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Would you take a cheap and effective once-a-day anti-aging pill? What if it were a suppository?

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You can assume that for every day you take the pill you don't age that day - if you skip it for a day you age by a day.

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feddit.uk

I put stuff up my ass that doesn't even stop me aging

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feddit.uk

Yes, probably. I also really enjoy the idea that you think that it being a suppository would factor in to the calculus at all, I think it’s really funny

Fellas, is it gay to put immortality up your ass?

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PeachManreply
lemmy.one

The mildly homophobic nature of the question is hilarious. "Would you want to live forever if you also had to be a little bit gay????"

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feddit.uk

It’s not even slightly gay to use a suppository either, it reminds me of the guys who think it’s gay to clean their ass because it’s gay to touch an asshole.

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larsreply
lemmy.world

I don’t have anything against the straights. I’m not a heterophobe – I’m a real cool dude — but when those people talk about not washing their asses, it’s only natural for us to feel a little bit of heterophobia against their lifestyle.

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Please don't lump us in with those people. That's not a "hetero" thing it's just a disgusting person thing.

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That can't be a real thing. Who would rather walk around smelling like shit than do something that's not even "gay." Even if it were I'd rather not smell like shit.

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reddthat.com

See, I'll go out on a limb and say it's not gay for a man to engage in prostate play. Even having sex with another man isn't necessarily gay!

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Yeah, I'd be uncomfortable, but immortality is immortality.

Now, if the requirement was a daily barebacking by the ultra-rich engineering their cum to be the elixir of immortality, I'd be a little more conflicted.

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I’d say about as gay as a colonoscopy. So the verdict is: yes, extremely gay!

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z00sreply
lemmy.world

What we've learned from this exercise is that Baumgeist takes horse cock up the butt.

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Relax, and I'd be taking it too. Clearly people have enjoyed the question.

I am somewhat interested though in how often people would keep up with taking it, as I'd imagine people might skip it every so often (oh it's just a day).

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Mak'reply
pawb.social

The same kind of people who don’t wash their ass because they think it would make them gay.

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Pantherinareply
feddit.de

People that dont want to experience climate and societal collapse I guess

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morgan423reply
lemmy.world

I honestly think ending aging would be a boon for society. Because the death rate will plummet to accidental deaths, suicides, and homicides only, which are a tiny fraction of total overall deaths.

Therefore overpopulation is going to very quickly motivate world society to get its collective shit together to solve the nagging problems that have been holding us back, and encourage expansion into the rest of the solar system. Because if the issues weren't solved, even the wealthy elite would be threatened.

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Haha very optimistic. Like overpopulation currently causing "untolerable illegal immigrant waves" causes people to reduce their CO2 footprint, share their homes and all.

Hell, please no more old people. Many are nice, but no way. There is a reason politics made by old people doesnt work

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lemmy.world

Seems like a no brainier. You'd get used to taking it.

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feddit.dk

I bet with time you could just hold the pill flat on your hand, reach back and your asshole would gobble it up like a horse.

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People say AI start hallucinating bizarre sentences is a problem, but I'm beginning to wonder if it simply gazed too deeply into the internet abyss.

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Even those of us who don't enjoy putting things up our butts eventually get used to doing it anyway. It's just another body part.

(Folks, if your butthole hurts, go to the doctor already. Hemorrhoids, anal fissures, and other butthole problems are quite treatable. Don't let them get worse.)

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lemmy.world

Um hell yes. And if it were a suppository, we'd all quickly get used to some butthole time every morning

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Veniconreply
sopuli.xyz

Sometimes before bed too. Can’t be too careful.

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I've made it a normal part of my meal routine to be sure I'm getting in my three times a day.

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This is a definitely yes question. No other side effects? Sign me up!!

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the.coolest.zone

Sign me up. Even if there's side effects like nausea or whatever. I'll do whatever it takes to stop my bones hurting more every year.

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ZhenyaPavreply
lemmy.zhenyapav.com

But what if it doesn't make you younger? So you'll still stay your current age, with all the chronic stuff you already have.

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I'm 34. Yes, my bones hurt, but it's not terrible and I'd rather stay 34 forever (or at least drastically slow my aging, like if there were serious side effects I could take one every two days and effectively double my longevity).

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I'll be my age forever, perfectly ok with that. Make taking the bum pill part of a daily exercise routine.

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Einarreply
lemm.ee

Get a day younger for the double dose.

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kbin.social

First dose is $3, second dose is $300.

I would be saving up all year to get a week younger as a treat

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What kinda question is this? I already take plenty of pills daily, I would do much worse things to not age.

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That depends, does it prevent me from dying at a normal age? If so fuck that I don't wanna outlive everyone I know and care about. If it just keeps me looking and feeling young, then sign me tf up my guy.

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But, did you consider you also get to watch all your enemies get old and die? I'm so glad I get to hear that Trump died at some point. Hopefully soon...

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tomi000reply
lemmy.world

You can just quit and take the 100-year-aging-in-a-day pill anytime.

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lemmy.world

I'd take it even if it was a "put it into the cut in your arm" form

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Pantherinareply
feddit.de

I am disturbed is that something like the back of your elbow?

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I just meant to say that an eternal life in exchange of putting something up my ass is too easy of a decision. So I imagined how far i'd go, and I would be ok even with a permanent wound I have to poke every day. Because that's a fucking eternal life!

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lemm.ee

Without hesitation. I'd happily become Hayden from Doom and live indefinitely as long as my consciousness is a continuity of the original.

I mean like, give me true immortality, I will willingly experience the heat death of this universe / big snap / w.e, and welcome the new universe.

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lemmy.ca

But, checking your username, would it stay in long enough to take effect? And if it didn't, would you do it just for fun?

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festusreply
lemmy.ca

No more effect than taking one - otherwise some people might opt to make it a once a week thing and then the question is less interesting.

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Yes. Is the drug harvested from the brains of hyper intelligent whales from another planet? If so, then hell yes.

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PlexSheepreply
feddit.de

Wasn't that the plot of avatar (the movie) or something?

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cujoreply
sh.itjust.works

The new Avatar, Way of the Water. It wasn't the whole plot, but it was a big part of it.

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I would take it just so my body doesn't deteriorate but I don't want to delay death either. Need more info.

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sopuli.xyz

Will it be simply cosmetic event or would it involve preserving the integrety of your internal organs?

If it's the second: welcome to Groundhog Day, except the rest of the world moves and you stay still.

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festusreply
lemmy.ca

You aren't aging so it's preserving the integrity of your organs. But it's not a time machine pill and everyone can buy and use it if they want, so it's not a Groundhog Day situation.

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qyronreply
sopuli.xyz

Your brain actively changes in order to acquire new information. If the drug preserves the integrity, when you close your eyes, it's a reset.

Thus, Groundhog Day.

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festusreply
lemmy.ca

Ahh I see what you mean. The pill is able to both allow you to continue to learn new information and develop normally while preventing negative age related effects like dementia from forming. Of course in reality there would likely be some contradiction there, but I'll just wave my hands and say the pill has magic fairy dust (harvested from happy fairies who are happy to share it so there's no ethical considerations there).

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qyronreply
sopuli.xyz

Let's allow the magic dust, then.

I don't think I would. Perhaps for a few years, at most, but at some point you would find yourself feeling alone and tired. Even with the possibility of stopping to take the pills at any moment.

As we lose loved ones, friends, relatives, our world shrinks. And that is something you have to carry for the entirity of your existence, the longing for people you lost or were deprived of. Or it could just be you to be forgotten by others.

Eternal youth is a burden because you would age nonetheless but only inside your skull. It takes a special kind of person to deal with "immortality" and not turn cynical or callous, assuming that at a given point you wouldn't just simply lose your sanity.

This is a recurring theme in literature and the outcome is usually the same: immortals long for the rest denied to them, as the world moves forward with complete disregard for their longing of what was and disappears.

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feddit.uk

No one has ever had to deal with this so we have no idea of knowing what psychological effects would occur. “It’s been explored in literature” does not have the same meaning as “it’s been the subject of a double-blind study”.

I think most “ooh it would be bad to be immortal actually” is just copeium - people convincing themselves they don’t want something because they can’t have it anyways, so it’s less of a blow when they can’t get it.

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qyronreply
sopuli.xyz

To the detriment of hard science, there are experiments that shoul not, can not and will not ever be more than thought experiments.

It's not very difficult to gauge how external change affects us. Unless we have a very special "wiring" in our minds, it breaks us in an over elaborate death by a thousand cuts.

Many people who lived long and fruitful and well lived lives left behind tellings, especially in the form of diaries, on how they missed that person, or pet, or place or something else. And this is something any human being can easily relate to.

Eternal youth would turn cruel to those having it.

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We lose people we care about all the time during life and most of the time we don’t want our lives to end because we lost our friends, family or even lovers. If anything, it gets easier to accept loss as you get older. There’s no reason to think that trend would reverse.

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Clarkereply
lemmy.world

He's trying to say that humans with unlimited time would become masters of many things

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They'd have to practice every skill regularly. Any skill you gain if you don't keep it up you'll lose it over time. Sure it'll be easier to pick back up again but you won't do it anywhere near you did the last time

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TrollBloxreply
lemmy.ml

a daily shot? i wouldn't do that just purely out of lack of convenience.

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I have to give myself injections every day, it’s really not hard or much of an issue at all. You get used to it.

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cow
lemmy.world

If I take 2 a day could I go back in time?

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No. I guess the idea with the question is more around how often you'd take the pill. People can extend their lifetimes already by exercising and eating healthy, but how often do they keep that habit every day. If the pill only worked for one day at a time, how often do you think you'd skip taking it because you'd only age one day and you had a really busy day?

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