• BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca
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      This is why I’m against anti aging research. I can’t get over how bad it would be if anti-aging tech arrives. Only the wealthy and powerful could afford it.

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        Depends on the flavor of the research. I’m all for still dying in my 70s but also am for being relatively fuckable until the very end.

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        Technically DIY gene therapy already exists. You probably can’t afford to do it working at McDonalds if you pay rent, but it’s something.

        But yeah, there isn’t any real reverse-aging tech, yet. Not until that lobster scientist figures out how to extend telomeres, the stem cell dudes figure out how to regenerate entire organs, and the CRISPER dudes invent a way for the cascade proteins to target degraded or virus-alterred DNA regularly. Even then, humans aren’t really built to live past reproductive ages, even a perfect genetic condition would accumulate tissues in all the wrong places.

        I think what the world truly needs is lower total populations only achievable via education and empowerment of young men and women. Mostly women. Especially the empowerment part.

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      really hope he doesnt pull a kissinger. that fuck let us wait for so long, when it actually happened, it was kinda like a wet fart

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      My man. I’ve been doing that since I was 5 years old. It is a fucking TRAVESTY that even living in 2010 during the nostolgia orgins era, PeeWee Herman never got redemption in getting his show return to CBS. Although to be fair, by the time 2010 rolled around the whole concept of Saturday morning cartoons was dead. So it would be kind of weird to sandwich PeeWee’s Playhouse between CBS morning news and Meet the Press.

      Still though…