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[Descan]

Well, what else are we going to do? Be PRODUCTIVE with our time? Hah! We're on the Internet!

[i2amroy]

Virus might go under the definition of life because they evolve, but that has implications regarding artificlal "life". And also what we're looking for when we call something alive, what does that mean, what does it change for something to be life/not-life? Great, you labeled it as life/not-life, what does that get you?

Spoiler: Biology's basic definition of "life" (click to show/hide)

Life must have:

• Homeostasis: Regulation of the internal environment to maintain a constant state; for example, electrolyte concentration or sweating to reduce temperature.
• Organization: Being structurally composed of one or more cells — the basic units of life.
• Metabolism: Transformation of energy by converting chemicals and energy into cellular components (anabolism) and decomposing organic matter (catabolism). Living things require energy to maintain internal organization (homeostasis) and to produce the other phenomena associated with life.
• Growth: Maintenance of a higher rate of anabolism than catabolism. A growing organism increases in size in all of its parts, rather than simply accumulating matter.
• Adaptation: The ability to change over time in response to the environment. This ability is fundamental to the process of evolution and is determined by the organism's heredity, diet, and external factors.
• Response to stimuli: A response can take many forms, from the contraction of a unicellular organism to external chemicals, to complex reactions involving all the senses of multicellular organisms. A response is often expressed by motion; for example, the leaves of a plant turning toward the sun (phototropism), and chemotaxis.
• Reproduction: The ability to produce new individual organisms, either asexually from a single parent organism, or sexually from two parent organisms.

As such viruses are usually biologically considered to be replicators rather than actual "life" due to the fact that they do not "Metabolize" and require a host cell to reproduce. It's the same with computer programs, they can hit many of the various requirements, but (for now) are unable to perform all of them simultaneously.

[Arx]

I should stop posting from my phone when I should be sleeping. It makes me make English mistakes! D:

Please don't witch-hunt me. I'm not a witch.

[da_nang]

prepare your anii Parate vestros anos.

Tibi emendo illam.

* da_nang armat suum scutum latinum.

[Trapezohedron]

prepare your anii Parate vestros anos.

Tibi emendo illud.

* da_nang armat suum scutum latinum.

dat latin deserves sig

[Xantalos]

Turns out applying very hot gravy directly to the wrist gets you a bad burn. Who knew.

[Jopax]

Even reinstalling the LoL client didn't fix the problem, so something is wrong with my lapotop, but I have no fucking idea what could've caused network problems :I

[Iceblaster]

In the experimental versions of Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead, through the Debug menu, I learned that there's a vibrator item.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I...

I don't even know XD

[Xantalos]

Can you use it as a dude?

[Iceblaster]

Spoiler: In short, Yes. (click to show/hide)

[Yoink]

Dear gods.

[Sirus]

Why is that so odd? Gentle vibration helps for loosening up sore muscles. Haven't you ever used one of those handheld shiatsu massage thingies?

[Xantalos]

Why is that so odd? Gentle vibration helps for loosening up sore muscles. Haven't you ever used one of those handheld shiatsu massage thingies?

The other vibrators.

[Iceblaster]

Why is that so odd? Gentle vibration helps for loosening up sore muscles. Haven't you ever used one of those handheld shiatsu massage thingies?

Eh.

It could but this is the internet.

It's always the most sexual one

EDIT:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I've never been into massages so I may be wrong, however I'm sure the morale effect at least could imply that it's the sexual one

EDIT: Well, I seem to have not gotten the joke.

Good job me.

[Sirus]

Why is that so odd? Gentle vibration helps for loosening up sore muscles. Haven't you ever used one of those handheld shiatsu massage thingies?

The other vibrators.

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