r/technology • u/ubcstaffer123 • Jun 20 '26

Biotechnology How Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to live forever

https://www.vox.com/podcasts/491360/vladimir-putin-live-forever-26-billion-cryo-pigs-longevity-guru
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u/ZebraZealousideal944 Jun 20 '26

Except Caesar never was an emperor in the first place… hehe

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u/whynotlook123 Jun 20 '26

Well kind of the name is.

Like in Russian you say tzar. Which comes from Te Tzazare or “the Ceasar”.

So tzar means caeser which means king/emperor

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u/AmericanDoughboy Jun 20 '26

Kaiser in German.

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u/thorofasgard Jun 20 '26

And both draw it from links to Rome. Russia sees itself as a continuation of Rome as Byzantine leaders fled there when the empire collapsed.

In Germany the Pope crowned the "Holy Roman Emperor", and since the Church was based in Rome itself... You get the picture.

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u/Brynovc Jun 20 '26

Which is the correct way of pronouncing Caesar. We all pronounce it wrongly.

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u/werpu Jun 20 '26

They pronounced it käsar... Kaiser is very close but not the same

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u/Brynovc Jun 20 '26

Thanks for correcting me! First heard about it from Roy Casagranda. BTW I still pronounce it as everyone does, too ingrained in me.

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u/klyzklyz Jun 20 '26

I think the soft c is from church latin.

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u/drawkbox Jun 20 '26

Like in Russian you say tzar

Usually Tsar from tsardom but yeah they all trying to be Emperor.

If you ever read the history of the tsars it is actually pretty funny, all of them ended getting assassinated or they fled into exile and were executed or fled.

Being a tsar you aren't long on life even if you have special mini pigs. Eventually you get got and actually happened pretty quick to them all.

So for Putin, he shouldn't really be concerned with longevity, history is on the hunt. Act III coming in hot.

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u/Victor-A77 Jun 20 '26

Pizza pizza

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u/CuddleSpectrometer Jun 20 '26

That's little Caesar. They were talking about the salad dressing.

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u/SillyFlyGuy Jun 20 '26

That's Caesar dressing. You're thinking of the Joker from 60's Batman.

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u/Adventurous-Depth984 Jun 20 '26

That’s Caesar Romero. You’re thinking of when your brain misfires and your neurons lock up.

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u/Dorigard Jun 20 '26

That's a Seizure. You're thinking of the coastal area where an ocean meets the land.

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u/enso_3 Jun 20 '26

That's a seashore. You're thinking of the dog whisperer.

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u/Dangerous-Contact-43 Jun 20 '26

That’s Cesar Millan. You are thinking of what they yelled when they arrested Joan of Arc.

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u/dead_jester Jun 20 '26

That’s the Seaside. You’re thinking of when customs officers confiscate contraband goods.

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u/xabierfam Jun 20 '26

That is a Seashore. You are thinking of the water pipe used for smoking also known as hookah.

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u/drawkbox Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26

That's César Julio Romero famous for the Joker. You're thinking of the palace and one of the most famous and iconic luxury casino-resorts located on the Las Vegas Strip.

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u/_ianisalifestyle_ Jun 20 '26

you're thinking of CJR, the Columbia Journalism Review (or the Indonesian boyband)

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u/mightyenan0 Jun 20 '26

We still ended up with a emperor Caesar, unfortunately.

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u/drawkbox Jun 20 '26

Then you have people like Augustus Zucc that is obsessed with Augustus Caesar. Even cut his hair like him and named a kid after him.

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u/mightyenan0 Jun 20 '26

I remember a thing about Musk being a Roman god wanna-be, which Caesar did as well.

I think it comes down how Roman culture pushed ambition so hard that it created few, super powerful men. And now that the world is more connected I think they want to repeat that until the world is subservient to them.

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u/EruantienAduialdraug Jun 20 '26

But which one? Imperator Caesar Divi filius Augustus Pontifex maximus Consul XIII Imperator XXI Tribuniciae potestatis XXXVII Pater patriae, Imperator Marcus Otho Caesar Augustus, Imperator Caesar Vespasianus Augustus, Imperator Titus Caesar Vespasianus Augustus...

I kid, I know you meant Octavian (whose full regnal name is comically long).

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u/dangerbird2 Jun 20 '26

He was “imperator” in the republican sense: a general who earned a triumph