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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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[–] bss03@infosec.pub 3 points 4 months ago (1 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.

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Once every 7 years. You have to wait that long for your body to stabilize after using it.

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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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[–] 0laura@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

fix my heart and make myself cis. no "improvements"

[–] 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.

[–] 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.

[–] Excrubulent 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 4 months ago (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] berryjam@lemmy.world 2 points 4 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 4 months ago (1 children)

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

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

All the more reason to do it, no?

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

No. The actual benefit stops as soon as you can reach the highest thing you regularly need to.

Being shorter keeps away a large amount of shallow people who seem to think 6 feet is a magical number.

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