oh and also insurance adjustments move slower than DEA bullshit so that new thing we're trying to force on everyone probably isn't covered

and it's NOT cheap

the war on the ones we know for sure work that we're replacing haphazardly with ones that only work sometimes and will kill you if you use them even slightly wrong

you know what the single most evil thing they do now is? Most of the buprenorphine injections are now bundled(often silently) with suboxone, making it so that if the buprenorphine isn't enough for you toward the end of your month/week, tough shit, nothing else you take will help either

The War On (Some) Drugs strikes again

(after 6 months I did find a clinic that had protection and a clean record of not pill milling that got me back on a dose I could function on, but I spent another year getting back to normal and had to stop painting)

Two years ago I had a completely psychotic CRNP fresh out of a hokey catholic "anti-medication-based therapies" nursing program quarter my dosage in a single month

normally a 2 year titration schedule

all because the DEA scared every clinic out of proper dosage protocols

It sure must suck to have lawmakers making laws about your business when they don't understand anything about it, I wonder what that might be like and all

tbf, LOTS of planes and ships disappeared there -- just not any MORE than in other similarly-sized patches of ocean

Polio also has a great shot

Climactic realization, as Dr. Evil looks at Austin Powers (they've been hiding in the toilet aboard a bizjet bound for Davos, snooping on Zuckerberg and Altman and Larry Ellison): and Dr. Evil asks, very puzzled, "... wait, are we the goodies this time?!?"

The cute answer is to begin the new story with the death of 007, recruit a new guy and have his name be revealed later as James Bond. You never specify what the old 007’s name was or if the new guy has adopted the name, so people can believe what they like. Reboot or cont’d? Don’t care. Action!

So *any escape, however achieved* is a death anyway. Goodbye to that period, and hello to a new one where the pieces required to escape a trap so absolute can materialise at any moment.

So his death at the end of the last movie pays for his sins, delivers his reward and ends the Craig era all in one. The whole point of it is that it’s self-cauterising - which is why it’s so desperately final. There can’t, on his terms, be a way out.

PS the more I think about it, the more I think Craig’s Bond was essentially in love with death. His self-loathing and his alienation shift Bond’s devil-may-care daring to a kind of existential indifference. His longing for a judgement can only be delivered in his extinction.

So there’s my only real point, I suppose: the real question is what this show will be. How you handle the segue follows from that choice.

I hope they’re enjoying the discussion, because they get to play either some really great toys here :)

I’m not proud: I’d like it to be fun, consciously unreal and have plenty of gadgets. YMMV and that’s all good :)

People are coming up with solid - if silly - ways through in this thread. It’s fun!

But the serious (ish) side of the conversation is about how to go forward with the Bond story in general - of which the “how is he alive?!” convo is a bellwether.