meowMix2525

This is an excerpt from the comment I replied to:

In Germany virtually all medications are brought to the pharmacy pre-packaged and (as of this year) stamped with a batch number on the outside and on each inner container, so you can be absolutely sure what’s inside really is what it says on the outside.

Are you saying the individually dispensed medications are all sent to the pharmacy pre-filled? That sounds wildly inefficient and inflexible in terms of transport/logistics/packaging tbh.

Sorry. I thought you were talking about bulk medications that the pharmacy uses to fill prescriptions as they get them.

I'm sure there are insane repercussions to filling a prescription wrong, especially if someone is injured. There's also usually a description on the printed label of what the pill should look like; shape, color, unique printings, etc. Though I've had a medication or two that came in factory packaging cause its prescribed less often and really predictably. Tbh though, it's just not a worry that I've ever had cross my mind or heard of being an issue.

Pharmacy techs actually make a pretty average salary (40k median), closely supervised by a pharmacist with a doctor of pharmacy degree who makes a pretty decent salary (136k median).

Read all about it: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/pharmacy-technicians.htm https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/pharmacists.htm

I don't work anywhere near pharmacies or healthcare but I'm sure they do all the same stuff you described. I'm not really sure what suggested to you that they didn't tbh.

Also, why the focus on rich and middle class? Is the vast majority of america not "lower"/working class? Edit: it seems like the entire conclusion of the study is based on the influence that money has in politics.

One thing that does have an influence? Money. While the opinions of the bottom 90% of income earners in America have a “statistically non-significant impact,” economic elites, business interests, and people who can afford lobbyists still carry major influence.

Of course if you focus only on people with money then you will come up with a conflicting result... so yeah. I also feel like I am missing something here.

No, I'm fairly certain you would not use an apostrophe there. That's what trips me up though because, at least in my mind, 'it' takes the place of the possessive noun in that clause and therefore it should have an apostrophe. but god forbid the spelling remain consistent between the two 🙄

Nah its/it's actually trips me up a lot because 'its' is an exception to the possessive apostrophe rule. What really gets me is seeing someone use a possessive apostrophe on a plural s. That is inexcusable.

We are actively being held back by companies catering exclusively to the lowest common denominator.

At 300 Watt for an A100 at full load that would 45,000 kWh. This roughly the energy neeed to drive an electric car for 180,000 miles, which is a lot, but still on a reasonable scale.

My guy. That is over 15 years of daily driving and the occasional long haul trip, 1.5x the average lifespan of an EV. Consumed in under 2 years. For ONE iteration of ONE AI model. Nevermind how many thousands of people are running that "light bulb for slightly less than 35 minutes" every second, with the vast majority of what it spits out not even being used for anything of value except to tell the prompt writer what they need to tweak in order to get their perfect anime waifu out of it.

Is that a threat?

Idk maybe I was never informed on how the fundamentals I learned in college applied to an entire electrical grid and the implications I would need to understand if I were to hypothetically own a home some day. Would have been nice if you started out by explaining this instead of insulting my intelligence but maybe that's just not how we operate here. Edit: The only surges I had heard of happening thus far were from power returning after an outage, and I've never experienced one afaik.

Yep. Happens a few times yearly for me here in the midwest, in every place I've ever lived, usually after a storm knocks out a power line or a transformer blows. It's generally not for longer than a day or two but a direct lightning strike did knock it out once for like a week. Given, my state ranks pretty low for electrical grid reliability.

Our power companies, being privatized, have very little incentive to invest in their infrastructure until it's already on its last legs and they can't avoid it anymore. So they invest in politicians that let them put it off for as long as possible instead :)

What was it they said about capitalism breeding innovation?

lol. My bachelor of science in electrical engineering begs to differ but go off I guess.

Not to mention the massive loads they can haul which basically turn them into semi trucks, vehicles which you would in fact need a special license to operate, with worse visibility to boot. Way too many people out there hauling ridiculously large campers and sometimes even towing an extra vehicle at the end of their train with zero special training to do so.