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BabaYaga

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  1. Because reasons. It's fucked. They have so much influence because of the tens of billions in yearly ad dollars they dole out. Someone in power could cut that cord tomorrow, but every media outlet in the country would be screaming bloody murder.
  2. Isn't that the reason why anesthesiologists have some of the highest malpractice premiums in the business? The biodiversity of people is just that, and everyone seems to react a little different. Then there are the horror stories of people that otherwise are seemingly healthy just up and dying on the operating table due to adverse reactions to the anesthesia.
  3. Fentanyl in measured doses, sure. Unregulated doses cooked up in someone's basement, not so much. I know guys that did tours overseas thot got wounded and got the magic fentanyl lollipop of awesomeness.
  4. They all do - there's a revolving door between big pharma and the FDA. The same FDA who's budget - more than half comes directly from the same big pharma they supposedly have oversight over. It's fucked.
  5. They're smart and amazingly adaptive. Wonder if it's learned the routine for a homeowner to let their dogs out? If so, please come to Frisco and murder my neighbors little yappy ass wiener dogs.
  6. Amazing animals. Insanely efficient hunters. When they operate in wolf country, there are sightings of packs following lions, then running them off their kill. Never seen one in the wild. We did have one years back, as we found the carcass, semi-buried in dirt/brush as the warden indicated they are prone to do. And as mentioned, they can range hundreds of miles. Surprised all these small, high-fenced game "ranches" don't have a bigger problem with them as the animals have nowhere to go.
  7. We had one picked off by a truck near our place in Coleman. Old, old girl. Teeth were worn down, emaciated, living off the excessive road kill in the area. Our warden was telling us. Happens more than you think. You just don't see them because if you hit one, you are calling the police who come out and take the carcass.
  8. Pretty sure I'd take acute pain and inflammation over death. I kid, but what was so damning was they they knew pretty quickly how dangerous it was, but they offset this obvious moral hazard with how insanely profitable it was as well, and then were stupid enough to put that down on paper.
  9. Mine stayed recently for THREE WEEKS. My wife is a saint.....
  10. The fact that the US is one of TWO developed countries along with New Zealand that allow such aggressive pharma marketing/commercials is insane. Or why is HALF of the FDA's budget coming from the companies it is supposed to regulate?
  11. Because it's subsidized over there by charging so much more over here.
  12. Watch the doc Cocaine Cowboys and how many banks popped up in S. Florida and how deeply tied they were to the drug trade. It's wild.
  13. It was Merck that got sued over a faulty drug, but in the discovery this exact statement was made. I want to say it was Vioxx? Where they knew early on it was going to mess people up, but the profits from the drug would outweigh the penalties. They ran with it, tens of thousands of people died, they got sued, but yes, the profits did in fact outweigh the lawsuit amounts.
  14. The Sackler Family - yes, evil fucks. May they forever rot in hell. The entire opiod crisis. Fuck every last one of them involved. J&J's 2022 $26 billion settlement GlaxoSmithKline Pfizer J&J again in 2013 All predicated on lying, submitting false claims, failing to report safety issues, misbranding, doctor kickbacks, and overall fuckery that killed and/or ruined millions of lives.
  15. Would have been better if you had a handful of blue pills and said Mrs Brat, i'm coming for dat ass!
  16. This is a little on the nose. Let's not conflate actuarial tables to Auschwitz. It's all based upon risk assessment and ROI. Not defending these fucks, but they've been able to conflate the processes and compartmentalize everything so much that very few individuals are making these decisions. In the vein of keeping this as simplistic as we can, it "seems" the entire healthcare system is designed to keep you alive for as long as possible, but in a diminished capacity. Pills for this, but not for that. A hundred different "specialists" that used to just get taken care of by your family doctor most of the time. I have to see this guy before I see that guy, to get this covered before I do that. It's fucked. I don't know who is actually at the top, pulling the strings - but the entire system is a giant self-licking ice cream cone.
  17. Yep, a targeted and specific attack on a person representative of a larger, corporate threat. This is Fight Club shit.
  18. Please don't HALO this. The script is there. The story is there. Just make it cool and awesome and don't try to get cute.
  19. I hear Duke has a recent opening....;)
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