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Hello fellow Far Side fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip⦠Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.
The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life⦠Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side
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Last I remember reading, it seems to have largely revealed itself to be little more than a scam. Although, sure-- if you're rich enough, egotistical-enough, and desperate enough, you can give yourself some comfort in the delusion that you'll be both adequately stored and then later, someone will want to try to unfreeze you at some point and cure you / de-age you.
*shrug*
Well, how can it be a scam if they keep you?
We are getting better and better at cryopreservation and thawing all the time. It's a young technology, like cancer treatment was a hundred years ago.
As for the whole "egoistic" part, wouldn't you try to escape death by taking your cancer medicine?
And desperate? For wanting to live?
All those takes are completely wild to me. I mean nobody is forcing anyone to do it, and if you don't, well you get buried or cremated, what's the big deal?
Just because we are getting better at something doesn't mean if we did it incorrectly in the past it suddenly becomes better.
None of these bodies were frozen in a way that matches modern techniques. No matter how advanced we become we can't fix that.
It's like if you had a washing machine from 30 years ago and said it uses less electricity now because washing machine technology has advanced so much
It's more like you have a huge pile of copper and electricity just had been invented IMO. It sure will work one day, that's a certainty, why not take the chance, if you can?
There *is* no big deal going on there, AFAIK. People have been coping with existential dread for millennia, and at this point it would be weird to expect otherwise.
My points mainly involve the fact that historically, cryo-preservation doesn't work as intended, however much improved it might be at this point. Also, there's the inevitable subtext that in a civilisation racing towards collapse, the idea that you're going to miraculously defy all odds, somehow coming back to live happier days someplace seems borderline-hilarious to me.
More probable as I see it is building yourself a rocket ship and settling on luna, where you'll enjoy feasts of moon-cheese for the rest of your days. π
Yeah I get it, nicely put too.
I'm much less a doomer myself and we're potentially on the cusp of super longevity and more (yay bunker cheeze after the nuclear war for centuries π).
For the record, I don't claim to be a doomer in the slightest, just someone who seeks to understand the trajectories of late-stage capitalism and global climate change. But yeah, as you say, science is always coming up with exciting new breakthroughs and such.
Btw, are you the major Moebius appreciator from a couple years ago?
Yeah, Luna colony sounds great until you run across the Nazi stronghold on one your cheese walks.
In which case "schipelblorp!" seems like an unusally-apt exclamation in such cases? :D
Listen, I don't have a lot of fancy technology, but I do have a chest freezer that I haven't used in a few years. If you want to give me $3,000, I can leave your body in there for, like, five years or whatever. DM me.
ππππππ€£π€£π
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Why the hostility? I'm being up front with my offer and I'm not guaranteeing I can make you live forever or anything. It is possible, but unlikely, that an important breakthrough might happen in those five years; sure, it might not be the MOST advanced tech, but it IS at an affordable price point after the point you need to buy anything else.
But, fine man, if you just want to be dead with absolutely ZERO chance of being revivified and cured of whatever killed you, that's a personal decision.
π€£π€£ππ€£ππππ€£π!!!!
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