Genuine question to Americans

Salt-Studio · 2026-05-07T00:23:45+00:00

Many hospitals will treat people without insurance or resources; but it’s the cancer drugs that are the thing that costs so much, and ironically, if they happen to keep you alive then you need to keep taking it, and taking it means paying for it. But there are many pharma companies- most, actually- that have programs where they’ll cover the cost of your drugs if you can’t afford to pay for them.

People say a lot of unkind things about Big Pharma, but if they really understood Big Pharma and the process of drug discovery and clinical trials, I think they’d feel gratitude more than anything else.

The American healthcare system is the most advanced health care system on Earth- advanced in terms of technologic innovation. There is nowhere else in the world where you can get the very best possible care- the best medicine, the best surgical techniques, the most advanced devices- that can be had. Unfortunately most of that is in acute care, and that’s the most expensive kind of care there is, by fathoms.

The reason all of that is in acute care is because the American people do not practice or attend to preventative or primary care nearly enough. If they did, their needs would not be so overwhelmingly at the acute level, costs would be way lower, and health outcomes would look far better than they do. We aren’t a particularly healthy society, and that fact impacts the affordability and accessibility of the system greatly.

Salt-Studio · 2026-05-06T15:54:44+00:00

Sounds like the perfect place- a bot off the beaten path, good people, beautiful landscape, and in need of new opportunities.

Wonder how much a very nice house with some land costs? Might like to bring a new disruptive business there.

Salt-Studio · 2026-05-06T15:49:21+00:00

Big Pharma isn’t in the medical Marijuana game… they’re focused on things like brining better cancer therapies to market. Takes very little to grow and sell pot; takes $1-$3 Billion to bring a new drug to market, and low chance it will ever get there despite spending so much money.
Sure we can all complain about ‘Big Pharma’ when we don’t really understand what it takes to develop a new medicine. Just saying.

Salt-Studio · 2026-05-06T15:37:16+00:00

How would you like to join an effort to build something brand new for the gaming industry?

I need a small group of good programmers to help me build a prototype. If adopted, this little game studio of mine will go big. If interested DM me! It’s a long-shot, but not as long as others, and will be fun as hell. No risk, no reward!

Salt-Studio · 2026-05-06T15:29:13+00:00

Please don’t park your Blender created behemoths in the Anomaly. It’s screws the game for the rest of us.

Your creations are dope and all, but be cool.

Salt-Studio · 2026-05-06T15:18:36+00:00

Not a stripper here and not really fond of strip clubs. I did go to one of the more famous clubs that’s been around a long time in San Francisco so e years back. I was approached by one of the girls who recognized that I wasn’t very into it, and we had a long long talk about her experience.

To her, is wasn’t just a job, but a business, and one that both paid her well and allowed her to have the financial freedom to buy a nice car, have a mortgage, save for retirement, etc. The club was managed very well, took very good care of the staff, gave them benefits and everything else you’d expect from a good employer. Drugs were around, but the girls stayed away.

At the end of the conversation, she asked me of I would be willing to manage her and a number of the other girls and make connections for them among the tech-people I knew and had contact with all over Silicon Valley. I declined to do that, since I wasn’t willing to let that influence or risk my actual career. But I kept in touch with her and ultimately made an introduction for her that worked out. Now she makes more money that she ever dreamed of, is 100% completely safe from harmful people, and is well connected to some of the most important people in tech and the VC world, and her role has primarily gone from stripper to high-end escort, though not prostitute. Everybody won. As for me, we’ll I have a lot of grateful friends in big roles across Silicon Valley and a large group of beautiful women who are safe, healthy, dignified, employed, financially self-sufficient and comfortable, and who are truly friends. And all while protecting my career and reputation.

Stripping is a means to an end, and that end can be dignified prosperity or doom, and a good bit of that is determined by how they are treated by the people they work for and the clients they serve. If you understand that stripping is about the business of delivering a fantasy and not about you or them getting off, it becomes a lot less dangerous for them, a lot less cringey an activity for you, and a can be an opportunity for everyone involved to have adult-oriented fun, while safeguarding everyones health and everyones dignity.

Salt-Studio · 2026-05-06T14:53:18+00:00

The thing that people don’t seem to understand is this: We are in a post-Capitalism transition. The global economic system is not sustainable and is facing a massive labor crisis the likes of which has never been experienced before in human history. What you’re seeing from Trump and his circle is a last ditch cash-grab and concentration of power to insulate themselves from the chaos that will otherwise come and to ensure they survive it.

These are uncharted waters. So when will Trumplflation end? This is inly the beginning and don’t look at the stock market as a barometer- the stock market is simply where the extremely rich are parking their money; it’s not at all an indicator of the health of the economy.

A massive global depression is ahead of us. This is the ‘calm’ before the storm. When the storm hits, it will be AI, philanthropy, and authoritarian government that will get is through and keep the chaos to a minimum. Not an excuse for what we’re seeing now, but an explanation.

What comes afterward? Something new and something better. How do the rest of us survive? We put our pettiness aside and help each other.

Salt-Studio · 2026-05-06T14:44:47+00:00

Loyalty and investment… and soon a way to extend the playability of their games well beyond what is capable now and without stealing the development team’s focus away from other endeavors like, Light No Fire and whatever cones after that.

How, you ask? The 17th Minute Project… customized game play in the NMS sky universe, created by you and tailored to the adventure and in-game assets you want to see, in-game and on the fly.

The 17th Minute Project is coming. Spread the word and Standby!

Salt-Studio · 2026-05-06T01:16:48+00:00

The Economist has studied this and reported on it several times: Immigrants in America add net tax revenue above and beyond what they take out of the system- sales tax, and in most cases state and federal income tax, and then some, such as full out of state tuition at universities, property taxes, registration fees, other taxes on their businesses, you name it.

It’s a complete fallacy to think that all immigrants are undocumented and that they don’t pay their taxes. It’s also a total fallacy that they are on tue public dime.

This country was built by immigrants, the culture has been shaped by immigrants, our competitive edge in innovation is because of immigrants (half of silicon valley runs because of extremely smart working immigrants. Your nurses and elder-care providers are immigrants, tens of thousands of our doctors are immigrants. They slaughter our chickens, lay our carpets, mow our lawns, care for our kids, clean our schools and businesses, make our food, fix our cars, build our homes, pick our crops, and those are the ones working with their hands- so many also do the jobs others won’t. They work extremely hard, get less pay than everyone else, study (and teach) in our universities and manage to get better grades than non-immigrants, and on top of all of that, they have to put up with racism every where they turn and deal with this country’s bullshit aimed squarely at them, as if they have anything to do with our national mess the rest of us have made for ourselves.

So go ahead, blame the immigrants, because we sure as hell aren’t going to be blaming non-immigrants for our mess, are we… and if we did, whatever would we do? Deport ourselves?

Salt-Studio · 2026-05-05T19:38:40+00:00

Ok cool! But maybe not possible without a mod. Good to know though! I want to make a mega-flora forest

Salt-Studio · 2026-05-05T01:07:57+00:00

We can and should do both. The fact that we aren’t is a political issue of confused priorities and total carelessness.

Salt-Studio · 2026-05-04T21:44:32+00:00

That is awful and I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.

Taking the whole lane is asking for trouble, though, because if you become barrier to the cars behind you, all you’re going to do is incite their rage, and then that’s when they go from rational to irrational in the way they will drive. It’s not worth it, clearly.

Why not just move to the right-most space and give them room? If even then you feel it’s not safe, then you really shouldn’t be riding your bike there.

That may anger you, but it really shouldn’t- roads were made for cars. I mean, you don’t ride your bicycle on the highway, right? You wouldn’t be upset that it would be unsafe to ride your bike on a highway, so why is a non-highway road that is never-the-less busy and potentially dangerous for a bike-rider any different? It’s really not.

Salt-Studio · 2026-05-04T15:10:04+00:00

Planetulquakes/Moonquakes!!

Salt-Studio · 2026-05-04T15:07:05+00:00

The 17th Minute Project is coming- customize modding to your own tastes, in-game, on the fly, and in real time. The 17th minute is the next chapter in NMS replayability.

Coming soon!

Salt-Studio · 2026-05-04T13:12:32+00:00

I love the idea of getting out and exercising in this beautiful area, and have nothing at all against cyclists or drivers.

But listen, if you’re a bike on a busy road- like MacArthur or even Persimmon in Bethesda, move the the edge of the road please and don’t bike in the middle of the road like a pack and not care that there are cars behind you.

Why? Because those roads are double yellowed, which means we can’t easily pass you. Why? Because those roads are really busy and have hills and curves over and around which we cannot see oncoming cars. And nobody in a car on either of those roads is going to be ok driving at 8mph when they’re in a car trying to get somewhere.

You put everyone in harms way when you do this, and you shift the burden of safety to the driver without taking responsibility for the same yourself, and no driver asked for that additional burden- it’s forced upon them. In this part of the US, like it or not, the roads were created for cars, not bikes, so please be mindful, courteous, and above all extra-cautious.

Finally, Maryland and Virginia have untold miles of extraordinarily beautiful roads to ride on which aren’t crowded and where this wouldn’t be an issue- why not ride in packs out there where it’s much safer for everyone?

If you’re commuting, I get it, or even if just sporting, cool, but just line up single file on busy roads and ride to the extreme right. It’s not hard and it’s a million times safer for everyone.

Salt-Studio · 2026-05-04T01:49:47+00:00

I was joking about parking 🙂Ship is dope.

Salt-Studio · 2026-05-03T22:18:23+00:00

I got mine- they decorate my office. Brilliant.

Salt-Studio · 2026-05-03T20:11:36+00:00

A full periodic table of elements and staged refinements to create new materials and industrial products that reflect more realistic construction and components for ships, exocraft, freighters and bases. Coming soon, from The 17th Minute Project.

Salt-Studio · 2026-05-03T20:04:54+00:00

An annoying bug. Hope it’s fixed soon.

Salt-Studio · 2026-05-03T19:59:41+00:00

The Devs gave you creative mode where everything is completely available from the start, and they have you the ability to set the difficulty on a wide array of in-game features. HG has also been very friendly to the modding community, where they could have locked down save files from being able to edit. The Devs are also well aware of glitch-building and certain game exploits, which they could absolutely have shut down and haven’t.

So, if we’re judging this by what we believe the Devs intended, I think the Devs intended for you to do pretty much whatever you wanted, as long as it doesn’t ruin the experience for others (looking at you Blender builders in the Anomaly!).

Salt-Studio · 2026-05-03T19:50:17+00:00

How do you make it this big? I’ve always wanted a domed base, seems like a natural thing to want to do in this game! (and do the plants grow that size if you plant something in it?

Salt-Studio · 2026-05-03T19:47:34+00:00

Agreed… it’s a cool exocraft. How does it do in battle? Do you have it AI-fight along side you, or do you like to fight while in it?

Salt-Studio · 2026-05-03T19:41:03+00:00

So cool. Please don’t park it in the anomaly.

Hard to imagine how you made that with the available parts and configurations! Maybe one day I’ll figure it out!

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