AT&T’s stock price hit a 29-year low on Friday and continued to sink today as investors fled telecom stocks on reports that cleanups of lead-covered telephone cables could cost the industry tens of billions of dollars.
New Street Research estimated that remediation could cost the telecom industry $60 billion
At&T alone had 120 billion in revenue in 2022 which was a bad year for them but God forbid we penalize a corporation, they’re job CREATORS don’t you know?
Hey, I’m not sure if it’s allowed to ask for help on hunting for specific files but this doubles up as a question about the best place to get books....
New dad here, whose daughter loves watching the older episodes of seasame street on HBO. After the stupid merger, they got rid of a lot of the older seasons, so now we are just going crazy watching the same 20ish episodes over and over again. Does anyone know where I can find other old episodes? Thanks
When it comes to spreading disinformation about climate change or the risks of smoking, I can clearly see how it protects economic interests (e.g. the value of the assets of the fossil fuel industry or the tobacco industry). I therefore understand that these lies are (have been) regularly pushed by people who do not necessarily...
One thing I haven't seen mentioned here yet is that at least in America, we have had a historic problem with minority groups (especially Black people) and distrust of the medical field in general that's pretty freaking justified. This study speaks about it in depth. but here's some relevant points from the abstract:
Given that the virus has hit the Black community the hardest, I am concerned now that vaccine hesitancy may perpetuate the health disparities that we are currently seeing in the numbers of infections and deaths taking place. Most studies, for instance, at this point, have found that Blacks as a community have the highest levels of individuals who state they will never get the vaccine or are not sure if they will get the vaccine, Fig. Fig.11 [7, 8]. Many studies have noted that Black people cite distrust in the government and in the medical profession. Black people cite our nation’s history of racism in medical research and in medical care as key reasons for their hesitancy [9, 10].
For some people it is a real, deep distrust in the government. Like I said though, it's justified. You don't have to look far to see examples of what they're talking about. J. Marion Sims was hailed as a medical hero for developing new surgical techniques, but he practiced and developed them on non consenting black slave women and immigrant Irish women. That's by far from the worst though, if you've never read of it, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study is fucking horrifying.
The Public Health Service started the study in 1932 in collaboration with Tuskegee University (then the Tuskegee Institute), a historically Black college in Alabama. In the study, investigators enrolled a total of 600 impoverished African-American sharecroppers from Macon County, Alabama.[6] Of these men, 399 had latent syphilis, with a control group of 201 men who were not infected.[5] As an incentive for participation in the study, the men were promised free medical care. While the men were provided with both medical and mental care that they otherwise would not have received,[7] they were deceived by the PHS, who never informed them of their syphilis diagnosis[6][8][9][10][11] and provided disguised placebos, ineffective methods, and diagnostic procedures as treatment for "bad blood".[12]
The men were initially told that the experiment was only going to last six months, but it was extended to 40 years.[5] After funding for treatment was lost, the study was continued without informing the men that they would never be treated. None of the infected men were treated with penicillin despite the fact that, by 1947, the antibiotic was widely available and had become the standard treatment for syphilis.[13]
The study continued, under numerous Public Health Service supervisors, until 1972, when a leak to the press resulted in its termination on November 16 of that year.[14] By then, 28 patients had died directly from syphilis, 100 died from complications related to syphilis, 40 of the patients' wives were infected with syphilis, and 19 children were born with congenital syphilis.[15]
This study kept uneducated, rural black people from receiving adequate care for their known Syphilis infections for TWENTY FIVE YEARS after we knew about how to treat the disease. People were infected. Children were infected. People died from this study.
For background, I'm very pro-vaccine, so much so that I wanted to study biomedical sciences and immunology. But I think it's extremely important to realize the sociological backgrounds as to why some people distrust the system and are suspicious of "free medical care" especially when sponsored by the government. The first study I linked talks about it, and I definitely agree that there is SO much work to be done in the US around trust in public health institutions.
I find it mildly infuriating that some coworkers think entering a break room gives them license to play loud music over speakers, use obscene language (especially to and about other coworkers), and disrupt the fifteen minutes of peace and quiet some of us crave in the workplace....
Why are you saying they shouldn't be complaining about things they find mildly infuriating on a board dedicated to complaining about mildly infuriating things?
FOUR whole parking spots (i.imgur.com)
Family died in Rockies after trying to live ‘off the grid,’ official says (www.boston.com)
Viagra Boys - Punk Rock Loser [2022] (www.youtube.com)
Just discovered this song this week and have been really enjoying it. Fun music video too.
AT&T stock fell to 29-year low on Friday and sank another 6.7% today (arstechnica.com)
AT&T’s stock price hit a 29-year low on Friday and continued to sink today as investors fled telecom stocks on reports that cleanups of lead-covered telephone cables could cost the industry tens of billions of dollars.
Second Alzheimer’s drug in pipeline can slow the disease by a few months but with safety risk (www.kcrg.com)
I know someone else has posted this but this one is less sensational and gives better facts.
A gay couple ran a rural restaurant in peace. Then new neighbors arrived. (www.washingtonpost.com)
You can get all your entertainment in one place, like Netflix - for FREE! (technomagnus.vercel.app)
I’ve seen a lot of posts about how to watch new and old movies and shows for free. This is for you, guys!...
Book piracy sites
Hey, I’m not sure if it’s allowed to ask for help on hunting for specific files but this doubles up as a question about the best place to get books....
Request: Old episodes of seasame street?
New dad here, whose daughter loves watching the older episodes of seasame street on HBO. After the stupid merger, they got rid of a lot of the older seasons, so now we are just going crazy watching the same 20ish episodes over and over again. Does anyone know where I can find other old episodes? Thanks
What are the strategic considerations behind the active spread of anti-vax theories?
When it comes to spreading disinformation about climate change or the risks of smoking, I can clearly see how it protects economic interests (e.g. the value of the assets of the fossil fuel industry or the tobacco industry). I therefore understand that these lies are (have been) regularly pushed by people who do not necessarily...
Terrible Coworkers (lampinc.net)
I find it mildly infuriating that some coworkers think entering a break room gives them license to play loud music over speakers, use obscene language (especially to and about other coworkers), and disrupt the fifteen minutes of peace and quiet some of us crave in the workplace....
What Android app should I use to browse Lemmy?
I'm trying to stop using Reddit, but it having an app I know about makes it have quite an advantage....
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