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‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine (www.404media.co)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Sharing because I found this very interesting.

The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective has a DIY design for a home lab you can set up to reproduce expensive medication for dirt cheap, producing medication like that used to cure Hepatitis C, along with software they developed that can be used to create chemical compounds out of common household materials.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Pirating movies and games can't kill you

Home brewing seizure medication can

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

This is America dude. Human life costs $7.25 an hour here. We can't even do anything to keep children safe from their number 1 killer here.

Nobody cares. Those who do care are completely powerless to change anything.

Yes. Mistakes will happen. People will die. People die every day right now. Many of them because they can't afford life saving medicine. I'd happily take a risk on this before I'd saddle my family with $50,000 a month for medicine that you can get in Canada or Mexico for $50.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

We can't even do anything to keep children safe from their number 1 killer here.

By this the parent commenter means "car crashes," by the way. Car dependent zoning is literally mass-murdering more children than school shooters ever did and we're doing almost nothing to fix it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I personally think open source software and hardware is a good starting point to making DIY stuff legal in the future.