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‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine (www.404media.co)
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Sharing because I found this very interesting.

The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective has a DIY design for a home lab you can set up to reproduce expensive medication for dirt cheap, producing medication like that used to cure Hepatitis C, along with software they developed that can be used to create chemical compounds out of common household materials.

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[–] 102 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Piracy is how you got Netflix.

This is how we'll change the pharmaceutical industry. They'll overreact and Streisand Effect this and it'll blow up. Become normalized. The open source tech will improve.

This is a good thing. Period.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Pirating movies and games can't kill you

    Home brewing seizure medication can

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  • [–] 67 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

    This is America dude. Human life costs $7.25 an hour here. We can't even do anything to keep children safe from their number 1 killer here.

    Nobody cares. Those who do care are completely powerless to change anything.

    Yes. Mistakes will happen. People will die. People die every day right now. Many of them because they can't afford life saving medicine. I'd happily take a risk on this before I'd saddle my family with $50,000 a month for medicine that you can get in Canada or Mexico for $50.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    We can't even do anything to keep children safe from their number 1 killer here.

    By this the parent commenter means "car crashes," by the way. Car dependent zoning is literally mass-murdering more children than school shooters ever did and we're doing almost nothing to fix it.

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Move to Canada.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Canada doesn't accept just anyone for no reason.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Can confirm. I tried. Long time ago. Spoke to a lady at a Canadian Embassy.

    I didn't meet the education requirements.

    Edit - For anyone curious. I'm a Highschool grad. No college. No secondary at all. Uni or tech. So, an American HS diploma isn't enough education to be useful to a functional society In pretty much any western nation. I wasn't even mad at the time. Kinda disappointed. But yeah. I get it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I wish there was some kind of open source collective organization under which you could release anything with eternal open source license that'd be free forever. It could be anything from software, tech or medicine like penicillin so that megacorps could not benefit from it in any way.

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