
Wesley
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@siimland Assuming there's no apocalypse the odds are about 99% that aging will be solved by 2045. But.. the apocalypse scenario (anything that severely limits technological development) is not that unlikely. So I don't live in monk mode, but I do try to be healthy and get fit.
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If you knew that by staying alive until 2045, you're 100% guaranteed another 100–150 healthy years, you would probably live like a monk in a bubble:
- no unnecessary risks
- no reckless behavior
- near-perfect health discipline
- completely controlled environment
The ultimate marshmallow test - sacrifice 20 years to get back 5x as many years. It would be a rational trade-off.
But if the probability of those breakthroughs arriving by 2045 is only 1%, then spending the next 2 decades under severe restriction would be a waste of life.
How hardcore your “health monk” lifestyle becomes depends on how likely you think it is that we’ll solve radical life extension within the next 20 years.
Because without those major breakthroughs, a perfectly optimized lifestyle would only make you live a few years longer than the average person.
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@sciencegirl I'd report millions
Just not all of said millions
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@aaronburnett Our goal is launching Starship >10k/year, which would be more than once an hour. Probably over 200 tons of useful load to a useful orbit per flight by then.
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@Truthful_ast Well they will live in their own stupidity and be dumbfounded when they see starship accomplish all those goals
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@kero_gami It was a great flight. Congratulations to the whole spacex team! 💪🏼
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@zapatas_mom I would really love to meet a woman who is not that attracted to me but is willing to give a shot. That's such an attractive quality in a woman. I would definitely get excited and plan multiple dates a day if I could find said perfect woman.
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The problem with modern dating is really men. We have to just be honest about this. All of the single women I know and am friends with ages 25-37 find men who are their looksmatch, age peers (within a few years), and income class match. The women are sometimes skeptical and not that attracted to the men but are willing to give it a shot if the guy ACTUALLY tries.
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@AvaVtuber_ It's a red flag. I would never say all women are trash. You can't make blanket statements about half the population of the earth that way. They're just not true. Someone that bitter and disconnected with the real world us not someone I'd want to associate with.
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Women don't even understand, man. A girl in high-school once told me that she liked my laugh, and I still remember that.
That was 2006.
W S@WildSentences
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In 2011, 27-year-old teacher Ellen Greenberg was found dead inside her Philadelphia apartment with 20 stab wounds.
Ten of them were to the back of her neck and head. A knife was still lodged in her chest.
At first, the medical examiner ruled her death a homicide. Then the ruling was changed to suicide.
That decision became one of the most controversial death rulings in modern true crime.
Ellen’s parents spent years fighting it, arguing their daughter could not have stabbed herself that many times, including wounds to the back of her neck.
The case was reopened for review in 2025, after the original pathologist said he no longer believed the death should be classified as suicide.
But later that same year, Philadelphia’s medical examiner reaffirmed the suicide ruling.
Ellen’s family still believes she was murdered.


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@RealPostFolder 100% I would take that deal. Chances of being attacked in the 30 seconds is absurdly small. Will have to deal with cold and some crazy waves in the drake passage but 30 seconds won't kill you.
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81-year-old grandmother Ava Estelle was absolutely furious when she learned that two thugs had raped her 18-year-old granddaughter.
She tracked down the unsuspecting ex-convicts… and shot off their testicles.
“This elderly woman spent a week hunting those men down, and when she found them, she took revenge in her own way,” said Melbourne police investigator Evan Delp.
Then she took a taxi to the nearest police station, placed the pistol on the sergeant’s desk, and calmly said:
“These bastards will never rape anyone again, by God.”
Police say convicted rapist and robber Davis Furth, 33, lost both his penis and testicles when the enraged Ava opened fire with a 9mm pistol inside the hotel room where he and his former cellmate Stanley Thomas, 29, had been hiding.
The vigilante grandmother also shot Thomas in the groin, though doctors reportedly managed to save his mutilated penis.
“Thomas technically didn’t lose his manhood,” Detective Delp told reporters, “but according to the doctor I spoke with, he won’t be using it the way he used to.”
“Both men are still in pretty bad shape, but I think they’re just happy to be alive after what happened.”
“Grandma Rambo” began hunting the attackers on August 21 after her granddaughter Debbie was abducted and raped in broad daylight by two knife-wielding criminals.
“When I saw the look on Debbie’s face that night in the hospital, I decided I would punish those bastards myself because I thought the law had become too soft,” recalled the former librarian.
“I wasn’t afraid of them — because I have a gun, and I’ve been shooting all my life. And I’m no fool; I didn’t turn it in when the gun laws changed.”
Using police sketches and her granddaughter Debbie’s description of the attackers, Ava spent seven days wandering through the district where the crime occurred until she spotted the rapists entering a cheap hotel where they were staying.
“I knew it was them the moment I saw them, but I still took photos and went back to Debbie, and she said, ‘Damn right, that’s them,’” the grandmother recalled.
“So I went back to that hotel, found their room, knocked on the door, and as soon as the tall one opened it, I shot him right between the legs — right where it would hurt the most.
Then I walked in and shot the other one while he backed away begging me to spare him.
After that, I went straight to the police station and turned myself in.”
Now bewildered law enforcement officials are trying to decide what to do with the vigilante grandmother.
“What she did was wrong, and she broke the law, but it’s hard to throw an 81-year-old woman in prison,” Delp said.
“Especially when three million people in the city want to elect her mayor.”

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@hicasamadim It's obviously 3. Why is this hard for so many people?
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Call me a buzzkill but I don’t think we should allow companies to take over the entire night sky with an ad for their product
Culture Crave 🍿@CultureCrave
‘Masters of the Universe’ drone show spotted over Los Angeles 💥 • Had 1600 drones • Guinness World Record for brightest drone show ever (via @AmazonMGMStudio)
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@teachergorman She's not that hot, and it's not her beauty that people are complaining about so... dumb take.
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Christopher Nolan, responding in Time magazine this week to the avalanche of criticism over his Odyssey casting choices:
"Hopefully they'll enjoy the film, even if they don't agree with everything. We had a lot of scientists complain about Interstellar. But you just don't want people to think that you took it on frivolously."
He built a real seaworthy ship, shot entirely on 70mm IMAX, and spent $250 million. Is Nolan being dismissed too quickly, or did his casting choices earn the backlash?


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