The Nastier Nate posted:

my wife sent me to Home Depot today to pick get some mulch and a bunch of employees were wearing a "PROPERTY OF HOME DEPOT" t-shirt

that's gotta be great for morale

The Nastier Nate posted:

This was an extremely logical business decision to make at the time, and I'm sure the Boeing execs also realized that after they lost money on AF1 they could throw a public pity party about how hard they worked in service to their country and congress would just give them back the money they lost, either directly or in the form of new contracts, cause lol if you think we're just gonna let Boeing take a half a bill loss

grass toucher posted:

the curve just makes me wonder about the tax system in say, North Korea or the USSR

Failed Imagineer posted:

E:^^^° k

That fucken stupid new Manhattan skinnyscraper that's just south of Central Park, every time Im walking around and I see its stupid nonsensical profile and remember it exists I have to lol

Shear Modulus posted:

the apartments aren't meant to be lived in they're meant to be an investment account

Shame Boy posted:

I feel like I should probably bite the bullet and buy a place instead of renting but also this is florida and by the time the mortgage is paid off I'm pretty sure it will rather literally be underwater sooo

SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:

The isp that my apartment complex has a exclusivity agreement with is down for at least a half hour a day.

Now they've been down about 45minutes and I check online... Can't access their website. It's a literal nationwide outage.

I wonder if I can go to the free market and get a different provider...oh,no, I can't. Cool.

Tiggum posted:

Is "cube steak" diced beef?

TontoCorazon posted:

Yeap, I work for city too and these new contract negotiations with the city have educated a lot of people about the Taylor Law at work. A few people have brought up what action we can all take and the first thing our rep told us is strikes are out of the question, full stop.

Shame Boy posted:

I think you're perfectly welcome to stop working and not have a job anymore

BonHair posted:

I have some news regarding the legality of slavery in USA for you...

BonHair posted:

Now we're talking, wanna go into business? I can do PowerPoints, you do the thinking and working parts. Obviously I get 70%

Tiggum posted:

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1628948919333040129

Whooping Crabs posted:

Biplane posted:

Being poor I have to scream at my food until it's warm enough to eat. Wildly jealous luxuries such as microwaves and instapots.

Bald Stalin posted:

Poor working man can only afford $50 boots that last 6 months.

The bourgeois banker buys $100 shoes that last 3 years.

tokin opposition posted:

I still want someone to point me to a good replacement for the mythical instant pot of yore

Jazerus posted:

part of the reason anti-obesity drugs are mega expensive is that pharma has been chasing them for 30 years now and they have poured absolutely insane amounts of money down the drain to get to the point of having one (1) anti-obesity drug that doesn't make your heart explode or w/e. drug discovery is genuinely expensive, so much so that charging way too much for the final product is the only thing they can do in a capitalist context to continue running and finding more drugs. not that i think they're weeping about charging a ton of money or anything but that's the financial reality

it's almost like the entire industry should be publicly run so that those kinds of considerations don't have to be taken into account

Rock Puncher posted:

I think putting an * on luddites were right is fair, I don't actually know that much about the luddites other than they were definitely right then and still are now because of material conditions. But if resources and production was owned communally rather than individually I think the * starts to gain value. You could potentially argue that technology would still be mostly destructive, but again, there's a solid argument for saying technology and automation might not be that bad if the goal isn't to maximise consumption and increases in numbers.

Rock Puncher posted:

Actually the post is saying technology can be good actually, I was responding to some poo poo a few pages back where people were suggesting Luddites are right in perpetuity. Not sure if that was clear as I didn't use the quote feature

Jazerus posted:

this is flatly not true. the research that comes out of academia guides industry in terms of picking its cellular targets and making guesses as to how to affect them but is rarely enough to even begin picking a good drug candidate family to work with let alone having it be as simple as "professor jerkoff figured out this molecule is great at doing x, then the pharma company did the clinical trials for it". there is a very large expenditure of time and effort and money in between any kind of academic work and someone putting a pill in their mouth, a lot of it happening before any kind of clinical trials to figure out how to even translate the academic work into something relevant to drugs. even the "last mile testing" can be humongously expensive btw but it's not all that's being done by the companies in 99% of cases.

i think pharma as an industry is corrosive and lovely and results in a lot of needless pain and death for patients due to cost being a gate on treatment, and a lot of needlessly duplicated scientific work in the fields where there's a lot of competition because they're all gonna screen the same kinds of molecules and come to similar conclusions about them, but you are falling for a very old and shallow narrative if you honestly believe that drug discovery labs in pharma companies don't exist lol. you can read things written by scientists that work there to get an idea of the scale of operations and money involved, you don't have to just believe the pharma company press releases or w/e.

anyway governments should be the ones funding the drug discovery, yes, imo. they aren't right now tho except maybe china

Bald Stalin posted:

Nope the small pharma startup I worked at was 100% venture capital then IPO/shareholder $. The only subsidy would have been a small grant to the scientists at a university lab that figured out how heart muscle works before the same scientists pitched it to venture capitalists.

Those scientists are now multi millionaires, the drug was approved which is hella rare. But the workers in their labs at that uni doing the pre drug development biology work never saw a dime.

Not all the science happened at the uni though. Most of the papers were authored and published by the private pharma company scientists after venture capital got involved. They ramped up the science 100x

Bald Stalin posted:

If your point is that All Capital is Always subsidized, because Corporate Socialism for me and not for thee you can't then write the only money they spend is on x. It's incoherent. Explain what you mean lmao

Bald Stalin posted:

You seem mad and confused. You claimed everything about pharmaceutical is subsidized by the state, but then you also claimed one part isn't. If your position is Capital and the State is the same therefore it's all "subsidy" then at least be coherent and say what you mean.

SniperWoreConverse posted:

the solution is hanging landlords

Peanut President posted:

the best kind of plants to have in your garden are the illegal ones, like sassafras trees (precursor to ecstasy BUT also sarsparilla)

mawarannahr posted:

idk how business works. I think I'd be annoyed if I was a shareholder otherwise unaffiliated with a company and they tried to pass off some bullshit about retail theft or people getting on diet meds. I'd assume they were making excuses for mismanagement. of course there's other poo poo involved that probably makes them cover for each other.

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Safrole, one of the components in sassafras tea/etc, is a known carcinogen. It wasn't made illegal in commerce just for grinsies. If you want to flavor things with sassafras, you can buy safrole-free concentrate.

Shame Boy posted:

The Florida Bar Association ruled a while ago that actually they'd rather make more money than have ethics so you can do all sorts of egregious poo poo in your ads now, like list specific amounts clients won. As a result most of them seem like an ad for a casino or the lottery or something now, like they basically say "I WON $500,000 AT THE TRIP AND FALL LAWSUIT CASINO!!" and show CGI money raining down over the screen and poo poo.