Reuters?? An international news organisation that operates in more than 150 countries and that reports with almost emotionless reporting just based on facts? They are making up lies for hatred points? Are you also going to try to convince us they employ reptilians?

Over the past 5 years, I’ve installed ubuntu about 30 times on different computers. Not once has an install on an SSD taken me more than an hour, with it typically taking me 30 minutes or less except for rare occasions where I’ve messed something up.

PREGANANANT

It’s the other way around, an Apple Silicon Mac would be able to run an intel binary through Rosetta (I think there’s almost no exceptions at this point). It’s intel macs that can’t run Arm specific binaries.

I thought a few days ago that my “new” laptop (M2 Pro MBP) is now almost 2 years old. The damn thing still feels new.

I really dislike Apple but the Apple Silicon processors are so worth it to me. The performance-battery life combination is ridiculously good.

Op, I’ll try to remember to comment here about what the doc/nurse says tomorrow after that review.

Perfect timing! Yes, I feel the exact same thing.

I’ve been on titration with medikinet XL with 20 mg for a month which was ok, then after a review got told to try 30 mg for two weeks and 40 mg for two weeks.

30 mg made me feel a bit stressed at work, but nothing that bothered me. Like having 3 coffees when you have a lot going on and you need to get things done quickly. As you say, this feeling only lasts for a while only.

Now I’ve moved to 40mg and I hate it. Roughly 2-3 hours after taking it, I get exactly what you describe. I’ve been trying to explain it as a 7-coffee panic. Same situation as the above but with so much coffee in my body that I’m at the edge of having a meltdown and bursting into tears.

This, of course, comes with high blood pressure and heart rate. My understanding is with extended release you get a first “peak concentration”, then lowers slowly, and you get a second peak at about 4h or so, depending on formulation. Yesterday, at a time I think matched the second peak roughly, I was watching a stress-free TV show on the sofa, in a stress-free environment with no tasks to do… And suddenly this feeling came in and I had almost 90bpm resting heart rate for no reason when I’m normally in the low 70s.

I hate it and on Monday (I have my next medication review) I’m going to ask for alternatives or to get put on 30mg. That made me productive and motivated but without feeling like I’m being motivated by panic.

No, but I remember seeing another recent poll about a year ago where the results were that about 20% of GenZ identify as LGBTQ.

This would imply that 10% is the acceptance rate (which has gone up “thanks to GenZ’s contribution”) and the actual rate is higher than this, but that part is missing from the information.

Less conveniently while costing something like $700 plus a monthly $25 subscription.

I don’t get how it got pitched either.

Mine is Clippy, but it’s constantly retrieving information from the wrong word document.

“Hey, it looks like you’re on holiday abroad. Would you like to take your car to the garage? The MOT expires tomorrow.”

“Hey, would you like some help researching this really interesting camera equipment during working hours?”

“Hey, I see you’re going to the gym. Let me remind you of all the tasks you need to do at home and now you won’t have time to do: (…)”

Also because, as a person who has studied multiple languages, German is hard and English is Easy with capital E.

No genders for nouns (German has three), no declinations, no conjugations other than “add an s for third person singular”, somewhat permissive grammar…

It has its quirks, and pronunciation is the biggest one, but nowhere near German (or Russian!) declinations, Japanese kanjis, etc.

Out of the wannabe-esperanto languages, English is in my opinion the easiest one, so I’m thankful it’s become the technical Lingua Franca.

It’s UE in Spanish, from Unión Europea. (Non-doubled letters because it’s a single Union, there’s no plural like in “States”).

Sometimes people in Spain do use the English acronyms for both EU/USA, but I don’t think I’ve seen it often. Both UE and EEUU are more common from what I’ve seen, and also people rarely say these out loud, it’s exclusively a written language problem.

Insulin, like most meds in the US, is expensive because of the free market.

If you have a free market on life-saving medicine, guess what, people will pay however much they can afford and then some - because people are keen to survive.

In most (all?) European countries medicines are regulated. Some medicines have many manufacturers, some have a “government-enforced” monopoly but without free market, and the result is that no matter the country, insulin is free or almost free. The reason is that when you regulate this, and the only possible buyer for a whole country is “the government”, the seller is forced to negotiate with the whole government to be able to sell to X million people. And the government is not in a life or death situation, so it’s less vulnerable to price gouging.

If the governments can negotiate a low enough price, then they can subsidise the last bit via taxes and people get free life-saving drugs. Yet big-pharma still gets profits at these lower prices, as evidenced by the number of pharma companies there are in Europe (including non-eu countries that work similarly in terms of healthcare such as UK, Switzerland).

Free market works, until the seller has a life-threatening reason why the buyer will be forced to pay whatever the price is. The drug situation in the US is not free market, it’s free blackmail.

But this was expected right? Is there anyone who genuinely thought this wouldn’t happen? I thought all the people calling out “Genocide Joe” were right-wing alts breaking up the left.

1999 is 25 years old.

How old is a person who considers a 25-year-old “old”? 16? (I mean, besides Di Caprio)

Why does a 16 year old want to settle down?

Beautiful! I’d love to see more of your work, so good to see amidst this sea of AI Slop that the internet has become.

Well, it has 10x more speakers than German, but it still has fewer speakers than English and most of them are localised in a single country.

I feel you’re trying to misconstrue my post by saying something I completely agree with, my post completely agrees with, and then throwing a sarcastic “oh wait”.

Of course I agree with this, which is why I say

This is a clear step back

And

We have to keep pushing

My point is about what we’ve achieved so far, which is worth celebrating, regardless of how we’re under attack. Obviously we have to achieve more - they’ll go for the rest of us after Trans people. Which wouldn’t happen if all of us make sure that trans folk are so obvious in the collective mind that erasing them becomes a ridiculous proposition.

Republicans have accepted LGBTQ people to some extent, otherwise they wouldn’t be pulling off this sort of devious shit and just removing these pages completely. That’s what is an achievement, and obviously we need to make sure we revert this and don’t keep regressing.

It would have been even easier to remove this page altogether, wouldn’t it?

I’m not disagreeing with you at all, but I think my point is being completely missed here. My point is not about what Trump has done which is unequivocally bad.

My point is about what we’ve achieved so far. We’ve made enough progress that to combat the “woke virus” they’re having to target first trans people specifically rather than directly removing mentions to LGBTQ+. I’m hopeful about the fact that we’ve achieved so much so far - obviously not about the fact that we’re being persecuted.

I’m surprised they haven’t.

It’s a weird one, probably this is because I always try to see the bright side but I have mixed feelings. On one hand writing off just trans and queer people feels even more targeted and evil than deleting all letters.

But on the plus side, the fact that LGB haven’t been removed makes me feel slightly hopeful? This is a clear step back obviously. But it makes me feel that finally the idea that gay, lesbian, bisexual people exist and don’t need conversion therapy has actually sunk in and we can’t be erased so easily.

Now we have to keep pushing to get “TQ” similarly unerasable. 💪