papalonian
@papalonian@lemmy.world
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- Comment on Bro caught slippin 4 days ago:
There’s a tag people use
- Comment on BASED? 1 week ago:
In the shitpost community no less!
- Comment on Australians banned social media. Now they are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes 1 week ago:
Yup. I’d log in, scroll for maybe 10-15 posts before I saw the first one from yesterday, play some Wild Ones, and that was that.
- Comment on Just like Drax in that Guardians of the Galaxy scene 1 week ago:
I’m trying a new system of DM’ing in-person DnD games where I’ve got my laptop plugged in to a TV everyone can see, and my players pass around a wireless KB+M to move their tokens around.
It works well enough, but I have to remember to “give them the cursor back” when I’m done doing things on the laptop screen, otherwise they can’t find it, haha
- Comment on Complete protection when driving - jesus, hula girl, and dice 2 weeks ago:
What you need is Hula Jesus wearing a dice necklace
- Comment on It was as if it was taunting me 2 weeks ago:
Is this a Mickey7-Stamets crossover episode?
- Comment on Please, my son... He's sick... 3 weeks ago:
That’s what I thought when I took the picture months ago. I just saw it in my phone again and decided to post it, glad it’s making some people laugh
- Comment on Please, my son... He's sick... 3 weeks ago:
Never understood this. It seems like more of an insurance risk for a company to say, “no no, we provide our own certificate training here”. Now when someone fucks up they can say “I was operating the lift following Wal-Mart’s training protocols” and they have to show their shit is proper rather than just pointing the finger at OSHA or whoever.
- Comment on Please, my son... He's sick... 3 weeks ago:
Funnily enough, the jack was on the lift because we needed to unload a 16 wheeler with crates in the back.
- Comment on Why would anyone do this? 3 weeks ago:
Facebook was originally literally just a database of pictures of people from the school Zuck went to and a bunch of people deciding if they were, in fact, hot or not.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to [deleted] | 18 comments
- Comment on Learning the origin of a phrase 3 weeks ago:
I’m so angry after seeing this post (which is OBVIOUSLY full of FALSE information 😠) that I’m gonna look up sources and cite them in the shit posting community so everyone knows I’m smarter than them and totally understand what’s happening
- Comment on I'm not gonna be part of your system 3 weeks ago:
“threw it on the ground” - Lonely Island
- Comment on I'm not gonna be part of your system 3 weeks ago:
You can’t buy me, HOT DOG MAN
- Comment on Grinch 3 weeks ago:
Humans of different races can look pretty different from one another and only a problematic few would have trouble thinking we’re the same species.
Starting to sound like a Who Supremacist to me /s
- Comment on Grinch 3 weeks ago:
I don’t see any reference to two distinct species in that page…
- Comment on I'm not gonna be part of your system 3 weeks ago:
I came here to make the exact same reference, afraid it would be too far a stretch for anyone to make the connection.
- Comment on Solid Plan 🧓 4 weeks ago:
In Germany we have organic waste bins.
Sounds like some liberal commie alarmist woke propaganda to me. Here in God’s country, we put our organic waste directly into the coal plants 🇺🇸🦅
- Comment on My friends are by my side 4 weeks ago:
All these comments about eye floaters and I’m wondering who has floaters in the form of sacred geometry
- Comment on My friends are by my side 4 weeks ago:
once you know there their
You’re mocking us, aren’t you
- Comment on Troll physics 5 weeks ago:
You’re supposed to put a third forklift (using a fourth forklift) on top of the first two
- Comment on Pros and cons 5 weeks ago:
My job involves a lot of travel.
Guy that got hired on with me with, largely because he missed his family so much when he was out of town.
Guy that replaced him non-stop complains about his wife and kid, always wants to work OT and out of town to get away from them.
Guess that’s what the company is after.
- Comment on yummy 5 weeks ago:
I was there.
I was there for okbuddychicanery.
- Comment on I can still smell them 5 weeks ago:
Used to get em at the dollar store, early 2000s
- Comment on The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription 1 month ago:
Don’t give any customer your “trash pile”. Either take the time to do it right, or throw away the trashpile, or accept that customers feels like people are saying they feel.
… You have to give someone the trash pile. Technicians are not going to throw away thousands of dollars of pills a month because the packaging is “MILDLY” frustrating. Your comment reads like a preachy teenager who has all the answers to every problem.
I don’t know why you’re trying to tell me how to do my job when a. you’ve very clearly never done anything remotely adjacent to it and b. Ive said that I don’t even do that job anymore.
In order to remedy this “MILDLY” frustrating problem that happens every so often, the entire distribution network of drugs in the US would need to be reworked from the ground up to start dispensing per-patient packages. Which, if you think that’s the most pressing problem the US medical industry needs to fix… One, I’ve got a bridge to sell you, and two, don’t make up excuses, do it right, get it changed, become a technician and start throwing away pills and refusing to fill people’s scripts with loose blister packs… Be the change you want to see and all that.
- Comment on The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription 1 month ago:
What do you do with expired meds, does the pharmacy eat the loss?
It depends. In the US we have “prescription only” medication (things like antibiotics, diabetes meds, etc) as well as “controlled” medication (things like Norco, Xanax, morphine). With my former employer, we would go through the pharmacy and find non-controlled medication that was due to expire soon (3 or 6 months, I don’t remember) and send them back to our wholesaler for a partial credit. Packages had to be whole and unopened. With controlled medication, there is no sending back; the pharmacy holds the medication until it is actually expired, then sends it to be disposed of.
Do you mix and match pills with different expiration dates to fill a prescription? From different manufacturers?
Different expiration dates, yes, different manufacturers, generally no but if there’s no better option we would. In the US we generally fill from stock bottles containing several hundred or thousand pills, so one bottle can last a few months worth of prescriptions. When we go from one bottle to the next, the expiration dates between the two generally won’t be the same. When I left the company, we had a system that scanned the bottle we used and could read the expiration date; if the med expired in over a year, the label printed would just have an expiration date of 1 year from the current date. If it expired in less than 1 year, it would give a notification, and we’d manually enter the exact expiration date on the label.
- Comment on The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription 1 month ago:
I’m sorry, I can’t continue this conversation. It’s clear that you’re just kind of saying things that sound right. Your only argument is, “the pills themselves cost nothing to make” while ignoring everything that makes the pill cost money. Economics and cost analysis does not work that way. And in 7 years of working in a pharmacy, never once have we ever sent incomplete strips of meds to the manufacturer to get a complete pack. That is just not a thing that happens anywhere on a regular enough basis for it to be taken into consideration.
- Comment on The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription 1 month ago:
Yes, a sterile lab is expensive, but like normal business expensive. It’s very achievable to build, drug cartels manage it just fine.
This bit right here told me that I didn’t need to take this too seriously. An actual medical lab is not comparable to cocaine plants in the Congo.
But the pills themselves? The materials and production cost is cents. They themselves cost basically nothing
This is the exact same point from the previous comment. You cannot just look at the material cost of something and say, “see? It only costs cents to make.” Go buy a part that goes in a car engine - it’s just a few cents worth of metal! But, you can’t just take a hunk of metal and magically form it into car parts, there’s a manufacturing process and it’s expensive. That’s part of where the cost comes from. It doesn’t matter if you can make the most expensive pill in the world out of 10 cents of flour if you need a $10 million dollar assembly line to process it and turn it in to what is useful. They aren’t just taking a premade substance and pressing it into pills, there’s numerous chemical reactions and processes taking place.
That’s why other countries can afford to sell them for cents - they really are that cheap to make
You start your comment off with saying that R&D is subsidized, and end with saying “other places can sell them for cheap cuz they really are that cheap.” In these other countries, the drug company is not selling the medication directly to the public for pennies, it’s getting subsidized by the government to make it affordable for citizens. Granted the government is not paying US cash prices, but companies simply are not selling direct to consumers for 10x less than other places.
Look, this is coming from someone who fucking hates the predatory medical industry, especially that of the US. I used to work as a very small cog in it. There are absolutely places where prices are disgustingly manipulated and people are taken complete advantage of. Things exist today the way they are because of corporate greed and the continuance of putting profit over people. We can accept all of this as true, and still recognize that producing drugs at a medical grade, with medical levels of consistency and purity, is a difficult, expensive task that requires resources to accomplish. Medication needs to be cheaper (it’s my belief that it should be no direct cost to the user), but momentum is instantly removed from the cause when we use arguments based on a limited grasp of reality.
- Comment on The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription 1 month ago:
The expensive part is all markup
So we can waste the pills if we find a way to keep all the markup safe?
Also the idea that pills costs “cents to make” is pretty flawed. Even if you ignore all of the R&D money that goes in to making newer pills, the sterilized environment they need to be manufactured in is gonna jack the cost up too.
It’s like saying a cup of fresh, ice cold water that you’re getting handed to you in the middle of the desert is only “a few cents worth of water”. Yeah, but the fact that it exists in the middle of the desert for you to consume is what made it a “precious resource”.
