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American healthcare is too expensive. This is particularly true of brand-name drugs. Although our nation accounts for 4.2% of the world’s population, we consume 13% of the world’s prescription drugs and pay half of the world’s costs for these products. GLP-1 drugs are a case in point...Drug companies need FDA approval before they can market a newly patented drug. Unlike other countries, the FDA can’t consider a new medication’s price or the existence of equally effective, lower-cost alternatives in reaching its decision...Once FDA approval is secured, Medicare typically covers the the drug’s cost because it is not allowed to negotiate with drug companies as other countries do...It’s the main reason the U.S. pays far higher prices than other countries...Rather than bankrupt the federal treasury or, alternatively, pass the costs on to states and tens of millions of American families, Congress should focus on lowering costs and improving the value of American healthcare.

 

Trump signed an executive order saying the tie-up could move forward if the companies sign an agreement with the Treasury Department resolving national security concerns posed by the deal. The companies then announced they had signed the agreement, fulfilling the conditions of Trump's directive and effectively garnering approval for the merger... the agreement includes $11 billion in new investments to be made by 2028 as well as governance, production and trade commitments. Nippon Steel will buy a 100% stake in U.S. Steel...some Nippon Steel investors are concerned about short-term financial pressure due to the scale of the additional investment commitment...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Following the white rabbit is a theme in The Matrix, and the song features in one of the trailers.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Those rockets miss, but the plane in front dropped flares just prior, so the pilot may have believed a heat seeking missile was launched.

The wing breaks off at the engine. Was the engine hit with a missile?

Those engines are 50 years old and probably haven't been getting their regular maintenance on account of the 3 day special military operation going a bit over schedule. Maybe unmaintained SU-25s just randomly have their wings fall off sometimes?

 

Connection: Bad Vibrations is track 1 on the Phosphene Dream album. A phosphene dream is a hallucination. White Rabbit is also about a psychedelic experience.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Industry likes it too. Without a Federal standard, appliance makers would need 50 smaller, less efficient production lines to meet each State's individual standards.

 

Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., was forcibly removed from a news conference in Los Angeles on Thursday after trying to question Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem during a press conference related to immigration.

"I am Sen. Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary," Padilla said to Noem, which prompted several men to physically push him out of the room. It was unclear who the men were, as several were dressed in plain clothes.

Padilla's office shared a video of the incident with NBC News. The video shows Padilla being taken into a hallway outside and pushed face forward onto the ground as officers with FBI-identifying vests told the senator to put his hands behind his back. The officers then handcuffed him.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Imagine an infinitely large box with nothing in it. Where is the center? There isn't one.

Imagine that box suddenly fills with pieces of stuff, more or less evenly distributed. Still no center.

Imagine the box starts getting bigger, but the amount of stuff stays the same and the distance between stuff quickly increases even though the stuff isn't moving that fast. Where's the center of the infinitely large box?

 

It's easy to think about the creation of the Universe like exploding fireworks: Start with a big bang, and then all the galaxies in the Universe fly out in all directions from some central point.

But that analogy isn't correct. Not only does it falsely imply that the expansion of the Universe started from a single spot, which it didn't, but it also suggests that the galaxies are the things that are moving, which isn't entirely accurate.

It's not so much the galaxies that are moving away from each other – it's the space between galaxies, the fabric of the Universe itself, that's ever-expanding as time goes on. In other words, it's not really the galaxies themselves that are moving through the Universe; it's more that the Universe itself is carrying them farther away as it expands.

A common analogy is to imagine sticking some dots on the surface of a balloon. As you blow air into the balloon, it expands. Because the dots are stuck on the surface of the balloon, they get farther apart.

Though they may appear to move, the dots actually stay exactly where you put them, and the distance between them gets bigger simply by virtue of the balloon's expansion. ... The thing we think of as the "center" of the balloon is a point somewhere in its interior, in the air-filled space beneath the surface.

But in this analogy, the Universe is more like the latex surface of the balloon. The balloon's air-filled interior has no counterpart in our Universe, so we can't use that part of the analogy – only the surface matters.

So asking, "Where's the center of the Universe?" is somewhat like asking, "Where's the center of the balloon's surface?" There simply isn't one. You could travel along the surface of the balloon in any direction, for as long as you like, and you'd never once reach a place you could call its center because you'd never actually leave the surface.

In the same way, you could travel in any direction in the Universe and would never find its center because, much like the surface of the balloon, it simply doesn't have one.

 

The music in FFVI was ahead of its time.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

What meme template? I made this!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Not for long.

 

So many bangers in Cyberpunk 2077!

 

This song is on repeat in the nightclub run by the Tourette "sisters".

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more cars

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Losing ~1.4 km/s at GEO would put a fragment into geostationary transfer orbit, with one side of the elliptical orbit at geostationary altitude and the other side at low orbit altitude where it would experience increased drag.

 

The study shows rainbow trout endure an average of 10 minutes of intense pain during air asphyxia, with estimates ranging from 2 to 22 minutes depending on factors like fish size and water temperature. This translates to approximately 24 minutes of pain per kilogram of fish. These estimates are based on a comprehensive review of existing research to assess the intensity and duration of pain and distress experienced by the fish.

Crucially, the study also assesses the cost-effectiveness of interventions. If implemented properly, electrical stunning could avert 60 to 1,200 minutes of moderate to extreme pain for every U.S. dollar of capital cost.

 

connection: instrumental heavy metal with sick bass

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Sorry to disappoint, but exploding something at GEO would make things worse.

All satellites in orbit of Earth will experience atmospheric drag. Even the Moon is bumping into gas atoms.

Geostationary satellites will eventually fall. It might take millions of years, but eventually the thin atmosphere will slow those satellites down enough that their orbit will fall into the thick, lower atmosphere where they'll burn up or crash into the Earth's surface.

Exploding a satellite up there will just make a shotgun spray of projectiles that will still take millions of years to fall. Assuming the projectiles shoot off in all directions fairly evenly, then the ones that get shot backwards relative to the motion of the satellite will end up in a lower orbit that will decay faster. The pieces that get shot forward might actually escape Earth orbit all together and become little asteroids orbiting the Sun.

The thing that's special about geostationary orbit isn't that the orbit of things at that altitude does not decay. That altitude is special because at that altitude, orbital speed is equal to the Earth's rotational speed. A satellite at that altitude over the equator will remain over that same longitude - it won't rise and set like the Moon, it will remain in the same spot overhead both night and day.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

The relationship between Canada and its southern neighbor has seemed a little too good to be true for a long time. A cynic might be inclined to believe that some amount of effort, from one or both States, has been put into crafting that image of harmonic cooperation in hopes that the illusion will become real.

It sure didn't take much to fuck that whole plan up.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (7 children)

you can add "--cookies-from-browser firefox" or whatever browser you use, to the end of the yt-dlp target

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