MapleEngineer
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- Comment on DeSantis, Dark Brandon, And CNN Hit Kamala With Laser Eyes Over Hurricane 'Phone Call' Stunt 5 weeks ago:
That is some delusional bullshit.
- Comment on Can’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solution 5 weeks ago:
I’ll just keep running Windows 10.
- Comment on I hope you don't have any plans this evening. 1 month ago:
Like my wife, every day for 17 years, “That tree is going to fall down.”
Tree falls down.
“I told you so.”
- Comment on I hope you don't have any plans this evening. 1 month ago:
9-18-249-19-249-20-249-21-249-22-24I mean…if they keep this up they will be right eventually…right?
- Comment on “Fascists”: Elon Musk responds to proposed fines for disinformation on X 2 months ago:
Whether you agree or not does not change whether it’s misinformation. I’m old enough to remember when, “Conservative speech” didn’t mean lies, misinformation, racism and hate speech, and anti-American Russian propaganda.
- Comment on stop 2 months ago:
I thought they were leaving and going to one of the tankie instances now that their banning of anyone who questions their misinformation to preserve the pure thought of their echo bunker has been exposed.
- Comment on Gina Rinehart’s personal message to NGA about her portrait revealed in FOI documents 2 months ago:
I never would have known about this were it not for her request.
- Comment on The Ignorance of the Left on Price Control | Thomas Sowell 2 months ago:
20% of $1.2 trillion is $240 billion dollars. That is a grotesque amount of profit to make by holding people’s health hostage.
- Comment on The Ignorance of the Left on Price Control | Thomas Sowell 2 months ago:
And…
- Comment on The Ignorance of the Left on Price Control | Thomas Sowell 2 months ago:
Ok…I wasn’t sure that the point about the cost to manufacture drugs was what you actually meant to say.
Pharmaceutical companies make massive profits. What that means is that after all of the money they spend on all of the things you’re referring to they still make massive profit. I’m not suggesting that they shouldn’t make profit but that that profit should not be unlimited. The American healthcare system if grotesque. It is unique in the highly developed world in that grotesqueness. They wouldn’t sell Epipens in Canada for 20% of what they sell them for in the US if they weren’t making a profit on them. And, to be clear, Epipens contain epinephrine the wholesale cost of which is $5/mg and an Epipen delivers 0.3 mg which means that the drug in the Epipen costs around $1.50 wholesale. Is the little plastic pen with the spring in it worth $600? I don’t think so. I don’t even think that it’s worth the $150 you pay in Canada. You can have a pharmacist load a syringe for you for $15.
- Comment on The Ignorance of the Left on Price Control | Thomas Sowell 2 months ago:
I’m not sure that you said what you intended to say. Do you want to revisit it before I respond?
- Comment on The Ignorance of the Left on Price Control | Thomas Sowell 2 months ago:
Yes. Companies that invest in drugs development deserve to make a profit. Patents protect their investment for a limited amount of time. They should not be able to make unlimited amounts of profit forever. What the drug price controls in Canada do is prevent a company from making a cosmetic change, like adding another stripe to the capsule of Losec, calling is Prilosec, and jacking up the price or increasing by 10 fold the price of an Epipen because you made a minor change to the delivery system. If there isn’t a proportionate increase in benefit to the patient you can’t raise the price in Canada.
- Comment on The Ignorance of the Left on Price Control | Thomas Sowell 2 months ago:
$16 billion per year.
That’s not the point, though, of course. The point is that US pharmaceutical companies sell their drugs into Canada at 1/4 to 1/10 the price because they still make profit and having $100 in your pocket instead of $1,000 is better than having $0 in your pocket.
- Comment on The Ignorance of the Left on Price Control | Thomas Sowell 2 months ago:
Canada has price control of drugs. Drug manufacturing can’t increase the price of a drug unless there is a proportionate increase in benefit to the patient. That’s why epipens are 1/5 the price in Canada that they are in the US.
The argument that drug companies will do doing research and coming up with new drugs if they can’t make unlimited profit is ridiculous. They are greedy fucks and will take the lower profit to keep lining their pockets. Canada proves that.
That you can’t have price control and profits is a lie.
- Comment on “It’s Not OK Any More”: The United Kingdom Cracks Down on Free Speech 2 months ago:
As in the US “free speech” is a white supremacist code word for hate speech.
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 3 months ago:
Where did I say that?
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 3 months ago:
Extremists hate being fact checked. The reality is that you can fact check the fact checking but that can also be fact checked.
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 3 months ago:
Extremists never let reality get in the way of their absolutist slurs.
- Comment on Why are there "driveway connections by permit only" signs on roads? 3 months ago:
There’s is a road allowance between the edge of the road and the edge of your property. In our case is about 20 feet wide. You’re not allowed to build on that road allowance. We also have a deep ditch that requires a culvert and several loads of gravel.
- Comment on Why are there "driveway connections by permit only" signs on roads? 3 months ago:
Where I live you can’t simply bring a driveway out to the road. You have to get permission from the township and pay for access. They come out, install a culvert, install a blue 911 flag with your number on it, and build a driveway connection to their standards. It costs several thousand dollars.
- Comment on Multiple nations enact mysterious export controls on quantum computers 4 months ago:
Yup. Good movie.
- Comment on Ice Cream 4 months ago:
Nice!
- Comment on Ice Cream 4 months ago:
Oh.
- Comment on Multiple nations enact mysterious export controls on quantum computers 4 months ago:
Infinite quantum instantiation would allow anyone with the technology to instantly find massive prime factors and decrypt anything.
No more secrets.
- Comment on Ice Cream 4 months ago:
Post it!
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- Comment on Does anyone else feel like fireworks are a complete waste of money and a ridiculous amount of unnecessary Pollution? 4 months ago:
I love organized fireworks.
- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months ago:
Ok…telling me to touch grass tells me everything I need up know about you. I was right.
- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months ago:
I’ve never understood putting an “lol” or an “lmao” or an “rofl” in a message. Are you trying to suggest that you’re smarter than I am or that what I said wrong or stupid? Are you trying to intimidate me? That is definitely not what I take away from it.
I react very much the same way Russians do to people smiling in photos.
- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months ago:
I don’t hate the US. I love Canada. I understand that Canada is one of the best places in the world to live. Those who think they will be better in a country with less freedom, less rights, less safety, and a higher cost of living because they bought in to the right wing bullshit may very well be better off moving to the US. I know Canada will be better for it.