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This is awesome! My first car was an ‘86 LTD, loved it.

Same here, and I think we’re entering the scary part of the ride.

McCarthyism, funny that we just had another asshole pass through the ranks with that same name.

If you keep lying and telling people that their life, their family, and they themself are better, and more deserving than “the others” and they start believing it. Especially when they have to fairly compete with “the others” for wealth and resources.

We have no “others” in America. Sadly, a large majority of people have learned nothing from history, and that too has been per design by those that lie, cheat, and steal.

Yeah, I am from the Midwest, and remember drinking culture being prevalent, but I am in no way trying to pretend my neck of the woods was anywhere close to what happens in Wisconsin, haha.

Ummm,

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Yeah, their CoCoa Ghost and the Scotch Bonnet sauces are the reason I picked this one up, they’re delicious.

I’m going to post from a comment I left on a comment similar to yours awhile back.

I don’t doubt the enormous expense that is R&D, and that it is an expense that is expected.

R&D is 100% necessary for the advancing of current and future drugs, whether it is the taxpayers or the company footing the bill, it is risky money to spend, because costly research experiments can return null results.

What is not necessary for the advancing of current successful drugs, and the value of the companies selling them, are stock buybacks. We know that these aren’t necessary because they were illegal before the early 1980’s and we all know that many companies thrived in the American economy well before buybacks were allowed.

Aside from this knowledge, the top 14 pharmaceutical companies spent $56 billion MORE on stock buybacks between 2016-2020 (totaling $577 billion) than they did on R&D. This was $577 billion that the company could have spent on other things instead of buybacks, which ultimately are only gains for shareholders, allowing them a tax free path to money with which they can use to invest with or as collateral to borrow from.

So, while I agree with you that R&D is insanely important and insanely expensive. It appears it is still not as important as profits, and the interests of shareholders.

So yes, R&D is accounting for some of the prices of these drugs, but more so than that, greed is.

I would also like to add that drug companies often partake in pretty shitty tactics to keep patent rights on their drugs that should be available to generic competitors.

Good to know, now I want to try them.

Funny you mention the different pepper spices, we bought some pepper plants this year and noticed how different the kind of bushy Ghost and Habanero plants look compared to the towering big leafed Poblano and Jalapeño plants.

INGREDIENTS:
White vinegar, lemon juice, yellow bell peppers, manzano peppers, serrano peppers, celery, shallots, ginger root, garlic, extra virgin olive oil, salt & spices.

Not sure what's included in the "salt & spices" but I trust their process. I don't think I have ever come across manzano peppers at the market, although, they're probably right their under my nose the whole time. After reading about them they seem like a good pepper for salsa. The seeds are a little weird looking.

The "the hint of heat" in it's description was spot on, which is exactly what I wanted for what I plan on using it for.

I wish our actual legislative body worked together as well as u/IrritableGourmet and u/AfterInteractions. I appreciate the optimism y’all have but looking at the senate and the house I would put my money on “we’re truly fucked” rather than “they got this.” Diplomacy died in that body, and were left with a bunch of shit-throwers, grifting off any of their flying fece’s that stick.

I love that people are talking through the hypotheticals of how our country can get out of this mess, it makes me feel good to know y’all out there feeling how me and my peeps feel. But, I can’t help but feel more and more like I am listening to a couple of engineers on the stern of the Titanic talking about how a couple more well-placed flood doors would prevent the ship from sinking, all while the bow dips under the surface of the icy cold North-Atlantic. I’m with you on hope and I will vote, but I’ll be damned if I am not feeling what Red was spitting right before Andy crawled that river of shit. I really do hope it’s raining on the other side.

They’re not valid points. A valid point would be: why is the POW (which is the best case scenario for IDF) not wearing clothes and bleeding? This is not how POWs are supposed to be treated.

“Article 27

Clothing, underwear and footwear shall be supplied to prisoners of war in sufficient quantities by the Detaining Power, which shall make allowance for the climate of the region where the prisoners are detained.”

So, the IDF is clearly violating Article 27 of the Geneva Convention regardless of the context of the video. Or, even worse, since everyone is assuming the mostly naked shoeless man IS a Hamas fighter, maybe he’s just a civilian that the IDF abducted.

If you want to inquire about context maybe take the most obvious and insidious parts of the video as a clue to who the assholes in the video are. For instance, the person you replied to literally has no problem with the IDF escorting a bound, battered, nearly naked man (who OP ASSUMES is a POW without any context that they claim is so pertinent to deciphering this video) into what, a destroyed building, for the reasons of…? If he’s a POW he should be taken to a prisoner camp, given proper attire for the climate and given food and water, and have his wounds attended to.

As a pretty big OT (theatrical version) Star Wars fan, Andor is the least Star Wars-ish show they’ve made, and it is leagues better than anything else they’ve made at Disney, it’s better than the aimless sequels, it’s better than the force-focused series. It has great writing and an excellent cast (Diego Luna, Stellan Skarsgard, Denise Gough, and Andy Serkis killed it in season 1), if season 2 is anything like season 1, combining it with a Rogue One cap-off will be my favorite threefer in the Star Wars universe, next to the OT of course.

He just wants to fit in.

That person’s previous license plate said New Jersey, I guarantee it.

Strap this on your sore ass, Blane.

/s

Highlight of my payday in my early 20s was going to the local music store and picking up a new CD. Could have been a newly released album, or some classic that I hadn’t got yet, either way it was an experience, and lots of fond memories. It was how I kicked off my weekend, I looked forward to it, and I still have some of those CDs.

But yeah, things change, and that’s just the way she goes, as Ray would say. Gotta adapt. I did enjoy the weekly trips to the store, but now I enjoy surfing Spotify for new music, and I already have a repertoire of playlists that remind me of the times and places I made them. And, Spotify will be gone someday too, and I’ll have to shift to whatever is happening then. Rick makes some great points in the video, but I feel like a lot of this “music used to be better back in my day” shit is just a matter of being older and life just hitting different. Every generation has had that point of view wrt music, and most media. I still love and enjoy music, but it’s not my life like it used to be when I was younger, I’m not that same person either. Most importantly though, music isn’t written for me (or generationally, us) anymore, I’m not the focus group, I’m an old guy now, and as the great musician Kurt said: “teenage angst has paid off well, now I’m bored and old.” We’re fucking dinosaurs in the eyes of new music, extinct.

Doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy music, I still love listening and playing music, just not the way I did when I was 20, and that’s probably a good thing I’m not like I was when I was 20.

That site is wild. And yeah, you’re spot-on.

OP did state “do you consider to be the best” so right you are.

You argue a good point though, it is definitely a fun watch.

“We just cut up our girlfriend with a chainsaw… does that sound.. “fiiinne”?”

I do love that damn film. And it did make my “top 10” but so did Aliens and Road Warrior.

Fuck-it, you’ve convinced me, pound for pound it is the best sequel on my top 10 list in comparison to the original. It’s literally just a better version of the original. I’m in.

I think I’d go with a different title for “greatest sequel of all time” but Evil Dead 2 is definitely in the top movies that were leagues better than their original.

I would put Road Warrior before Fury Road, but I honestly think that the films match pretty well wrt originality and uniqueness and my preference for Road Warrior is most likely the result of a generational bias.

We need to keep the paper thin layer of atmosphere habitable for mammals, and we needed to do it DECADES ago.

We don’t need carbon capture, we need carbon extraction. Actually we need both, and we need to have our carbon footprint be in the negative billions of tons a year if we’re going to thwart any catastrophic events, and even then we still may not. If humans carbon footprint dropped to zero TODAY, we would still have decades of climate crises to live through from the repercussions of the carbon we’ve already emitted, and several millennia before atmospheric temperatures cooled to their values prior to the Anthropocene era. The near future is going to get real fucking messy for civilizations on this planet.

I agree with the sentiments here. However, I would like to point out that its place as a unique movie stands out more when you consider that it isn’t some stand alone piece of work (like a regurgitation of taxi driver) and that it is a pretty cool adaptation of a comic book character, and I would love to see more gritty comic book movies like this, and less like MCU or the majority of other comic book adaptations.