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[sprinkled chariot]

Skipped my first class today, due to both (a) snow on the ground and (b) hangover.

I am a pro at good life decisions this week.

Well, skipping this one class would not ruin your studies. ( no, it is not advice to skip just some more classes)

[Rolan7]

It is an incredibly slippery slope, and I really don't mean that as a pun.
Still, a cold *and* icy weather is a pretty good reason.

[TD1]

I'm coming up on 20.

Seems young, sure.

To me it means the end of being a teenager, which is quite frankly something I never want to happen.

I decided I was old when I turned 20. BUT IT JUST KEEPS GETTING WORSE SOMEHOW.

I've heard immortality is supposedly on the horizon. Next half century, tops.

Naturally, I am sceptical.

[i2amroy]

Still, a cold *and* icy weather is a pretty good reason.

HAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahahaha.

That reason only applies in areas where you don't normally get snow. At my college we always get a kick on the first kinda-snowy day of the year when all the freshman stay home from classes... and we still have another 4 months of worse weather coming (generally the second half of the fall semester and the first half of the spring semester are rather snowy here in Flagstaff). So far in my 5 years here I've seen my college shut down due to weather exactly three times; two of those were during an active whiteout blizzard, and of those two one of them they still didn't close down until 1 in the afternoon. Snow+ice here is just a reason for the college to tell you to suck it up or use the bus system instead of driving yourself (honestly after the 10th time or so where you start sliding you get kinda used to it, and anybody who isn't willing to drive slowly and carefully enough when it's like that tends to quickly become those people whose cars you see with the front crunched by a nearby embankment as you drive home from class) .

[scrdest]

I'm coming up on 20.

Seems young, sure.

To me it means the end of being a teenager, which is quite frankly something I never want to happen.

I decided I was old when I turned 20. BUT IT JUST KEEPS GETTING WORSE SOMEHOW.

I've heard immortality is supposedly on the horizon. Next half century, tops.

Naturally, I am sceptical.

My bland cereals are at work upon it now. So's Descan's, last I checked.

[Kot]

I am literally choking on how sad and angry and whatever I am right now.

[Bohandas]

I'm coming up on 20.

Seems young, sure.

To me it means the end of being a teenager, which is quite frankly something I never want to happen.

I decided I was old when I turned 20. BUT IT JUST KEEPS GETTING WORSE SOMEHOW.

I've heard immortality is supposedly on the horizon. Next half century, tops.

Naturally, I am sceptical.

They've been saying that since 32 AD

I'm coming up on 20.

Seems young, sure.

To me it means the end of being a teenager, which is quite frankly something I never want to happen.

I decided I was old when I turned 20. BUT IT JUST KEEPS GETTING WORSE SOMEHOW.

Spoiler: SMBC (click to show/hide)

http://smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3928

[Levi]

I'm coming up on 20.

Seems young, sure.

To me it means the end of being a teenager, which is quite frankly something I never want to happen.

I decided I was old when I turned 20. BUT IT JUST KEEPS GETTING WORSE SOMEHOW.

I've heard immortality is supposedly on the horizon. Next half century, tops.

Naturally, I am sceptical.

I arranged to have my noggin frozen, just in case those scientists aren't fast enough.

[Sirus]

I'm coming up on 20.

Seems young, sure.

To me it means the end of being a teenager, which is quite frankly something I never want to happen.

I decided I was old when I turned 20. BUT IT JUST KEEPS GETTING WORSE SOMEHOW.

I've heard immortality is supposedly on the horizon. Next half century, tops.

Naturally, I am sceptical.

I arranged to have my noggin frozen, just in case those scientists aren't fast enough.

Wow. The procedures on that site are almost word-for-word that of a novel I read more than a decade ago.

[Bohandas]

I'm coming up on 20.

Seems young, sure.

To me it means the end of being a teenager, which is quite frankly something I never want to happen.

I decided I was old when I turned 20. BUT IT JUST KEEPS GETTING WORSE SOMEHOW.

I've heard immortality is supposedly on the horizon. Next half century, tops.

Naturally, I am sceptical.

I arranged to have my noggin frozen, just in case those scientists aren't fast enough.

I think Plastination is more viable, especially in the long run

[Shadowlord]

It's been happening for decades and the fundamental problems with it still haven't been solved. 

The assumption is that any damage done due to death (can't harvest until declared dead), or freezing, or chemical reactions from the chemicals used, or the lack of a body, will all be solved in the future, at which point you will be revived, and somehow will actually be able to understand the future society you're in and will have job prospects. Or maybe it'll be a post-capitalist utopia like Star Trek's Earth. Who knows.

... Despite all that skepticism, if prosthetic bodies were invented like in Ghost in the Shell, and transplanting brains into them was perfected (or meat-parts gradually replaced) I'd be interested. Brain transplanting would be ridiculously complicated though.

[Bohandas]

Freezing requires constant energy use. Plastination only has to be done once.

[miauw62]

Could people please stop shitting up the sad thread with irrelevant arguments literally all the time? Take it to another thread.

[TD1]

Calm down.

A derail isn't a physical ailment.

[miauw62]

I would like to be able to post here without feeling like I'm being ignored in favor of some off topic debate about nothing