Isn’t it over-the-top tone-deaf, even for #45's administration, to show a distribution center in the heat of the pandemic just stocked to the rafters with inventory? Like, shouldn’t a good distributor be sitting on a mostly-empty warehouse (setting aside the notion that they also shouldn’t have the time to stage a…

The Pharma giants’ own financials show they spend way more on marketing/advertising, lobbying/campaign contributions and executive compensation and benefits packages, than they ever would on “upfront R&D” yet the myth persists, mainly because industry shills parrot it as PR bullet point A1 every chance they get, plus…

It’s also a way to account for a weapon that later coincidentally winds up being found in the possession of a suspect later. The Good ‘Ole Boys Network has to get their planted evidence from *somewhere* after all.

Thank you! I couldn’t recall the difference between the two therapies and didn’t feel like mining my history to find the specific information again. The riskier drug also happens to be more profitable and guess which way Gilead decided to go? How people are still surprised by this boggles the mind...the same story…

The Poseidon Adventure - <spoiler alert> the ship flips after the ball drops and any year/decade that begins with Shelly Winters, Ernest Borgnine and Gene Hackman sharing the screen together can’t be all that bad.

I, for one, welcome our robotic orgasm-tracking-and-optimizing overlords.

The ideas that Truvada for PreP is 99% effective when taken as directed and that Truvada for PreP can have serious side effects are not mutually exclusive, and both seem to be true. The makers of Truvada have spared no expense marketing their drug, in some cases, dressed up as “public awareness” and “outreach” even…

I haven’t an iota of sympathy for Harry and Meghan.  Without the media, the Windsors would have basically zero relevance (at least as much as any other wealthy family).  They have a symbiotic relationship with the media, particularly the “tabloid press” in its British form, where the press gets all this great content…

911 systems are supposed to be location-based, but swatters seem to be able to get around that by calling a non-emergency number (like the police department switchboard) and insisting on being transferred to a dispatcher.  That M.O. alone should be a red flag, since most people since the 1980's (at least in the U.S.)…

I think I’m one of those “I don’t want kids - so where’s my PTO?” people. It chafes against my progressive sensibilities, but I look at pregnancy as an elective medical procedure - if the leave would come at an inconvenient time professionally, or make it difficult to hold on to a position of leadership or a recent or…

The DNC needs to take the reigns now, lock these folks in a room until they’ve narrowed the field to 4 or 5, and candidates 6-20something come out publicly endorsing one of them and move on to other pressing matters. For crying out loud, there are 21 Republican Senate seats up in 2020!

I feel like if Musk and his team just picked one technology to champion, this project would already be done. Improve tunnel boring machine capabilities and voila! A tech that could be licensed and used in any number of applications all over the world. Instead it was a tunnel with autonomous capsules in a vacuum, and…

Does planting a whole bunch of trees anywhere and everywhere it makes sense to plant trees count as geoengineering? Because that plan seems cost effective, straightforward, something that can start, well, immediately, and seems like it would have the fewest negative unintended consequences.

Oh yeah.  80's teen-sploitation is probably my favorite horror sub-genre.  That said, I also can’t wait for this season to go off the rails and get all twisty and meta too.  And re: the ensemble changes - with this theme, I can totally see the need to get some fresh faces (and bods) into the mix.  I don’t see Zach…

I think this is a case of adding insult to injury, since Equifax collected and then mishandled my personal data through no fault of my own. It’s not like I can demand that my creditors not share information with Equifax, and many don’t disclose which credit bureaus they use in the first place. So yeah, it does seem…

This is really a shit decision, even ignoring the huge chunk of settlement reserved to pay off the lawyers. We’re really talking about two separate classes here: one huge class for every person who’s data was part of the breach and one smaller subset of that class for every person who has actually had (or will have,…

There’s alot to unpack from her social media, but calling out hijabs as misogynistic is actually a fairly enlightened point of view.  Color me surprised that Miss Michigan MAGA is a touch woke....or at least was in 2018.

Current social media has me so confused...who are the “snowflakes” again? The progressive members of congress who are getting shit upon by their own party leaders, the white house, Fox News AND all the conspiracy crank alt-right nazis, and yet still show up for work every day with actual constructive ideas, coherent…

I don’t know a ton about Impossible, but flexitarians and “meat reducers” have been the main target of Beyond Meat since day one. Nobody’s expecting Boomers or Gen-Xers to switch to vegetarianism en masse, but millions of them every year will have “that talk” with their primary care physician about cutting back on the…

There aren’t any near me, but I ate at a BurgerFi while visiting Florida last month and they have a “Conflicted Burger” on the menu, which is apparently one Beyond patty and one regular beef patty (in addition to a straight up Beyond Burger offering also on the menu). I wondered who the target demographic is for that…