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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I don’t even agree that it’s most, keep in mind a lot of the times when we hear about a gun owner doing something incredibly stupid it is a statistical minority based on the known number of gun owners.

    I’m not saying we don’t need to do more to restrict or enforce legislation on gun owners, we absolutely do, but even saying half means upwards of 200 million in the US. I think we’d be hearing about a lot more issues if that many were existing in that level of day to day fear.










  • I’m a type 1 diabetic, I’ve been using insulin pumps and CGM for over a decade. I am in no way defending pump manufacturers but A, this is not “basic medical care”, pump/CGM systems (closed loop as they are called) capable of maintaining blood sugar levels are the latest and greatest tech for insulin dependent diabetics. B, it’s not like they are creating something that doesn’t already exist, they are just making open source alternatives, which I heartily support.

    I just don’t like how you are making it sound like “Welp the medical community doesn’t want to make them so people had to step up and do it themselves!”

    These things have been around a few years now and while I could fill a book with complaints about the design choices of the hardware we rely on I gotta say the algorithms that the software uses is very far down on the list of issues.