Wow, thank you for writing all that… You provided such a vivid picture of how devastating it is to live with diabetes, thank you for writing that!

Nah, rent-a-cops (while they personally might aspire to the shittiness of cops) actually face consequences when they murder people in broad daylight…

So I just went to Mayo Clinic and did some reading to firm up my extremely vague understanding of Diabetes, its types, and the role of Insulin. . What I now understand is that, approximately:

• Insulin is a thing your pancreas makes to store blood sugar (every food you eat) away (in your liver for quick access or in fat somehow else) so that your blood sugar doesn’t get so high it harms you (foot amputation, dental issues, blindness) or kills you (heart attack, stroke, kidney failure)
• Type I Diabetes means your pancreas doesn’t make any insulin. Your body cannot store blood sugar as glycogen in your liver (the quick-access energy) or in fat cells (longer term storage) without insulin
• Lack of insulin is… (and here I had looooong conversation with DeepSeek on things I wasn’t quite understanding) …effectively, a “signal” to your body that it should not decelerate digestion of muscle and fat into blood sugar
• Without insulin, your body will waste itself away (which would eventually kill you) in the production of blood sugar (which could kill you) and the production of ketone bodies (which will kill you)
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  So, the takeaway from all that kids is, don’t try “treating” type 1 diabetes without insulin!

This is the platonic ideal of communist shitposts, thank you for expanding the total value of all reality with this!

Oh my god that was incredible, I didn’t pronounce the link so when it came out in the song I hadn’t seen it coming

The Luigi Legacy…

I’m gonna talk out my ass for a minute, I haven’t actually done any focused reading on most of the tidbits I’m about to discuss. Just putting together a lot of disconnected thoughts and anecdotes I’ve collected over the years

I’m remembering that the phrase “white pride” only exists in imitation of the phrase “black pride” and the accompanying explanation for why one is absolutely not at all problematic while the other is unabashedly supremacist. That explanation being that “black” references the culture common to that group of people which, in the case of American black people, can’t really be narrowed down to any one country. While it can be narrowed down (mostly) to one continent, that still represents a fifth of the Earth’s land-area and therefore includes a lot of cultures that don’t have anything in common.

So, “black culture” then is a sort of (the word I’m about to use may be problematic, I don’t know, it makes sense in my head but I’m white and have no idea how it might feel to have someone else describe me this way) “prosthetic” culture. I’m thinking, because they did lose a real part of themselves but, because there are so many others with the same culture-esque background in America, the phrase “black culture” refers to a real thing that exists.

Now, the other direction. “White culture” is problematic because, what culture is it that “white” people share? People who are “white” have a cultural history already, they don’t need a prosthetic. I know I come from something vaguely Scots-Irish. If I could be bothered to look into that more, I could surely find clubs, celebrations, or whatever kind of pageantry I wanted to validate that identity. But what cultural history do I have in common with this other random “white” person who it turns out is actually Romanian?

And that brings me to the best bit! Take all the people who are considered “white” today, put them in a room and have them discuss with each other, looking for the single attribute that their culture shares with the most other cultures in that room. I would guess (totally out my ass here, I have no idea) that the one thing most cultures have in common today even the ones currently considered “white” is that they used to be persecuted for their non-whiteness.

I don’t have any numbers for that. I’m just thinking about how, for example, Italians didn’t used to be “white”, Irish people didn’t used to be “white”, or Romanian people are still kind of struggling to be considered “white”. Or we could take it another way, Jews aren’t “white” regardless of their skin color (though of course the state of Israel is likely to sterilize anyone whose skin is too dark…) and I remember a stereotype about Catholics that sure seemed to fit in the category of non-“white”.

So, now I don’t remember what the subject of the post I’m writing this in was…

This sounds way closer to Squid Games than I thought conservatives could bring us this quick…

This quote is part of her speech delivered 19 November 2014 as acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (Ursula K. Le Guin’s speech, obviously)

Is this loss?

What is the argument for the administration ceasing federal participation? How do they try to justify it? When I take this to my dad, what’s he gonna say about how this program was actually woke bullshit?

That looks promising! Thanks!!

OP: “god, it’s hard being a paraplegic and trying to run…”

You: “guys, don’t listen to this asshole, being a paraplegic means you can’t run. If this person were actually NPD, it would be an extremely positive sign for them to seek to improve themselves and since we can see this person trying to improve themselves, they are clearly lying and manipulative. Classic NPD.”

Log off and touch grass. You can come back when the stench of your self righteous diarrhea of the mouth fades.