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        Books, Facts, and Gif: o the Ningal
 ssful trading
 rsian Gulf
 Complaint about delivery
 of the wrong grade of copper
 About 1750 BC (Old Babylonian
 period) from Ur
 ME 131236
 ian period)
peter-pantomime:
comparativelysuperlative:

prokopetz:

thesparkofrevolution:


blacktyranitar:

thesparkofrevolution:

jakovu:

dama3:

tastefullyoffensive:
Babylonian era problems. (photo via tbc34)
old school hate mail


Imagine how pissed you have to be to engrave a rock


Ok but there was this guy called Ea-nasir who was a total crook and would actually cheat people ought of good copper and sell them shit instead. The amount of correspondences complaining to and about this guy are HILARIOUS.


Are you telling me we know about a specific guy who lived 5000 years ago, by name, because he was a huge asshole


More like 4000 years ago but yes. Ea-nasir and his dodgy business deals.


And we haven’t even touched on the true hilarity of the situation yet. Consider two additional facts:
He wasn’t just into copper trading. There are letters complaining about Ea-nasir’s business practices with respect to everything from kitchenwares to real estate speculation to second-hand clothing. The guy was everywhere.
The majority of the surviving correspondences regarding Ea-nasir were recovered from one particular room in a building that is believed to have been Ea-nasir’s own house.
Like, these are clay tablets. They’re bulky, fragile, and difficult to store. They typically weren’t kept long-term unless they contained financial records or other vital information (which is why we have huge reams of financial data about ancient Babylon in spite of how little we know about the actual culture: most of the surviving tablets are commercial inventories, bills of sale, etc.).
But this guy, this Ea-nasir, he kept all of his angry letters - hundreds of them - and meticulously filed and preserved them in a dedicated room in his house. What kind of guy does that?
[ source ]

Okay, but imagine from the other guy’s point of view. You send angry letters about how Ea-nasir shipped you half a ton of subpar copper, and then 3800 years later—


History: you are without a doubt the worst business man ive ever heard of
Ea-nasir: 

        

            
            

                
                
                    Books, Facts, and Gif: o the Ningal
 ssful trading
 rsian Gulf
 Complaint about delivery
 of the wrong grade of copper
 About 1750 BC (Old Babylonian
 period) from Ur
 ME 131236
 ian period)
peter-pantomime:
comparativelysuperlative:

prokopetz:

thesparkofrevolution:


blacktyranitar:

thesparkofrevolution:

jakovu:

dama3:

tastefullyoffensive:
Babylonian era problems. (photo via tbc34)
old school hate mail


Imagine how pissed you have to be to engrave a rock


Ok but there was this guy called Ea-nasir who was a total crook and would actually cheat people ought of good copper and sell them shit instead. The amount of correspondences complaining to and about this guy are HILARIOUS.


Are you telling me we know about a specific guy who lived 5000 years ago, by name, because he was a huge asshole


More like 4000 years ago but yes. Ea-nasir and his dodgy business deals.


And we haven’t even touched on the true hilarity of the situation yet. Consider two additional facts:
He wasn’t just into copper trading. There are letters complaining about Ea-nasir’s business practices with respect to everything from kitchenwares to real estate speculation to second-hand clothing. The guy was everywhere.
The majority of the surviving correspondences regarding Ea-nasir were recovered from one particular room in a building that is believed to have been Ea-nasir’s own house.
Like, these are clay tablets. They’re bulky, fragile, and difficult to store. They typically weren’t kept long-term unless they contained financial records or other vital information (which is why we have huge reams of financial data about ancient Babylon in spite of how little we know about the actual culture: most of the surviving tablets are commercial inventories, bills of sale, etc.).
But this guy, this Ea-nasir, he kept all of his angry letters - hundreds of them - and meticulously filed and preserved them in a dedicated room in his house. What kind of guy does that?
[ source ]

Okay, but imagine from the other guy’s point of view. You send angry letters about how Ea-nasir shipped you half a ton of subpar copper, and then 3800 years later—


History: you are without a doubt the worst business man ive ever heard of
Ea-nasir: 

                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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        Energy, Money, and Skinny: Good old days...
 MEN
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 from indigestion and constipation, new pep.
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 whieh ro ulcentrated 7 times
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 lets. watch Bat chest develop, skinny limbs round
 out attractively. Skin clears to beauty, new health
 comes-you're an entirely new person.
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 No matter how skinny and weak you may be, or
 how long you have been that way, this marvelous
 hort weeks as it has thousands. It you are not
 delighted with the results of the very first pack
 age, your money will be instantly refunded.
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                    Energy, Money, and Skinny: Good old days...
 MEN
 WOULDN'T
 LOOK AT ME
 WHENI WAS
 SKINNY
 but...
 Since I Gained 10 Pounds
 This New, Easy Way
 I Have All the Dates I Want
 NOW there's no necd t
 ain an ounce
 before. Here's a new, easy treatment that is giving
 thousands attractive flesh-in just a few weceks!
 u wwith this new veast discovery
 in little tablets, you can get far greater tonle re-
 sults-regain health, and also put on pounds of firm
 Not only are thousands quickly gaining beauty-
 bringing pounds, but also elear skin, freedom
 from indigestion and constipation, new pep.
 Concentrated 7 times
 amazing new product, Ironized Yeast, is
 This
 made from specially cultured brewers ale yeast
 imported from Europe-the richest yeast known
 whieh ro ulcentrated 7 times
 But that is not all! This super-rich yeast is iron-
 ized with 3 speclal kinds of iron which strengthen
 the blood, add energy.
 u take Ironized Yeast tab-
 lets. watch Bat chest develop, skinny limbs round
 out attractively. Skin clears to beauty, new health
 comes-you're an entirely new person.
 Results guaranteed
 No matter how skinny and weak you may be, or
 how long you have been that way, this marvelous
 hort weeks as it has thousands. It you are not
 delighted with the results of the very first pack
 age, your money will be instantly refunded.
 Special FREE offer!
 To start you building up your health right away,
 we make this absolutely FREE offer. Purchase a
 h s on the hox and mail it to us with a clin
 ping of this paragraph. We will send you a fasci-
 Redy well-known authority. Remember, re-
 sults are guaranteed with the very first package-
 OT money 98Atianta, Co Ironized Yeast
 Co., Inc., Dept.
 Pd y prafeeimalodel
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        Energy, Money, and Skinny: Good old days...
 MEN
 WOULDN'T
 LOOK AT ME
 WHENI WAS
 SKINNY
 but...
 Since I Gained 10 Pounds
 This New, Easy Way
 I Have All the Dates I Want
 NOW there's no necd t
 ain an ounce
 before. Here's a new, easy treatment that is giving
 thousands attractive flesh-in just a few weceks!
 u wwith this new veast discovery
 in little tablets, you can get far greater tonle re-
 sults-regain health, and also put on pounds of firm
 Not only are thousands quickly gaining beauty-
 bringing pounds, but also elear skin, freedom
 from indigestion and constipation, new pep.
 Concentrated 7 times
 amazing new product, Ironized Yeast, is
 This
 made from specially cultured brewers ale yeast
 imported from Europe-the richest yeast known
 whieh ro ulcentrated 7 times
 But that is not all! This super-rich yeast is iron-
 ized with 3 speclal kinds of iron which strengthen
 the blood, add energy.
 u take Ironized Yeast tab-
 lets. watch Bat chest develop, skinny limbs round
 out attractively. Skin clears to beauty, new health
 comes-you're an entirely new person.
 Results guaranteed
 No matter how skinny and weak you may be, or
 how long you have been that way, this marvelous
 hort weeks as it has thousands. It you are not
 delighted with the results of the very first pack
 age, your money will be instantly refunded.
 Special FREE offer!
 To start you building up your health right away,
 we make this absolutely FREE offer. Purchase a
 h s on the hox and mail it to us with a clin
 ping of this paragraph. We will send you a fasci-
 Redy well-known authority. Remember, re-
 sults are guaranteed with the very first package-
 OT money 98Atianta, Co Ironized Yeast
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                    Energy, Money, and Skinny: Good old days...
 MEN
 WOULDN'T
 LOOK AT ME
 WHENI WAS
 SKINNY
 but...
 Since I Gained 10 Pounds
 This New, Easy Way
 I Have All the Dates I Want
 NOW there's no necd t
 ain an ounce
 before. Here's a new, easy treatment that is giving
 thousands attractive flesh-in just a few weceks!
 u wwith this new veast discovery
 in little tablets, you can get far greater tonle re-
 sults-regain health, and also put on pounds of firm
 Not only are thousands quickly gaining beauty-
 bringing pounds, but also elear skin, freedom
 from indigestion and constipation, new pep.
 Concentrated 7 times
 amazing new product, Ironized Yeast, is
 This
 made from specially cultured brewers ale yeast
 imported from Europe-the richest yeast known
 whieh ro ulcentrated 7 times
 But that is not all! This super-rich yeast is iron-
 ized with 3 speclal kinds of iron which strengthen
 the blood, add energy.
 u take Ironized Yeast tab-
 lets. watch Bat chest develop, skinny limbs round
 out attractively. Skin clears to beauty, new health
 comes-you're an entirely new person.
 Results guaranteed
 No matter how skinny and weak you may be, or
 how long you have been that way, this marvelous
 hort weeks as it has thousands. It you are not
 delighted with the results of the very first pack
 age, your money will be instantly refunded.
 Special FREE offer!
 To start you building up your health right away,
 we make this absolutely FREE offer. Purchase a
 h s on the hox and mail it to us with a clin
 ping of this paragraph. We will send you a fasci-
 Redy well-known authority. Remember, re-
 sults are guaranteed with the very first package-
 OT money 98Atianta, Co Ironized Yeast
 Co., Inc., Dept.
 Pd y prafeeimalodel
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        Being Alone, Crime, and Drinking: Woman gave
 boy, 14, drug
 so she could
 RAPE him
 It
 s AWOMAN whraped a 14-year by MARK BRANAGAN
 old boy after giving him the anti-anxi
 ety drug Xanax has been jailed
 Garrett had learning difficulties and
 Jamie Garrett slipped the youngstera suffered psychological abuse as a
 tablet beforwarapingtshe added: There hasn't been one
 The offences took place in August bright spot in the defendant's life so
 2016 when Garrett, then aged 22, had far, save for her relationship with her
 been drinking, smoking cannabis and grandfather. And that came at a price
 es
 with him.
 n risk
 when she became a carer
 taking Xanax herself
 Before a pingschoolboy, Gar Her grandfather has since died, leav-
 rett gave him a tabet to disinhibit ing Garrett, now 24, alone. She admit-
 him, Sheffield Crown Court was told. ted sexual activity with a child and
 Prosecutor lan Goldsack said Garrett
 supplying a controlled drug.
 told police she had taken five or six Jailing her for two years and five
 tablets herself and 'drunk a variety of months, Judge Jeremy Richardson QC
 alcoholic drinks and also smoked can said: I take into account there was the
 te nabis. Garrett later told police she had use of drugs trapet the boy
 You engaged in a variety of sexual
 acts with the boy. You have had a
 dreadful life, and have a range of per-
 re is named for legal reasons, said he was sonal vulnerabilities. But you have,
 been prescribed the Xanax by her doc-
 The boy's mother, who cannot be
 acutely embarrassed' by what had
 happened
 Katherine Goddard, mitigating, said
 however, committed a serious crime.
 Garrett was also placed on the sex
 offenders' register for ten years.
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                    Being Alone, Crime, and Drinking: Woman gave
 boy, 14, drug
 so she could
 RAPE him
 It
 s AWOMAN whraped a 14-year by MARK BRANAGAN
 old boy after giving him the anti-anxi
 ety drug Xanax has been jailed
 Garrett had learning difficulties and
 Jamie Garrett slipped the youngstera suffered psychological abuse as a
 tablet beforwarapingtshe added: There hasn't been one
 The offences took place in August bright spot in the defendant's life so
 2016 when Garrett, then aged 22, had far, save for her relationship with her
 been drinking, smoking cannabis and grandfather. And that came at a price
 es
 with him.
 n risk
 when she became a carer
 taking Xanax herself
 Before a pingschoolboy, Gar Her grandfather has since died, leav-
 rett gave him a tabet to disinhibit ing Garrett, now 24, alone. She admit-
 him, Sheffield Crown Court was told. ted sexual activity with a child and
 Prosecutor lan Goldsack said Garrett
 supplying a controlled drug.
 told police she had taken five or six Jailing her for two years and five
 tablets herself and 'drunk a variety of months, Judge Jeremy Richardson QC
 alcoholic drinks and also smoked can said: I take into account there was the
 te nabis. Garrett later told police she had use of drugs trapet the boy
 You engaged in a variety of sexual
 acts with the boy. You have had a
 dreadful life, and have a range of per-
 re is named for legal reasons, said he was sonal vulnerabilities. But you have,
 been prescribed the Xanax by her doc-
 The boy's mother, who cannot be
 acutely embarrassed' by what had
 happened
 Katherine Goddard, mitigating, said
 however, committed a serious crime.
 Garrett was also placed on the sex
 offenders' register for ten years.
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        Being Alone, Amazon, and College: did you know?
 There's an app that pays people to go online.
 Nielsen, the organization that does TV ratings,
 now measures the popularity of websites and
 online videos. To do that, they'll pay you just to
 1.) Join the Nielsen panel at InternetPanel.org
 2.) Get the free app on your phone/computer,
 3.) Use the internet the same way you do now.
 It's that simple! Panel members receive cash
 and Amazon gift cards just to use the internet.
 nielsen
 PHOTO: INTERNETPANEL.ORG
 DID YOU KNOW?
collegehackable:
cntnd:

zarb:

You guys, I looked into it and this is legitimate. According to Wikipedia, Nielsen has been a trusted name since the 1920s, first measuring what radio stations people listened to. In the 1950s, they got into television ratings and now they’re measuring the popularity of stuff online. I can’t believe they’re gonna start paying me to watch youtube videos… I’m truly living in 3019
It took me less than 5 minutes to sign up here

GUYS… in 2019 we live in 3019

I usually scroll past these sorta posts, but I know a lot of broke college kids follow me and want someone to verify if this is real. After doing my homework, I learned that the Nielsen internet panel is undeniably real.
(Source: TV Technology)
If you’re worried about what data they collect, this is from Nielsen’s website:
TL;DR they only want to know what websites you visit, how long you spend on those sites, etc. and they NEVER collect sensitive data such as usernames, passwords, login information, bank, or credit card information.
Facebook already collects (and sells) your data. The difference is that Nielsen wants to pay you and they’re not sneaky about it. So yes, you can quite literally get paid to watch youtube videos.
Pro-Tip: to make the most money, you guys should join the panel on your computer AND your phone because you can earn more for multiple devices. Besides regular rewards, Nielsen gives away $10,000 cash each month. You could receive a thousand dollars in one month from the sweepstakes alone. If you keep Nielsen on your computer, you’ll be automatically entered into their monthly sweepstakes, so the app is a must-have on laptop or desktop. Two people win $1000 each month and four hundred people win cash prizes. Another reason to add multiple devices is that 

annually they will pay you $50 per mobile device you connect, so it pays to put Nielsen on all your devices, even that old phone in a drawer somewhere if it’ll turn on. Tablets work too, as do iPods and E-Readers.

        

            
            

                
                
                    Being Alone, Amazon, and College: did you know?
 There's an app that pays people to go online.
 Nielsen, the organization that does TV ratings,
 now measures the popularity of websites and
 online videos. To do that, they'll pay you just to
 1.) Join the Nielsen panel at InternetPanel.org
 2.) Get the free app on your phone/computer,
 3.) Use the internet the same way you do now.
 It's that simple! Panel members receive cash
 and Amazon gift cards just to use the internet.
 nielsen
 PHOTO: INTERNETPANEL.ORG
 DID YOU KNOW?
collegehackable:
cntnd:

zarb:

You guys, I looked into it and this is legitimate. According to Wikipedia, Nielsen has been a trusted name since the 1920s, first measuring what radio stations people listened to. In the 1950s, they got into television ratings and now they’re measuring the popularity of stuff online. I can’t believe they’re gonna start paying me to watch youtube videos… I’m truly living in 3019
It took me less than 5 minutes to sign up here

GUYS… in 2019 we live in 3019

I usually scroll past these sorta posts, but I know a lot of broke college kids follow me and want someone to verify if this is real. After doing my homework, I learned that the Nielsen internet panel is undeniably real.
(Source: TV Technology)
If you’re worried about what data they collect, this is from Nielsen’s website:
TL;DR they only want to know what websites you visit, how long you spend on those sites, etc. and they NEVER collect sensitive data such as usernames, passwords, login information, bank, or credit card information.
Facebook already collects (and sells) your data. The difference is that Nielsen wants to pay you and they’re not sneaky about it. So yes, you can quite literally get paid to watch youtube videos.
Pro-Tip: to make the most money, you guys should join the panel on your computer AND your phone because you can earn more for multiple devices. Besides regular rewards, Nielsen gives away $10,000 cash each month. You could receive a thousand dollars in one month from the sweepstakes alone. If you keep Nielsen on your computer, you’ll be automatically entered into their monthly sweepstakes, so the app is a must-have on laptop or desktop. Two people win $1000 each month and four hundred people win cash prizes. Another reason to add multiple devices is that 

annually they will pay you $50 per mobile device you connect, so it pays to put Nielsen on all your devices, even that old phone in a drawer somewhere if it’ll turn on. Tablets work too, as do iPods and E-Readers.

                    
                
            

            
                
                
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        Anaconda, Energy, and Food: t1 Gravitas Free Zone Retweeted
 db pooper @lonelydandruff 2h
 I just realised americans think their medicine costs as much as they're
 charged for it
 Your Trusted Wizard @Choplogik
 iguess if i was an american & saw all the wildly exorbitant medical bills
 people get i would wonder how universal healthcare'd get paid for
 07
 216
 357
bogleech:
the-library-alcove:

flyingfishtailoutpost1:

thebibliosphere:

lizardtitties:

withasmoothroundstone:


robstmartin:

titleknown:
Blogging this tweet because this explains SO MUCH about the mindset of pretty much all the folks I’ve known who’re against single-payer, it’s not even funny…
This….
This never occurred to me. Not once. That Americans are against Health Care because they think it actually costs tens of thousands of dollars for a broken arm, hundreds of thousands for a complicated birth, millions for cancer treatment.
Because they’ve never known anything different. The idea that a broken arm is only a couple hundred bucks; a complicated birth a couple thousand; cancer treatment only tens of thousands; all easily covered by existing tax structures.

This explains a lot.  And it’s a good example of what I was talking about in my post on scarcity being used to prop up ableism – always question the idea that a resource is genuinely scarce.  Even if it seems obvious that it is, quite often that’s the result of careful manipulation and misconceptions that you’re not even aware of.  
And never think you’re too smart to be fooled by that kind of thing, it doesn’t work like that.  Similarly, don’t think people who are fooled by something are stupid.  Nobody can have all the information about everything, and nobody has the time and energy to investigate and put together conscious conclusions about every piece of information they’re given.  It doesn’t take being stupid, or even just gullible, to believe something like this.


I currently live in a country without free medical care and still, it’s enormously cheap compared to the USA. An American expat wrote a piece for our English language paper about how she paid more for parking at the hospital than giving birth to her baby that’s pretty interesting:
https://grapevine.is/mag/articles/2016/01/06/healthcare-in-iceland-vs-the-us-weve-got-it-so-good/

Yesterday I had to go to the hospital cause I injured my eye, I’m frankly dreading what the bill is going to be, but what made me balk was being told in the pharmacy that my insurance was denied for the antibiotic eye drops and it’d be over $100 out of pocket. So I didn’t get my eyedrops.

I’ve had these same drops before living in the UK. They cost me seven GBP.

It’s the exact same drug, same steroid, same strain of antibiotic. But somehow the US gets away with charging $100 for a generic non brand version of a drug which is easy to create and widely used. It’s downright robbery, but also a form of eugenics through poverty and class warfare. You keep the poor poor by making sure basic necessities remain unattainable and then you make it seem like the norm so no one fights it.

The rest of the world is not like this.

Eat the rich. Resist.
It’s downright robbery, but also a form of eugenics through poverty and class warfare.


THIS. THISTHISTHIS. THIS IS WHAT I KEEP TRYING TO TELL PEOPLE. 

My blood pressure medication (Candesartan) costs between $40-$125 USD for 30 tablets in the US.Here in Germany, 98 tablets costs me 5 Euro.

The worst part is, the people pocketing the most of this money are powerful enough to keep it this way, and in the event that legislation of some kind actually brought prices down, they could cry to the government that their profits were taken from them and lobby to “make up” their losses in some way that you can guarantee will still hurt the lower classes.Most likely, they would end up getting billions in corporate welfare, and when it came time to make any budget cuts, they’d be able to use the same influence to keep their handouts while welfare and food stamps for poorer, hungrier people end up on the chopping block first.

        

            
            

                
                
                    Anaconda, Energy, and Food: t1 Gravitas Free Zone Retweeted
 db pooper @lonelydandruff 2h
 I just realised americans think their medicine costs as much as they're
 charged for it
 Your Trusted Wizard @Choplogik
 iguess if i was an american & saw all the wildly exorbitant medical bills
 people get i would wonder how universal healthcare'd get paid for
 07
 216
 357
bogleech:
the-library-alcove:

flyingfishtailoutpost1:

thebibliosphere:

lizardtitties:

withasmoothroundstone:


robstmartin:

titleknown:
Blogging this tweet because this explains SO MUCH about the mindset of pretty much all the folks I’ve known who’re against single-payer, it’s not even funny…
This….
This never occurred to me. Not once. That Americans are against Health Care because they think it actually costs tens of thousands of dollars for a broken arm, hundreds of thousands for a complicated birth, millions for cancer treatment.
Because they’ve never known anything different. The idea that a broken arm is only a couple hundred bucks; a complicated birth a couple thousand; cancer treatment only tens of thousands; all easily covered by existing tax structures.

This explains a lot.  And it’s a good example of what I was talking about in my post on scarcity being used to prop up ableism – always question the idea that a resource is genuinely scarce.  Even if it seems obvious that it is, quite often that’s the result of careful manipulation and misconceptions that you’re not even aware of.  
And never think you’re too smart to be fooled by that kind of thing, it doesn’t work like that.  Similarly, don’t think people who are fooled by something are stupid.  Nobody can have all the information about everything, and nobody has the time and energy to investigate and put together conscious conclusions about every piece of information they’re given.  It doesn’t take being stupid, or even just gullible, to believe something like this.


I currently live in a country without free medical care and still, it’s enormously cheap compared to the USA. An American expat wrote a piece for our English language paper about how she paid more for parking at the hospital than giving birth to her baby that’s pretty interesting:
https://grapevine.is/mag/articles/2016/01/06/healthcare-in-iceland-vs-the-us-weve-got-it-so-good/

Yesterday I had to go to the hospital cause I injured my eye, I’m frankly dreading what the bill is going to be, but what made me balk was being told in the pharmacy that my insurance was denied for the antibiotic eye drops and it’d be over $100 out of pocket. So I didn’t get my eyedrops.

I’ve had these same drops before living in the UK. They cost me seven GBP.

It’s the exact same drug, same steroid, same strain of antibiotic. But somehow the US gets away with charging $100 for a generic non brand version of a drug which is easy to create and widely used. It’s downright robbery, but also a form of eugenics through poverty and class warfare. You keep the poor poor by making sure basic necessities remain unattainable and then you make it seem like the norm so no one fights it.

The rest of the world is not like this.

Eat the rich. Resist.
It’s downright robbery, but also a form of eugenics through poverty and class warfare.


THIS. THISTHISTHIS. THIS IS WHAT I KEEP TRYING TO TELL PEOPLE. 

My blood pressure medication (Candesartan) costs between $40-$125 USD for 30 tablets in the US.Here in Germany, 98 tablets costs me 5 Euro.

The worst part is, the people pocketing the most of this money are powerful enough to keep it this way, and in the event that legislation of some kind actually brought prices down, they could cry to the government that their profits were taken from them and lobby to “make up” their losses in some way that you can guarantee will still hurt the lower classes.Most likely, they would end up getting billions in corporate welfare, and when it came time to make any budget cuts, they’d be able to use the same influence to keep their handouts while welfare and food stamps for poorer, hungrier people end up on the chopping block first.

                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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                    Advice, Doctor, and Drugs: Take Medication On An EMPTY
 STOMACH 1 Hour Before or 2
 to 3 Hours After a Meal Unless
 Otherwise Directed By Your Dr.when taking this medication
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 taking non-prescription drugs, some
 may effect the action of this
 DO NOT DRINK
 ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
 AR
 MAY CAUSE
 It is very IMPORTANT that you Take or
 TM
 DISCOLORATION
 OF THE URINE OR FECES
 Use THIS EXACTLY AS DIRECTED
 Do not skip doses or discontinbe
 unless directed by your doctor
 EXTERNAL USE
 ONLY
 CHEW TABLETS
 BEFORE
 SWALLOWING
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 NOSE
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 FINISH ALL THIS MEDICATION
 UNLESS OTHERWISE DIRECTED
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 a full glass of orange juice
 AND KEEP IN
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        Facts, Period, and Respect: sadboi-syd
 Complaint about delivery
 of the wrong grade of copper
 About 1750 BC (Old Babylonian
 period). from Ur
 ME 33123
 the Ningal
 ssful trading
 Gulf
 o
 sian
 an period)
 to
 tastefullvoffensive
 Babylonian era problems. (photo via tbc34)
 dama3
 old school hate mail
 jakovu
 Imagine how pissed you have to be to engrave a rock
 thesparkofrevolution
 Ok but there was this guy called Ea-nasir who was a total crook and
 would actually cheat people ought of good copper and sell them shit
 instead
 The amount of correspondences complaining to and about this guy are
 HILARIOUS
 blacktyranitar
 Are you telling me we know about a specific guy who lived 5000 years
 ago, by name, because he was a huge asshole
 thesparkofrevolution
 More like 4000 years ago but yes. Ea-nasir and his dodgy business
 deals
 prokopetz
 And we haven't even touched on the true hilarity of the situation yet.
 Consider two additional facts
 He wasn't just into copper trading. There are letters complaining
 about Ea-nasir's business practices with respect to everything
 from kitchenwares to real estate speculation to second-hand
 clothing. The guy was everywhere
 The majority of the surviving correspondences regarding Ea-
 nasir were recovered from one particular room in a building that
 is believed to have been Ea-nasir's own house
 Like, these are clay tablets. They're bulky, fragile, and difficult to store.
 They typically weren't kept long-term unless they contained financial
 records or other vital information (which is why we have huge reams of
 financial data about ancient Babylon in spite of how little we know about
 the actual culture: most of the surviving tablets are commercial
 inventories, bills of sale, etc.)
 But this guy, this Ea-nasir, he kept all of his angry letters hundreds of
 them - and meticulously filed and preserved them in a dedicated room
 in his house. What kind of guy does that?
Tumblr discusses the Complaint tablet to Ea-nasir
        

            
            

                
                
                    Facts, Period, and Respect: sadboi-syd
 Complaint about delivery
 of the wrong grade of copper
 About 1750 BC (Old Babylonian
 period). from Ur
 ME 33123
 the Ningal
 ssful trading
 Gulf
 o
 sian
 an period)
 to
 tastefullvoffensive
 Babylonian era problems. (photo via tbc34)
 dama3
 old school hate mail
 jakovu
 Imagine how pissed you have to be to engrave a rock
 thesparkofrevolution
 Ok but there was this guy called Ea-nasir who was a total crook and
 would actually cheat people ought of good copper and sell them shit
 instead
 The amount of correspondences complaining to and about this guy are
 HILARIOUS
 blacktyranitar
 Are you telling me we know about a specific guy who lived 5000 years
 ago, by name, because he was a huge asshole
 thesparkofrevolution
 More like 4000 years ago but yes. Ea-nasir and his dodgy business
 deals
 prokopetz
 And we haven't even touched on the true hilarity of the situation yet.
 Consider two additional facts
 He wasn't just into copper trading. There are letters complaining
 about Ea-nasir's business practices with respect to everything
 from kitchenwares to real estate speculation to second-hand
 clothing. The guy was everywhere
 The majority of the surviving correspondences regarding Ea-
 nasir were recovered from one particular room in a building that
 is believed to have been Ea-nasir's own house
 Like, these are clay tablets. They're bulky, fragile, and difficult to store.
 They typically weren't kept long-term unless they contained financial
 records or other vital information (which is why we have huge reams of
 financial data about ancient Babylon in spite of how little we know about
 the actual culture: most of the surviving tablets are commercial
 inventories, bills of sale, etc.)
 But this guy, this Ea-nasir, he kept all of his angry letters hundreds of
 them - and meticulously filed and preserved them in a dedicated room
 in his house. What kind of guy does that?
Tumblr discusses the Complaint tablet to Ea-nasir
                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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