roguetrick

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[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The walled garden social networks have a serious downside compared to fediverse networks and that's the registration wall. If you're primarily publishing press releases and announcements, people will be unable to effectively share through links what you're publishing. Mastodon let's you bypass that while still allowing for the engagement that the other platforms do. And you don't have to play pay to win with the algorithm to get your stuff to actually show up on feeds of the people already fucking following you.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

Two posts on lemmy.world Reddit community pop up on your feed and you feel the need to post this here? Just block the community if it bothers you and you like viewing the federated all feed.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Should be closer to 6 or 7 days to meet prenatal visit recommendations, but not bad. Prenatal care disparities is thought to be a major contributing factor in just why so many black women die in childbirth.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's a complicated question, because yes there are weight loss drugs that mimic certain aspects of diabetes, but through different mechanisms of action. A good example is a SGLT2 inhibitor medication, which explicitly creates glycosuria in a non-diabetic person, which is kind of a defining feature of diabetes mellitus. While that's a generally very effective drug and should be used more for obesity control, it will also increase incidence of UTI and (due to a loss of sugar and thus forcing metabolism of fats/proteins) ketoacidosis.

The insulin/glucagon relationship is why diabetic ketoacidosis only shows up in type 1 diabetics and not type 2 (they get what's called hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state), and is an important part of liver fat production. Ketoacidosis is generally associated with that but is also present in starvation and alcoholics that don't eat actual food.

The greater point I was making wasn't about carbohydrates turning into fats. It's that most fats and about half of proteins cannot be turned into carbohydrates. They must be metabolized into ketones and then acetone. If you absorb them and cannot store them like in the OP's hypothetical, you'll end up having to immediately metabolize them and will end up with ketoacidosis.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

I don't recommend anything. I just personally wouldn't invite anyone to kbin right now because they'd likely be frustrated. Next week it'll likely be fine.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It's all about degree. Essentially what I'm talking about is severe dysregulation of lipid/protein metabolism that is generally only seen in type 1 diabetics, but it's the natural extension of extreme lipid and protein metabolism. I'm not familiar with that supplement, however.

As far as you watching yourself for it, don't worry, you'd notice being acidotic. I've seen it plenty of times at the hospital and you'd be huffing and puffing the acid off with terrible stomach pain and be generally having a bad day. While that supplement is associated with urine acetone increases, it's not quite the degree that I'm taking about.

Essentially, inhibiting fat production and storage and eliminating it result in very different effects. Insulin, by the way, is a very important mediator in fat production and storage. It's why so many new diagnosis type 1 diabetic children are often underweight.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Ernest has fixed a whole lot of the issues today, but I wouldn't recommend kbin at the exact moment, lol. Not that these issues have made me feel like going anywhere else.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think the fact that it is exploitive should ban it. I don't particularly view twitch as the vanguard of a sexual revolution. I view it as a profit extracting arm of a megacorporation. It's explicit selling sex to kids. It shouldn't be normalized. You could argue that sex should be normalized, but exploitation (particularly in a sexual context) of children should not be.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (6 children)

You could make similar arguments about gambling being a moral panic and they shouldn't ban that on the site. Selling sex to kids is just as exploitive and repugnant. Maybe selling violence to them is too. You'll eventually find a line to draw for something being a vice, even if you don't think this is it.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

An additional perspective is that the Apartheid government became an ally of convenience with Israel to the point that they created a joint nuclear weapons program together. Then you have the political pressure African union states have for maintaining robust trading agreements with Arab states. There's a ton of history there

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_incident

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

He was one of the few I was happy to get a cancer diagnosis. He really took too long to die. Safe and sound in his terrorist trailer park base right in the United States. He deserved everything McVeigh got

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The thing to keep in mind when digesting this source is that these idiots are ministers in Bibi's government. They're not fringe nobodies. They actually make policy. The second one is literally in charge of the police.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezalel_Smotrich
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itamar_Ben-Gvir

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