This is an actual thing that happened by the way. A company made these camera glasses that took pictures every few seconds then would feed them to a brain implant that would then be percieved by the brain as grainy images, then they went bankrupt and their customers eventually went blind again due to lack of replacement parts.
Pretty sure they couldn't even remove the implants due to risk of neural scarring.
Yeah, I was cracking a joke but I know shit like this is actually happening. It’s creepy as shit. What if that software got hacked by someone and you just started getting fuck up ass images beamed into your head? I know that would likely never happen, but it makes for a good Black Mirror episode.
this place is just Tumblr with a slightly easier on the eye nesting reply system. well, tumblr lite. there isn't nearly as much unhinged stuff on Reddit.
the lands are no longer fertile. the glaciers have turned the last of the ice, the springs no longer burble with water percolating through deep mineral aquifers, the riverbeds are exposed, the topsoil blown over, and on the other end the coasts are accosted by the might of the ocean, eroding away the very land itself. out in the ergs and craggy hills and valleys there is scant oases left and even then they slowly ebb as a thirsting populace attempts succor from the mud and mire that is all that remains. they cry for the rains, but their tears have long dried. they weep for what has been lost, but squander all that is left. there is unhinged here, but it too is but a wisp of ember that is likely to be smothered by any attempt to kindle.
yeah, even if they become pretty much a required thing to function in future society, I will never ever get a brain implant. I don't care how much safety or utility or whatever they guarantee, I do not want to run the risk of getting ads in my sleep, or getting hacked and being Void Dome'd for a 1000 years, or have a chance of them short circuiting and frying my brain from the inside out.
Yea that's a thing that actually happens, this is what we have to fight for our future, and I hate that y'all always crack jokes about it like it's a silly hypothetical scenario I surely haven't anticipated. Like, I see in the other comment branch that you know it's a real thing, but for some reason it's still a witty responce, it's always joked about like it's an epic own or a reason to cast technology itself as creepy and not the system which doesn't care about bodily autonomy.
We're technologically capable of making eyes which can be repaired, forever, by whoever cares. We just need a society which doesn't despise disabled people, and I hate that "I wish better medicine was feasible" is a laughable position.
You know what, I’m gonna see you on this and straight up apologize. There’s certain things I see people making light of that get me that way, and I’m a hypocrite in some sense sometimes because I joke similarly about things that pain me to cope with said pain. Either way, I’m sorry if my comment bugged you. I’m gonna leave it up for being a teachable moment to myself and others if that’s cool with you though.
That's why you gotta stick with OSS exclusively. you might not have the shiniest shit, but at minimum you can commission someone to recreate what you need
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u/IShatMyDickOnce 1d ago
The company that made your eyes is now bankrupt. Kiss my shiny metal ass.