We learn and overcome in time, the real trouble is another incoming infection, and then another one...and all the folks laughing at me being the only one with mask on my job, or anywhere in fact.

PS Speaking of your partner's diabetes, Mike Greger (Nutritionfacts) has some tips; it is possibly 100% reversible!? Anyway I'm not expert - check this https://nutritionfacts.org/?s=diabetes

PPS

Was in similar situation for roughly ~4 months, what helped most is fixing my sleep (up to 7-8+ hours every night; this takes a bit of education and then some discipline), some quick(~10min) yoga nidra daily (it's very simple, nothing to learn - this also refreshes & compensates for some missong sleep) and 4-8000 units of vitamin D.

PS and of course pacing: learning what triggers "bad days" and in general moderating your mental/physical activity = split everything you do in smaller parts, at least halves, this includes meals[!] and even just googling/shitposting.

:dean-smile: Let's re-try, nothing to lose i guess.

'Morally I'm not so sure...' =)

Milošević's main problem was that he was a socialist and against USA (atop of depending on Russia/Yeltsin too much as it turned out), so everyone from the "free world" and every single nationalistic piece of shit (including quite a lot of "the left") from ex-Yu keep on spreadig the bullshit against him even today.

PS instead of him, Tony could put any, ANY president of the USA - but of course he didn't.

Kasparov was virtually created by Botvinnik - "a staunch communist" in K's own words; K himself greatly benefitted from (and wouldn't exist without) the "oppressive shithole"; K was a member of communist party for too long - IIRC he was one of the last liberals to leave it in early nineties(!) which, somehow, didn't stop him to play the role of "freedom fighter"- the image western media exploited to 110% in late 80s.

North Macedonia, former Macedonia - one of republics of Socialist Yugoslavia, ruled by Communist Party roughly from WW2 to 90s.

No, it does help with both mood and performance - many tested it and it works, which I can also confirm from years of personal experience; IIRC there are studies confirming it but I CBAed to re-check, simply since it works very well for me. It's basically rebranded Tumo breathing which is certainly not a scam, and it also helps with, say, cold showers and raises cold tolerance in general (one of basic things Tumo was designed for). IIRC it also raises dopamine, I did reading on it years ago and will check it again. People dying from it were doing it in bodies of water or driving or doing anything stupid that you don't want to "do" potentially unconscious, since then there are disclaimers about that everywhere including the original WH site.

Of course I didn't just "trust" him but did a lot of reading - I was especially interested in what doctors/PhDs/studies have to say, besides testing it myself in many ways. It was years ago and I remember studies on immunity having mixed results and it all being in an early phase, the reason I used "is supposed to" and "for what it's worth". Anyway thanks for the links - I will check both carefully!

An interesting and controversial opinion on Karabakh situation:

"The UN Security Council meeting on Karabakh, initiated by France, predictably ended in nothing since everything was already over. However, even so an interesting moment arose.

The Armenian Foreign Minister in his speech called for the deployment of UN peacekeepers to the region, without once mentioning Russian peacekeepers.

Pashinyan will now be able to solve two main tasks: to finish off the former elite of Armenia within the country, which brought it to it's current state, and - in the field of foreign policy - he simply must make the most of the situation to distance himself from Russia and replace it with other security guarantors.

The paradox of the situation is that Pashinyan’s power even strengthened after the fall of Karabakh, since now his opponents (the so-called Karabakh clan) have been defeated and a space for new solutions has opened up for him - now free of this insoluble conflict. "

Source (in Russian) https://t.me/anatoly_nesmiyan/12969

Edit: here is a quick summary of it all, in just one image - https://news.am/uploads/images/000000/23/karabahskaya-bojnya-sorosa-i-ehrdogana.jpg

For what it's worth, I do a VimHof breathing session anytime I even slightly syspect any of the symptoms. It is supposed to raise dopamine and immunity - and has some good effects on mood and performance aside COVID. If you CBAed to do full three cycles, do one or two at least but the longer the better.

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Oh absolutely, weeks after the incident and with best care available I guess (?) he Is able to talk - OFC unless it is another "new" old video so typical of ukie propaganda.

It started weeks ago, first speculations of his sudden disappearance, then clumsy official attempts to cover it by this or that excuse, then recent 'leaks' (a random Ukrainian nurse on telegram) about some very very VIP patient in coma and finally in last 2-3 days there is loads of sources, including a couple major ones, saying directly what is written in my previous.

TLDR I ignored the rumors for quite some time, but now I basiclly just wait for confirmation.

A quick explanation of the recent Ukrainian "offensive" (that happened mostly on twitter and telegram); it also explains why Zaluzhny suddenly disappeared from all the media exactly at that time:

"RIA News:

Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Zaluzhny suffered a head injury and shrapnel wounds as a result of a Russian missile attack on a command post near Kherson in early May. Zaluzhny underwent a craniotomy after being wounded - according to forecasts, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will live, but will not be able to do his job." source in Russian https://t.me/diplomatia/7771

Edit: "Prigozhin's big interview following the results of the Battle of Artemovsk. Interestingly he declares that the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are 50 000 irretrievable(dead). They practically coincide with the calculations of the War Tears project, which, according to its methodology, gave 55 000 losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, based on the calculation of the established losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine units noted in Artemovsk and regional obituaries.

Wagner losses amounted to 20% of the total killed and up to 20% of the wounded. At its peak, the number of Wagner PMCs reached, according to Prigozhin, up to 50,000 people.

The enemy grouping defending Artemovsk totaled up to 82 thousand people. (which coincides with our and Ukrainian estimates that estimated the grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Artemovsk area at 75-85 thousand people."

source in Russian https://t.me/boris_rozhin/86740

Sure, IIRC we already have photos of some corpses+ it appears that a lot of their equipment was virtually made in USA. But good chunk of "Ukraine" is also considered Russian territory that is currently ocupied by nazis, so...

"...Yesterday I wrote that up to a battalion of Nazi personnel was involved in the attack on Russian territory. The composition was motley - "Kraken", "Azov", "RDK", Kharkov Terodefense, and a number of other units that carry out the main service in the border areas, in this particular case in Velikaya Pisarevka.

'Azov', 'Kraken' and 'RDK' with fancy multicams and pasted with tape like parrots came to shoot tik tok, their home video shooting was covered by the cannon fodder from the Kharkiv Terodefense and the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that serve in Velyka Pisarevka. TikTokers from "Azov", "Kraken" and "RDK" already by 12 o'clock on May 22, 2023, having filmed the content, quickly ran from the Russian territory leaving the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the MAP "Grayvoron" to "cover" their departure. It was those poor fucks that our artillery guns smashed to pulp, and the infantry subsequently collected the corpses. Small fry."

Source (in Russian) https://t.me/notes_veterans/9649

Yeah I agree Caesar represented his class in many typical ways, he was scheming, chasing women, got lots of blood on his hands...anyway to me Parent's central point is not Caesar but exactly that counterpunkt (or 'contrarianism' as you noted) to the image - one of so many - painted by the modern "history", even if it was just an aspect.

I feel he was building his lecture partly as a political speech, and especially towards his final point "...we are they". Naturally we should take it all with a grain of salt, compare to other sources and yadda, you know that well.

I agree tho it's typical Parentian passion that sometimes pushes the story too far towards the "freedom fighter" side, and I guess also his reflex to counter the mainstream history - which is much further from truth in the opposite direction; IIRC he mentioned more than once that Caesar was no angel.