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Destroy ice capital conservatism car culture fossil fuels asphalt borders are fictional - plant trees - high speed rail - yes in your backyard - ubi - a better world is possible - trans people are angels - I love you
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if you ever feel heavy
because you care deeply
about injustice, suffering
and ecological destruction
remember that a trillion
dollar propaganda
machine was built to
make you numb and it
didn't work on you
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The misuse of patents by some of the world’s biggest pharma companies to stifle competition is rarely discussed in global drug-pricing debates. 

Patent protection is intended to incentivise innovation by granting exclusive rights to inventors to make or sell a medicine for a limited period, typically 20 years. But in the last few decades, some companies have been filing more secondary patents, often long after approval. Some of these patents are real inventive steps that benefit patients but some are only minor modifications that just create roadblocks for cheaper generics.

There are now drugs with hundreds of patents that are delaying the entry of cheaper medicine from getting to patients for several years.

There have been some efforts to crack down on patent abuse in the US and Europe but progress has been slow.

Tap the link to learn how tackling patent abuse could help lower drug price: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/drug-pricing/the-drug-pricing-problem-no-one-wants-to-talk-about/91339989
Innenminister Dobrindt prüft in Deutschland den bundesweiten Einsatz von Palantir zur Massenüberwachung. Glücklichlerweise blitzt In der weit technologieoffeneren Schweiz die Firma bei vielen Institutionen trotz Lobbying noch ab. Wie Geschichtsvergessen kann man in Deutschland eigentlich sein?
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rechtsversiffte Wirtschaft 🫲🙂‍↕️
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TIL that before time zones, towns kept “local solar time,” where noon was set when the Sun was highest overhead in each place. This caused clocks to differ by minutes, forcing trains to use timetables that accounted for multiple local times and prompting railroads to push for standardized time. [source, comments]
TIL in Nazi Germany, wages were below pre-Depression levels, workweek hours increased from 40 to 60 hours a week, and workers could not choose or quit their jobs [source, comments]