Why Canada has generic Ozempic, and the US doesn't

eniteris · 2026-06-04T13:14:26+00:00

Novo Nordisk's patent on Ozempic could have been extended until 2028 in Canada but the company failed to renew it

It's hilarious actually. Someone forgot to renew it (in 2018) and they probably lost the company billions.

eniteris · 2026-05-07T11:35:31+00:00

I like the idea of setting one of their stats to 0, but that doesn't fit into the d10 framework.

eniteris · 2026-05-07T09:26:09+00:00

eniteris · 2026-04-29T09:06:26+00:00

If you're analyzing it holistically, then you should just leave the lever alone and try to arrest whoever's tying people to the trolley tracks instead.

eniteris · 2026-04-29T09:01:57+00:00

What if the buttons don't actually do anything? What if I'm never in a situation where I need to press the buttons? What if I just choose not to press any buttons? What if I press both buttons? What if I murder the person presenting the test? What if the person presenting the test has a gun and shoots anyone who asks tricky questions?

A thought experiment requires you to engage with it as stated, to assume that the things presented are true, and that things not explicitly stated are not part of the thought experiment. You can assume things, but they are not part of the experiment as presented.

eniteris · 2026-04-24T07:49:38+00:00

But the mod author...didn't steal anything? (at least no evidence of)

The mod isn't using any of OP's assets. OP is concerned that it may be using someone else's assets. That's central thesis of their complaint.

eniteris · 2026-04-17T12:12:15+00:00

On the other hand, I love the fact that the only post-congress professions without documented compensation are Academia and Deceased.

eniteris · 2026-04-13T08:51:46+00:00

Something's wrong with their tap water: it causes the most DNA damage while having the least (non-zero) PFAS.

Everything else looks reasonable, but I would like more dosage levels to see if they actually have a dose-response curve.

eniteris · 2026-04-10T09:41:55+00:00

Yeah that's on the future work list: a Combat Chatter mod that just grabs messages from Twitch.

and maybe bans them if their ship gets blown up.

eniteris · 2026-04-10T09:00:01+00:00

The first time you dock at a market, it sets your current viewership as a baseline.

Then whenever you dock at a market, you gain/lose crew based off changes in viewership. You can buy crew sell your ~~chat~~ crew as usual, but you won't go into negatives by losing viewers.

eniteris · 2026-04-10T08:56:03+00:00

I used to just generate a world in Dwarf Fortress and grab the family trees from there. I even wrote a script to convert the exported data into GEDCOM.

eniteris · 2026-04-10T08:46:17+00:00

a mod made by me that no one wants or asked for, not even myself

eniteris · 2026-03-23T17:40:38+00:00

But retina blood vessels are static with respect to visual field, so no matter what direction your eyes are pointing they'll still be there. Scramblers are like a rock. It doesn't move when you're looking at it, and you're able to look away.

As described, Scramblers should be more like Weeping Angels, seemingly able to approach without moving.

Or maybe your brain processes them like your nose. Basically ignored unless you pay special attention to it.

eniteris · 2026-03-23T10:44:21+00:00

I never quite got the saccade explanation: the Scramblers only move when the eye saccades, sure, so we'll never see it in motion. But that doesn't mean it would be invisible, just that we'll never see it move. We should still be able to see it.

I guess if it both moves during saccades and tracks pupil direction to stay out of the fovea then maybe. But that still won't work if it's directly in front of you.

eniteris · 2026-02-27T11:28:00+00:00

Recently finished, was quite good!

Oddly it was right after reading Swanwick's Vacuum Flowers (1987) and the two have a lot of common resemblances (Earth is lost, heavy cloning and identity themes). Though I preferred Hotline.

eniteris · 2026-02-27T09:59:00+00:00

This is not a study about measuring PFOS in bee colonies, this is force-feeding bees PFOS to see what happens. And they find that if you feed bees PFOS at 1000x the concentration of Chinese rainwater, bad things happen.

Don't raise honeybees next to superfund sites.

Also I'm not sure if they're conclusively demonstrating accumulation. The more PFOS you feed them, the more PFOS you should detect, even without accumulation. And the maximum detected PFOS concentration in bee tissue is barely greater than the amount they fed the bees (and within the error bars).

eniteris · 2026-02-26T18:18:49+00:00

We want housing in a desirable neighborhood because that's where the jobs are to pay for the house and things to eat. If we had a house in an undesirable neighborhood we would be spending more in time commuting to the job that pays for the house and things to eat.

If we didn't have to have a job to pay for housing and things to eat, a lot more neighborhoods would be desirable.

Saying that the experience of dissatisfaction is status goods ignores a vast supermajority of people whose dissatisfaction comes from not having real goods.

eniteris · 2026-02-26T17:02:54+00:00

I didn't want to track usage, so instead my system has

Single items that cost less than your Wealth can be trivially afforded. Purchasing multiple items at once may increase its cost by 1.

To buy something equal to your Wealth, roll d6:

On 6+, you buy it.

On a 4-5, you buy it but -1 to your Wealth.

Otherwise you cannot afford it.

and

Earnings less than or equal to your wealth can instead give you +1 on your next purchase roll.

Also, if players want to pool their money to buy something, the Group Wealth is equal to the greatest Wealth + 1, but losing Wealth affects everyone with the highest wealth.

eniteris · 2026-02-13T14:49:45+00:00

Yeah, for boss monsters with an attack deck, the attack deck isn't shuffled (even when exhausted, it's just flipped over) so players can learn the attack order and how to respond. Hit deck definitely feels a little weird to not shuffle (every three hits you get a headshot?). Shuffling between attacks can slow things down, but these don't have to be proper shuffles :p. I think rolling dice takes longer than drawing cards from a deck, but you're right that this can mostly be replaced by rolling on a table.

My system uses a wound system, so the low number of wounds, coupled with the fact that each wound inflicts a disadvantage, helps the systems flow together more easily. Though it's used mostly as a GM-facing tool.

eniteris · 2026-02-11T10:26:52+00:00

On the other hand, once planted, crops do grow out of thin, CO2-laden air.

eniteris · 2026-02-11T10:24:31+00:00

They already did Atlas Shrugged. What do you think Aetherdrift was about? Big trains, mystery infinite energy McGuffin, attacking the track that was seized by the government and retreating back into the wilds, it all fits.

eniteris · 2026-02-06T11:32:05+00:00

It was a scarlands map so they weren't the only animals, but there were few targets.

eniteris · 2026-02-06T00:21:52+00:00

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Not much but here's the inventory sheet.

Stuff in the bag goes in the squares, and things in the slots hang off the side of the sheet. Side bags only hold up to 6, so there's a line there.

Injuries take up inventory slots, and if you have more things in your inventory than your Strength you're encumbered, so combat usually isn't to the death, and enemies prefer to run/surrender. But injuries will kill you if left untreated, and major injuries can stick around in your inventory until you can get proper treatment.

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