Musk is a cunt and Tesla are shit

Ooop my bad, forgot that a verified tick on Twitter is now a mark of a troll account

I will say that I'm surprised people are shocked by this. Of course they're animal testing; I don't think anyone would expect that they experiment on actual live humans until pretty late in the research process.

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine reckons 15 of 23 monkeys were killed and all were subjected to "psychological distress, extreme suffering, and chronic infections due to surgeries".

Equally as bad though, is Elon is definitely going full Elon on the benefits of Neuralink but experts in the area are dismissing it as hyperbole (shocking, I know).

What is the problem that neuralink are trying to solve? Are they coming from a medicine/health angle or is it about embedding gadgets?

It really does feel like a massive cruel waste of time and money.

From wikipedia...

Scientists have cited technical challenges for Neuralink. In 2017, a journalist at the IEEE Spectrum Magazine had asked for comments from five researchers that had been working on BCI implants, including Thomas Oxley that invented the Stentrode.[45] At a live demonstration in August 2020, Musk described their device as "a Fitbit in your skull". Several neuroscientists and publications criticized these claims.[11][12][46] MIT Technology Review accused the demonstration of having the main objective to "stir excitement", adding that "Neuralink has provided no evidence that it can (or has even tried to) treat depression, insomnia, or a dozen other diseases that Musk mentioned in a slide".[11] Andrew Jackson, professor of neural interfaces at Newcastle University, also commented on the presentation to the BBC. To Musk's statement that he found Neuralink's advancements to be "profound", Jackson responded, "I don't think there was anything revolutionary in the presentation."[47]

Thiago Arzua of the Medical College of Wisconsin argued that what Neuralink does is not novel and that ideas for a brain–machine interface (BMI) is at least 50 years old.[48] He cited successful control of a robotic prosthetic arm by a man that gave him haptic feedback, which he used in 2016 to give President Obama a fist bump.[49] Arzua said that the 2020 Neuralink presentation "showed little more than a flashy new design for a BMI with more electrodes".[48]

It is, people will tout it as a solution for those who are Deaf/Hearing impaired for example (cochlear implants already exist), but the elephant in the room is that it’s not needed; we just need more access from others and better infrastructure to help Deaf/Hearing impaired.

Deep brain stimulation is a thing. It works for stuff.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/deep-brain-stimulation/about/pac-20384562

Does help types of Parkinson's but wears off over time

In fairness to the Bezos family they do give a huge amount of money to charity.

Relevant to the 'charity' thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cu6EbELZ6I

I was sent these. I like the rants.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVj4kZF-Fgk

Utter cunt:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/05/neuralink-animal-testing-elon-musk-investigation?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Enjoyed these, ta

Two of each kind. Wonder who gets to go with him?

Is this Elon Musk depicting himself as a 2023 Noah, and therefore suggesting he sees himself as a prophet, and also trying to buy more of a Christian following?

Note that the picture depicts armed goons holding the black and brown masses back from the space ark at gunpoint. Indicating that Musk is dumb enough to tweet out any old shit without scrutinising it even halfway, or he did notice and he doesn’t care what message that sends, or he did notice and he approves of the message it sends. Either way, the man is an arse.

Depends on how pedantic you are and how far you scrutinise it. If you randomly selected 40 or so people from the global population to be in your painting, not many of them would be white!

I do agree with you though, i'd put money on whoever created that image being a wrongun. And Musk nodding along of course.

Turns out the artist was a pretty notable science fiction illustrator in the 1960s. Best known in the West for designs for Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet model kits.

https://downthetubes.net/artist-spotlight-the-art-of-shigeru-komatsuzaki/

Reckon Elly Musko will buy LufGus for £1trillion, ban everyone who posts in here and become the most hated fixie skidder in the world?

If we all get a cut I'd be ok with that I reckon.

Fire up the engines and that would just plough into the ground/floodwaters. The man's an idiot.

catering to the white Christian boomer Americans who write things like

Wow , This Is A Great Picture !

To be fair, once you realise that's the box from a 1960s airfix style model kit, it is pretty awesome!

That would be a shit model…those Lions are not to scale

Reckon Elly Musko will buy LufGus for £1trillion, ban everyone who posts in here and become the most hated fixie skidder in the world?

I might finally get some work done.

And for this reason I vote no.