Pig-human organ transplants make me think of The Onion series, Porkin' Across America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwQns6vGfj4&list=PL4NL9i-Fu1...
Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant
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Re: Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant
#32It would be interesting what the genetically modified pig looks like.
They have nothing special visually.
https://www.kgri.keio.ac.jp/en/research-frontiers/papers/202...
There are talks to breed them smaller for better handling, as they need to live inside the regulated facility. Having a human size animal roaming around is physically complicated to deal with.
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#33I was just thinking about heart transplants and how they’re treated as commonplace now, but they are nuts when you think about them.
You can hook up the nerve wires and blood pipes from one body into the heart from another body and it works? Just thinking about the simple physical connections would make me nervous. Why isn’t there blood just leaking out in your body? Why isn’t that other heart sliding out of place while you move around?
Re: Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant
#34“Xenotransplantation” is pretty #%^*ing metal. It’s pretty wild being alive these days. Lots of big stuff the species is struggling to adapt to and figure out how to exist with. But also… we got the tablets from Star Trek. And now we have the ship’s computer from Star Trek, and the early makings of the holodeck. And we’re making pigmen senior citizens who would otherwise be dead. It’s quite something to stop and thin…
Meanwhile we can’t figure out how to provide a basic level of housing and healthcare to everyone.
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#35I have always wondered what decision I would make facing such a health concern.
> Reaching 12 months would be another milestone and a “fantastic long-term outcome”, he adds.
I am surprised by this being considered a long-term outcome though. Going through the high risk of a kidney transplant, immunosuppression required, risk of using a pig kidney in general, etc seems like a lot if the hope is for 12 months as a long-term unlikelihood.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Provide with what money? Every major country is an ocean of debt
Actually tax the rich?
Insane take. Even if you confiscated ALL the money from all the billionaires (instant 100% wealth tax) and spread it to everyone worldwide, it would be a one time sum of under $2000. And what then?
Re: Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant
#37“Xenotransplantation” is pretty #%^*ing metal. It’s pretty wild being alive these days. Lots of big stuff the species is struggling to adapt to and figure out how to exist with. But also… we got the tablets from Star Trek. And now we have the ship’s computer from Star Trek, and the early makings of the holodeck. And we’re making pigmen senior citizens who would otherwise be dead. It’s quite something to stop and thin…
Meanwhile we can’t figure out how to provide a basic level of housing and healthcare to everyone.
Tough problem when laziness and low IQ both correlate to high reproduction.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://ips-dc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/fy-2023-fed-bu...
Defense is only 13% of federal spending: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder... Military spending has actually decreased a lot as a % of GDP in the US over time, so old narratives about this have become less true. So the anti-military-spending orgs have to abuse the numbers if they want to keep that narrative going: https://econofact.org/u-s-defense-spending-in-historical-and... Though, a rea…
>> poor value for money across a variety of sectors
Yup this. I went in for a cardiac stress test a few months ago. Less than 30 minutes in a room with a treadmill, an ekg machine and a low-mid level technician. $10k.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually tax the rich?
Insane take. Even if you confiscated ALL the money from all the billionaires (instant 100% wealth tax) and spread it to everyone worldwide, it would be a one time sum of under $2000. And what then?
Spend the money on things of actual value rather than distributing it equally among a group of people who will inevitably just spend it on an iPhone?
Re: Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant
#40Pig-human organ transplants make me think of The Onion series, Porkin' Across America. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwQns6vGfj4&list=PL4NL9i-Fu1...
So I'm not alone who knows about this series.