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GenXer

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  1. Musk gonna be hitting the streets for adderall
  2. I’ve been using snagit to record my demos of issues since 2010. I give a brief description of the issue, actual result and expected result and attach the video to the jira ticket. Saves a lot of time on writing a thesis explaining the issue and it’s easier for the dev to understand the issue.
  3. Joe put his best line on the chick, and she says “nope. I’m with this cracker!”
  4. I saw him referred to as Enron in a tweet about the twitter fiasco. That made me chuckle.
  5. Between that DeSantis ad and this pic, there’s a wealth of material for trump to paint DeSantis as impotent. Gonna be fun to watch.
  6. Somehow I’ve never seen this before. It looks like an SNL sketch. That’s a humiliating debasement of DeSantis.
  7. You responded to my post where I said Eli Lilly is paying attention to the changes at Twitter. Your response was condescending. Stop being disingenuous. I really don’t give a shit if Musk is successful or a failure with twitter or his other endeavors. I fucking hate pharmaceutical companies for their decades-long gouging of us type 1’s for profit’s sake. My endocrinologist has patients that ration their insulin because of its cost. Any pain inflicted on Eli Lilly is pure unfiltered schadenfreude. Some sleepless nights for the Eli Lilly board are well deserved; there’s parents suffering sleepless nights trying to figure out how to buy insulin for their kids.
  8. This can’t be true. @Humble Beast assured me that Eli Lilly’s board didn’t give a shit.
  9. I got confirmation from my human wife that no shenanigans occurred whilst I was incapacitated due to bad insulin procured from walmart.
  10. I caught The White Buffalo Fri night in Dallas at Deep Ellum Art Co. Cool venue but the acoustics could be better. White Buffalo put on a damn good show. Jake Smith has gritty powerful vocals. The lyrics to Wish It Were True really resonate with me.
  11. There’s 1.45 million type 1 diabetics in the US. Doctors prescribe the modern (analog) insulin as they don’t want to run the risk of malpractice. Using my prescription as a baseline (lispro for short acting and levemir for long acting), that’s $400 per month of revenue between the manufacturer and retailer. For all type 1’s that comes to $580 million per month. Eli Lilly and its board wants to protect that revenue. Any threat is treated seriously. There are a lot of people ignorant of the insulin money grab. Twitter has nearly 400 million users. Musk has a large fanbase as well. Insulin manufacturers want to continue flying under the radar and keep getting that sweet revenue stream. Not to CR this thread but theres federal and state legislation that can threaten the revenue stream. Attention brought to that is a threat. Eli Lilly is doing damage control on twitter; they had to apologize as a result of a decision by Musk. Eli Lilly’s board is paying attention.
  12. I rail on the cost of insulin here all the time. That being said, the 1918 patent really doesn’t apply to modern insulin. Think of insulin like pasta. There’s lots of different types. Most everyone uses a long acting and short acting. I can go to walmart right now and buy a vial of short acting and long acting for $25 each without a prescription for a month’s supply. However, my body is too brittle for the short acting stuff that costs $25. It’ll send me into a hypoglycemic episode. My wife has had to call 911 a few times to revive me when I used to use it. I have to use Lispro (humalog). Retail is $43 for a month’s supply. My long acting insulin is levemir. Retail is $340 for a month’s supply. If you’re a resilient type 1 and are willing to use older insulins that don’t help control blood sugar really well, the costs are manageable. In my experience as you age, it’s necessary to use more modern alternatives.
  13. $900K bond? Why even allow the suspect to get out on bond? Imagine being the wife or the son. They’ve seen the neighbor murder their husband/dad. Then they see the neighbor get out on bond and walk back into his house. That would be terrifying. He could come over at any time and murder them. The neighbor has nothing to lose at that point by murdering the only two witnesses. They couldn’t live like that.
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