No it isn't. All this microphone leak tells us is that these leaders are very far away from reality.
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Man inadvertently broadcasts his insecurities and how he copes.
Yeah, other than the horrific ghoulishness of it all, organ failure after transplant and rejection is still relatively high, and you have to be on medicine to prevent that rejection your entire life. You're going down Putin old boy.
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Yeah, you can't just stick a new engine in an old car when the frame is rusted out and ready to give way
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I hope to never have to experience one organ transplant. They are morons if they think this is an elective option you’d want to do multiple times. Every single time is a threat to your life.
And life-long immunosuppressants with the constant mortal fear of a cough or runny nose. Sepsis is no joke and can easily develop in a matter of hours if you don't have a healthy immune system.
I hope we gain more control over our immune systems in the coming years. They protect us, but they can also kill us. I have people in my family with life threatening allergies, and gosh it would be amazing if we could just get our bodies to accept a transplanted organ that is literally keeping them alive.
It'll happen. But not for poor people.
It tells us they're fucking morons. So nothing new.
Are they hoping for Jupiter, or Repo the Genetic Opera? Because this isn't even close to Gattaca.
Either way, this has been a Science Fiction Movie.
Put yourself through traumatic surgery and then load yourself up with immune suppressants in a world that's gonna develop more and more pandemics.
...do it. Do it do it do it.
Our one saving grace in this post truth, post experts aren't Johnny with a 4 chan account world, is that these dictators are so fucking stupid. Let them think they could have multiple organs from multiple "donors". Sad part is we might lose a doctor or two when the bad hit outside the park, was dropped.
Traumatic surgery, sure.
But I assume the plan is to build replacement organs with your own dna, not transplants from donors.
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“Drink the blood of children and live forever!!!!!”
Sure, cuz old sick people bounce right back easily from complex major surgeries like transplants.
I keep hearing people make this argument. This seems to presume that these insane blood thirsty dictators discussing immortality, are also rational individuals who wouldn't be willing to stockpile organs first, then die trying.
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Shhhh! Shut up! **Shut the fuck up!**
This is a chance he'll die on the OR table!
yeah this isn't WH 40K. You can't make a "Primaris Putin" and "continuous organ transplants" are only going to top you out at a few extra years, maybe, unless this fucker has somehow struck a deal with Nurgle or Khorne or some other Warp entity.
Now if his flesh starts bubbling and his intestines are suddenly on the outside of his body and he grows a maw on his shoulder? yeah then I'd start worrying.
Has anyone seen his shoulders lately? It's been a long time since that shirtless pic of him riding a horse...
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Start with the brain
So in other words, "immortality" until the brain cancer is inoperable.
Seems deeply unlikely to work. The body only has so much capacity to heal from surgery, and that capacity diminishes with age, so eventually your surgeries would become too close together and you wouldn't ever fully heal. At that point you might end up happier as a brain in a jar.
Death from unnatural causes aside, there are so many potentially fatal complications involved with an organ transplant, and even if you dodge all those bullets, there is the simple fact that we degenerate at a cellular level. None of us are on this Earth for long: rich, poor, president or janitor, death will not discriminate.
It's really bad for the rich and powerful to forget that. Like partly for the people whose organs they'll steal, but also just like for their psyches. Like, they're clearly losing it.
Honestly even Rome (the republic) managed to be healthier about it. The element of the memento mori in the triumph, was just healthy. Sure you can have your great celebration honoring your conquest, but a slave will be following you reminding you that you too will die the entire time.
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May the pursuit of immortality go as well for him as it did for Qin Shi Huang.
how did it go for that guy?
His tomb is so toxic archeologists can't risk opening it. Turns out mercury is really cool but not the secret to immortality.
Continuously?
"Liver is in, Bob, go fetch the next one. I'll take this one out."
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If it does happen, it’s only going to be for the absolute worst people in the world…fortunately, they still won’t be immune to guillotines.
In Russia, heart surgeon, #1!
Biological or effective immortality would be the worst fucking technology for humans to discover right now.
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It won't help Putin. Organs don't help when you are falling out of a window
He should start immediately... Triple heart bypass!
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When it does the tech will be controlled by, horded by, and available only to the ultra-wealthy, which should come as a surprise to no one.
In Rome, during a triumph, the celebrated general would have a slave required to remind him that he would one day die.
These globe striding tyrants need this now, but one guy reminding them during their parties simply isn't enough. Every moment of their lives should feature that reminder. Like tinnitus but "Memento Mori" (or its equivalent in their native tongue).
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I would like both of them to get brain transplants and see if they survive
I swear, this time we really have found the fountain of youth!
Let us agree now: If 50% of your organs were transplanted within the past 18 years that is not a loophole that exempts you from anti pedophelia laws.
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can't wait until he goes to hell.
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