• ATDA@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    Ok now the “number of the beast” types are starting to sound a lot more logical somehow…

  • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    I have a couple former coworker friends who slob this dude’s knob all the time. One of em is staunch anti-govt (but loves his orange dictator obviously) and refuses flu shots from work every year because according to his this year is the year they start micro-chipping people.

    Both of em would be the first in line for musk’s chip

  • Doomsider@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    What in the hell are people with brain implants going to do when they stop supporting their hardware or keep additional features behind a paywall. People would be forced to pay whatever the company wanted.

    This is ripe for human rights abuse on a level we have never seen before. Imagine being locked out of your own body. Without important safety guards and laws to protect people it would surely cause untold suffering.

    • smokebuddy [he/him]@lemmy.today
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      27 days ago

      Either that, or just straight up obsolescence like what happened with some bionic vision aids

      Just stops working one day, or eventually an exploit will drop that will never end up patched because the company folded. or due to planned force-upgrade

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      26 days ago

      Even better way to enslave people than tying basic things like food, water and shelter to money and controlling how to get money. You will have to pay anything you are told or you will die and/or suffer. Try to rebel in any way and its kill or pain switch for you or refusal of service if its too early for that.

      Its scary how this doesnt sound as crazy as it should

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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      26 days ago

      Well, one can design and make and test implants that’ll still work 50 years after there’s no more Elon.

      But! Today’s “progress” is about increasing functionality and performance, not reliability. And such implants will be made only when there’s taboo on unreliable stuff in such critical areas in 3 different dimensions - company getting murdered legally is the first, its management getting murdered physically is the second, nobody in their right mind buying such is the third.

  • msage@programming.dev
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    27 days ago

    Why can this loser fart in an elevator and it warrants an article?

    And why are so many engaged to the point, including government, that they will listen to that? Like abandoning highspeed rail in favor of hyperloop?

    Like what the fuck is going on?

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      26 days ago

      Like abandoning highspeed rail in favor of hyperloop?

      They wanted to do that and he gave them the excuse.

      See, that’s how this works.

    • Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      26 days ago

      Like it or not, when the richest man in the world wants to do something big. even if bad, it is worth it to report on it instead of quietely allowing him to do it.