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[–] 46 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Just think of all the additional years of diligent service our Congress members can offer us!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Ah yes, we shouldn't do research into a condition that harms literally everyone because there are a handful of people we don't like who suffer from it.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    In reality they'd just price it so only the rich can afford it. It's not that complicated.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    That's how all medical advances work, they are expensive when they are first developed and then over time they generally become cheaper as patents expire and processes are refined.

    Once upon a time only a handful of people could get insulin to treat their diabetes. When it was first discovered you had to process huge numbers of pancreases to extract enough for one person. Should we have opposed research into treating diabetes because only the rich would be able to afford it?

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    They can get more years of service out of us while charging us for this miracle drug. We'll have to keep working to afford our medical bills

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I don't know that I want the current elderly generation to live longer. Can we hold off on this for.... Idk, say, 15 years until they all die off naturally?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Why? So that you can live longer and the next generation can whine about you?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I already don't like voting. I'm pretty sure most millennials only vote because there's generally one insane option, and one complete lunatic option, and we just want things to get worse as slowly as possible.

    Give us anything that resembles rational and we'll just let the next generation take the reigns.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    what happens if you take it and then stop? Since it adds somekind of antibody, what if it starts replacing/ degenerating your bodys natural system and you get some horrible withdrawal effects if you stop taking it?

    Imagine having to pay subscription to stay healthy / alive

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm sure they already have the four colour glossy brochures ready for distribution, as well as financing scenarios for the less cash endowed, so that nobody feels excluded. Who wouldn't skip a few meals to be healthy after all?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Antibody? I’m pro body.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    We really seem to be heading torward a Red Rising esque future huh

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Don't worry, fellow plebs! I'm sure the ruling class'll let us have some.

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  • Oh, good. WCGW? I’m sure the shot will be widely available for a low cost, right?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Not sure we need to "cure" aging...

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Could someone get to work on curing stupid first? Then we can work on the aging part.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Sir/Madame Trebuchet, your cousins of the weighted blade are already a tried & true solution to aristocrat aging.

    Also, I think I just found the name for my new anarcho metal band — if you're available to fill in on timpani/kettle drum, et al.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Plenty of underfunded extremely disabling illnesses to spend money on instead of “curing” aging to fulfill rich able bodied people’s fantasies.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Sounds good but likely nothing will come of it!

    The only thing holding biology and its thousand medical fields is its self imposed ethical restrictions! We can genetically modify rats to have or not to have genetical diseases; we can make them bigger, stronger, live longer… We can make them fucking glow in the dark! But by being in the same class, we are very very very different animals! The large majority if invented medicines will go nowhere as they are almost exclusively tested on rats until the finished product is tried to be licensed…

    Not to be misunderstood, I don’t want thousands of baby girls to die in testicular cancer! Nor do I know of a better way, I am just mildly annoyed at the holdback in holding up our duty to humanity

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The rumours suggest China is harvesting organs from uighar prisoners. What's to stop them from using them to test various chemicals?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    International backlash if they wanna use the data as the entirety of its research must be made available to the peers, you can’t forge 1000-s of case studies! Could be done retroactively, but that would add 5-10y down the line

    Also do you know how insanely expensive organs are? I really don’t think those are used for research

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I think people should age, I think max 80 years is good and after that you are just being a dick

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Supercentenarians show us up to 120 years at a high quality of life (everything else is being a dick) is feasible in theory.

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