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Mellow Seas posted:Will Wright is famously libertarian. Yeah the SNES version was straight up made the dev team at Nintendo that made the mainline Mario and Zelda games
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Willa Rogers posted:Also, it's interesting to note that as these legal actions are going on, two of the major (and generic) drugs used to treat cancer, cisplatin & carboplatin, are in shortage because of a major manufacturing plant in India being shut down. It’s more than high end drugs. My kid has an ear infection. There was no children ibuprofen, one pharmacy had a brand I’d never seen before endorsed by a celebrity. Okay nothing else. Either had contamination or temperature abuse when we popped the seal just gross looking. Then it took four pharmacies to get the amoxicillin because apparently that’s all out too. It’s not just the origin supply difficulties. There are a lot of in transit losses happening too (I see the claims but thus unfortunately cannot be specific there).
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Bar Ran Dun posted:It’s more than high end drugs. My kid has an ear infection. There was no children ibuprofen, one pharmacy had a brand I’d never seen before endorsed by a celebrity. Okay nothing else. Either had contamination or temperature abuse when we popped the seal just gross looking. The cancer drugs in short supply are generics, not high end, but yes: Drug shortages are happening all over, especially low-cost/generic antibiotics. I know it's due to manufacturing monopolies, but it's still weird that this happens after legislation that sorta/kinda/maybe will start regulating a handful of high-end cancer drugs has passed & faces manufacturer lawsuits. I wish other states would start following California's lead in starting up state owned & operated manufacturing facilities for generics, as CA is doing for insulin. As the news stories have said: Drug companies can't squeeze blood money from generic-drug stones, so they're disincentivized from producing them from a capitalist standpoint.
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Liquid Communism posted:You sully the name of MECC. Private Equity strikes again. I visited them in 1995 to discuss licensing “Odell Down Under” for Lightspan. Cool company. Coincidently I did a version of The Oregon Trail but with climate refugees in 2019.
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Liquid Communism posted:You sully the name of MECC. It looks like MECC was bought by a different company called "Softkey/The Learning Company" and that company was bought by Mattel. So, they stopped existing as a separate company, but they were probably making a bunch of Barbie and Hotwheels PC games from 1999 through 2001 as "Mattel Interactive." Which is possibly an even worse fate than just going bankrupt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MECC
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Willa Rogers posted:The cancer drugs in short supply are generics, not high end, but yes: Drug shortages are happening all over, especially low-cost/generic antibiotics. Absolutely, I'd like to see Washington State follow suit, but what would really be something would be a national effort like CHIPs.
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Apparently Zuck and Musk are going through with the cage match thing. Idiocracy overestimated us.
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Bar Ran Dun posted:It’s more than high end drugs. My kid has an ear infection. There was no children ibuprofen, one pharmacy had a brand I’d never seen before endorsed by a celebrity. Okay nothing else. Either had contamination or temperature abuse when we popped the seal just gross looking. What do you mean by in-transit losses? They are being damaged during transit? Lost during transit? Stolen during transit? And to such a level that it is causing shortages that didn't previously exist? For specific drugs or in general? Thanks for the info and perspective.
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Professor Beetus posted:Absolutely, I'd like to see Washington State follow suit, but what would really be something would be a national effort like CHIPs. Our owned-and-operated federal politicians will never allow such a thing; look at how the drug-price controls that passed were narrowed to the point of being almost meaningless. States without major pharma manufacturers as is the case in NJ and other locales have a fighting chance, though. And Mark Cuban's startup plans to start manufacturing drugs, too.
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The clown car may get slightly bigger. If he runs, it would make a full 1/3 of all Republican presidential candidates from Florida. Still seems like a very strange career choice, but maybe this is a follow-up grift to his time at the NRSC to divert more Republican campaign fundraising money to promoting himself? In which case, I wish him the best of luck. Poor Ron DeSantis. Literally everything he needed to happen (Trump not running, a one-on-one race if Trump does run, big initial boost after declaring, and Trump losing popularity with Republicans after indictments) has not only failed to happen, but has actually exploded in the opposite direction. He wanted a one-on-one race and they are one candidate away from surpassing the record amount who ran in 2016. https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1671927272578727950 quote:Senator Rick Scott of Florida is considering a late entry into the Republican presidential primary race, a move that would make him the latest high-profile Florida Republican to try to wrest the nomination from Donald J. Trump, according to two people familiar with the discussions.
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:Apparently Zuck and Musk are going through with the cage match thing. Idiocracy overestimated us. How frequent are accidental permanent injuries in the ring these days?
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Willa Rogers posted:Our owned-and-operated federal politicians will never allow such a thing; look at how the drug-price controls that passed were narrowed to the point of being almost meaningless. Oh for sure, it's just sad to get reminders of what the US Federal Govt can actually do when it puts its weight behind something and it's massively successful. If only we could do lots of this stuff instead of shoving money into the MIC engine.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:How frequent are accidental permanent injuries in the ring these days? I think the better question is what news is Musk trying to distract people from with this media stunt?
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Is Uwe Boll still taking on new challengers?
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snorch posted:Is Uwe Boll still taking on new challengers? Sadly, his production company that was based on buying very cheap movie rights and then getting a huge tax break from the German government has failed after Germany closed that tax loophole. He no longer has his own production company and therefore no longer needs to do weird stunts to publicize it.
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snorch posted:Is Uwe Boll still taking on new challengers? For better or worse, Elon sticking to the Lowtax website arc is raising my hopes that it ends in the exact same way
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:How frequent are accidental permanent injuries in the ring these days? Dare we dream big? The arena collapses, takes them both and a small legion of their desperate nut-hangers that went there in person.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:He no longer has his own production company and therefore no longer needs to do weird stunts to publicize it. He’s opening up two new restaurants and has a book coming out, maybe we should call his agent.
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You aren't crazy. Everyone did really become much more dangerous drivers during the pandemic and remain much more dangerous drivers. The GHSA has finished their collection of data from 49 states (Oklahoma did not provide data for some reason) on car-related fatalities for pedestrians and dangerous driving. They not only got much more dangerous, but they were record-settingly dangerous for pedestrians. 2020 broke the previous record set in 1980 for highest rate of pedestrian traffic deaths. And then 2021 and 2022 continued to each break the records from the previous years. Weirdly, Iowa drivers actually got significantly safer. Several other states had mild improvements as well, but the 24 states with increases all had extremely large increases in fatalities that overwhelmed the improvement in other states. Arizona, Oregon, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Virginia, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts had the largest increases in deaths. One strange result: In their analysis of the last decade of data, they also note that 2016 had a very large increase in traffic fatalities that reversed decades of improvements, but they have no data that can conclusively prove why.   quote:GHSA previously issued a report finding that 3,434 pedestrians were killed on U.S. roadways in the first half of 2022, based on preliminary data reported by State Highway Safety Offices. A second report analyzing state-reported data for all of 2022 found that roadways continue to be incredibly deadly for pedestrians. There were 2.37 pedestrian deaths per billion vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in 2022, up yet again and continuing a troubling trend of elevated rates that began in 2020. quote:Both state and national data confirm that the pedestrian safety crisis on U.S. roads is worsening. While the projected increase in pedestrian fatalities in 2022 (compared with the prior year) is not as high as recent years (just 1%), it is still on par to be the highest number since 1981. GHSA projects 7,508 pedestrians were killed in 2022 among the 49 states and D.C. included in this analysis. And this number excludes an entire state (Oklahoma), which has averaged 92 fatalities annually over the past three years, according to prior GHSA reports. https://www.ghsa.org/resources/Pedestrians23 Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Jun 22, 2023 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:You aren't crazy. Everyone did really become much more dangerous drivers during the pandemic and remain much more dangerous drivers. hmm based on the inflection point in 2010, i'm assuming a large part of this is suvs and trucks making up a bigger share of vehicles on the road and turning what would have been an injury into a fatality. even before the potential pandemic changes to driving habits pedestrian fatalities were up 50% for the decade
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:hmm based on the inflection point in 2010, i'm assuming a large part of this is suvs and trucks making up a bigger share of vehicles on the road and turning what would have been an injury into a fatality. even before the potential pandemic changes to driving habits pedestrian fatalities were up 50% for the decade Smart phones probably also became ubiquitous around 2010 as well. Wikipedia says iPhone launched in 2007 but at that time I think it was still just a rich persons toy.
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:hmm based on the inflection point in 2010, i'm assuming a large part of this is suvs and trucks making up a bigger share of vehicles on the road and turning what would have been an injury into a fatality. even before the potential pandemic changes to driving habits pedestrian fatalities were up 50% for the decade This is most likely a big contributor since Pickup and SUV drivers are more likely to hit pedestrians while turning, and Pickup trucks, being bigger, are far more likely to result in a fatal accident (both sources, consumer reports)
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Boris Galerkin posted:Smart phones probably also became ubiquitous around 2010 as well. Wikipedia says iPhone launched in 2007 but at that time I think it was still just a rich persons toy. Yes, thinking back it was really the early ‘10s before they were a common sight. But the reduced visibility (and higher weight) of bigger cars probably also plays a role.
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:Yes, thinking back it was really the early ‘10s before they were a common sight. Children of Men was released in 2006 and no one in that future had a smart phone.
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:Yes, thinking back it was really the early ‘10s before they were a common sight. But the reduced visibility (and higher weight) of bigger cars probably also plays a role. Oh absolutely. I’m just thinking smart phones prolly also had an effect. Not that people weren’t texting and driving before smart phones or anything (I remember being a teen and driving and trying to text with T9 at the same time) but smart phones and apps made it a lot easier and more attractive to do stuff.
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:hmm based on the inflection point in 2010, i'm assuming a large part of this is suvs and trucks making up a bigger share of vehicles on the road and turning what would have been an injury into a fatality. even before the potential pandemic changes to driving habits pedestrian fatalities were up 50% for the decade Boris Galerkin posted:Smart phones probably also became ubiquitous around 2010 as well. Wikipedia says iPhone launched in 2007 but at that time I think it was still just a rich persons toy. I think these are likely big contributors. It is still kind of interesting to try and figure out why the pandemic and 2016 seemed to fully break the 40-year trend. There's lots of good theories, but none of them are 100% provable. The pandemic didn't really have anything explicitly to do with driving, but there are a lot of interesting theories about people getting lazy because roads were empty for so long or the social fabric fraying. 2016 may have been the high point where SUV market dominance and smart phone dangers combined or it just might have been a weird outlier year that was just part of a general trend. Unrelated, but gender-affirming care continues its 100% win streak in federal court. I can't really think of a similar issue where so many states passed similar laws all at once that were all individually rolled back in such a short time. https://twitter.com/axios/status/1671946799634939906
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:hmm based on the inflection point in 2010, i'm assuming a large part of this is suvs and trucks making up a bigger share of vehicles on the road and turning what would have been an injury into a fatality. even before the potential pandemic changes to driving habits pedestrian fatalities were up 50% for the decade Boris Galerkin posted:Smart phones probably also became ubiquitous around 2010 as well. Wikipedia says iPhone launched in 2007 but at that time I think it was still just a rich persons toy. I believe Uber/Lyft began operating in earnest not too long after 2011-12, and Tesla rolled out their atrocious "autopilot" in 2014-15 correct? Definitely seems like driving underwent a pretty monumental shift in the past decade or so. Cars had mostly remained the same from an operational standpoint, but then: Wham! cell phones, gps, uber, autopilot, etc in a pretty short span of time.
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Fluffs McCloud posted:I believe Uber/Lyft began operating in earnest not too long after 2011-12, and Tesla rolled out their atrocious "autopilot" in 2014-15 correct? Definitely seems like driving underwent a pretty monumental shift in the past decade or so. Cars had mostly remained the same from an operational standpoint, but then: Wham! cell phones, gps, uber, autopilot, etc in a pretty short span of time. I think you're right that it is likely a confluence of multiple big changes, but I don't think Tesla or Uber really factor into it. Only a very tiny amount of people owned a Tesla in 2014 and an even smaller segment of that tiny group had the full autopilot feature. Definitely not enough people to be responsible for a meaningful chunk of the ~90% increase in fatalities in 6 years.
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Boris Galerkin posted:Smart phones probably also became ubiquitous around 2010 as well. Wikipedia says iPhone launched in 2007 but at that time I think it was still just a rich persons toy. The 1st gen mostly was, but the iPhone 3G is when they started doing subsidies, and it wasn't 3x the cost of a Blackberry or Windows CE phone anymore. The iPhone 4 is when it stopped being AT&T exclusive and Verizon picked it up, then Sprint got the 4S, so roughly 2010 is when it opened up to a lot more people.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:PhRMA, the Global Colon Cancer Association, and the National Infusion Center Association have announced that they are suing the government over the prescription drug price controls in the IRA. This seems like a lot of people wrote a lot of words that can be summed up with: "nationalize pharmaceutical manufacture" Too bad we live in America, Land of the Free (to do business), Home of the Brave (that will die preventable deaths because Capital was not fed)
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I think these are likely big contributors. Wasn't 2016 when Pokemon Go was released? I bet that had an outsized impact on both distracted driving and walking as well.
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Don't forget the rise of the mostly unregulated gig economy of bringing nuggies to shut in house goblins. Uber Eats/Door dash/GrubHub all incentivise people driving recklessly in order to maximize their earnings since they are paid poo poo and given essentially no benefits. And of course the use of this stuff exploded with COVID and seems to continue apace. It's rare to see an empty drive thru line these days, as I'm sure people that would otherwise not want to go get fast food can now just have a serf do it for them. The handful of times we've used an Uber to get downtown and back, the drivers were extremely reckless wrt speed and other traffic laws. That particular blight on our society needs to be regulated into the ground or into a business that can function while not relying on such obvious exploitation (lol, lmao)
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plainswalker75 posted:Wasn't 2016 when Pokemon Go was released? I bet that had an outsized impact on both distracted driving and walking as well. And people getting thrown out of the Holocaust Museum
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Professor Beetus posted:Don't forget the rise of the mostly unregulated gig economy of bringing nuggies to shut in house goblins. Uber Eats/Door dash/GrubHub all incentivise people driving recklessly in order to maximize their earnings since they are paid poo poo and given essentially no benefits. I would not be surprised to see a study say boomers are hitting QSRs harder than ever, the pandemic really seems to have flipped some sort of hedonism switch in folks.
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Car shares, smartphones and simply more people on the road all sound like plausible reasons, but it doesn't explain why the US really seems to be an outlier. European countries are flat or down over that same time period, apart from the UK which is up slightly. I think the rise of the SUV is a big factor here. sweek0 fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Jun 22, 2023 |
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Also I feel like Uber/Lyft (and also Airbnb) were a lot better when they first rolled out. I remember getting picked up in Uber/Lyfts all the time with people who were well dressed, well spoken, offered snacks and water bottles, in nice(/niceish) cars. In fact, this was one of the things people said they liked about Uber/Lyft over random taxis is that the driver and the ride felt safer and more clean.
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to get on a soap box for a second, i really do just hate suvs and light pickups and i'm not even much of a pedestrian or bicyclist. as someone who drives a compact 4 door sedan they obstruct my line of sight, shine their headlights directly into my cabin and mirrors, and on the newer models their front grill seems purpose built to ram directly at my seated height in a tbone collision like setting aside the fact that they kill more pedestrians, pollute more, up the square footage devoted to parking, and generally wreck mayhem in our society, they just make for an unpleasant driving experience for the rest of us motorists and don't get me started on how overly elevated the beds on most pickups these days are, i worked with an old 2000 tacoma that you could just reach down and snag a hand tool, on the more recent models i've worked with i have to jump up on the tire or the tailgate to get a tool laying flat in the bed
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Boris Galerkin posted:Also I feel like Uber/Lyft (and also Airbnb) were a lot better when they first rolled out. I remember getting picked up in Uber/Lyfts all the time with people who were well dressed, well spoken, offered snacks and water bottles, in nice(/niceish) cars. In fact, this was one of the things people said they liked about Uber/Lyft over random taxis is that the driver and the ride felt safer and more clean. Services which require a customer to ride in someone's vehicle are probably going to be significantly different from people who are picking up food and dropping it off at your house. I think there may even be differences as far as how new your car has to be etc, but not sure since I've never driven for any of them. The one time I considered Uber I didn't qualify due to the age of my car despite it being extremely reliable, in great condition, and single owner. e: also to be clear I think we are ell essentially correct, because all of these factors seem likely have measurable impacts, even if there is eventually one thing we can conclusively point to as the main contributor. Professor Beetus fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Jun 22, 2023 |
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Bellmaker posted:I would not be surprised to see a study say boomers are hitting QSRs harder than ever, the pandemic really seems to have flipped some sort of hedonism switch in folks. Boomers are way too savvy (and too cheap) to spend $15 in fees to deliver $10 of fast food.  In fact, it's a hot topic of discussion (and disbelief) at the boomer bbq's & happy hours.eta: If you meant going to fast food to get takeout, that's almost as anathema, bc once you hit your 60s you start paying more attention to what you're shoveling down the old gullet. I know of one friend's husband who sneaks fast food when she's not around but everyone else are p. conscientious eaters. *** In other news, good news for the male schnozzers: quote:The longer the snout, the bigger the schlong. (A mod never got back to me when I asked if it was against the rules to post NYP stories, but I've linked to the source study & I'm also happy to swap in another summary if I've disobeyed an unwritten rule so please lmk.) Willa Rogers fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Jun 22, 2023 |
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WebDO posted:This seems like a lot of people wrote a lot of words that can be summed up with: "nationalize pharmaceutical manufacture" I'm beginning to think that the real Threat to Democracy lies in politicians paying more heed to their donors than to their voters.
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