Soooo you're saying I should get a blood boy?
Blood bag, please. Let's use gender neutral descriptions
(In the UK at least) "bag" is a derogatory term used for older women. Just sayin.
Blood from young animals can revitalise old ones
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#52This sounds like a cyberpunk story.
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#53We are going to be written into the history books as the decadent vampires who ran earth into the ground.
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#54I think older civilizations may have discovered something like this and put it into practice, giving rise to the myth of Vampires.
The Vampires of lore are described as very old people who suck the blood of youngsters to stay alive. The parts about them fearing sunlight, or garlic, or whatever, might just be based on side-effects of this cure for ageing. The inaccuracy of "sucking" instead of transfusion, might be because nobody survived to recount the exact way in which vampires took their blood and what they did with it. All they knew was that bodies of young people would sometimes be found, drained of blood and with tiny syringe-like marks on their necks.
In fact, they might still be among us, ruling our world from the shadows :-)
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#55I love spoiling the plot of Dorian Gray for people. Never gets old.
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I've always wondered if it's a viable wight loss technique. There must be a certain amount of energy that goes into blood production. And losing wight by sitting still for a while is the holy grail. Market it right and the billionaires might even be able to charge us to give them blood.
>wight loss technique wight
Don't assume English is everyone's first language. It happens to be mine, but don't assume everyone is sober either!
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I've never seen anyone microdose LSD or take Ketamine for Depression, hell, most of my coworkers don't even smoke marijuana recreationally or otherwise. Or maybe they don't tell you.
Or maybe he just doesn't have much exposure to the drug-using classes in this world, because anecdotally over 30 years of involvement in the computer world, I've met far, far more people who think they are enhancing their performance through drug use than those who don't. Its extremely common in the hackrrspace scene to encounter developers who are using 'smart drugs' to stay up for 3 or 4 days at a time, or who thin…
Exactly.
A friend in collage used say a little alcohol would help him calm down and code. A few decades later he accepted that he was just an alcoholic. Another friend refers to nicotine as his work drug...
20 years ago I met a guy who said he was using LSD to avoid wasting time sleeping and to boost his creativity. IMO, it's the same deal where people self justify whatever drug they want to use.
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#59This was shown to be an inaccurate conclusion from the study. Since the animals were sewn together, more than just blood was shared. Organs, motility, behavior, etc. http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/11/22/young-blood-does-not-rev...
a new study must be done where only blood is transmitted periodically without those other factors in the picture.
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#60I think Bart's blood revitalised Mr Burns once.