Yeah I get what you are saying, you are not wrong. But I have replied to a different person who said this specifically:

we’d have a research arm of the FDA that was employing scientists/chemists to develop drugs for the most basic health needs of its citizens and dispensing them at cost to keep drugs affordable but developing cures versus disease maintenance drugs

That is not just vaccines for me. All vaccines are drugs but not all drugs are vaccines.

And that is surely way to much to handle for the government. There isn’t even a single large pharma company that does all that.

This guy has been living in East Germany since fucking 1985. It saddens me to read this. Fuck the AfD.

Yeah, how many different vaccines was that? Now multiply by however many different diseases you want to cure and take into account that some diseases require medicines to be tested in very lengthy clinical trials.

That is still a huge step up from the 31.6 billion you quote.

I am not sure you are aware of the immense costs to develop new drugs for diseases. At least that’s what your comment sounds like, making new drugs. To do that as a state entity is completely unrealistic as it would take a massive investment from the government. Most drugs developed also fail at some stage of the process, meaning you lost all that money and work on it.

Now, if you meant that the government should produce already established basic drugs that are known to work, sell those at cost, yes, that would be a very sensible approach.

That is not even it. It is about finding that novel thing that will lead research direction of a certain topic for years to come. To be THE expert that found THAT thing that could finally cure Alzheimer’s. Not denying for some it is not also about money.

Oh boy, “I don’t hate men at all. I have a son.” That’s a tough read overall.

Yeah, if I go to Reddit I go for something specific, e.g. discussion about certain sci-fi series, which is definitely more lively there than here, simply because of higher user count.

Yes. Admittedly I don’t have time to test if it really boots. I wanted to do that some time end of next week when I got a day off to take care of stuff.

Seeing your post I was actually worried because next week I wanted to install Bazzite on my laptop. For me the download worked fine though, 3-4 MB/s, its the bazzite Asus nvidia image. So it seems more of a problem with your internet connection somehow, more specific to wherever they store downloads.

Are you downloading with a download manager that could retry connecting when it fails?

Does it even have a live USB? I thought that’s not a thing with immutable distros? At least Kinoite didn’t have a live USB option.

Sorry, you need high quality data for training.

The clown is however also old. And cursed.

The software updates are maybe not an argument when it comes to degoogling? Then it depends if the OS they plan to use still sends updates.

The hilarious thing is, in the movie that very same guy got run over and then he sued for a ton of money which allowed him to retire. The American dream!

You are blaming the customers for “thinking you deserve less pay” when the actual person not paying you enough is the bar owner. Sorry for kicking up yet another fruitless discussion about tipping in the US, but these kind of mental gymnastics just trigger me.

The Venn diagram between people commenting here and people going to beaches is probably just two circles not touching at all.

Shadow ban is different though. You can still post and interact but no one else sees you.

OliveTin looks interesting, thanks!

1 it is just an example

2 not what I asked but thanks for your input

What do you mean, you people?