Wobbles42

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   by Wobbles42 2y ago

   Having stockpiles of obsolete weapons to give away is a byproduct of having funded our military for decades. If other NATO countries were doing likewise they, too, would have stockpiles of obsolete weapons to give away. The fact that it&#x
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   by Wobbles42 2y ago

   If the whole "land of the free" thing was true there would be no need to expend the resources to make the slogan universally known. "People's Democratic Republics" and all that.
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   by Wobbles42 2y ago

   Yet another anecdote, but my wife and I both got COVID. I was quite a bit sicker than she was. I later found out that I'm a type II diabetic, and almost certainly was at the time I had COVID given the timing. I had fairly severe fati
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   by Wobbles42 2y ago

   I'm not a medical professional, but as a firmware engineer I do bristle a bit at the suggestion that "hardware" and "software" problems can be so cleanly separated.
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   by Wobbles42 2y ago

   To further this, is "long COVID" actually something we can definitively diagnose? Clearly something is going on with Dianna, but if the symptoms or severity don't match other long COVID cases perhaps there is something else
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   by Wobbles42 2y ago

   I am way outside my area of expertise and speculating wildly here, but aren't various retroviruses quite common in our environment? Enough so that many COVID-19 infections must have occurred simultaneously with one of many such viru