HEALTHCARE: Here’s one way of lowering the cost of prescription drugs!

Monday, April 6, 2026

https://www.boredpanda.com/unknown-interesting-facts-msn/

Published Apr 01, 2026
57 Interesting Facts To Make Your Boring Day Feel More Productive
Edvinas Jovaišas
BoredPanda staff

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#18

North Dakotans are used to pharmacists like Schlecht and to having pharmacies in small towns like Forman. In North Dakota, there are no Walgreens or Walmart pharmacies. Instead, North Dakotans get their medications from the 171 independent and locally-owned pharmacies throughout the state. This is no accident: It’s the result of a forward-thinking policy choice, the Pharmacy Ownership Law, that, since 1963, has given North Dakotans pharmacy care that outperforms care in other states on every key measure, from cost to access.⁠ ⁠ In North Dakota, prescription drug prices are more affordable than in two-thirds of all states. Pharmacies are more plentiful, with more per capita than in neighboring South Dakota, Minnesota, or nationally, and they’re more broadly distributed; North Dakota’s rural areas are 51 percent more likely to contain a pharmacy than similarly-populated areas of South Dakota. And in general, independent pharmacies provide higher quality care, studies and surveys of customer satisfaction find.⁠ ⁠ North Dakota reaps economic benefits, too, from this local ownership. Without the Pharmacy Ownership Law, a 2014 report from ILSR estimated, about 70 of North Dakota’s independent pharmacies would close. Chain pharmacies headquartered around the country and out-of-state mail order companies would fill the gap, and ILSR estimates that direct economic losses to the state’s economy would be at least $17 million, and as high as $29 million, without accounting for indirect impacts such as lost tax revenue.⁠ Instead of focusing on corporate profits, North Dakota’s policy prioritizes health care, and the state’s residents are the ones who benefit.⁠

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“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.” George Bernard Shaw

The States often show us they way to do the impossible.

Imagine the uproar from Big Pharma if this became a national law!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: There are a lot of unsolved murders … …

Friday, March 13, 2026

https://www.boredpanda.com/suspicious-true-crime-cold-cases-msn-2/

Published Mar 07, 2026
22 Baffling Unsolved True Crime Cases That Are Not For The Faint-Hearted
Edvinas Jovaišas
BoredPanda staff

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Nowadays, many people seem to be fans of true crime TV series or podcasts. I would be lying if I said I didn’t watch true crime series myself. But for some, it can be difficult to understand why someone would want to spend their time immersing themselves in upsetting or even terrifying stories.

Well, we got curious as to why they would do something like that, too. So we got in touch with Dr. Kevin Bennett, a full teaching professor of psychology at Penn State University, Beaver Campus, and creator of the Kevin Bennett Is Snarling podcast, who shared that people’s interest in true crime and dark or troubling stories can be attributed to a combination of psychological, evolutionary, and social factors.

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Everyone always focuses on the “crime rate”.  I think we should focus on the “unsolved crimes”.

If we form a Gooferment to protect us from foreign and domestc enemies, then it hasn’t done a very good job.

The LEOs should be focused on “solving” crimes and judges should be focused on very long incarcerations.  

Where possible for electing sherrifs or judges, this should be the only criteria.

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INTERESTING: I believe that ESP / PSI  —  parapsychology — exists

Monday, July 21, 2025

https://www.boredpanda.com/things-science-cant-explain/

Curiosities, Science & Technology
Jul 13, 2025
“Accurate Premonitions”: 35 Things That Still Stump Scientists Interview With Expert
Austeja Zokaite and Rugilė Žemaitytė

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Scientists have done a lot of good for our society that we should forever be grateful for, like generating enough knowledge to invent vaccines, electricity, the camera, and the Internet, among other things. They also help us answer important questions, such as who our ancestors were, why it rains, and how we can see colors. However, some things still baffle scientists, ranging from mundane ones like why we yawn to more complex ones like what’s inside a black hole. 

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In the simplest way possible, quantum entanglement is a kind of relationship between two particles that makes them connected even when they are separated by billions of light-years. A change in one instantly influences the other, no matter how far apart they are. Talk about one seriously long-distance relationship.

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This odd connection seemingly breaks a fundamental law of the universe. Albert Einstein even famously called this phenomenon “spooky action at a distance.”

Not so long ago, in 2022, the Nobel Prize in physics recognized three scientists who made groundbreaking contributions in understanding this most mysterious natural phenomenon, quantum entanglement.

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I’ve heard “time” described as a river.  And, where it “bends” like a horseshoe, sometimes people can “see across the bend”.  

I believe that ESP / PSI  —  parapsychology  — exists.  (Faith = belief without evidence?)

Discipline concerned with investigating events that cannot be accounted for by natural law and knowledge that cannot have been obtained through the usual sensory abilities. Parapsychology studies the cognitive phenomena often called extrasensory perception, in which a person acquires knowledge of other people’s thoughts or of future events through channels apparently beyond the five senses. 

I believe this because my sainted wife Evlyn had some sort of gift / curse of clairvoyance, and precognition.  (1) When she was young, she was always very lucky at carnival games, especially if there was a ball or a wheel involved.  She played strange names or numbers with no rhyme, reason, or pattern. When she’d win against all reasonable expectations, she’d explain that “she just saw the winner”.  (2) When I was going to go o a business trip, she was very melancholy, which was very unlike her.  She was weeping, had no explanation why, and insisted that I go on this trip  — it was important to my career.  The next morning I was sent home because her father had passed away that night.  Sigh!  (3) She was incredibly intuitive with people and always drew them into “friendship” even when there was little in common,

As I read the list of “unexplained unexplanables” I felt there has to be a reason.

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INNOVATION: Might cure road rage?

Saturday, April 12, 2025

https://www.boredpanda.com/city-gadgets-convenient-traffic-urban-equipment-msn/

#26 This Hourglass Shaped Traffic Light

Traffic light gadget with hourglass timer in urban setting.

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I like this.  Why can’t we have them here in the USA.  Might cure road rage?

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INSPIRATIONAL: All senior residences should have child care included

Saturday, March 9, 2024

https://www.boredpanda.com/nursery-elderly-care-home-happiness/

Wholesome

Feb 28, 2024

All Heaven Broke Loose When Preschool Opened Inside Of Care Home

Margo Butautaite

BoredPanda staff

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Do you remember your childhood when the days seemed sunnier and longer? Perhaps now, the smell of pancakes with strawberry jam or a particular flower takes you back to your grandparents’ place. In those memories, your grandparents seem younger and healthier, which was definitely the case – the presence of children makes the elderly more active and reminds them of wonderful days gone by. So, it wasn’t surprising that when a nursery opened in an elderly care home, both age groups saw immense benefits.

Sadness and loneliness among elderly people at this care home are becoming a thing of the past thanks to new, innovative ideas

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Seems obvious and good for all involved.

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DISCOURAGING: Is there anything more inhumane than a “Canned hunt”?

Wednesday, August 9, 2023

https://www.boredpanda.com/dumb-rich-people-hobbies/

 30 People Share “Really Dumb” Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like
Miglė Miliūtė and Vėja Elkimavičiūtė

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#15 Canned hunts.

We can argue the ethics of hunting all day long. On the one hard, you have the cruel barbarism of fox hunting. On the other hand, you had paid permit hunting for big, exotic game (*where the permit only allows for specifically designated culls and profit goes directly to conservation).

But canned hunting? F**k. At least fox hunting and permit hunting require some measure of skill and afford some opportunity for the animal to escape.

Canned hunts are often marketed as “exotic game ranches;” places people go to get a guaranteed kill of a particular species. You know how you get that guaranteed kill? Because the game are fenced in and are often reliant on human care (so they have limited fear of humans compared to their wild roaming counterparts). There’s nothing sporting about it.

Imagine going to a dairy farm and bragging about how you bagged a big cow. That’s what canned hunting sounds like to others.

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I can applaud hunters, who like the Zulu youth when they go out to become man by hunting a lion with a short spear and small reed shield.  I don’t know what the win – loss ratio is but, at least, the lion has a fair shot. And it’s their tradition, not mine.

I can tolerate those who hunt for food if they eat what they kill. Also, those who do permit hunting to conserve a species.  Even those who hun bears before they become dangerous to people and donate the captures to food pantries and soup kitchens.

I can not shame those “hunters”, who are cruel or use “canned” victims, enough.

Nothing can be more demeaning than to claim a great achievement when “shooting fish in a barrel”.

Argh!

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VOCABULARY: Never heard this one before “double-bun boulevard”

Friday, July 21, 2023

https://www.boredpanda.com/boss-lunch-break-antiwork/

Work & Money
Employee Has Lunch Break At 12:40, It Renders The Boss Livid, Who Texts Them To Return
Robertas Lisickis
BoredPanda staff

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The issue here lies in what the policy is and if the boss isn’t pulling these requirements out of double-bun boulevard. So, this Redditor suggested checking the policy on lunch breaks and getting to the bottom of it. OP, however, doubts there’s one to begin with.

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Very funny and polite way of saying “he pulled it out of his AQQ” or made it up on the fly.

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