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https://thewarhorse.org/amputee-veterans-face-chronic-lack-of-va-care-prosthetics/
Also: https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete - "Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported"
Thanks, that's actually the article I was looking for.
We're literally living in a cyberpunk dystopia.
a boring cyberpunk dystopia
And another: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/26/24255074/former-jockey-michael-straight-exoskeleton-repair-battery
We really need standardization in batteries. I usually think that about ebikes, but this is another good example.
Okay as a Middle Eastern guy I have absolutely zero respect for Iraq war veterans so honestly I couldn't give a shit about this guy specifically, but from a realpolitik perspective isn't this just bad for morale?
TBH I think at this point hating the VA is so universal that it's become a group morale building exercise...
Doesn't matter, had war.