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Does Al realize how lucky he is that his dad happened to own a suit of armor?? In the moment, Ed picked the best item to bond his soul to based on what could make his life easiest. What if the armor hadn’t been there? Ed was bleeding out, he didn’t exactly have a lot of time to think about it. Like
“Hi. I’m Edward Elric the Fullmetal Alchemist. I saved my brother’s life my binding his soul in this side of the portal.”
*gestures to a desk lamp*
*Al’s voice* “Yo.”
Au where Al is stuck in one of those creepy porcelain dolls your grandma owns
Once the talk of conspiracy theorists — the rich ingesting the blood of the young to foster longevity — is now a reality and an actual business in the United States. Not only is it a business but billionaires are actually admitting their interest in it. Now, even the mainstream media is reporting it.
Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal and adviser to Donald Trump told Inc. magazine:
“I’m looking into parabiosis stuff, which I think is really interesting. This is where they did the young blood into older mice and they found that had a massive rejuvenating effect. I think there are a lot of these things that have been strangely under-explored.”
As Vanity Fair reports, Ambrosia, which buys its blood from blood banks, now has about 100 paying customers. Some are Silicon Valley technologists, like Thiel, though Karmazin stressed that tech types aren’t Ambrosia’s only clients and that anyone over 35 is eligible for its transfusions.
Aside from the gruesome historical and occult background of such practices, there is literally NO DATA that suggests the process even works.
“There‘s just no clinical evidence [that the treatment will be beneficial], and you‘re basically abusing people‘s trust and the public excitement around this,” Stanford University neuroscientist Tony Wyss-Coray, who conducted a 2014 study of young blood plasma in mice, told Science magazinelast summer, as reported by Vanity Fair.
#STAYWOKE
HISTORY REPEATS HISTORY REPEATS HISTORY REPEATS
Did some research, this has been going on since 2017, is generally regarded as psuedoscientific, in the case of Ambrosia is marketed as a clinical trial to get around needing to get FDA approval, and ultimately is indeed happening. As of 2018, another organisation, the Young Blood Institute, has been doing the same thing, but charging $285,000 per person. Neither Ambrosia nor the YBI operate with scientific control.
Also, does anyone else find it funny that these old rich guys are calling their literal blood-sucking deal “Ambrosia”? As in, food of the gods? As in immortal beings? Y’know, that thing that vampires also are? Fuck me, they’re not even being subtle about it now.
I went looking into this the geneticist, Linda Partridge, who found the possible younger rat blood helps old rats with aging thing also found that old rat blood is not helpful and cause issues when injected into them. She isn’t happy her research is being misconstrued as blood drinking. She probably is annoyed it is also being used by these hacks to sell their pseudoscience beauty hack bullshit.
Wtf
So, rich people are going the Elizabeth Bathory route now? And I bet nobody will stop them until they realize it’s not working and decide the blood isn’t classy enough…
LMAO AND YALL STILL TRYING TO TELL ME THAT BILLIONAIRES HAVE MORALS THEYRE LITERALLY VAMPIRES
It SNOWED in MISSISSIPPI!!! It ended up being the heaviest snow since the 1880s! Anyway I saw a lot of people making videos of their dogs experiencing snow for the first time so this happened
I love that snails can cringe so hard their entire face disappears
are those two dudes from supernatural ok? it’s been like 14 years. there’s high schoolers younger than their contract. i don’t think i’ve ever seen them in any other shows. are they allowed to leave? do they feed them?
when supernatural began airing:
tumblr wouldnt exist for another two years
bush was still president
lost hadn’t aired its second season yet
youtube wasnt even a year old
the #1 song was kanye west - gold digger
ariana grande was 12
taylor swift wasn’t famous yet
paris hilton was at the height of her fame, kim k was not famous yet