This motherfucker is literally gonna kill me by making my already unaffordable cancer meds really insanely unaffordable.
Something like almost half of generic medications are made in India.
And 85% of medical isotopes come from Canada!
Something like almost half of generic medications are made in India.
Is this for cancer drugs or generics in general? Only asking because most of the generics I see in the UK are made here, but that might be because I’ve only seen the more common medications and not stuff like cancer drugs.
Hope you manage to beat the cancer!
India makes a huge amount of drugs. The UK probably just doesn’t import them.
You might not see them made in India on the label since the tablet is assembled in UK but the API (the molecule that actually does the job) and additives might be sourced elsewhere. China and India produce a lot of them. They might also sell precursors later used to make API in UK so there might be always some contribution form India / China etc.
Trump wanted to support the black market pharmaceuticals.
How about going abroad for treatment?
Look, I’ve been worried about being under surveillance for my political views and personal connections since the Bush era (made friends in college with middle eastern exhange students who went back to their home country and kept in touch). Technically (not really) being part of the queer community because I date transwomen (transwomen are women, duh) further complicates the matter. Not looking to be the first white cisman US citizen to be disappeared to El Salvador, thanks.
If I manage to leave the country I better god damn have a plan to not have to come back and to get some form of political asylum elsewhere.
You sound based af dude
Well I’m glad someone out there thinks so. I am pretty self assured that I am on the right side of history, but fuck living in this country beats down your mental health, doesn’t it?
Like a really bad gambler, double downing every hand in blackjack.
Not on topic but that is actually a valid strategy for blackjack. It is the reason that table limits exist. Otherwise doubling down every loss will eventually net you a positive.
For global politics is still next level stupid.
It’s sort of a crazy strategy in Blackjack too. Lose 7-8 times in a row and you’re already betting 100x your starting bet.
If you’ve lost 8 times in a row, you’re actually now betting 256x your original bet.
It’s NOT a good strategy. Statistically it doesn’t by any means whatsoever ensure you’ll end up net positive.
It’s called “Oscar’s Grind” and there is a plethora of mathematics that show it is does not beat the house.
It is called the Martingale system.
Oscars grind works in a completely different fashion, and you do not raise your bet when you lose.
Thank you for this. I knew how the strategy plays but not the name.
It’s actually the strategy with the best return of any strategy, including card counting. In any blackjack strategy you need a large bankroll to take advantage of the law of large numbers.
Seriously, this works so well and is the reason for table limits.
Because you will never find a no limit blackjack table you cannot actually apply this strategy in the real world. But it is mathematically sound.
It’s not sound actually because it trivially ends up in nonsensical amounts of money and any sufficiently long series of rolls will have an increasing chance of having a sufficiently long series of losses such that no reasonable person can possibly recover from it. For instance who that can afford to bet 1024x 100 or $100,000 on a single game of chance is excited by betting $100?
It’s nonsense.
It’s mathematically sound because you do guarantee a net positive with enough of a bankroll. As I have mentioned in other comments here this is not a strategy that can be used in the real world.
You even admit it would work with absurd amounts of money… The math works.
The math doesn’t work because given enough rolls you literally always go bankrupt no matter what bankroll you start with. Take the simplest option a fair coin where you win on tails and lose on heads. Real actual random flips will contains runs of heads. Let N be the number of rolls required to bankrupt you for any value of N. The more you roll the more the probability of such a run increases towards 1.
You could end up bankrupting a billion dollar bank starting with 10 dollar bets. It’s only sound if you have a literally infinite bank. For any finite bank you just have to play longer to lose but you always end up losing.
A valid losing strategy, sure.
But doubling down can only be done during play, not at the start of a hand.
You misunderstood. A person doubles the bet on the next hand after a losing hand. This is different than doubling down on a 9, 10, or 11 during play.
Ahh yes, the “thank God I have infinite money, I literally can’t lose” approach.
We call it the Musky Bezos.
Yeah, martingale
Well if you keep digging, eventually you’ll end up in China on the positive side.
You just have to overflow your casino balance back into the positive
If you can’t win at blackjack, you are doing it wrong.
He’s definitely got double downs syndrome
Oh good, that’s totally going to help drug prices go down, right?
Everywhere else ? Probably
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He’ll be blaming it on the retaliatory tariffs.
His tariffs are the best/perfect, it’s all these unnecessary tariffs these other countries insist on imposing in response that are to blame 🤹♂️
Great! Medicines will now be even more expensive for patients in the United States. Genius!
That includes generics, majority of them are created in india
Because ozempic is just too cheap.
Novo produces a lot of Wegovy/Ozempic in the US, in North Carolina specifically. But I don’t know if it’s enough to cover US demand, probably not.
From ingredients imported mostly from China, if it is like about any other medication.
Maybe. Outlines how this whole tariff thing is dumb in a globalised economy.
Basically all basics for US manufacturing comes from India or (mostly) China. The US does not produce the screws that keep American products together, nor do they make the myriads of little electronic parts found on any electronics board. Without nails from China, the American stick&cardboard houses would not hold together.
As always, the misery is the point!
I absolutely can’t wait to see the carnage in the stock market tomorrow morning
I just got out of the stock market recently to get myself a bigger apartment. Felt really insecure about the decision until now (budgeting is tight). Feel for everyone that have their savings in this dumpster fire.
There’s only so much I can pump 😩
Alot of generic drugs come from India.
Virtually all chemical compounds used to manufacture all pharmaceuticals in the world come from China and India in massive, massive quantities
Dental silicas do. Some come from the UK. Titanium dioxide from Czech. Sodium saccharine/Saccharine sodium from China.
That’s good medicine wasn’t expensive enough already in this country.
The man is literally an existential threat to Americans
Krasnov Russian asset
l i t e r a l l y
This mother needs to be jailed for murder
We’re going to win the midterm elections and we’re going to have a tremendous, thundering landslide, I really believe that . . . and I really think we’re helped a lot by the tariff situation that’s going on," Trump said. "Which is a good situation, not a bad, it’s great. It’s going to be legendary, you watch. Legendary in a positive way.
You’ll all be so poor and stupid you’ll have to vote for us.
Heh. With how they’re taking over the FEC and other election regulatory bodies in red states, I am not optimistic there’ll be normal/fair elections in the near future. Not that the pre-existing gerrymandering was fair to begin with in many states, but it’s going to get worse.
Anyone who thinks there will be fair elections needs to wake the fuck up. Look at how much Trump has changed what is considered normal in just 3 months. By the time mid term elections come around none of the institutions that allow for elections to happen normally will even exist anymore. I doubt the presendential elections will happen at all, by then the economy will be so far in shambles that America will be in survival mode.
Americans need to step up now, if you wait for elections you will be too late.
Two months ago people kept telling me I was wrong for saying this that “the Judiciary is working” as if it isn’t acting as scotch tape
Everyday Americans with little power on our own are stepping up. Republicans are refusing to do town halls in their own districts because even their constituents are showing up and yelling at them. Congressional voice mailboxes are routinely full and people are writing letters and emails. Last Saturday, there were 1300+ protests with like 1,000,000 people taking to the streets. And that was just the first one. There’s a lot more people who support the protests but didn’t hear about them ahead of time or couldn’t make it (for whatever reason; work, disabilities, childcare, etc.).
The problem now isn’t with “Americans” writ large. It’s spineless leadership. And not just “leadership” in the sense of corrupt elected officials and judges. I also mean major university presidents and law firm partners that capitulated rather than fight back. Business leaders not speaking out (anonymous quotes in the Financial Times or Wall Street Journal isn’t speaking out; they’re like $400 a year and most people don’t know how to get around paywalls). Religious leaders — white evangelical Protestant ones, anyway — failing in every possible way. Retired generals (or anyone else who swore an oath to the constitution) should be livid.
Maybe now that he tanked the global economy and is fucking with rich people’s money, there will be more resistance from so-called “elites” but I’m not holding my breath waiting for them to stop being cowards and protecting their own asses. But regular people are doing what we can.
Or the voter suppression system already in place too
FUCK ALL REPUBLICANS
Uhh, no thanks, I like my genitals disease free
Hey, worms have feelings too.
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Somehow I don’t think smugglers pay tariffs.
Oh they’ll pay all sorts of crazy tariffs, just like the rest of us. They just won’t pay them for fentanyl.
these are called bribes
Fentanyl is for the poor, the rich prefer the white flour. Why should he care? 🤷
I foresee a cave-in.
Found this recently and I’m betting it ties into this somehow: H.R.661 - MIRACLE Medical Technology Act of 2025. https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/661
Introduced in House (01/23/2025)
Maximizing Israel-U.S. Research Advancement and Collaborative Leadership in Emerging Medical Technology Act of 2025 or the MIRACLE Medical Technology Act of 2025
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to implement a program for the United States and Israel to collaborate on developing and delivering health care products and services. The program must include coordinated activities in specified areas, including research and development, use of innovative technology, intellectual property protection, regulatory harmonization, disease prevention, and biological product manufacturing. The bill authorizes HHS to establish a joint United States-Israel Health Care Collaboration Center in the United States to leverage existing expertise for advancing the program’s purposes.
