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Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant

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Re: Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant

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ianbutler wrote: post #56
stackbutterflow wrote: post #45

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Then the former billionaires won't have the ability to influence society to pass laws that favours them. We'll finally be able to build a society for everyone.

> We'll finally be able to build a society for everyone. I assure you this isn't the only blocker and its naive to think that [other_set_of_humans] will not try to consolidate power for themselves after you remove the current set. Most people are not in it for their fellow man and whoever sold you this idea that billionaires are the only impediment to, or even blocking now, a better society -- lied to you. By all mea…

Maybe but society was more egalitarian when we did so maybe we start there.

Re: Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant

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Post by abxyz »

will_pseudonym wrote: post #31

Pig-human organ transplants make me think of The Onion series, Porkin' Across America. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwQns6vGfj4&list=PL4NL9i-Fu1...

well, that was horrifying. I’m getting a “Do Not Transplant Pig Organs” tattoo urgently.

Re: Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant

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Post by irjustin »

d6e wrote: post #41
SoftTalker wrote: post #5

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Meanwhile we can’t figure out how to provide a basic level of housing and healthcare to everyone.

Housing can be affordable or an investment. It can't be both

At a system level - in Singapore it is. HDB (public) for affordable, private for everything else. 75+% of housing is part of the HDB system.

Re: Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant

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Post by macinjosh »

guidedlight wrote: post #70
SoftTalker wrote: post #5

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Meanwhile we can’t figure out how to provide a basic level of housing and healthcare to everyone.

The US can’t. This has long been solved in other countries, to varying degrees.

can't? lol. more like doesn't want to. not everyone in the world shares your personal values.

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Post by sadeshmukh »

andrewmutz wrote: post #67
MobiusHorizons wrote: post #57

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Really? I think I can agree that the zoning isn't helping, but claiming we have figured it out seems like bold claim. Where _is_ it working? My impression is that housing costs are increasing faster than inflation and wages not only in North America, but also in the UK and EU, which don't have the same kinds of zoning laws.

It’s working in Japan

I wouldn't believe most in the US would live in Japanese style housing at all.

Re: Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant

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Post by krackers »

6SixTy wrote: post #47
parpfish wrote: post #33

I 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 wh…

Fun fact: the nerves between the brain and heart are never reattached. A heart already has all of the facilities to keep working all by itself. Even weirder is that an adult kidney transplanted into a child will actually shrink to fit.

But presumably the nerves between the brain and heart exist for a reason. What functionality do you lose by not reattaching them? Do things like "heart beating faster when nervous" depend on this nerve signaling, or is it done via other chemical signaling.
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