TardisBeaker

@TardisBeaker@lemmy.world
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They make it sound as if this is new, but this method has been studied for decades... My dad was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer in Jan of 2013. He happened to get into clinical trials that basically had him "living with cancer" for 5 years. It wasn't until the last few months that the cancer outpaced the drugs and took over, invading his brain, then it was only a matter of a very short time before the brain cancer ruptured & killed him. But prior to that, he got 5 years. The drugs he was on??? Targeted immunotherapy including a lot of mRNA vaccine therapy. (Turns out he was a guinea pig for the technology that would be used in Covid vaccines. He always hoped his clinical trials would help future patients, he just had no idea how far reaching that would really be.)

The problem is, cancer is in essence a mutation machine, which means it quickly outpaces our ability to create the vaccines. I think we'll get there; just going to take a while before we learn how to keep up.

And highways. Those idiots have no idea how much federal funding goes to their million miles of highways.

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Most all of them.

From the article: "The chains are CVS, Walgreens, Cigna, Optum Rx, Walmart, Kroger, Rite Aid and Amazon. CVS, Kroger and Rite Aid, which have a total of about 11,000 locations nationwide, don’t require store staff to run the requests past company lawyers before complying.

Only Amazon notifies customers that it received a subpoena or warrant for their prescription data."

A lot of times they don't do placebo once the trial gets to that stage. My dad with cancer was a treatment guinea pig & one of the study stipulations was that they wouldn't get placebo. Too cruel to get their hopes up. ETA: I know this one states it had placebo group. And I understand the reason for it, obviously. Just saying my dad's experience was they promised no placebo group bc it was so late stage in testing.

This is clearly overseas customer service rep with a script. It happens every time I "chat with customer service" for any business at all. Or it's an AI chat, which is equally possible.

"The move could impact clubs, classes and other institutional programs but carves out an exception for campus activities required to retain accreditation." So DEI isn't required for accreditation. Maybe it should be? These states' schools should lose funding or status or something.

But then you have to shop from Sam's. People choose Costco over Sam's for many reasons..

Charge who? And in what form? Interstates in Texas are not toll roads. A little from fuel taxes & vehicle registrations maybe, but certainly not enough to maintain all the interstate (i.e. Federal) highways.

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This. I choose Costco for many reasons. I don't care what others like about Sam's bc I'm not going to give money to that company.

You keep saying this, but you don't speak for all women. I am a woman who does not care one flying fuck if the other ladies in the restroom were born with a penis, a vagina, or some variation thereof. I care much more about whether they flush & wipe the seat.

I'm certain you're not conflating trans with violent, right?? Or sticking up for people who do?

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If you tell them you're thinking about becoming a member & want to check it out, they will let you walk around. They'll just tell you you can't check out without a card. So yes, free trial.

Yes, that's exactly what these asshats are. Texas, not USA, is the "country" they're nationalist about. That's why they call themselves Texas Nationalists not nationalist Texans. A bunch of them are actually nationalist Texans too but they're too dumb to see the contradiction. Just like they're too dumb to see the contradiction when flying a US flag & a confederate flag together. They're not the sharpest tools in the shed; they'd literally shoot off their own feet if they thought it might pwn the libs.

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I'm sorry. At least when it gets to negative 40 you won't have to translate it from C to F.

Ah ok. Yes, these people are being unpatriotic to the US by wanting to secede from the US. But many Texans are more patriotic towards Texas than the US. But it's just because there's a Democrat president. When their believed cheetoh jeezus was in office, no one in TX was trying to secede & it was all "USA USA!!!" I lived in Texas for 40 years & they bring up seceding every few years when they don't like the president. It's really stupid & will never actually happen.

No, very few highways are toll roads. Houston has 1, Austin has a couple.

Usually the biggest interstates are Federal, then smaller ones are State, then smaller ones are County or City, etc. Very few are toll, at least in the West & South US. I can't speak for the densely populated states in the NE bc I've never been there.

Looks like GNP. Likely isn't, but it sure looks like it. 💙 ETA: it is definitely a glacial carved valley & lake though

User name checks out, you do sound weirdly furious at the world.

Because you can't give your card, which has your picture on it, to anyone you want? That really doesn't make sense. How many people do you think your membership, that you pay for, should cover? I doubt you actually had one bc this will literally only affect people who don't have memberships.

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