Would you say that there is no need for better research for curing cancer just because new treatments will be super expensive, so only uber-rich zilionairs will benefit?

Probably not. (I hope)

Aging-caused diseases are really just some other type of health problems that leads to death. And curing such things is what medicine is doing. Heart bypass is a great example of helping to survive such problem.

And yes, new tech is usually expensive. And with adoption it became not only cheaper but better. Compare first mobile phones that was super expensive and could do nearly nothing to todays cheap smartphone that is more powerful than the computer that helped us to land on the Moon. If you care about health of poor and middle class people, you could rather help to accelerate the adoption, so more people can afford aging-reversal medicine sooner and not suffer from aging.

Making 3.0 was long, painful process (developers usually more enjoy creating new features rather than migrating the fundamental framework). But it brought its fruits and now there is rapid development cycles, like this one 🥰 Great job!

Longevity / rejuvenation / aging-reversal researchers and funding.

We can already reverse aging in lab and could it bring to humans in wild. But for that we need resources.

Integral thinking. Currently only cca 2% of population and desperately needed in even more complex world!

So, a new Copenhagen interpretation? 🤔

Just today I have again started to listen the book “Ageless” by Andrew Steele, which mentioned this tortoise at the very beginning. BTW, a great book about the real science how we can practically stop aging and dying from it.

I had big problems with languages all the way up to university, but get Esperanto pretty quickly. Good luck 🤞

Ah, OK. Because someone was posting about Esperanto in a different writing system.

By chance, is it you who is posting this on Mastodon?

If you are website enjoyer, https://lernu.net/ is a solid, free of charge web course in many languages, with big community.

I have also heard good reviews on the Zagreb Method - https://esperanto12.net/

If you prefer apps, https://www.duolingo.com/ works great in English, if a lot of examples is your way to go.

Of you are a book person, I have read that “Complete Esperanto” by Tim Owen is highly acclaimed. Also “Esperanto per rekta metodo” (“Esperanto by direct method”, so directly on Esperanto with elimination of translations) works great for many people.

Some very basic stuff, mostly list of common phases for traveling, it’s available at Wikivoyage, in several languages 👇 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q143#sitelinks-wikivoyage

Using Anki flashcards helps to memorize words, but I am not using it so I am not sure where to find the data to use…

If you prefer in-person course, you may ask people from the Esperanto organization in your country (see https://uea.org/landoj), or visit some meeting to get in-depth answers and make new friends (see https://eventaservo.org/).

Ultimately, it depends on your learning style to select (or create) a learning process, but these are solid. Enjoy, and please comment here after some time about your progress. I would love to know!

Freedom of free software.

English, as an national language, is great for national communication.

But using national language for international communication is like using black-white television to watch a color movie - it kind of works, but it definitely loses a lot.

There are at least 2 important factors:

1. neutrality: English used for international communication favors people from English speaking countries. Inside of Europe that is not to big problem, because Ireland and Malta, while being great counties, have relatively small population - so English can work as a reasonably neutral language for European communication. But when it comes to Europe in world - English is used but a country that left us and by country that wages trade war against us. That highlights that English definitely is not a worldwide neutral language.

2. ease of use: Esperanto was designed to be easy to learn and use, while functioning very well as a mean of communication. It does not carry a burden of centuries of non-systemic evolution, so it does not have things like irregular verbs. It’s grammar is very regular with simple rules. It enables creating words with a set of prefixes and sufixes so one does not need to learn a bunch of new (different) words about related things (like: to eat, to snack, to feast, food, meal, cantina, utensils, etc. - they are manĝi, manĝeti, manĝegi, manĝo, manĝaĵo, manĝejo, manĝiloj etc). Experience shows that learning Esperanto is 5-10x faster that learning national languages. It’s just much not efficient.

Than comes other factors, like pushing some way of thinking, usual for one specific nation, to all humankind, atc, but those 2 are the basic ones.

Anti-vaxxers when they get know that significant majority of new confirmed polio cases are caused by vaccines: 😎

I even work on spreading Esperanto, as a neutral language for Europe and humankind 🫡

Once polio was nearly everywhere, now it is near extinction 😎

If that money would go to create a next gen agriculture, it could be a great investment. I mean things like cellular agriculture, cultured meat, precision fermentation, generally more non-animal foods.

Hopefully it would have better logistics than Martian probe…

Modern engineer would built an aquaduct in kilometers, not miles 😅

You automatically are 😎 That’s the magic of federating.

You can search and follow users from other PixelFed (even Mastodon!) servers in same / similar way as users on gram.social. I am on gram.social too and I hardly know whether some user is even on PixelFed 😂

Should be in [[Category:Political history]].