THE MITOCHONDRIA IS THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL

realizing that scientists thoroughly studied this in the same way that they studied every other piece of the universe casts a sobering effect on me. probably because i'm for the first time seeing the people i most respect treating the subject rationally (with purpose) rather than emotionally (with jokes and perversion and disgust).

gives me faith tbh.

@Nepiant did you read about the old lady whos dna they studied that lived to 117

@eemmaa nope, did they find something interesting about it?

@Nepiant i didnt mean to repeat misclick, uh i guess apparently something about her gut and something about her dna something something

@eemmaa i'll look it up, lol.

@eemmaa well you were right

@Nepiant reminds me I gotta start up my yogurt habit again

@eemmaa i remember as a child asking my christian parents how old can a person get and they said 120 (instead of "oh, they usually live to about 80" for some reason). i don't think i've ever heard about anyone being over 120. is 120 something mentioned in the bible or something?

@Nepiant @eemmaa the oldest person ever lived to 123 I believe. A Frenchwoman.

@Nepiant ya theres a verse in there where the math comes out to 120 and no person can live past it or something because of something something

@georgia @eemmaa ah, well she beat god's record.

@Nepiant @georgia my consciousness will exist for at least two millennia i will fist fight that bastard over it

@eemmaa @georgia did you know that the people to receive the first life extension treatments are likely to live forever? because once they get a life extension they can probably live long enough to get the next invented life extension treatment and it just keeps on repeating until we invent immortality.

also, some science dude said that since life extensions are already in development the first people that will ride this wave are probably already alive today.

@Nepiant @georgia i mean ive heard that, but you also gotta think a lot of those scientist are seeking VC funding

@Nepiant @eemmaa literally only God is forever. will a few rich people live a really long time? yeah, but not forever.

@georgia @Nepiant god is a bitch

@eemmaa @Nepiant God has a blessing in store for you smh

@georgia @Nepiant god sent a sociopath pretending to be a fake human being to sexually violate me, dox me and go through my devices. fuck god.

@eemmaa @Nepiant that was a human being exercising their free will to be evil. If it were say, brain cancer, or a bolt of lightning, you could say God did it. Sure God allows free will to include evil acts but because of karma no suffering goes unaddressed. Youll get your due and more I promise. Feel free to hate my guts if it doesnt happen soon enough.

@georgia @Nepiant just feel like thats a privileged view point in my opinion, most suffering goes unaddressed. Karma is unrealistic and about as useful as pacifism when the rubber hits the road.

@eemmaa @Nepiant karma is misunderstood by westerners to mean "everyone gets whats coming in this lifetime". "if youre nice to people, theyre nice to you back" type shit. what karma mostly means is "if you are good, you get a good rebirth, if you are evil, you get reborn into the womb of someone ignorant/an animal/go to hell for a bit"

what's beautiful about this system is perfect cosmic order is maintained, dharma is upheld, but humans in Earth-like worlds and lower are enabled to think there is no God or even that God is Bad. Total illusion of freedom for the ignorant. God is allowed to forget Herself.

But God is both infinitely just and infinitely merciful. There is LITERALLY no sin that God cannot forgive. And there is no one too evil to experience grace.

Am I privileged by my birth (karma)? somewhat, but also I'm the least well off by several metrics compared to anyone in my immediate and extended family. I am privileged that few people have chosen to do evil to me in this lifetime, though, youre right.

@georgia @Nepiant I am so tired of you feeding me Indian stuff and trying to get me to like god. Here’s a lonely blooming tree I took a picture of earlier.

@eemmaa @Nepiant sorry I'll stop. Very charming picture :>