Sure. Outsourcing all of your pharmaceutical development to other countries:

• means you are screwed in the event of a war (economic or physical)
• means you have no control over quality of said pharmaceuticals
• means that expertise is no longer available in your own country and you are again beholden to others because those countries can charge whatever they want or refuse to sell it to you at all (see battery tech, microchip tech, solar tech for other examples).

You want to go over there and learn how to adapt their tech? Great. (We did that with the Japanese auto industry in the 1980s and we imported rocket expertise after WWII.) But things like drugs, food staples, and construction materials should be made at home. There’s a reason we subsidize farming.

Personally I think the feds should be manufacturing generic drugs to ensure availability and quality, and to provide some competition to bring prices down.

Pfizer CEO is wrong.

Lithium phosphate batteries don’t need nickel. Or cobalt. The industry has already started using them.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10/its-back-the-2027-chevy-bolt-gets-an-all-new-lfp-battery-but-what-else/

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/01/cars/tesla-lfp-battery

But sending your money to China is just fine?

Next up, no labeling “hot dogs” as such, unless they include dog meat in them!

When you piss everyone off and leave a vacuum, someone always steps in to fill it.

Two wrongs don’t make a right.

Unsweetened tea is a thing. Sugar free iced tea is a thing. Herbal iced tea is a thing.

Maybe now the UK will catch on to iced tea? Free refills!

They could fix this by requiring stocks pay a dividend as a minimum percentage of profit, and prohibiting the sale of a stock until a year after purchase.

Why is this taking so long? Government should be spinning up their own RSS feeds or mastodon servers.

This won’t stop immigrant employment. It just means they’ll be paid in cash under the table.

Will UK be requiring an ID to get medical care? That might make a dent there, but it’s a mixed bag because people who don’t get care spread illness. Especially bad during pandemics.

Slack is so overrated. Isn’t there similar open source software for this, that businesses could run from their own server?

The ships sending us Chinese goods have to return to China anyway. That’s why everyone was sending China their plastic to be “recycled”. Might as well just incinerate it.

How do you join or cut these pieces of wood if they are harder than steel? Can’t drive ordinary nails or screws or saws through steel.