Catoblepas
@Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Stay on the designated path 1 day ago:
No, that’s fish and amphibians. Reptile eggs are enclosed by a soft shell and they get fertilized by doing the hanky panky.
- Comment on Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or *not* ask stupid questions? 6 days ago:
There are only stupid questioners 😊
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 1 week ago:
There is no such thing as an implant or surgery with no risk of sepsis or rejection. The risk may be low in young, healthy patients (ie, not people who are quadriplegic because that leads to many other health concerns with surgeries), but it’s never zero.
If you’re cool with risking that, okay, that’s your body. Personally I want to live.
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 1 week ago:
Move mouse and click faster is a big deal when it’s the only way you can interact with the world.
I feel like I’m doing nothing but repeating this: the only way to do that is not with an implant! It’s not implant or nothing!
And it’s just a mouse right now, but what about robotic hands? A thought-controlled wheelchair? A tiny bit of agency? Technology is iterative and built on failure, and you want to tell the people trapped in non-functional bodies that it will never get any better?
It is not those things, and I’m going to need you to step way the fuck back since your starting premise is that I’m not physically disabled and have no loved ones that are or could benefit from safe, effective adaptive technology. Maybe if it was your cousin or sister you’d have a little more concern about just tossing them into a meat grinder because some tech bro thinks “go fast, break things” is a policy that can and should be translated to human health.
I do not and will not accept disabled people being sacrificed in the name of progress. They can’t even do this shit in fucking monkeys, bro. Come on.
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 1 week ago:
It feels ridiculous that I even need to say this, but you don’t do it because the risk:benefit ratio is lopsided as hell.
Risks: die from sepsis, have your body reject the implant, the parent company goes out of business and your implant no longer functions (this has happened with several startups), etc
Benefit: move mouse and click faster
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 1 week ago:
I don’t accept that disabled people must be sacrificed at the altar of Progress, and I think the entire process for how they recruit patients and explain the capabilities and risks of the implant deserves extreme scrutiny. There’s a reason doctors have to get hours of education in ethics to be considered competent, it’s a lot more complicated than “just do whatever if it can technically work for a bit.”
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 1 week ago:
Cool, when you can upload your thoughts somewhere we’ll be having a different conversation about its risks and uses. But what’s happening right now is that they did brain surgery on a man to let him move a computer mouse.
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 1 week ago:
I feel like I’m going nuts, is eye controlled adaptive tech really that obscure? We’re not talking about maybe letting people walk again or giving them otherwise unattainable control over a computer, we’re talking about a different mouse input. The risks should be proportional to the gains.
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 1 week ago:
They’re usually marketed as “mind control” toys and are operated with a headset that sends a signal to hidden fans that control whatever object it is you’re supposed to be manipulating. Mattel came out with one called Mindflex that’s pretty complicated looking and has a matching price tag, there are some cheaper Star Wars branded ones too. Not sure what brand I tried as it was over a decade ago, but it was a two player game where you tried to move the ball towards the other player along a track.
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 1 week ago:
If you think it’s cool I would hope you think it’s even cooler than you can do this without surgery and that there are literal cheap ass toys you can buy to play with yourself?
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 1 week ago:
Is it worth risking dying to be able to move a mouse slightly faster than you can move your eyes and blink? If your answer to that is yes that’s your body, but I think it’s important to contextualize that the options here aren’t brain implant or nothing.
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 1 week ago:
A quadriplegic being able to control a cursor on a screen with the implant for 100 days seems like a legit first attempt.
Why, when we already have non-surgical solutions that allow the same thing but don’t come with the risk of killing you?
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 1 week ago:
Is it because you are unfamiliar with adaptive tech? Eye tracking devices allowing quadriplegic people to interact with computers by looking at them and blinking have been around since at least the mid 00s. Like a decade ago the “mind reading” external tech got cheap enough for simplified toys to be made with it. Implanting it directly into the body is a lot of risk for very little benefit.
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 1 week ago:
Especially if the extent of it is that it lets you move a mouse. How does that offer any improvement over eye tracking adaptive tech?
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 week ago:
I’ve been going back to eBay more recently as well! If anything I feel more confident that what I get on eBay is going to actually match the listing, since AFAIK they don’t do the same insane “jumble all items with the same ID code together in a bin and hope all the sellers were honest about it being real” system Amazon uses.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 week ago:
If you live near a regional transportation hub it probably won’t make a difference on your delivery times. We dropped prime when our “1 day” deliveries kept turning in 3 day deliveries and never saw a difference.
And honestly a lot of the stuff I used to get on there isn’t even cheaper on Amazon anymore. Half the time if I check the manufacturer website they’re having a sale or have no shipping costs or cover returns longer, something like that. YMMV, you know your situation and needs better than me.
- Comment on Would lemmy benefit of implementing Polls? 1 week ago:
Shit, it might be time for a MitM rewatch to see if it’s still aged like a fine wine.
- Comment on All cheap smartphones have a fingerprint sensor but all laptops dont have one. Why? 1 week ago:
When fingerprint tech first hit the consumer market (I want to say early/mid 00s?) it was more common to see laptops with fingerprint sensors. I think they fell out of favor for security reasons, IIRC at one point Mythbusters had an episode where they fooled it.
- Comment on Imagine denying other living and breathing lifeforms agency to thrive amd change lol lol lol 2 weeks ago:
Dude’s lived how ever many hundred years and never even heard of mineral rights, smh.
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 2 weeks ago:
Competently treating trans patients is more than knowing what medications someone is on. I know trans people that have had doctors strongly push medical detransition for having minor temporary health problems completely unrelated to their HRT. Immediately hitting the ‘medically detransition’ button every time one value goes out of range on one blood test isn’t competent care. Google ‘trans broken arm syndrome’. This stuff all has an effect on whether or not trans people seek care and how competent the care they receive is. If you set up in the minds of medical professionals that trans people are ‘actually’ their birth sex then you’re setting trans people up for receiving bad care, period.
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 2 weeks ago:
I’m one of the people that would be forced into a room with women and I have no tits and grow facial hair my dude. It doesn’t make me or them safer. Your position is simply stupid and coming from a place of bigotry.
- Comment on eyecandyn't 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 2 weeks ago:
You obviously cared somewhere along the line till it comes to something that actually matters
What are you even trying to get across here?? lmao
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 2 weeks ago:
If a trans woman thinks there’s even the possibility that she’s going to be stuck in a ward with men then odds are she’s not going to go unless she feels like she’s about to die. This means preventable stuff spirals, which is one part of why trans people are more likely to die of preventable illnesses.
In addition for someone who is on hormones, if you treat them as their birth sex medically then you’re going to be missing signs of illness or interpreting normal things as a sign of illness. Ex: it’s extremely common for trans men on testosterone to have “high” hematocrit levels, which can be a symptom of all kinds of problems and a risk for other problems… if you compare it to the typical range for cis women. If you compare it to the levels of cis men, for most people it’s completely normal. Focusing on non-problems like that instead of what brought someone in is going to result in a lower quality of care and make someone less likely to seek care in the future.
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t ask, don’t care 🤓
- Comment on histories mysteries 2 weeks ago:
The best suggested explanation IMO is that it’s a way for blacksmiths to demonstrate their skill.
“lol stupid scientists don’t know what knitting is” I would file under “actively anti-intellectual”.
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 2 weeks ago:
Trans women aren’t men so that’s irrelevant here.
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 2 weeks ago:
This is the right behind “Martha’s rule”, which is being introduced in the NHS, to ensure patients know they can ask for a second opinion, with[ the government providing funding to hospitals for posters and leaflets informing patients and their families.
Martha Mills died aged 13, after being admitted to King’s College Hospital, south London, in 2021, having injured her pancreas slipping on to the handlebars of her bike while cycling.
She later developed sepsis - but with better care, could have survived, an inquest found.
So they’re using the death of a child who was killed due to NHS incompetence to make trans people more likely to receive incompetent care or no care at all. Very cool and normal country.
- Comment on Royal Mail waives £5 penalty charge for fake stamps 2 weeks ago:
Right?? You’re telling me I could have been sending JKR letters with fake stamps this whole time and SHE’D have been charged actual money for it? My new greatest regret in life is missing the timeframe where I could have done that.
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 2 weeks ago:
Least sexist blue check