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Well, Dumb IS a matter of perspective.

I also own a couple of domains I have done nothing with, Just so I can own them!
Mine are cheap, About NZ/AUD/CAD $20ea per Year

I guess your .gay would be a bit more pricey

A bit of useless info.
The Island nation of Tuvalu :tuvalu: earns alsmost 10% of their gross national income through the ownership of the .TV domain

Well first things first
A suitable landing page and Logo
Then let us know when it is time to visit!

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Very true - more of a case of not exactly useful in a conventional sense or the best use of my money perhaps :joy:

Not for the first year, but after that, yeah, itā€™s like thirty-something AUD?

Damn, thatā€™s very impressive!

You really really need to start a gay cyborg dating site :sweat_smile:

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You know whatā€™s weirdā€¦
I always seem to forgot that people on this forum have other parameters besides just ā€œcyborgā€ unless someone mentions it

Idk how to describe it, but it seems like a good thing

Itā€™s 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

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@NiamhAstra actually suggested that (well the gay dating part, not just for us cyborgs :joy:) for one of the other .gay domains I was considering buying but didnā€™t end up getting

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Are you single?

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.

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Itā€™s at the same time a great thing and kinda a weird thing - weā€™re 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 youā€™ve got me thinking - maybe itā€™ll link to a profile with all of my different implants on cyborg.gay, and each implant will have a page on rfid.gay.

That would be a yes :cry: - and yet another great idea! I knew you guys would have the best suggestions on what to do.

Hmmmm, now I might need another flex (already want a flexM1 and Apex Flex) just for this in combination with @Eriequietā€™s suggestion

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:rofl:

Just redirect it to a grinder profile or something. The comedic value is priceless and if you get a date out of it thatā€™s great to.

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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 canā€™t help noticing how much we donā€™t have in common whenever anyone says anything :slight_smile:

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I came here to ask a question about an RFID product and have hung around despite not having any implants. Iā€™m not sure that I want one, I have questions that arenā€™t answered about 0 location and I have no use caseā€¦

Probably because people on here seem to be welcoming.

(So, not a cyborgā€¦)

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Iā€™d 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 donā€™t wear shoes :wink: and some of us are just average Joes who like playing with tech and donā€™t 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.
Thatā€™s not to say the internet as a whole wasnā€™t already diverse but social media tends to be an absolute fucking dumpster fire so

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Believe it or not, before the internet, and even before BBSes, the world was every bit as diverse and fucking-dumpster-fiery. I shit you not!

If anything, I find social media tends to segregate people into like-minded groups personally.

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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!

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I can see how this is a great step forward.

Sarcasm hasnā€™t changed since pre-internet days either.

Information flow is faster, and it is easier to find special interest groups, but humanity is pretty much the same as it ever was, both good and bad.

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In the biological sense, the current ā€œHomo 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.

The English archers on medieval times had their bones deformed.

Enlarged necks in Myanmar, enlarged lips of Suri tribe, binding feet in China



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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 thatā€™s 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 ā€œnot humanā€ but is actually being the BEST example of what a Human is.

Now, being ā€œHumanitarianā€ is another thing, completely unrelated.
ā€œConcerned 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 ā€œhumanā€.

Being comfortable with ā€œour 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 ā€œdecaying 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.

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True, but I think this forum worksā€¦ the opposite way, somehow. Weā€™re 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. Thatā€™s 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 Iā€™d like them! :wink: ). 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 donā€™t 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.

Donā€™t get me wrong - itā€™s not that I think of humans as ā€œworthlessā€, itā€™s just that I think every living being on earth has basically the same merit and that we humans are just not entitled to feel ā€œspecialā€, since this usually leads to exploitation of anything ā€œbelowā€ the state of humankind.

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This has nothing do with anything, but I just gotta ventā€¦

So Iā€™ve 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, Iā€™m done, I can take vacations and work on Amalā€™s 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 :frowning:

Fuck this shit Iā€™s gonna get drunk nowā€¦

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That is a bummer, it also explains why you have been so quiet for so long.
Was it the colleague that was possibly going to ā€œJoin usā€?

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