More than just putting words into my mouth, this one.

When I think "beauty and strength of which his body is capable" a spartan definitely fits the bill. I'm not thinking of an old guy in a toga, even if artistic depictions do portray him as something of a beast.

15 here!

Now I'm just bitter and apathetic.

He lost $4000 and I'm assuming wasn't devastated. Attractiveness +2 right there.

There's money in treating cancer, not in curing it after all.

Eh... the climate is "the best" for whatever creatures thrive in it.

Dinosaurs were pretty on board with sweltering heat right up until a big rock froze our relative hell over.

Income vs inflation and rising housing prices.

Consistently moving is only enough so long as you're still outrunning the bear.

I think there might be a rebound effect with longer living individuals. Especially if we can mix in restoring fertility on top of anti-aging. For a lot of people, not having kids is a mix of never finding someone to have kids with as well as establishing for themselves a stable future to raise any, which isn't happening within 20-30 years anymore.

They need the funding. Once they show provable results, the people with money will start pouring a bunch of it into the research hoping to extend their lives well beyond current standards.

While I generally suggest for everyone to embrace this mindset to remind themselves what they may be capable of, I likewise know the daftness in encouraging the impoverished to celebrate the rich.

The flaw in the logic here is the assumption there's a bow in the first place, and we're not instead dealing with a bucket of crabs.

My 5-years ago self would be disappointed, just as his 5-years prior self was disappointed, just as that one's 5-years prior self was disappointed.

I've practically done nothing worth remembering since I turned 18.

>You'll get your shit together in your early 30s like everyone else, don't worry.

Disclaimer: Your mileage may vary.

Many 30 somethings are still drifting, so I wouldn't say "like everyone else." Especially those groups that graduated around 2008, or anyone that haven't found themselves in a relationship and friends because they just can't seem to find anyone.

There are some accusations that will stick on your record even when found innocent. Convincing evidence is just another hurdle.

The world is fucked and everything is set up so that you have to be at least somewhat paranoid about everyone around you.

Not sure they could positively spin eating bugs.

They could however, make eating bugs out to be owning the libs and get at least half the population on board. The same half that would sooner see the atmosphere burn before giving up pork and beef at that.

I make no apologies for my previous statement, as I'm under the impression lefties are more likely to go vegan/bugs than the right. Gotta know what you're dealing with when you propose massive societal change.

Silicon valley start ups also tend to come from money.

The people hanging tend not to have that kind of safety net. The plan either works or they're done.

They're not around to tell their stories.

It's not anxiety, Chief, I just don't want to do chores/work I'm uninterested in.

Having a frequent, consistent deadline has done more than anything else, but because it causes anxiety and sucks all the fun out of procrastinating.

They're already using AI in some fields like rental pricing to squeeze as much from renters as they can and undoubtedly is already in use for gas pricing, if their advancements in the art fields isn't enough of an indication of their abstract analysis capabilities. No reason to believe that can't extend to the sales of tools, food, and other goods. Going to be wild if people are trying to calculate which hour of the day is the best time to go buy milk.

Mostly, if the job comes down to ensuring the bottom line only ever grows, expect a sophisticated automatic calculator to at least look like a very enticing option over a person the board has to pay 7+ figure bonuses to.

And we expect it to happen, so we put a plate and/or another shell below them.

Meanwhile in the real world, we expect it to happen to people, but they're actively taking away the already tiny plate and backup shell.

The defeatist kind that would rather roll over than fight to survive.

One usually leads to the other. Not always, but a lot of the time it does feel like someone is moving the goal posts to pretend they're happy and content where they are when they're very much not.

They least they could have done when they cut down the tree to make a quick buck was plant a new seed, even if we have to be the ones to nurture it.

They chose to hoard every last cent, now we've nothing to make a buck from. They can now all die just as broke from poor future investments and without a care from us as we're too busy planting new seeds and looking forward to taking all their stuff in the meantime.

I'm motivated by money and ease of work. Everything else is secondary.

Leadership that's burning with passion and involvement is only motivating when they feel like they're taking care of their people and an actual part of the team, not shallowly hyping up their abused and underpaid workforce to beat some metric so they can collect a bonus said workforce won't see a penny from.

Only for the first few minutes.