as well as a fee of €95 ($105) for 24 months of access
Ah, there it is. The death subscription.
I’m not paying 4 bucks a month unless it’s ad free
Please Select Your 90-Second Ad Experience While Your Sarco Pod Initiates
I bet they don’t get very many cancellations either.
You can’t tell me that’s not part of the business model…
The design files and software will probably be pirate-able within a couple of years.
Deal breaker, it should be one time fee
It being 3D printed is the least relevant part of this. But it has to be in the headline to get clicks. But it apparently also has to be the lead? "Molecule based “suicide pod’…”, “Carbon neutral ‘suicide pod’…”, “Self actualized ‘suicide pod’…”, “Corporate sponsored ‘suicide pod’…”
There aren’t many things you could put in front of the real story here that change the story without creating an even bigger story. And 3D printed is definitely not one of them.
The register is a tech magazine, so the DIY/3D printed angle is relevant here. It’s also relevant because it would, at least to some degree, allow someone to build it themselves in places where perhaps the legality of self determination is questionable. The Register is not a place where you’ll normally find unnecessary clickbait headlines.
It’s kind of a big deal if you can’t legally do this (and as it happens, you can’t where they did it) by implying you can circumvent the law this way.
Here’s my proposal:
I’ve heard the claim numerous times that people leave a tremendous carbon footprint. Each person would be assigned a certain amount of “carbon credits” that their life is worth, and the value slowly declines as they get older. If they choose to, one can hop in the expiration bin and donate those remaining credits to a cause of their choice: they can give them to their children, family, or friends, donate them to a charity or research group, etc.
I can just imagine the ads where companies try to compel you to take the early-expiration route while relinquishing your credits to them “for the greater good” or some other such nonsense
Children mass-produced for the glorious stream of carbon credits it would award
Microsoft, Amazon, Tesla et al provide “expiration tanks” in convenient places that send the credits directly to them after each “donation”
Wtf i need to go back to sleep, lol
Night night lemmy ✨
“You are now dead. Thank you for using Stop’n’Drop: America’s favorite suicide booth since 2008!”
Death with dignity should be an essential human right.
It is, we just don’t have it.
has also been working on an implant that would be able to euthanize Alzheimer patients unable to make their own care decisions, and told us the first one has been built. It will only be loaded with saline to test the timing technology used in the implant, we’re told.
Fuck yeah. Family members, nor the state, can be trusted to execute a demented persons wishes — wishes they were made while still of sound mind. I was already planning on building a suicide machine if I’m ever diagnosed (customised gas mask + nitrous oxide or nitrogen tank probably). Having autonomous, simple, well tested, painless options would prevent me having to waste my time on that.
- Looks over at Ender 3
Hehe, by the time it finished printing something that size, I might have expired of natural causes!
It’s all just a scam to get you to buy tons of filament. They know you’ll never follow through.
why did it need to be 3D printed
My print keeps failing! Can I just use a trash barrel? Lol. I don’t understand at all why one would need or want to 3D print anything.
fucking printer i hate this thing
… and the people involved were arrested
How long before the first Sleepshop opens?
Whatever you do don’t mix it up with your interstellar suspended animation pod.
So these aren’t cool mice? Because I was excited when I thought they were cool mice.
Why can’t I shake off the feeling this is some kind of Edison-Tesla situation to give 3D printing a bad rep?
Hell of a lot of duct tape on that thing.
