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GenXer

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  1. Pork crown roast with stuffing
  2. When I first became a T1D, I was told by doctors that there were insulin resistant T1Ds. Meaning their bodies rejected the pork and human insulin. Death was imminent. The analogs work better for insulin resistant T1Ds. The improvements over my lifetime are significant.
  3. Lulz. I think I had a freudian slip as I started thinking about shkreli as I was finishing with the vial and syringe thought.
  4. I’m not going to speak for all T1Ds but I’ve been one for 38 years. The animal and human insulins work reasonably well if you aren’t what I call “brittle”. Up until I hit 30, I could feel my blood sugar drop before hypoglycemia took hold. I was on human insulin through that time. There’s two categories of insulin: short acting and long acting. The short acting human insulin made low blood sugar episodes happen pretty frequently for me once I hit thirty. I became brittle where I couldn’t fight it off and had severe episodes where I woke up in the hospital a couple of times, other times where the wife had to call paramedics. The short acting analog I take (lispro) doesn’t have that same effect. I’d likely be dead without the short acting analog. Seriously. I’ve had several episodes where I was entirely alone and fighting as my brain was shutting down to get a candy bar. I rail on the price of insulin a lot on surly. But I will be the first to thank pharma companies for the advances they’ve made with insulin since those Canadians first extracted it from pigs’ pancreases 100 years ago. I think pharma companies should get a good return on their R&D and production. I don’t think putting the same insulin in a pen rather than a vile warrants a new patent. Gimme an old fashioned vile and syringe, and I’m good. Counterpoint: there’s this guy
  5. My wife is in enterprise software sales. She reads 10-K reports as she prepares for meetings with prospects. She looks for keywords like supply chain, projects, and initiatives to better understand them. I was looking at a few of these reports and Apple’s most recent 10-K is 400 pages; most 8-Ks are 20-40 pages. That’s a pretty heavy lift to read these documents. I was wondering if investors religiously read 10-K, 8-K, and 10-Q reports and earnings calls to make investment decisions. If so, what are the key metrics you look for in these reports? If not, what other information sources do you use?
  6. Same as it ever was
  7. There’s likely something going on that’s actually serious. He’d prefer the media be entertained by whatever landed on his wheel of shitfuckcrazy ideas.
  8. I think Trump wants to buy Greenland so he can brag about making the biggest real estate deal ever. For grins, I looked up the Louisiana purchase: 828k sq miles. Greenland? 836k sq miles. Also, the biggest island. Rename it Trumpland. All magas move there. I’m starting to get on board with this idea.
  9. Whales you say?
  10. Trump’s plan is to offer a sweet deal and stiff ‘em when they come looking for payment. Ask his contractor vendors from back in the day. Oh, you don’t like getting stiffed? Take it up with SCOTUS. Lawfare. Only halfway joking.
  11. Are we gonna spitball the idea of buying Geeenland again? That’s gotta still be on the wheel of shitfuckcrazy.
  12. They tried this. Have you seen the documentary?
  13. You been dining on roadkill?
  14. Now this will get some attention
  15. Haha. Apparently an inside joke. Your daughter took lead on two songs. She did a great job on the kit and as the lead.
  16. Die Spitz last night in denton was lit. Legit mosh pit: chaotic and physical. Crowd surfing. Stage diving. Lead singer said it was their first sold out show on their tour. Rubber Gloves had two concurrent opening bands in different rooms. There was a drag birthday party or somesuch going on. Everything wrapped up by 10. I suspect there was a dopeass after party or two.
  17. Your take irritates me because Dems (read Hillary) in the 90’s began raising the flag about healthcare costs being too high, and she was rewarded by Rush demonizing her 24/7. Obama and Joe got ACA in and spent much of their political capital doing so while the stupids watched foxnews as they demonized obamacare. Ted cruz built a career on his promise to overturn obamacare. ACA is the single most impactful legislation in my lifetime. Dems have blown so much political capital on healthcare while the stupids turn on foxnews, talk shit on obamacare, and sign up for ACA without an ounce of self awareness. The problem is the american populace is immeasurably stupid.
  18. Crypto is so last year. Memecoin is where it’s at. My niece’s unemployed husband told me so.
  19. This will be glorious.
  20. Well… the chatbot’s posts have been removed so my post kinda loses its context. Just an FYI when this thread gets necro-bumped in like a year.
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