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[-] apftwb@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago

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

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

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

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 1 week ago

Not if you don't live in the US. Everyone's going to be immortal except you guys.

[-] blarghly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I'll go to Colombia and get it done there.

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[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 37 points 1 week ago

Oh cool, so the average age of Congress will be able to reach into the 100s now! Sick! I can't wait to die on the job so our democratically elected leaders can watch over my kids, grandkids, and great-grandkids.

[-] murmelade@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hah! Running with this thought in a more optimistic path, perhaps 50-100 more years of psychological maturity is exactly what's required for our leaders to reach a more benevolent state.

[-] luisgutz@feddit.uk 10 points 1 week ago

Our leaders are all narcissistic. There is hardly any benevolence in them !

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

Can we please leave them to stew in their prenatal vats until then, though?

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[-] SunshineJogger@feddit.org 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A cure to aging would sound much better if the current society were not so fucked up.

If this works it will get clained by the rich elite and fuck everyone else

[-] Widdershins@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

They have been making auto and semiauto injectors to shorten the lives of the rich elites for a while now. We just need to convince them to take the shot.

[-] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 23 points 1 week ago

Breaking news: retirement age is increased by 25%

[-] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Oh fuck that! Gimme the suicide booth already!

[-] PowerChopper@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah realistically this is what would happen instead of allowing people to enjoy their lives longer.

I wonder how such an 'anti body' would work in terms of life and health quality for older people that would be taking it.

[-] lol_idk@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Nfamwap@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Retire at 80, if you're lucky

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[-] Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 1 week ago

Ea ch injection will cost $1M to make sure only the "right" people get them.

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Trebuchet@europe.pub 12 points 1 week ago

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

[-] IAmLamp@fedia.io 33 points 1 week ago

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

[-] TeoTwawki@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Everyone so concerned about artificial intelligence that they forgot natural stupidity is still the biggest unsolved issue.

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[-] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago

If we can live just as long as we do now but in better health it would be amazing.

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[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

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

[-] blarghly@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Idk, I'm not rich and id like to stop getting older. Hell, if I could just stay my current age and then die of cancer in 30 years, that'd be great.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

Do you think it is not a widespread or harmful condition?

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

Nobody tell that fucking weirdo

[-] reksas@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 week ago

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

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 20 points 1 week ago

Imagine having to pay subscription to stay healthy / alive

This is everyone who takes medication to manage a disease/disorder.

Imagine having to pay subscription to stay healthy / alive

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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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[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

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?

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

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

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days 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.

[-] GoodTransKitty@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago

Antibody? I’m pro body.

[-] Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago

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

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] theUwUhugger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Maybe funding illegal human experiments for longevity on a container ship in international waters is Elon Musk‘s next project.

[-] theUwUhugger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

What I find disturbing about his brain chips is the lack of news… I would think the guy that bought a social media site, then virtually forced all its users to follow him would brag that he found his cock on the research site… But nothing? I reckon something went awry!

If some collossal fuckup were to happen/ happened that would bankrupt the whole field for decades!

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[-] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

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