blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io
on 14 Sep 18:11
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The greatest argument against "solving" old-age: if 80 years old Conservatives controlling the world is bad, imagine 800 years old Conservatives controlling the world.
slate@sh.itjust.works
on 14 Sep 18:23
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Lol, this brought me back to when I worked at a retirement home.
We had one gentleman who was 100+.
I realized he was old enough to have known civil war veterans.
I asked him if he’d ever met a civil war vet. He thought I’d asked him if he’d fought in the civil war, lmao.
Eventually, he told me he only ever saw them in parades.
I felt a little nervous to ask who was in the parade.
He was very proud to say, “The good guys, obviously. It was New York.”
I got to know him more over time and learned that he was super progressive and loved to use the internet. It’s cool to know there’s a few good apples every once in a while.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 14 Sep 22:57
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Me, inside a retirement home in ~60 years letting visitors playing on a retro emulation setup and challenging them to 1v1s in fighting games:
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The greatest argument against "solving" old-age: if 80 years old Conservatives controlling the world is bad, imagine 800 years old Conservatives controlling the world.
Can you prove they don’t already?
Isn’t that the plot to Altered Carbon?
Lol, this brought me back to when I worked at a retirement home.
We had one gentleman who was 100+.
I realized he was old enough to have known civil war veterans.
I asked him if he’d ever met a civil war vet. He thought I’d asked him if he’d fought in the civil war, lmao.
Eventually, he told me he only ever saw them in parades.
I felt a little nervous to ask who was in the parade.
He was very proud to say, “The good guys, obviously. It was New York.”
I got to know him more over time and learned that he was super progressive and loved to use the internet. It’s cool to know there’s a few good apples every once in a while.
Me, inside a retirement home in ~60 years letting visitors playing on a retro emulation setup and challenging them to 1v1s in fighting games: