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AND a race one since the most affected regions will be Africa, Asia and Oceania
as a friend pointed out, this headline makes it sound like supply will be dwindling. supply is fine. people will be *priced out*.
this is fucking MURDER.
insulin has been mass produced (from animal extracts) since -1923-. slow acting insulin has existed since the ‘50s, and ‘human’ genetically engineered insulin (derived from E. coli bacteria) has existed since 1982.
insulin treatment for diabetes is not some new or ‘unproven’ treatment. according to beyondtype1, “Humalog rapid-acting insulin came on to the market with a list price of $21 a vial in 1997.” adjusting for inflation, a vial these days should cost about $34 at most. instead, it costs over $300. there is NO reason for it to be steadily gaining in price to the point that diabetics are unable to afford their lifesaving medication, other than the sheer inhuman greed of pharmaceutical manufacturers.
let me reiterate: life without insulin (for Type 1 diabetics in particular) is a slow and painful death sentence. the ability to treat diabetes is a relatively modern phenomenon that has allowed countless people to live full, healthy lives. we should be expanding full covereage and access to insulin to diabetics the world over, and it should be FREE.
Have y’all heard about Open Insulin Foundation?
“ We’re a team of biohackers with a variety of backgrounds, and skills, and relationships to insulin and diabetes from many cities and countries around the world, including Oakland, California; Baltimore, Maryland; Paraiba, Brazil; Dakar, Senegal; Yaounde, Cameroon; and Puerto Rico. We’re working to develop the first practical, small-scale, community-centered model for insulin production to make insulin accessible to all. We envision a world in which communities in need have local sources of safe, affordable, high-quality insulin, and where people living with diabetes and their communities can own and govern the organizations that produce the medicine they depend on to survive.
What We Do
We are creating an open-source (freely available) model for insulin production that centers on sustainable, small-scale manufacturing and open-source alternatives to production. We are developing protocols to produce short-acting (lispro) and long-acting (glargine) insulin, working on developing open-hardware equivalents to traditional production equipment, are researching sustainable regulation pathways to bring our insulin to the public, and are building capacities for local, small-scale manufacturing.
How Do I Participate?
Our work would not be possible without the support of volunteers, interns, and community advisors. We welcome people of all backgrounds from all over the world to bring their enthusiasm, time, connections, and experiences, both in life and in work. Our volunteers promote us on social media, build equipment, run experiments, write reports and blog posts, facilitate meetings, connect with other organizations and groups, meet with experts in the field, run virtual events, and contribute in designing tools, resources, and methods of all sorts.
Potential Partners
We welcome collaboration with other groups that share our mission―community labs, academic institutions, patient advocacy groups, and NGOs.
Donate
Your donation will help us get closer to our goal. With a healthy financial situation, we can pay for lab supplies, acquire lab equipment, recruit scientists, and pay for consultation fees for regulation and manufacturing experts.”
Open Insulin Foundation
You don’t have an Angel or a Devil on your shoulder. You have an Angry Viking and 50’s House Wife.
Both are telling me to solve my problems with murder
The debate is over the method.
i cant deal with this
colorblind pride flag just dropped
Apparently when my grandma first came to America she didn’t know what a raccoon was and assumed it was a fucked up cat and adopted it. I just imagine this 13 yr old girl with a heavy Eastern European accent being like “this is my cat, Petr. He is not very friendly”
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Evil rock
Microsoft announces it will shut down ebook program and confiscate its customers' libraries
Microsoft has a DRM-locked ebook store that isn’t making enough money, so they’re shutting it down and taking away every book that every one of its customers acquired effective July 1.
Customers will receive refunds.
This puts the difference between DRM-locked media and unencumbered media into sharp contrast. I have bought a lot of MP3s over the years, thousands of them, and many of the retailers I purchased from are long gone, but I still have the MP3s. Likewise, I have bought many books from long-defunct booksellers and even defunct publishers, but I still own those books.
When I was a bookseller, nothing I could do would result in your losing the book that I sold you. If I regretted selling you a book, I didn’t get to break into your house and steal it, even if I left you a cash refund for the price you paid.
People sometimes treat me like my decision not to sell my books through Amazon’s Audible is irrational (Audible will not let writers or publisher opt to sell their books without DRM), but if you think Amazon is immune to this kind of shenanigans, you are sadly mistaken. My books matter a lot to me. I just paid $8,000 to have a container full of books shipped from a storage locker in the UK to our home in LA so I can be closer to them. The idea that the books I buy can be relegated to some kind of fucking software license is the most grotesque and awful thing I can imagine: if the publishing industry deliberately set out to destroy any sense of intrinsic, civilization-supporting value in literary works, they could not have done a better job.
https://boingboing.net/2019/04/02/burning-libraries.html
If you’ve got an ereader and want to actually own your books, I heartily recommend using cailbre to scrape the DRM off and so you can backup the files.
Cailbre d/l:
https://calibre-ebook.com/download
How to use cailbre to remove DRM:
http://www.geoffstratton.com/remove-drm-amazon-kindle-books
Seconding calibre as a brilliant tool for ebook management in general.
Remember: you are not renting your life, especially not from a corporation!!
Some more tutorials and tools:
removing DRM from your kindle purchases
Removing DRM from epubs
Removing DRM for cross device use and archiving
Man I’d love to see more of these from different cultures.
LMFAO
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMd8Stw8Q/
Here ya go
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https://twitter.com/joshuapotash/status/14026897807x06578441
For those who haven’t heard, this woman in Arkansas was speeding by a slight margin (5 miles) and was flagged to pull over by an officer. She put on her blinker and got into the right most lane, then slowed and put her hazards on, indicating she was looking for a safe place to pull over. This is actually what police departments, and this one specifically, tell people to do. The shoulder on that road was quite narrow, and she was likely waiting to exit the interstate.
Despite this, the officer slowly gains on her and uses a pit maneuver to spin her car out. This sent her (and her unborn child) careening into the median and completely flipping the car. The officer is heard calling for ems in a very calm voice.
From what I can find, the woman is alright, as is her child. She’s looking to pursue legal action against the officer, who has defended his actions by claiming she was driving wildly and swerving. As I’ve seen so far, he is still being paid and on the force.
End qualified immunity now
end the police
it wasnt the LGBT community that brought back Minecraft and it wasn’t the neurodivergent community who brought it back, it was my 50 year old dad who made a replica of the 7 layers of hell from Dante’s Inferno in his survival world thanks
UPDATE:
APPARENTLY HE DIDNT JUST DO INFERNO, HE ALSO DID PURGATORY AND STARTED ON PARADISE
The thrilling conclusion:
IN AN EXCITING TURN OF EVENTS, IT TURNS OUT HE DID NOT DELETE DANTES MINEFERNO
he finished it in creative but hell was made completely in survival
i present to you: Dante’s Mineferno
op please upload this so we can all go through minecraft hell
"Hell was made completely in survival" is an excellent quote out of context
Fun, someone said the words “prior authorizations” around me and now I’m pissed off at 730am on my day off. I go off on this rant all the time. ALL THE TIME.
Oof. This man gets it.
not only do i think my gay little headcanons would make the icarly reboot a lot better and more interesting i think the comedic potential is off the charts
first episode revolves around carly sam and freddie who have fallen out of touch over the years reconnecting as adults and carly and sam have a heart to heart where carlys like we were best friends what happened to us :( and sams like i know i know i just. i dont know i guess after all the years of basically being in love with you as kids i just needed some time to figure out my life outside of you
and carly is like wait you were in love with me?? youre gay?????
and sams like yeah?? i was super obvious about it dont tell me you never knew
and the rest of the episode is like carly having a crisis because she was the ONLY ONE who never realized her childhood best friend was gay and in love with her for several years
its fucking gold
carly: i cant believe i never knew sam was a lesbian! am i bad friend? am i bad person?
freddie: calm down. i mean, i didnt even realize until after we broke up and that was only because i asked her if she ever missed us going out and she threw half a club sandwich at my head and said “im gay now, shitbrains”
[laugh track]
carly: (calming down) ok… its just so weird- i always thought i had pretty good, you know, gaydar
freddie: (making a face) no one says gaydar anymore
carly: you know what i mean!
freddie: look it was just one time. maybe you just have a blindspot for her because youve known each other for so long. i mean, how long did it take you to figure out i was bi?
freddie: carly?
carly:
[laugh track]
interior: apartment. carly is laying on the couch looking despondent. spencer comes around the corner and beelines for the kitchen, rummaging around in the fridge.
carly: hey spence
spencer: (distracted) mhm..?
carly: am i homophobic?
spencer: what? no.
spencer: unless you ate the last blueberry yogurt, in which case yes.