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The social stigma in Europe exists, because these drugs are in limited supply. So, if a person who does not really need them is using them, the people who actually need them to stay alive might have difficulty accessing them.


> because these drugs are in limited supply

That's the first time I hear about this. A close friend of mine uses it and she just goes to the pharmacy. Never heard about any problems with supply.


this is the remains of the moral outrage that was online and in the media a few years ago when ozympic was first mediatised


Here's a short history of the official shortage statuses for various GLP1s from the FDA:

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-c...

Currently, only Liraglutide is officially in shortage. Although others have been in shortage in the last couple years.


Where is that? I'm pretty sure in France you can't just walk into a pharmacy and buy it, you need a prescription.


Yes, she has a prescription. I did not think it was relevant to the supply.


I think it's somewhat related. The French social security site has a page asking phamacists to make sure the prescriptions are correct, in order to guarantee availability to people who actually need this [0].

This sounds pretty much like the supply is somewhat limited for whatever reason.

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[0] https://www.ameli.fr/pharmacien/actualites/antidiabetiques-a...


That is nearly a year old now.

There were previously supply issues with these drugs throughout Europe, but those were mostly resolved by the end of 2024.

By mid-2025, it was (and still is) possible to easily get all of the medicines for any of the approved uses, including weight loss and diabetes.


that's actually not true, Mounjaro and Wegovy are pretty much meant for weight loss and there is no competition over them for people with diabetes


Mounjaro is the tirzepatide equivalent to Ozempic (semaglutide) in that it’s prescribed for type 2 diabetes. Wegovy (semaglutide) and Zepbound (tirzepatide) are prescribed for obesity. Otherwise you’re spot on.


There is until they're packaged because they're the same drug. Only the label is different.


you can just order them to your home on any of the websites selling GLP-1. Stop the propaganda inferring that the public healthcare is bad and doesn't allow people to get their medicine.


In Spain you can't. You need to be authorised by a doctor to buy those drugs.


This is also true in the US -- these are prescription drugs.


This is not exactly correct. The fda approved named items require a prescription. However from the shortage years ago compounding pharmacies were allowed to sell alternative versions. Basically they add a B vitamin to the normal drug and boom non prescription GLP1.

With this one simple trick Denmarks GDP goes down by multiple % points.


> non prescription GLP1.

Compounding a drug doesn't suddenly make it non-prescription. You still need one for them.

It just lets you buy stuff where the raw API is made in China by some random pharma lab instead of from Novo or Lilly.


Honestly it’s just because people who use them are considered to be weak minded and lazy. That’s all, the supply doesn’t matter.

We have been able to diet for millions of years, our body is pretty good at it, but some people NEED that to diet. Yeah, just like some people can’t be put to work. Everyone know that kind of people who are a burden on society and themselves.

It just happens that this drug is more available in the USA, but with the same availability in Europe, I bet there would be around the same percentage of user.


There are many reports that since around Christmas day, you can not do this any more on phones that support iOS 26. Updating to iOS 26 is the only option now.


I may suggest the other option is to buy an iPhone not supporting iOS 26.

- an happy iOS 15 user


I thought it is very easy to burn and SD card. Since when can you use it as storage expansion?


Steam Deck uses them the same way and it seems to work fine.


Can the service providers somehow block illegal streaming themselves? That way no third party services would be affected?


As I understand it, the only organisation that can block the streaming websites without collateral damage is Cloudflare, and they have not chosen to do so.

The situation is a bit irregular, as the streaming providers set up a new website for each game, and the legal system isn't fast-moving enough to issue a court order banning a website within the 90 minutes of a football game. Instead La Liga got a 'dynamic blocking injunction' so they tell ISPs what to block, and ISPs have to block it.


That makes LaLiga look as if they were the victims, but they are not. They don't want to notify Cloudflare nor have done it any time since they started blocking it. LaLiga says that this blockings affects "hundreds" of people, and that they a rightful by doing that. Truth is, they are abusing their power and the spanish legal system to do whatever they want, as usual.

Cloudflare is not ignoring LaLiga and they are open to collaborate, but LaLiga refuses to do so, and are battling legally over it.


The next question is, why doesn't cloudfare cooperate instead of suffering disruption? Or why doesn't laliga ask cloudfare to cooperate if that's the issue? Surely cloudfare could block their own users more effectively.


Cloud flare have a pretty long history of not acting as the Internet police, including kiwifarms. That’s a GOOD thing. A private company is not responsible for acting in that way, and when they do it results in fascism. VISA and Mastercard have recently threatened steam over games a bunch of Karen’s didn’t like, and have also put pressure on onlyfans and pornhub. VISA and Mastercard have no business telling other companies what they can and can’t do, that’s the job of police and the courts. Otherwise, how long until visa, Mastercard, cloudflare etc give in to pressure and stop doing business with websites deemed ‘unacceptable’ by some invisible party. Abortion advice? Lgbtiq health issues? Options which dissent from government? Legal/‘illegal’ protests?


I imagined a solution where authorities would notify the hosting company of the IPs that are streaming. It should be obvious for the hosting company which customer is using these IPs for streaming illegal content just by studying the traffic pattern, no need to actually look inside the packets.

Then they can just ban this customer. That way the authorities will not have a reason to ban IP ranges affecting the other customers.


Wouldn't the traffic pattern be similar to watching Netflix?


I think live video has a bit different pattern than video on demand.

But aside from it, it should be very obvious: A) you are notified by the intellectual property holders that somebody is streaming pirated content, B) a specific customer or set of customers, who are not a known streaming service, are serving tens or hundrends of IPs with video and C) these customers do not have much activity during other times.


So not Netflix, but Twitch?

Plenty of people stream commentary to matches without showing the game itself, so that would flag as guilty too


These are not peer to peer connections. These people would send a single stream to twitch and then twitch, a known streaming service, would stream it to their viewers.

In theory someone might rent a server and do the streaming directly to his viewers, without using a known platform. This would be a legitimate false positive as you describe. But this would be so expensive I doubt anyone would do it when the alternative is a free platform with built in community and monetisation tools.


They still include the blood oxygen sensor in their watches, which is impossible to be accurate because it is doing measurements at the wrist.


And yet:

The researchers had 24 healthy participants wear an Apple Watch Series 6—which is outfitted with the same blood oxygen reader as the newer Apple Watches—on their left wrist while placing the medical-grade reader on their left middle finger. The participants wore breathers that slightly reduced the oxygen they took in over a few different phases, and the researchers recorded the blood oxygen levels recorded by each device at 30-second intervals. The Apple Watch is very close to achieving accuracy levels of a pulse oximeter. The blood oxygen level (which is called SpO2 in the study) bias across all data points was 0 percent. Here’s the rest: “The bias for SpO2 less than 90% was 1.2%. The differences in individual measurements between the smartwatch and oximeter within 6% SpO2 can be expected for SpO2 readings 90%-100% and up to 8% for SpO2 readings less than 90%.”


Somehow it has to be contrasted with ``slow'' speeds.


"High speeds"


No word on whether the old controllers are compatible with the new system. Obviously, they can not attach, but nothing stops them from being usable.

This is important for some games like "Ring Fit" that require dedicated hardware.


They will be compatible

> Nintendo Switch Joy-Con controllers and peripherals, such as the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller, will also be usable on Nintendo Switch 2 by connecting them wirelessly to the system.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250402229347/en/Nin...


How can you even install the update without access to the Internet?

For years, I can not do the automatic updates, because it always fails with an error message along the lines of "Failed to personalise software, check your internet!", even though I have a perfectly working Internet connection. The only way to update is with a live USB and an ethernet connection. Everything else fails.


You can manually download the updates from here - https://support.apple.com/en-us/docs for the older versions of mac (or check and download it manually through Software Update). Once the installation starts, the installer does some verification and / or data collection for which it requires the internet, and then starts the installation - at this point, just switch off the router.


I cannot find the stock ticker symbol. I am aware that they are not publicly traded yet, but the ticker should be known already, right?



Raspberry Pi Holdings PLC (RPI.L) LSE

Trading since yesterday.


This is way better than I thought. A follow-up question would be for the times that it is wrong, how wrong is it. In other words, is the wrong answer complete rubbish or it can be a starting point towards the actual correct answer?


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