Imugi: And wait till I tell you that not even flying skates have been invented. Worse: they all went back to those old cartoonish skates with a handle, just electrified like a tram, sorta.
Bree: …
Imugi: Peace in the Middle East, please! Wait till I’ll tell you about the Anschluss of Canada and the invasion of Greenland, about how the fascists demand “freedom” and the liberals jail them in the name of “democracy”, all because of some tariff that can’t even work at all (the real problem is the bubble of financiarized speculative cost of life, the housing bubble).
Bree: What?! You can’t anymore buy all you want on a credit card and pray that the future pays the debt somehow?! Aaaaaaaaaaagh! My gaming debt must be ginormous!, yuge with z of zillions!
Imugi: Wait till I tell you about your hospital bill…
I’m pretty sure we’re already deep in “WW3 by proxy” but don’t tell Bree/Jen, it may be too much to digest, especially the part about broadcast Gaza genocide.
Oh no, not talking on those films who just destroyed the hype about one of the best saga of SF in the World. Will Imugi be able to realize it’s not a video game that sent Jen in there ? That would be a sight to see . And yeah, great work on noticing again Joker_vD; she is really going to keep her outfit if she doesn’t need to take out her “girls” for the world to see her lust
well, technically we HAVE “cured” “cancer”. the trick is finding them before they’ve spread. also not using so much “cure” that it doesn’t “cure” the patient into a coffin.
Sorry to hear that, erana. Hope you all OK now. For an old friend of mine, about the same time, alas, it was a death sentence. He was in a coma for several months, then gone! Lost both my first wife (after we were divorced) to the dreaded ‘C’, and my second wife three ago, in her case maybe she was downwind of Chernobyl. So, we haven’t really ‘cured’ (eradicated) cancer, even if you think you’ve caught it.
Same here, prostate in ’03. Thankfully the brachytherapy took care of it and my PSAs remain undetectable to this day. Although the usual thinking is that it’s just in remission, not cured.
It’s not that easy. I have chronic lymphatic leukemia, and as things are it’s incurable. You *may* be lucky enough to have it go into remission for years, but when your bone marrow has mutations that makes cell production go wonky, you really can’t fix that without a stem cell treatment (which doesn’t exist) or maybe a transplant (which I’m not sure works either). You *might* get rid of the mutated cells, but I assume I’m stuck with the disease, just chilling.
The good thing about it is that the treatments have improved massively in the recent years, and it’s an expensive disease to treat, so Big Pharma has plenty of reason to improve treatments. After all, the longer the patients live, the more cycles of treatments you can sell! Because CLL works like this: diagnose, follow, wait for indicators to pass certain thresholds, treat for about a year, move back to following the situation, treat again after things get bad enough. Because you do not want to treat early in case there’s resistance, because then the resistant strain gets to take over and you’re screwed. Took me a bit over 2 years from diag to start of treatments, half a year left in this cycle. Fully expecting to need repeat treatments this decade. It’s just the nature of the beast.
As others said: you can’t cure cancer, no more than you can the common cold or the flu, only treat the symptoms
Me and mum both had cancer: they managed to catch it in time and treat it with surgery, no chemo for either of us and no bill either
The thing is, there IS a “cure” for (most) cancers, just that it does include surgery to get rid of the tumor, followed by chemo and/or radio as needed. There is not, and likely will never be, a magical pill that gets rid of the tumor, and the tumor only, with no need for surgery. But tell that to the seekers of magical healigs…
Sorry, my friend, but I have to stop you right there.
We cancer patients DO have a word for those “promising, still in develpment” treatments.
Scams.
I’ve personally seen die EVERY patient that went to try those instead of “conventional” treatments, only to desperately turn back to the “conventional” stuff they thought woyld not be enough – but generallu it was too late by then to save them, despite my country being the actual world leader in cancer treatment.
EVERY single “it makes the body fight the cancer” “”””treatment”””” is a scam by someone trying to take your money out of your desperation, selling you fake hope at a high price. Every time a REAL doctor does NOT try to take the tumor away before starting all other treatments is because taking that particular tumor is not feasible (which usually spells Very BdNews), NOT because any treatment to fight cancer works any well, at all, while a tumor still exists.
If you happen to suffer cancer, go to what they derisively call “conventional” medicine but that I prefer to call REAL, ACTUAL medicine. Everything else will kill you AND make a bad person rich.
Lack of edit button. Allow me to clarify some thing. When I say “I watched die every patient”, it should end with “that I know”: family mebers, friends, friends of friends, famous people… EVERYONE I know that has done that stupid thing has died among horrible pains and much poorer.
We had the surgery (mum ended up with a hole in her side because the only other alternative was an anus transplant: after removing the affected part of the colon, there wasn’t enough to reattach), but neither of us had to do any chemo or radio or any other pills (the pills mum is taken is because of age)
Or course they did. An entire series Interquels starring Jar Jar Binks – one person in costume, one robot and one animated in each movie. There is a cartoon series running simultaneously with movies.
Ugh that’s a generational thing I guess. I mean the 90s idea of things getting eventually better is kinda dead in the water and it is in part because we failed to seize the opportunity when the world wasn’t in constant crisis mode. And since a certain date in 2001 it just has been crisis after crisis and the wrong kind of people taking profit form it. I atleast have the 90s to remember for nostalgia, everybody too young to have concrete memories before 2001 has gotten a constant dripfeed of anxiety for the last 25 since they can think and the adolescent rebellion phase they developed made things worse by stripping by giving their opposition the munition to achieve the current situation. Now all we can do is hoping we survive the next 4 years and that whoever takes over after the boomers is a bit more competent.
Used to tell by the ears, but, here, I don’t know.
Tell her what lands the current President wants to declare war on and she’ll conclude you’re from a parallel dimension.
I am convinced we are on the scratch/sandboxed malware timeline where they turned off common sense and decency
You are optimist.
Imugi: And wait till I tell you that not even flying skates have been invented. Worse: they all went back to those old cartoonish skates with a handle, just electrified like a tram, sorta.
Bree: …
Imugi: Peace in the Middle East, please! Wait till I’ll tell you about the Anschluss of Canada and the invasion of Greenland, about how the fascists demand “freedom” and the liberals jail them in the name of “democracy”, all because of some tariff that can’t even work at all (the real problem is the bubble of financiarized speculative cost of life, the housing bubble).
Bree: What?! You can’t anymore buy all you want on a credit card and pray that the future pays the debt somehow?! Aaaaaaaaaaagh! My gaming debt must be ginormous!, yuge with z of zillions!
Imugi: Wait till I tell you about your hospital bill…
And don’t forget the cold war not only being back, but getting hot …
I’m pretty sure we’re already deep in “WW3 by proxy” but don’t tell Bree/Jen, it may be too much to digest, especially the part about broadcast Gaza genocide.
On the bright side, Bree’s nipples are still rated for glass cutting.
Oh no, not talking on those films who just destroyed the hype about one of the best saga of SF in the World. Will Imugi be able to realize it’s not a video game that sent Jen in there ? That would be a sight to see
. And yeah, great work on noticing again Joker_vD; she is really going to keep her outfit if she doesn’t need to take out her “girls” for the world to see her lust 
well, technically we HAVE “cured” “cancer”. the trick is finding them before they’ve spread. also not using so much “cure” that it doesn’t “cure” the patient into a coffin.
can relate. Got rid of a brain tumor back in 2007. Decades ago that would have been a death sentence.
Sorry to hear that, erana. Hope you all OK now. For an old friend of mine, about the same time, alas, it was a death sentence. He was in a coma for several months, then gone! Lost both my first wife (after we were divorced) to the dreaded ‘C’, and my second wife three ago, in her case maybe she was downwind of Chernobyl. So, we haven’t really ‘cured’ (eradicated) cancer, even if you think you’ve caught it.
Same here, prostate in ’03. Thankfully the brachytherapy took care of it and my PSAs remain undetectable to this day. Although the usual thinking is that it’s just in remission, not cured.
I lost my mother, some relatives, and friends to cancer so I’m glad you made it!
We didn’t cured “cancer” because it’s not single illness with single cure. That said, we got significant progress with several common kinds of cancer.
It’s not that easy. I have chronic lymphatic leukemia, and as things are it’s incurable. You *may* be lucky enough to have it go into remission for years, but when your bone marrow has mutations that makes cell production go wonky, you really can’t fix that without a stem cell treatment (which doesn’t exist) or maybe a transplant (which I’m not sure works either). You *might* get rid of the mutated cells, but I assume I’m stuck with the disease, just chilling.
The good thing about it is that the treatments have improved massively in the recent years, and it’s an expensive disease to treat, so Big Pharma has plenty of reason to improve treatments. After all, the longer the patients live, the more cycles of treatments you can sell! Because CLL works like this: diagnose, follow, wait for indicators to pass certain thresholds, treat for about a year, move back to following the situation, treat again after things get bad enough. Because you do not want to treat early in case there’s resistance, because then the resistant strain gets to take over and you’re screwed. Took me a bit over 2 years from diag to start of treatments, half a year left in this cycle. Fully expecting to need repeat treatments this decade. It’s just the nature of the beast.
Greyish blue skin, black eyes with points of light glowing from within…
Not human, but something worse…
She’s clearly a member of the IRS looking for Bree due to 30 years of her not filing her taxes
Man, the IRS can find you ANYWHERE
Ha, ha, but technically Jen, not Bree. We don’t care if you say you’ve moved to Wood Elf Land. You still owe US taxes.
Something worse than a human? Do they mean a politician? *rimshot*
Worse: a real state speculator!
Eh, HOA president maybe. Though if the real estate person works with HOAs, I could accept that.
Nope. Just the THREE Star Wars movies.
Prequels were okay, sequels kinda sucked, but the shows were pretty good for the most part.
Also, we’ve made significant progress towards curing cancer, and we have the math down for FTL.
Peace in the middle east is outside my wheelhouse.
As others said: you can’t cure cancer, no more than you can the common cold or the flu, only treat the symptoms
Me and mum both had cancer: they managed to catch it in time and treat it with surgery, no chemo for either of us and no bill either
The thing is, there IS a “cure” for (most) cancers, just that it does include surgery to get rid of the tumor, followed by chemo and/or radio as needed. There is not, and likely will never be, a magical pill that gets rid of the tumor, and the tumor only, with no need for surgery. But tell that to the seekers of magical healigs…
Eh there’s some promising “make the body stop ignoring the cancer” treatments (still in development) but still nowhere near a magical pill level
Sorry, my friend, but I have to stop you right there.
We cancer patients DO have a word for those “promising, still in develpment” treatments.
Scams.
I’ve personally seen die EVERY patient that went to try those instead of “conventional” treatments, only to desperately turn back to the “conventional” stuff they thought woyld not be enough – but generallu it was too late by then to save them, despite my country being the actual world leader in cancer treatment.
EVERY single “it makes the body fight the cancer” “”””treatment”””” is a scam by someone trying to take your money out of your desperation, selling you fake hope at a high price. Every time a REAL doctor does NOT try to take the tumor away before starting all other treatments is because taking that particular tumor is not feasible (which usually spells Very BdNews), NOT because any treatment to fight cancer works any well, at all, while a tumor still exists.
If you happen to suffer cancer, go to what they derisively call “conventional” medicine but that I prefer to call REAL, ACTUAL medicine. Everything else will kill you AND make a bad person rich.
Lack of edit button. Allow me to clarify some thing. When I say “I watched die every patient”, it should end with “that I know”: family mebers, friends, friends of friends, famous people… EVERYONE I know that has done that stupid thing has died among horrible pains and much poorer.
This is not a laughing matter.
We had the surgery (mum ended up with a hole in her side because the only other alternative was an anus transplant: after removing the affected part of the colon, there wasn’t enough to reattach), but neither of us had to do any chemo or radio or any other pills (the pills mum is taken is because of age)
– Cured cancer? Peace in the Middle East?
– Not profitable.
And remember: Breen is the same, she just has an avatar to hide in
Or course they did. An entire series Interquels starring Jar Jar Binks – one person in costume, one robot and one animated in each movie. There is a cartoon series running simultaneously with movies.
Talk about Torture Porn.
Ugh that’s a generational thing I guess. I mean the 90s idea of things getting eventually better is kinda dead in the water and it is in part because we failed to seize the opportunity when the world wasn’t in constant crisis mode. And since a certain date in 2001 it just has been crisis after crisis and the wrong kind of people taking profit form it. I atleast have the 90s to remember for nostalgia, everybody too young to have concrete memories before 2001 has gotten a constant dripfeed of anxiety for the last 25 since they can think and the adolescent rebellion phase they developed made things worse by stripping by giving their opposition the munition to achieve the current situation. Now all we can do is hoping we survive the next 4 years and that whoever takes over after the boomers is a bit more competent.