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  1. I'm saying this was a total unforced error by Biden. He got played not even like a fiddle but like a child's plaything. All that matters is Biden looked weak and Trump didn't. Kamala's bullshit "working tirelessly around the clock" talking point gets blown apart.
  2. When analyzing this issue and the Elon Musk issue, keep in mind the biggest takeaway from the Blake Lively story, which is that even a relative nobody like Justin Baldoni can benefit from a PR strategy that can control the comment sections and virality of good press, bad press, and everything in between, to the point where your opinion of a public figure has been all but molded by these shadow operatives without you even realizing it. Why did we ever think Mark Zuckerberg was a liberal, or sympathetic to liberal causes? Why did we ever think Elon Musk had an above room temperature IQ? It's not our fault that we've got more important things to do than to second guess our first impressions of public figures. Sure, it seems obvious now that he's always been a sociopath who would gladly inflict psychological distress on millions of people if it meant his stock would go up one quarter of a point, but let's not blame ourselves for failing to see him for what he really is. It's by design that anything we think we know about a famous person has gone through many, many filters and focus groups.
  3. wastin yall money fr
  4. what the fuck does this even mean? bootleg dvds?
  5. Dems have lost the Arab vote for generations, if true.
  6. I've learned about more small dental practices and criminal law firms on TikTok than I ever did on Facebook.
  7. If only Larry Elder had won the recall election, he would have prevented the drought and he would have prevented 100 mph Santa Ana winds.
  8. I have my doubts that any treatment's break-even price is $7k, even if we're subsidizing or trying to offset a bunch of failed research initiatives. You're correct to observe that even if we make that charitable assumption in favor of big pharma, the ratio of $84k/$7k (12:1) is, to understate things, "pretty absurd."
  9. I, too, read Playboy for the articles.
  10. Meta knows this has been the trend, and probably has known for years but is deluding their investor groups, the few people dumb enough to stick around after Zuck in all his wisdom bet the farm on the metaverse. It reminds me of Yahoo in that there will always be that base of old people who are too ornery to use something else for their daily social media. I don't think Facebook will ever fully die for that reason, but it's never going to reclaim its status as the top dog. Instagram is kind of a different story, but the lack of competent leadership is reason enough to believe its days are numbered as well. One of the things I appreciated about Facebook in the early days was that they didn't try to overwhelm you with a bunch of banner ads, pop-ups, and everything else that Yahoo and MySpace had become kind of notorious for. I knew as soon as Facebook opened things up to the non-.edu masses it would eventually change, and sure enough the API and Cambridge Analytica bullshit happened and that was that. Enshittification is inevitable, but I believe it can be planned around and slowed down. There needs to be an easy way for groups to leave one platform behind and regroup elsewhere.
  11. Always has been. We're merely illustrating an idea here, so it's okay to go with fuzzy math and pulling numbers from a hat. $84k is still an extortionate price when the break-even price is almost certainly less than $1k.
  12. If he had that resentment though it's probably better he was gone from the locker room. We had no way of knowing Gilbert was bad. Even in the NCG, he didn't look that bad.
  13. Some coaches are really too hard headed about their playing time decisions. Backup QBs are there for this exact reason. Don't ever preach "next man up" if you won't practice it.
  14. This was one of the top five moments of the season for me. You could sense how much it fired up the team, and it fired me up as well and made me proud.
  15. They could have installed those silly things from the NBA bubble season that shows fans watching from home
  16. chainsaw

    Golden

    Bobby Burton said his sources are saying Golden is gonna go pro. Don't blame him, but it'll suck to see him go.
  17. The Athletic is still paying Looch $76,000 not to post there.
  18. fuck all the clickbait hacks who don't know a damn thing about Arch using his name for a quick buck
  19. Let's just go with some fuzzy numbers <$11 billion to develop a Hep C treatment 4 million with Hep C in the United States 50 million with Hep C worldwide So, big picture here, let's assume that only 80% of the world's Hep C patients are prescribed and can access the drug Gilead bought which we're assuming was $11bn to develop. If we amortize that to 40million patients, the mathematical expression for computing the amount each patient would need to pay for Gilead to break even: X (each patient's fair share of the amortized R&D cost) = $11,000,000,000 (The R&D cost) ÷ 40,000,000 (The number of patients) So, each patient's fair share of the amortized R&D cost is $275 Let's remember, however, that not all of Gilead's $11bn acquisition can be fairly apportioned to its portfolio of Hep C treatments. So it's more accurate to say: Each patient's fair share of the amortized R&D cost is <$275 Of course there are more costs involved when you are producing and distributing Hep C medication, on top of the R&D required for it to have existed in the first place. I don't think that number, per patient, is particularly high. Whatever the true number is, it's beside the point. What these companies are doing is morally indistinguishable from extortion. It's indefensible.
  20. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/read-letter-justin-baldoni-begrudgingly-144823459.html
  21. He's a good kid from a good family.
  22. I'm talkin about some Henry Melton sized guys. Fuck it hand it off to a 310-pounder
  23. chainsaw

    Golden

    I'm not even mad that he didn't go away after the lawsuit. That's amazing.
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