@Kassil

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@Soreth

I have eaten the roses that were in the icebox

@exa

the orange/white coloration is very fox-evocative to me when details are otherwise hard to perceive

@exa

"needs [x]ed" for "needs to be [x]ed", e.g. "my car needs washed" is idiomatic in several dialects of American English. https://ygdp.yale.edu/phenomena/needs-washed

@relsqui

ah yes the glhf disk drive, only released in Japan

@mira

what you mean it's not the medium hen?

@Phorm

A community I'm in had an instance of "does anyone know how to fix windows defender, it keeps flagging more and more programs as malware that I know are safe, and if I tell it to ignore those programs it just starts flagging others instead"

@ThatGenieProblem

Not an expert on the topic but I can think of at least a couple obstacles that are to my knowledge utterly insurmountable at the moment. And I think the robotics path is actually more viable (in the sense of only having one-and-a-half problems to solve instead of three).
1. As far as I know, we don't know enough about genetics to modify a genome precisely enough to make it not grow a brain while still leaving space for one and still growing all the connections needed to wire one up.
2. Speaking of connections, the connections between the brain and the rest of the body (both neural and otherwise) are immensely complex and I think getting them all connected exactly right is not a thing we're currently surgically capable of, especially when they didn't start connected in the first place. Modern surgery has a hard time with even basic nerve connections from what I've heard. Also, eyeballs are basically physiologically extensions of the brain so you'd probably need to take your eyeballs with you.
3. Possibly surmountable but necessary to not overlook - bodies normally take an adult's age to reach adulthood, and there's probably a lot of important steps to physical development in that time (e.g., moving around) that will cause major long-term health problems if you skip them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_transplant has some history of (universally failed) attempts of head transplants of animals (with the biggest obstacles not even touched on here - keeping the parts alive during the process, and immune rejection) and wrangling a naked brain adds many further difficulties.

As far as I know, the billionaires are mostly on "freeze my brain when I die and hope future generations both figure out how to do anything with that and also care enough to want to" currently, and they're mostly getting laughed at by those not happily taking their money in exchange for such promises.

@relsqui

Feeling pretty vindicated by this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pG8_bWpmaE

@pyrex @anthracite

Very reminiscent of the double-bind my depressionbrain is fond of ensnaring me in: "Either this shitty situation is all my fault and my suffering is earned and deserved, or it's outside of my control and I have no recourse to remedy this unjust suffering I'm being subjected to."