Great article to start the day. Thanks for sharing.
Eh.. it might. Harvoni and its relatives are a cure for HepC. They charge about a lifetime's worth of liver treatment for a 3 month supply after which you're most likely cured. Over here one course of Harvoni is worth over 110 average monthly supplies of Humira (a rather expensive biological blockbuster RA/Crohn's drug). Insulin costs 5-10 times less depending on the user... I'm comparing apples to orange but you probably get the idea. Chronic illness is profitable but curing it yields a higher margin as your patient will likely survive the full course.
If/when it hits the market the pricetag would be about a lifetime's+ supply of insulin probably.
This person has clearly never interacted with a bird before. These dinosaurs are clearly capable of thinking, feeling, and voicing their opinions. Of course, the same applies to farm mammals. Just because we're... More resourceful doesn't mean we have to subjugate everything that's "inferior" to us. That sounds like 'ye olde "they don't need equal rights because they're just savages".
Regardless, we don't have workers from our own country willing to work in places like this. Instead we get people from Uzbekistan who spend all their life savings for a better life here only to quit on day 1 and try to go back home after witnessing the horrors of poultry farming.
Banned practices or not, factory farming, resulting from the demand to eat meat daily, is simply cruel, unsustainable, and oftentimes sadistic (to the animals AND workers)
I like the idea! I was thinking of doing a cross stitch like that...
if only it wouldn't trigger my climate anxiety. It's enough that we have late March temps at the end of December. I literally keep my windows open at home during the day.
I wonder, is there some kind of a database to know if a music artist has fascist views or is affiliated with such groups?
Thanks, it was meant to be a birthday present for my partner and I did it in secret. Really fun project!
Rather not say but across the border south, about 4-5 hours from Bucharest.
It was fun having to go to work yesterday morning. Nothing was cleared up, no way for cars to get to my house so I had to make a trek by foot. This morning was worse because some of the snow had melted during the day yesterday and it refroze. Everything is slippery now.
One thing outside observers need to know is how incompetent the municipality services are. They knew in advance that this storm was coming. There were warnings all week. It came a day late here so they had extra time. The municipality website showed no information, just some cultural events and an article from two days ago that "the municipality is ready for the winter". At this point we have a saying for poor organisation during winter time when everyone knows it's coming in advance:
"The winter surprised us again!"
It's been a rather productive year so far:
- I did a lot of cross stitching.
- Went vegan.
- Dabbled into gardening (my partner did most of the work sadly but I'm more interested now than I was before!).
- Got into birdwatching so I started exploring nature with a much more different perspective.
- Set up a bird feeding station that got really popular among the birds AND the neighbours.
- Learned how to crochet.
- A combination of the aforementioned things somehow taught me how to manage my depression and anxiety better. I'm in a much better spot now than when I was mostly playing video games.
And what exactly makes humans superior? In a couple of hundred years we did what millenial cataclysms couldn't do. The human superiority will be in the fossil record as a microscopic toxic line. If anything we're the worst species that has ever emerged on this planet.
Snakes in many cultures are seen as the embodiment of wisdom. They also stabilize rodent populations for example and are hunted by raptors. If snakes disappear tomorrow, there goes your human superiority. See also Mao's war on sparrows and the millions starved after showing their superiority over the tiny birds.
I understand no argument would change your mind on the matters, especially on the Fediverse, but I really hope you read about this from different angles.