Outraged, I tell you! Well..not that outraged. Who gives a fuck, lol?

Oh bullshit. The development of this was absurdly expensive and rapid, even with the fed govt. footing the bill. It was cheap before because that's what the government negotiated. All those billions you lot whine about funding the research literally saved 10's or 100's of thousands of lives and is a dirt cheap expense.

We're now past the emergency, so the cost is going to more closely reflect what the market will bear. Most people not too worried about covid vaccines anymore anyway, so demand is going way down.

That's not the problem with "American", it's a problem people made up. "American" means someone from the USA. Period.

Some of you guys should look into this invention called "insurance". And what kind of broke ass motherfucker can't afford $130 for something if they really need it? The dirt poor are covered by state/Federal insurance of some sort, and anyone over dirt poor can eke out $130. You're all acting like they are charging $9k for it.

It's not a right. You don't have "rights" that require someone else to do something for you. I agree we need healthcare reform, including some form of sane single payer, but this "right" claim is bullshit.

Why u mad bro?

This same thread is going on over at reddit and the literal clones of one another are all posting the exact same dreary bullshit. "But, but, muh tax dollars!". Those zoomers and millenials are all ranting about guillotines and windfall taxes and "get muh tax money back" when 90% of those fuckers pay like $100 in taxes a year anyway.

Here is the truth. We needed a vaccine fast, so we paid for it and we fucking got it. Success! Everyone was happy, and what we the taxpayers got for our money (keeping in mind, again, that 90% of the fuckers complaining probably pay like an effective Federal tax rate of 8%, if that) was an effective way to slow the virus, and reduce severity - and we got it quickly and the government got a good deal to give us all free shots.

Oh, and the research that led to that vaccine will probably end up curing a giant chunk of human disease. Cancers included.

So now what happens? We're through the crisis and they raise the price to a whopping $130. Oh no, not $130 it's (cue scary music for idiots) "400%!!". So for a shot you don't really need much anymore, that you get once or twice a year $130 is supposed to be expensive? And your insurance will probably pay most or all of it?

People are fucking crazy and super easy to rile up. Put "400%!" in the headline, make it about a pharmaceutical and these rabble fucks get all riled up.

Who do you think pays corporate taxes? Hint: It's consumers, stupid.

A smarter person would say raise taxes on the individuals who benefit most from corporations, personally. So raise taxes on stock grants, and raise taxes on higher income earners by targeting all the ways they make their money.

They claim there's a "cost" but never say what it is. They assume I think this is a "cost" to me but it's not. I genuinely don't give a shit if they're collecting "muh data". Oh no, they will see I watch Netflix, Crunchyroll, Hidive, Paramount, Disney+, and use Emby. This will surely greatly negatively affect my life!!

This is a bit like the whiners complaining about self driving cars are dangerous, when in fact they are probably posting said whinings to Reddit literally while barreling down the road at 90mph and drinking a latte. I run into at least 2 horrible drivers every single day and I don't drive that much, but "AI is dangerous, it hit a few people!". By all means fix it and make it as good as you can, but when complaining about something one usually has a baseline and the baselines here in both cases are "shit".

Yes, I am a lizard person and am typing this right now. They all came true!!

Or as I call it, three mile nothingburger.

Lol, not sure why you got modded -1, what you said is demonstrably true.

Exactly. I'm sick of shitting in one hand, and putting all our hopes in wind and solar in the other, and having both hands be the same when I look at them and feel their worth relative to each other.

Nuclear is fucking expensive but so is what's coming in terms of both climate change and simply not having enough power. We should have been investing in it over the last 30 years but all the anti-nuclear squad (oil goons on the one hand, slow-adult environmentalists on the other, walking hand in hand) have fucked us. It's not too late, though.

Cue the wishy washy "but, it's so expensive and dangerous and solar and wind is right around the corner, honestly" whiners...

Who do these assholes think made it if not a human, a fucking Martian? God, people are so fucking stupid and this asinine decision will be reversed because it has absolutely no consistency with any sort of reason. Furthermore, AI is already fucking used in boatloads of copyrighted material, tons of authoring tools use some sort of "AI".

Probably some clueless old bureaucrat fart that doesn't understand AI is just a tool and thinks a fucking robot sat down and made the comic of its own volition.