The pharmaceutical industry may be going through the same process as what happened to the music and movie industries under the piracy era of the Internet.
The fundamental problem of Hollywood is that it was a money-draining machine located in a single place in the US. When movie piracy became endemic, the lawmakers of all other jurisdictions were not very interested in cracking down on piracy in these other states and countries, so they never really passed laws with any teeth. Why would they? They didn't want to attack their own citizens only to force money flows out of their jurisdiction, toward Hollywood.
Similar things are happening in the pharmaceutical industry with generics. Socialist nations in Europe or Canada have developped strong systems to favor generic copies of medications, as well as a whole army of Doctors that are not incentivized at selecting the newest medications from the US pharmaceutical industry.
To be clesr, this is not a bad thing at all. The new-generation medications and brand ones that are much more costly often don't have as good of an history of safe use, they cost more to the patient, and, at best, they are just as good as the generic.
US politicians are capable of maintaining their population paying the high price, but they are unable to force other countries to do so, because effectively these other countries could choose on a dime to legalize and encourage less imports and more and local production of generics. They have leverage, which is why they end up paying less than Americans.
Effectively, the US pharmaceutical industry is being subjected to piracy. And that's a good thing.
That bag of cheap wild bird seed is mostly food your birds are going to throw on the ground, where mice will eat it.
The big reddish round grain in most budget seed mixes is milo, also called sorghum. It's cheap, it's heavy, and it fills the bag. Most songbirds, the chickadees, cardinals, finches, nuthatches that people actually want to see, largely ignore it or toss it aside in search of better seeds.
The leftovers pile up under the feeder, absorb moisture, and can sprout in spring. More importantly, spilled seed is one of the main reasons feeders attract rodents.
A lot of inexpensive blends are mostly low-value filler. So that $15 bag may contain far less bird food than you think.
The easiest fix is to buy straight black-oil sunflower seed. It attracts the widest variety of birds, produces much less wasted seed, and gives you more food that birds actually want. Add white proso millet in a separate ground feeder if you'd like to attract doves and native sparrows.
Read the ingredients on the back of the bag. If milo, wheat, or oats are near the top, keep looking.
I sent ten puns to my friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh. Alas
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Thanks for confirming that Ireland is being flooded with niggers as revenge for admitting their racial cousins as refugees and not you lying rats, Rabbi
In May 1945, at the end of WW2, tens to hundreds of thousands of Axis-aligned soldiers that were fighting the Bolshevik Communists & innocent civilians were executed without trial by Communist Yugoslav Partisans & sealed inside the Barbara Pit coal mine in Slovenia.
This horrific photograph was taken in March 2009 after investigators finally breached the concrete walls that were mended by the communist regime to hide the crimes.
Over 1,400 victims were uncovered & were preserved for decades in total darkness.
THIS IS COMMUNISM.
This is the REAL Holocaust.
Under Churchill, the UK & US teamed up with the Bolshevik communists responsible for 160 million deaths (White Christians).
This war led to the destruction of Western Civilisation.
The West is now currently a mix of the Weimar Republic Germany prior to WW2 & Bolshevik Russia.
This is what Germany fought against.
Everything you think you know about WW2 IS A LIE.
To understand what is happening right now, you have to go back.
When I got arrested for Nazi Pug, I got held in jail until my court date due to the "serious nature" of my "offence".
But the guy who threw a toddler into a crocodile enclosure to try and have him ripped limb from limb has already been bailed the very next day.
Clown country.