I mean, aren’t they? In a moral, ethical, and social stance, don’t they share in the blame?

I like baszite. I’m not in love with it, but it does most things I want it to do right out of the box, and it comes with steam installed which is convenient

A very fair question…I don’t think it’s relevant right now since they’re still playing the “she was antifa or something” angle, but it’s a question that should be asked when this shit gets laid out on the table for real

Not just in theory, it’s very much a thing in practice as well

The states are semi-sovereign legal zones. They have extradition and their own court systems and everything

He could just put out an arrest warrant

Federal officials aren’t immune from State laws

The police are probably better shots. Definitely better at tactics too

Training, go figure

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

From your source

Despite Trump’s remarks, oil industry experts have said it’s not nearly so clear-cut that oil majors in the US will want to re-enter the Venezuela oil market—or be tasked with funding a significant rebuild of the nation’s oil infrastructure—given the political uncertainty unleashed by Trump’s unlawful military operation and the kidnapping of Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro.

“The issue is not just that the infrastructure is in bad shape, but it’s mostly about how do you get foreign companies to start pouring money in before they have a clear perspective on the political stability, the contract situation, and the like,” Francisco Monaldi, director of the Latin American energy program at Rice University, told NPR.

Yes, he tipped off oil companies first… That doesn’t mean they were interested. This was Trump (aka Rubio’s Trump-friendly pitch) idea. That doesn’t mean they have any interest… We have so much already tapped oil wells that we’re not pumping because prices are so low

I’m sure in Trump’s head, were about to get all sorts of oil. In reality, it just doesn’t math out

I put zero faith in them to do anything but chase profit… The math doesn’t math here, they could much more cheaply crank up US production than build new infrastructure

What does that mean through? We already had an insane amount of soft power over Maduro. He was desperate to stay in power… So now what?

We basically just hit Venezuela with a stick and told them to behave

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

Well they didn’t establish a new government there… That would take competence

Trump just stole the leader and his wife and declared the oil is “ours now”. No one knows what the fuck they means, but their VP took over control for now

IDK… They have plenty of untapped wells in the US. The price is just too low to make it make sense… Why spend billions in investment when OPEC could up production and put them in the red for years?

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

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

You forgot about his many failures along the way. Do you know how many kids slipped through his tiny fingers?

And anything the officer has previously reported should be put under review