These are the Daves I know, I know. These are the Daves I know.

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Arctic Spam, in other words. Not all that different from head cheese or souse. It's enough to make someone a vegetarian.

hey nothing wrong with tendies sometimes

cuz dean martin and frank sinatra are better than most modern singers

Maybe he was chasing a racoon. . .

One line stood out for me in this: (in 1941) "People were longing for simpler times." Hmmmm. Christmas music is caught up in the overall fragmentation of the music industry. It's out there, you just have to find it. A few favorites from my collection came immediately to mind. When I looked them up, I was surprised how old they are - but I also remember the time I spent looking for them. Over the years, I've heard none of these on any of the godawful Sirius stations, or the local 24x7 FM stations with their incredibly short and limited playlists.

Clint Black - Looking for Christmas

Barenaked Ladies/Sarah McLachlan - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/We Three Kings

And on the lighter side

The Blenders - Winter Wonderland

Barenaked Ladies - Elf's Lament

Merry Christmas to all.

Whether or not a precise duplicate of me could be conscious, or believe it was me, would not fundamentally affect the original "me". You could create a duplicate of me, and then destroy it, and I'd be none the wiser. So even if you could create a virtual me, it would no more make me "immortal" than having children does. There are people who might desire such a thing, or consider it somehow beneficial in a business or political context, but it's not the same as immortality for me.

Being connected to your skin and blood and tissue and bones and everything else in your body is what develops consciousness, and makes it all worthwhile. Your consciousness separated from your physical body would either be impossible or it would completely freak out like a head surgically connected to the wrong body. Emotions, Pain, Suffering, Happiness - all this is just as important to the experience. Just as the gut has a direct connection to the brain, your emotions have a direct connection to your intelligence. So my conclusion is: To do it properly it would take an incredible amount of research and resources and maintenance. And even then it would never be quite the same. Also consider that most people you know, there's nothing worthwhile about them living for an extra 500 years. I mean think about the people who wait in line with you at walmart. Do they get their consciousness uploaded, or only rich people? How many billions would it take to make the perfect organic experience for 1 person? What would it be like it when you flipped the switch on? Would you still be there when they flipped the switch on, or would it just be a.i. repeating stuff you said from 1987? I duno.

Hey, isn't that the oldest son from Home Improvement?

This elolution thing is everywhere. So why should evolution stop just because of this "homo sapiens" thing? As long as you cant see or guess the rules of selection, you will never be able to predict the cours elolution takes. However, in one point the prediction is correct: Evolution will wipe us out this planet.

Yeah no. None of that is actually how evolution works.

"Cooler body temperatures than in the past" - Not sure how they can definitely know something like this for sure. If you're say, asian or white or black or whatever, your body comes from a specific soil, a specific environment. So you would see changes in body temperature if said peoples moved to different temperatures. But whos to say you couldn't reverse that by them going back to the original environment? "Frail, lighter bones from sedentary lifestyle" - Again, that could easily be explained by migration, and living in cities rather than rural areas. Also convenience of everything through technology surely plays a role. This could be situational and not actually an evolution. "Rise in lactose intolerance" - For one, its a scientific fact that all humans become lactose intolerant in small percentages over time, even if you weren't when you were young. We didn't actually measure lactose intolerance thousands of years ago like we can now - and even if we did it wouldn't be relevant. We know for a fact people are ingesting 1000x more dairy products now than in the past. Which explains an increase in intolerance across the board. This sounds more like lifestyle and environment rather than evolution. Also keep in mind that, in the age of communication and technology, everything gets reported now. Because it's easy. How many people in the past had lactose intolerance and theres no record of it? How many people who eat small amounts of dairy were included in this evolution study? I duno, I'm not buying it. 40 years of being around people at Walmart, I'm telling you people aren't evolving.

This story is crazy to me because my pastor talked about this guy years before someone discovered the gold. One of those things you hear about and youre like "ya ok, i duno if this is true but" and then you find out its all true and youre like WHA?