where funny

I worked at Pfizer for 17 years.

We didn’t discover drugs - we discovered markets.

If a drug cured asthma in 3 days - we’d kill it.

Chronic disease.

is where the money is.

Cures are bad for business.

Good advice for anyone, really

Standard procedure in any office

Sure am glad we have police robots in the sky to protect us from 19 year old kids stealing stuff from Walmart

Gozz is correct. You’re misunderstanding the nature of a digital signal. What the author did was convert a digital signal to an analog signal, store that analog signal on a bird, then record that analog signal. Whether it was redigitized after the fact is irrelevant. It is not a digital process end-to-end. This is the same as if I were to download a YouTube video, record that video on a VHS tape, then redigitize that video. Not only would the end result not be a bit for bit match, it wouldn’t be a match at all despite containing some of the same visual information, because it would be the product of a digital-analog-digital conversion.

For a shitposting community, it’s amazing how many people here don’t understand shitposts at all.

Four.

Feces from a hiney, assuredly

That same house in my area costs at least 10 times that amount. I was lucky in that I had “only” $80,000 of debt from my bachelor’s, a housing situation via marriage, and a career path with solid pay (after going back for an associate’s while working in a low-paying job post-graduation for 7 years). I only finally paid off that debt 2 years ago and I graduated in 2008. I don’t know how a lot of people manage.

College graduates (PhD or otherwise) drowning in debt and not being financially able to pay it off is common enough here in the US that it’s a trope, and likely the basis for this “joke”.