[-] frosty99c@midwest.social 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I mean, it's pretty well documented how awful Christopher Columbus was. Even in the context of the time period: he was arrested in the new world and shipped back to Spain for a trial because he was so ruthless in his treatment of the native peoples. The myths about him being a 'great man' are all only like 100 years old.

[-] frosty99c@midwest.social 15 points 1 month ago

Oh my God, I read that as "Kissinger" and thought for a terrible moment that he was still alive.

[-] frosty99c@midwest.social 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Definitely agree with you, but I went to their website to confirm. Special price for baskets this summer is 8.99. Big boy platter is 10.50. So, not as egregious as I would've thought

[-] frosty99c@midwest.social 14 points 2 months ago

The original draft probably said "nearly a 300% increase" and then the editor didn't know the difference between percent increase and basic multiplication.

[-] frosty99c@midwest.social 20 points 5 months ago
[-] frosty99c@midwest.social 15 points 6 months ago

My mother described it as "eugenics, you know, like the Nazis did."

I think it has something to do with the idea that they think a clump of cells is the same as a real person, so if they're outlawing abortion as murder, then IVF is murder too.

[-] frosty99c@midwest.social 11 points 7 months ago

FDR was a president's brother? Which one?

[-] frosty99c@midwest.social 11 points 7 months ago

That loads for me with no issue.

[-] frosty99c@midwest.social 14 points 10 months ago

"In some ways it's sort of a business dream to be able to keep repacking the same nuts and bolts to make something slightly different for consumers who will keep paying. It's pretty efficient."

Madden. FIFA. Call of Duty.

[-] frosty99c@midwest.social 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe medical? Like, Bio-Ntech designed the COVID vaccine, Pfizer bought it and could wrap up the phase 3 trials and then scale production?

So, they didn't actually make the product better, but they probably made it viable sooner than if they hadn't bought it?

But that is kind of the normal process for the medical industry at this point..start ups developing new medicine and then shopping it to Big Pharma for buyouts or funding

[-] frosty99c@midwest.social 15 points 1 year ago

Take a look here, and then at the link commented there. This is probably related.

https://lemmy.world/post/3972344

[-] frosty99c@midwest.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yep, take a look at this post and then follow the link in the comments.

https://lemmy.world/post/3972344

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