How could you possibly know that the treatments to reverse againg aren’t going to be costly?
Any sane country
Have you seen how things have been going lately? Billionaires are literally destroying our planet for profit, and judging by the politics they support their endgame seems to be total control over the population, not any kind of longterm development of national wealth.
There is just about zero chance that those changes would filter down to the masses, so hopefully that doesn’t happen. I don’t want billionaires to live forever, that would be some real life vampire shit.
I challenge you to find a 120yo machine near you that is in working condition.
That is certainly the logic that porn sites use.
I thought you just did that anyway!
crunchbangplusplus and bunsenlabs exist as successors-in-spirit to crunchbang!
Someone tried it this year: https://www.xda-developers.com/i-tried-hannah-montana-linux-in-2025/
TL;DR complete failure. It hasn’t been updated in 10 years.
My mom would sometimes serve sweet pancakes for lunch. Even as a kid, I didn’t really like it - it’s tasty, but it just doesn’t fill you up well.
It’s even harder to ignore people who are talking to you, or are just talking loudly in general.
Definitely. My grandfather died like 3 years into his retirement. His early death was kinda avoidable (he had a pretty unhealthy lifestyle and avoided going to doctors even though it’s fairly cheap in our country), but even people with healthy lifestyles can die early from accidents or diseases.
On the flipside, my grandmother is still doing pretty well more than a decade later. But she’d probably prefer spending her retirement with her husband.
It doesn’t fall off immediately, though. For a lot of people, at least the first couple of years as pensioners are quite livable, especially in countries that have a low retirement age relative to their life expectancy (e.g. Japan).
Responsibilities definitely go down again when you become a pensioner, and many employees who don’t make it into management have to leave their job because of age discrimination or health issues at some point before pension, at which point the usually get a job that requires fewer qualifications and thus usually comes with fewer responsibilities.
How does the tendency to monopolize fit into this? A monopolized market doesn’t seem very decentralized.
I’d assume that capitalists aren’t happy about getting their ships nabbed by hostile navies, either. Generally, the only ones who get rich off this kind of violence and usually get away with it are the capitalists who build weapons, and only if their country never gets occupied.
Fair point.
Concentrated salt water might be a waste product, but the plant was built on purpose. How long does it need to operate before the costs amortisize? Even if we’re looking at greenhouse gases, most building materials aren’t exactly climate-friendly - concrete in particular is a huge emitter of greenhouse gases.
The people who designed built the plant probably calculated all this, but the article doesn’t go into it and with novel technologies like this, it’s generally not safe to just assume that a given plant makes any economical or environmental sense.
Far cry from “perpetual free energy scheme”, though.
It’s pretty common to produce table salt by dehydrating sea water. This saltwater electricity plant doesn’t produce salt, though, since the basis of their electricity generation process is diluting concentrated salt water.
I didn’t downvote you, it’s probably a good idea to not make assumptions like that.
I’m not from the US - again, don’t assume. That said, billionaires in other countries aren’t any different, they just aren’t quite as far yet on their road to neo-feudalism or whatever else fucked up system is their endgame. They sure aren’t throwing their weight behind anti-fascist endeavors.
Oh, my sweet summer child …