Post AA5dEx6A3P3DwEvUOW by urusan@fosstodon.org
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(DIR) Post #AA4miOVVvqizlywGh6 by urusan@fosstodon.org
2021-08-07T08:28:27Z
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If you had substantial extra money sitting around, what would you do with it?If the thing you pick is meeting some unmet need (ex. housing, medical care, etc.), what would you do with it if you still had plenty after your needs were met?
(DIR) Post #AA4nRy62SXVTBKkpKi by kambing@fosstodon.org
2021-08-07T08:36:39Z
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@urusan dactyl keyboard
(DIR) Post #AA4nrfiPQFjRhdxSnw by micke@koyu.space
2021-08-07T08:41:17Z
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@urusan i would quit my day job
(DIR) Post #AA4oDzKr9jEyvNaCEy by moth_ball@shitposter.club
2021-08-07T08:45:24.380257Z
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@urusan Assuming that "dumping it into index funds" is not a valid answer because it's boring, I'd probably start by buying my parents a giant Gondola plushie. And my brother. And some other friends too. For myself I'd get a really nice doll, and get some local clothier to make her some nice clothes.
(DIR) Post #AA4p6om07xa25rQMwy by menelkir@fosstodon.org
2021-08-07T08:55:15Z
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@urusan I think I could use a Ryzen that could surpass my actual desktop setup (i5-3470 16Gb DDR3).
(DIR) Post #AA4sp7L6l9OsHPf0xE by person@fosstodon.org
2021-08-07T09:36:54Z
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@urusan I would build a Power9 PC with the blackbird motherboard.
(DIR) Post #AA54VCpTpzKWxs8fVQ by octesian@refactorcamp.org
2021-08-07T11:47:44Z
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@urusan I’d put it in a Roth IRA.
(DIR) Post #AA5WAcRmC5F93H1VTM by Azure@tailswish.industries
2021-08-07T16:57:48.713299Z
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@urusan Possibly some combination of:1. Save it.2. Buy a new digital piano3. ERADICATE OUR ANCIENT ENEMIES. DEATH TO MALARIA. DRIVE IT INTO THE NIGHTMARES OF THE PAST. MAKE IT SOMETHING THAT SEEMS FUNNY AND A BIT IMPOSSIBLE LIKE THE BLACK DEATH.
(DIR) Post #AA5WOD4XKkY8PJdLmq by Azure@tailswish.industries
2021-08-07T17:00:16.162043Z
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@urusan 4. Also probably legal and political advocacy against the worst excesses of factory farming and maybe trying to invest in promising TCM if we're talking about serious amounts of money because I don't want us to be anyone else's ancient enemy, either, cone to that.
(DIR) Post #AA5WZT6S4UoxJNtjg8 by urusan@fosstodon.org
2021-08-07T17:01:57Z
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@Azure You mean like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n__42UNIhvU
(DIR) Post #AA5XBouzPacNySp9xg by Azure@tailswish.industries
2021-08-07T17:09:13.859559Z
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@urusan In the long term, yes. Playing child protective services against an abusive mother nature and rescuing ourselves and all other complex life on this planet from the worst outcomes of evolution seems so obviously correct to me that I have difficulty not imagining it happening if we get our acts together.(Though I hadn't really considered it for short-term-funnel-excess-money-into.)
(DIR) Post #AA5YgWpOovVWnePrGq by Agris@blob.cat
2021-08-07T17:24:17.444471Z
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@Azure @urusan what is TCM?
(DIR) Post #AA5YgXLeszJOPhVcYK by Azure@tailswish.industries
2021-08-07T17:25:57.598900Z
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@Agris Tissue Culture Meat.@urusan
(DIR) Post #AA5Yv8Ly6CILEjc9BI by urusan@fosstodon.org
2021-08-07T17:28:34Z
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@Azure I mainly thought of it because it uses analogies to diseases like Smallpox.
(DIR) Post #AA5Zrnciobjo1uQNjk by Azure@tailswish.industries
2021-08-07T17:39:14.209993Z
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@urusan Also I really like that he's one of the few people writing in a transnatural space that seems to focus on artistically discovering new emotions, perceptions, and the like.
(DIR) Post #AA5a2P7GH1XpCslY3M by urusan@fosstodon.org
2021-08-07T17:41:07Z
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@Azure I hadn't heard the word transnatural before. It fills a perfect niche that I hadn't considered.
(DIR) Post #AA5aDT7fiXTwooEYvw by abloo@fedi.absturztau.be
2021-08-07T17:43:08.563214Z
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@urusan transition, funding open source projects
(DIR) Post #AA5aHgIgfINIqYOXq4 by Azure@tailswish.industries
2021-08-07T17:43:54.107057Z
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@urusan I made it up, considering that if we run into aliens they'll probably be into the analogous thing. Plus evolutionary algorithms would be recapitulating the same problems of selection pressure we have.
(DIR) Post #AA5aPMukcreZ2RrfFo by Agris@blob.cat
2021-08-07T17:43:06.602476Z
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@Azure @urusan do you think we will live in our lifetime to have the opportunity of tcm or trans-species divergence described here and in your video misery was?
(DIR) Post #AA5aPNQIjYtGcIcrQm by Azure@tailswish.industries
2021-08-07T17:45:17.539382Z
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@Agris It's not mine.I think tissue culture meat is pretty near on the horizon, driven as much by environmental concerns over conversion ratio as concerns over suffering.Subspecies divergence I can't say. It depends entirely on people getting their act together and a bit on longevity research, since 'our lifetimes' is a quantity that might either expand or contract radically for people living now.@urusan
(DIR) Post #AA5aYyFZBKqHRJBBo0 by Azure@tailswish.industries
2021-08-07T17:47:01.882712Z
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@Agris And also on what people decide to do with it.@urusan
(DIR) Post #AA5dEx6A3P3DwEvUOW by urusan@fosstodon.org
2021-08-07T18:16:59Z
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@Azure @Agris I would also add that when it comes to what constitutes "our lifetimes" it matters quite a bit how old one is right now, as well as the usual issue of luck playing a huge role.We're on the cusp of eradicating cancer and infectious disease, followed most likely by most other lethal maladies, but it'll still take a few decades to fully play out.