“Beryl? Even our Hurricanes are gender non-binary now.”
That’s what he said in response to the National Hurricane Center posting the latest satellite image of the storm.
It’s not nonsense. It’s a sustained attack on both people and science. This kind of message brings the science deniers and bigots closer together, helping to shore up that base and give it common ground.
Just so y’all are aware they moved to Yuengling beer as the choice of racists and bigoted people. So please don’t buy it unless you really really don’t give a fuck about CEOs mocking boycotts.
Lmao, people asking that gets me every time. Wild name that I don’t know why they named it that, but it’s actually America’s oldest brewery, it’s on the east coast.
And for those wondering, it’s just a very slightly better version of Bud and only then if it’s really fresh. After two weeks on the shelf they’re equally shitty.
I was in Texas for my first time ever and had my first ever Yeungling (it isn’t available where I live). I didn’t know it was now the choice for the bigots. But I do know: it’s really not a great beer.
Neither is Bud (/Light), but at least that doesn’t taste like a malty homebrew.
Better idea let’s not feed cows any type of poop. Bird flu is coming from feeding cows bird droppings for protein. Let’s find some other way to give them protein.
latimes.com/…/avian-flu-outbreak-raises-a-disturb…"they’re looking at a standard “recycling” practice employed by thousands of farmers across the country: The feeding of animal waste and parts to livestock raised for human consumption. "
If we were a reasonable country, we’d have a research arm of the FDA that was employing scientists/chemists to develop drugs for the most basic health needs of its citizens and dispensing them at cost to keep drugs affordable but developing cures versus disease maintenance drugs. It was something that Elizabeth Warren proposed in 2016 that was absolutely the right thing to run on.
But we live in a hellish American landscape where our government does absolutely the bare minimum amount of support for those in need. And does so begrudgingly.
For vaccines, we shouldn’t even be dispensing them at cost. Vaccinations are the second most cost effective public health intervention ever, beaten only by clean drinking water.
In purely financial terms, the cost of vaccinations are lower than the average cost to the US tax payer of someone getting sick. The public service of people not getting sick is a nice bonus. As is reducing the chances of this becoming another Covid style economic catastrophe (plus, again, the public service of protecting your citizens)
Totally willing to help the very needy…pharma bros get a piece of that sweet, sweet government pie. Why let government do anything when outsourcing to private capital helps me buy my yach…er…feed my kids.
I am not sure you are aware of the immense costs to develop new drugs for diseases. At least that’s what your comment sounds like, making new drugs. To do that as a state entity is completely unrealistic as it would take a massive investment from the government. Most drugs developed also fail at some stage of the process, meaning you lost all that money and work on it.
Now, if you meant that the government should produce already established basic drugs that are known to work, sell those at cost, yes, that would be a very sensible approach.
Yeah, how many different vaccines was that? Now multiply by however many different diseases you want to cure and take into account that some diseases require medicines to be tested in very lengthy clinical trials.
That is still a huge step up from the 31.6 billion you quote.
Yeah I get what you are saying, you are not wrong. But I have replied to a different person who said this specifically:
we’d have a research arm of the FDA that was employing scientists/chemists to develop drugs for the most basic health needs of its citizens and dispensing them at cost to keep drugs affordable but developing cures versus disease maintenance drugs
That is not just vaccines for me. All vaccines are drugs but not all drugs are vaccines.
And that is surely way to much to handle for the government. There isn’t even a single large pharma company that does all that.
If between two variants in a decision there’s a huge difference in incomes for someone, that someone will find a way to make the deciding party interested in that difference.
Which is why good guys should introduce good things slowly and carefully, the way bad guys introduce bad things (unless they are too powerful to care).
“The agency claims authority to regulate everything from a power lawnmower’s design,” he wrote, “to the level of ‘contact between trainers and whales at SeaWorld.’”
I fail to see anything wrong with either thing like… is he just mad it is not the people who sell lawn mowers should decide what’s safe?? Please please please don’t tell me Americans are going to dip to this new level of cognitive dissonance
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