you did not save any money for the insurance because that discount is negotiated. they don’t actually pay the $40. They contract with the drug supplier to raise their “full” price and then discount it for the insurance customers so they look like the insurance is providing value.

my main problem is I compare life now to in the US in the 50’s through 90’s instead of the dark ages.

it is funny how christians by and large do not follow the biblical holiday but totally do the cool pagan ones.

Its so weird to see this unfold now where they know they can’t win in any legitimate manner so they are doing stuff like this before the election is even over. Its like, hey guys we only need the election to have a pretense that cheating is going on, which we all know is happening, but we blame it on the other side and seize power.

my first thought when nk sent troops was what an opportunity to get out of nk.

It drives me nuts how our economic system is making not having a cell phone increasingly difficult. Many necessary things won’t even work on a tablet. The smartphone is the most amazing futuristic device I dreamed about that has evolved into a distopian nightmare.

oh man I remember how hilary was going to win by such a large margin in those polls.

as my pay has gone down relative to inflation the amount of fucks I give goes down.

I never learned peer review as anything more than others in the field reviewing the paper and confirming it meets standards. Its like logic vs truth. Peer review is like proofreading. Is the structure of the experiment proper. Is there controls. Is the statistical analysis proper. so on and so forth. Honestly though science is dependent on replication which used to be a sort of competition so it worked. Oh you think this is this and this is how you proved it. Well I will see for myself and I will lambast you if it does not work. It was kinda personal with the field before modern times. Competition was very direct. Now no lab wants to do anything but something they can say is new and a discovery. I feel at least 50% of public science funding should be for experiment replication

Unfortunately I have seen no indication that improvement happens. Before trump I could not believe we would have a president as stupid or irresponsible as bush jr. and before that I did not think any politician could top newt and then of course we have reagan. The trending direction is clear.