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Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2023 03:38:34 JST Aral Balkan

We call it capitalism because greedy self-destructive shitfuckery is too much of a mouthful.
https://futurism.com/neoscope/brain-implant-removed-consent

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- _ (arose62@aus.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2023 06:03:08 JST _
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  And the referenced stories about patients' eye implants being shut off 😱
  What next? Subscription-based pacemakers?
  
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- Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2023 06:03:08 JST Aral Balkan
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  @arose62 Don’t give ’em any ideas.
  
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- Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2023 18:29:08 JST Aral Balkan
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  @AT1ST @waitworry @jhavok The point is that it should not be a business decision.
  
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- Alexander The 1st (at1st@mstdn.ca)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2023 18:29:10 JST Alexander The 1st
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  @waitworry @jhavok @aral It looks like, based on this post's link ( https://aus.social/@arose62/110997570326816727 ), the issue was more that a lack of available maintenance would've made it worse when it started to fail and the battery could potentially leak.
  Which to me makes a bit more sense, because "We're out of money, we're going to spend large amounts of money to get you to come here for us to remove the implant already in your brain." seems...a suspect business decision.
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    @jhavok@mastodon.social @aral@mastodon.ar.al This article gives a less sensational take on the scenario: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/26/do-brain-implants-change-your-identity “I miss my device,” she said. Leggett felt grateful that everyone involved was sympathetic to her plight. They let her keep the implant as long as possible. But the demise of NeuroVista—after spending seventy million dollars to develop the technology and conduct the trial, it struggled to find further investors—made removal inevitable. If the battery ran out, or a lead broke, or the site of implantation became infected, the company would no longer be there to provide support. She remembered a solemn drive to Melbourne for the surgery, and then coming back home without the device.
- Jimmy Havok (jhavok@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2023 18:29:11 JST Jimmy Havok
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  @aral Did they kidnap her from the street to remove the implant? I can't imagine that I would voluntarily go into the hospital for such a procedure.
  
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- Claire (waitworry@jorts.horse)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2023 18:29:11 JST Claire
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  @jhavok @aral I was thinking that too but I figure these companies had a bunch of ways lined up to make her life hell till she voluntarily gave up the implant
  
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