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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They're constructed hierarchy not natural (That hints that someone didn't want to be the fuckup alone & created a destructive system for everyone) otherwise we would be living in a socialist utopia.

I invite everyone to listen to this episode, The history of humanity with Christopher Knight https://www.historicly.net/p/the-history-of-humanity-with-christopher

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want to thank Facebook for making it blatantly obvious to us that we should never get any brain implants. They'll definitely use them to read your thoughts and push ads straight into your consciousness. Oh, and you'll probably have to pay a subscription.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your tinnitus will get progressively louder until you pay your bill

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hello Satan. I didn't realize you use Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Musk is doing more to make people realize how garbage capitalism is than Marx ever could.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

imagine physically embedding the fucking musk into your brain, VOLUNTARILY. i can't imagine anything worse in the world

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i can’t imagine anything worse in the world

I can... there are literally people who are willing to participate in Musk's Mars colonization fantasies. They stand about as much chance of success (or survival) as those people who got imploded in that Titanic sub - except their deaths won't be as quick and merciful.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd encourage those people, less dumbasses on our planet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm starting to get some real Golgafrincham vibes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People are still driving Teslas right now. Pretty much the same in my book. You're trusting your life to a proven moron.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Elongated Muskrat has very little to do with the inner works of the company now. Even in the heights of his involvement, by his own account, his input was tangential at best, like "we make expensive car now, use this money to make cheaper car" and "we call it x because x is the best name ever"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The ongoing litigation against the company begs to differ. Also didn't Musk step down as CEO of Twitter a while back? It seems his tangential bullshit has quite an impact. I'll be honest I think the people actually working at Tesla do their best to try to moderate his unadulterated fuck ups. But they're not safe from it and neither is anyone else who does business with them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well the disabled people getting this implant probably don't care about musk, it's legitimately a cool technology and good competition for the medical space.

Musk is a cuck still, and I'm sure we'll have to wait a couple generations before we get the dystopian stuff in Neurallink

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still don’t get how it’s at all safe or practical to have what amounts to a smart watch embedded into your brain.

The surgery they want to do literally involves removing a piece of your skull. Falling and hitting your head without a piece of your skull removed is bad enough, this is going to seriously compromise the strength of people skulls. Which is especially bad when you consider it’s meant to solve problems like paralysis. I have a feeling that people who are just learning to walk again may be at a high risk of falling. Now they’re at a high risk of falling and cracking their skull open like an egg.

It’s also charged with a wireless charger, which would need to placed on the device every night when you sleep. How many people remain completely still the entire night and don’t move their heads at all?

This is a cool and valuable first step for brain augmentations that can probably help thousands of patients, but the implementation has so many glaring problems that it makes me wonder how well the actual product even functions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

How many people remain completely still the entire night and don’t move their heads at all?

Anybody with sleep apnea who has a CPAP has solved a harder version of this problem. It sucks and takes a while to get used to but it's way better than waking up with a headache every day.

I assume that if the implant is helpful the overnight charging will be readily accepted by users.

(I've got a peripheral nerve implant myself so I am quite familiar with what lengths people will go to to relieve pain)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m not putting anything in me that’s not foss. I worry for the tech illiterate though when they eventually adopt this idea.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I agree, I love the idea of a brain chip, but not if someone can change licensing terms on something that's INSTALLED in me.