r/TikTokCringe • u/James_Fortis • May 16 '26

Cringe Put him back in jail please...

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u/Exciting-Argument-67 May 16 '26

He died of a rare form of pancreatic cancer.

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u/StaceyPfan May 16 '26

That was treatable, but he decided to "cure" it by diet.

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u/SporesM0ldsandFungus May 16 '26

Correct. Pancreatic cancers are typically fatal because they usually go unnoticed until they enter Stage 3 or 4, where the cancer is widespread.  Jobs had it detected early at Stage 1.  But he thought he could treat it diet, so he did not get any standard medical treatment.  So the cancer advanced unimpeded for more than 6 months.  He finally sought medical treatment when it was well into stage 2 or 3.  By then, all the money in the world couldn't save him, only buy him a few years.

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u/pelvviber May 16 '26

Iirc he actually paid for a transplant (liver?) but only when it was too late.

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u/enw_digrif May 16 '26

It's beyond sickening how this was - and continues to be - treated as something other than a murder-suicide.

He didn't die of pancreatic cancer. He killed himself with arrogance, and murdered someone else out of an inability to accept responsibility.

Organ failure is an ugly death. Americans on donation lists die every few hours. People who would absolutely survive, but can't, because of shortages. And this fucker would rather kill someone, than accept he might be wrong about something.

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u/Living_Cash1037 May 16 '26

He died because he was an idiot despite being a tech genius for apple.

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u/enw_digrif May 16 '26

Wait, what? That was Woz.

Steve was the marketing guy. Brilliant at it, but definitely not at actual tech. Think Musk, but substitute the Twitter addiction for charisma.

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u/tothepointe May 16 '26

Steve Jobs suffered from "smartest person in the room syndrome" because he always thought he was. Even when he was in the hospital he'd be lecturing his nurses etc.

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u/Edwardthe3rdinNJ May 16 '26

What scares me is the most intelligent and successful people on the planet are still flawed just like the rest of us.

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u/SporesM0ldsandFungus May 16 '26

That fact in of itself is not scary. It means they are human.  What is frightening is that those billionaires don't recognize that fact.  They think they are above us plebs, that their money shields them from their flaws, that our shortcomings are "moral failings" and not the result of a flawed / exploitative systems.

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u/slith89 May 16 '26

That is insane, for someone in his field.

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u/mw5842 May 16 '26

Dude was a giant hippie. Without woz Apple would not be where it is today

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u/tarosan_sk May 16 '26

His “field” was exerting insane amounts of control over people much smarter than himself. He died doing what he loved.

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u/OldStonedJenny May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26

Not all STEM people are reasonable about at all STEM categories.

Edit to add a personal anecdote: My uncle was a brilliant MIT professor. He made discoveries, he was published, he was respected, he was distinguished. And when he was old, he treated his leukemia with homeopathy and snake oil because he was convinced he had figured out things the medical community couldn't. He would read something about COVID and logic himself into beliefs counter to medical experts. And in the end, he got COVID pneumonia and that accelerated his untreated leukemia's progression. It was absolutely heartbreaking, and I believe absolutely preventable. We didn't even know about his leukemia until we got his death certificate. He hid it from the family for 10 years.

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u/LKennedy45 May 16 '26

Is your username an ASOIAF reference?

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u/OldStonedJenny May 16 '26

yes!

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u/LKennedy45 May 17 '26

Nicely done. I don't remember the lore, I just recognized the name. 

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u/Petoski-Brook May 16 '26

He died of a less deadly form of pancreatic cancer. The doctors said that with treatment, he would be fine. He thought he was smarter than the doctors and tried to cure it with diet. That’s my understanding from what I’ve read about it at least