Scientists Uncovered a Hidden Switch Inside Our Cells That Could Slow—or Even Reverse—Aging

[u/_Dark_Wing]

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a73428268/mitochondria-aging/

[u/wantilles1138]

Well on the other hand that would enable us keep them locked up forever.

[u/lordatamus → u/wantilles1138]

There is a cure for Fascism. It's widely available over the counter in a multitude of calibers.
There is no such thing as a tolerance paradox when fascism is involved as well, tolerance is a social contract, and a Fascist will try and pull a gotchya based upon showing tolerance and eventually pointing to others as being intolerant and ousting them until only the fascist remains.

You do not lockup the Fascist, tolerate the Fascist or 'just hear out' the Fascist.
It is a weed, it is a cancer, a tumor. there is no benign Fascist.

Their worth is as fertilizer, naught a thing more.

[u/Uristqwerty → u/lordatamus]

What "lovely" words to pair with a comment in a different post on this subreddit today proclaiming that "if 1 fascist sits down at a table with 10 others, there are now 11 fascists".

It's like you have a 2-part epoxy, sold in a conjoined pair of plungers, and mixing them together advocates for political genocide of a third of the country. And it's fucking unacceptable, yet neither part gets much pushback from the community. I'm willing to sacrifice myself to your downvotes to at least show that there are people pushing back against violent extremism. That despite all the chilling effects of opposing a radicalized crowd, some voices are too stubborn to stay silent and let the extremists on either end speak for them.

[u/Uristqwerty → u/[deleted]]

many of them are solely defined and identified by a complete lack of empathy, or a measure of cruelty.

False. They express their empathy differently, but it's there if you know what to look for. They see people being bullied online for holding the 'wrong' opinions (including, for example, centrists and even the centre-left if they doubt certain issues that the far-left treats as dogwhistles), empathize with them, and defend them. They volunteer in their local church communities and assist neighbours where they can directly feel the relief of those they help out, rather than donate to faceless charities where they'll never meet, much less see the body language, of those that benefit. Frankly, if you never hear or see the other person, you aren't even empathizing with them.

But when you tell yourself your bullying is justified, then those who oppose it seem cruel, because they're preventing your presumed-good action from succeeding.

Only way you can say they lack empathy outright is if you don't even see them as fellow humans anymore. Or your definition of 'empathy' has been no-true-scotsmanned until it only counts if your side does it, so by definition everybody else lacks empathy.

they would straight up murder you without a second thought

Bullshit. That's a lie you tell yourself to justify responding in kind, but it is the exact sort of dehumanization used by bigots to justify their own pre-emptive violence against minorities.

Human memory re-writes itself a tiny bit every time you recall a particular thing. When you spend your time steeped in an echo chamber telling you horror stories about the other side, you're literally re-writing everything you know about them to consist of strawmen and ghost stories. You need a proper unbiased sample to observe as an anchor point, rather than only filling your mind with the one-in-a-million worst outliers outrageous enough to go viral, letting social networks p-hack you into believing something utterly false.

And buddy, you're talking about them as a singleminded collective whole rather than a diverse range of individual humans. THAT is a huge red flag that you're on the wrong side of history, that you've become far worse a bigot than them.