The whole idea of putting something in your body that AI came up with is unnerving, but this microfluid jet stream method of injection is kind of blowing my mind.

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        I wouldn’t say nobody uses it. In the nineties we had the option to take a vaccine (don’t know which one. DPT? variola?) through that pistol thing or a regular needle. That thing hurts more, and leaves a bigger mark/scar than the needle. But it’s faster as vaccination teams don’t need to spend time discarding sharps. It was a stream of crying kids returning to class.

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        I was reading a scientific paper on Jet Injection and noticed that part :

        Subsequent bench studies of it and the more common Ped-O-Jet® indicated that their nozzles could become contaminated with hepatitis B virus and pose a risk for transmission

        Ped-O-Jet®

        Did they seriously choose that name for their product? Was that an Epstein business? WTF.

        For anyone interested here is the full study I was reading and is very interesting :

        https://siamlotus.com/pubs/Weniger-GlobVacForum-Montreux-HighSpeedJetInjectors-abs.pdf

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          Pediatrics, Pedialite, and pedophile all share the same Greek root pais meaning “child”. The Ped-O-Jet was developed and named in the 1960s, decades before pedophiles became so prominent in our cultural consciousness.

          Back then nobody would bat an eye at that name.

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      The communicator already is and HAL that everyone thought would take 200 years is here now. The science fiction future we dreamed about as children has become a self fulfilling prophecy. For good or bad we are in it now, right up to our necks.