Exactly. There will be a time where we can safely place this tech and help people who are paralyzed walk again or talk again. But trusting this dipshit is madness. He used to come off as a cool genius but that’s all over. He’s just an idiot who has too much money and buys whatever he thinks is cool.

He justifies all of this suffering and torture because in his mind he’s got a major Kanye complex where he thinks he’s an Adonis god. Bro you’re an amorphous fat pasty neck beard who got lucky in the dot com boom and bust. Real lucky. Please just go climb a wall of dicks and get fucked.

Musk has a track record of giving absolutely no fucks about safety or regulations unless forced to.

While he is a particularly egregious and blatant example, there are countless examples of other corporations generating their profits by doing exactly the same level of ignoring safety, environmental damage, and other harms ti society in their single-minded pursuit of ever inreasing profits.

Internalize the profits and externalize the costs has been a business mantra for centuries.

It's actually not that many, for most conditions these things can be used for other methods seem saver and more promising but there are cases where they will help people.

That's literally the exact thing rewarded by capitalism. Don't blame the player, blame the game

Yes, it was a difficult read. This was more animals being unnecessarily tortured than animal testing. and Musk's lying about their suffering and deaths. He and his Neuralink team are psychopaths.

I've read about this exact thing, people with debilitating conditions who are offered state of the art tech to be implanted, but the company eventually folds and they stop maintaining or supporting it, so the people are left with a useless implant

You get it put in and suddenly you think Musk is a sexy genius, apartheid wasn't that bad, and that Tesla cars definitely aren't trying to kill you.

While I'm all for the possibility of brain-machine interfacing so we can communicate better with our devices

For the folks at home, the commenter I'm responding to is one of the ones who will be the death of us all in 30 years.

How the hell could anyone think inserting technology into your brain is a good idea? Especially for the completely useless “benefit” of being able to “communicate with our devices.” Do you seriously want push notifications funneling into your subconscious? I’m guessing your takeaway from cyberpunk media is “ooo! cool hot murderbabes and gun arms!”

Unfortunately, especially when it comes to medical research, there’s no viable alternative. The horrible lack of ethics shown here provide a strong case for strengthening existing laws and oversight, however. I agree: we should have higher standards when considering whether something is “worth testing for”.

Isn’t that the definition of livestock?

Business asset (stock) that is alive.

here's that link but clickable. that was quite the... enlightening read.

The true MVP of this post

No, but to then turn around and lie about the cause of death is super unethical and fraudulent to investors.

This isn't quite normal, usually at these facilities in the case of 15, 22, and 20 especially show that the workers are not carrying out proper regular assessment and that the criteria for euthanasia for excessive suffering looks to be far to high. I only know the case of how this kind if testing is handled with mice (from my partner, and in germany) and all three of these cases would have been euthanized much earlier, not left to live on for a year or even days. As usual with Musk, he tries to cut corners and it only ends up hurting people and in this case animals unecessarily.