the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

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@fox_news we have basic knowledge of a lot of things, and deep enough knowledge to think steps ahead in mathematics and electronics, but economics is not one where we have more than rudimentary knowledge
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@fox_news sorry

we're bad at reading between the lines, and not formally trained in any sort of economics
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@fox_news I thought you were talking about fewer people needing it; i'm talking about fewer people providing it
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@fox_news It might also partly be that medicine in general is a lot harder to make than food and shelter. so there are fewer people/companies making it, so fewer individuals need to be greedy in order to make it unaffordable

because if someone's trying to charge you $50 for an apple, even if there are a dozen people trying to charge you something in the range of $45 to $55 for apples... There's also the farmer's market down the street that sells apples for $0.50

but if someone tries to charge you $50 for one day's supply of insulin, well there's only a handful of places you can buy that and if they're all charging $45-$55 for it, you don't really have a choice
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@fox_news i'm not sure what exactly makes it feel worse, or at least more immediate, than people profiting off of food and water and housing but it certainly does
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@fox_news it takes a special kind of evil to try to profit off of life-saving medicine and i hate how normalized it is

it's like the purest form of capitalist greed, even more so than trying to profit off of other necessities
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@FurryThrowPillows hewlett-packard's test equipment from before they spun off that division into Agilent, though?

not their computers and printers those suck
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@rey a whole house in your cup?
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@codl @BatElite not zigbee?
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@oceanotter @Balina Caveat about the soldering work: most lead-free solders will *not* look shiny, even when you have a good joint. Leaded solders, and a handful of uncommon lead-free alloys (like SN100C) will look shiny, but your typical SAC305 looks dull even with a good joint
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@niss ooh, okay

the word paracetamol isn't used here and we knew it was one of the major OTC pain meds but apparently forgot which
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@niss i thought paracetamol and ibuprofen were the same thing, just different names on different sides of the atlantic?
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@artemis@vulpine.club huh! interesting choice with the chopin piece. It's a good one though, for sure
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@Kyresti At least it's not the other way around, but yeah, I agree. It's a little too easy to forget.
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@Fragment why 203 mm specifically?
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@Oneironott taurs with like, two dozen paws

and four arms, and two heads
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@Oneironott why stop at four?
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@trysdyn mainline mastodon doesn't, because gargron refuses to give way on this
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@Kayama That sounds like a good sort of day. Foxes are pleasant.
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