You know whatās weirdā¦
I always seem to forgot that people on this forum have other parameters besides just ācyborgā unless someone mentions it
Idk how to describe it, but it seems like a good thing
Itās like, everyone is simply accepted here, then my brain stops concerning itself with labels
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While laughing at myself,
Somehow I imagined you loading a link to cyborg.gay , or some kind of grinder profile or somethingā¦ onto one of your implants
The mark of the beast peoples heads would explode, I love it
@NiamhAstra actually suggested that (well the gay dating part, not just for us cyborgs ) for one of the other .gay domains I was considering buying but didnāt end up getting
Make it a website about dating YOU. Sometime people put up billboards or do other crazy stuff to find a mate. Sometimes it even works. Besides, why give out your phone number when you can give out your URL.
Itās at the same time a great thing and kinda a weird thing - weāre an amazing community, with some weird quirks, yet as you say it often is just the cyborg aspect we pick up on.
You bet I will! (Maybe once I get a few more implantsā¦ only one active RFID one in me rn). Now youāve got me thinking - maybe itāll link to a profile with all of my different implants on cyborg.gay, and each implant will have a page on rfid.gay.
I find it really odd that you should think that way: people on any board, or in any social setting in real life, are highly complex individuals with their highly complex personalities and set of peculiarities, that are brought together by one single itty bitty common interest.
Of course we do exhibit some similarities since we patronize the same single-purpose forum, often to talk about that single subject. But personally I canāt help noticing how much we donāt have in common whenever anyone says anything
I came here to ask a question about an RFID product and have hung around despite not having any implants. Iām not sure that I want one, I have questions that arenāt answered about 0 location and I have no use caseā¦
Probably because people on here seem to be welcoming.
Iād have to agree it is amazing how diverse our community is. We have plenty of members in the LGBTQ+ group, bikers, programmers, medical professionals, people who donāt wear shoes and some of us are just average Joes who like playing with tech and donāt mind sticking a bit of glass and metal under the skin for cool projects. We just happen to all be brought together by the one thing and that is biohacking (or grinding or whatever you prefer to call it) It is truly amazing.
Thatās not to say the internet as a whole wasnāt already diverse but social media tends to be an absolute fucking dumpster fire so
yeah the idea of the echo chamber is nothing newā¦ but what is new is the speed and reach the internet providesā¦ now you can organize an angry mob from all over the country to come together and storm the capital in just a few days!
In the biological sense, the current āHomo sapiensā if nothing a continuous mutation by mixing and adapting, not even a quarter of 1M years ago, our species split from H. Heidelbergensis. After how many mutations that dated millions of years.
What is human if not a self-aware, self-experimenting curious creature.
So far that with the help of tools we are able to communicate trough great distances, with the help of materials and the knowledge gathered trough experimentation we are able to alter our environment (for good or bad) and our selves even.
Penicillin, Anaesthesia, Immunotherapy, Organ transplants, Artificial Inteligence prostetics, allow fellow humans to continue living instead of being doomed by the limitations of their bodies due to genetic malformation, accidents or illnesses contracted.
Someone can extend their lifespan with the help of an implant that helps him regulate a failing heart. Or even an artificial heart.
And not just that, but some patients find that hey could use the device to lower his heart rate to help falling sleep.
Now thatās just about basic tendencies, to use and experiment and modify.
Humans have during the pass of time, created and destroyed, others, themselves, history, civilizations, anything they can reach, including the concepts of beauty, right and wrong, love, friendship, loyalty. Reality as a playground.
Being a cyborg, or using technologies to enhance the human body, or lifestyle is not being ānot humanā but is actually being the BEST example of what a Human is.
Now, being āHumanitarianā is another thing, completely unrelated.
āConcerned with or seeking to promote human welfareā
How much anyone in this century can avoid utilizing anything man-made?
Nothing made by a machine or other humans? No internet, no phones, no cars, no clothes, no medicine, no processed food, no cultivated food, no reading or writing.
Just anything you can go hunt or pull from plants WITH YOUR HANDS and eat. To me that sounds more animal than āhumanā.
Being comfortable with āour currentā technology is not defining who we should be. We are the makers of the change, and is trough curiosity, experimentation and development that every option that we have in our hands should be considered and look after. That is being human to me.
A curious experimenting explorer creature.
The moment you stop being curious, stop experimenting, stop exploring you enter a ādecaying humanā state, settling down is the beginning of the demise, and is just natural, your experimentation hit their limits and new horizons will be discovered by new generations with the energy necessary to continue where you have stopped.
True, but I think this forum worksā¦ the opposite way, somehow. Weāre all brought here by one common, little interest - chip implants for humans. Okay. So we all have a similar, echo-chamber-y opinion about those implants, sure. But since this forum is very polite, very open to frequent derails and very (positively!) little moderated, it is the total opposite of the usual echo chamber found in social media and the like. I never had the chance to speak with American rifle owners before. Or with people who learned bodymodding in a far-away country. With people who live somewhere in the Finnish woods and have tons of technical knowledge, yet refuse to drive a car unless totally neccessary. And so on. Talking to people whom I agree with, or to some whom I deeply disagree with, and both is fine.
So the immense diversity here, combined with a generally positive and tolerant (in the best way) vibe, actually helps to widen the horizon of anyone willing to participate.
I just quote one part here, but think about the whole post. I agree with what you wrote, but not with the conclusions. Every living being on earth uses whatever evolution gave them to survive. Thatās the reason why we have highly specialised creatures on earth, with impressive skills that just perfectly fit the way those creatures live (like ultrasound stuff, sensing the magnetic field of the earth, specialised viewing or hearing skills and all that stuff).
We humans have this opposable thumb and a brain able to very abstract thinking, so we use those tools to survive, more or less. To change our environment, as well as ourselves (thanks for the nice bodmod-examples, you knew Iād like them! ). And I totally agree that all this cyborg-y stuff is just the logical next step in our personal evolution, helping us to survive a bit better in the technical age we created ourselves.
But still, I donāt think any of this puts us above the other animals. Every animal does its best to survive, to live a happy and peaceful life, with the tools it has to reach that goal.
Donāt get me wrong - itās not that I think of humans as āworthlessā, itās just that I think every living being on earth has basically the same merit and that we humans are just not entitled to feel āspecialā, since this usually leads to exploitation of anything ābelowā the state of humankind.
This has nothing do with anything, but I just gotta ventā¦
So Iāve been working flat out at work for the past four weeks to deliver a fairly complex, quite delicate and difficult to build laser testing station. When I mean flat out, I mean early morning at work, late evening or night at work, week-ends at work, the whole nine yards.
I was very close to being done. The testing equipment has a 3x3 power sensor array, and all I had left to do today was wire and calibrate the 3 remaining sensors on the bottom row. Long and tedious, but easy to do and after that, Iām done, I can take vacations and work on Amalās gadget.
Well lo and behold, I just realized my colleage who was in charge of machining the sensorsā fixture made a mistake and spaced them all 5 mm too far apart. Net result: the bottom row is below the optical viewing port of the temperature chamber, and all 6 sensors above it are misaligned and require complete reconfiguration and recalibration. 4 weeks of work down the crapper