WillyWonksters

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[–] WillyWonksters@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Oh ok, I must have remembered wrong. I edited to be less specific.

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[–] WillyWonksters@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Oh ok, I must have remembered wrong. I edited to be less specific.

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[–] WillyWonksters@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

I couldn't find a source for this, but I heard that we were convinced to think of dandelions as weeds by the makers of a herbicide so that we would accept the collateral damage.

What item did you "buy for life?" in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] WillyWonksters@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've had a set of those circulating through the family for well over a decade. But, they don't sound all that great.

Fort the same budget, I'd recommend instead to buy a higher quality pair of bookshelf speakers that you would actually enjoy using fort the rest of your life.

I also made a YSK post recently to explain how to objectively identify good speakers.

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YSK: Loudspeaker quality can be more reliably estimated with a set of objective measurements called a Spinorama than by reading subjective reviews (www.avsforum.com)
 

Why: You can find better sound for less money if you learn how to read a Spinorama.

To learn how this scientific method was developed and why it is so much better than subjective reviews, I highly recommend listing to this talk by Dr. Floyd Toole.

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Johnson and Johnson hold millions of lives hostage: restricting the distribution of life saving generic drug (www.youtube.com)
 

“Multidrug resistant tuberculosis is a growing threat, and bedaquiline is essential to curing it. Generic bedaquiline will drive down the cost of the drug by over 60%, allowing far more communities to access and distribute treatment. Evergreening the patent will cost so many lives over the next four years, which Johnson & Johnson knows. They must drop their efforts to enforce the secondary patents.”

"Tell Johnson and Johnson that evergreening their patent on bedaquiline, which will deny millions of people access to live-saving treatment, is a violation of their corporate credo: https://secure.ethicspoint.com/domain… Tell them on twitter: https://twitter.com/JNJNews and https://twitter.com/JNJGlobalHealth Tell them on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jnj/ Tell them on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jnj/?hl=en And tell them wherever else you can. Tell your friends. Tell your family. Tell the Internet. This must not be allowed to happen.

Big thanks to TB expert Dr. Carole Mitnick and MSF’s Christophe Perrin for helping me to understand the complexities of drug patents!"

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Johnson and Johnson attempts to sacrifice millions of lives by restricting life saving tuberculosis drug (www.youtube.com)
 

"Multidrug resistant tuberculosis is a growing threat, and bedaquiline is essential to curing it. Generic bedaquiline will drive down the cost of the drug by over 60%, allowing far more communities to access and distribute treatment. Evergreening the patent will cost so many lives over the next four years, which Johnson & Johnson knows. They must drop their efforts to enforce the secondary patents."

"Tell Johnson and Johnson that evergreening their patent on bedaquiline, which will deny millions of people access to live-saving treatment, is a violation of their corporate credo: https://secure.ethicspoint.com/domain... Tell them on twitter: https://twitter.com/JNJNews and https://twitter.com/JNJGlobalHealth Tell them on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jnj/ Tell them on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jnj/?hl=en And tell them wherever else you can. Tell your friends. Tell your family. Tell the Internet. This must not be allowed to happen.

Big thanks to TB expert Dr. Carole Mitnick and MSF's Christophe Perrin for helping me to understand the complexities of drug patents!"