• Grapho@lemmy.ml
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    17 hours ago

    Sure bro lemme teach my aunt to make her insulin, her own needles, her own glucose test strips and all that cheers

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        4 hours ago

        That’s good work for a lot of reasons, but there’s a world of difference between “open source and theoretically DIY” and it being anywhere near realistic for everyone to actually do it themselves.

        It’s good that I have access to advanced technology without having to have learned how to build it from the ground up. That’s the whole point of civilization – doing more together than we could do apart.

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      16 hours ago

      Maybe we should all specialize, and pay each other with our own goods, or better yet, a sort of representation of goods we all agree is valuable, so you can get one persons goods with anothers.

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        Kinda seems unfair that somebody’s aunt should have to purchase insulin she needs to survive, like she shouldn’t have to work harder to have the same lifestyle as someone without a disability. Maybe we should just give her the insulin she needs to survive, and compensate the people who make it out of some sort of common pool of resources everyone is required to contribute to, in order to distribute the costs more fairly.

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          11 hours ago

          When I was younger, I tried to design an universal constructor.

          Unfortunatelly, I was using Roblox studio to do this.

          How’s that for insanity?

          I also carved a log with a knife, hacking off pieces in an attempt to make a 3D printer

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            It’s not insane! 3D printing is making huge strides. You were just a little ahead of your time.

            If we can run Doom on 16 billion crabs, then you can carve a 3D printer.