July 14, 20232 yr On 7/12/2023 at 2:41 PM, Mike030270 said: He has an IG account where he kills iguana and pythons and can even book tours lol
July 14, 20232 yr 11 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: @paco @binkybink77 For the last time, get out of our Fing bushes, creepo.
July 14, 20232 yr Author 11 minutes ago, paco said: For the last time, get out of our Fing bushes, creepo. You moved to North Chicago?
July 14, 20232 yr 3 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: You moved to North Chicago? My barber was tired of you asking questions about us so we did him a solid.
July 14, 20232 yr Author 3 hours ago, paco said: My barber was tired of you asking questions about us so we did him a solid. Good for you and a good thing for the borough
July 17, 20232 yr Mozambique pastor dies attempting 40-day Jesus fast https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-64659798 Quote After 25 days without food or water, he had lost weight to the point where he could not stand up. He was aged 39. He had been taken to hospital at the insistence of relatives and followers. Mr Barajah was diagnosed with acute anaemia and failure of his digestive organs. He was rehydrated with serums and an attempt was made to introduce liquid foods, but it was too late and and he died on Wednesday. There are many reasons not to take the words in the bible literally.
July 24, 20232 yr thought this was interesting. I've never understood the war on standardized testing. nothing is perfect, but standardized tests are the best way we have to measure someone's ceiling.
July 25, 20232 yr Author On 7/24/2023 at 7:41 PM, JohnSnowsHair said: I've never understood the war on standardized testing I'm guessing that the easiest way to deal with a test outcome that wasn't optimal was to just get rid of the test as an input parameter rather than to take the harder route of changing the outcome.
July 25, 20232 yr On 7/17/2023 at 1:58 PM, Toastrel said: Mozambique pastor dies attempting 40-day Jesus fast https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-64659798 There are many reasons not to take the words in the bible literally. He met his maker.
July 31, 20232 yr This thread is pretty wild: Guy who was an extra in Dark Knight Rises becomes a committed activist against NK, and is currently in hiding. Had founded LiNK (which I donated to) and spent time in Chinese prison/jail. Worth a read through. Not a long thread.
August 9, 20232 yr https://www.mynbc5.com/article/italian-man-dies-after-being-crushed-by-thousands-of-wheels-of-cheese/44773947 Quote An Italian cheesemaker died on Sunday after being crushed by thousands of rounds of Grana Padano cheese in the aging room of his factory in Bergamo, northern Italy, local authorities said. His final words, probably: "My brother and I used to think dying in an avalanche of cheese would be like heaven... this isn't heaven. This sucks!"
August 9, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, Shepard Wong said: https://www.mynbc5.com/article/italian-man-dies-after-being-crushed-by-thousands-of-wheels-of-cheese/44773947 His final words, probably: "My brother and I used to think dying in an avalanche of cheese would be like heaven... this isn't heaven. This sucks!" He should have ate the cheese
August 9, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, paco said: He should have ate the cheese This actually makes it more of a tragedy. This is like finding out Popeye died being crushed under a mountain of spinach.
August 14, 20232 yr https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/12/us/pennsylvania-deadly-house-fire-explosion/index.html
August 17, 20232 yr Price gouging of cancer drugs in short supply hits some hospitals hard https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/price-gouging-of-cancer-drugs-in-short-supply-hits-some-hospitals-hard/ar-AA1fnUX5 COVID has given many companies license to jack up prices in the most ridiculous ways, and people just suck it up and pay. Quote Debbie Davis, the director of clinical operations at Pacific Cancer Care in Monterey, California, was in desperate need of more carboplatin, a chemotherapy drug that usually sells for around $50 a vial. The cancer center’s regular supplier of the drug, however, couldn’t keep it in stock, Davis said. Running out of options, Davis found that she could buy the carboplatin she needed from a different supplier — one she’d never worked with before. The problem was the price: The new supplier wanted $500 per vial, 10 times what she usually paid, she told NBC News. This is disgusting.
August 17, 20232 yr 3 minutes ago, Toastrel said: Price gouging of cancer drugs in short supply hits some hospitals hard https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/price-gouging-of-cancer-drugs-in-short-supply-hits-some-hospitals-hard/ar-AA1fnUX5 COVID has given many companies license to jack up prices in the most ridiculous ways, and people just suck it up and pay. This is disgusting. This can be a tough nut to crack. It's of course a shock to see the price of anything jump 10x from one supplier to the next in any industry, so we'd have to understand the circumstances for why that's the case here, but I'm not really sure there's a silver bullet for much of these types issues when it comes to the pharma industry. You can't just blindly put price controls on everything without some "unforeseen" consequences. If you entirely remove all incentives and profit motives, you'll naturally see a falloff in innovation. Biotechs won't invest in research if there's no way to keep that engine pumping for the next generation of pharmaceuticals once they do finally hit on a winner. The vast majority of that investment in research is on candidates that eventually turn out to be losers, and without being able to cash in on the few winners to balance it out, they'd basically just become super gun shy and the majority of their research projects grind to a halt, which is ultimately bad for all of us (or at least our kids' generation). On the other hand, some of these F'ers pulling the strings absolutely do engage in some really shady BS. There are countless examples that most of us are familiar with, and the bad actors are naturally drawn to the industry like moths to a flame because of how ripe it can be for deception and unsavory practices. And because the incentive to profit can be a double-edged sword from an ethical perspective (patented innovative drugs can truly save lives, but their high cost can also price others out and in effect result in the loss of life) there are no easy answers to address some of these dilemmas. Insulin is the most commonly debated one because of how ubiquitous it has become and also how reliant Americans have become on it (I saw an article that said something like 70% of those over 50 either already have diabetes or meet the clinical definition for being pre-diabetic.) I don't pretend to know what the answer is, but asking the companies who make it to drastically shrink their margins, or even take a loss on insulin production, is just asking for trouble in the long-run. Back to the article itself, I'm not familiar with these gray market vendors who sound like they are essentially white-collar scalpers. In this case at least, it's not the manufacturers that have found themselves in the cross-hairs, but rather the distributors who are taking advantage of a drug's incongruent cost relative to its massive demand. Possibly one of those unforeseen circumstances I mentioned above, where even if a company wants to keep the prices artificially low for altruistic purposes, someone else will swoop in to seize an arbitrage opportunity.
August 17, 20232 yr Quote Oliver Anthony Music Sptorsndeohit14c340tl25hi5h8atf01g5a6m471g6ft560cm7aaau572ah · It's been difficult as I browse through the 50,000+ messages and emails I've received in the last week. The stories that have been shared paint a brutally honest picture. Suicide, addiction, unemployment, anxiety and depression, hopelessness and the list goes on. Im sitting in such a weird place in my life right now. I never wanted to be a full time musician, much less sit at the top of the iTunes charts. Draven from RadioWv and I filmed these tunes on my land with the hope that it may hit 300k views. I still don't quite believe what has went on since we uploaded that. It's just strange to me. People in the music industry give me blank stares when I brush off 8 million dollar offers. I don't want 6 tour buses, 15 tractor trailers and a jet. I don't want to play stadium shows, I don't want to be in the spotlight. I wrote the music I wrote because I was suffering with mental health and depression. These songs have connected with millions of people on such a deep level because they're being sung by someone feeling the words in the very moment they were being sung. No editing, no agent, no BS. Just some idiot and his guitar. The style of music that we should have never gotten away from in the first place. So that being said, I have never taken the time to tell you who I actually am. Here's a formal introduction: My legal name is Christopher Anthony Lunsford. My grandfather was Oliver Anthony, and "Oliver Anthony Music" is a dedication not only to him, but 1930's Appalachia where he was born and raised. Dirt floors, seven kids, hard times. At this point, I'll gladly go by Oliver because everyone knows me as such. But my friends and family still call me Chris. You can decide for yourself, either is fine. In 2010, I dropped out of high school at age 17. I have a GED from Spruce Pine, NC. I worked multiple plant jobs in Western NC, my last being at the paper mill in McDowell county. I worked 3rd shift, 6 days a week for $14.50 an hour in a living hell. In 2013, I had a bad fall at work and fractured my skull. It forced me to move back home to Virginia. Due to complications from the injury, it took me 6 months or so before I could work again. From 2014 until just a few days ago, I've worked outside sales in the industrial manufacturing world. My job has taken me all over Virginia and into the Carolinas, getting to know tens of thousands of other blue collar workers on job sites and in factories. Ive spent all day, everyday, for the last 10 years hearing the same story. People are SO damn tired of being neglected, divided and manipulated. In 2019, I paid $97,500 for the property and still owe about $60,000 on it. I am living in a 27' camper with a tarp on the roof that I got off of craigslist for $750. There's nothing special about me. I'm not a good musician, I'm not a very good person. I've spent the last 5 years struggling with mental health and using alcohol to drown it. I am sad to see the world in the state it's in, with everyone fighting with each other. I have spent many nights feeling hopeless, that the greatest country on Earth is quickly fading away. That being said, I HATE the way the Internet has divided all of us. The Internet is a parasite, that infects the minds of humans and has their way with them. Hours wasted, goals forgotten, loved ones sitting in houses with each other distracted all day by technology made by the hands of other poor souls in sweat shops in a foreign land. When is enough, enough? When are we going to fight for what is right again? MILLIONS have died protecting the liberties we have. Freedom of speech is such a precious gift. Never in world history has the world had the freedom it currently does. Don't let them take it away from you. Just like those once wandering in the desert, we have lost our way from God and have let false idols distract us and divide us. It's a damn shame.
August 17, 20232 yr So some guy who lives in a trailer with a tarp on it is turning down $8M deals while complaining about his struggle to make ends meet in the next breath? Mmmkay.
August 19, 20232 yr On 8/17/2023 at 3:44 PM, The_Omega said: People in the music industry give me blank stares when I brush off 8 million dollar offers And then everyone stands and claps
August 19, 20232 yr If you get bored with all these preseason fb games. https://abc.com/news/insider/watch-stand-up-to-cancer-special-on-abc-and-the-abc-app
August 26, 20232 yr Author We have been doing some long overdue work to get rid of some sheet in storage in our basement and found a box of liquor bottles from our move back to Sweden 25 years ago 🤣 Half empty gin/vodka bottles and even a Sambuca and a bottle of port. Eight bottles in all.
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