#drug company

[agreenroad]

Merck’s COVID drug may be creating transmissible mutated viruses - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

A drug used to treat patients at risk of severe COVID-19 infection may have led to the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 viruses bearing a distinct pattern of mutations, researchers reported Monday in Nature. The new paper raises the stakes over concerns about whether molnupiravir use could lead to the emergence of new dangerous variants and extend the pandemic. Merck’s COVID drug may be creating…

[frownyalfred]

I just know the weekly pharmacy delivery Alfred gets for the Manor is full of several types of opiates, ADHD meds, like 16 different anti-depressants, and a whole bucket of prescription-grade sleeping pills.

[anarchafemme]

The way people are talking about Musk's Neuralink FDA trial approval is so frustrating to me. "Oh haha, Musk fanboys are going to get their brains fried!" But that's.... that's just not how FDA trials work. They're not things that perfectly healthy people can sign up for just for fun. FDA drug/medical device trials are for specific health conditions - I'm having a hard time finding which exact conditions Neuralink is approved to have trials for, but all I can see is they intend to treat neurological conditions in general. When you look at people who sign up for trials though it's pretty much just people who are absolutely desperate for a new treatment because what's available isn't working for them - or they have no medical insurance (medical trials usually cover not only the cost of the trial but the continued treatment with the trial drug for X months/years after) and people just desperate for money (many trials offer financial compensation). And it's like.... Sure maybe a handful of those people might be Musk bros, but they aren't going to make up the bulk of the ones killed and maimed by this. It's going to be disabled people in desperate situations, I'm sure many of whom have no idea or only a vague idea of who Musk is.

[notbecauseofvictories]

I will say, while there are many parts of my job that I would happily toss into the sea, it's very neat to stumble onto people who have been doing their job with truly off-the-charts levels of competence, but---and this is key---without the Higher Ups knowing even a little bit about it. I've met at least three of them in the last week, who definitely have been keeping one of our branches afloat, just by dint of their extraordinary levels of knowing.

Or, alternatively---i have been working at my company for 7 months. I discovered today that the entire company has been keeping a repository of policies and documents, with version control and everything. I thought we had 3-5 policies stuck together with bubblegum and hope, but no, there is a whole database!!!

"I'm surprised your manager didn't...uh. Tell you?" said the very nice man who showed me how to find the database.

"Mhm," I murmured noncommittally, because the alternative was frankly, I'd be shocked if she knew it existed.

[nc-vb]

I will never~ be the same~ after watching Mignon~ that shit was beautiful~

[carnival-phantasm]

Every time I remember people don't have dipyrone/metimazole in the US and Australia I want to cry. Your governments banished God's Favorite Child, and in exchange for what? The fucking false prophet, tylenol?!? Vile.

[sleepyminty]

These two games are detrimental to my mental health

[royalarchivist]

Baghera: [Using her vape]

Cellbit: WHAT WAS THAT NOISE, BAGHERA? Wtf was that noise that I just heard?

Baghera: It was my vape, Cellbit! I'm a vaper.

Cellbit: [In an echoing voice] FCK YOU. Fck your vape!

Baghera: [Does it again]

Ranboo: Whoa! Wait, no - we can sell it, we can sell it for 30, we can sell it for 30, it's ok!

Baghera: I'm vaping on your hair!

Ranboo: Vape sells for 30! It's ok!

Cellbit: Oh nice, ok, ok, ok. We should sell Baghera with it. Baghera might sell for 5.

Baghera: Yeah! :D

Ranboo: [Strained] Yeah.

[sluckythewizard]

'I wont cry for you, I wont crucify the things you do. I wont cry for you, see, when you're gone, I'll still be BLOODY MARY'

[tacosaysroar]

I’m currently reading 40+ pages on pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs — so like Optum and Caremark and Express Scripts, etc) for a thing at work and it is somehow simultaneously *Viciously Boring* and *The Most Fury-Inducing Garbage on Earth*.

Slow clap for that accomplishment, I guess?

I just finished the section on utilization management (or how they’re able to accomplish limiting or denying drugs people truly need) and I want to barf. The section on chronic illness and cancer treatment? Dark, stomach-churning stuff.

I know — we ALL know — the US healthcare system is fucked up and that PBMs are a huge, HUGE part of that, but the details. Oof. How they make those denial calculations. The number of people who abandon drugs because they aren’t covered — drugs they really and truly need to live comfortably or even to stay alive.

Again, this wasn’t news to me and I know it’s not news to you — US healthcare has been on the “this is the bad place” list for at least as long as I’ve been on the planet (and exponentially worse every decade since) — but having to read 40 pages of this shit parsed out in an impartial, matter-of-fact way is a lot. Like A LOT a lot.

[femmeslash]

how good each lcb sinner would be at rolling a joint: a compendium

FAUST: it's either perfect because she's a genius or bad. either way she just looks at everyone else like this is what she meant to do. like when a dog gets stuck somewhere and just stands there with their head through a lawn chair or whatever like they're just fine with it. that's faust with her godawful joint.

YI SANG: it's average. it's passable. it's not great, but you can smoke it.

HEATHCLIFF: slightly better than yi sang, but he might get performance anxiety from people watching him, in which case he messes up one thing and smashes the weed against the table and crumples the paper around it like THERE'S YOUR FUCKIN SPLIFF MATE. FUCK OFF I'M NEVER DOING THIS AGAIN

ISHMAEL: usually vapes or uses a pipe (picked this up from queequeg) but will take a stab at it. like yi sang, it's fine. it's okay.

RYOUSHUU:

MEURSAULT: so precise it looks machine-rolled. it's technically sound but it's not fun the way some of the others are

RODION: masterful at any and all weed activities. this is the woman you want to smoke with.

SINCLAIR: doesn't know what he's doing so rodya is showing him. it's half decent for his first time and rodya's like "hey good job kiddo!" and sinclair is like "...? :D" then he takes one hit and gets really scared.

GREGOR: rodya tries to give him an out because he only has one hand, but he probably hand-rolled cigarettes during the war. so he's like "well hold on" and rolls a pretty good one-handed joint using his bug arm as leverage. it's actually kind of impressive. rodya starts cheering and clapping

HONG LU: starts by taping two rolling papers together to fit an absolutely massive amount of weed and has no idea that it's, like, a lot. hong lu will create something that will fucking kill you.

DON QUIXOTE: My comrades! Prepare to feast thine eyes upon talent heretofore unseen! (spills the weed on the floor)

OUTIS: tells everyone she will not partake in such a foolish pastime; is currently blasted on military-grade amphetamines

DANTE: gets goaded into it despite their protests that they don't even remember anything and also don't have a mouth. sits down. rolls a perfect joint. even spread of weed. touch of tobacco to keep it from burning down too quickly. handmade filter rolled in. everyone is silently staring at the joint. dante's like <what? did i do it wrong?> outis is like "... executive manager one of the others must have placed this down on the table when you were not looking." she refuses to believe dante just did that in front of her. rodya starts cheering again.

VERGILIUS: wishes he could kill these idiots in a way that matters

[macbethz]

this is literally not a real problem and doesn't matter but very weird that leftists on tumblr dot com are so ready to jump on addicts making jokes on the internet like i promise addicts are not an oppressor class we don't live in a fucking 90s high school drama where cool kids do drugs and are peer pressuring you. the dominant culture does not in fact support drug use. going "keep that icky gross stuff away from me you weirdo freaks" is in fact the mainstream conservative societal opinion

[hijinxinprogress]

Coffee addict Never sleeps Tim drake ❌ 

Solving cases in his sleep off 87 energy drinks Tim Drake ✅

The coffee addict never sleeps perpetually tired Tim Drake thing is a widely accepted headcanon however that was elementary school tim but after he stayed up for a week straight subsisting entirely on coffee to decipher the bat weekly patrol schedule and how it aligns with rogue attacks/Arkham breakouts, he crashed then when he woke up it was fucking wednesday so he missed his chance to commemorate his discovery with pictures of Robin and he decided that shit would never happen again and made himself an ‘efficient’ sleep schedule so he could run around doing fuck shit, add to his robin shrine, and stay on honor roll bc he was even more pissed to see the gotham gazette had pictures of Robin with an on site interview credited to Vicki Vale (listen bowl cut tim had a one sided beef with vicki vale that included tim judging who gets better pics of the bats but she isn’t even aware that she’s competing with a whole ass child 😭 he’s sitting at the table with a mug of orange juice and looks at the newspaper snorts and goes ‘fucking amateur I could do better’) 

Regularly unsupervised tiny businessman in training Tim ‘Ten hours of uninterrupted sleep?? That’s so inefficient not to mention fucking stupid’ Drake is so pissed he missed getting shots of Robin dropkicking a rogue from 6 six stories up (for absolutely no reason dick just thinks it’s fun) that he just takes at least 3 hour naps every eight hours 😭 he refuses to spend almost half a day sleeping ‘for no reason when he could be doing something productive’ 

And he still does this as a bat but it’s just easier to tell if he didn’t take his nap bc he has less than zero impulse control and he’s just fucking done with everything like the gcpd is terrified bc tim’s saying shit like ‘This guys a fucking moron, I could’ve done this in half the time without killing anyone fucking loser doesn’t he know if you keep them alive you can prolong the torture?’ and ‘you’re like all hysterical and for what 🤨 ‘you blew up 83% of Bristol waah’ stfu and fucking rebuild it?? It’s only rich mfs that live there, it’s just a matter of them opening their fucking wallets’ once a new recruit made the mistake of asking if robin had adult supervision regularly and Tim responded with ‘well if you’re gonna snitch to cps like a little bitch then yeah’ and that cop did snitch so tim fucking doxxed him

Yj has just accepted that sometimes they will find tim in an air vent, on the roof, in one of their closets, or something just fucking knocked out then an alarm will go off and he’ll just get up like nothing happened but for the first couple of months they were probably concerned bc ‘I’ve never seen you sleep?? wtf are you on man’ and Tim’s confused bc ‘I slept next to you this morning wdym??’ and that’s how yj discovers tim sleeps with his eyes open

But one of the worst things about Tim’s ‘time efficient sleep schedule’ nonsense is that it fucking works he’s one of the most well rested and coherent bats even after back to back Arkham breakouts however the absolute worst thing about his sleep schedule is the likelihood of going into the cave and seeing tim staring in a daze but wide eyed yet somehow never blinking at the batcomputer with 57 tabs open on top of being unresponsive and thinking he has a fucking concussion or he’s been replaced but he’s just doing case work while muttering nonsense in his fucking sleep for some reason

[azoosepted]

im sorry. hindley sheeran be upon ye

[puppetmaster13u]

Okay I have started randomly thinking about the Aliens Vs Predator game (the 2010 one). Specifically the xenomorph campaign, along with xeno-batfam. Y'know, just slowly rotating it.

Just thinking of a what if scenario slash crossover y'know. I mean the vibes are there with xenomorph experiments and all that y'know. Just pondering on if Bruce never ended up on Earth per se

Heck maybe the JL don't even exist yet or something idk, just rotatin ideas rn lol

Here's a playthrough with no commentary on if anyone is curious, though do be warned for blood violence and death, y'know the usual for Alien lol