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Once the layoffs happen, the price of food goes down and I get to buy all the shit you didn't need for pennies on the dollar.
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Quote:The Houston Food Bank gives away free food. I assume there is free food available where you live, 6ix, without the need to starve while waiting for layoffs to happen. https://www.houstonfoodbank.org/
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Once the layoffs happen, the price of food goes down and I get to buy all the shit you didn't need for pennies on the dollar.
And "I get to buy all the shit you didn't need for pennies on the dollar." That's every Saturday at a million garage sales and estate sales all across America.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:The Houston Food Bank gives away free food. I assume there is free food available where you live, 6ix, without the need to starve while waiting for layoffs to happen. https://www.houstonfoodbank.org/
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Once the layoffs happen, the price of food goes down and I get to buy all the shit you didn't need for pennies on the dollar.
I'm not starving. I have plenty of money even with your president killing the value of it for the last 2.5 years.
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And "I get to buy all the shit you didn't need for pennies on the dollar." That's every Saturday at a million garage sales and estate sales all across America.
I'm talking the good shit, bro. Not the crap that I took to Goodwill or left out on the curb for the pickers because I can't be bothered with haggling with a bunch of strangers for an entire weekend.
Got my house back in 2011 for next to nothing the last time you losers did this. I think this time I'll get a nice car.
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Superbugs are gaining ground via economics, not evolution
September 25, 2023 at 11:43PM
We need new drugs to fight the surge of antibiotic-resistant bugs that have been making the rounds in recent years. And we have them! But there's a catch:
Six startups have won Food and Drug Administration approval for new antibiotics since 2017. All have filed for bankruptcy, been acquired or are shutting down.
The problem turns out to be a simple one: there aren't really that many superbugs out there. This means that demand for super-antibiotics is fairly low, which makes them very expensive, which in turn reduces demand even further. A million bucks for a cancer drug is pretty ho-hum these days, but apparently we haven't quite gotten ourselves used to million-dollar penicillin:
About 13,000 people in the U.S. each year develop a severe type of drug-resistant infection that Achaogen’s drug Zemdri was developed to defeat. Up to half of people hospitalized with such infections die. They are among the more than 35,000 people in the U.S. who die annually from drug-resistant bacterial or fungal infections, a toll that has risen in recent years.
The year Zemdri was approved, Achaogen spent almost $200 million on manufacturing, marketing and other costs and generated $800,000 in sales of the drug. Achaogen’s stock price fell more than 96% from approval in June 2018 to the end of the first quarter in 2019.
I don't know how much $800,000 represents in doses, but it's way less than 13,000 people. For some reason, thousands of people die every year from this particular type of infection, but almost none of them were prescribed Zemdri to treat it. This is not a good thing for the future development of super-antibiotics.
https://jabberwocking.com/superbugs-are-gaining-ground-via-economics-n
ot-evolution/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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In the United States, the political charge of socialism tended to carry a peculiar meaning, one forged in the white supremacist backlash to Black civil rights in the 1870s.
In 1867, Congress passed the Military Reconstruction Act, extending the vote to Black men in the South. White southerners who hated the idea of Black people using the vote to protect themselves started to terrorize their Black neighbors. Pretending to be the ghosts of dead Confederate soldiers, they dressed in white robes with hoods to cover their faces and warned formerly enslaved people not to show up at the polls.
But in 1870, Congress created the Department of Justice to enable the federal government to protect the right of Black men to vote. Attorney General Amos Akerman oversaw the prosecution of more than 3,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan, winning more than 1,000 convictions. Meanwhile, Congress passed laws to protect Black voting.
Suddenly, it was harder for white southerners to object to Black rights on racial grounds. So they turned to a new argument, one based on economics.
They did not want Black men voting, they said, because formerly enslaved people were poor, and they would vote for leaders who promised to build things such as roads and hospitals. Those public investments could be paid for only with tax levies, and most of the people in the South with property after the war were white. Thus, although the infrastructure in which the southern legislatures were investing would help everyone, reactionaries claimed that Black voting amounted to a redistribution of wealth from white men to Black people, who wanted something for nothing.
Black voting was, one magazine insisted, “socialism in South Carolina.”
The argument of poor Black workers being dangerous socialists offered justification for former Confederates to block their Black neighbors from the polls, to read them out of American society and ultimately to lynch them. It’s a peculiarly American version of “socialism.” It might have been a historical anomaly. A small group of business leaders and southern racists resurrected it in the 20th century.
After World War II, most Republicans joined Democrats in believing that the federal government had to oversee business regulation, welfare programs, and infrastructure. They knew what businessmen would do to the economy unless they were checked; they had seen people homeless and hungry during the Depression.
And they scoffed at the notion that the New Deal system was a bad idea. They looked around at their homes, at their candy-colored cars that they drove on the new interstate highways built under what was then the biggest public-works project in U.S. history, and at their union-boosted paychecks in a nation with its highest gross domestic production ever, and they dismissed as a radical fringe the people trying to undermine this wildly successful system.
But the federal protection of civil rights added a new element to the liberal consensus that would threaten to tear it apart. Between 1967 and 1977, a North Carolina billboard urged people in “Klan Country” to “help fight Communism & Integration.”
The stagflation of the ’70s pushed middle-class Americans into higher tax brackets just when they needed their income most, and helped spread the sense that white tax dollars were being siphoned off to help racial minorities. As towns and governments tried to make up their declining funds with higher property taxes, angry property owners turned against the government. Republicans were courting white workers by painting the Democrats as a party of grievance and special interests wanting to pay off lazy Black supporters. Rather than their being interested in the good of America as a whole.
In 1976, former California Governor Ronald Reagan ran for president with the story of a “welfare queen” from the South Side of Chicago—code words for “Black”—who lived large on government benefits she stole.
“She has 80 names, 30 addresses, 12 Social Security cards and is collecting veteran’s benefits on four non-existing de
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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
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Biden condemns Hamas attack on Israel
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20 or more Americans "are missing" in Israel.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1711822705136140555
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I'll bet they are.
Gotta get the voters to back another war, yanno.
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