AND a race one since the most affected regions will be
Africa, Asia and Oceania
as a friend pointed out, this headline makes it sound like supply will be dwindling. supply is fine. people will be *priced out*.
this is fucking MURDER.
insulin has been mass produced (from animal extracts) since -1923-. slow acting insulin has existed since the ‘50s, and ‘human’ genetically engineered insulin (derived from E. coli bacteria) has existed since 1982.
insulin treatment for diabetes is not some new or ‘unproven’ treatment. according to beyondtype1, “Humalog rapid-acting insulin came on to the market with a list price of $21 a vial in 1997.” adjusting for inflation, a vial these days should cost about $34 at most. instead, it costs over $300. there is NO reason for it to be steadily gaining in price to the point that diabetics are unable to afford their lifesaving medication, other than the sheer inhuman greed of pharmaceutical manufacturers.
let me reiterate: life without insulin (for Type 1 diabetics in particular) is a slow and painful death sentence. the ability to treat diabetes is a relatively modern phenomenon that has allowed countless people to live full, healthy lives. we should be expanding full covereage and access to insulin to diabetics the world over, and it should be FREE.
As y’all probably already know by now, Tumblr is shitcanning NSFW blogs; while the vast majority of this particular one wouldn’t be directly targeted under the new rules, the fact of the matter is that “adult content” is an ever shifting set of goalposts that will gladly be pushed further and further in favor of the exact kind of puritan bullshit that motivated this move to begin with.
That said, while I haven’t exactly been posting much, in the future my art can still be found on:
As y’all probably already know by now, Tumblr is shitcanning NSFW blogs; while the vast majority of this particular one wouldn’t be directly targeted under the new rules, the fact of the matter is that “adult content” is an ever shifting set of goalposts that will gladly be pushed further and further in favor of the exact kind of puritan bullshit that motivated this move to begin with.
That said, while I haven’t exactly been posting much, in the future my art can still be found on:
Thank you for helping to resolve this persistent existential crisis
FUCKING THANK YOU, I knew logically it didn’t work I just couldn’t brain WHY
Your brain was being self-consistent but the gif wasn’t
even with the guide showing where the extra mass went I’ve still never been able to pinpoint how this fucking gif reforms the bar with 25 pieces again in a way that never obviously adds a whole new block. It’s masterful sleight of hand in gif form and it’s infuriating to this day.
The larger fragment grows a little longer while it’s moving diagonally, and the smaller one grows on the way down. Our eyes suck at tracking size changes if they happen in roughly the same direction movement of the thing changing size itself is happening, and the change is subtle enough to miss if you’re not paying very close attention. Hence, seemingly infinite chocolate.
