• PaX [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Yet in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, he heard troubling rumors about the company and called his Second Sight vision-rehab therapist. “She said, ‘Well, funny you should call. We all just got laid off,’ ” he remembers. “She said, ‘By the way, you’re not getting your upgrades.’ ”

      WHAT THE FUCK

      WE HAVE BIONIC EYES BUT NO ONE IS MAKING THEM ANYMORE?? THEY “”““MOVED ON””“” TO OTHER TECHNOLOGY AND JUST GHOSTED HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE WALKING AROUND WITH UNMAINTAINED BIONIC IMPLANTS?? WE HAVE BIONIC FUCKING EYES AND MUSK WANTS TO FUND HIS MONKEY BRAIN TORTURE IMPLANTS INSTEAD???

      amerikkka-clap agony-mescaline amerikkka-clap

      The market works, folks!

      • Abraxiel@hexbear.net
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        “Sorry, the abstract utility of you paying to have vision was judged to be less than that of our investors buying more rental properties.”