticed the line about "I am not sure if it matters which of the two rings we accept this day" and I'm picturing Bilbo explaining this shit like "supposedly one of them is like fucking mega evil and turns you into a creepy puppet of this fire eye god who lives by a volcano and makes you invisible or something, so if you pick that one, don't put it on... though I can't tell which one is the evil one because they both look exactly the same... not even sure if these are the right rings, also this is a letter apparently" and I've folded over in painful paroxysms of violent wheezing coughing laughter.

It took a while to calm down and then I see shit about an estimated 400,000 people die from tranfusions every year... I mean, we aren't like totally sure exactly how many, but as far as guesses go, this is one.

I was able to chill just long enough to see "over-fatal events such as heart attacks, stroke or stroke-related strokes" and I couldn't even laugh properly anymore, there was just this weird sound like someone strangling a small child who inhaled a lot of helium and started coughing... I got dizzy because I couldn't breathe properly, and apparently the moisture landing on my knees was not all tears like I thought, as at some point my nose began running uncontrollably before I was even able to look at the screen long enough to try and read it out loud for the missus, which turned me back into a wheezing dripping drooling mess again.

My shoulder and neck are sore and I think I bit my cheek.

[Kagus]

GREAT-GOAT-GOAT-GOAT-GOAT-GOAT-GOAT-GOAT-GOAT-GOAT-GOAT-GOAT-GOAT-GOAT- GOAT

Looks good to me, boss!

[methylatedspirit]

The text generator sounds like my brain's raw and unfiltered datastream, in that case. Utterly incoherent, but by repeatedly processing it, there's a hint of a coherent message within it.

[Kagus]

It's always tricky to decide if something belongs here or in the science thread, but anyways...

20/4 Smoke yeast erry day.

[Egan_BW]

So, get CBD/THC yeast, bake bread with it, and... hmm.
Yeah that sounds great. Friendship ended with hemp, yeast is our best friend now.

[Kagus]

So, get CBD/THC yeast, bake bread with it, and... hmm.
Yeah that sounds great. Friendship ended with hemp, yeast is our best friend now.

That sounds like one of those things that wouldn't be fatal, but you'd definitely die.

[Egan_BW]

Well yeah, that's true of everything.

[methylatedspirit]

But to what degree is it true? Rather, how long does it take for a thing to kill you on average?

[sluissa]

Toast bread erry day.

[Kagus]

Toast bread erry day.

Absolutely TOASTED.

Well yeah, that's true of everything.

Was thinking more of the non-lethality combined with an overwhelming and imminent sense of "oh fuck I'm dying".

But to what degree is it true? Rather, how long does it take for a thing to kill you on average?

As long as it takes...

[methylatedspirit]

As long as it takes...

Life can be decently long, 70 years, 80, 90. Hell, some even reach 120 years.
Torture is intended to be long and drawn out.
Does this mean that life is torture? /s

[Kagus]

Does this mean that life is torture? /s

Anyone who says otherwise is selling something.

[methylatedspirit]

Sure, but I thought the point was that you're not supposed to get too hung up on that. That, or I'm gonna wake up in the morning and just regret every single word in the previous sentence as I feel years of regret just pile on me. Doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things.

[Max™]

Well yeah, that's true of everything.

Except rolling a save vs Death which we're getting closer to doing nowadays, making Star Trek that much more horrific. "Well sorry, we've got the technology to accidentally turn you into a child after dismantling you at a fucking subatomic level or some bullshit, we can just produce shit from energy and information, including solid light, but you're getting to be around 200 years old so there's just nothing else we can do but watch you degenerate mentally and physically until you can't even perform your useless job making you worthless because we're somehow retaining protestant work ethics despite having the makings of a post-scarcity anarchist utopia on our hands, so once you're done suffering go ahead and keel over before we chuck your meat into space because we're dicks like that."

Does this mean that life is torture? /s

Anyone who says otherwise is selling something.

TO THE PAIN!

[Egan_BW]

Can't degenerate physically if we have proper replaceable parts, which we'd probably need in order to live forever anyway. Mental degeneration can probably be circumvented, though probably with diminishing returns past a certain point. There's always just deleting most of your memories to stabilize things though.

Protestant work ethic is going to run up against what's actually economically efficient and probably lose. Companies / societies that waste resources giving people pointless work to do will be outcompeted by those which don't.