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You might remember this story. This is the sad conclusion, brought about by terrible racist adults.

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Fantastic-looking 3D-printed BK prosthetic - FDA-approved, waterproof, 50% lighter and cheaper than conventional prostheses.

It seems quite durable too 🙂

Limber Prosthetics leg extreme durability test

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Not directly related to limb loss - not at all in the video, in fact.

But I'm posting this here because I can't say enough good things about saunas for phantom pain relief: in my case, phantom pain manifests itself in the form of electric shocks and, more annoyingly, intense itching that I obviously can't scratch, and one of the only things that work for me is a nice hot sauna.

If you have access to a sauna or a hot spa somewhere, give it a spin next time it hits!

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Here are videos of the adjustable socket systems mentioned in the guide:

  • Click Medical Adjustable Sockets:
    Click Medical Adjustable Sockets

  • LIM Innovations Infinite Socket:
    LIM Innovations Infinite Socket

  • Martin Bionics Socket-less Socket:
    Martin Bionics Socket-less Socket

This guide is rather old (2018), there are other systems out there. But they all work pretty much on the same principles.

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The clownish Trump cabinet picks being clowns and creating distractions.

Which ultimately begs the question: where are the Epstein files?

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Great. Now Facebook wants an AI Epstein 🙁

Honestly... I can't think of a single good thing Zuckerberg has ever brought to the world.

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I love this project. Ian Davis is so rad!

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ChatGPT head Nick Turley said he’s “humble enough not to rule it out categorically,” but hedged that OpenAI would need to “be very thoughtful and tasteful” about how ads could be integrated into ChatGPT.

You can tastefully go fuck yourself.

In fairness, I don't know that any AI service that starts barfing ads can be said to enshittify, since it was already shitty to begin with. I guess the ads are par for the course...

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This question can only come from the United States: those who lives elsewhere and enjoy a working social security system knows exactly why it's great, and those who don't know exactly why they want it.

But somehow, inexplicably, in the richest nation on Earth, social security is constantly in question, and the powers that be feel compelled to defend it.

The United States is the greatest and the dumbest country on the planet at the same time. The mind boggles.

[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 217 points 8 months ago

Remember: AI chatbots are designed to maximize engagement, not speak the truth. Telling a methhead to do more meth is called customer capture.

[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 304 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

$1m would be insulting.
$10k is beyond insulting. That's probably one the cheapest entry fees to one of his disgusting Mar-a-Lago fundraisers.
Trump really has a knack for insulting people. He's basically saying "You're worth a fifth of a Tesla car". How cheap can you be...

[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 219 points 11 months ago

I have to say, Trump's tactic of doing so many impeachable things so fast that nobody even tries to impeach him anymore is working stunningly well.

[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 271 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It takes a special kind of crazy to say vaccines have untrustworthy ingredients over the dead body of your unvaccinated child.

Mennonite man

Ah... right okay.

[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 336 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Not to mention the "Governor Trudeau" extra-dumb.

God I hate politics-by-Twitter. I'm appalled that the US is turning into a fascist country, but I'm even more appalled by how pathetic, puerile and trashy the US' new fascist overlords are. At least Hitler dressed in Hugo Boss and made speeches that enthralled people: MAGA dresses like tramps, Steve Bannon-stylee and bullies other countries like kids on the playground.

[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 324 points 1 year ago

After Andy Yen's endorsement of the orange utan, I would seriously reconsider using any Proton product.

Yen tried to backpedal meekly several times since then, to get out of the pickle he got himself into with his definitely-not-impressed customers, but it's a bit late for that: either he's pro-Trump or he's naive. Either way, he makes Proton sketchy.

[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 224 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This must be the first president in the history of this country to display this much callousness towards innocent victims of a terrible accident and get away with it.

[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 301 points 1 year ago

It's frightening how a dictatorship is setting itself up in plain sight, at an accelerated pace, almost hour after hour, and nobody does a damn thing about it.

[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 244 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The US consumers voted for Trump to lower the price of eggs.

The price of eggs is soaring today. Why? Because bird flu is killing chicken.

So what does Trump do? He cancels research on bird flu. Surely the irony won't be missed on the magats who voted him in.

And now this: aggression against allied nations that will result in more price hikes. More irony for the maga morons to enjoy.

It's only been 4 days. It's gonna be a long 4 years...

[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 303 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Firstly, "President Musk" isn't a joke.
Secondly, half the reason everybody says it is to piss off Vice-President Trump.

[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 308 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You'd think UHC would strive to behave impeccably with all the publicity around them lately. But no: they're so shameless and so greedy they even behave rotten when everybody is busy dissecting their every moves. Amazing...

[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 219 points 2 years ago

I knew a guy in the late 90s who checked himself into jail every winter. He just didn't have enough money to heat his home and buy food at the same time, and he was disabled and couldn't land a job in construction no more, so that's the only thing he found to stay alive.

When the snow started to come down, he'd go to our local minimart with a plastic gun. You know, like the really cheesy ones with a red cap at the muzzle, to make sure nobody would think it was real and gun him down my mistake, and to avoid getting a harsh sentence. He knew the store owner, since it was a small town and everybody knew each other.

He'd say hello, point the gun at him and gently say "Could you please call the police like last year?" The store owner used to try to talk him out of it, but he'd say "Don't force me to make it real because I don't wanna."

Then the sheriff would show up - they knew each other too of course - and he would try to convince him this wasn't a good idea. And the guy would say "Look, will you book me or not? Because if you don't, you'll come back next week to my place but with the coroner this time."

So the sheriff would book him. And the judge, who knew exactly why he was there at the trial, would sentence him to 5 months - time enough to get out in spring.

After I left town, I heard he kept doing that for many years, until he got tired of being poor and committed suicide.

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