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>Russia is slowly consuming its neighbours

Why plural?

>the rule based order

What? By which rule the US invaded Iraq in 2003? By which rule NATO changed the borders of Serbia?


>If a brand of CGMs have an issue that sometimes causes false low readings

Not sometimes. "Over an extended period".

"Abbott Diabetes Care stated that certain FreeStyle Libre 3 and FreeStyle Libre 3 Plus sensors provide incorrect low glucose readings. If undetected, incorrect low glucose readings over an extended period may lead to wrong treatment decisions for people living with diabetes, such as excessive carbohydrate intake or skipping or delaying insulin doses."

Months of high blood glucose level can worsen patient's condition or if high enough even put them into hyperglycemic coma in weeks(?).

[0] https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/medical-device-recalls-a...


While true, you would have to ignore all other indicators for quite an extensive period of time. Like excessive urination and hypersensitivity being obvious ones. Not impossible but I have the strong sense there is more to this story than reported in the FDA disclosure.

Not true, the effect of high blood levels can be very unpredictable. Especially above a certain number - and largely depending on the basal insulin strategy of the patient, for instance long acting shots versus constant micro doses of short acting via pumps. In the latter case, an untreated high blood sugar could escalate in a matter of hours to a fatal level.

It's not that surprising, a lot of people (especially doctors) will dismiss symptoms if "objective" tests show normal levels

In EMS school I was taught "treat the patient not the machine".

>incorrect low glucose readings over an extended period

I use the G7 and the directions say to always use a finger stick to celebrate the unit, especially at high and low readings.

Did these people also not see and endocrinologist to get things like A1C?

Diabetes is very unforgiving as you get older or are a fragile diabetic. If they were just dependent on the CGM alone then it's likely a lot of other mismanagement was already occurring.


>to celebrate the unit

Typo. Perhaps you meant to celibate.


Calibrate…

People have forgotten the old joke((

"A new monk arrived at the monastery. He was assigned to help the other monks in copying the old texts by hand. He noticed, however, that they were copying copies, not the original books. The new monk went to the head monk to ask him about this. He pointed out that if there were an error in the first copy, that error would be continued in all of the other copies.

The head monk said, ‘We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son.’ The head monk went down into the cellar with one of the copies to check it against the original.

Hours later, nobody had seen him, so one of the monks went downstairs to look for him. He heard a sobbing coming from the back of the cellar and found the old monk leaning over one of the original books, crying.

He asked what was wrong.

‘The word is ‘celebrate,’ not ‘celibate’!’ sobbed the head monk."


>the EU has LITERALLY provided less aid to Ukraine than it has given to Russia

The EU is buying resources from Russia, not providing aid to it.


Potato, Potato. Whether giving money with no strings attached or some strings attached, guess where that money is going to go.

They are not "giving" money. They are exchanging them for resources. Russia gets the money but loses resources which it could've sold to other countries instead.

Ah, you're totally right. Europe is getting the better end of the deal Russia is practically getting scammed, exchanging goods for profits they can redistribute to fund their war.

>being the subject of weekly ... invasion threats like the EU is

It is?


Yes it is, it happens almost every week.

3 days ago : https://www.politico.eu/article/medvedev-threatens-eu-freaks...


I see nothing about invasion there.

> Russia would pursue them in "all possible international and national courts ... and in some cases, extrajudicially,"

It's a textbook terrorist threat.


And? Where is invasion?

And what? What else would "extrajudicially" means appart from sending thugs or drones to kill people in the EU like they did already

"invasion, noun

an occasion when an army or country uses force to enter and take control of another country" [0]

[0] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/invasion


Yes, Russian politicians like to voice ideas like that or just nuking EU cities. not sure if those are a weekly occurence, but its happened a couple of times this year, from officials mind you, so I wouldn't be surprised if state-run media or even just cranks that Putin likes to run for-out ideas through have weekly "Russians! We need to overrun the decadent EU" articles run...

A citation would be appropriate. Include the context too, like "If the EU sends troops in the Ukraine..."

Or maybe lifting sanctions against Venezuela that put it into poverty is good?

>I don’t care that much which pretext is used to topple him.

The US also destroyed the country in the process and caused more deaths than Saddam.


"The illusory truth effect (also known as the illusion of truth effect, validity effect, truth effect, or the reiteration effect) is the tendency to believe false information to be correct after repeated exposure." [0]

And even if that's not another boring propaganda operation, what would you be telling if you went to fight on Russian side and got captured by the Ukrainians? "Please, please, please don't hurt me, they made me do it, I went to Russia to do sports and they send me to the frontline".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect


"indefinitely immobilise"

That's called theft when translated from European Newspeak.


Don't leave your money with the people you're starting an illegal war of aggression against.

That's called being an idiot in European realpolitik.


I don't remember Russian reserves being stored in the Ukraine.


I suppose Russians don't understand the concept of alliances.


Oh, we do. I just don't see European men dying in the Ukraine.


Like it or not, Ukraine is European. Ukrajinci su naši.

Why a country with a GDP smaller than Italy decided to mess with a super power, I don't know. But don't whine when you get your nose bloodied.


>Ukrajinci su naši

No, Ukrainians are not nazi. The Kiev regime makes heroes out of Ukrainian nazi, both historical figures and present day ones, but you shouldn't generalize that to the whole population.


naši means ours, my slavic brethren.

Ustaše[0] are not my brothers, but I see how you can sympathize with the regime that glorifies banderovtsy[1].

"Jewish and Serb organizations, Croat historians and antifascists, as well as international observers, have repeatedly warned of revisionism in Croatia, which seeks to minimize Ustaše crimes and even celebrates the Ustaše regime. Recent examples include the publication of a book celebrating "the Croatian knight" Maks Luburić, who as head of Ustaše concentration camps was responsible for over 100,000 deaths, during Ustaše genocides against Jews, Serbs and Roma, and a documentary minimizing children's deaths in Ustaše concentration camps." [2]

In the Ukraine they translate and publish[3] memoirs of Nate Pavelich.[4]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usta%C5%A1e

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banderite

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usta%C5%A1e#Modern-day_Croatia

[3] https://book-ye.com.ua/authors/ante-pavelich/

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ante_Paveli%C4%87#Genocide


What's your beef with Nazis? Don't you enjoy foreign invasions and genocide, bombs falling from the sky as the master race marches forward?

Smrt fašizmu, sloboda narodu!

Ante Pavelic was the Putin of the 20th century.


>Smrt fašizmu

On that we can agree.

>Ante Pavelic was the Putin of the 20th century.

Pavelic organized genocide, they are not the same.



Seriously?

"The report, compiled by two thinktanks, the New Lines Institute in Washington and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights in Montreal, found that there were “reasonable grounds to conclude” that Russia is already in breach of two articles of the 1948 Genocide Convention, by publicly inciting genocide, and by the forcible transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia, which the report notes is itself a genocidal act under article II of the convention."

So the reports says that Putin committed genocide by evacuating orphans from the war zone and saying that Russians and Ukrainians are the same people. Okey.

And that you equate with intentional murder of hundreds of thousands of people of undesired ethnicities by Pavelic?


I did not write the Genocide Convention, nor am I an expert to judge whether it applies or not.

The experts, however, say it does.

To call stealing kids from their parents "evacuating orphans" shows you, too, are supportive of genocide.


So the "experts" tell you that calling Russians and the Ukrainian the same people is genocide, and you think "Hmm, they must be right, they are experts. It's the same as saying that Jews are subhuman".

>To call stealing kids from their parents "evacuating orphans" shows you, too, are supportive of genocide.

It's a stale propaganda trope.

When asked for the list of children, Ukrainian regime managed to produce a list with only 339 names and not too convincing explanation of this hundredfold reduction compared to previous claims.

"When asked why Kyiv didn’t present a more extensive list, given that 339 names are less than 2% of the total number of forcefully taken children, Euronews sources explained it was a decision based on previous experience.

“There is a risk that Moscow would try to buy time claiming it takes longer to check the names, while trying to change the identities of Ukrainian children further, making it impossible to track,” the source said." [0]

[0] https://www.euronews.com/2025/06/04/ukraine-demands-return-o...


Its called War Reparations when you are not paid in Rubles...

I don't think being paid in rubles is the necessary condition for knowing international law.

"War reparations are compensation payments made after a war by one side to the other. They are intended to cover damage or injury inflicted during a war. War reparations can take the form of hard currency, precious metals, natural resources, industrial assets, or intellectual properties. Loss of territory in a peace settlement is usually considered to be distinct from war reparations.

War reparations are often governed by treaties which belligerent parties negotiate as part of a peace settlement. Payment of reparations often occur as part of a condition to remove occupying troops or under the threat of re-occupation. The legal basis for war reparations in modern international law is Article 3 of the Hague Convention of 1907.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_reparations


>where half the people don't speak their native language

You need to look up the definition of "native language".


>It's the moral imperative of every country to optimize for its citizens' economic prospects.

Moral???


Correct, this is double-speak at its maximum.


Any other motivation forfeiting citizens' interests are perceived as treason, therefore immoral, so yes.


So for example addressing climate change might be perceived as treason if it gets in the way of optimizing economic interests?


It can, especially when some other countries commission a new coal power plant every week.


I hate this talking point so much. If you are talking about China, that's just growth. They are also rolling out more solar than the rest of the world combined. While the US is now actively discouraging investing in renewables.


Chinese coal power outgrows renewables still. A Western country with already cleaner energy destroying whatever remains of their manufacturing only to be moved to China and powered by mostly coal is not only treason of its own citizens but also bad for the climate. Feels so good to be "net zero" while importing materialized coal with not much to trade back (other than coal of course).


So when slave trade advances citizens' economic prospects it's moral imperative for the country to facilitate it, right?


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