GrandpaOpal [none/use name]

This isn't a question of semantic language, it's an attempt to overturn the popular idea that "My DNA is myself."

You are not DNA, you are a by-product to ensure the survival and propagation of your DNA. If DNA could spread more efficiently without you, it would do so. The only difference between a virus, essentially just rogue DNA/RNA, and a human being is a question of strategy. You and your DNA are separate entities.

Moreover, it is increasingly within the purview of science to alter DNA to suit human needs, so even in that tautology the roles should be reversed eventually.

I guess this is the end goal but what are we altering the DNA to do exactly? Increase chances of survival/better quality of life so that DNA itself can propagate further. I'm not saying that DNA literally lords over you and controls your mind. I'm just identifying that we're a complex mechanism to spread that molecule rather than being the molecule itself. If DNA could spread more efficiently by keeping the body in a constant state of unbearable agony, it would eventually evolve to do so. I'm just advocating you break the illusion of "DNA = me".

Dawkins, if anything, would identify DNA with the body. I'm rejecting that connection entirely.

Imagine acknowledging that DNA has the same relationship to a human as a virus does to a cell and then thinking that's a good thing.

What does it mean when the body is entirely secondary to the propagation of a molecule? A virus destroys the cell without regard because it's only "goal" is to spread itself regardless of whether or not its beneficial to the cell. The only difference between a virus and your DNA is a question of strategy.

Think of it like a parts manual in the glove-box of a car. To say the car exists to move the manual from place to place would be an absurd summary of the car.

What do you think a virus is buddy? It’s literally just genetic material propagating itself without the need for a body. Your car analogy doesn't stand. Scientists don’t even consider viruses to be alive in the traditional sense but they still spread regardless. You and I are just a different way to spread that same demonic molecule. You are a flesh puppet for a entity that isn’t even intelligent enough to be considered alive. It goes on “living” but you and I die; the game was rigged from the start.

You couldn’t build a car from just the manual. Similarly, you couldn’t recreate a creature from just its DNA. The chromosome is meaningless without the context of the cell.

What do you think a virus is buddy? It's literally just genetic material propagating itself without the need for a body. Scientists don't even consider viruses to be alive in the traditional sense but they still spread regardless. You and I are just a different way to spread that same demonic molecule. You are a flesh puppet for a entity that isn't even intelligent enough to be considered alive. It goes on "living" but you and I die; the game was rigged from the start.

It really does suck that we're essentially just highly complex spreading mechanisms for this stupid molecule.

Humans are basically puppeted by this piece of shit thing. Your DNA is not you in any way that matters to the human psyche.

Exactly, I used to walk to a horse ranch as a kid and just give them grass they couldn't reach from my side of fence. They don't bite, at least most of them anyway, and they'll let you pet their nose.

Chinese tea ceremony and obscure Christian heresies like the Sethians. I guess you could say religion in general but mostly obscure Gnostic groups.

I usually just go to Yunnan Sourcing .

Find what type of tea you want and then lookup the producer if you care. I haven't looked much recently because I got a big shipment last year. Fair warning though, Chinese tea is usually more expensive and requires a special method of preparation to get the best result. It's not a "tea bag in mug" deal unfortunately.

You could have it recognize objects, materials and living things and either generate new models and textures or pull from a database of your choice.

Folks, racism has been solved.

Yeah but I still live under capitalism buddy.

The appeal of a fantasy world is not "cool dragons" but "what if my life had meaning and purpose beyond making Jeff Bezos rich."

I honestly love the stuff.

I have to give it to D-9 for psychoactive stuff but the "get high and watch a movie" aspect of weed is pretty much identical with D-8. Of course, I'm also the kind of person who sees colours and hears music when I first start smoking after abstaining for a bit so ymmv.

Nick Mullen, despite being a man who openly used the N-word then made the conscious decision to upload himself saying it, has still not been accused of sexual misconduct.

Thus making him morally superiour to about half of the figures on breadtube.

The only interaction I have with China is I buy tea from Chinese co-ops.

They've done more for me in that one interaction than the great satan and her bastards have done for me in my entire life.

Bananas suck ass when preserved through freezing/canning.

They don't retain their structure like pineapples so you'd be left with brown sludge that is admittedly sweet. Plus, why would you prefer high fructose corn syrup on your bananas rather than just fresh fruit?

Least creepy sonic fan.

Sega does what Nintendon't which is abuse