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They’ve been pumping this bio-hacking startup on the Orange Site ™ for the past few months. Now they’ve got Siskind shilling for them.
They’ve been pumping this bio-hacking startup on the Orange Site ™ for the past few months. Now they’ve got Siskind shilling for them.
I thought this looked kind of interesting and not especially grifty apart from the usual anti-FDA narrative up until
whence my eyes did an uzumaki. And also Aela is somehow involved, apparently.
Give them the benefit of a doubt, sure, maybe they are pandering this hard to an audience that self selects for gullibility and cultbrain and against consumer protections strictly for the greater good, merely accelerating what should have already happened if it weren’t for those meddlin’ kids at the FDA.
Am I a Bad Person for hoping this is also a super-spreader event?
Literally BioShock.
It isn’t just cultbrain, but also a big dose of science fiction and tech hopium. A decade+ ago Lepht Anonym gonzo biohacked themselves to have magnets in their fingers, and this (together with some other science media and science fiction media) set off quite a wave of biohackers. This is just the tail end of the more speculative part of that wave. (‘biohacking’ (bit nebulous term) can have some good results when people learn how to homebrew hormones or insulin, so don’t throw out the meds with the bathwater and mint breath baby)
to be fair, absolutely every person (a) in Prospera (b) who would pay $20k for this absolutely deserves to