The billionaire who wants to live forever just admitted he has long covid. Specifically, covid wrecked his lungs. If you haven’t come across him, Bryan Johnson is a 46-year-old tech bro who cashed out a few years ago and now spends all his time trying not to die.

The billionaire who wants to live forever just admitted he has long covid. Specifically, covid wrecked his lungs.

If you haven’t come across him, Bryan Johnson is a 46-year-old tech bro who cashed out a few years ago and now spends all his time trying not to die.

He has been interviewed by most mainstream news outlets where he has documented his extreme and bizarre quest for immortality. From a story in The Guardian:

“He rises at 4.30am, eats all his meals before 11am, and goes to bed – alone – at 8.30pm, without exception. He ingests more than 100 supplement pills daily and bathes his body in LED light. Two of the three meals he eats every day are exactly the same: boiled broccoli, cauliflower, mushrooms and garlic, nuts and seeds. He takes 54 pills in the morning, and the rest in between skin treatments and red-light therapy. He doesn’t drink alcohol, and doesn’t go out in the evening. He experimented with injecting himself with blood plasma from his 18-year-old son Talmage.”

Lol, and indeed, lmao

  • Flyberius [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    12·
    10 months ago

    I had so many friends at school who wanted to be journalists. I often wonder how many made it, and what garbage they are writing now, and what atrocities they are whitewashing.

    • DragonBallZinn [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      At first I wanted to be a journalist, but there are way too many problems with that:

      • No one’s hiring
      • The Anglosphere has an intense INTENSE brand loyalty to Fox News and refuse to hear anything else that might challenge their biases that they hold sacrosanct
      • AI
      • Even if you’re able to find a job at a “progressive” news outlet, you’re going to be controlled opposition at best and be forced to say the dreaded BuT aT wHaT cOsT over anything good China does.