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[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It is all a con. There is no endgame. They aren't thinking that far ahead. And when the reality hits them it will land on them like a cartoon piano. They'll never see it coming.

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I mean some people have more money than ever to buy stuff. That's the market that most of these things are being targeted to. Just consider everyone that isn't extremely wealthy an obsolete product being phased out of production.

Keep restricting birth control and encouraging higher birthrates as early death numbers continue to climb in the U.S. due to a lack of safety regulations and overdoses.

Restrict what can be purchased using government aid to healthy options. Not bc you care about helping poor people to be healthy, but bc you know you might end up needing them for spare parts.

'Horrifying' mistake to take organs from a living person was averted, witnesses say

Natasha Miller says she was getting ready to do her job preserving donated organs for transplantation when the nurses wheeled the donor into the operating room.

She quickly realized something wasn't right. Though the donor had been declared dead, he seemed to her very much alive.

"He was moving around — kind of thrashing. Like, moving, thrashing around on the bed," Miller told NPR in an interview. "And then when we went over there, you could see he had tears coming down. He was crying visibly."

The donor's condition alarmed everyone in the operating room at Baptist Health hospital in Richmond, Ky., including the two doctors, who refused to participate in the organ retrieval, she says.

"So the coordinator calls the supervisor at the time. And she was saying that he was telling her that she needed to 'find another doctor to do it' – that, 'We were going to do this case. She needs to find someone else,' " Miller says. "And she's like, 'There is no one else.' She's crying — the coordinator — because she's getting yelled at."

Doctors Were Preparing to Remove Their Organs. Then They Woke Up.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It also helps that they don't understand the reality of organ reception or being an irl cyborg. Anti rejection meds make you immunocompromised. Cochlear implants sound off and require extra mental effort to process compared to biological hearing (and have less true sound). Robotic arms are heavy and inconvenient to the point many prefer simple prosthetics.

Maybe someday we will have versions of some of these things that are genuinely equivalent to being abled. But I don't know if I will live to see them.

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

There has been concern that China has been running medical exams on Uyghur prisoners in camps to find close matches for recipients and decrease chances of complications

https://thediplomat.com/2025/07/xinjiangs-organ-transplant-expansion-sparks-alarm-over-uyghur-forced-organ-harvesting/

Rogers noted one chilling possibility: that “murdered prisoners of conscience (i.e., Uyghurs held in detention camps)” could be a source of transplanted organs.

This suggestion becomes even more concerning when considering the extensive surveillance and repression that Uyghurs face in the region. Detainees in the many internment camps in Xinjiang have reported being subjected to forced blood tests, ultrasounds, and organ-focused medical scans. These procedures align with organ compatibility testing, raising fears that Uyghurs are being prepped for organ harvesting while in detention.

Wendy Rogers is an Australian bioethicist that has been researching forced organ transplants for a long time, so if she says there is reason to be concerned, I believe her https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/wendy-rogers

[–] BJ_and_the_bear@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

Wow, that was a crazy rabbit hole to go down. Here's another NYTimes article on the subject:

https://archive.ph/hX7FD

Not only do they mention multiple survivors, but one woman went on the make a full recovery!

Sickening stuff