Nicotine apparently rots the brain. I was at a bar yesterday and there was a shelf over the urinals and as many bins for snus packets as there were urinals. The bins were labelled in multiple languages that they were for snus packets. They were really obvious. And there were still snus packets in the urinals.
/em when you didn’t read the book
Medical goods is around ~12% of healthcare expenditures. Even if US (richest country in the world) pays more they would have to pay insanely much more to subsidize single payer healthcare in the rest of the world.
And why would pharma reduce prices in other parts of the world just because Americans pay more? It’s not a charity. They charge what the market will bear. Hepatitis C drugs were incredibly expensive because they prevented much more expensive liver transplants down the road. The market would bear a high price then.
I dunno about the Joseph part but the rest, certainly.
Well, that’s certainly a username.
The Guardian also has an excellent article today on companies like Nestlé and Danone emptying out aquifers.
‘It’s not drought - it’s looting’: the Spanish villages where people are forced to buy back their own drinking water | Life and style | The Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/nov/23/spanish-villages-people-forced-to-buy-back-own-drinking-water-drought-flood
Lake Baikal is out by Mongolia and the majority of Russians live in the west of the country.
It’s a big lake but a bigger country. I don’t think Russia will be the first to have big water issues. Rather, I would look to Mexico City, Panama, Arizona, Nevada, California.
Russians trying to trade their Baltic port for a Black Sea port.
Ray tracing. It makes good looking human skin. But if course it only matters for 3D games that aren’t cel shaded.
2023 NVIDIA DLSS 3.5: Enhancing Ray Tracing With AI; Coming This Fall To Alan Wake 2, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, Portal with RTX & More | GeForce News | NVIDIA - https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/nvidia-dlss-3-5-ray-reconstruction/
You should never click the click bait headline
Some of the promotion animation videos are amazing. I wish they would link to them in-game so no one misses them (like me because I don’t care about YouTube).
Weasels are too small to steal shoes so what is that?
Did you eat beets? If your pee is also red you ate beets and that’s the colour.