• Moodel@feddit.uk
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    9 days ago

    This is just epic news. Well done all the scientists for making this happen. :)

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      11 days ago

      If you think anyone but the elite will be able to afford or procure these procedures, you’re incredibly optimistic.

      As soon as it gets approved, some shitty corporation will purchase the patent and lock it behind a paywall for 80+ year old geriatrics with zero fucks given towards people who actually deserve or need it.

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              10 days ago

              Are you seriously also down here saying racist shit to a Native American so that you can roleplay some flex on what you thought was just some poor USAmerican who couldn’t afford healthcare? Your good guy scenario was dunking on a poor person in an authoritarian state?

              Europeans are seriously the most bloodthirsty fucks I’ll see online, and they’re predictably the most smug about it too.

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                10 days ago

                I have no idea what you’re trying to say. Are you saying he’s NOT an American because he’s indigenous? And wtf is racist? At least now I know what his comment means. You people think everybody knows the same things you do.

                (I’m Asian BTW, but yeah go on)

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                  10 days ago

                  “It isn’t racist to call a Native American a ‘yank’ because I’m ignorant about racism.” You’re telling me that you moderate a Norwegian community, talk a shit ton about Euro nations, but you think it doesn’t make you look like a racist asshole to not know what is racist about trying to dunk on an indigenous person (who, again, you thought was just some other poor person) by calling them a term that identifies them with the occupying settler state that has committed genocide against their people.

                  Yeah dude, totally not a bloodthirsty chud.

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        10 days ago

        This drug can be delivered via pill. It has a range of effects in reversing age related damage.

        I’m not sure if it will be kept to the rich, or given out widely to justify the removal of social security, or at least jacking up the retirement age.

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          10 days ago

          If the worker-slaves live longer, you don’t have to indoctrinate & capture new ones quite as often!

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            10 days ago

            I’d like my partners knees to work again so they can do the things they like as they age, like riding bikes or hiking.

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    10 days ago

    I remember when I was a senior in high school back in the late 90s, my biology teacher mused one day that ours might be the first generation to not die of old age. I don’t know if I’m anywhere near as optimistic now as he was then, but it is incredibly exciting to think about. There have been a slew of discoveries over the past 20 years that have been building towards this, and it’s all been very fascinating. No idea if this is the grail or not, but it certainly seems like an important piece of the puzzle.

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      10 days ago

      Well, this same drug (working name MF-300) is a PDGH-15 inhibitor and has already been through phase 1 human trials for a separate condition.

      Because PDGH-15 also causes age related muscle weakness.

      Now, PDGH-15 also plays a role in cancer prevention, and there may be a few other less obvious functions.

      I don’t know if the results of the phase 1 trials have been published yet, but it’s been a while since I checked.

      I’ve been hearing about MF-300 for a little under a year, and with these same claims about restoring cartilage.

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      10 days ago

      Sorry, is this not meant to sound like you’re a Eurocentrist douchebag? Medical care and resources are already not distributed proportionately throughout the world exactly because a small number of nations benefit from a brutally extractive colonial system that requires the dehumanization of other groups to exist.

      The US doesn’t have a fucking healthcare system because it is a settler-colonial, imperialist military power that holds up the capitalist system that Europeans are such proud benefactors of. They violently enforce a system that inflicts as much precarity and vulnerability as possible on its people because it depends on preventing as many unprivileged people as possible from gaining enough resources to muster an effective challenge to its power within the metropole while maintaining its legitimacy to its more privileged working classes.

      So, what the fuck are you bitching about? Americans saying that people won’t be able to afford it? They’re correct, most people will not have access to it so that fucks like you can thanks to the US guarding the loot. Fuck’s sake with you people.

      Edit: Before any Euros try to bitch and whine about how unfair it is that you’re still colonizers, I do not care. I don’t fucking care. We are not going to do this thing where you can bitch about the US and pretend like you aren’t world destroyers for the same exact fucking reason it is. If you are not critical of how many EU and European settler nations have the wealth to sustain a healthcare system and quality of life that makes access to medicine an entitlement instead of a privilege, you’re not a serious person.

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        10 days ago

        I’m Asian. My country was colonised by Europeans till half a century ago.

        Keep going, this is funny. We’ve gone from ‘America is the only nation on earth’ to ‘oh yeah, Europe exists too’.

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          10 days ago

          Maybe orioler25 will figure out that there’s more to the world than only the US and EU :D

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    10 days ago

    This would be amazing for my wife. I mean I guess it would have been amazing if she still had her original knee. Maybe it’ll be amazing for the other knee one day.