Economic News Thread | Consumer Confidence declines

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finesse said:
The chemicals to make it aren't that expensive. Even if you stopped China , you probably wouldn't dent the fentanyl trade. It might drive prices up a little but since so little goes so far, that hardly matters at the wholesale level.

And, of course, there's this fallback.


Nitazenes were developed in the nineteen fifties and sixties and were meant to be a substitute for morphine. But they were so powerful that the FDA didn’t approve them. Now they’re a schedule one drug and illegal just like heroin and LSD. Nitazines are made in the lab and are inexpensive to produce. They block pain signals in the brain by binding to opioid receptors in the brain, spinal cord, and other sites in the body.
Depending on the chemical formulation, some nitazenes are 800 times more potent than morphine and 40 times more than even fentanyl! They come in liquids, pills, and powder form. And just as illegal street drugs can be laced with fentanyl, they can also contain nitazenes without the user knowing.
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My one experience with morphine was in the ER after I cut my finger off. They gave me morphine for the pain. I was so loopy I was playing with my exposed bones.
 
UNCatTech said:
Yes, I knew the median was around $75. $250 still just seems low for top 10%.

Of course, there's the big jump to get into the top 1%.

That article is sort of scarry. It begs the question of what has happened to the middle class.
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Keep in mind what the median is. It is not the mean, or average. It is the point at which there are equal numbers of people above and below that point. The top 1% of earners is a miniscule number of actual people or households, especially for how far away they are from the median. So if the top 1% or even top 5% earned a tenth or even say 6% of what they actually earn, it would have little to no effect on the median.

Also, the 75K figure is a household total. Certainly, not every household has two earners, but a great deal do. I don't know the official stat, but let's say 40% of households have two earners. In that 40%, the average income for 2 people is just 75K combined.

As for 10% making $250K, that actually seems high to me. Imagine the crowd at a football game or a random group of 50K people in a city. The thought of 1 out of 10 couples earning $250K combined, or 1 out of 10 singles making $250K seems very high ti me. And the thought of 1 in 10 typical average, and uneducated rural MAGA voters making $250K is unfathomable. Probably closer to 1 out of 40.
 
UNCatTech said:
Enough people walk away from jobs and the "employers" will wake up to the need for work life balance.

No level of productivity makes up for no employees to do the work.
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I’m betting that companies and organizations that mandate being in the office 5 days a week will see productivity decrease and really good employees leave.
 
heelinhell said:
Thank you Sleepy Joe. Just as Obama did, you have handed Trump a very good economy on a silver platter.

Trump dropped the platter Obama served him; Let's hope he doesn't fuck up this time around...
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I hope I’ll get a $20,000,000 check tomorrow from Publisher’s Clearing House tomorrow, but that’s not likely to happen. Neither is trump not fucking up the economy.
 
So I had some business up in Hurdle Mills. The folks in Person County apparently believe Trump and Musk are saving so much money by the firings that we're all going to get a $5,000 stimulus check! I told a friend of mine in Graham about it and he said he heard it might be $2,500. All I could say was that I couldn't wait to get mine.
 
UNCatTech said:
My one experience with morphine was in the ER after I cut my finger off. They gave me morphine for the pain. I was so loopy I was playing with my exposed bones.
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I got a couple mils of IV dilaudid, on top of an epidural PCA, after having a chunk cut out of a tibia. Within 2 min I was floating on the moon, but more importantly, my respirations were 5 per min. I was quickly narcanned. On the flip side, I encounter many addicts in my work, and some of those folks consume/inject the equivalent of up to 50x that amount per day. That’s what makes shit like fentanyl so deadly, we all have very different chemistry/tolerance.
 
Anybody doing the economic blackout thing today? Friday Feb 28…
I’m not sure if this will have any affect or effect - even if every single non-Trumper participated. But I’m in, just not sure if it’s going to matter one iota.
 
nycfan said:
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“… Work culture is “probably going to shift a little bit toward the harder end” for employees, said Lori Yue, associate professor of business at Columbia Business School.

Some companies may see the government’s actions as an opportunity to make drastic changes, work experts say.

“For companies that have been wanting to return to the office and push that agenda, this could be another piece of ammunition,” Bell said.

Tech start-ups, known traditionally to be more flexible than large corporations in their work policies, also are pushing more in-person work and longer hours, some within the community said. For founders, the new culture is something they think will give them a competitive edge.

… While unions continue to fight for worker rights, union participation hit a new low of about 10 percent of U.S. workers in 2024, down from 20 percent in 1983.

Trump also fired leaders of the National Labor Relations Board and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, both federal agencies that help protect workers. …”

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Out - work-life balance, work to live

In - live to work
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No surprise there, anyone could see that a Trump/Musk combo was an enemy of labor. And yet MAGAts think they are here to help them…
 
UNCatTech said:
My one experience with morphine was in the ER after I cut my finger off. They gave me morphine for the pain. I was so loopy I was playing with my exposed bones.
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Morphine has no effect on me. None. I had kidney stones 40 years ago (before lithotripsy was a thing) and was in the hospital for several days before they finally had to go in to get it. I was on a Demerol IV which was very effective. One day, I was in excruciating pain and learned they had switched me from Demerol to morphine. They switched me back to Demerol and it was almost an immediate impact.

Years later, I went in for a TURP procedure. I woke up in recovery in tremendous pain. I asked what was going on and the nurse said they had me on morphine so she didn’t understand. I told her morphine didn’t work, so she found a doctor and he prescribed a switch to Demerol and again the relief was almost instant.

One other instance about ten years ago I went to the emergency with severe abdominal pain (I thought it was another kidney stone but it turned out to diverticulitis). Among all the activity I asked if they were going to give me anything for pain and they said there is a morphine drip in that IV. I told them it wasn’t working so the doctor gave me fentanyl and the pain was relieved immediately.

I live in fear of being involved in a serious accident and the EMTs only having morphine available. I have found a few other people over the years with this same issue of morphine being ineffective.
 
I mostly stay away from opiates. They cause terrible constipation for me. They had morphine as a fallback for me after my trach. I was able to settle for Tylenol. Since they said I couldn't leave until I was able to have a bowel movement, I decided the opiates weren't worth it.

There was a time back in the very early 70s that I had a fair amount of fun smoking opium. A bit of opium, some hash and some cognac made for some sweet dreams.
 
farce© said:
Morphine has no effect on me. None. I had kidney stones 40 years ago (before lithotripsy was a thing) and was in the hospital for several days before they finally had to go in to get it. I was on a Demerol IV which was very effective. One day, I was in excruciating pain and learned they had switched me from Demerol to morphine. They switched me back to Demerol and it was almost an immediate impact.

Years later, I went in for a TURP procedure. I woke up in recovery in tremendous pain. I asked what was going on and the nurse said they had me on morphine so she didn’t understand. I told her morphine didn’t work, so she found a doctor and he prescribed a switch to Demerol and again the relief was almost instant.

One other instance about ten years ago I went to the emergency with severe abdominal pain (I thought it was another kidney stone but it turned out to diverticulitis). Among all the activity I asked if they were going to give me anything for pain and they said there is a morphine drip in that IV. I told them it wasn’t working so the doctor gave me fentanyl and the pain was relieved immediately.

I live in fear of being involved in a serious accident and the EMTs only having morphine available. I have found a few other people over the years with this same issue of morphine being ineffective.
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That is crazy. I had morphine once when I had to have emergency gall bladder surgery and that hit me like a tidal wave. An extraordinary experience, TBH.
 
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