these are people with a lot of bad history suddenly conceding some important points. it's hard to know how much to rely upon the scorpion/frog fable vs the strange bedfellows maxim.
"My wife and I experienced it as a miracle drug for coughs and colds. A box cost 8€. Why is ambroxol not available in the US? A…review published by NIH…found it safe and effective. But no drugmaker has…sought FDA approval… Why not? [They] could not make enough money with a generic to justify the expense. It’s obviously crazy to require this laborious review process for a generic that has been widely used in Europe since 1978, but this is how our system works." https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2023-09-15-how-do-you-spell-relief/#ViaRSS
Wow. I just learned that my instance is going to close. No shade on the administrator — stuff happens. I'll move.
But an instance outright shutting down really exposes the hazard in posts being left behind when you move. Unless I archive and rehost them, everything I've written here will be lost.
Even if I do archive and rehost them, anything that linked to stuff I wrote here will be broken.
"Nissan earned its…spot for collecting some of the creepiest categories of data we have ever seen. It’s worth reading the review in full, but you should know it includes your 'sexual activity.' Not to be out done, Kia also mentions they can collect information about your 'sex life' in their privacy policy. Oh, and six car companies say they can collect your 'genetic information' or 'genetic characteristics.' Yes, reading car privacy policies is a scary endeavor." https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/
"As everyone learns in Econ 101, and immediately forgets, the purpose of the financial sector is to facilitate transactions and allocate capital… We don’t need finance to develop elaborate betting games and complex financial instruments. Financial instruments are only useful when they serve the purpose of better facilitating transactions or improving the allocation of capital." @DeanBaker13https://cepr.net/crypto-and-finance-are-waste-and-a-drag-on-the-economy/
“Facts are statements that we accept as true because they are established by public processes that can be checked — think of the methods of science or traditional journalism. But then the opposite of a fact is not an opinion but a secret: a statement about reality that cannot, and in some cases must not, be verifiable through a public process.” #JonAskonashttps://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/an-america-of-secrets ht @guncelawits
@Lyle@Alon (is Florida exceptional in North America? Beach condo towers here tend to be thin towers around a bank of elevators, rather than long double-loaded corridors. Non highrise apartments often have open staircases and corridors, given the warm climate.)