Instead of just eating less meat because it’s not necessary, it’s become acceptable to experiment on animals to make them less-bad for the environment before being turned into tasty hamburger.

Where would science be today, if it weren’t for bloodthirsty capitalists?

Promising research (controlled and uncontrolled) has found a potential cure for FIP, but Gilead put profits over patients and is focusing on Getting approval of chemically-similar remdesivir instead.

The FIP treatment has inspired an underground market for cat guardians, who spend thousands of dollars buying unverified vials from China.

“Insurance companies in Texas typically pay between $100 and $300 for drive-thru COVID-19 tests, said Jamie Dudensing, CEO of the Texas Association of Health Plans. But the association’s members have seen hundreds of out-of-network COVID-19 test charges come in far higher, some in the thousands of dollars.“

Landlord tech or proptech are “technical products and platforms that have facilitated the merging of the technology and real estate industries in novel ways.
While such technologies have celebrated the “disruption” of the real estate industry with new technology and data infrastructures, they often exacerbate housing inequality and gentrification. We are particularly worried that proptech is leading to new forms of housing injustice in the wake of COVID-19—expanding surveillance, data accumulation, and algorithmic means testing—in ways that increase the power of landlords and further disempower tenants and those seeking shelter.”

“The technology that powers the nation’s leading automated speech recognition systems makes twice as many errors when interpreting words spoken by African Americans as when interpreting the same words spoken by whites.”

Laboratory animals are cogs in the capitalist machine, and when something affects how that machine runs (Covid), those cogs are destroyed.

Yet again, the government deliberately chooses to coddle the rentier class at the expense of workers.

In the decade since the economic crisis, the number of billionaires has doubled.

"If you add another advertisement to your pages, you generate more revenue. If you track your users better, now you can deliver tailored ads and your conversion rates are higher. If you restrict users from leaving your walled garden ecosystem, now you get all the juice from whatever attention they have.

The question is: At which point do we reach the breaking point?

And I think the answer is: We are very close."

Fat people pay more to exist and earn less at work compared to thin people.

bookmarking this as a reminder to come back when they hopefully have a transcript.

While the IRS is still relying on paper-and-ink fax machines, Turbotax is taking advantage of the law not keeping up with the technology.