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Lawyer with a degree in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology. If you can't be arsed to make the world a better place, how about just not making it a worse one.

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@MilkRoadAI Now, the addition of AI is an interesting new factor, that while unpredictable, may lead to real changes in what we can do to halt aging. One that wasn’t even on the radar when Kurzweil first championed this theory. 4/4

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@MilkRoadAI Unfortunately, this version of escape velocity is not likely to be correct (and this coming from an advocate for anti-aging research). The extra 5 months of life expectancy for every year you survive is an increase in the average lifespan only. 1/n

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@MilkRoadAI So, at best, unless something really changes, everyone will reach the current maximum lifespan (around 125 years?) but still die after that. No escape, regardless of the velocity. 3/n

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@MilkRoadAI There is currently very little evidence for being able to increase maximum life span. So, at best, the "life increase" Kurzweil is citing will hit a wall in terms of any given individual. 2/n

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@rhondamorton @Rainmaker1973 @1JudiB It’s okay…the paint is natural and non-toxic. Made from wholesome ground flamingo, polar bear and similar ecologically-friendly sources.

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@MarkMazurik @stats_feed @elonmusk Yes. Because in non-recessionary times, the government is supposed to move to pay down the deficit and even move to a surplus is possible.

But that never happens. Because traditionally, you never get rewarded by voters for spending less.

Maybe at least not until now...?

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@GrandpaSeth2 @CharlesMBrenner To avoid seeming too confrontational, my point is mainly that while the debate re the healthiness of seed oils is important, how something was originally discovered or used isn’t a legitimate input into such a debate.

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@GrandpaSeth2 @CharlesMBrenner Yes, but ivermectin is indeed used in spades on horses. However, a more instructive example here is methylene blue. It was literally developed as a fabric dye. Does that mean it should automatically be dismissed, along with those who use it, medically?

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@GrandpaSeth2 @CharlesMBrenner Why, that might make RFK Jr. a crackpot.

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@GrandpaSeth2 @CharlesMBrenner The point is you (@GrandpaSeth2) are doing exactly what I assume you would have objected to re the whole ivermectin thing (assuming something about you here, but still…)

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@GrandpaSeth2 @CharlesMBrenner Calling seed oils “engine lubricant” is no better than when the msm referred to ivermectin, a drug the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, as “horse paste” to belittle it and its adherents during Covid (not that it likely is of any real benefit there).

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@jeangeniemarie @catturd2 @wearebetrayed Sadly shocked to see (hear?) a reasonable voice on this. Life is hard (undoubtedly harder for her) and the human psyche weaker than most people wish to think.

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@MissRed_Roses @M_McDonough Correct. After the 1929 crash and depression, also associated with tariffs, everything was back to even a mere 25 years later (and far longer in inflation-adjusted terms).

Think of how many wrinkles you’ll have by then. Is that still your definition of “fine”?

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@MandyJones61906 @babybeginner It’s about having their “gender” validated. One U.S. trans female athlete made it clear in a tweet that their acceptance onto the university’s woman’s athletic team (forget which sport) was the ultimate validation of their identity as a woman.

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@Sussex5525 His mother's legacy is a whining git?

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@Keir_Starmer How about cracking down on the people *committing* knife crime. And not turning a blind eye precisely because of the background or ethnicity of the people committing the violence.

Now *that* would be leadership.

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@fitterhappierAJ Where is the paper? And do you mean the American Association of Immunologists? There is no “American Association of *Immunology*” that I can see.

Put your money whete your mouth is and refer us to the paper of which you speak.

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@Purina Hey Purina, unless “selica gel” is a new invention of yours, did a major company (that would be you) distribute a product to retailers with an obvious typo on the packaging lol

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@agingdoc1 @chydorina Both reports were heralded in the newspaper as “Cause of Alzheimer’s Discovered” etc. Neither news report appeared to have any “awareness “ of the other.

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@agingdoc1 @chydorina I remember this being reported in the news around 20 or 25 years ago. The same week, a different report came out that Alzheimer’s was caused by a type of insulin resistance in the brain.