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But what, then, is the interface between the science and society? Let's say there's a scientist who makes a great discovery. Without the institutions, how would anybody know?

I can't read the fine print. What is $8.99, what is $10.99, and what are the apologies for?

Thanks for pointing out Private Eye Magazine. I had not previously seen this publication.

How do you know this?

Half of all jokes written in the last 10 years have been about Donald Trump. But the main problems are still violence against women, and guns.

2nd amendment extremists love the focus on Luigi because it distracts from the real problem, which is guns.

You wrote there was gov't funding & profit motive guaranteed inadequate supply, ie there was not enough profit to guarantee adequate supply, even w/gov't funding. I wrote that Big Pharma acted to maximize profits. If you want worldwide supply at your desired OOP cost, I guess someone else must pay.

Everyone gets paid a normal salary. Drug researchers, teachers, cops, software devs, ditch diggers. CEOs are paid a normal salary if you accept a certain definition for normal. If you can figure out how to cure cancer while sitting at home on your residential wi-fi, then we can eliminate Big Pharma.

There was certainly public support for the development of COVID vaccines, but that doesn't mean the government paid so much that big pharma didn't care about profits.

Jenny, the world doesn't look away as if they are intentionally ignoring Gaza. The world simply doesn't care. It is indeed morally corrupt that the world doesn't care, but people are not moved to address their corruption over communities that are best known for shooting missiles at each other.

The problem, at this moment, is not health insurers or CEOs. The problem is guns.

I figure it's better than a 50% chance that Pankoqueen's reply was generated by an AI bot, and I mean that sincerely.

Move to China, you'll get what you wish.

Do not be confused that the Dem leaders were once good but are now simply out-of-touch. They were always as corrupt as the GOP leaders, which they proved when they hid Biden's frailty for too long and then railroaded through the nomination of the unremarkable Harris.

I joined BSky and as I expected, my feed is flooded with memes about how evil Musk/Trump are. Agreed but my point is we didn't need a new platform for posting anti-Elon memes just because Elon doesn't allow them on X. We already have a boring preexisting platform for anti-Elon memes called Facebook.