senescence isn’t a response to damage. it’s a thermodynamic surrender.
it’s the system cashing out, admitting that the cost of recovery outweighs the cost of replacement.
at dmv, interfacing with govt in any capacity is always bad. so so bad. i feel rage sitting here being serviced by sloths. i feel contempt this is the best public service available. arregrhhgrggrgr
if you take 20 planks from Theseus’s ship and put them on a different ship with millions of other planks, does that make the other ship Theseus’s ship?
No. So to say taking 20 dire wolf genes and putting them in a normal wolf makes it a dire world is a bit of an overstatement.