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Boomers are dirty birds. They thought pregnancy and armed spouses were the only worries...
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I wonder how much of that is relaxing sexual taboos, and how much is just the availability of Viagra. Can't spread an STD if you can't get it up.
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As a Cusper, it certainly feeds the Boomers ruin everything narrative.
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis Brandeis
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You can blame the government... Medicare doesn't pay for condoms.
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I'm convinced Covid is currently running loose around here, but nobody is testing or tracking it because it is so mild. Everyone seems to have a dry cough.
I actually dug out an old testing kit on Saturday after taking a 3 hour afternoon nap, and wasn't really surprised to see it come back positive.
- Flint
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Years ago when I was really sick with a cold, I thought about how much I never really appreciated the times that I didn't feel like total shit. How different my normal experience was from the intense and all-consuming the sensation of feeling sick. Then I had the depressing thought, "what if I felt like this all the time?" Then I thought of the even-more depressing sci-fi scenario wherein the entire human race was infected with a permanent "super cold" and every living human felt like total shit for their entire lives.
Is this where we're headed? Either 1) nature is smart enough that pervasive infectious organisms are selected to not totally debilitate their hosts, or 2) nature doesn't care about our subjective "experience of living"
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eta: cognitohazard warning, but if an infectious organism could alter our qualia, how would we know, i.e. how would we know if the subjective, incommunicable experience of consiousness had been changed from how it was in the past?
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Allergy season is a convenient mask for COVID… I’m seeing a lot of little kids with continuously running noses.
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis Brandeis
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If your nose runs and your feet smell, you’re upside down.
- griff
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Flint wrote:
Years ago when I was really sick with a cold, I thought about how much I never really appreciated the times that I didn't feel like total shit. How different my normal experience was from the intense and all-consuming the sensation of feeling sick. Then I had the depressing thought, "what if I felt like this all the time?" Then I thought of the even-more depressing sci-fi scenario wherein the entire human race was infected with a permanent "super cold" and every living human felt like total shit for their entire lives.
Is this where we're headed? Either 1) nature is smart enough that pervasive infectious organisms are selected to not totally debilitate their hosts, or 2) nature doesn't care about our subjective "experience of living"
...
eta: cognitohazard warning, but if an infectious organism could alter our qualia, how would we know, i.e. how would we know if the subjective, incommunicable experience of consiousness had been changed from how it was in the past?
I got thinking about this when I woke up this morning. In my youth when cycling I'd would get up on my pedals and hammer so smoothly that it just felt effortless. That feeling is something I pursue on the bike now. Whether it's achievable or not is kind of irrelevant, I know how it could feel. What if I never felt that? A lot of folks are riding e-bikes when mountain biking and in my gut I hate it. It's a disconnection between work and output that is the antithesis of my vision of mountain biking. However, if they've never felt a real match between input and output then anything goes. In a world where unrecognized disease has destroyed that connection for a generation of people suddenly cheating yourself out of an experience isn't a cheat.
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis Brandeis
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I got a car with a big engine. It burns gasoline in the exhaust pipe making lots of noise. So I must be a real man.
Same mentality with e-bikes. E-bikes mean one is planning to be dead by 50. Due to no exercise. But it has those bigger tires. He must be more of a man.
A real man need not worry about Covid. And need neither know nor care how he feels.
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It burns gasoline in the exhaust pipe...
Just sayin'...
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