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PM_ur_Rump t1_j223x2l wrote

Reply to There is nothing like wearing rental skii boots, ice skates, or bowling shoes to help you appreciate how comfortable your own shoes are when you put them back on. by JephriB

I've had precisely one pair of owned snowboard boots that I would actually call "comfortable." The rest were between "bearable" and "actually not that bad."

Of course I apparently left them in the parking lot on the mountain last year 😕

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Future_Ad8697 t1_j222iem wrote

Reply to comment by WeCanDoThisCNJ in One thing people often forget about immortality is that the effects of dementia will render you useless sooner rather than later by exmxn

This interpretation of immortality is not consistent with reality. Surely your skin cells could still die and be replaced, right?

I think a reasonable interpretation of immortality is one in which the cells and/or functional cellular aggregates in your body are all capable of indefinite regeneration (e.g., "immortal" jelly fish).

Dementia wouldn't be an issue here, but you'd still be capable of dying.

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halfcentaurhalfhorse t1_j220y4l wrote

Reply to comment by longboringstory in When buying a bottle of whiskey, you pay the rent for the years it spent aging. by frankabard

There’s been a bit of a bourbon boom. Lots of new distilleries popping up. Good bourbon is usually aged 5+ years. In order to get some revenue in interim, some will sell moonshine, rye, or straight whisky while the good stuff matures. Then they discontinue the cheap stuff.

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S-Vagus t1_j220jpp wrote

Reply to comment by TheConjugalVisit in The most important skill of humans is our ability to communicate effectively. by TheConjugalVisit

And what mind would be worth stealing? What then would I communicate to myself if I only saw others as a servant to my language or storytelling? At most the game would be a sort of "turn-based mind-stealing cooperative experience" AKA a conversation.

Now that there is no need to thieve we can rise to our purpose without greed or from chaos-seed.

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Reply to There is nothing like wearing rental skii boots, ice skates, or bowling shoes to help you appreciate how comfortable your own shoes are when you put them back on. by JephriB

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