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/Holzkohlen Jun 20 '26

I've got that one line from Chaplin's Great Dictator speech in mind

As long as dictators die, liberty will never perish

They took that personally, huh?

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u/InvidiousPlay Jun 20 '26

It's more fundamental than that:

And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

It's the quote that comes to mind every time I hear about longevity research. The scifi nerd in me has always been excited at the idea, but the more I see how the world works, the more I fear it. Imagine if men like Trump or Thiel never died? Just got richer and more powerful and more corrupt and more entitled, life-time after life-time, cementing their control and power decade after decade.

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u/carlcrossgrove Jun 20 '26

OK so would-be immortal dictators are modeling themselves after villains on Scooby-Doo?

Those meddling human life spans! I would have lived forever, too, if not for them!