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These early adopters found out what happened when a cutting-edge marvel became an obsolete gadget... inside their bodies.

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[-] El_guapazo@lemmy.world 184 points 11 months ago

This was the plot line to the movie Robots. The solution was socialized medicine.

[-] Why9@lemmy.world 92 points 11 months ago

A more sinister example was Repo Men. In that movie, the tech still worked, but people were no longer able to keep up with the extortionate payments that came with the implant.

[-] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago
[-] randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

Zydrate comes in a little glass vile

[-] Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago
[-] LrdThndr@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

I love how this was somehow both the next line of the song AND snarkily correcting their spelling.

[-] Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Lmao to be fair it was mostly to continue the song, but I did notice that XD

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