Is anybody thinking deeply about what it means to fight against natural selection as a modern species?
I know nobody wants to hear this nihilistic take but humans are the most destructive invasive species in existence.
I wish biomedical and health science research instead focused more on how we can lead rich lives with the little time we do have, knowing nature might take us back to dust for any reason, and leave the world a better place with more knowledge for the next generation. Instead we have old wealthy (mostly white) men driving the interests of science research for them to live longer and have more time to spend their money destroying the earth.
It is an ethical mess to know how to cure a disease or give one better health outcomes and intentionally not apply it but there has to be a balance. I worked in a hospice for a few years and I saw elderly folk often abandoned by their (alive and well) families and dieing alone. It sounds crazy to think but I feel like too much of anything, even longevity, is not good.
The combination of PlanetScale for the database & TypeScript Prisma for ORM is really a joy to work with.