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Party Hat Wurmple said:
No. She sued Disney because they were screwing her over by releasing Black Widow on streaming earlier than in the theaters to get out of paying her what she's owed. Talent gets paid certain royalties for theatrical releases but not for streaming. Disney was trying to screw over their actors by making it funneling traffic to Disney+ and refusing to pay her. She took on House of Mouse and essentially won as they settled out of court.

Honestly, and this is just prospective theory, I think ScarJo pissed off Disney by taking a moderate stance and for virtue of being a white woman. She championed the non-woke stuff sooner than anyone else and then Disney (I'm guessing, I have no proof) apparently pulled her aside and told her to shut her damn anti-vaxxer mouth and threatened to blacklist her. That's why immediately after while promoting Black Widow, she did a complete u-turn and went full Hollywood Woke Shill after years of saying the opposite. She probably pissed off the wokesters at Disney for a long time. That's why when her contract with Marvel was up, they just straight up killed Black Widow. Nobody else got that treatment. Nobody else is permanently dead in the MCU. Just ScarJo. Especially now that Doomsday is coming around and we see all these old MCU stars returning, Scarjo is notably absent and has not had any mention of her yet.
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They killed her before the fall out with Disney though. End Game came out before Black Widow (before Covid actually).
 
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George Lucas said:
They killed her before the fall out with Disney though. End Game came out before Black Widow (before Covid actually).
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You're foolish to assume that. By the time we get it as news, the incident was going on for months, if not years, before that. That's just how Hollywood works. How long did it take us to find out about Ryan Reynolds and Nice Pool?
 
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MerelyAPlateOfSpaghetti said:
Biological drugs that reduce immune response are spooky to me and increased cancer risk seems like a given. PL but Mrs. Spaghetti saw an ad for a new eczema drug and told me about it. Black box warnings for cancer and death and shit, all for the possibility that my eczema might be better for a little while. I have a coworker on biologics and he's had to switch multiple times after a drug that worked well for a while stopped working at all. He also gained cancer (currently in remission). Not worth.
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Agreed, not worth. If I had something that was actively killing me, like Crohn's Disease, I might take it for a chance to live life without shitting myself to death for a little while. That's why I think they should still be allowed to sell it, but DAMN they're prescribing it for EVERYTHING because it's so lucrative. They act like it's no big deal to inject yourself with immune suppressants at home, all the cool kids are doing it. Just look at the ad! They're all smiling!

I was prescribed Humira in November 2019, also for an uncomfortable and inconvenient skin rash, and the full-court-press sales technique they used spooked me so much that I refused to take it. Which is convenient, because otherwise I'd be a Covid-19 statistic by now and posting with a Ouija board.
 
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UnidentifiedFlyingOrchid said:
The Florida GOP ran their least likeable candidate, because he is a member of the "good old boys club tribe". I made a post last Friday:

It would be hard to find a Republican candidate less likeable than Randy Fine.
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"Hey Lois, remember that time i ran for election and nobody liked me so i potentially tanked Trumps second presidency?"
 
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Haloperidol said:
actually, to make this relevant, I am certain the sharp increase in IBD diagnoses over the last few decades has a great deal to do with the food we eat and I pray RFK’s influence will help make a difference. And then fewer people will have to go on risky, expensive medications in the first place.
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You don't have to wait for RFK Jr on that. I know a few people who have put IBD and even Crohn's in one case in remission by changing their diet. One took out seed oils and emulsifiers like carageenan (which took out a lot of processed food necessarily), one switched to a whole food diet and then removed dairy after a while when he still had symptoms and that fixed it, and the Crohn's case went on a super low carb diet by recommendation of their doctor and went into remission.
I would likewise suspect it has to do with food causing inflammation in the gut, not necessarily something genetic or random. But the good news of that is changing your diet can often help fix it.
It would be nice if we could figure out what exactly in the food is causing these issued though. I don't doubt for a second it's also related to the uptick in young cancer diagnoses, diabetes, autoimmune disease and other problems. Maybe not the only problem but a pretty significant one we shouldn't have to deal with.
 
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Party Hat Wurmple said:
You're foolish to assume that. By the time we get it as news, the incident was going on for months, if not years, before that. That's just how Hollywood works. How long did it take us to find out about Ryan Reynolds and Nice Pool?
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You can’t call someone foolish for pointing out a simple fact. That’s retarded. Sure, maybe Disney killed BW in End Game because of corporate meddling even though they didn’t write the script and gave the Russo Bros. complete creative control of the film. But I’m skeptical.

Black Widow was supposed to be their big intro to the new woke era of the MCU. Losing Scarjo was not something they wanted to happen.
 
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UnidentifiedFlyingOrchid said:
The Florida GOP ran their least likeable candidate, because he is a member of the "good old boys club tribe". I made a post last Friday:

It would be hard to find a Republican candidate less likeable than Randy Fine.
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Man's fatter than Gabe ever was.
 
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Breadbassket said:
Not him, that guy has a statue now.

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I know. And deserves it!

Okay, I was going for a joke. I know the poster meant that other guy so I said the name of the one people do remember, so that the poster could clarify that they didn't mean him, and that would be the joke - that I claimed to remember but got the wrong one. Kind of making their point.

But this failed either because (a) people had also forgotten Quang Dúc, (b) people didn't realise I was joking or (c) it wasn't funny to anybody else.

Probably (c).
 
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Dumbledore's Onlyfans said:
DAMN they're prescribing it for EVERYTHING because it's so lucrative.
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Humira even gets prescribed for mild-moderate depression when SSRIs don't work. Its effective on people with major depression disorder too. Personally, I'd do ECT for depression before dealing with any of the side effects of Humira.
Closest thing to a wonder drug these days. Abbvie is really milking that patent.
 
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