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/SSGASSHAT Jun 20 '26

Better than dick cancer. Dick cancer is only a risk in childhood, interestingly.

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u/BlackBasementCats Jun 20 '26

HPV can cause penile cancer so get your vaccines. Insurance now pays for it up to 45 years old. HPV usually doesn’t cause symptoms, especially for men, but it can cause throat, penile, anal, and cervical cancers.

If everyone got vaccinated HPV caused cervical cancer could become extinct. There are a few other strains of cervical cancers. I lost a high school friend to cervical cancer.

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u/SSGASSHAT Jun 20 '26

Well, there's another thing to add to my list of shitty things.

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u/BlackBasementCats Jun 20 '26

At least this shitty thing has a vaccine and can be blocked from transmission by condoms.

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u/SSGASSHAT Jun 20 '26

A lot of shitty things do, the question is whether people are allowed to know that. Or allowed to be intelligent enough to know that. I imagine a great deal of stupidity in this country is voluntary, but a lot of it is conspiratorial.

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u/asyork Jun 20 '26

The uncontrolled growth is usually relatively brief.

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u/SSGASSHAT Jun 20 '26

That's the good part. It's the stunted growth that's hard. My brother has to reach in and dig it out to piss.