I just wanna say that I appreciate the hell out of you.

Pharma companies are basing pricing for these one-time-in-a-life-dose drugs on supply and demand principles. There will never be high demand for these drugs because the conditions are so rare. And only needing to be dosed once for a complete lifetime cure means that there is no recurrent payment happening the way you would have with a drug that needed to be dosed repeatedly over a lifetime.

You’ll hear all the usual excuses about “muh R&D costs 😭😭” but the truth is they’re pricing it this way because they can. Because somewhere in the bible of capitalism, this is the way things work.

(R&D costs are just an excuse for greed: https://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/resources/tagline/tagline-fall-2018/pharma-lies-people-die-myth-busting-fact-sheet-on-medicine-development-and-pricing/)

It’s illegal to ask you not to discuss wages in the United States. Violation of federal labor law.

Star Trek. It’s a whole plotline with O’Brien

Of course it’s a fantasy about what I want. Everything that ever happens in the world starts out as a fantasy of what some people want.

I think there are more cracks in that galvanizing than you think. Overturning Roe is not turning out to be the grand success they’d hoped. Yes, it’s because people who vote conservative require the truth to impact them personally and emotionally before they get the point. Yes, that’s fucked. But it’s the sad reality we’re dealing with here.

I don’t expect people to flip full socialist LGBT ally overnight. But if someone starts suggesting we take up arms against our fellow residents of the US, a depiction of reality might cause enough people to pause and think, “You know, maybe let’s not.”

Don’t act like fictional depictions have no impact on real opinions.

No, I think conservatives who think they want to cosplay as soldiers are exactly the people who need to see what their fantasies would really look like, if brought to fruition. I think the ad placement was deliberate and the movie is intended to be a shock lesson for all people, but especially these ones.

Only a handful of people on Arrakis really knew Paul’s full capabilities at that point. Remember this is the first time even the Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother who trained Jessica really knew what Paul could do.

By their genetic calculations, Fayd was a contender. This fight proved he wasn’t.

“Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them.”

There’s a reason Margaret Atwood was the person who pointed this out.

The point better explained in the book and kind of glossed over in the movie is that Fayd and Paul both about equally fit the characteristics of the Kwisatz Haderach that the Bene Gesserit were trying to breed. They were sort of shadow images of each other, and it was a real coin toss which one would win that fight and show himself to the the real KH.

I mean, yes. People are stupid. That’s why we have safety regulations. This court case is about a lack of safety regulations.

“Person watches X creative and clearly fictional content” is not analogous in any way to “person watches X video essay crafted to look like a documentary, but actually just full of lies and propaganda”

Don’t be ridiculous

People are supposed to literally say cheese to make them smile. Really, honestly that’s why we say cheese:

https://youtu.be/ShkVAU8ubBA?si=MLKKek2CzF3Iq7_4

Hahahaha, oh man that’s great. You’re one of today’s 10,000: https://xkcd.com/1053/

Everyone being photographed is supposed to say cheese because the shape of the word mimics a smile. Why did you think people said cheese? Lol

I agree that exhibition is similarly as lame as exposition lol

Syringes getting stabbed into the necks of unwilling people is my niche pet peeve.

I’m a critical care nurse lol. There’s no anatomy in a neck to receive an injection. There’s not enough muscle mass, and you’re not hitting a jugular vein without a person’s full cooperation and a helluva lot of skill with IV injections. There’s a nontrivial chance that you’re just going to inject the medication into a person’s trachea or esophagus, or worst case scenario directly into their spine.

Arms, people. Arms are where we inject people who don’t want to be injected. Right through the clothes, if need be.

Peripherally related: Why are all needles used in movies like 2-3 inches long? No one uses needles that large for anything in the real world.

Exposition. You hate exposition :)

No, CPR is only meant to compress the heart in order to circulate blood. You can get a little in and out movement from the lungs (ventilation), but to do that correctly, you really need the bag mask thingy (which you do see One Night using on Lindsay in The Abyss.)

The length of time they spend doing CPR in The Abyss is actually pretty realistic. There are a number of things that you try in addition to compressions and you have to give those things a chance to work before you “call it” (stop compressions).

CPR is several rounds of compressions and shocks with various medications like epinephrine being given depending on what you’re seeing on the heart shock monitor. Length of CPR is usually inversely proportional to the age of the patient. (The younger the patient, the longer a medical team will fight to get them back. This is because losing a kid is obviously devastating for everyone, but also because kids have this amazing tendency to be able to survive things that would 100% take an adult out.)

My bitchy complaint about the CPR scene in The Abyss is that they spend so much of that time not doing compressions. They keep stopping to do other things or to sit around and cry dramatically. Every single second that they’re not doing compressions is a second that no blood is circulating. It’s crazy. In real CPR, compressions only stop when a shock is actually being administered. There is zero downtime on compressions other than that.

(And no, people don’t just gasp and wake up. Typically we just get a pulse and the person remains unconscious, often for days afterward. They usually need a ton of ICU level medical care, if they have any hope of recovering.)

Homeopathic products contain zero dose of active ingredient, not even a microdose

Lmao