LadyAutumn

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[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 48 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

They have released a guide on making a CLR (basically several different pieces of lab equipment controlled to automate some of the process) and software to run on it to assist in the process of making the medications. Specifically to try and improve consistency of the medications produced.

It's a really great cause. Worth reading the article. If someone had to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars cost to access life-saving medication, and they couldn't afford it, something like this could legitimately save their life.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

True. A lot of drugs you can perform tests on. But there is an inherent risk. I don't think making medicine at home is going to be many people's first choice. I think the people most likely to pursue this are those for whom obtaining medication other ways is not possible. When the government makes it impossible for someone to obtain health care, either due to literally making it illegal or by allowing it to become completely unaffordable for working class people, then they have to resort to other options.

With patience and diligent work it is possible to make many medications with (by comparison) significantly cheaper resources. And if someone were to do this, presumably, there are others who also have similar needs for the medications being produced. Which is how community medicine networks are formed. DIY Hormone replacement medications for trans people living in places where it's illegal for them to access medication, or otherwise extremely difficult often access medicines made through networks like that.

This isn't really a new thing, but the ease of access certainly is.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Oh... wow. What a bunch of fucking idiots. People have such an irrational hatred towards non-binary people that they would like to change the usage of they/them in the English language entirely. Substituting he for they in a note about no specific person is just using the language properly.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 months ago

leans back and sips beer

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean. Yes. But Hitler and Mussolini are literally not comparable to any other human ever, alive or dead? Like you can't grab any random human and expect them to be as comparably evil as Hitler lol you can do a lot better than him to have a species of creature named after.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Wild that their excuse is "no we won't rename them because some day the people we rename them after might be just as hated as Adolf Hitler and Bennito Mussolini.". Which implies that they MUST name them after other people and not, you know, anything else. It also implies that Hitler and Mussolini are just 2 random guys from the past, like they aren't nearly universally considered 2 of the most evil humans ever.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 9 months ago

Yeah some 95% of our end user devices (>8000) have the F8 prompt. Logistics is losing their minds about the prospect of sending recovery USBs to roughly a thousand locations across NA.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Working on our units. But only works if we are able to launch command prompt from the recovery menu. Otherwise we are getting a F8 prompt and cannot start.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Considering all the other listed countries are classified as developing nations, no yeah it's one of the worst in the world lol. It's worth it for you to read up on how the gini coefficient is calculated.

Also, it is ranked 57th when sorted worst to best. It is sorted at 120th from best to worst. Worse than 119 other nations.

And no, you're again misusing the term communism. Communism isn't a scale it refers specifically to a state in which the means of production are shared collectively amongst the working class. You've invented a thing and then are using your own invention to sort terms that have actual meanings not related to your invented scale

America is also not a mixed economy, what are you on about? What industry is public in the US? Most of the states don't even have public power services. Essentially, none have public medical services.

There are many sources online that can explain the distinction for you. Check what you're reading and from where, as America is incredibly biased against socialism and there are entire corporations dedicated to spreading anti-socialist propaganda.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

There is no aspect of the US that is in any sense communist. Communism refers very specifically to a style of government which directly owns and controls the means of production across all forms of industry. This style of government is controlled by the proletariat. That is not the case for any industry in the US. The link you provided is propaganda not based on any actual communist beliefs. Communism is not a "command based" anything, it is a philosophy with regards to the distribution of the means of production and how the fruits of the working class's labor should be shared.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gini-coefficient-by-country

The US gini coefficient is 39.8 as of 2021. Making it one of the worst countries in the world for income inequality. There are plenty of areas in the southern states especially where entire towns are below the poverty line, some very significantly below it.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

Youre thinking of laissez-faire capitalism, maybe even libertarian capitalism?

America is absolutely capitalist in every sense of the term. The entire nation is corporatized and the government has no particularly influential anti-capitalist entities. Both competing parties are capitalist. The social framework by which we raise children is structured to indoctrinate them into the ideologies of neoliberalism and American economic exceptionalism. The propaganda that American society is meritocratic is enforced throughout our entire lives, all with the aim of suppressing the class consciousness of the working class.

People are responding to you with derision because what you're saying doesn't make any sense. Capitalism and socialism are not based entirely on hard rules. They're both economic ideologies and social philosophies packaged into cultural frameworks. America is actively anti socialist. They have a very long history of anti communism and anti workers' rights. America is the holotype of post-Reagan neoliberal capitalism. It is one of the worst countries in the world in terms of wealth disparity and income inequality. It is one of the least regulated economic powers in history, with it being open knowledge that billionaires rule the country and can essentially do anything they want without facing any kind of material consequences.

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