Bristlecone

joined 2 years ago
[–] Bristlecone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Seriously, so many pathetic babies flooding society with AI toilet "research"

[–] Bristlecone@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

At this point they basically have all the money and all the votes that they need, not to mention the cognitive dissonance they are capable of withstanding is absolutely INSANE

[–] Bristlecone@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Reasonable, but this shit still fucking pisses me off

[–] Bristlecone@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

I was horrified

[–] Bristlecone@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I also wanted to suggest to you that you go on a marathon on some site like YouTube about diabetic management and prevention. Knowledge is power when it comes to disease! The better you understand, the disease you face and the more you know about it, the smarter decisions you can make for yourself and your own health! Just make sure you are checking your sources carefully! There are probably more bad sources than there are good sources in the the grand scheme of the internet. A good rule of thumb is to steer away from .coms and steer toward .orgs and in the past .gov

[–] Bristlecone@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It is definitely a lot of management, but it may be the disease. I see that is most preventable but also causes the most problems for people in the hospital when not controlled well. Our society does suck that way, but if you can do anything to stick to whole foods like fruit and cook your own meals without added sugar or salt, it can go a long way and sometimes save you money, though I do recognize that cheap as hell, fast food is the cheapest way to eat these days. It is also poison and I think you would do well to steer clear of it as often as humanly possible ❤️ most especially soda, even the sugar-free ones aren't great, especially for diabetics as they can trick your body into releasing insulin and it's still taxing for that system in a diabetic. You got this I believe in you!

[–] Bristlecone@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

If you are stressed about it, I would recommend possibly getting a glucose monitor for your own mental health. You can check it more frequently and see what your glucose does before and after meals, that can give you some more information to go off of if you are trying to get your doctor to order specific tests. I imagine if you asked him he would order an A1C test though! They are simple and quick, and as the other person said, they give you a good idea of how well your blood sugar is controlled over the course of several months. It's really the way they diagnose diabetes in the first place generally. Activity and diet control are the number one ways to stay out of diabetes, however. Some people's genetics are so tilted towards diabetes that they will enter it eventually regardless of how they eat, but that's a pretty rare case. If you are really able to keep yourself in shape and control your diet for calories and carbohydrates and fiber, your chances are become so slim that I doubt your doctor would worry about it much anymore. I know that's a difficult thing to do though, so as others have said, frequency of urination is often one, especially at night, neuropathic tingling in your toes, slowly healing wounds, fatigue. These are often among the first symptoms, but in many cases people don't catch it until they enter what is called DKA or ketoacidosis, this is the major short-term risk of both diabetes, it is a separate production your body switches to when it can't process carbohydrates and it produces an acid that your blood won't get rid of fast enough, these people have to go to the hospital and stay usually a couple days qqqto get out of it. If you are already tracking it with your doctor, and checking your blood sugars, then you are ahead of the game! There is no real indicator besides your blood sugar and your a1c, and then physiological symptoms you may notice. Even if you do go into diabetes at this stage in your life, IF you are doing the other things I mentioned, and tracking your blood sugar, it would most likely be a an autoimmune-induced late onset type 1 diabetes. Even if that were the case with modern devices like CGM or sometimes even cgm and insulin pump combos. Your health can remain basically the same even after that kind of diagnosis! At this stage in our science, both types of diabetes are completely manageable if you are willing to be VERY compliant with your regiment. The bad parts of diabetes always come from specifically uncontrolled diabetes. The issue is that the molecule of glucose is large and can cause damage in the bloodstream, so when that level gets out of control, those molecules can clump and affect your tiny blood vessels. That is where the worst things come from, general organ damage including eyes and lack of circulation to the smaller ends of your extremities, usually your toes first. There is ALMOST no actual risk to having diabetes if you control it really well, you can essentially have full-blown type 1 diabetes with no insulin producing cells remaining and if you are tracking it well enough and good enough about your diet and exercise and medicine you can live a completely normal life and it won't even shorten your lifespan significantly. That's the hard part for people though. Having really good control because it's a pain in the butt. Source: I'm an ICU nurse

[–] Bristlecone@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (5 children)
[–] Bristlecone@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

No grace bitch

[–] Bristlecone@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

We on the left have no grace. We can't allow people to make mistakes, and we lose ourselves to infighting. It's our biggest problem. You obviously didn't even go looking into the back story on the tattoo, this guy is "just a nazi" to you, even though he is actually saying and doing things that are appropriate

[–] Bristlecone@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's because he has used NOT sucking dicks to rile up his base against LGBTQ, but it turns out he loves sucking dicks. Like, good for you man, but it's funny for us to watch these hateful fuckers find out that, ironically, Chump loves slobbering on a dingus.

[–] Bristlecone@lemmy.world 37 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

For real! I don't get it... Listening to him speak makes me wonder how anyone buys into his constant stream of horseshit and thinly veiled racism. It's disgusting and boring as shit to listen to.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Bristlecone@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

Like the title says I want to install a Linux distro on my old laptop. I am currently looking into installing a SSD, but I want to learn a distro for fun! I haven't been able to find a good current resource aside from the Linux Masters here, so I am actually asking for help on the Internet! What distro is the best!?

https://imgur.com/8zldESD

EDIT: thanks so much everyone for your recommendations and advice! I installed a couple of different systems before deciding that I think the laptop may be able to support Fedora with KDE plasma (my favorite flavor of the installs so far) and I'm finding it really attractive and easy to use. You will see once I get some more disk space used how the performance holds up! If it runs into trouble I might switch the machine back over to mint with, that one seemed to run really well and was pretty familiar seeming from my Windows days, also seem more low end and booted a little faster. I think I might even end up switching to Linux on my desktop I had so much fun with it last night!! I really appreciate all the information and will probably be experimenting with a more lightweight build on this computer in the future! I'm a Linux user and it was easier than I ever thought! ❤️

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