What is goal - make it take 20 years to do its dirty work? lengthen each stage? If you think "the long goodbye" lengthend is reduced patient suffering - it isn't.

Ever been in one of these human storage units? a lot of dementia patients lay around screaming when not drugged out of what is left of their minds. Eventually, the mind rot gets to the point where their organs start failing. Fortunately at that point, things start happening faster.

What I wonder about is let's say we eliminate dementia. What is next? Something is going to kill us. In the end, let's say we tack on another 50 years. Where people live to an average of around 140 years. The problem is all of that comes on the old end of the scale. If life extension tacked those years onto my 40's, I'd sign right up. We have a few people making it to the century mark largely intact mentally and physically. They are the anomaly.

So many of us have been brainwashed into believing that we are at fault for anything that happens to us.

Reminds me of the test for Huntingdon's Chorea. When it came out, it was hailed as something great. We don't hear about it so much now.

So same for Alzheimers. The only benefit I can see, and it's a nasty one - is that the person, when they know how they are going to die, can elect to delete themselves when the symptoms start.

My MIL was also diagnosed, and while she took "anti-Alzheimer's" drugs to mitigate, if it did anything, all it did was delay the inevitable. If it did anything, all it did was lengthen each stage, although when hitting the organ deterioration stage where teh brain stops controlling the body at all - that proceeded at normal speed once it started.

Exactly as my experience suggests as well!

People who are deeply partisan or utterly in love with a single politician don't understand people who despise a politician specifically because of their actions and policies. It's particularly confusing for them when this is baised towards one party or the other because parties tend to stick to similar sorts of things in the short to medium term.

The blind partisans can't tell the difference between that and being blindly partisan like themselves.

So, they assume that like themselves you don't judge the actual actions of the person.

And my dear, there always has been. What is your plan to ensure that no person in any country is starving?

I agree. The postmodern deconstructionism was to the point where it was denying biology. A few of my more left wing female relatives cannot define what a woman or even male or female is, and they are firmly convinced that men playing women's sports is a natural thing, because men and women are physically identical.

They still believe that it is important to transition as early as possible, with drugs and surgery, and that we must cherish children's right to change their sex, even though DNA testing defines male and female, and does so post surgery.

And before the apologists claim otherwise, in GB they were pumping drugs into children as young as 9, and in the US they were performing great amputation surgery and drug intervention on children.

So. unless they want more trumpian rule, yeah, time to drop the insanity.

Because where does this end? I can declare that I am a wooly caterpillar and that must be accepted.

I hope so. Whatever we are experiencing at present is not competence, and the right wing party are embarrassing cowards. They are just as bad as the woke. Woke are objectively nuts, the far right are an insult to adulthood, fearful and almost beneath contempt.

If you aren't a coward, don't post as coward. You chose to define yourself as that, I merely agree with you, since when is agreeing with a person's self definition an ad hominem attack?

Post as coward, be a coward. Pretty simple stuff

My pronouns are majesty and eminence. You may refer to my as "Your Majesty".

And how DARE anyone tell me those are not pronouns! I can define my pronouns as I wish, and others must accept and cherish that.

This. a million times this. Even way back in the day. As teens, my buds and I had zero trouble getting alcohol, cigarettes, had no trouble getting pR0n, some of us had little trouble getting devil's lettuce.

All while we supposedly were not able to so such things. But we figured out how. I even figured out how to make wine.

Some of us got pregnant, some of us figured out not to get pregnant. Some of us figured out how to commit crimes. Sadly, some of us deleted ourselves.

All without ChatGPT. At that time, things like the Beatles Helter Skelter. or Black Sabbath was causing teens to do bad things, along with Dancing and youth subcultures, comic books movies like horror films and television.

This isn't an argument against protecting the teens, but it is saying that whatever we do, they'll figure out how to get around it.

Dropped dow to coward level to disagree with me. Even though you have to log in as you. You are the true definition of coward. Ewwwwwwwww!

Probably after all the jobs are gone, humanity won't mind when you starve to death.

Lunar science is performed by nations other than the US. The EU, Italy, Japan, China, Canada, Russia, India, Other countries get involved. Different countries have different avenues of science.

You frame it as some sort of nationalism. I do not. If I need answers on matters Lunar - which doesn't happen often - I look up the individual or groups who has addressed the matter I am interested in, from a related paper.

I am not a "you guys". And your trying to frame it as nationalism butthurt is rather humorous, and says a lot more about you than me.

You could have disagreed, But you put the pinnacle of your intellect on display for the world to see.

Honeychild, give mommy and daddy their computer back, because 5th grader playground insults are so 5th grade.

Really? You think I said that Apple supplies drivers flor every piece of hardware? Argue at least honestly.

Apple writes drivers for equipment that is used on their computers. Is your need to disagree that strong? I know you hate me, but I look at the situation that I don't mind pissing you off, comrade.

Well, aside from an actual "free market" not existing, you are spot on.

I've built up some wealth, gradually, and yes - it requires investments.

Pretty much this. I have one of those "specialist jobs" but even that money is used for investments once beyond the basics. It helps. But you have to work at it. I couldn't invest seriously until I hit my late 40's.

Now for people upset about other people having more money than they do, the question isn't about greed, the question for them is about what is keeping them from accumulating wealth. Is it Elon Musk? Bill Gates?

I surely do not have as much money as either, but they surely are not the reason I don't have as much as them, or even more than I have now. That other's money is keeping people from having their own measure of wealth is a cop-out.

If a person wants wealth, they could do a lot better than heaping hate and derision on those who have a bit of money. and if they don't care to have a bit, why waste the energy?