• teft@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    The dude gets weekly dick injections which he classifies as 9.5 out of 10 on a pain scale.

    Weekly.

    Dude is a fucking moron.

  • morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de
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    i saw him on two separate youtube channels: Magnus Midtbø (norwegian climber) and Will Tennyson (bodybuilding vlogger)

    in both cases, they were invited by Bryan Johnson to his lair, going through his routine. it felt like a surreal cringe fest of zero social awareness. Bryan was permanently looking for some kind of validation, comparing his skills to his guest, or asking the various personal trainers / doctors if he beat some younger age category, etc.

    everything he does can’t be healthy and i wouldn’t call what he does “living”. he’s bound to a 24h program where everything is planned down to the minute.

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    I don’t mind this guy. He’s basically committing his time, money, and body towards being a guinea pig exploring means that could benefit us all. I do understand there are some arguments to be had about some less-than-scientific approaches to his experiments, but I don’t think it totally negates the value.

    Also, oh no, talking openly about penis health is uncomfortable to puritanical Western norms.

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      Talking about your dick is one thing. Talking about your sons dick and using your sons blood is just fucking creepy. Hope the kid gets good therapy for this crazy shit.

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      I like when Ordinary Things had a look at him. I can’t help but agree with his effort, even if his methods and theories leave a lot to be desired.

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        On a scale of billionaires most destructive to society, he seems to be very low on the list. One might argue he’s on the list of ones at least being minorly beneficial.

        But, you know, people will hate. And those people are also likely contributing little of value to society.

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      This isn’t really about dick problems, though. Check the news, check socials, many people are perfectly fine these days talking about dick problems and scientifically accepted solutions.

    • Tiger@sh.itjust.works
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      Yeah I don’t know enough about him, just glances at bits of content over time, but I agree. History is full of such over enthusiastic tinkerers who subject themselves to ridiculous experiments but every now and then they learn something useful. It is cringeworthy, though, and not ok if foisted on others.

  • youvegotmoxie@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Sucks for this guy. I’m close to his age, I drank and smoked heavily for years and I look about the age he does

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    I couldn’t get through more than about a paragraph before getting prompted to subscribe so I’m still little confused.

    Why get measurements of your child’s erections in the first place? How does this son feel about his PHI being shared all over the internet? Hard to imagine anyone being okay with that.

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      i didn’t get any prompts, and read the article, so i’ll quickly answer.

      1. the guy is obsessed with penile behaviour as a measure of overall health, for some reason, and measured the nocturnal boners of himself, as well as his 19 year old son, as a point of comparison.
      2. the son shared his dick metrics himself. seems he’s well and fully invested in his father’s phallocentric longevity scheme.
    • GBU_28@lemm.ee
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      To avoid the popup shit:

      Open page immediately Ctrl A then paste in a text editor

      Often works for me

    • MadBigote@lemmy.world
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      Idk, if I could live forever, I’d like to witness the history of humanity, ala Doctor Who.

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      i think most people don’t really want to die. and they like living for all sorts of reasons. i hope you can think of at least a few reasons you’d like to go on living as well.

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          if you don’t want to die now, and you don’t want to live forever, is there some specific age/time you would like to die, if you didn’t have to?

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            It’s an interesting question.

            After thinking over it briefly, I believe I’d like to die when I’m ready to die. I can’t declare in advance when that would be age- or time-wise and I can’t even necessarily define the conditions that would make me feel ready, as I’ve never yet felt ready to die.

            Right now, I have a little kid and a decent quality of life. I don’t want to die until my kid can be on their own and I don’t think I’d want to live after my quality of life declined past a certain point though, again, I can’t say yet what that point would be.

            I’m sorry, I know this is an unsatisfactory answer, but it’s the best I have at the moment. I’ll try to pontificate on the matter and get back to you if I come up with anything better.

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              do you want your kid to die someday as well? what if your quality of life didn’t have to become bad? immortalists such as myself (that is, people who don’t want people to have to die, and support scientific efforts to make that a reality) don’t want people to just, like, persist in a state of unending geriatric decrepitude, we want folks to be able to live as long and healthy lives as possible.

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        I don’t wanna live forever. But the act of dying is usually pretty horrible, so I wanna push that off as long as possible.

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          pushing off dying as long as possible, if done successfully, is living forever though? do you not see the contradiction in what you wrote?

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            No. Humans aren’t psychically able to be immortal without genetic engineering, which as far as the public knows, we don’t have yet. Certain death is currently hard codded into our genes. Since I wasn’t genetically modified as an embryo, I cannot live forever.

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              i feel like you’ve shifted the goalposts, here. previously, you said you didn’t want to live forever, now you’re just saying you can’t live forever.

              also, we absolutely do have genetic engineering. it’s been a thing since the 70s. the covid-19 vaccine, for instance, was a feat of genetic engineering. furthermore, techniques such as gene therapy can indeed modify the genetic information of adults.

              P.S. i assumed you meant physically, rather than psychically, but if you did mean the latter, then i have no idea what you’re talking about.

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                I can’t live forever. But I also don’t want to. The two aren’t mutually exclusive. And yes, we have genetic engineering, but nothing so far that would make humans immortal.

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      Would you like to live one extra year than your otherwise normal lifespan? Yeah?

      Yeah that’s pretty much why.

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        No, there’s too many dudes like him on the planet.

        Clear them out and we’ll readdress the question.