Elon Musk issued a curt rebuke of ketamine abuse allegations after a viral clip of his erratic behavior at a dinner recirculated online.

The clip—taken in March during a visit to Donald Trump’s Bedminster golf club in New Jersey—shows Musk balancing spoons at a dinner table while one of his baby mamas, Shivon Zilis, watches in silent concern.

At the time, X user and “retired army medic” Molly Ploofkins tweeted the clip with the caption, “Musk playing with his silverware while tripping on ketamine at Bedminster.”

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    What do you mean he couldn’t get a transplant? He’ll buy homes in every state to jump the list like Steve Jobs did after ignoring medical advice.

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      He can surely buy a transplant - he will surely find a nice African or Central Asian fellow who will donate him one out of generosity and then the same fellow will find a bit of money on the street. Or a less nice Chinese citizen with reduced freedom to live.

      But that doesn’t change the fact that transplants need tissue to connect to. You usually connect a kidney transplant directly to the bladder,but in some cases you can use a bit of a ureter. But: For that to work you need uninflammed, structurally sound tissue.

      Which often not present in these cases it seems. So…he can get a transplant organ but it won’t work surgically. In theory you can also connect the new ureter to the rectum - but that,combined with immunosuppressive medication is a no-go as well.

      So… It’s likely he wouldn’t be able to get a surgically sound and midterm successful transplant. Just like Jobs couldn’t be saved back then.

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          Good point. But I think he still will find either a techbro or a poor white fellow from the Caucasus or something for it.

          Or asks Putin for one …

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      I think he means that the ureter itself cannot be transplanted, so the root cause is not solvable. A kidney transplant would be like putting in a new lightbulb in a defective lamp.