You’re thinking of better working conditions, fewer hours, more pay, and more vacations!

You, I like you!

If they are even in a country with a Costco or have a Costco membership or have a Costco within 50 miles of them!

At this point, Valve is just trying to bridge the tech gap that’s getting ever-wider between platforms thanks for proprietary gate-keeping. Linux/Valve is gonna be the duo that sets us all free! Linux will give us the framework and Valve will give us the ease!

Right? Capitalism gotta capitalize on all that capital, sitting around in our bank accounts, when it could be sitting around in THEIR bank accounts!

Interesting. I always try to err on the side of caution with things “we know” to be true because every year, it seems, there’s some shit that science shows we were wrong about for decades or more. Maybe you’re like me and have skirted the line as pre diabetic? That’s what it has showed for me since I started getting tested regularly in my 20s. My blood glucose bounces between 95-110 or so with my fasting labs.

After COVID, I started to notice body changes in myself with the prolonged lack of social activity. I stopped being able to tolerate extreme temps as much as I used to be able to handle, especially extreme heat. I noticed I started to sweat more, like a lot, lot more, when previously I had not sweat that much. I was having issues with shaking and twitches and muscle weakness when doing things as simple as picking up my child (born in December 2019). My arms and legs fell asleep more frequently than they used to. I also stopped being able to remember, talk good like and stuff, and would sometimes lose my train-of-thought mid-sentence, for instance. Generally, just noticing changes that I knew were out of the ordinary.

When I threw those things into ChatGPT (back a year or more ago, now), it immediately said my symptoms appeared to be MS, which I had suspected, though not prompted the generative AI to confirm. I gave it a list of new symptoms, no matter how attached they appeared, and it spit that out. Many symptoms of MS overlap with diabetes, including bladder function, vision issues, and numbness/tingling in extremities. The human body is so weird!

Wouldn’t it be funny if the reason they bought EA was because there’s some die-hard Saudi zoomer who loves games, has a butt load of money, and wants to make great games. Maybe they do a 180° on some of their best IPs and lower the price to make gaming more accessible to more people. It’s what I would have done if I had more money than I knew what to do with! A girl can dream. <3 <3

Now we’ll get those actionable regressive values! FUCK YEAH!

Schrodinger’s Diabetes! It both exists, and doesn’t exist, until you confirm it!

In all seriousness, take care of yourself, please. If a one-time, fasting lab test can either alleviate your fears or get you help before it becomes an even bigger issue, then I’d suggest talking to doctor about those tests. I know, at least if you’re in the US, the healthcare system sucks, and you might not have insurance to afford a full battery of tests, I’m not shaming. I get why you may not have seen a doctor or gotten tested before now. However, we (human people) are not around long enough to spend part of it in fear of something and the another part of it in pain treating the thing that we were initially fearing.

I’m rooting for you!

Ahh, the way social media was expected to work: sharing information, asking questions, connecting, and helping your fellow human beings with their suspected, though not confirmed, medical diagnoses! Instead, it’s mostly just bots talking to bots with an obnoxious Times Square-level of ads compelling us to buy, buy, BUY! If this post can help anyone other than me, yourself included, that’s just the icing on this delicious Lemmy cake!

If you do get tested, I’d be curious to know the results if you don’t mind sharing them, as I think lived experience can go a long way toward helping not only those who see this post today, but those who may find it years from now! Thanks for the reply!!

Thanks for the reply. I’ll check my test results again and look for something in there that references A1C. I get a comprehensive blood work, but there’s just a bunch of acronyms, haha!

Thanks. I’ll try to check it out when my ADHD meds kick in here in a bit! (not sarcasm)

Thanks, haha. All your hives are belong to me!

You’re amazing! Keep it up and diet changes are already helping! Thanks.

That’s how you trip and fall. Make sure those snakes are tied tightly!

Agreed. From the person who gave the order to the person who carried out the order, illegal orders are illegal orders. Both should be held responsible under the UCMJ for the crime. I know they won’t, but they should be.

I honestly don’t think we’ll know he’s died until multiple days later if it doesn’t happen within a public place. If it happens with few witnesses, they’ll ride that dead pony as far as they can, push through as much as they can “as tRump”, before announcing it. Weekend at Bernie’s: US Corpacalypse

In a world where everything is trying to steal as many minutes of our attention as possible, cheating in single-player games is just a way to experience the content without the grind. I appreciate any SP game that offers “dad-mode” difficulty options, but those are few. My favorite types of games are those that incentivize replay by offering “cheats” within the game. Games such as Dead Space and Silent Hill IV incentivized replay by offering enhanced items or, in the case of SH4, an infinite rocket launcher. Those are still, to this day, games I’ve played at least 3-4 times from start to end just to find fun ways to play and be a badass while doing it!

As with most things in my life, if it isn’t hurting anything/anyone why would/should I or anyone else care? Cheating in MP is akin to drinking water from a public toilet, though. Almost nothing grosser than that action and those people!

All that said, one thing I’ve learned about myself over the years, especially since my ADHD diagnosis last year (or the year before, time is a blur anymore), is that cheating is nearly always going to kill any interest I have in that game. It’s when I know I’m nearing the end of my interest in the game. It extends to hobbies, too, though the “cheating” in that is splurging and finally buying stuff to really get good at the hobby. I did that with woodworking, 3D printing, and ghost hunting. Bought the shit, got excited about using it, and basically didn’t touch the hobby afterwards. It kind of sucks and I’m working on that stuff, though!

I mean, shit, I don’t even want to be here most days because of the absolute embarrassment that is our government and the corporatocracy this country has become. Most other English-speaking countries would be preferable to traveling to the US, imo.

But you did it! You understand it and that’s pretty rad. Every victory, no matter how small, is still a victory!!