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  • Maybe I can ease the existential horror a little bit by providing this bit of a 2005 interview - it seems it’s not that terrible of a fate. More melancholy than outright horror:

    You’re the first human beings I’ve seen, the three of you. Two men and one lady. The first … people I’ve seen since I’ve been ill. No difference between day and night. No thoughts at all. No dreams. Day and night, the same – blank. Precisely like death.

    Is it very hard?

    No. It’s exactly the same as being dead, which is not difficult, is it? To be dead is easy. You don’t do anything at all. You can’t do anything, when you are dead. It’s been the same. Exactly.

    Do you miss your old life?

    Yes. But I’ve never been conscious to think that. So I’ve never been bored or upset. I’ve never been anything at all, it’s exactly the same as death. No dreams even. Day and night, the same.

    When you miss your old life, you say, ‘Yes, I miss my old life’, what do you miss?

    The fact that I was a musician. And in love.


  • It’s a diary of Clive Wearing who suffers from retrograde amnesia, unable to form long-term memories since 1985.

    He’s 88 now, and I’m assuming still filling page after page with a record of the time when he, from his point of view, finally woke up from his affliction and began to live anew.

    Edit: That is to say, it’s a Memento prequel, if anything.








  • Klear@piefed.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Tomato rule
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    9 days ago

    Here’s the thing. You said a “fruits are vegetables.”

    Are they edible parts of plants? Yes. No one’s arguing that.

    As someone who is a scientist who studies food, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls fruits vegetables. If you want to be “specific” like you said, then you shouldn’t either. They’re not the same thing.

    If you’re saying “fruits” you’re referring to the botanical grouping of fructus, which includes things from nuts to tomatoes to pumpkins.

    So your reasoning for calling fruits a vegetable is because random people “call the edible parts vegetables?” Let’s get roots and leaves in there, then, too.

    Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It’s not one or the other, that’s not how taxonomy works. They’re both. A vegetable is a vegetable and a member of the frouit grouping. But that’s not what you said. You said a fruits are vegetables, which is not true unless you’re okay with calling all edible plant parts vegetables, which means you’d call seeds, bark, and parts vegetables, too. Which you said you don’t.

    It’s okay to just admit you’re wrong, you know?