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[–] schwim@piefed.zip 325 points 1 day ago (5 children)

We should offer these two doctors' services for free penis enlargements to all billionaires.

[–] markz@suppo.fi 100 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Rather than free, you should offer the most exclusive and expensive dong surgeries on earth.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 67 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You're both half right. You offer the most exclusive expensive penis enlargement surgury for free just for them, BECAUSE they're a billionaire.

Nothing rich assholes love more than getting expensive shit for free because of their privledge.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 14 hours ago

*burial cost not included

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[–] MashedTech@lemmy.world 21 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like... People only become billionaires because they have other problems they think they can only solve with money.

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[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 41 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

oh!

so is that how we'll be rid of billionaires?

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Be the change you want to see in the world!

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[–] SoupBrick@pawb.social 84 points 1 day ago
[–] miraclerandy@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I will play a violin that matches the size of his package to commemorate him.

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[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 36 points 23 hours ago

Now there's a fucking Darwin Award

[–] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 124 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] eskimofry@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So pathetic they tried to pin this on the surgeon too.

The lead surgeon, identified only as “Guy H.”, was initially investigated on suspicion of manslaughter. However, prosecutors later downgraded the charges to failure to assist a person in danger, drug-related offences, and practising medicine without a licence.

Investigators determined that the injection itself was not responsible for Laniado’s death.

A judicial source told Le Parisien that the procedure was “quickly ruled out” as the cause.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 8 points 19 hours ago

Also dude was on meds that affected the heart.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 184 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Hey Musk I got a proposition for ya

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 54 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No no. You do it this way:

"Hey musk, you have a small dick"

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[–] _deleted_@aussie.zone 76 points 1 day ago (3 children)

He died while the procedure was being performed at a private clinic in March 2019

I wondered why he wasn’t answering my calls! Why are we only just finding out about this now?

[–] Trex202@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Well, I thought I was going to get a call after the old snip snip cuz we talked about that

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[–] human@slrpnk.net 154 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Belgian-Israeli businessman Ehud Arye Laniado, founder of Omega Diamonds, suffered a fatal heart attack while undergoing injections intended to enlarge his penis.

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However, prosecutors later downgraded the charges to failure to assist a person in danger, drug-related offences, and practising medicine without a licence.

Call me paranoid, but I'd like anyone giving me penis injections to be licensed to practice medicine.

[–] becausechemistry@piefed.social 121 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You sound like the brainwashed masses. He, a billionaire, was much more qualified to determine if someone is fit to practice medicine than some institutional board. Obviously, otherwise he wouldn’t have been a billionaire.

[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 60 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or the Oceangate ethos: They're are too many unnecessary rules in medicine! Controlled experiments to test new drugs are just slowing down innovation!

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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 14 points 20 hours ago

Good start.

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 13 points 20 hours ago

More money than fucking brains... or dick.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 30 points 1 day ago

Musk had the same thing, but his came out all butchered.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 7 points 18 hours ago
[–] shittydwarf@piefed.social 108 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This is way more efficient than putting them each in a submarine

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And nothing of value was lost.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Kind of weird that the surgeons are implicated to have caused it in the headline, when he died of a heart problem unrelated to the cosmetic surgery.

You'd think the drugs and medications he was taking would be more at fault in that case.

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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 11 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 7 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Exactly. Most people have hands. Most people have tongues. You can do so much with them. I would argue you can do so much more then you can with the biggest penis ever.

[–] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

A proper Darwin Award winner, here!

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 21 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Now if only Elon's penis implant became gangrenous...

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