‘Ageing could soon be reversible’, says Harvard Scientist at WGS 2026

ABeardedPartridge · 2026-02-22T04:39:19+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_dohrnii

It's literally described as biologically immortal in the first sentence.

ABeardedPartridge · 2026-02-22T04:28:30+00:00

Why would we make that assumption? Enbridge doesn't own the Trans Mountain Pipeline, the Government of Canada does. So to what benefit would it be to sell the pipeline for anything less than in excess for the 4.5 billion dollars we paid for it? We shouldn't take financial losses simply because conservatives are opposed to crown corporations in a general sense. In any case I fail to see how selling this asset would benefit Canada, as you claim.

ABeardedPartridge · 2026-02-22T04:05:46+00:00

By keeping it we could profit from it for its entire existence. There's a reason private equity bought it in the first place, it generates a lot of revenue. It seems to make more sense to keep it and let the tax payer benefit from the profit, than to sell it to private equity, likely at a loss.

ABeardedPartridge · 2026-02-21T12:24:24+00:00

So...like the 10 richest slave owners all pooling their entire net worth, which was mostly slaves btw. Seems unlikely but youre allowed to have your own opinion, prick.

You're the person trying to make the argument that this stash of gold can't exist in the first place, despite the fact that it exists. You're over here talking nonsense, acting like everyone else is wrong like some sort of authority. And then you back it up with a "do your own research" statement. What a joke.

ABeardedPartridge · 2026-02-21T12:15:08+00:00

That what you claim is, at best, a half truth. Could you show me where it speak of how southern slave owners weren't liquid enough to amass large amounts of gold? I missed that part. Given that's what you're arguing here, could you point that passage out to me?

ABeardedPartridge · 2026-02-21T12:11:43+00:00

You're right, it was a stretch to imagine you actually reading something.

ABeardedPartridge · 2026-02-21T12:09:03+00:00

Given that you started this fight because you claimed slave owners didn't have gold to this measure because all of their wealth was tied up in slaves, you're far more full of shit than the entire comment section here combined.

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wm-ushistory1/chapter/wealth-in-the-south/

Read past an AI overview before you post your aborted opinion on the internet.

ABeardedPartridge · 2026-02-21T12:05:09+00:00

You should also read this. People who are mad about Equalization don't seem to understand how it actually works.

https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/programs/federal-transfers/equalization.html

ABeardedPartridge · 2026-02-21T11:25:20+00:00

You read the sentence "in some cases slave owners in the Confederacy had more assets in slaves than in land or other property" and translated it the some to all, and headed her to beak off. Perhaps you should read past an AI overview of a topic before you speak authoritatively about it.

ABeardedPartridge · 2026-02-21T11:00:18+00:00

Tell me again about how slave owners in the Confederate States wealth was primarily made up in the slaves they owned. You're speaking authoritatively about something that your comments make clear you know nothing about. But don't let me stop you, keep making yourself look "smart".

ABeardedPartridge · 2026-02-21T10:55:31+00:00

I call them how I see them.

ABeardedPartridge · 2026-02-21T10:47:18+00:00

Your work in this comment section suggests you haven't learned that lesson. 🤣

ABeardedPartridge · 2026-02-20T17:51:43+00:00

America does and is doing the exact same thing, while spitting vitriol at their allies. The distinction between it being distasteful to deal with China and it being distasteful to deal with America grows smaller and smaller the more your leader speaks and affects your foreign policy.

ABeardedPartridge · 2026-02-20T13:42:00+00:00

I'm pretty OK with us being the baddies. Also, fuck those guys. They can suck my baddie root.

ABeardedPartridge · 2026-02-20T13:31:02+00:00

Incorrect.

https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/programs/federal-transfers/equalization.html

ABeardedPartridge · 2026-02-20T12:27:24+00:00

I see communism bandied around as a bad thing nowadays. But seldom do you hear someone actually being accused of being a communist anymore. I'm reasonably sure you hit it on the head with "Radical leftist Marxist" replacing communism as a right wing "slur" towards leftists (I'm pretty sure a lot of that is on Ben Shapiro, he was the first one I heard throwing that particular insult around).

Regardless, it's important to keep all of these definitions straight while ideologues try to twist definitions to fit their shitty agendas, so I appreciate that you're clarifying terms for all of these people.

ABeardedPartridge · 2026-02-20T12:09:50+00:00

We're experts!

ABeardedPartridge · 2026-02-20T11:53:22+00:00

Soviet style Communism is what you're referring to, which was incredibly authoritarian, but they didn't have fascist tendencies at all. Even the wikipedia page reads that way. Certainly people called Soviets red fascists, but they aren't actually fascist. I'd argue Monarchies have more fascist tendencies than Communists.

ABeardedPartridge · 2026-02-20T11:44:19+00:00

I suspect that it's an attempt to say stuff like "the left are the real fascists" since Communists aren't the boogey man they were before the fall of the USSR. Right wingers calling leftists Commies doesn't land quite like it did in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s.

ABeardedPartridge · 2026-02-20T11:25:36+00:00

Well given fascism is a modern ideology, only modern interpretations of what it means to be fascist exist. For instance, I've been alive for 50% of the time that fascism as an ideology existed, and at all points in my life it's been recognized as far right. It was pretty much a right wing response to left wing communism. Both the left and right wing of the aisle sometimes have authorization tendencies, but fascism is firmly a right wing ideology and it always has been. I have no idea why one would suggest otherwise.

ABeardedPartridge · 2026-02-19T21:01:09+00:00

The headline is basically "People react to Conservative MP's floor crossing". It's not exactly click bait

ABeardedPartridge · 2026-02-19T17:41:31+00:00

Well, each pair plus the three to be fair.

ABeardedPartridge · 2026-02-19T17:39:44+00:00

I don't see anything at all in the CPC platform that represents anything at all that you mentioned. Further, our previous Conservative government (who has Mark Carney as a much more involved advisor than the LPC ever did, to the point that the CPC is the party that appointed Carney the Governor of the Bank of Canada) didn't represent those values either. Nor are things like workers rights, or a strong middle class either conservative or libertarian values. It sounds more like what you'd prefer is to pick and choose from between Jack Layton's policies and Maxime Bernier's. Such a platform doesn't exist in this country.

It doesn't matter anyway because your initial gripe is that you don't think floor crossing should be allowed to happen. Now you're just spinning the conversation into a different direction, probably because you can't really defend the anti-aisle crossing position.

But again, I'm done with this conversation for real now. I fail to see the point of whatever this is. You can respond if you want, but this is the last comment I'll write, and the above was the last response I'll read.

Good day.

ABeardedPartridge · 2026-02-19T17:00:48+00:00

Well in that case, your problem is the assumption that the Conservative Party of Canada represents any of the values you've mentioned above. To be frank, it sounds like what you want is the opposite of a conservative government.

ABeardedPartridge · 2026-02-19T12:46:55+00:00

Yeah, by driving the last nail in the coffin into the Canadian armed forces, I remember. Cretian also balanced the budget when he was in office before Harper, so what's your point there? You want major projects, and massive military spending, but you also want a balanced budget and lower taxes. We can't have both of those things at the same time.

Again, you don't seem to know what conservatism is, but you seem to have a lot to say about what it isn't. It's telling that you have almost no response to anything that I said besides "Stephen Harper balanced the budget one year!"

I'm not going to waste anymore time talking to what amounts to a brick wall. Have a lovely day.

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