It’s much more expensive when considering lifetime costs, uranium will run out eventually, and because it can’t react quickly to changing demand it meshes horribly with renewables. If we can build an excess of renewables and pair them with storage solutions, what do we need nuclear for?
While tech bros will not shut up about how theoretical nuclear energy™ is the future, actual nuclear energy is so much worse than renewables it’s almost comical.
They’ll be basquing in fame.
Studies that “correct” for the effects themselves say there are none.
Pfizer conducts research in various areas, including MS therapy. That costs a lot of money.
Like when Roche refused to study Rituximab in multiple sclerosis, which has been succesfully used as an off-label medication for more than a decade, and then released Ocrelizumab for MS, a totally different and not at all virtually identical drug for ten times the price?
Pfizer has a profit margin of ~30%, and that’s after lobbying and advertising and the billions of fines they had to pay for illegal advertising and kickbacks. Unsurprisingly, extractable profit is a really bad proxy for people’s health.
But I can’t complain anyway, here in Germany you can get Paxlovid free of charge because it’s prescribed by a doctor.
While I usually think the “free at point of service”-argument isn’t necessary, it’s very relevant here. You’re still paying for it, and all the other drugs that have come out over the last few years that are much, much more expensive than the therapies they replace.
Take a look at GLP-1-agonists (Wegovy, Ozempic, …) which will come to replace/combine with oral antidiabetics like metformine and have now also been approved for obesity without diabetes.
Metformine is basically free a 10ct/pill, i.e. ~3€/patient/month. GLP-1-agonists cost about 250 - 1000€/patient/month. More than half of the German population is overweight, and more than one in eight suffer from type 2 diabetes - with both figures on the rise.
This trend of massive price increases with every new generation of drugs is extremely dangerous healthcare systems themselves, especially public ones, and of course the patients themselves in the end. Every price hike sets a new baseline, and we need to be very, very careful about compounding effects.
Maybe we shouldn’t speculate about things we have essentially zero information on.
Nice.
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You’re thinking of the West Bank.
This calls for Bloonface’s rebuttal. (Which is older than the talk, but refers to the same concept by the same person. I’m going to assume most points still apply.)
This unfortunately doesn’t allow you to draw a custom route, at least on the German Wikipedia. Thank you.
I’ll take a look at it, cheers!
Armenia is in such a difficult spot right now
That’s probably what I’ll end up doing - the resolution should be high enough for my use-case.
I think I’m just a bit stumped (and frustrated) there’s myriad of programs that allow you to do all kinds of things, including a lot that do all of the work of rendering it for printing and different paper sizes, but none for this mucj more basic task.
Thank you both!
University rankings are prime examples of “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”
The amount of worthless papers, international exchanges etc. I’ve seen at my university is astounding.
How do you think your cell phone that you’re using to type this nonsense got to you?
Very probably on a boat.
Tue votes of the flyover states would matter exactly as much as the votes of any other arbitrary subsection of the country with the same number of people. That’s the point.
Simplistic reductionism does indeed lead to stupid questions.
Ah jeez, thank you. Fixed it.
Spending more than 40 billion pounds over one and a half decades to build two energy storage flywheels that also produces radioactive waste is probably the most absurd undertaking conceivable to man.
But nuclear can’t pick up the slack quickly enough, that’s the problem.