> The US Government has secured an arrangement with Gilead Science to receive 100 per cent of all remdesivir drugs produced in July, followed by 90 per cent of production in the subsequent two months.
oh my god. can the US Government be any more shit?
like this only can happen because Gilead Science has an exclusive patent
> Gilead ignored calls by 150 civil society organisations, including Medicine Sans Frontiers, to forgo its patents on remdesivir, which means it controls who can produce the drug.
@Nzall i say 1/2 because when it's Brian and Stewy centric episode, there's generally 2 plots going on unless it's a Time Travel one
@Nzall yeh that's the episode, though i thought Carter's plan was to sell the cure, but seems it it's to withhold it so to bill people for treatment. which with a patent you would do anyway
@TimStone This means this case won't be heard until the next term, so won't be resolved before the election. SCOTUS had already stayed the ruling that would have allowed Congress to see the materials
> As of Wednesday, 1,135 prisoners—almost a third of San Quentin’s incarcerated population—have active COVID-19 infections. At least one prisoner has died.
> Early in his term, Trump's briefers discovered that when his oral briefing included intelligence related to Russia's malign activities against the United States, including evidence of its interference in US politics, Trump would often blow up at them, demanding to know why they kept focusing on Russia and often questioning the intelligence itself, multiple former administration officials said.
> "The President has created an environment that dissuades, if not prohibits, the mentioning of any intelligence that isn't favorable to Russia," a former senior member of Trump's national security staff told me.
Such a fucking traitor. I really hope he gets what's coming to him
Back to my previous post, I've been seeing several mentions of sexual abuse and misconduct among streamers, two Smash Bros pros recently came out with stories of being sexually abused by other prominent members of the community (one pro was definitely underage when abused by an event commentator).
Honestly, based on what little community reaction I've seen, it's heartening that I haven't seen much in the way of immediate disbelief. Mostly, it's stuff along the lines of "this is horrifying" and "I've been a (predator) fan for years but I can't stand for this".
Definitely nice to see some of the right things being said, but I'm not sure I'm all that optimistic yet about real changes in gaming industry or culture.
@Yuuki and soon we'll have Putin come out and say "yeh? so what? you don't think China or Saudi Arabia also do it, because they do, everyone does it, probably even the US"
