Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin have been caught on a hot mic talking about the potential of medicine to extend human life spans and "perhaps even achieve immortality".

Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin have been caught on a hot mic talking about the potential of medicine to extend human life spans and “perhaps even achieve immortality”.

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  • DandomRude@lemmy.worldEnglish
    186·
    3 months ago

    That’s pretty much exactly the topic of conversation I would have expected when two megalomaniacs meet.

  • drspod@lemmy.mlEnglish
    179·
    3 months ago

    We need better safeguards against the mentally ill taking and holding power in our countries.

    These types of mental illness (addiction to power, money, status) naturally lead towards positions of power. If we don’t actively prevent it from happening, we will always be controlled by malignant megalomaniacs.

    Bring back sortition.

    • brillotti@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      These positions are pursued by these kinds of people specifically because they reward those kinds of behaviours. I’d even argue it’s required to seek power, money, and status in order to climb the political ladder.

  • Omega@discuss.onlineEnglish
    22·
    3 months ago

    its as if it’s an attempt to one up the depravity of the west to make themselves seem worse