US lawmakers advance Bill to sanction ICC over Israel probe
More worried by the sci fi like future.
Where this stuff evolves into something that looks to hunt mankind. Due to the micro plastics we all have in our bodies.
Huge black fungus blobs rolling up the beach. Covering sun bathers and slowly absorbing the living body over decades.
Lol. Visual impaired typing on a phone. I feel no shame in the odd typo.
But yep germany has a very long history of scilled engineering. Before and after Nazi control.
They dont. Manufacturers do not actually pay the tax. Instead sodas lowered the sigar level to below 6g per 100ml. From 10 to 12 before.
So full coke in the UK has no more tax then diet.
To confirm this. I just discovered coke is now selling a classic taste version. With 10.6g sugar per 100ml.
And sainsbury charges 21p more for 8 cans then diet coke.
If you look at pepsi full. It is 4.6g now rather then >10g.
Honestly the USA would have issuez pulling it off today. After creating the tech taken from german desigbs over 50 years ago.
Thanks ill lookninto that sometime soon.
Not OP. But curios on the subject. I use debian bookworm with an older Nvidia 1050.
I currently tend to use gnome. As I have multi res monitors. Mainly due to vision issues. 2x32inch 2k 1x28inch 4k and a 24inch 1k
Dose any desktop allow stable fractional scaling for each monitor independently. Its been a good few years since I looked into it. But in the past it was unstable.
LOL I have temped in a UK orange juice factory. Believe me your sanity depends on what you dont know.
As for fruit juice and sugar. My comment makes things look more all juice then I intended.
We tend to sell a few different forms. Pure Juice tends to come in cardboard (plastic coated) tubs of a litre or more. Pure is literal in the name. So no added sugar. It also need to be refrigerated and only lasts weeks. But honestly nattural juice has a sugar called fructos that works pretty well on low blood sugar. Way higher in actual carb grams then modern sodas like coke. But way less then the old pre tax amount.
We also have Juices made from concentrated juice with water and sugar added. During the concentration process it is heated to remove most of the water. Then shipped to factories. Here purified boiled water ands sugar is added.
This leads to a juice that can sit on a shelf without refrigeration for years. Both will work when grabbed in a hurry. But as the reconstituted from concentrate juices have from 8 to 12g of sugar carbs per 100 ml you tend to need less. Making it actually better to carry on a summer day. Old coke full sugar was about the same.
Modern cola is about 4 to 5g per 100ml. Although I have just discovered Coke has started selling Coke Original Taste Brand with 10.6g per 100ml. So looks like they have decided people will pay a bit more after all.
In sainsbury's it £5.20 for 8 330ml cans where Diet coke is £4.99 so the tax is far from huge.
It has not changed the price of sugar free. Because the compqnies have drematically reduced the sugar in other sodas.
IE you can nonlonger buy full sugar coke etc. So no tax is actually payable.
Ir is definitely improved diets. But to give you an idea of how much the sugar is reduced.
The first few years after the change. Type 1 diabetics like me ended up in ER.
Because we had spent years ,(decades in my case) turning to fullvsugar drinks to avoid dangerous lows in hot summers.
Now coke etc has only a small amount more sugar then diet coke.
Many of us only realised this as we came to in an ambulance on the way to ER.
It was such an issue that the NHS now prescribes us very high sugar drinks in small plastic ( 100ml) bottles we can carry for emergencies.
We all also now know to stick to fruit juice if we need to buy something in an emergency. As that is not covered by the rule so has tons of added sugar.
Ill also share a cute story just to cheer evety one up.
First I am hypo unaware. It is a condition that often hits long term well managed T1ds (40years in my case) where we lose the ability to tell when our sugar is low.
At the time this sugar tax came in. Icwas goingvthrough a 3 year strugle with nice. Where my specialist was trying to grt me issued a CGM. (Continues, Glucose Monitor that warns you when going low)
I had a girl friend at the time. Who litrally kept me alive. As over the hot summer nights she was regually required to place glucose in my mouth as I was having a fit.
But after the glucose was in. It can take up to 10 mind for my mind to start responding sanely. Low blood sugar can look like you are very very drunk to outsiders.
So she would be paniking and constently asking what to do while I was recovering. With me just not in a mental state to explane.
So when fine one day she asked me wjat was best.
So I gave her thos advice. Post the low. I genrally needvto take some slower acting carbs to prevent the heat sending me down again.
The easiest way tovtake it is a sugery cup of tea and a few biscuits.
Now that is only rechnically true. Pretty much anythibg with a lottle morecsugar and some slow acting carbz will work.
But when i wake up after those night time lows. My memory is missing a chunch of s few hours (I never regain that). And things feel pretty darn stressful.
You have no idea how relaxing a sweat cup of tea in bed and some biscuits to dunk is as your comming to from that crsp.
While also taking the GF mind of rhe panic and giving her something to do rather then worry if I am going to die.
Exactly rhis. We are all used to it now. But that first summer was real hot. And many got seriously in danger. Folks forget death can really happen in these situations.
But there is a much bigger worry if this new idea is sctually implemented the same way.
Currently we have options as fruit juice dosent follow these tule. A d still has loads of added sugar. Although some village store do not stock it. In genral we can find somthing that will work.
If companies act the same way with evrtything cakes sweets juices etc.
Buying a packet of sugar really is not an option in many small villages.
Yes it is. Coke or an equivalent.
First remember this shit his freaking fast. Especially in the summer where it littally feels like sugar is leached from your skin all day.
Sugar and water is fine at home. Although honestly dose not mix well if the warer is not hot. But it can work.
When you are out and about doing every day thongs. Most tiny village stores do not sell bags of sugar.
Atm even friut juice is far from a garrentee in tiny shops. And you can have less then a few mind to handle this situation when its bad. (HOT).
ATM. You can still get something sweet at most stores. Even if frout juice is not available. Something food wise is. Food is slower but can work. And honestly dealing with heat uou need slower acting carbs all day long.
But if this new tax idea happens. And companies respond the way they did with sodas.
It will mean deaths.
Lol. Auto corrected typo.
ER. Thanks for pointing it out.
Hilariously lucozade was originally used for exatly what the new gluco shots given buy the NHS were.
Its original name was glucoaid. And it was used in hospitals in the 50s and 60s to give energy to paiteints.
Back in the 80s when I was diagnosed Lucozade was what we were recomended to keep for the job. But there was so much better tasting stuff. I never got into it.
I and a good number of other type one diabetics ended up in ER due to the sugar tax.
Honestly I am not against the tax. Just feel the companies should have rebounded a little.
Many T1ds were so used to buying coke etc when they are going low. We got hit hard by how quickly the companies adapted and started only selling the lower sugar versions.
To the extent that the NHS will now RX small buttles of high glucose drinks. (Lemon or Berry flavoured but non fizzy) just to ensure T1ds have an easy source of sugar to prevent unsafe low blood sugar comas.
As I say its something easy to fix now. We all just grab fruit juice. But the change and companies reactions to it. Left many of us waking up in an ambulance on the way to ER.
If they start applying it to all products. And the companies all act the same way. Just reducing sugars without any clear branding.
It will leave us with zero easy high sugar option that can be grabbed easily from any small village shop etc.
’s possible that he doesn’t serve any time
The things you mention. And more importantly the fact that crimes like this rarely involve jail on a first offence.
Chinese scientists develop cure for diabetes, insulin patient becomes medicine-free in just 3 months
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Its worse the that. Many think now it is reversed. As T2 is a resistance to insulin. And without insulin you cannot gain energy from your diet. It is now commonly accepted that those prown to t2 diabetes are often forced to eat due to the body gaining less energy from food.
So being genetically prown to to can lead to weight gain prior to diagnosis. Rather then weight gain leading to to t2d.
Chinese scientists develop cure for diabetes, insulin patient becomes medicine-free in just 3 months
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Not OP but thanks for sharing a good link.
Technically it is not a cure for type 2. But a repair to further damage caused by a life of type 2.
The type 2 diabetic is still insulin resistant after this treatment. It is just some of the harm that resistance dose to their islet cells. Makeing them partly mimic type 1 diabetes with reduced insulin production. Can be rebuilt with stem cells.
The patient will still need to eat and manage carbs as a well treated type 2 must. To avoid having issues.
It being a self directed thing. Rather the run by scummy magazine and movie producers. Makes a big big difference to how many feel safe taking it on.
So yeah being so popular likely is very much a gen z thing.
Success is no proof of comparative ease.
Just that the division is actual evidence that a different approach is needed. And let's face it. In most daily situations the military has a do it the way we always have attitude.
Thanks for sharing though. Its a good story to share.
As I said we did it in the UK. Not just with regular troops in ww2. But spy units were trained in secret (along with the home gaurd). To act as a resistance if Germany ever took the UK.
This was made up of retired and protected industry non conscripts.
Much of it only released under the official secrets act in the last 20 years. They were literally trained to sabertarge the German lines and keep the resistance active if our government was removed.
But as I say. Its a different thing to train older people. Unless they have had reason to remain fit. Many take more time. And care to train to military standards. The higher level their carreer the more likely much of it was spent at a desk.
And teens leaving school are more used to being directed in the way they are expected to think. Old folks have good reason to think they may know better.
As I said harder to train not impossible. Often best with a more flexible approach then the break down and rebuild most basic training attempts.
And my grandfather died a few years back. But could not keep up was not a phrase I'd dare use untill the last few years. But generalisations have value when folks are making decisions based on a whole nation.
So any icc employee who has settled in the US. Loses access to family. And is unable to sell property to fund moving them. To a less politically toxic nation?
It could be a ĺittle more then symbolism to the lives of anyone involved who has a visa.
Republicans seem to really ignore:we no longer live in a world where the girl/boy next door is your most likely wife/husband. Many of us human beings build relationships accross borders now the Internet is so linked to our daily lives.