Notices by pmonks (330ppm) (pmonks@sfba.social)

@skinnylatte We’ve been enjoying Tanglad banh mi recently, and they’re very reasonably sized (i.e. normal).

@skinnylatte 100%. Like a “ham sandwich” should be bread, butter, and ham, not an entire deli case of other meats and cheeses, topped off with an entire salad bar!!

@skinnylatte In my opinion it’s not even a sandwich if it doesn’t have butter (or, at a pinch, margarine). The first time I had a dry, nasty American “sandwich-like food object” I went back to complain and they looked at me like I had 2 heads.

@KimPerales @moira Meaningless performative meat for his base. He can’t overrule law with an EO, despite what he wants everyone to believe. That’s not how the separation of powers works.

@moira @KimPerales I understand. But it’s important not to fall for his trap and repeat his talking points - that’s how the self-fulfilling prophecy comes about.

I encourage everyone to watch this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K8QLgLfqh6s

Illiterate or clown? 🤔 #SanFranciscoHellscape #IlliterateClownsEdition

The better half made laksa for dinner last night and I’m eating the leftovers for lunch today. Zomfg how I’ve missed it - I don’t even remember the last time I had it, even though I used to eat it all the time!! #SEAsianFood #Cuisine #NostalgiaFoods

@skinnylatte sorry to call upon you like this, but you’re the expert: do you rate any specific laksa places in the city? I really need this back in my life on a regular basis!!!

@ai6yr

@douglasvb @skinnylatte But VB *always* means “Victoria Bitter”, DouglasVB! #AHardEarnedThirst

@skinnylatte It’s times like these that I think the term “dad jokes” is an anachronism that’s in dire need of a gender-neutral upgrade. 🤔

@douglasvb @ai6yr “Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.”

- Carl Sagan, 1995

@douglasvb @ai6yr Fucken hell you’ve just painted a very dire and plausible picture of the future.

@valhalla @Dangerous_beans Referring to your first paragraph, that doesn’t match what I’ve seen. In the US the FDA provides accelerated approval pathways for orphan indications, for example, in part to reduce development costs and incentivise R&D by (for profit) biotechs who might otherwise ignore them and focus on the “big 3” indications (heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, which are where the biggest revenue opportunities are).

As an aside, it’s interesting to note that states/“taxpayers” also impose costs (with good reason - I fully support that role for regulations) on drug developers. The myth that it’s all one-way subsidy of drug developers falls apart when looked at like that too.

@BrentToderian A "loss leader", if you will.

@skinnylatte Singapore Airlines used to be great! (and may still be great- just haven’t flown it in a long time)

@ATLeagle @ai6yr And even then your odds of getting giardia or cryptosporidium are high in most places. Those diseases are basically endemic at this point, and neither of them are fun.

@quinn @futurebird They weren’t “abandoned”. The GOP chose to wage war on education over 50 years ago.

@jeffowski This is pretty disrespectful of the majority of folx who work in health care, ime.

@BeAware @jztusk @radicalfaery @Bruhdotcuh @mloxton @actualham @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews @tchambers He manages the @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews group.