That's the type of meter the VA issues to me. And, I send my readings to my Diabetes Coach about once a month and we discuss how I'm doing and adjust things if needed. I've been doing this for about 20 years, and am very well controlled.

Why are we attacking regular folks just trying to raise their children in this increasingly complex and often dystopian-feeling world?

At what point did you decide that it was time to deflect attacks away from a trillion dollar industry and the billionaires that command it, and towards some random person on the Internet trying to raise his/her kids ?

I'm waiting for Amazon Day to buy pitchforks and torches.

They are taking books out of circulation for human use, and making them into effectively an AI information monopoly.

Imagine a future where if you want to know something you have to ask AI. You can't even look it up yourself because those resources were pulped ages ago.

Immigrants, Communists, Biden's economy, etc. There's always SOME excuse.

I'm running what Ubuntu presents as the current version of FF, which is 147.0.4.. HOW is FF going to get to 157 by the end of next month???

So a net profit for Meta and they're off the hook.

There was GSZ (Graphic SZmodem) which let you view the image while you downloaded it and then abort before the end to avoid the radio metrics on old BBSes. And there was SuperZModem which let you chat and play tetris. I usually ran that one on my BBS. (GSZ was a little unreliable to run on a BBS, plus leaving my computer unattended mean anyone could walk by and see the weird shit some people would loaded to my BBS).

The tough reality about puppet presidents is that their heads are full of stuffing.

Yeah, we should surround ourselves with billionaires and hope it trickles down on us all.

I always assumed where it came to TOS a couple things.

First Kirk says 'there are only 12 others LIKE her'; the implication being the fleet even then consisted of a lot more ships, but probably smaller and less capable than Constitution Class, which would have been a 'ship of the line' so to speak.

This seems almost a hard requirement given how many assets they visit, space stations, research out posts, listening stations, etc.. It does not seem like independent commercial interests would have built out all that, especially in the context of the 'post scarcity' world even TOS mostly operates in. I mean who dreams of hanging out on some small space station shuffling Quadrotriticale between transport ships? At the very least someone has to tell you 'it is noble work' or provide so motivation, so there has to be a command element to the economy. I digress, the critical point here the existence of these transports implies there are lots of other space faring vessels even in this early cannon. By extension it would make sense than Star Fleet would not be having captial ships returning to base for supplies etc, but probably at the least has tenders and things of the like in it.

As far as encountering new disasters again forward exploration is the Enterprises role, they are largely operating in least explored regions of known space furthest from support, they are seeking out 'new' things.

Presumably the other twelve Star Ships are also experiencing similarity wild events; we see this in the Planet Killer, where Enterprise is the second the party after Constellation.

Finally yes they do publish the results. In TNG's "The Naked Now" the have a complete record of the events of the "The Naked Time" in the in the ships database. So at least within Star Fleet the pretty much everything another ship encounters is available and searchable to you including the logs of the ships command crew, at least if you have clearance.

Internment of Japanese Americans by the greatest Democrat ever, FDR?

Antibodies are used in research because they can be trained to connect to almost anything small. Once they attach in the body or in a petri dish, you can use western blotting or florescence or other techniques to find the antibodies, and you've found what they attached to.

There are a number of other uses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The question was what motivation Iran would have to attack a power plant in the UK. And there is the answer.

As for the rest of your post, I agree, it doesn't seem likely this was a hacking attempt, and attribution evidence is missing.

Much better then finger sticks 20 times a day leaving the tips of your fingers covered in bruises, pin pricks or just numb.

Man, you must have some seriously major case of diabetes if you need 20 sticks per day! I take 22 units of Lantus every morning and Novolog on a sliding scale with each meal and only four sticks per day. One before each meal and one at bedtime.