• Snot Flickerman
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    12 days ago

    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.

    • @Dima@feddit.uk
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      1012 days ago

      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!

      • @Bohurt@lemm.ee
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        312 days ago

        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.

      • @mmddmm@lemm.ee
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        412 days ago

        India makes a huge amount of drugs. The UK probably just doesn’t import them.

      • Snot Flickerman
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        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.

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            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?

    • Mearuu
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      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.

      • @makyo@lemmy.world
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        2912 days ago

        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.

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          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.

        • Mearuu
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          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.

          • @michaelmrose@lemmy.world
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            1612 days ago

            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.

            • Mearuu
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              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.

              • @michaelmrose@lemmy.world
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                1112 days ago

                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.

    • Jesus
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      412 days ago

      He’s definitely got double downs syndrome

  • @EndOfLine@lemmy.world
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    1612 days ago

    Is his strategy to force the Republicans in Congress to do their job and take away the power they gave him to impose teriffs so he can then say…

    “My plan, and it was a great plan. Many smart people looked at it and said it was the smartest plan they had ever seen for any economy every. The smartest plan. None of them had never heard a plan as smart as mine. They could barely believe it when they heard it. It was such a good plan, but those Liberals in Congress stopped it. It was working. All the best economu people in all the world said it was working and was going to be the best most amazing thing anybody had ever seen. Because it was. It was doing the greatest any president had ever done for this country, but they said no. Why would they do that? Maybe they don’t want to make America great again. Because that’s what my amazing plan was doing, but maybe they don’t want that. My amazing plan that everybody agreed was the best plan ever. So much better than any other plan, but they blocked it. We need better people in Congress. People who will work with me, not against me.”

      • @EvilCartyen@feddit.dk
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        1112 days ago

        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.

            • @Treczoks@lemmy.world
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              112 days ago

              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.

    • @TheBloodFarts@lemmy.ca
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      812 days ago

      Virtually all chemical compounds used to manufacture all pharmaceuticals in the world come from China and India in massive, massive quantities

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        Dental silicas do. Some come from the UK. Titanium dioxide from Czech. Sodium saccharine/Saccharine sodium from China.

  • @BlackSheep@lemmy.ca
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    Great. As if the American people weren’t already paying too much for medication. Now, they’re going to be paying more. And Trump is going to blame it on tariffs—that he started.

    • @frunch@lemmy.world
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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 🤹‍♂️

  • @pandorafrog@lemmy.world
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    1812 days ago

    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.

  • Archangel
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    So, he really IS going to try and put tariffs on fentanyl?

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    i was recently prescribed a life changing medication that has given me the opportunity to have my lifespan return to normal as it is currently reduced, and i am noticing true positive improvement for the first time living with this illness, and i feel like i can start regaining my identity, and my physical and mental wellbeing, and now the president of my country is going to make this already expensive drug even more costly? what am i supposed to do, just stop taking it? what is anyone with a worse condition than me supposed to do for their illness? what about people with severe mental disorders that might be invisible to the public but struggle deeply all the same? this will lead to unnecessary deaths. every time the medical supply is messed with, people die. this needs to be met with more than outrage. Trump is signing a death warrant on ill Americans. who are you willing to sacrifice so you don’t have to get involved? because, again, people are going to die.

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      He’s a Nazi. It’s actually an efficient way to get rid of all ill people that are not rich. Don’t need no concentration camps yet.

      • @Monument@lemmy.sdf.org
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        And for those who aren’t rich but have jobs with decent employer-provided healthcare, it will make those people fearful of undertaking any protest actions that may see them on the wrong side of a doxxing campaign or an illegal detention.

        It’s about threading fear through the fabric of society.

    • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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      I take a topical for atopic dermatitis that is better tolerated than a topical corticosteroid. And it’s primarily made in India as a generic. Also because topical corticosteroids long term effects are rebound disease and skin atrophy.

      • @marquisalex@feddit.uk
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        112 days ago

        As someone who was considering taking a week off work as I would have needed to attend Donald Duck style to avoid fabric-on-leg contact, tell me more about this well tolerated topical

        • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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          212 days ago

          if you havedermatitis, exzema, you can try tacrolimus, or another inhibitor like elidel(pimecrolimus). you will have to avoid sunlight for a couple hours though(it does cause itching but that goes away after continious uses)if exposed to sunlight it amplifies the ithcing, warm feeling. some people dont like the itching or the sensations, it goes way after a while.

          unlike the steroid it wont cause thinning or rebound effect(aka steroid withdrawal), safe for use of the eyes. you have to ask the derm for it though.