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  1. Dems have lost the Arab vote for generations, if true.
  2. I've learned about more small dental practices and criminal law firms on TikTok than I ever did on Facebook.
  3. If only Larry Elder had won the recall election, he would have prevented the drought and he would have prevented 100 mph Santa Ana winds.
  4. I have my doubts that any treatment's break-even price is $7k, even if we're subsidizing or trying to offset a bunch of failed research initiatives. You're correct to observe that even if we make that charitable assumption in favor of big pharma, the ratio of $84k/$7k (12:1) is, to understate things, "pretty absurd."
  5. I, too, read Playboy for the articles.
  6. Meta knows this has been the trend, and probably has known for years but is deluding their investor groups, the few people dumb enough to stick around after Zuck in all his wisdom bet the farm on the metaverse. It reminds me of Yahoo in that there will always be that base of old people who are too ornery to use something else for their daily social media. I don't think Facebook will ever fully die for that reason, but it's never going to reclaim its status as the top dog. Instagram is kind of a different story, but the lack of competent leadership is reason enough to believe its days are numbered as well. One of the things I appreciated about Facebook in the early days was that they didn't try to overwhelm you with a bunch of banner ads, pop-ups, and everything else that Yahoo and MySpace had become kind of notorious for. I knew as soon as Facebook opened things up to the non-.edu masses it would eventually change, and sure enough the API and Cambridge Analytica bullshit happened and that was that. Enshittification is inevitable, but I believe it can be planned around and slowed down. There needs to be an easy way for groups to leave one platform behind and regroup elsewhere.
  7. Always has been. We're merely illustrating an idea here, so it's okay to go with fuzzy math and pulling numbers from a hat. $84k is still an extortionate price when the break-even price is almost certainly less than $1k.
  8. If he had that resentment though it's probably better he was gone from the locker room. We had no way of knowing Gilbert was bad. Even in the NCG, he didn't look that bad.
  9. Some coaches are really too hard headed about their playing time decisions. Backup QBs are there for this exact reason. Don't ever preach "next man up" if you won't practice it.
  10. This was one of the top five moments of the season for me. You could sense how much it fired up the team, and it fired me up as well and made me proud.
  11. They could have installed those silly things from the NBA bubble season that shows fans watching from home
  12. chainsaw

    Golden

    Bobby Burton said his sources are saying Golden is gonna go pro. Don't blame him, but it'll suck to see him go.
  13. The Athletic is still paying Looch $76,000 not to post there.
  14. fuck all the clickbait hacks who don't know a damn thing about Arch using his name for a quick buck
  15. Let's just go with some fuzzy numbers <$11 billion to develop a Hep C treatment 4 million with Hep C in the United States 50 million with Hep C worldwide So, big picture here, let's assume that only 80% of the world's Hep C patients are prescribed and can access the drug Gilead bought which we're assuming was $11bn to develop. If we amortize that to 40million patients, the mathematical expression for computing the amount each patient would need to pay for Gilead to break even: X (each patient's fair share of the amortized R&D cost) = $11,000,000,000 (The R&D cost) ÷ 40,000,000 (The number of patients) So, each patient's fair share of the amortized R&D cost is $275 Let's remember, however, that not all of Gilead's $11bn acquisition can be fairly apportioned to its portfolio of Hep C treatments. So it's more accurate to say: Each patient's fair share of the amortized R&D cost is <$275 Of course there are more costs involved when you are producing and distributing Hep C medication, on top of the R&D required for it to have existed in the first place. I don't think that number, per patient, is particularly high. Whatever the true number is, it's beside the point. What these companies are doing is morally indistinguishable from extortion. It's indefensible.
  16. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/read-letter-justin-baldoni-begrudgingly-144823459.html
  17. He's a good kid from a good family.
  18. I'm talkin about some Henry Melton sized guys. Fuck it hand it off to a 310-pounder
  19. chainsaw

    Golden

    I'm not even mad that he didn't go away after the lawsuit. That's amazing.
  20. Two things can be true at the same time. Sark is an excellent coach. This loss is Sark's fault.
  21. Okay now you're just trying to get on Message Board Geniuses
  22. He is amazing at recruiting, amazing at development, amazing at innovation, and he has the football IQ to consistently win 9+ games every year provided the team is healthy. But as far as I'm concerned we just saw him commit strike two as a big game play caller. If I'm being brutally honest, our talent probably snatched at least one win from the jaws of defeat and those losses would have been because of his boneheaded playcalls. The team's tendency to underperform in the third quarter is on him, as a motivator, as a tactician, and as a play caller. His in-game instincts: trying to motivate Bert? trusting Bert in Atlanta? His instincts are questionable. If he is serious about taking the team to the next level, he needs to look inward, admit to himself that his instincts as a play caller in big pressure situations are not reliable, and commit to making a big change to how he approaches them in the future.
  23. The correct play was called (Len Dale White), we were just better.
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