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Listen, they've primed us for years with movies. Who's getting those post-apocalyptic fantasies financed? And why are so many of them resonating for me?

I love plots where a small group can beat a powerful oppressor. An evil corporation exploiting precious resources. Lords taking food from starving peasants. Laws passed to hurt and chain criminals and minorities; another resource. To monetize suffering. To withhold basic needs of life. Who owns the land? Who owns imagination? Stories? Who owns words and songs and shelter and safety and health?

We pay to exist. Our natural habitat is gone. We pay to exist in our unnatural environment.

Is there an anxiety driven sub? Every silver lining seems to come with a giant dark cloud.

In theory. But the invisible hand of the free market seems to be imaginary rather than invisible.

In reality, the insurance companies will all just pocket the difference. They'll then use their increased profits to pay out higher dividends or to finance a stock buyback. If it's a privately owned company, the profits will be distributed to an even smaller number of people.

But despite disagreement over the consequences, we do at least agree that it doesn't matter whether California is going to be lowering the cost for insurers.

And I'm always happy to be proven wrong about things that I'm pessimistic about. If you have strong evidence that there's a large health insurance provider that will cut premiums across the entire country from cost savings I genuinely want to see it.

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It's probably an efficiency vs effectiveness question. Yes, this thing probably won't give us much, just like those radiation batteries we hear about from time to time. But the output it does provide will probably be very efficient on consumption of resources and also independent of external factors (light, wind, temperature, location, etc.).

If we create and expand this "bottom line" of free or almost free power, it will create incentives to improve power efficiency of electronic devices. A device you don't have to charge at all will look very attractive in the eyes of customers. Especially if electricity prices go up or grid becomes more reliant on external conditions.

of course it matters.

That $70 gap would have to be paid by someone. And since governments and corporations are funded by the same people. That someone is you.

This seems like the most obvious use would be things like paint-on electrical generation for things that only require small amounts of power. So maybe just where you need a glow, or to run a very small sensor?

It's definitely interesting, but still in early/pure science days.

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> Mycobacterium smegmatis

Who let Dave Lister name the bacterium?

Yea I understand how sports work. My question was if she was benched the entire game or not

The salesman for this energy will be a true Huc-ster.

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What is the process to make this inyo electric grid supply?

I know it's not quite the same but I just paid $135 for Prozone (cat insulin) I hope this helps with that cost too. I love my little buddy.

From the link you provided: >On August 16, 2022, I signed Public Law 117-169, commonly referred to as the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), which will lower the cost of prescription drugs and save millions of Americans hundreds or thousands of dollars per year. The IRA will protect Medicare beneficiaries from catastrophic drug costs by phasing in a cap for out-of-pocket costs at the pharmacy and establishing a $35 monthly cap per prescription for insulin covered by a Medicare prescription drug plan and insulin delivered through traditional pumps.

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That's just wind energy with extra steps

Its because mark cuban is working on doing a cost plus drugs version lf it. These shitty companies realize they need to change the price or sell to nothing but emergency services once he gets it going. Fucking thieves

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Does it matter? If the insurance companies' costs fall then they will offer lower their rates (or be undercut by their competitors)

This is how you do it, become the manufacturer.

When Lilly just recently reduced the price of their insulin, they just jacked up the prices of their entire portfolio to make up the difference. The drug companies are not benevolent. They are publicly held companies with shareholders. They will deliver the same quarter over quarter earnings.