Wait hol up! Whats wrong with Hamburger helper? It is just a base, you can throw your own mix of ingredients in it. I wouldn’t get the crazy flavors they think are “good” but they have some good recipes & mind you I make most of my foods from scratch.
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It induces my gag reflex from the memory of my Mom's lesser cooking endeavors.
Speaking of things like that, do we have a thread for "foods that induce vomiting?"
That makes sense, but its been 50 years Max, go cook something!
& no that would be called Acid Reflux.
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More like twenty years, I'm not quite that old for it to be a half century.
I'm not talking about acid reflux, I'm talking about foods that actually induce enough nausea that they could make one vomit. I haven't quite gotten there myself, but there are been a couple food items over the years that got me gagging enough that I was close.
Lmao I was joking. I know what you mean, we dont have a thread like that & you definitely could make one.
& holy quack, 50 years is half a century that is crazy. Il glad you’re still young. Young forever!!!
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That seems more like a Bandit type thread to make and it would probably involve gum somehow. While I haven't been around for that half century it has been just slightly over 3/8ths of one. The real thing that ought to spook someone my age is that I'm through half of my life expectancy of an adult male. Perhaps we could open the floor to discussion about proposals for biological immortality? I would imagine regenerating telomeres in humans could be quite useful since our growth rate stops. Cloning technology could be useful if there was some sort of memory download, the real trick is how artificially age your replacement body so one doesn't have to relive childhood.
Interesting enough. I believe in this generation we will see life expectancy pushed to 100+. Thats just with new advances in medicine. Now think about bionic implants, we are looking at 150+ years.
But between this movie https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendence_(2014_film)
& this game https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_Ex:_Mankind_Divided
They have a couple kinks to work out with Bionic implants & Uploading people into PCs.
I do believe that is the future tho, but we will have to work out the kinks.
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Here is the thing that concerns me most about aging; losing the physical abilities I've worked so hard to obtain through my life. In my case when I was a kid I had severe asthma and remembered the first 10 years of my life being a malaise of what I couldn't do physically. When I was in my teens luckily I was able to overcome the problem and be able to participate in sports in addition to outdoor activities. In my adult life I've become a proficient distance runner, distance hiker and climber. To this point I haven't seen a decline nor really is even a plateau to what I've been to do, but what I have seen within my own family is incredibly concerning. Put it this way, I couldn't fathom another segment of my life where I spent the majority of my free time lounging around be unable do things that are physically difficult.
While things like bionic implants may be in the future, there is no way there they are going to fully stop the progression of aging. And for someone who has trained their entire life, would you suddenly want the aid of some sort of device to help you do what you no longer can? About a decade ago I was hit by a car which yielded a compound fracture in my left forearm. In that particular case I was looking at seriously permanent disability if the arm wouldn't stay set...which it didn't. Thankfully a plate could be installed and I was able to recover after some long rehab to get the strength in the arm back. I'm cool with having plate giving me the opportunity to earn my way back from an injury, I don't know how I would feel if I suddenly could just replace the arm entirely a superior cybernetic/bionic replacement.
One thing I do know, given how little my grand parents could do at the end of their lives I'm not really sure even living in my 80s would be worth it. All they really ever did past 75 was sit around as body and mind crumbled through the progression of aging finally catching up.
I agree, but with bionics that should eliminate the problem with aging parts.
What do we notice that fails with aging?
-Are our limbs slowing down or the nerves? I believe it’s limbs & not nerves since Ive seen people that are 70 move better then someone who was 50.
-Eyes arent as clear.
-Hair loss.
-Muscle loss.
-Heart
I think our nervous system & wiring have longer life in them lets say 60-80 more years.
Its just the major organs or body parts that seem to fail quicker then we do.
Then the question must be why would our organs fail quicker then our wiring? The food we eat? Pollution? Can medicine reverse the faster damage of important body parts before bionics?
Edit: Also I too have a metal implant, in my wrist from a fracture I acquired from trying to stop my car from rolling & hitting another car. I stopped it, but with my wrist & in between the front of my car (98 Acura Tl) & the side of a (2015 charger). & without that metal implant, Id probably have a hook. Imagine a simple piece of metal saves people, now put some technology into it.
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