PigsInClover

@PigsInClover@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Quora Died⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking it’s like the LinkedIn version of yahoo answers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. You can buy the displays that are marketed to businesses and usually come without all of the invasive smart features.

  They definitely cost more on average, but they’re also built to run more often or constantly, and hold up far better. They’re even a lot more customizable.

  You can buy some that come with slots where you put in a raspberry pi or another computer of your choice, instead of whatever OS that comes with smart tvs.

  At this point, I’m starting to regularly check if there are “for business customers” options available when I need something, because the options for regular consumers are getting so bad with all this data hoarding and ad pushing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet providers say the FCC should not investigate broadband prices⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why it’s important that we continue to give tax breaks to the criminals and subsidize their operations for specific projects that would help everyone.

  But again, we must make sure to not cause any undue burden on the criminals by making those funds conditional, or regulating how the projects are carried out. Otherwise they will be forced to rob us further, and who could blame them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pfizer says it will price Covid treatment Paxlovid at nearly $1,400 for a five-day course, which researchers estimate only costs Pfizer $13 to produce. That's a 10,000%+ markup. Shameful.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m allergic to Paxlovid; taking it makes my neck and head swell up to where I look like Rocky Balboa after a fight and my neck feels like a giant tree trunk.

  This isn’t important, but it’s probably the first time I’ve seen an article about Paxlovid since that happened, so it’s all I could think about for a minute.

  I guess I’m not surprised that this is happening with one of the few very essential drugs that isn’t in the list of medications that congress is negotiating prices down on for medicare.

  Of course pharmaceutical giants use any opening, opportunity, or loophole to exploit those who are sick. Disgusting.