• ceenote@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      25
      ·
      edit-2
      6 个月前

      I don’t want to cure cancer. I want to make old man pp work.

      Well, it’s not that I care about old man pp (yet), that’s just where the money is.

      • DagwoodIII@piefed.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        31
        ·
        6 个月前

        Wanda Sykes joke.

        We got all kinds of smart people doing stupid shit. Thousands of scientists working on making a better Viagra. Thousands of doctors making better tits. Five guys working on Alzheimer’s.

        We gonna end up with a bunch of people with big titties and hard dicks and have no idea what the hell to do with them.

      • frog@feddit.uk
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        20
        ·
        6 个月前

        Pfizer originally discovered the medication in 1989 while looking for a treatment for angina.

        Angina, in full angina pectoris, is chest pain or pressure, usually caused by insufficient blood flow to the heart muscle (myocardium). It is most commonly a symptom of coronary artery disease.

        Source: wikipedia

        • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldM
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          6
          ·
          6 个月前

          There are a lot of popular inventions that were never meant to be. Cocaine used to be used as a local anesthesia. Rogaine was originally created in the 1950s to treat ulcers. Now it’s used for high blood pressure and hair loss.

          I have no doubt there are many, many more.

          ~Slinkies, silly putty, super glue…~

          • frog@feddit.uk
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            4
            ·
            6 个月前

            Out of everything you mentioned, the only one I know is the cocaine one. Thank you for the info.

            Makes wish there was a community for accidental successes.

        • TheFogan@programming.dev
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          6 个月前

          I think the point is still the same though, how it’s discovered isn’t really directly related. Point is if it only worked for angia pectoris, would they have used the same amount of researchers to continue it’s development, would competing pharmacies have put as much into their own alternatives etc…

    • Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      6 个月前

      I don’t want to cure cancer, I want children addicted to my slop content so that they give me what little money they have left! (And I’ll accelerate the climate crisis doing it!)

  • Winter_Oven@piefed.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    6 个月前

    Why not both? Cure cancer, get the rep, as well as the money to fund turning more people into dinosaurs. Probably could even get willing volunteers for the dinosaur transformation from all the rep.

    • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      6 个月前

      They say a camel is a horse built by committee. You’re asking him to compromise his vision, to change his horse into a camel because that would please you. Get fucked, he is an artist, and not a hack.

      • TheOakTree@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        6 个月前

        The larger dinosaurs may have had better cancer suppressing genes, like elephants and whales do. Or, perhaps they hadn’t developed it yet.

    • Soupbreaker@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      6 个月前

      Ayy, was about to comment the same thing! I love The Flophouse, and try to proselytize for it when I can. It sits comfortably atop my podcast pantheon.

  • _Nico198X_deleted by creator
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    6 个月前

    such a classic panel. i love the simplicity of it, and the insanity of the villains. XD