Kick them in the nuts (or the stomach, in case they don’t have nuts), because relying on individuals with money to solve our problems is one of our fucking problems.

Even if “immortality” is the sucky kind, invulnerability kind of implies that you’re immune to the aging process.

You can be whatever you want.

Depending on which deity we’re talking, “divine powers” is a no-brainer. Besides that: Immortality, invincibility, siphon powers. Use the time I have (i.e. all of it) to learn unarmed combat and weapon master, and become insanely rich and very intelligent, then invent implants and a powersuit (why would anyone pick those if they’re a freebie with immortality), then wait around for others who have picked different powers and siphon off their powers. Since I’m invincible, I can also swallow some plutonium and become radioactive.

So, in conclusion, I would like to be a sci-fi lich.

Don’t worry, we’re catching up at an ever increasing rate.

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That’s not how physics works, but I appreciate the thought.

Because we can make it better, even if it’s just a tiny amount. To me, that’s enough. It’s the same with daylight savings time, the imperial system (in the few places that still use it), ISO 8601 date format, and so on. Sure, every individual patch doesn’t do a whole lot, and even together the effect may not be world-altering, but I simply refuse to believe in a future where we keep these small bugs around just because we were stupid once and then were too lazy to fix them.

It also wouldn’t be starting the count at 0. But to have a coherent system with both positive and negative numbers, there needs to be a 0. Plus, you can still call the year 0 the first year. When somebody is 0 years old, they’re in their first year of their life as well.

The Russia comparison was more for feasibility, not for importance.

That’s… not the only option. We could also shift down everything below 1. Sure, that would shift some historical dates, but would not really affect any part of modern life. And we already have situations where we need to account for different calendar systems (e.g. the October Revolution actually happened in November, according to our current calendar), so we know the world doesn’t end. And when Russia switched to the Gregorian calendar, which was more complicated than adding a 0 somewhere, the world didtend either.

Just adding a year 0 would be enough. Other than that, the human era.

How 'bout we don’t give a fuck and use a sensible system instead?

I don’t know too much about the median income, but I’d wager that it was mostly because the really poor country got a bit better off. Also, at least according to Wikipedia, the latest definition of extreme poverty was made in 2015, before the recent inflation spikes.

And “beat expectations” is just a non-statement. What were the expectations? And how does it matter if we’re still on track for a climate catastrophe? We’ve crossed the 1.5°C target.

Not according to those who think that the new century only began in 2001 because the Christian calendar has no year 0 or smth.

I have a lot of knives.

Are there really people who unironically say that? How is it possible to attain this enlightenment level delusion? It’s like Buddhism, but for morons.

Gotta stay in practice.

It still has cogwheels.

I actually like it when my cereals get soggy. Most “crunchy” things are just annoyingly hard. Anything harder than a potato chip just sucks.

That’s the point. To make the low-population area more intense. Because relative to the population density, there were 100 times as many sightings. Or what am I missing.