Date: 2022-12-16 01:43 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] wildeabandon
3. Some of these are indeed terrible, some are clearly trying to be inclusive and just missing the mark a little but Woman/Man/Sea Captain is kind of awesome, but not quite as awesome as A lady/A gentleman/My dear sir, there are individuals roaming the streets of Fallen London at this very moment with the faces of squid! Squid! Do you ask them their gender? And yet you waste our time asking me trifling and impertinent questions about mine? It is my own business, sir, and I bid you good day.

Date: 2022-12-16 04:52 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] calimac
Those two have got to be deliberate. They're the only ones I feel fully confident are not displays of incompetence or cluelessness.

Date: 2022-12-16 01:50 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] dewline
1. Hooray!

2. Yes.

One more thing I'm trying to remember here.

4. I am unsurprised and angered.

7. More progress in expanding/preserving/improving civil society worldwide! Yes!

8. On a related note, OC Transpo here in Ottawa is being directed by Ottawa City Council to maintain a fare freeze throughout 2023. All of next year, in other words.

9. YAY!

10. I believe [personal profile] antipope about these side effects. Or is that not the same drug he's used?

11. Good!

Date: 2022-12-16 02:50 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] dewline
I did intend that post specifically. And now I can't edit my reply accordingly.

Date: 2022-12-17 01:39 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] armiphlage
Sandy's been on that for about five weeks (weekly injectable version). About a half-day of nausea the day of the injection. Interestingly, the fat from around internal organs disappears first, meaning you can feel your organs wiggle.

Date: 2022-12-16 08:29 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] symbioid
I'm on Semaglutide (as Rybelsus) that's how I've lost basically a hundred pounds this past year. It's... weird. I do think I've had some nausea now and then, but fortunately, hasn't been that strong.

It bothers me because I heard people are using it as a "lifestyle" drug for weight loss instead of the diabetes it's initially meant for. IDK

I keep reading Semi Glug #10

Date: 2022-12-17 02:44 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] agoodwinsmith
Back in the 80's there was a new wonder drug for defatification. I'm not going to look it up because it not only did not work on humans, but it gave them life-long (however long that might have been post drug) heart conditions.

The big red flag for me is the expectation that the fat will all return once the person stops glugging their semi. So, it is not rectifying whatever metabolism issues are fat-prone - so what *is* it doing aside from slowing food transition through the intestine suite, and nauseating the taker?

Also - my understanding is that the drug taker has to stab themselves in the belly (above the button, I think) to take Semi Glug. Argh.

I shall wait and see.

Date: 2022-12-17 06:14 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] firecat
I'll buy that semaglutide has "really significant effects" if it improves health (in people other than diabetics) — but it doesn't seem like anyone's studying whether it does.

Date: 2022-12-17 07:25 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] anna_wing
My understanding is that it is intended to help people adjust to the new lifestyles that are necessary in order to maintain their healthy weights, not as a permanent crutch to substitute for a healthy lifestyle. People are supposed to find it easier to aintain the new lifestyle (i.e. eating enough to maintain a healthy weight at a healthy level of activity and no more).

A bit like using Feliway just for a while to reset your cat's level of twitchiness.

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