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Because they are a corporation that is actively littering LEO with hundreds of satellites, and fear economic retribution and/or responsibility as a consequence of this kind of information?

You see how there might be something called "conflict of interest?"

Having a conflict of interest does not mean they aren't competent at what they do - just that they have reason to be biased against information that may result in direct consequence.

What makes you think it's anti-CRT?

...my mistake.

I think you meant "missed steak."

Hey - I might have given the wrong impression - I'm a civvy and never served. Grew up in a navy fam, so I have some exposure to life and lingo, but I won't pretend to know shit. Stolen valor is fucked up, so I'm sorry if I gave you that vibe. Thank you for your service sailor.

Oh okay. No disrespect, but from your other posts, I get the feeling you're fresh out of boot camp. A sense of pride is healthy, but it can get you in trouble if you don't keep it in check - loose lips sink ships.

Next time go with the euphemism for dropping a deuce, it's funnier.

Uh... not op... but, are you saying you're sitting at some console, browsing lemmy while waiting to get the go ahead to launch nukes?

It's always externalized exploitation because they're all multinational corporations.

It's true that many of the big players are based in the US, e.g. Pfizer, J&J, Merck, AbbVie, Abbott, EliLily, etc.

But there are plenty that aren't:

• Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, BioNTech, and Merck Group (MilliporeSigma in the US, distinct from Merck & Co) are headquartered in Germany.
• AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline are in the UK.
• Roche and Novartis are in Switzerland.
• Novo Nordisk in Denmark.
• Sanofi in France.
• Takeda, Otsuka, and Astellas in Japan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_biomedical_companies_by_revenue

It's important to note that much of the R&D pharma relies on is publicly funded via academic grants in research carried out at universities. It's not to say that pharma doesn't also carry out clinical research, which of course does carry a cost, but a lot of the development dollars for a given drug are spent well before they make it into pharma's hands.

In the medical device and pharmaceutical industries, this more or less already exists in countries with socialized medicine. It's not as explicit as my formula, but the price of medications and devices are regulated. Industry needs to demonstrate the actual benefit of a new product over a prior product for the system to pay for it, and the price of the product is then set on the basis of the health economic value it brings.

Some say it stifles innovation, but honestly, it eliminates the bullshit minor changes that are only made to continue justifying high prices and exclusivity.

Anyway, I think the "Exodus of industry" argument is an empty threat the shareholder class makes when they feel threatened. A market is a market, and if they want to continue to sell in it, they have to follow the rules, even when they change.

I would love to see regulations define "fair profit."

Material costs + labor costs + fair profit = retail price.

Fair profit cannot be more than X% of retail price.

The mass shooters come from the pool of Fox News viewers. Dollars to donuts, if Fox News tried a segment tasked with deprogramming the hell spawn they created, the crazies would target the host in a heartbeat.

Hey, look, it's the guy who won the Nobel prize from the article. Did you only use Facebook for your research, or lemmy too?

We talking length or width?

But how many Olympic swimming pools is that? Or is that a unit of volume... sorry, I think I'm looking for the number of football fields, yes how many of those is it in diameter?

Oooh good point. Supreme Court fucks the Public once again.

Checkmate atheists

I mean, being President should be a real job too, but that kind of ended in 2001 when we hired a moron. Obama would have done the job if the GOP had let him, instead of being so obsessed with his ethnicity.

That's...that's not where radios go...or phones for that matter...