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To my eye gray hair and wrinkles brought her to the uncanny valley. I wonder what it is about fake youth that makes it more convincing.
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I suspect that young people created these images & perhaps they haven’t studied closely what real aging looks like. The aging process in their minds seems to involve bad makeup & a wig.
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Sorry to see her go. We dated for a while after college. Pretty typical story: we were both kind of rootless and angry at the world in the way that you are when you’re 23, and we found each other. I was trying to convince myself that my “junior white-collar drone” existence was who I was, and she was likewise trying on “angsty barista” as an identity. I mean, maybe “dating” is the wrong word for what we had. It wasn’t as healthy as that word implies. But it certainly was memorable. I remember this one time she dared me to… oh, um, well, never mind. Anyway, my best to her family.
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Wait, you were dating her too?
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In fairness, that’s often pretty accurate.
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New lawsuit that the dems were ballot-stuffing with deceased virtual mortals incoming.
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That final post brings to mind the disappearance of favourite commenters here and on other media I follow. There is no resolution for those that remain. Yeah, I’m bit of a sop that way.
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computer-generated mortal who lived five decades of life in just 21 weeks
How does that differ what happened to all us flesh-based mortals in 2020?
Yeah, there aren’t great resources for the modeling of aging, and the most common artificial aging we see is Hollywood slapping some make-up on someone, which creates false notions.
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Not quite dead but hardly alive.
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