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An example of others helping those in need.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/23/22244673/parkinsons-tiktok-crowdsourced-pill-bottle
Thanks u/sauceonthesideplease
Nov 26, 2021 12:25 PM
Lanhdanan
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https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/23/22244673/parkinsons-tiktok-crowdsourced-pill-bottle
Thanks u/sauceonthesideplease
Etereo
Tic toc still cancer so...
MileHighLivin
And you can see the whole thing through 20 second clips of them all dancing to that weird "questions people ask me" song.
zigbigidorlu
My pharmacy has a capsule building kit, and I've often considered asking if we could put the tabs into caps for those suffering.
remaog42
Inventing stuff without a profit incentive? Impossible. Sounds like communism to me. /s
CallThisAUsername
HFY.
Gahblund
As long as tiktok continues to support stupid James Charles and his dumbass I'm not getting that app. Great story tho. That's awesome.
BootsDusty
HeHeHebieJeebies
Team human 1 - Team soul sucking tick corporations - 0... until they pay off a congressman to somehow make this illegal.
Lanhdanan
Copyright system has entered the chat.
StabbyMcMurder
Wow
Reddxx
I want to thank everyone who made this device happen <3
thebigbaka
EJust
This is how we envisioned social media working. Instead we mostly get hate and misinformation.
Flaeder
THIS! I fuckin love this.
Lanhdanan
Agreed!
AStegosaurus
They could also just make the pills bigger at virtually no cost, since they just use sugar as a filler in nearly all tablets.
Valitus
It’s actually because Parkinson’s disease makes it difficult to swallow and cough. That makes it necessary to have smaller pills.
willpostanything
WHAT IS THE OUTCOME? THEY PRINT A LARGER PILLS??
JustDumbCommentsAndCorrections
If you travel in US, bear in mind that some states make it illegal to have prescription pills in an unmarked/generic container.
johnvilnis
Now we have access to a vast array of smart, inventive and savvy people who are willing to change the world for a stranger.
dundeeisdrunk
It’s good to hear people putting others ahead of profit
Lanhdanan
People over profit.
BaphoMettbroetchen
If anyone needs one printed in the EU, hit me up. For other countries I could probably arrange sth through my contacts.
SonrisaFlores
Whoever designed pill blisters packs needs to rot in hell, also.
staceyjorgenson31415
https://m.yeggi.com/q/parkinsons/ I think this is where to find the free files. I don’t know jack-shit about 3D printing :)
AstroINTJ
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4707051
causality
There's some fuckery going on. The guy running the etsy shop and taking donations doesn't appear to be the originator of the design.
causality
Guy taking donations: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5081137 Original from a year earlier: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4719834
languex
Parkinson's killed my Mom. Holidays without her are real hard!
Lanhdanan
Hugs. Live well for her.
skellington01
This is what Facebook’s “connect the world” vision could be. Instead they (Tik tok as well) chose to optimize their algorithms for hate.
skellington01
Social media isn’t bad. People aren’t bad. Facebook just chose to use its unprecedented influence for evil.
Lanhdanan
It pays better unfortunately.
Cooverdam
Share source for people who'd like to get one?
TacticalSegway
Parkinson's? It's genetic, sorry
64645
One source to buy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/962396459/pill-dispenser-for-us-shipping?ref=sold_out-1&frs=1
64645
To print your own: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4719834
HomoSumHumaniAMeNihilAlienumPuto
STL files here https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4719834/files you will need to do some googling to find a 3d printer near you.
ckmnstr
For those who want to print it https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4719834
bl0rpen
The actual relevant comment. Thank you.
Subsound
zafner
Cool. Now do medications. ... In case anyone thinks this is a dig, I'm serious
GeForcen
It took me a full day of messing around in a fully equipped lab with the formulas to actually make acceptable paracetamol, and that is an
GeForcen
'easy' one to make. Still took 3 attempts. No way most people could make the life saving drugs with an acceptable purity, for a good price.
zafner
You don't need "most people." You just need one or two dudes
Sfingks
You would take pills made by home-chemists?
zafner
I might, yeah
zafner
There is literally a whole black market in these just for recreational purposes
Sfingks
If you're referring to Research Chemicals, those are made in a lab by chemists.
zafner
I'm referring to drugs
Sfingks
So am I. Google "research chemicals"
TurkeyBaron
Now some Chinese company is going to appropriate the design, mass produce them and sell them to us at a massive markup. TikTok=PRC organ.
samsonsimson
This is as good as an incentive as any to start shoring up our domestic manufacturing capabilities.
jaguar5hark
All the times I've seen it, they mass produce the trinkets at a quarter the price.
BillyM00n
Massive markup? How would that work? Isn't it usually Chinese manufacturing companies undercutting other countries' designs?
DanFendi
It's a lot to explain in a comment, but essentially they will bill insurance companies a massive mark up and make it illegal to get any
DanFendi
other kind of bottle.
Contundo
If it costs $.4 to make western companies would charge $5, Chinese company may charge $2
TheRealFireFrenzy
and everyone can just print off the open source files... Not that tiktok isnt VILE but that one worry seems unfounded
SerenityBrownCoatLover7
Not everyone is this tech savy: in FACT, most aren’t. They’d rather just buy it. So it agree it’s gonna be marketed by China.
TheRealFireFrenzy
And if its dummy expensive they'll buy it from someone with a 3d printing website one of those "send stl get part" places
SerenityBrownCoatLover7
Im hopeful! But you know: Amazon and Wish :(
TurkeyBaron
The point is that TikTok is a vacuum for biometric, data, and intellectual property whose repository is a ruthless techno-autocracy.
bolobass
Thanks for posting the SOURCE OR NAME OF THE FUCKING THING ya derelict cockwomble.
grandpasonlylivingheir
When people post things like this or art w/o links, I down vote. Pure laziness.
Sirgrindalot
Havent laughed this hard all year
Algebraicrhombus
Pretty sure op is just a repost whore.
TheHorseShesElbowDeepIn
Oh they did. They put TikTok in the story three times. They could hardly promote TikTok without doing that.
Lanhdanan
Its how I found the story. I don't use TikTok actually. Source of story added to post.
johnnyshitknucklez
I just want to say reading your epitaphs was both a privilege and an honor
TheSongofRiver
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5081137
Lanhdanan
Sorry didn't expect this to take off Been choring it up enjoying my Friday Thanks 4 your enthusiasm Added source per u/sauceonthesideplease.
DouglasPouchOfHolding
I like your response. Not defensive, real accountability, legitimate excuse, good humour. +1
TheSongofRiver
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4733849
TheSongofRiver
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4720636
2ti6x
i will always upvote "cockwomble"!
MisterOates
I will always upvote the message that says "i will always upvote the work "cockwomble". Lol
Skr121
Even a derelict one?
GradientApollo
That was a great touch, even more worth upvoting.
ArmstrongManstrength
Especially a derelict one
RabidDingo
And the idea that it is no longer working made me chuckle. Derelict cockwomble...
sauceonthesideplease
https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/23/22244673/parkinsons-tiktok-crowdsourced-pill-bottle
Lanhdanan
Thanks @sauceonthesideplease. Source added to post.
Arrofancy
Fucking where
Lanhdanan
The blue link below the image. https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/23/22244673/parkinsons-tiktok-crowdsourced-pill-bottle
X0DUS35
Thank you!?
Psiberdragon
Username checks out.... and thanks!
apollo1983
You can derelict my balls.
Rebullo
I bet they already are, boomer
gablestout
acuteavocado
well don't mind if i do! :3
apollo1983
Kemo sahbee
DaveSamsonite
You spelled ligma wrong
Fhant
What's wrong?
dickSoLong
Wait.. so Tik Tok is not just for making cringy teenage videos?
Peachcappuccino
There's so much great content on tiktok. I follow history and music ones.
Lanhdanan
People are capable of so much. Its how we have society constrained over resources that has really hampered our potential.
HenryMHoover
I'm a convert. If you make it to the good side of tiktok, it is actually a really sweet place. Also 'lives' can help meeting new people...
Catitapillar
Ooooo! There is an entire mental health side too. Talking about neurodivergence, childhood trauma, LGBTQ+ issues, racism, how to be an 1/2
Catitapillar
ally for intersectionality. There's funny inventions, and stories, make-up tutorials, car education...
noodleteeth
No. My mother uses it to listen to idiots complain loudly about our american politics. She just chain watches them.
AtypicalMammal
But our american politics really do kinda suck tho...
noodleteeth
Yeah, but I cant listen to any more liberals in preachy hussy fits yelling things I already know. And i DEFINITELY cantlisten to any more
noodleteeth
Republicans howling about "political wins" when court cases turn in "their" favor.
grabyerpitchforks
Yeah but you can find literally anything on tiktok, it's like Reddit
RunawaySpoons
To be fair you can find literally anything on pretty much any social media platform. In the fall depths of posts voted to oblivion there's
RunawaySpoons
*dark depths
RunawaySpoons
even some festering, stinking bile on here. Not much, and it doesn't make it to the front page (unless obvious satire) but there's some.
MyBigMouth
No. It's also for stealing all your lovely data and providing it to the illustrious leader of best China, Xinnie The Pooh, for free.
Muffyns
Like google and imgir havent already done that?
RomanSnow
-15 social credit
SnarfyMcSnarferson
And that's why I consider tiktok to be a pile of flaming toxic waste
Snotty128
Bold of you to think they don’t already have everything they need to know about you
Billyjimjoejohngerryjosephgeorgejames
Advertisers aren't a literal foreign adversary. With a clear record of defrauding US securities. There's a big difference between what kind>
Billyjimjoejohngerryjosephgeorgejames
< of soap proctor and gamble wants to sell you and what kind of sensitive industrial data you may unknowingly provide your enemy.
AtypicalMammal
I don't believe in enemies and secrets and all that paranoid BS. Knowledge should be free and borders should be abolished
Snotty128
Yeah, they might find out where you buy your tinfoil hats, and then we’ll all be screwed (spoiler, they’re made in China)
youreathing
Right because no other platform would dare do that, on or offline. How many loyalty products do you own?
SnarfyMcSnarferson
Come back to us when Twitter is running concentration camps
CuddlyPervert
Intent matters. A corp just wants to sell you things with that data. This can have negative consequences obviously, but still less alarming
CuddlyPervert
Then when a hostile foreign power does the same thing. They aren't using the data to manipulate you into spending too much. They use it to
CuddlyPervert
Do things like affect election results and anything else to weaken our position in the world.