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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • Hmmmm tough call.

    Whichever pharmaceutical company(s) is hiking the price on insulin. The patent was fucking free, the product costs pennies to produce and distribute. No, 99.97% of the cost cannot be “R&D” for an old, mass produced drug.

    Maybe also my old employer, which got laws passed to make them the only possible workers claim comp system in the state, then spun up a side business consulting for companies on how to use coding errors in medical billing to deny healthcare and compensation for people injured in their negligent and hazardous workplaces.

    I mean, that is a whole level of evil I couldn’t stoop to on my worst day.




  • They actually believe it. Despite no actual link being found. Despite the author of the OG article admitting that he falsified data.

    People here also believe that mRNA vaccines will rewrite your genes, that the COVID vaccine sequesters in your testicles and makes you sterile and magnetic, that vaccines are less effective than “natural immunity”, that vaccines will feminize you and make you compliant to authority, and that vaccines are ineffective.

    I have legitimately heard all of those arguments against vaccines in the wild. For the record, vaccines are one of the oldest and most effective preventative measures we have. There is a reason why the mortality rate for children isn’t +30% anymore, it’s vaccines, and vaccination programs.


  • Let’s not make the inevitable mistake of assuming what was an essential skill for one generation is going to matter fuck all for most of the next generation.

    Old people still think it’s outageous if you can’t write a check, read an analog clock, read/write cursive… All things that most millennials might “need” to do less than once a year.