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As noted in the article, it bans the app from the app stores, not individual devices. It doesn't penalize individuals for having and using the app.

I have my own domain attached to icloud mail at the moment. But primarily, I have my own domain and can move it to wherever I need it. Icloud mail isn't the best thing in the world, still, but it's more cost efficient than trying to run it on a personal O365 or some other service for now. I don't really have need for the enhanced security/privacy of some of the other providers available, at least for now, but having my own domain means migrating to them later, should I need it, shouldn't be difficult.

I will note the icloud mail web interface is utter garbage.

I'm frequently reminding people that Google is not an email provider nor a search engine nor really anything else it pretends to be, but that it's a data harvesting and ad company.

Thankfully I've been becoming less reliant on my gmail inbox. But also, it appears my various efforts for blocking malicious content may be blocking these ads because I don't see them on my home network.

Sometimes it's not just about getting rid of an annoyance. I've stuck to my guns with ad blocking to protect myself from malicious ad content. In terms of content creators getting paid, I pay for a Youtube Premium subscription to help with that (which, it's my understanding content creators get paid MORE by Youtube Premium views than ad supported views).

Reading the article, I failed to see what link they found. The headline here matches the one on the article so I'm not calling that into question, but what seems to be more accurate is "Mobile phone calls correlated with increased risk of high blood pressure" since no actual causal link is established. The article repeatedly calls it out as a link as well. It'd be easy for certain groups to fill in the blanks and claim this proves mobile radiation is a health risk, while it doesn't at all establish that causal link. Just as easily, it could be inferred that longer calls are more stressful. And also just as easily the link could be established that those with a family history of hypertension or have other risk factors are more likely to have longer phone conversations.

So I'd argue there's no established link, but there might be an obvious correlation that might warrant more study.

In my experience, the White Ambiance lights don't get as dim as the other Hue bulbs. In places where I wanted even lower light, I've had to use their White Ambiance Filament or Color Ambiance bulbs.

I've noticed the White Ambiance lights don't dim to a very low level for night time night light type of use, but the White and Color Ambiance bulbs can get far dimmer. Also the White Ambiance Filament bulbs seem to get dimmer than the regular White Ambiance bulbs.

It's a shame, really, because it seems like the expensive bulbs might meet your needs while their cheaper ones don't. Granted, the filament bulbs do seem to fall more in line with the regular bulbs, so might be worth exploring.

I have a box of batteries I need to dispose of that I haven't just tossed in the garbage.

My local Home Depot used to take batteries, but only non-lithium ion batteries. And sometime last year they stopped accepting any batteries.

I still haven't found a local place that I can easily access to get rid of these things. And I'm tired of keeping them around.

I feel like there's not enough easily accessible information in the wild about what you're supposed to do with old electronics, and especially batteries. You're not supposed to throw any type of battery in the trash, let alone ones that get really angry when abused. And places that used to take old batteries seem to be refusing them now. I have a small box of old batteries I've been looking to dispose of and I'm running out of places to try and give them to.

It especially doesn't help that electronics, including with non-replaceable batteries, including those that get angry when abused, are being designed to be disposable to begin with.

And yeah, I know there's a high level of apathy about the problem with the masses. Even though the information can be, for the most part, found, people just don't care enough.

The article notes that, yes, he will remain as spokesperson.

You might get a good few years from the drug. You have to still do the work to make the changes permanent.

In my experience, if you're going to use GLP-1 RA for weight loss, it needs to be part of a larger program of changes, including lifestyle changes. That you have to lead the charge on. The people that say losing weight on these means you gotta take it for the rest of your life, they're wrong. It eventually stops having that effect on you. It certainly makes the process of changing things a lot easier, and it buys you a lot of time to adopt those changes. But if you don't put in the mental work and reshape your lifestyle to this new body, you're going to have a bad time later regardless of if you're still on it or not.

I've taken various GLP-1 RA over a decade for glycemic management (I'm on Mounjaro now). They still work great for this. But I have to do the work to maintain my body, now.

Mounjaro will never be approved for obesity. The documentation for dosing is for diabetes. If the trend follows with how Novo Nordisk has released their versions of this, dosing for weight loss will be different than dosing for diabetes care, and so it must be under a whole new label.

Mounjaro is a trade name for a diabetes drug and that won't change. So no, it is not soundly rejected.

It's not as simple as "SQUIRT JUICE INSIDE ME GET THINNER AND CURE DIABETES". There's a lot more to this than you seem to understand.

This is not only an American issue. I've seen people in the UK struggle to get access to treatments and devices through the NHS. Canada tends to follow what the US is doing even though they have their more socialized system. It all tends to be a bit of a mess with brand new drugs and devices. And Mounjaro is new as of last year (approval less than a year ago?).

Do you even know what A1c is? Or how GLP-1 RA achieves this goal?

GLP-1 RA does NOT achieve a reduced A1c through weight loss. It achieves improved glycemic control by slowing the release of glucose into the blood as well as promoting increased production of insulin in response to glucose. The overall result is a reduction in blood glucose.

A1c is a measure of your glycemic health that spans around 90 days with heavier weight on more recent trends. It's like a longer blood glucose average measurement. There are actually algorithms that can calculate an estimate of your A1c based on blood glucose trends, which is referred to GMI (glucose management indicator).

The gastric effects leading to feeling full sooner and longer are a side effect and is what leads to weight loss. It also fades with time. Having been on various GLP-1 RAs over a decade, they don't provide this benefit to me anymore. Even with Mounjaro also being a GIP, it's just doing its primary job for me.