The video in the article has some good footage too. The “why is there bright light when I am nocturnal?!” face is a mood I felt on a deeply personal level.

Lol. I’ve seen hot dogs sell here for US$13 (after conversion). The US doesn’t understand how cheap their food is, even with inflation. The minimum wage for adults is USD$15.40 though (again converted) and we don’t have “but it’s OK they get tips so we don’t have to pay them more than $2” shenanigans.

Fuck that paywall, but again the problem is largely how underpaid and exploited people are, not how much hot dogs have increased in price.

I appreciate you

Good news, everybody! Turning your cremation ashes into diamonds is pretty close to being mineralized? https://www.lonite.com/cremation-diamonds-from-ashes they claim close to 99.99% ash carbon, but who knows.

For sure, I just get antsy when peer review doesn’t come from from external sources

1 patient, T2 since mid-30s and now 59, had kidney transplant 2017 after end-stage diabetic nephropathy and fucked glucose control since 2019. The successful cells were endoderm stem cells from him cultivated by mice they injected with his PBMCs that they then made diabetic. So not from cadavers (except mouse cadaver i guess), which is the actual new part here. Intrahepatic implant, and cells from unrelated donor failed that were embedded at the same time. His personalised mouse-donor cells worked well enough to take him off insulin 3 months later.

Wu, J., Li, T., Guo, M. et al. Treating a type 2 diabetic patient with impaired pancreatic islet function by personalized endoderm stem cell-derived islet tissue. Cell Discov 10, 45 (2024).

It’s good news, but you’re entirely correct that the article missed the point entirely. Thanks for the crash course in islet cell therapy!

Hm, 5 year old journal, with the editor board, funding and half of the authors all from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, but significant hospital contribution. I remain skeptical of the headline but hopeful of the science.

Yes, unfortunately i think you’ve missed a few things.

1. Anyone can be sued for anything, whether the suit is successful depends on validity and damages
2. It would be difficult to prove damages in this case, but you don’t need to sue anyone anyway
3. Only businesses and organisations serving the public are required to follow the ADA
4. The government, if it received enough
   valid complaints and received a negative reply from a place which needs to follow the ADA might consider bringing legal action or enforcing penalties
5. Common practise does not exclude the possibility that something discriminates against people, which is why these rules were written

I think that about covers it

How dare they be such precious little nuggets <3

They really shoehorned the online aspect into that article. If you just add the phrase “including cyberbullying” to any reference to all bullying, you too can write an article about online trends that distances your target reader demographic from feeling culpable for a huge long-standing cultural problem.

I’m so glad to hear that, I’m happy that I might have helped even just a little bit. You’ve got this. And even if it’s not today, or it takes more than a few tries, you’ve still got this.

I hope you rediscover a whole bunch of wonderful memories along the way. If a lamp can bring you so much comfort, I’m sure there are many other things you’ll find on your journey that will help resurface other happy memories too.

I very much understand this feeling. There’s plenty of things I do for the same safety of nostalgia reason. It’s not altogether a bad coping mechanism, but like every coping mechanism, it has its limits, and you have found them.

I do have some good news for you though:

and realise that ever since that day years ago where I finally made it back to a normal life, I’ve only made 2 new core memories really.

This may not be true at all. People have trouble recalling memories of feeling differently to however they’re currently feeling, especially with depression. Good memories are still being created and are in there though, you just can’t access them in long storage right now. Another person in the thread said therapy and the right medication, and that is how I’ve largely managed to get depression mostly under control. When I’m doing well, the good memories are much easier to relive. Memory is complicated like that.

I still eat a diet of mostly instant noodles and other cheap shit

I recommend starting here though. Even if it’s just adding in a daily multivitamin at first instead of really being healthy and eating right. The cheap nostalgic food is not something you need to completely give up, but it needs to be a treat instead of your staple. Nutrition has a huge impact on depression, like, an annoying amount of impact. If you can get some better nutrition in you, and a little real sunlight, and even just a short walk, your body is much more likely to generate and circulate the good feeling hormones. It’s hard at first, but it does get easier.

You’ve been through a lot. There’s nothing pathetic about how you feel or your life. There is no such thing as “behind”. New friends are everywhere, and many have been through similar hard times and depression. But it does sound a lot like you would benefit from a little more balance with the things you already know are good for you.

Good luck. The past is comfortable, but there are new things out there that will bring you comfort too, and they’re worth looking for.

I’m going to hope this is some ChatGPT template response bullshit, because the other option is that someone chose to write this.

Even if they were an adult who might recognise an illuminated spy camera, it’s not like you have enough choice in bathrooms at 30000 ft to infer something resembling consent.

He has alopecia totalis. It’s not by choice.

Being a fuckwit is probably also not his choice, but I’m fine with criticising him for that.

It starts before birth. Low socio-economic status affects the health of pregnant people, which in turn has consequences for foetal development. Stress is a big trigger for various latent congenital issues, and that’s one reason climate change is going to result in increased rates of disease.

Not just a defense witness, a former federal prosecutor. A judge had to tell a former federal prosecutor “And then if you don’t like my ruling, you don’t give me side eye and you don’t roll your eyes.” like he was a pouty teenager.

As has medicine and most other technologies. And yet… the question is never asked about the long term threats posed by people who aren’t personally hunting and tracking and foraging.

And miss out on the reminder that my existence is precarious and dependent on the good-will of the able-bodied? Nah, that’s head-in-sand stuff. I prefer to remind everyone of what this line of questioning has led to in the past and the human consequences of discussing the rights of a group of people in the abstract.

Exactly, and yet the question is never “is agriculture a long-term threat to humanity?”. It’s always the people with medical issues who are acceptable first choices as society’s sacrificial MacGuffin, long before we question any technology that benefits the person who is “just asking questions”.

It’s like we didn’t already do Social Darwinism the first time. Super frustrating.

Even if we ignored the entire history of the word cripple, it still would be remarkable to not consider hunchback or dwarf as physical descriptions. Given that your next question references video games and then we fall down Godwin’s slippery slope, I’m not convinced you’re honestly engaging with the concept of connotation.

the words only have deragatory meaning to those who have decided they are such.

Yes, and when the people who have to live with the consequences of discrimination tell you that you’re speaking in the same way as those who have discriminated against them, it’s worth considering. Even momentarily.

Have a great day, I’m going to go be a cripple elsewhere now. Nah, just kidding, it will still be my couch. Just not this thread.