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WYR - have perfect health/fitness and no modern conveyance or free modern conveyance but can't be fit. (piefed.social)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by HubertManne@piefed.social to c/wouldyourather@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Ok. So you can be in perfect health. You can run extreme marathons, swim the english channel and free climb mount everest. However you cannot use any modern conveyance. No car, no planes, no motorboats. Not even as passenger. You can ride horses, sail in ships provided they have no modern things, you can ride bikes but no busses or trains. EDITED - got a few replies so making some clarifications. This is a one time zap to perfect health and fitness and you will be predisposed to stay that way (you will like healthy eating and excersising) but its not magical and if you insist on purposely getting out of shape and unhealthy you can force yoursefl to. Your not wolverine and don't have superpowers.

On the flip side you have some sort of all access pass to transportation. busses, trains, planes, taxis, ubers, whatever. You don't get free cars or such but again all access. Even limos. However you will always be out of shape. No matter how well you eat or excersise you will be flabby and not in great shape but not so much you have medical issues. EDITED - got a few replies so making some clarifications. This will not make you any healthier than you are currently. It just makes you out of shape to a level that does not make your health situation worse and for some reason you just can't get into shape.

For me I will take the health. I like biking and cities anyway and im not big on travel anyway.

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[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

yeah this is would you rather though so the point is the choice.

Well [besides just adding a passing comment on the reality of the situation] I'm trying to [pedagogically] wrangle another loophole, since the modernity era denied us such spaceships, and thus such spaceships are before/after/aside/distinct-from "any modern conveyance", this seems viable in the wyr as presented. They're effectively hot air balloon technology, with roots from before the Wright brother's first flight in an aeroplane (1903). Arguably even preceding bicycles (or rather, from aproximately the same time). And so if allowing "modern" bicycles, rather than as invented in 1817 (or peddle, 1853), then presumably the same available advancement transference is permisable to the aeros of at least as early as 1850 [unknown how much earlier, but those certainly didn't just suddenly appear that year].

And, if what I've heard is true[1] (and makes sense for their function), they'd be able to offer the lasting health as in the original offer before you edited it to be just a one time guaranteed healthiness at the start.

[1: Faster than light, zero inertia propulsion, zero point energy, safe enough for a two year old to fly home, can print another of itself instantly, and can sustain life indefinitely... ]