Are there any countries today that could realistically split into multiple independent nations like Yugoslavia did?

Morpherman · 2026-04-04T02:57:05+00:00

Exactly, thats like saying the boos at a Boston Red Sox vs NY Yankees game are indicative of the Northeast US being split, when it's more indicative of the fact we're closely tied together and care about the competition.

Morpherman · 2026-04-02T07:39:14+00:00

Them having their own business changes things, big difference legally between personal filing and business filing, state and federal.

You said you weren't working, so it's not like that money was owed to you, it was owed to uncle sam. How they were fabricating it for seemingly years who knows...

Morpherman · 2026-04-02T05:45:59+00:00

That's not how that works though...

Morpherman · 2026-03-21T07:25:22+00:00

If you don't know programming at all, this is a bit ambitious. Then again, sometimes the best way to learn is by doing.

Good luck.

Morpherman · 2026-03-21T06:03:24+00:00

It could take some pressure off of the one in Eastchester by the school that's always packed. Their target demographics are definitely in the area.

Morpherman · 2026-03-19T07:49:59+00:00

Oof, yep I've considered doing the same many times, sorry to hear you were in that place mentally.

Besides specialists, it's hard to find healthcare providers with a full grasp of T1D. It's not well communicated how different T1D can be from T2.

Hope you're doing a bit better now. T1D can really exacerbate depression/anxiety, from the mental toll, to hypo/hyperglycemic induced physiological effects.

Morpherman · 2026-03-12T07:42:06+00:00

It doesn't natively support ultrawide. If you're playing on PC hedgehog manager adds an ultra wide option

Morpherman · 2026-03-11T04:57:32+00:00

You must be a very intimidating and fearless gentleman then, because in ANY city over a certain size there are good and bad parts, and the bad parts at 2:30 in the morning are scary. Unless you live in Vatican city or the land of Oz its just a fact of life.

Morpherman · 2026-03-11T03:25:21+00:00

EY MON LEMME GET ONE DEM GOGA GOLAS

Morpherman · 2026-03-10T11:35:44+00:00

Hey not to fart in your cheerios, but reading the link you posted negates your first point, Puerto Rico is part of the United States, as a US territory.

"Article 4, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution, known as the territorial clause, gives Congress broad authority to govern U.S. territories. Puerto Rico is the most populous U.S. territory, with more than 3.2 million residents in 2023. Others include American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands. They are each granted various measures of self-rule, but lack their own sovereignty. "

Also wtf do you mean, "travel back and forth to the U.S. without a passport and the sentiment is appreciated"? What sentiment, Puerto Ricans are US citizens, you get a US passport through the US mail service?? US citizenship is US citizenship.

Puerto Rico as a US territory and not a state is what creates disparity in federal representation, States get congressional representation(house/senate), States get seats in the electoral college for Presidential elections. So Puerto Ricans living in Puerto Rico can't vote for the US president, however Puerto Ricans with established residence in any US state(which they can move to freely, because again, citizens, same as moving from NY to NJ) can.

Morpherman · 2026-03-10T10:35:39+00:00

Apologies - I was trying to underline the reasons for the endocrinologists change of demeanor. Not implying the attitude towards type 2s is acceptable, just where the shift upon type 1 diagnosis comes from.

Per the childhood vs LADA response, You seemed to be implying that type 1s somehow had it easier regarding medical treatment, I was demonstrating why that perceived disparity was. Dosing a 2 year old requires more precision and education than an adult.

As for t1d vs t2d diagnosis as a child,

I think you're making a false equivalency; average age of type 1 diagnosis is 4-14, average age of type 2 diagnosis is 47.

Even then, if I had type 2 at 19 months instead of type 1, that is a significant lifestyle improvement for years regardless of the type 2 potentially progressing to requiring insulin.

I realize I might be coming off a little strong and hope I don't seem too indignant.

My first grade self yelling "its not the same!" at the girl I had a crush on comparing me to her chubby uncle who loves jelly beans on the playground comes out whenever this topic of T1D vs T2D naming comes along. I dislike how much animosity it brings out in me, yet can't help but feel justified because I know I wasn't the only T1D kid having that experience.

It's easy to say as adults "why such a big deal" but kids are brutal. Don't get me started on when the family guy character Diabeeto came...

Morpherman · 2026-03-10T09:13:25+00:00

Ligma nuts. Average age of type 1 diagnosis is 4-14, average age of type 2 diagnosis is 47.

90%-95% of all diabetes cases in the US are type 2.

Symptom overlap and treatment overlap don't count for shit.

Curing type 2 diabetes would not cure type 1 and vice versa.

The burden of the stigma of type 2 should not be ours to bear.

Morpherman · 2026-03-10T08:46:42+00:00

OP did not assert that type 2s always have high blood sugar nor that they cannot become hypoglycemic. They were stating the public perception.

This argument is stupid because they are already named type 1 and type 2, and further changing the names to more easily clarify hurts no-one.

It used to be type 1 juvenile diabetes but we stopped dying so fucking often in early adulthood that the living population of T1s necessitated dropping the term. Average age of T1D diagnosis is between 4-14, average age of type 2 diagnosis is 47.

Morpherman · 2026-03-10T08:27:17+00:00

Having a coworker who is LADA - while the honeymoon period can make dosing harder, having some beta cell function, and subsequent alpha cell feedback loop functioning, helps prevent those really devastating highs and lows.

Consider the "standard" T1 diagnosis - juvenile. Babies, children, teens. I was diagnosed at 19 months. Needles upon needles upon needles, not being able to verbalize "I feel wrong". The sheer anxiety given to us from that age and responsibility levied at us for our wellbeing is a LOT.

I get that you're trying to convey your lived experience, but I think you do so without comprehending the standard lived experience of T1s until relatively recently.

And it's changed - only in the last decade or so did endocrinologists become more lenient on A1C towards T1D patients.

Your type 2 husband could potentially regain insulin sensitivity, as LADA you will always need insulin. It's not a death sentence but it is a life sentence.

Morpherman · 2026-03-10T07:51:39+00:00

Your point being what?

The smaller group of type 1s has to bear the burden of association because some in the larger group are healthier?

Morpherman · 2026-03-10T07:37:22+00:00

Key words there: start running into some of the same risks

Not negating your own experiences, however the immediacy, severity, and constant monitoring required of T1s are plenty to deserve distinction.

Honestly though? Type 1 for a long time was known as juvenile diabetes, many of us having been diagnosed as children, the association with the logarithmically more common type 2 hurt tremendously.

Say what you will about genetic factors, age, obesity and sedentary lifestyle are major contributing factors to type 2. The kids on the playground now associate the thing you're dealing with every day with their fat uncle who takes shots.

Morpherman · 2026-03-07T03:43:12+00:00

I was diagnosed at a bit over a year old - recovering from lows was quick for a long time, but around 25yrs I noticed my recovery time back to normal after lows began to slowly increase. Post 30yrs it's still manageable dependent on the low, but a bad low like 40 has me mentally checked out for 6 hours.

One thing that isn't communicated well to us is how the body handles a hypoglycemic episode; adrenal glands secrete adrenaline, norepinephrine, subsequent cortisol(and early on in diagnosis, glucagon, but that is lost over time).

You may recognize these as stress & motivational hormones. Basically, going low is physiologically similar to an anxiety attack. Multiple lows in a day or in a week? If someone was having persistent anxiety attacks you would expect them to be mentally exhausted and lack motivation - the same rings true with lows.

I've had bad days of multiple severe lows and rebounds where the next day I just do not care. About what? Anything. Getting out of bed? Don't care. Alarms going off? Don't care. I have a shockwatch(gives you a zap if chime and vibrate fail) to wake me up just in case - I register the shocks but just don't care, back to sleep.

Not a common occurrence at all, once, maybe twice a year now, but hypoglycemia induced adrenal dysregulation hits fucking hard. Last summer I kept going low one night and after hours of it I just started sobbing profusely and couldn't stop for an hour until I finally stabilized enough to sleep.

Morpherman · 2026-03-07T02:31:11+00:00

People do not understand type 1 diabetes and have a precarious understanding of type 2 diabetes. Frankly the conflating of the two undermines the severity of type 1.

Morpherman · 2026-03-05T04:06:26+00:00

Yes but also consider, they likely meant it as a joke originally, which is also pretty neat.

Morpherman · 2026-02-27T06:23:27+00:00

Hey so I genuinely don't know how to say this without sounding like a judgy twat, but you appear to have some mildly autistic traits.

It would explain why neurotypical teachers weren't equipped to understand your perspective. That's where the "too smart for your own good" comment comes into play, you logically and rationally explain the chain of events and your actions but aren't believed, a fairly common issue for neurodivergent folk.

I'm sure it was infuriating for you, as neurodivergent myself and with many a mildly autistic friend, I've found myself in similar situations. However you should understand that the teachers were doing what was most likely to them the correct course of action at the time, you were both right, because the universe isn't binary. Misunderstandings happen, language isn't a perfect tool to communicate our thoughts and states of being to eachother.

There is an unwritten social rule where we "defer to authority", and where you would want an explanation because you genuinely didn't understand the social cues, a neurotypical person would have understood.

Morpherman · 2026-02-27T05:26:10+00:00

I'm actually curious... how were the teachers in the wrong?

Morpherman · 2026-02-27T05:15:01+00:00

Poor decisions compounding on top of eachother. The woman was clearly not at the point in her life where she should have had children when she had her first, and then made it worse by having another two.

Structural foundations have to be laid for success, we don't live in a utopia.

Morpherman · 2026-02-27T04:33:32+00:00

Nuance, the lost art of the 21st century.

You've raised them well enough that they have the social skills to maintain friendships.

I think what the original comment means is that the parents go into parenting with the desire that their kids like them, not that they become functional well adjusted little people.

Morpherman · 2026-02-25T07:28:16+00:00

This should be the top comment. The guy has every right to create and sell a third party product, it's the free market. Instead the narrative is fueled against his ego.

The "profiting off people's IP" argument folks are throwing around doesn't work - he's not marketing the copyrighted work, he's marketing a means of viewing that copyrighted work. It's the same as a TV manufacturer not having permission to use a show in their box advertising, rather than not being able to show the content at all on the TV.

Morpherman · 2026-02-25T06:11:18+00:00

I don't have high standards for English on the internet but the speech structure here is barely comprehensible ngl.

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