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Oct 14, 2026, 5:32 PM@JessTheUnstill yeah id like to pull an sttng or an expanse and regrow a spine, that would be pretty rad
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Jess👾JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchangeOct 14, 2026, 6:07 PM@Viss Even just a tricorder that could accurately diagnose the problem in a single doctor visit. Having to go to multiple doctors and medical imaging and "well we'll try this med, and come back in 8 weeks" x 10
- VissViss@mastodon.socialOct 14, 2026, 6:08 PM
@JessTheUnstill or the autodoc from expanse! a blood pressure cuff that knits bones and cures lethal radiation poisoning
Varxvarx@defcon.socialOct 14, 2026, 6:14 PM@JessTheUnstill @Viss modern medical technology is objectively amazing, but we are still closer to the blood lett-ers and humours of old than we are to the (hopefully inevitable) star trek style future where we can easily identify and fix issues at their source.
If future doctors came back to today they would view our current methods with the same disgust and pity as bones in the star trek movie.
- VissViss@mastodon.socialOct 14, 2026, 6:18 PM
@varx @JessTheUnstill facebook paid for instagram a figure that would have put 7 more rovers on mars.
i wish we spend on science and medicine what we do on techbro shit
- Jess👾JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchangeOct 14, 2026, 6:21 PM
- Jess👾JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchangeOct 14, 2026, 6:22 PM
- VissViss@mastodon.socialOct 14, 2026, 6:24 PM
@JessTheUnstill @varx right?
Oct 14, 2026, 6:29 PM@JessTheUnstill
I know what's wrong (type 1 diabetes).
Managing it is known (CGM sensors, automatable pump + consumables, insulin (well, two kinds, because $reasons)).
The physical maintenance and effectively being on-call for it all the time is at least 1/4 of a "job".
And that's before getting into the whole sheer **bureaucracy** around renewing permits for those things every few months or every year, depending on which, and what form that takes *this time*.
@Viss