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submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/microblogmemes

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[–] Jimmyeatsausage 48 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There's experiments to run; there is science to be done on the people who are still alive

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Maybe they got a human volunteer with the promise of cake

[–] TropicalDingdong 39 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No more monkeys dying, only Musk fans.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Whoever was implanted with this was restricted to having lost complete motor function and likely had extremely poor quality of life, opting for this procedure as a last hope. I get you're making a joke but I hope you understand it's at the expense of someone in a terrible situation who's undergoing a significant amount of suffering and likely was prior to any interaction with Musk.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago

Even if it worked flawlessly, there's no way I'm putting that crap in my brain. Best case scenario, I have a useless hunk of tech in my skull when they "sunset" support. More likely scenario, I'm inundated with ads that I can't escape 24/7, and I also have the useless hunk of metal in my head until I die. No fucking thanks.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I mean Fuck Musk, but these are rookie numbers, animal ag kills way more animals in horrible conditions every minute.

[+] [email protected] -18 points 5 months ago (3 children)

1500 animals seems like a really low number for the development of a medical device.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago

There are laws dictating how animals should be treated for research, and they don't specify at all how many animals may be used. They do dictate how research might be approached to minimize suffering and loss of life, and even with these weak animal welfare laws Musk still finds a way to run afoul of them.

The complaint relates to Musk pushing researchers so hard they make mistakes

[–] EdibleFriend 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

its basically a fancy mouse. It lets you control a computer or phone. So, yes, as it goes inside the body I guess its technically a medical device but this is not a necessary evil. I fully agree with animal testing when it comes to important things such as curing diseases but this is just musk trying to roll out another device that will probably never work right anyways.

And killing a shitton of animals to do so.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

In fairness there's a lot of people with disabilities that could benefit from something like this. But you're right, I wouldn't trust anything Musk has touched to be inside someone's head.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

I think the issue is more that they died from distress or complications of the hardware. Standard operating procedure is to dispose of animal subjects after testing irregardless, so the FDA isn't so much worried about the number of corpses as much as how they died.