• andybytes@programming.dev
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    14 hours ago

    I wounded if working people will be able to afford this… Given the amount of amputee veterans who lost limbs and veteran suicide rate…me thinks not… But sure it seems pretty nifty…just swell

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      9 hours ago

      It’s also a massive risk when even the advanced ones have a high rejection rate of around 44% that’s never talked about, and don’t have nearly as much fine control as the media makes them out to be on top of being uncomfortably heavy for some people. While some do like them, a lot wind up preferring simpler ones or none at all.

    • Liam Mayfair@lemmy.sdf.org
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      13 hours ago

      Yes they would, in theory, because those prosthetics she’s wearing were NHS-funded. I can see the waitlist to get ones like those being pretty fucking long though but hey, what NHS waitlist is not pretty fuck long these days anyway