I want Lieutenant Uhura back!

@Aqua-Letifer said in So what happens when they move pharmaceutical manufacturing back to the US?: @Loki said in So what happens when they move pharmaceutical manufacturing back to the US?: it is far from the worst of our issues. The fewer expensive medications you take, the easier it is for you to say that. There used to be a time when companies picked up the majority of healthcare costs. Many reasons for that change. I suppose now it is the out of pocket cap right that people can hit, and which plan a person picks with respect to how long it takes to hit that cap? You can pay more or less monthly right for a different cap? Is your point that people are hitting the cap sooner because of drug price increases?

@jon-nyc said in Two Coasts. One Virus. How New York Suffered Nearly 10 Times the Number of Deaths as California.: Of course I agree, and I was openly critical of him in early March. But I must say seeing people pile on Cuomo now who at the time were saying ‘it’s just the flu’ seems a bit ... opportunistic. One does the best they can, with the information available at the time. I don't fault Cuomo. Or Trump. Or Newsom. Or DeSantis. Most national pols and the governor's have done ok, to about as best they could. Only a few have really screwed the pooch.

@Aqua-Letifer said in The Doctor Thread: @Jolly What do you think about PAs? About the same as NP's. They do have their place and they serve a useful function. But they are not physicians.

@Larry said in Olivia: [image: 1589763845195-ac26235db05f9e0aae316f575ba4a3ed.jpg] This is the Olivia that tripped my trigger.. Well.... there was an Olivia in Memphis who pulled my trigger a few times.... Ah, you prefer Down Under...

Haaahahaha! That’s all we need.

If you are going to go into a highly leveraged business plan you had best have disruption insurance.

@Jolly said in ABC reporter calls out Fox reporter about masks.: @Loki said in ABC reporter calls out Fox reporter about masks.: Funny how it took so much longer with drunk driving and smoking to get people to say it’s not acceptable. Even today smoking a cigarette doesn’t carry the same scarlet letter as not wearing a mask. Move to my part of the world. Yup. In the few stores that I have been to during the last month, masks have been maybe 50/50 yes/no, maybe 40/60. That includes Walmart, True Value Hardware, Food Lion supermarket and the Liquor store. At the golf course there are very few people wearing masks, probably fewer than 1%.

I might be moving to the back pew... Pastor and I were discussing this today and he said that sometimes you need to trust in God to protect you. “Pastor, there once was a dutiful deacon that trusted The Lord completely. When his town was flooding, he was on the roof of his house praying “Oh God, our Creator, please lift me from these waters.” A boat comes by and a man tells “Brother, jump in the boat!!” The deacon says “No! The Lord will save me!” He keeps praying and a second boat comes... Same thing happens... By this point the water is up to his neck. This time a helicopter arrives... Same thing. So the deacon frowns and is standing before God. “God, thank You for all you’ve done, but may I ask why you didn’t save me?” God replied “I sent you two boats and a helicopter. The rest was up to you.”

@Rich said in You can’t make this shit up: Tough crowd. I thought it was funny. It’s funny but it isn’t meant to be.

I’ve definitely become more aware of people dying since COVID, many of natural causes. Don’t know if it’s getting more widely reported or if I am much more aware. I suspect it’s the former.

But what would you do with them, Copper? The holes they'd make would be too deep for your boxwoods.

@Loki said in Imagine trying to explain this to her when she was alive: Looks like someone already tapped that. Hahaha Someone ****** her brains out, huh.....

@Jolly said in Love Jones: @mark said in Love Jones: WTFC about this crap? Probably his wife. Not I. And all this time I thought you were the good government guy... I want our government to be "good". This has absolutely nothing to do with that.

@LuFins-Dad said in Harry has regrets about Megxit: Jon has admitted he would do a midget Filipino trans hooker. What does that say about Meghan? She has a pulse??? She's Not my cup of tea.

@George-K that team of comedians have worked together for so long. It’s no wonder they made up stuff as filmed.

'Seaman Jane Doe will be permanently stationed in The Barrel. Fellow crewmembers interviewed approve of this assignment.'.

@George-K said in Fascinating graphic of world fertility rates over time: I can't recommend the book Klurrs pointed out - "Why We Sleep" highly enough. (correlation ≠ causation warning here) Coincident with the declining fertility rate is the declining amount of sleep that our society gets. Theres a definite correlation between sleep and sperm production. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the average amount of sleep was about 9 hours, now we're down to 7 or less. Again, I don't know if that decrease in sperm counts correlates with the decrease in fertility, but the numbers do coincide. “ men who report sleeping too little—or having poor-quality sleep—have a 29 percent lower sperm count than those obtaining a full and restful night of sleep, and the sperm themselves have more deformities” And this: “Take a group of lean, healthy young males in their mid-twenties and limit them to five hours of sleep for one week, as a research group did at the University of Chicago. Sample the hormone levels circulating in the blood of these tired participants and you will find a marked drop in testosterone relative to their own baseline levels of testosterone when fully rested. The size of the hormonal blunting effect is so large that it effectively “ages” a man by ten to fifteen years in terms of testosterone virility. ” Well then I am sure I am locked and loaded.