Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin have been caught on a hot mic talking about the potential of medicine to extend human life spans and "perhaps even achieve immortality".

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A live-stream broadcast of China’s military parade has captured Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin discussing biotechnology’s potential to extend life.

An interpreter translating Mr Putin can be heard saying in Mandarin that human organ transplants could let “us live younger and younger, and perhaps even achieve immortality”.

Mr Xi responded that it may be possible for people to live to 150 years this century.

  • T00l_shed@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    Westerners will tell you that these countries were liberated with the collapse of the USSR. They’ll also insist the residents of these countries are subhuman and deserve to die.

    Maybe some, but certainly not most, but to say that there was no one ruling over them before yeltsin is silly, fucking Stalin was a monster, krushchev wasn’t great. Mao was a horrible dictator.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 hours ago

      to say that there was no one ruling over them before yeltsin is silly

      The Soviets self-governed for the length of the Cold War. A radical departure from Nazi occupation of the 30s/40s or the debt peonage of the interwar period.

      fucking Stalin was a monster. Mao was a horrible dictator

      Confederates said the same thing about William T. Sherman and Abraham Lincoln.

      • T00l_shed@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 hours ago

        The Soviets self-governed for the length of the Cold War

        Except for the leaders of the party? How do you define self governing?

        Confederates said the same thing about William T. Sherman and Abraham Lincoln.

        Sure there were some monsters in the Union army, but they were fighting slavers, so I don’t really care for their opinion. Nor should you

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          8 hours ago

          Except for the leaders of the party?

          You mean the survivors of the Holocaust and resistance movement heroes that liberated their nations from brutal occupation?

          Sure there were some monsters in the Union army

          Okay buddy. Glad to know where you stand

          • T00l_shed@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            8 hours ago

            You mean the survivors of the Holocaust and resistance movement heroes that liberated their nations from brutal occupation

            Your original premise was that there was freedom without being ruled over, I was saying that was bullshit.

            Okay buddy. Glad to know where you stand

            Anti slavery? Yeah happy to be anti slavery haha. I’m glad to know where you stand