You can definitely tell from their commercials.
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advertising medicine should be illegal like it is in other countries
It should, but that's an advertisement for an ambulance-chasing lawyer not a medication.
oh wow lol
I'm mostly fine with OTCs being advertised. Like idk Tylenol double mega effectiveness or whatever.
But every country I've ever visited or lived in heavily restricts ads for more serious medical stuff, except for some reason the US.
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I have an uncle in his mid 70s who has an elliptical machine in front of the TV. He gets up at 5AM puts CNN and starts exercising.
The Mesothelioma ads at that time are like 5 minutes each. Constantly. And he watches attentively to all of them.
Gastly.
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Humira -
Hives, trouble Breathing, swelling of the face, eyes, lips, or mouth. Lupus like chest or joint pain, liver problems such as jaundice, dark urine, or stomach pains, heart failure, sudden weight gain, swelling of ankles and feet, persistent fever, easy bruising, numbness, tingling, vision problems, weakness of the arms and legs, reactivation of Hepatitis B, high chances of cancers like lymphoma, increased risk of serious infections like TB that can spread and be fatal. Headaches, rash, swelling itching or bruising at the injection site. I got tired of listing side effects.
Yeah but like your back pain could be better.
I don't want to defend AbbVie, the evil corporation that makes Humira, but that drug is a miracle of modern medicine. It's not "your back pain could be better," it's for severe autoimmune inflammatory diseases, mostly arthritis, psoriasis, and Chron's. You can actually die from Chron's if it's untreated. Anyway, I started developing pretty severe arthritis at the age of 10 and the medications at the time didn't work and had horrible side effects- the main one at the time was a drug called methotrexate which is literally a chemotherapy drug at higher doses and it has chemo-like side effects. Eventually I got prescribed Humira and it was so much better. The worst side effect was pain during injection and it basically cured my symptoms completely. I've been on it ever since (well now I'm on the generic version that came out a few years ago) and I would legitimately not be able to walk or live a normal life without it.
The side effects listed on the commercial are far more severe than what is normal for most medications, because they have to report anything that showed up in the clinical trials even if it is very rare or could have been caused by another factor. A lot of these overlap with symptoms of diseases that are treated with the drug or are symptoms that are often comorbid with the diseases treated by the drug. The ones associated with infectious diseases are very real in the case of Humira, but that is because it's designed to treat diseases caused by an overactive immune system and it's basically impossible to intentionally reduce the autoimmune response without also reducing the regular immune response as well. The drugs that Humira replaced were even worse in this regard, and basically just supressed the entire immune system without specificity.
I know pharma ads are obnoxious and indicative of an extremely awful system that preys upon sick people, but if you're seeing an ad for a new drug these days that drug is probably life changing for anyone who gets prescribed it and that's why they can charge thousands of dollars for it. Humira is one of the most profitable drugs of all time because it's basically a miracle in a vial compared to anything that came before it, and it's ridiculously expensive, over $6000 for a month's supply. The crazy thing is, I'd probably actually pay that if I didn't have insurance and there weren't alternatives available like there are today. I'd have to take less of it to afford it, but that's how necessary it is for me.
Oh I wasn't saying the drugs don't have success. But the commercials make hardly any sense to me. If a new drug comes out that will help with someone's specific conditions, your doctor should be telling you about it I feel. At most, asking your doctor, hey I have been seeing these symptoms occuring latelyis there something that may help better than what I'm currently using.
Edit: also glad to hear that is helping you by the by
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I wonder what's the average age of cable TV subscribers overall.
Probably 50's?
Dunno.
I cut the cable TV cord in 1999 when we got cable internet.
The cost for both services was too great and I decided if I was going to have a monthly bill for something of this nature, I'd at least opt for the service that contained a two-way communications ability.
Best decision ever.
I'm in my 50's. I haven't paid for cable TV since 2008. Of course I worked for a cable company for over a decade and had full cable. When the job went away so did the cable. I only ever watched it when there was a problem with a channel. So losing it meant no more having to sit through mind numbing shows that sucked.
Remember this is the generation that told their kids not to watch too much TV or it would turn their brains to mush. Well I guess they were right all along
its call projection. Fox viewers are different "breed: they have to have it on 24/7.
Avoid Substack blogs! Substack enables the monetization of Nazi content and has refused to take it down:
What sucks is that there are so many fantastic substacks (e.g. the.ink (Anand Giridharadas), Lucid (Ruth Ben-Ghiat), Robert Reich, Letters from an American (Heather Cox Richardson), etc
If you think they are how about you reach out and tell them to move, instead of them legitimizing another Nazi platform.
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I shudder to think of how much worse things are going to get once the boomers have died off and nearly everyone is getting their news from TikTok. The radicalization is going to get so, so much worse.
The news is basically just what was popular on twitter the day before. Every journalist is addicted to it.
Well, DikDok is now owned by the religious nut bag MAGA/Q-people so I guess we have that going on for us.
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Well considering that age group is running the fucking GOVERNMENT...
No offense to decent folk that age. I'm sure you're vibrant and lovely (comment directed to decent folk only. MAGAts can piss up a rope, and bitch and moan because their kids don't want to visit) however if someone is not safe to drive a car, they shouldn't be allowed to run anything in the gov. Full stop.
Close to that age group - am at the tail end of the boomers (we're called "Generation Jones" now) and represent that weird period between 1958 and 1965.. (more culturally GenX than anything else, if we're being honest about it..) and all I have to say is PREACH it my young son!
FFS, I want to kill myself when I run into older members of my generation that shouldn't be on the road or in politics anymore.. Stop.. just stop.
Surrender your driver's license and retire and start having people drive for you.
Also, instead of trying to politically lead, step back and become an advisor capable of offering context to situations and historical viewpoints.
Let. Fucking. Go.
I'll say it again: We need to disenfranchise older people from voting. They have no stakes in long-term decisions and they're hurting us. Yes, my mom is a racist piece of shit who voted for Trump three times. Yes, she's hurting us. Yes, I cut her off for doing so.
Slippery slope
To what? keep elaborating. Remember when we were told that gay rights to marriage was a slippery slope? to what? their answer was people marrying animals, because that's what they think about gay people. What would this be a slippery slope to? we already limit the voting rights of adolescents and children, convicts serving crimes, active service military personnel. People under 30 cannot serve political offices in most of the world, in the US you cannot be president if you are too young, or a senator at 29. What would make this one instance different is we were to say, for example, people over 80 years old shouldn't vote. There are parts of the world where judges, and other public offices have forced retirement ages. Why is the US the only country wheeling people on the brink of death to the senate floor on literal medical beds?
You’re saying the same thing Trump is saying when he says the government should nationalize voting for 15 states.
Voting rights isn’t a war we should fight unless we are fighting for every citizen.
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Which is why influencers on social media are paid to sway younger voters with their form of the news.
I've been on Lemmy for months. Despite this I haven't voted for a socialist president yet. Lemmy needs to step up its game
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Sorry, median???
"The mean is the number you get by dividing the sum of a set of values by the number of values in the set.
In contrast, the median is the middle number in a set of values when those values are arranged from smallest to largest.
The mode of a set of values is the most frequently repeated value in the set."
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My parents are in that range, but I'd say they're even worse off; facebook is my mom's primary news source and my dad [rightly] thinks they're all propaganda and only watches historical documentaries. Perhaps that's the intent, but our society doesn't have any actual agreed upon source of actual news anymore. News in 2026 is just your favorite talking head talking to your preexisting notions and making you feel validated.
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So basically 8 years past and the average age of CNN's viewership went up by 8 years. Wow. The disturbing thing is according to that article the age of fox's average viewer went up the least. So Fox is adding more younger viewers than the other two. Of course it's rather moot with CNN now I suppose.
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and thats why the gop controls the MSMs. the younger crowd are watching people like roegan or another grifter.
Logan's Run is making more sense every day.
To the surprise of absolutely nobody
Yeah but every bar, restaurant, whatever that has TVs has at least one tuned to this shit.
Not every.
Okay
I like Rachel Maddow and Ari Melber's show but I just consume them via audio only podcast. Removing the visual aspect of news broadcast is very important IMO. I can't stand the way Fox News and CNN create their visual presentation. I never watched MSNBC so I don't know if they do the same cherry coated gloss over everything. Plus the stupid ticker shit at the bottom, doing their best to distract from the actual information that should be conveying
MSNBC hasn't had a ticker in years, if ever (I'm sure they did at one point but I had watched it for a while and noticed its absence)
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They use median in the article like it means average. So are they talking about the median age (the number in the middle of the dataset) or average?
Median is an average. Just like Mean and Mode are, they are just different ways to calculate an average.
If age 70 is the median, there's an equal number of viewers that are older and younger than that age. So ~50% would be older than 70 guaranteed.
Given that most humans, (especially Americans) are lucky to live to their 80s and 90s in my experience, that's a jarring number.
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