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We'll just all assume that every person who gets this would make themselves early twenties with flawless skin, perfect organs, appendages and functionality, and no excess weight.

My question is, would you change yourself from your genetic baseline, and if so, how?

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[–] AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'd not change much, just my suicide weight, a couple of functional issues, and a few troublesome moles.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How much does suicide weigh?

[–] AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Being suicidal weighs about 50 pounds for me.

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[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Lots of changes. Not much on the outside, but fix breakable/broken stuff, be more efficient, this kind of things. Not having to worry about your own body betraying you seems like a good idea.

how many of us would be furries? Statistically speaking, i want an answer.

i love fucking with people, so it's an obvious choice.

[–] exanime@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Other than the assumptions OP mentions in the prompt, I would actually add a prehensile tail... I think that would be a super fun and useful appendage to have hehehe

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Can I use the button multiple times? If so, I have several experiments / experiences to do / have.

If it's a one time thing, I'd probably stick with the same genetics. I got pretty lucky, and I'd hate to make a change that I later felt negative about.

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[–] retrospectology@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'd have everything the same except there was one hair on my head that I could control like a tentacle.

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Like a tiny little itty bitty hair or would this be a larger hair?

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago

I would make small changes untill I sm happy with it.

I would make a small change one month, adapt and learn to live with it, make another change next month, and so on.

I would start my reducing my weight by 2kgs a month and make my psoriasis recide slowly.

I would also make a few old scars start to fade.

[–] nayminlwin@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

Natural body, except healthier. No dry eyes, no stomach problems, no nerve problems in shoulders and legs.

[–] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Taller and have a deep voice that can command a room.

[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

If I could change, I would jump at the opportunity.

[–] Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

Ye Ye body that stays perfectly healthy with no maintenance. Would be sick. We are all alive so of course I want me my body to be better at being alive. I want to be able to be poor and "malnourished" but thrive despite that and keep living my vest life without having to participate in capitalism to depend on my wellbeing

[–] awooo@pawb.social 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Depends, if it's only biological changes, I'd get myself two hearts, and minimize the chances of any disease or aging knocking me out, then become an anthro folf because being hooman is overrated

If cybernetics are allowed, I'd probably get rid of the damn body and just have a virtual one, with my brain connected to some machine deep underground

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I ain't judging the furry thing but man, I just cannot imagine wanting to trade the best graspers on land (human hands) with paws

[–] awooo@pawb.social 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think hands with pawpads and some proper claws are a good compromise :3

I'd be an anthro, so all the benefits of being hooman without being hooman (except sweating, so you'd be able to outrun me eventually)

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[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Mostly curious, but if you added simple opposable thumbs to say a cat or a dog paw, would that be bad or good?

Maybe that's a simple way to put it but like what would the consequences be it's what I'm asking.

[–] berryjam@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Make myself taller, of course. Probably adjust my wingspan a bit too, tweak my good cholesterol, things like that

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But when everyone's taller, no one will be.

[–] berryjam@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (5 children)

All the more reason to do it, no?

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[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I love my body, I am very content with every detail of it, but I would make my tongue smaller in my throat.

It's a tiny detail but it is ruining my life by slowly choking me to death at night. Some nights are good, others suck, and it's a crap shoot.

The vast array of problems this causes are difficult to properly describe, and the damage it's done to my life overall is incalculable.

If that one thing stopped being a problem and I could plan knowing it wouldn't come back, my life would change virtually overnight.

[–] uid0gid0@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Seriously, ask your doctor for a sleep study or a referral to a sleep medicine specialist.

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