Part of me has wanted this for a long time. The other part of me wants to forget I now know about it.

At least the handful I checked seem to be random, so likely accidental, but I can see this driving me crazy.

Source

Much of it seems to be regular upkeep of existing facilities. They’re the 3rd largest pharma company in the world, so they have a sizeable presence almost everywhere already. This seems just like PR for things that have likely been planned long before now.

From Roche’s Press Release:

As part of this investment, Roche will increase its existing footprint of more than 25,000 employees in 24 sites across eight US states. The investment will include:

-Expanded and upgraded US manufacturing and distribution capabilities for its innovative medicines and diagnostics portfolio in Kentucky, Indiana, New Jersey, Oregon and California

-A state-of-the-art gene therapy manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania

-A new 900,000 square foot manufacturing centre to support Roche’s expanding portfolio of next generation weight loss medicines (location to be announced)

-A new manufacturing facility for continuous glucose monitoring in Indiana

-A new R&D centre in Massachusetts, conducting cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) research and serving as hub for our new cardiovascular, renal and metabolism research and development efforts

-Significant expansion and upgrading of our existing pharmaceuticals and diagnostics R&D centres in Arizona, Indiana and California

Roche is a Swiss company with a strong heritage in more than 130 countries globally.

We are proud of our 110 year legacy in the United States.

They are super cute! We’ve got 2 at the clinic now just a smidge bigger than these.

They got to do a cute Easter egg hunt enrichment yesterday, of course not when I was there. 😒

I’m always interested in these situations where Trump is caught in the middle of 2 actual rich/powerful people to see where his position will land.

I feel dirty given the source being NY Post, but it’s the biggest coverage I can find on this, and the sucking up to Trump I feel is the best context given his fairly reliable vanity leading him to who he likes or not. It offers a look at the other side of OP’s article.

Los Angeles-based Leonid Smirnov, who fled Soviet communism in the 1970s, says he’s in a race against time to save Glavprodukt — the Campbell’s of Russia — which he founded in 1999 and built into a household name in his homeland.

“What’s happening with my company is a raid under a government seizure and confiscation attempt,” he told The Post.

And if it can happen to him, he said in a warning to Trump, it can happen to any of hundreds of US-owned companies operating in Russia, after President Vladimir Putin set his sights on foreign businesses after the invasion of Ukraine.

About a dozen companies have been put under “temporary management” in the past three years. Smirnov’s Glavprodukt was the first American-owned company to be targeted, and is famous across the motherland for its canned soups, vegetables, fish, and meat.

With the FTC being the only agency with any independence left at the end of this week when the regulation oversight executive order goes in effect, the current regime is still hesitant to outright screw with American money, at least for big time businesses and investors.

Since then, he said, the Moscow-based company — which employed 1,000 workers across three factories — had begun taking losses for the first time. Overall, he estimates the company has lost as much as 30 percent of its value.

“We basically have this company being destroyed on a daily basis,” said Smirnov.

He supplied partially obscured photos of himself to The Post, saying he now fears for his and his family’s safety.

Two weeks ago, a court ordered the seizure of cash and assets connected to Glavprodukt. Russian prosecutors claimed he had been illegally sending dividends from the business to the U.S.

It was all part of a pressure campaign, said Smirnov, to force him to sell at a knock-down price.

“I put 26 years of my life into that … building this company from scratch,” said Smirnov.

How does one run an oligarchy if the oligarchs don’t maintain faith in you?

Just a note, I’m not pro anyone in this story. I want Ukraine to get their country back (all of it) and for anyone who may have broken the law to see justice. I’m mainly here to ponder the ways this will make Trump enjoy his position as “peace broker” miserable as he needs to weasel between 2 groups he really really wants to like him, but he can only please one or none of them.

Glad to help!

They’re not deportations because the people being sent there are not from there.

Bukele, the Salvadorian ruler, is a fellow authoritarian, and told Marco Rubio he would disappear whoever they wanted for cash.

Guantanamo Bay is US territory, and our government would be responsible for what happens to these people, but by sending them to a cooperative 3rd party country, Trump and company have declared their hands clean of what happens to anyone sent there after that, and as they are out of US territory, we have no means to ever get any of them back.

They are now talking about sending people born in the US there if they are “bad enough.”

Here is a pretty short article that gives you some more specifics if you want.

If you’ve ever spoken out against the government in writing/online, are part of a labor union, or any kind of minority or LGBT or care about anyone that is, you should get up to speed on this quickly.

Oh, very nice. I also go deer hunting for much the same reasons.

I deleted my reply after I saw that comment, but since you replied, I undeleted it.

Even adult animals shouldn’t just be released wherever. We had someone last weekend want to bring in a fox, but they didn’t really want it to get released back to their property since they have chickens. They told the person it’s not like you can just toss an animal wherever. They have families, some species don’t do well alone, and if you drop them someplace different than where they’re from it’s not like they magically know where food, water, or shelter are to be found. How well would any of us do dropped in a random place we’ve never been with none of our stuff?

Rehabbers don’t charge you if you bring them an animal. You can even text them a pic and they can say bring it in or they’ll come get it or just put it back where you found it. If we came upon a human in distress we wouldn’t try to treat them or diagnose them on our own (hopefully!) so why do so many want to do that to a random animal?

It’s good you at least tried to talk some sense into them! Animals are fragile in some ways, but still amazingly strong and adaptable at the same time. Good luck, little bun!

I’m new to rehabbing this season, but when they showed us the baby rabbit room on our tour, they said the door is only opened twice and day and you’re not supposed to talk in there because babies rabbits are very susceptible to dying from stress.

This rabbit looks bigger than most of the ones in there, but if they want it to have the best chances of living and not getting too tame and unable to survive in the wild, it should go to a rehab ASAP.

They’re good. This is the second time I’ve had one. It’s like a regular pancake but a bit denser and it has a nice crisp to the outside. I mostly wanted to maple syrup (my brother is friends with the guy who made it) for my sore throat.

We’ve got the Aldi house brand ones. Good stuff!

A Ricola cough drop, or if that doesn’t count, a generic Kodiak Cake.

I don’t want to have to deal with the mod stuff, exactly like OP said. I’m just here to promote owls, conservation, and wildlife rehab. I do have a great mod that lets me do pretty much anything I want and will do stickies and banner changes and such for me, and I just keep giving good content.

Not going to spend much time on this, but this will be good enough I think. To say this is a conspiracy without evidence seems to be verifiable disinformation.

Adverse effects of spinal manipulation: a systematic review Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Abstract

Objective
To identify adverse effects of spinal manipulation.

Design
Systematic review of papers published since 2001.

Setting
Six electronic databases.

Main outcome measures
Reports of adverse effects published between January 2001 and June 2006. There were no restrictions according to language of publication or research design of the reports.

Results
The searches identified 32 case reports, four case series, two prospective series, three case-control studies and three surveys. In case reports or case series, more than 200 patients were suspected to have been seriously harmed. The most common serious adverse effects were due to vertebral artery dissections. The two prospective reports suggested that relatively mild adverse effects occur in 30% to 61% of all patients. The case-control studies suggested a causal relationship between spinal manipulation and the adverse effect. The survey data indicated that even serious adverse effects are rarely reported in the medical literature.

Conclusions
Spinal manipulation, particularly when performed on the upper spine, is frequently associated with mild to moderate adverse effects. It can also result in serious complications such as vertebral artery dissection followed by stroke. Currently, the incidence of such events is not known. In the interest of patient safety we should reconsider our policy towards the routine use of spinal manipulation.

But if the US asks for Europe to consider American opinions, wouldn’t that in itself be diversity?! Paradoxical! 🤔

That sounds like it could help people out. I imagine sometimes you might not know you need to talk to someone unless somebody brings to the idea.

That reminds me that I remember different companies that do gifts (I think I got emails from ProFlowers, for instance) that they send emails a month or so out from holidays like Mother’s/Father’s Day to click anything on the email so you don’t get those promos.

I wish everyone could do the same. The dang veterinarian that we used years ago kept sending me annual checkups for years after they had to put a few of my pets down. That always really bummed me out, and that’s not a person…

We also got the Nestle baby formula sample thing in the mail after my ex’s miscarriage. That one was not very appreciated either.

I feel I got on a tangent, but once I started replying I got reminded of less sensitive companies…

I actually saw a post to our town’s community page last night that the big local funeral home holds a once a month meeting in different topics to help people discuss these matters.

The coming event is a tour of the crematory where you can see the equipment, what can be done with the cremains, and a Q and A to determine if that is something you’d want for yourself.

A previous one was green burials, which I’m really bummed that I missed!

One person commented it was morbid, but the two from the funeral home said the last crematory tour had around 100 show up.

If you search “death conversations” or “death cafe” near you, you may be able to find something similar.

I do look to have made it to your feed now! It deleted my 3 posts that were photos with short blurbs and kept my news article that is mostly text.

We rarely get the meme type posts, but if your setup is looking at anything like text:photo ratio, that could be doing it.

I have most meme communities block myself, so I understand how overtaking they can be to a feed. 😁

I’m interested in what you’re doing because I am interested in news and politics, but it would be nice to get rid of most of the garbage US news and the dupe posts, and let a better variety of news come in. I’ve gone to keyword blocking, but while I have “Trump” blocked, I’d still like to see things from other countries about their responses to his actions., for example.

I was curious what would happen to the ratio of political posts, specifically Trump/Elon, to other communities, but it feels >= the amount as All on lemmy.world.

None of my superb owls look to have made it through, but I didn’t see them removed in the mod log. We’re a pretty large community, so I’d have thought some would have gotten through. I don’t recall if I saw stuff from any of the animal comms.

Vegeta really goes to great lengths to try and catch up. Goku just makes it look so easy while Vegeta is always taking a beating and getting better, but nowhere near Goku. The guy even lets himself get possessed to try to catch up.