I’ve worked for pharma manufacturers for a long time - you’re right that tablets can be really expensive, but that’s usually driven by the high cost of the active ingredients. Especially if they’re for smaller or (hopefully) acute patient populations like oncology. But generally the actual manufacture of tablets is…

20+ years in pharma here, albeit outside the US. Definitely not evil. Definitely misconstrued. But in the US? Definitely broken. The whole system is horrifying in the US and I don’t blame anybody for the perception that pharma is evil as a result- before being in the industry I thought so too. Open to answering honest…

I’m going to be That Guy now.

He didn’t say no other life.  He said no advanced civilizations.

YES.  Zipper merge FTW.  If you’re in the line that continues, always let one car in.  Don’t be the one that doesn’t let people in.  There’s a special place in hell.

My buddy and I did Obra Dinn co-op this way and it was amazing.  Highly recommended.

My buddy and I did Obra Dinn co-op this way and it was amazing.  Highly recommended.

LOL Well trolled, friend. Well trolled.

This. Schwarzenegger’s Conan wasn’t THAT great of movie

That’s fair, but to clarify I’m talking about widespread value. If you walk into a store and try to buy something with money, nobody is going to say “those dollars are worthless, I can’t buy food with that”. Except for a handful of places and people, you’re going to have to sell your bitcoin and buy food with dollars.

100% with you. But in proper investing you wouldn’t be banking on knowing or timing that one day it might rain. You’d be setting your sights on, say, a month or two where it’s likely going to rain a lot on average over the entire period, and you bet a little on every single day of that time period. Some days you lose…

There’s truth in there - a 1% return on millions of dollars is way more than a 1% return on the $100 you have to spare to invest in the same thing.

That’s true, except that fiat currencies are backed by governments, which gives them inherent value.  If governments suddenly backed Bitcoin, they’d have value as well, but at this point that’s not going to happen due to the volatility.

No, the Gamestop thing served as an example of how the stock market can be used to gamble.  But although you can gamble in the stock market, not all investing in the market is gambling.

Except that study after study has shown that returns ARE predictable over the long term with a diversified portfolio.  If your investing resembles gambling, you’re doing it wrong.  Or you’re intending to gamble and then complaining about it when you lose.

But just because you don’t have power over the outcome doesn’t mean it’s gambling. And yes, you CAN predict things to a certain degree - you even said it:

Well, no, when you put money in the stock market you’re actually buying ownership of a company.  When you buy bitcoin you’re buying..... something?

“Why not?”

Nothing’s wrong with it at all.  Except they’re in every bedroom in your house, in every apartment ever, and in everyone else’s house too.  If you don’t change them because they look like boobs, at least change them to add some personality to your place.

Going from “a little skeptical” to “cautiously optimistic” ;)

I’m curious to see how they’ve done away with the gender/magic duality and still kept major aspects of the story... the entire purpose for the Red Ajah and gentling of men was that it was a man who broke the world, tainted the men’s side of the One Power, and was destined to be born again as a man and potentially do…