The message I've taken from this entire subthread is "try to laugh rather than shake my head." The behavior makes a lot of sense if I frame it in status signali

The message I've taken from this entire subthread is "try to laugh rather than shake my head." The behavior makes a lot of sense if I frame it in status signaling (which helps make sense of so much that I suspect it of being too broad a framework). My own comment on the topic of living is: so it may be physically impossible to live forever, I think shooting for even a "mere" 200 years is doable and would be fucking awesome. At least we're not dogs, they get less than two decades.