IDK, I’m wondering if there’s a manufacturing cost vs. market kind of thing going on here. (I imagine many people don’t understand the multiple, scientifically backed applications of hydrocolloid bandages over regular ones.) Target’s generic brand used to offer more sheets in a larger size for the lowest price—theirs…

“Hydrocolloid dressings” is the key term here. You can buy a box of blister bandaids (same thing) and get 2-3x the surface area for your money (i.e., cut off chunks as needed). The officially branded stuff is a rip off.

Public service announcement: “pimple patches” are simple hydrocolloid dressings, also known as “blister band-aids.” Bye the Band Aid version, or better yet a generic like Kroger, and cut into smaller pieces, and you can get way more surface area for about the same amount of money (OK, up to $5, but you should get…

Yeah, it’s stated several times that he is a “Lowland Scot.”

She’s communicating from beyond the grave. (Yay, misplaced modifiers!)

Hence Cody’s quote about Hafford’s assumption that all women have vaginas being “bioessential[ist]” in the article.

I mean, there’s a fairly large proportion of trans people who never have bottom surgery due to health, financial, or other personal reasons, but otherwise...pretty much.

Let’s not forget that as a demographic transwomen often experience even higher rates of sexual assault than cis women, please. https://www.ovc.gov/pubs/forge/sexual_numbers.html

I don’t know that Bojack is about dashing audiences’ hopes for a happy ending so much as challenging our expectations about what a happy ending looks like.

Apparently that was the original plan (serial killers picking people off in different settings every season) but it didn’t get the ratings. :(

I’ve seen a couple of people mention “the apocalypse” or “apocalyptic scenarios,” but I’m going to flatter myself that “the end of the world” is in a category all by itself. There’s something about the idea of all of humanity’s accomplishments—not just the human race (which is bad enough), but all of the art,…

Also my favorite obscure CBS miniseries!

Race is such a big factor as well, with whites and non-Pacific Islander Asian populations experiencing the least risk and rates as high as 1 in 3 among Native Americans. Really it’s no wonder the disease is so stigmatized when you consider how much Americans already hate people who are overweight and/or people of…

Also, it is completely disingenuous to suggest that I only care about the pricing of Type 2 medications to the extent they affect me. If you read my original comment carefully, you’ll note that I describe the current pricing system—which is designed at least in part to “punish” the subset of people with whose Type 2…

It’s also worth noting that the prices in these lists reflect the average price people pay for these medications including insurance and discount programs. So while people, on average, pay $24 for Novolin, a “cheap,” out of date family of insulins very few doctors prescribe anymore, it’s between $143-184 if you find…

Fair enough—it’s worth noting that I’m talking about sticker prices as opposed to co-pays, which can vary dramatically based on insurance. A lot of the frustration for people with both Type 1 and Type 2 is not just the costs themselves but how much they’ve risen over the last decade: for instance, Humalog, the most…

I’ve seen both the 30-40% and 13-14% figures on reputable websites, and it’s surprisingly hard to pin down where they’re coming from. I’m assuming that the differences have to do with which year they’ve been taken from, the geographic area from which the sample was drawn, whether it’s percentage of people with Type 2…

I think my favorite use of Chinese in the show was Whiterose telling her assistants that it was time everyone working on the project learn English. It was such a blatant excuse to phase out/reduce the amount of foreign-language dialogue in future episodes (not to mention BD Wong’s awkward Mandarin delivery).

I don’t think that’s necessarily true of all people with Type 2—from what I recall, my grandfather got away with just a few units of fast-acting insulin at dinner (his biggest meal of the day) in addition to an oral medication.

You’re right—in responding to a transparent attempt at trolling with actual information, I was clearly in the wrong. :)