You can literally train them on animal languages. They’re language models, their primary attribute is modeling a language

And they are very good at it

Yes. Everything is monitored, and it sucks. We’ve internalized it even, you can’t so much as have a hobby without dumping money into it to signal you take it seriously

Okay, let’s say you have a fuel injected car, but instead of using the 02 sensor to decide the fuel air mixture, it just squirts the same amount of gas every time.

The hardware might be able to achieve 400 hp, but the software means it only ever achieves 50 hp

It’s like that. The software drives the hardware. It doesn’t matter how good the hardware is, the software is the brain of the operation - if the software doesn’t know how to utilize the hardware properly, you’re going to have piss poor performance

Driver’s? They literally drive the hardware your computer is using

Probably at least some of us… There’s a lot of us, and given a year and a few acres anyone with an almanac would have a shot

It’s likely it’ll be a lot more, and we just have a dark age

Look up the Technocracy movement. These ideas have been floating around in certain groups for a while… Such as the heritage foundation

Sure, but the R&D is largely subsidized because it’s a common good. Pharmaceutical companies generally take over when it’s already a pretty safe bet… It could fall through during clinical trials, but they don’t pay for the massive R&D they did traditionally. Sometimes they even just buy the patent

There’s overhead, but the vast majority is just profiteering

They’re scared. Of course they are.

Whether they hated Maduro or not, they’ve been forced into limbo

What happens next? No one fucking knows, no one has a plan, because Trump might come back for round 2 and decapitate the chain of succession or make an ultimatum

It must be terrifying. For all my brother’s and sister’s in Venezuela, stay strong, stay safe, and be ready to take advantage of opportunities

And in 2027 AI apparently escapes contentment, and the US government is destroyed in 2029. At least that’s what the YouTube thumbnails have been saying

Ah. Laws vary by state, mixing and matching manufacturers is illegal in my state, the manufacturer must be on the bottle along with a description. I’m less certain about the expiration date thing, but I believe here they require them all to come back to the same batch in case there’s an issue (including improper storage of the bottle or something)

I’ve been told this is how it works by a pharmacist when they were having trouble filling my rx, and we were talking about controlled substances in particular

What do you do with expired meds, does the pharmacy eat the loss?

Do you mix and match pills with different expiration dates to fill a prescription? From different manufacturers?

I’m genuinely asking. What I described is how things work here, and while our healthcare system is insane, this is one part that makes sense to me

We wait it out. It’s a collapsing empire, a real war would prolong the collapse, they’res plenty of historical precedent

We’re doing our best to speed run it, guys. Maybe make fun of us for healthcare more, it’s a real sore spot

I think you’re misunderstanding what I’m saying.

Yes, the companies need to sell the pills for a certain amount to make a profit, due to infrastructure and overhead. The R&D is a whole complicated thing, let’s just lump it in as overhead and put it aside

The pills themselves cost basically nothing to produce each, a batch will cost money but normally they’re consistently pumping out huge batches

So, most manufacturers have programs to retrieve pills. If you have 4 pills at the end of the roll, they can be reclaimed so patients can get a complete strip, because the pills themselves cost so little. They do the same if you end up with a small number of pills left in the big bottle, you can’t mix batches because of expiration dates and expiration. So you send them back, and they give the pharmacy a credit

The r&d costs come from government grants these days

Yes, a sterile lab is expensive, but like normal business expensive. It’s very achievable to build, drug cartels manage it just fine. Universities and YouTubers have no problem doing it with pretty modest funding

Yes, there’s overhead. But the pills themselves? The materials and production cost is cents. They themselves cost basically nothing

That’s why other countries can afford to sell them for cents - they really are that cheap to make

Yeah, a fighter jet with refuels could chase the sunlight for quite a while. At some point jets need maintenance though, but there would be plenty enough wiggle room to land and change jets, we can beat Earth’s rotation

So yeah, sure, it’s absolutely possible

Pills aren’t really precious resources… They cost like cents to make, aside from a few very expensive special ones

The expensive part is all markup

Booo

But one option is hygienic, the other two are convenience. Fuck convenience, put the lid down and wash your hands, it’s for everyone’s sake

You are correct, I did mean lid down too

It’s part of a network for the billionaires. They don’t compete, others might offer pedo delivery services too, but it’s a pedo social club

And Pooh Bear honestly has always kept his nose clean while others around him do not. It’s a huge source of power for him, I believe it because of how liberally he uses corruption purges to maintain power