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

@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.

@thomasfuchs Didn’t Matthew Perry die of a ketamine overdose? At least that’s my understanding given recent criminal indictments of the people who supplied it to him.

[edit] and to be clear - I’m not disagreeing with anything you’ve said, except the bit about no one dying from it

@mattly

@argv_minus_one @barney Young people are more likely to be single-issue voters, and they’re also not a monolith. Their single issues include collectively contradictory topics such as LGBTQAI+ rights, support for Palestine, women’s rights, climate change, etc. The important questions are:
1. Can these folx be educated/persuaded to consider multiple issues before voting
2. What are the relative sizes of those subsets, and do (for example) Palestine-focused single-issue youth voters outnumber all other groups combined

I think you’re right to be concerned about the youth vote, but they’re more diverse than I think a lot of people give them credit for, and there are things we can all do to help them make nuanced, don’t-let-perfect-be-the-enemy-of-good voting decisions, rather than shallow single-issue ones.

@atthenius @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews @heidilifeldman Few people are well represented in the US, thanks to the absolutely garbage electoral system. There’s a reason 9 of the 10 strongest democracies on earth, and 20 of the 24 “full democracies”, have parliamentary systems.

Source: the Economist Group’s democracy index, in which the US is considered a “flawed democracy” and comes in at 29th on the list.

If you’re wondering what you can do to improve things, I’d suggest (in no particular order), working to promote:
1. adoption of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact in your state (if they haven’t signed it already)
2. adoption of ranked choice voting at all levels of government

@Mad Then you’re living in a fantasy, and will have no positive impact on this election. But I can see you’re not approaching this topic logically, so I’m going to leave it there and wish you good luck in your ongoing battle with reality.

@mattly @janl 100% this. I feel like the tech industry is *desperate* to recreate the massive growth opportunities networking, and then mobile computing created, but are completely clueless to the facts that:
a) most of this shit they’re betting on has little to no real world utility (see crypto/blockchain, and now “AI”)
b) networking and mobile computing were both (largely) hardware driven innovations at their core - the software “painted by numbers” the fundamental opportunities the hardware created
c) it’s quite possible there will never be another computer-tech-related innovation of the scale or real-world value of those two, and that’s ok

@mloxton @genewitch @Remittancegirl @JuliusGoat @zenkat @benroyce Was about to reply and say this. And not to digress (but I can’t help it as I love nerding out about this stuff), it’s one of the reasons why imho the parliamentary system is superior to the (garbage) US system - it actively encourages multiple parties, including established ones collapsing and new ones forming when citizens don’t feel like they’re being represented by the status quo. It may seem chaotic to those used to the (detrimentally) static US system, but this inherent “chaos” works to the benefit of the public, which I assume we all agree should be a priority for a system of governance.

Of course I’m under no delusions that the US would ever adopt a parliamentary system, sadly. NIH syndrome is too strong in this country.

@Infoseepage @Dangerous_beans Thanks! Including cost is the only way to actually understand what’s really going on, and mentioning Gilead’s profit is useful context too.

“There’s no such thing as a free lunch.”

@valhalla @Dangerous_beans Yeah that’s a good model imho, in part because it allows for better cross-subsidisation of both failed and unprofitable drugs, based on drugs that are profitable. One issue is that it also tends to result in more unmet need in orphaned indications, since on a cost/benefit basis it isn’t rational to “waste” finite R&D on areas that have little need (which leaves folks with those conditions SOL). The TGA in Australia can be quite ruthless about this, for example.

And yes I believe OP was posting in the context of the US, where this kind of “socialist” model would be very difficult to deploy (which doesn’t make it any less of a good idea, ofc).

@Infoseepage @Binder Do you happen to know how much it cost them to develop, test, and get the drug approved?

@Dangerous_beans The drug wouldn’t exist at all if Gilead hadn’t had an incentive to spend money on R&D, clinical trials, and the approvals process, and make at least some profit out the back end. And that would leave all of us worse off.

So where would you propose that money come from, or what alternative incentive structure are you proposing to ensure drug discovery continues to happen?

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@technomancy @mattly LEMMINGS!!! Where can I buy this???? 😍

@thomasfuchs Mine (sfba.social) only gives me a CSV-download-edit-upload “UI” (unless there’s a second version of it hidden somewhere else, that I haven’t found yet).

@thomasfuchs Smart. As soon as I get on a device that lets me write CSV I’ll be doing that too (side-gripe: why isn’t there a real UI for this?).

@briankrebs Shellenberger is an absolute nutcase. He’s long been known as a crank in California, where he’s run for public office several times, but failed in particularly spectacular fashion.

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