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kuneho, in Which carbonated soft drink is the best?
@kuneho@lemmy.world avatar

Bitter Lemon

0x4E4F,
@0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works avatar

Tastes great, but too much sugar, even more than coke.

OhmsLawn,

Try Italian chinotto.

otter, in A time traveller comes back from 50 years in the future. You have 3 hours with them. What do you do?

Try to not trade our current infective diseases with whatever future disease they might have carried back

otter, in What are active community similar to r/watches?
casualPeeper,

Much appreciated

jj4211, in You have a magic pill, which de-ages you by 20 years. You can take it once in your life only, so long as you are at least 20. What age — past, current or future — do you reckon is best to take it?

I’ll go for another angle, since the ‘about 40’ has been done to death.

If this is a pill that de-ages but does not de-mature you, go for it at 20. On the way to 20 you are maturing, but also aging. Who knows what mature, but with newborn level ‘age’ health might look like. Imagine the boost from a 40 year old to a 20 year old, but starting from a baseline of a 20 year old.

lucullus,

Sounds like a Black Mirror episode: The mind of a 20 year old in the body of a newborn. Incapable of doing all the things, that a 20 year old would think of. Many years until you are allowed again to do things, that you are actually mature enough to do.

jj4211,

Well, if it ‘de-matures’ then certainly would say older, at least mid 30s.

Lots of wiggle room in the question.

Some assume outright time travel, to repeat your life exactly as it were.

Then there’s the question of maturation versus just the degenerative effects of aging.

Is it just the natural break down or is it also “wear and tear”, and if “wear and tear”, does that extend to damage from disease or injury? Can you reset to before an amputation if one were needed? If that’s the case you’d want to hold on to that pill until you really start feeling things or have an injury. In school a girl was in an accident and got her leg amputated at 7 or so, so I wager for her the answer would have been certainly under 27 if it got her leg back, even if it meant dealing with a preteen body for a while.

cmat273, in You have a magic pill, which de-ages you by 20 years. You can take it once in your life only, so long as you are at least 20. What age — past, current or future — do you reckon is best to take it?

I’d probably go back and beg for puberty blockers

solrize, (edited ) in What movies would you make if you had an AGI that could make any kind of media on demand?

Ya know, maybe this explains why I (mostly) don’t like movies and don’t watch many. They are what you get if you take a fairly simple prompt (a short story, say) and run it through a generative AI. I’d rather just read the story directly, skipping the AI bot or Hollywood buffoonery as the case may ne.

afraid_of_zombies, in You have a magic pill, which de-ages you by 20 years. You can take it once in your life only, so long as you are at least 20. What age — past, current or future — do you reckon is best to take it?

Can I sell the pill?

HonoraryMancunian,

Yes.

afraid_of_zombies,

In that case I sell it some billionaire for a 100 million. It is quality not quantity of life. It isn’t like I am losing twenty years of life I am gaining a 100 million dollars.

HonoraryMancunian, (edited )

I find it funny that no one else (including me) even considered selling it!

Now feel free to answer if you can’t :)

Edit: although I bet you could fetch WAY more than 100 mil for it. The oldest and richest people in the world would probably give up the majority of their fortune, especially if they were close to death. Auction it off!

afraid_of_zombies,

I find it funny that no one else (including me) even considered selling it!

I was inspired by a yt video I am listening to say too much now.

afraid_of_zombies, in What are active community similar to r/watches?

I hate the fucking snobs at /r/watches.

afraid_of_zombies, in Does AI-generated art posted on lemmy bother you?

About as much as reading a book made on a printing press bothers me.

Toneswirly,

This comment is insane to me

afraid_of_zombies,

Technological advancement = good

Nostalgia for past that didn’t even exist as a substitute for facing the world as it really is = bad

Num10ck, in What movies would you make if you had an AGI that could make any kind of media on demand?

Bill and Ted Stop the 1/6 insurrection

Menagerie, in A time traveller comes back from 50 years in the future. You have 3 hours with them. What do you do?

Offer them a hug. 2074 sounds like a scary time to be alive.

Zonetrooper, in What movies would you make if you had an AGI that could make any kind of media on demand?
@Zonetrooper@lemmy.world avatar

Honestly? I’d crank out the fictional settings I’ve been tinkering with for a long time (one a military-political science fiction setting, the other a dark fantasy one).

Part of the problem is that I tend to think and create visually, so I don’t feel writing really captures either very well. I can picture, in my head, how I want to visually frame the most enthralling or emotional moments… but translating them to words never seems to capture it. So an AGI that could produce the media from my imagination on-demand is pretty much a dream come true.

spittingimage, in What movies would you make if you had an AGI that could make any kind of media on demand?
@spittingimage@lemmy.world avatar

A kung-fu movie starting Marilyn Monroe, Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek and Scarlet Johansen.

AceFuzzLord, in A time traveller comes back from 50 years in the future. You have 3 hours with them. What do you do?
  1. Ask if nuclear war has occured.
  2. If they can go back to their time and grab things to bring something back, I’d have them bring back (assuming they still have them) a USB portable hard drive (or something similar) that has many petabytes with of data (assuming it exists).
  3. Ask if they wanna play games because I don’t know what else to do with a time traveler.
ZevesdroX, in What experience crushed your soul?

2007 my older sister died.

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