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Re:Anti-ageing protein injection boosts monkeys’ memories by inglor_cz on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @12:16PM (#36588683)
Hello to Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett sitting on the SCOTUS bench in 2060 or 2070 or possibly even 2100.

Many of our political systems are based on the expectation that people grow frail and retire earlier than they actually already do today. The US Senate is becoming a geriatric institution that would put Brezhnev's politburo of 1980 to youthful shame.

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Re:Anti-ageing protein injection boosts monkeys’ memories by Teever on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @12:40PM (#36589100)
So what are you saying, that we shouldn't have technological innovation because our governments have stagnated?

Or are you saying that we need to have governmental innovation concurrent with technological innovation?

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Re:Anti-ageing protein injection boosts monkeys’ memories by inglor_cz on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @12:41PM (#36589112)
The latter. The institutions need to adapt, much like they did adapt to instant communication and the printing press before.
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Re:Anti-ageing protein injection boosts monkeys’ memories by ddgflorida on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @12:52PM (#36589260)
We can hope.
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Re:Anti-ageing protein injection boosts monkeys’ memories by inglor_cz on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @12:56PM (#36589323)
On the political scale, I am fairly to the libertarian (not religious) right, but personal ossification is bad regardless of its political flavor.

Moderate term limits (e.g. no more than 25 years in public offices in your lifetime) should certainly be at least tested.

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