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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • They pump insulin.

    They’re inconvenient, but much better than a few years ago. Having an app for the monitor now is a game-changer to avoid people hearing a self-destruct countdown beep under your shirt. But one of my friends actually still prefers shots three times a day, You just kind of get used to that if it’s all you’ve ever known, so for some people it’s not as big a deal as others make it out to be.

    So with that out of the way, you may have replied to a comment mentioning insulin pumps, but what do they have to do with the post, anymore than the doll’s hair colour?


  • Geez. I wonder why they didn’t include all the other ones…

    Computer Engineer Barbie of 2010 was great. It included a backstory of accidentally getting a virus on her sister’s computer as Barbie admits she knows nothing about computers, is just a designer, and relies on boys at her school to help. Of course the laptop was pink.

    There’s so, so, so many of these all the way up to now… Oreo Barbie, the Doll’s of the World collection, the sleepover ones that have apparel that says “Don’t Eat” on it.

    If it’s not clear now, Mattel relies on making Barbies that will make money at the time. So girls can be happy other girls manufactured dolls for them in factories in a country known as “Oriental”. This is the point of the post.

    All you’ve done is link their public-facing marketing material which implies it works.







  • Thanks, Captain.

    A broad DCCT (Diabetes Control and Complications Trial) study conducted in the United States, with a population of people living with Type 1 diabetes, established that intensive insulin-based treatments (pump or at least three insulin injections per day, with a view to returning blood sugar levels to a normal range) which allowed for better control over blood sugar levels, had also caused an average weight gain of 4.8 kg compared with traditional treatments (a maximum of two insulin injections per day and broader blood sugar targets).

    I have a friend with T1 that used to skip meals to stay skinny after switching to a pump caused weight gain that couldn’t be exercised off. This is what young girls do.

    Are you a Mattel employee?


  • The new Barbie wears continuous glucose monitor (CGM), a device that tracks blood sugar levels, on her arm — while holding a phone displaying an accompanying app. She also has an insulin pump attached to her waist. And the doll carries a blue purse that can be used to carry other essential supplies or snacks on the go.

    Back in my day we just used our imaginations to make Barbie be whatever we wanted.

    But now kids with Type 1 diabetes loading up their bodyweight can join in on the Barbie-borne eating disorders., because…

    This new doll “enables more children to see themselves reflected in Barbie,”

    💰


  • Those 2,145 employees, in turn, make up the bulk of the 2,694 civil staff who have agreed to leave NASA under a slate of offer

    Sounds like civil staff was top heavy and voluntary separation packages were offered. Those that accepted and NASA also agreed on would’ve been redundant (or close to it) positions already.

    If you couldn’t get your project properly funded and found out $400M a year goes to legacy senior civil staff, you’d want them gone too.


  • Tribalism will tear us apart-… No, wait… You know what I mean.

    It’s the sense of belonging that’s ironic. The kind of stuff Charlie Manson would work with. In the end the pursuit of inclusion isolates us to camp versus camp; prehistoric human nature didn’t just go away now we have civilisation. Its 'more normal that people exercise it by pigeonholing themselves into groups like gender stereotypes or Hogwarts houses, maybe a sports team. Whatever gives them a sense of being something with kin, but not actually going too far.

    This? This is going too far, but they won’t bail until they feel accepted into another camp. That’s what it’s actually all about.