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.

  • Mojave@lemmy.worldEnglish
    476·
    4 months ago

    Pirating movies and games can’t kill you

    Home brewing seizure medication can

    • RangerJosie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      695·
      4 months ago

      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.

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        162·
        4 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.

          • RangerJosie@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            4 months ago

            Can confirm. I tried. Long time ago. Spoke to a lady at a Canadian Embassy.

            I didn’t meet the education requirements.

            Edit - For anyone curious. I’m a Highschool grad. No college. No secondary at all. Uni or tech. So, an American HS diploma isn’t enough education to be useful to a functional society In pretty much any western nation. I wasn’t even mad at the time. Kinda disappointed. But yeah. I get it.

        • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          4 months ago

          Instructions unclear, moved to Alberta and I’m surrounded by Trump flags and austerity measures.

    • obbeel@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

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