I was actually picturing one of these for the MedBed:
It might explain why they're all evil pricks. Plus RFK, jr already has extra worms in his anatomy so...
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Or the Elysium beds used to regularly cure anything, but only available to the ultra-wealthy. Oh, wait, we already have a large part of that now, at least the restrictions part.
MedBed gold Trump Edition
This is what immediately went through my head:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mLNE-wmsy4
https://www.theverge.com/news/787042/trump-posts-then-pulls-bizarre-ai-video-promoting-medbed-conspiracy
Donald Trump is no stranger to outlandish conspiracies or strange social media posts. But, by any measure, his post on Saturday night was particularly bizarre. The president posted (and later removed) a clip on Truth Social of a Fox News segment with Lara Trump detailing the White House’s announcement of the world’s first MedBed hospital and a national MedBed card system (two things that very much do not exist). There was no additional context, no text to explain things. Confusing matters more, the video appears to be completely AI generated, including Trump himself discussing the program in the Oval Office. (Perhaps one of the biggest giveaways being the president’s ability to stay on script.)
wait, so he released fake ai video of himself (quite possibly not having an idea whether what he was looking at had or had not actually happened?) every time you think it can't get any worse, they somehow manage to move the threshold even lower...
He believes everything he sees in video format. He trusts his glowing screens more than his own brain.
TBF, I don't trust his brain at all, either.
Yeah because he doesn't know what he's actually said and medbeds seems like the sort of crap he would come up with.
This is because his brain is turning to porridge, not that it was firing on all cylinders before.
He trusts his glowing screens more than his own brain.
Yeah, that sounds like an almost reasonable position for him.
Truly the ultimate narcissist.
It doesn't even sound like trump
completely AI generated, including Trump himself discussing the program in the Oval Office. (Perhaps one of the biggest giveaways being the president’s ability to stay on script)
from the article ;)
Yeah but it sounds like what trump thinks he sounds like based on how he hears himself when he was young
No joke: actual screenshots from Star Trek have been used to promote these medbed scams.
give me healing chambers and I might be more open to discussions.
One of the progress sliders on the sickbay monitor really did say "health insurance remaining."
Shades of Gray was such a bad episode it made Pulaski abandon ship.
Which Star Trek coffee table book has the factoid about a display in sickbay during the episode Relics that says a patient has “Health Insurance Remaining”?
I think it was TNG Tech Manual?
What was the story behind that? It’s a good satirical criticism of health care but it doesn’t align with this utopian future where poverty inexplicably no longer exists.
Edit: jeez guys, I was just asking how that made it into the story. You don’t have to get all political.
I think they just had to put something there, so they threw in a joke. They probably never expected it to be visible or readable.
It’s similar in nature to how the DS9 promenade directory has “Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems” from Buckaroo Bonzai, albeit a more dark-humored example.
In universe, it doesn’t exist, I’d say. It’s just a part of the aesthetic, similar to how some things on TOS would look less hokey in real life.