Random stuff - the anything else thread
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I doubt if anyone on this forum will be alive in 2100... I for one would be 131 years old in 2100. I fail to see the attraction in longevity of life unless accompanied by good quality of life. There's hardly a day goes by on the news at the moment where there isn't a segment on residents of old peoples' homes, and by God, what a miserable and decrepit bunch they look on the whole. Talk about 'waiting for God'... not for me, thank you.
You never know JS, you never know. Exponential change within 30 years. There's an idea (Ray Kurzweil) whereby you only need to be around long enough to benefit from therapies that will extend life by a few decades to be still living at the point where we can extend life indefinitely.
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Problem with living that long, is everyone you knew tend to die before you, sometimes decades before, even if one had kids, many times 100+ year olds have their kids die before them (depending when in life they had kids.) even. Can be rough for some living to advanced age because of that. But others don't seem to mind.
Its mind boggling sometimes to think about, the lady Japan for example, she was roughly my age when WW2 ended and when I war born was 76 and already close to end of human life expectancy and yet here she is in 2021 still living.
John Tyler 10th US President who was born in 1790 has a living grandson in 2021 he had 2 living up until one died last year. Of course his grandson is now 93, but its almost mind boggling that someone born in 1790 has a living grandchild in 2021.
Harrison Ruffin Tyler. (as far as I know he is still living, most recent articles I can find are from Nov 2020, one of the grandsons did die last year so now there is just 1 left living.)
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What about going into suspended animation and waking up then but at the same age?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDC1SUlXuGI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDC1SUlXuGI
That would certainly be interesting to if we ever got to that point. but then you could also wake up to this:
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64th and Cambie not looking good these days in Vancouver. Kind of a shame, looking on google they looked like nice houses, presumably sold to a developer awaiting permits and approval to build condos.
Sale price history of one of them, whoever bought it in 2003 made out like a bandit as the next time it sold it sold for a lot more.
2003 - $695,000 sold
2016 - $5,600,000 sold
The reddit thread, some neighbors getting tired of looking at the eye sore.
https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/c...ier_every_day/
Sale price history of one of them, whoever bought it in 2003 made out like a bandit as the next time it sold it sold for a lot more.
2003 - $695,000 sold
2016 - $5,600,000 sold
The reddit thread, some neighbors getting tired of looking at the eye sore.
https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/c...ier_every_day/
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It did in our family Just the one card though, luckily it's a big one!
It started 15 years ago when one family member was doing it tough. She wrote the card to all the family and gave it to us at our Christmas gathering - the message she wrote in it was
Times are tough
Things are hard
Here's your *****ing Christmas card.
I mean, who could throw out a family heirloom like that? It brings the house down every year.
It started 15 years ago when one family member was doing it tough. She wrote the card to all the family and gave it to us at our Christmas gathering - the message she wrote in it was
Times are tough
Things are hard
Here's your *****ing Christmas card.
I mean, who could throw out a family heirloom like that? It brings the house down every year.
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Elsewhere, you've posted your opposition to prioritising Covid-19 vaccination for inhabitants of old age care homes, despite their starkly greater risk of premature death from the disease.
And in your post above, we see why: you view them as "a miserable and decrepit bunch ... on the whole".
That's a truly despicable attitude, and I hope to God you are not in any position to influence the delivery of treatment, care, or comfort to the elderly.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/u...r-jr-dead.html
Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr., Grandson of the 10th President, Dies at 95
He and his brother, grandsons of John Tyler, were the third of three generations that remarkably spanned almost the entire history of the American experience.Last edited by Siouxie; Jan 9th 2021 at 4:00 pm.