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credo,

This article doesn’t cover it (specifically) so I went digging to see if this might compete with weight loss drugs as well:

Victoza (liraglutide) is also used to treat obesity. While it was originally approved for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, it has also been approved under the brand name Saxenda for chronic weight management in adults with obesity or who are overweight with at least one weight-related condition such as hypertension, type 2 diabetes, or dyslipidemia. Saxenda and Victoza contain the same active ingredient, liraglutide, but they are marketed and dosed differently depending on the indication.

Google said:

As of April 2024, the list price for a 30-day supply of Saxenda (liraglutide) is around $1,350, but the actual cost can range from $1,590 to $1,656 without insurance or discounts.

credo,

Or because we are comparing rates now to those when COVID restrictions were in place?

Canadian warship sharing an anchorage with Russian vessels in Cuba (www.cbc.ca)

The Royal Canadian Navy now finds itself in the unusual position of both shadowing Russian warships as a threat in the Caribbean and sharing an anchorage with them as a guest in the port of Havana — because Canada accepted an invitation to send a patrol ship to Cuba while the Russian navy is in town....

credo, (edited )

Really?

Cuba has long had good relations with Russia. It was a key ally to the former Soviet Union during the Cold War that briefly hosted nuclear missiles at Moscow’s behest during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

www.cnn.com/2024/06/12/americas/…/index.html

Also…

Again on October 19, 1960, almost two years after the Cuban Revolution had led to the deposition of the Batista regime, the U.S. placed an embargo on exports to Cuba except for food and medicine after Cuba nationalized the US-owned Cuban oil refineries without compensation. On February 7, 1962, the embargo was extended to include almost all exports.

I would argue the original reasoning was very valid. Helps to know the history though, I guess.

credo,

I already provided the reasoning. Where does it say, “because they’re communist”?

(Let me know if you have a processing deficiency)

credo,

And yet Trump canceled all the forward progress. Coincidence?

credo,

🎶 The world, the world, the world is on fire. 🎶

credo,

Ukraine’s effort heavily relies on artillery, which accounts for a substantial portion of battlefield casualties. Ukrainian forces require around 75,000 artillery shells per month just to hold their current positions, and potentially double that amount for offensive operations. In contrast, Russia is capable of firing approximately 300,000 shells monthly, supported by both domestic production and imports from North Korea.

Interestingly, South Korea has also become a key player in supplying artillery ammo, agreeing to transfer 300,000 155mm shells to the U.S., which in turn helped replenish stocks sent to Ukraine in 2023.

Can South Korean 105-Millimeter Ammunition Rescue Ukraine?.

How weapons from Western allies are strengthening Ukraine’s defence against Russia.

credo,

Yeah, except in this situation the covenant send their member species to school on Earth to learn how to adapt the technology too.

credo,

everyone agrees that war is awful

That doesn’t appear to be the case in Ukraine.

credo,

ITT: People who can’t see forest, for trees.

credo,

Putin you fuck. Putin doesn’t agree.

Russia mounts surprise assault on northern Ukraine in most serious cross-border offensive in two years (www.cnn.com)

Russian forces have made two cross-border assaults inside northern Ukraine, according to information from Ukrainian sources and officials, in what President Volodymyr Zelensky is calling a “new wave of counteroffensive actions” by Russia....

credo,

This is also a good example of the general dysfunction of our government. Try imagining moving any project along when replicants keep start/stopping resources. Those resources include people.

I saw the autocorrect typo, but I liked it.

credo,

It’s interesting that France has lost its autonomy here. Can they not even permit him entry with an escort?

It seems Abu-Sitta was denied entry into Germany because he was going to attend another conference that the Germans felt might cause a disturbance. A conference he never made it to. And now cannot visit other “sovereign” nations in the zone:

(From the April German ban)

Abu Sitta said his ban was to last until Sunday, covering the planned duration of the Berlin conference he was to attend, entitled the Palestine Congress. The gathering was to discuss a range of topics, including German arms shipments to Israel and solidarity with what organizers called the Palestinian struggle.

Berlin police said later Friday they pulled the plug on the event, attended by up to 250 people, on its first day after a livestream was shown of a person who is banned from political activity in Germany. They wouldn’t identify the person, but said they decided after a legal assessment to end the congress and asked those attending to leave.

credo,

What muscle lies behind the ICC? Genuinely asking.

credo,

Why does Russia have veto power? They weren’t a founding member.

credo,

These people actually think they are smart. Can’t fathom why “the rest of the world” doesn’t understand them, disagrees with them, is against them.

credo,

WaPo lets subscribers hand out gift links, even to all of lemmy. It’s a pretty generous policy IMO.

credo,

Is it correct to say the future was in the past, or is in the past?

Estonia Just Found Another Million Shells For Ukraine (www.forbes.com)

Seven weeks after Czech defense policy chief Jan Jires announced his government had identified 800,000—later, a million—artillery shells that Ukraine’s allies could buy for Ukraine, Estonian defense minister Hanno Pevkur said his own government had found another million shells and rockets for Ukraine....

credo,

Let’s be super clear about what this is. Two countries determined selling 2M rounds would not gravely impact their own national security.

They are not giving anything to Ukraine here. I assume this means Ukraine could use donation money to buy these as well.

Germany Is Seizing Jews’ Money Again: It’s fine, they’re pro-Palestine (novaramedia.com)

A pro-Palestine Jewish activist group has had its bank account frozen in Germany for the second time in seven years, after the bank requested a full list of its members’ details in what experts believe is a breach of German law. The group suspects the move was triggered by its involvement in a forthcoming pro-Palestine...

credo,

Look and see mean roughly the same thing. Overlook and oversee have opposite meanings. Then there is oversight…

Such a weird language.

Ukrainian navy says a third of Russian warships in the Black Sea have been destroyed or disabled (apnews.com)

Pletenchuk said that with the latest attack, a third of all warships that Russian had in the Black Sea before the war have been destroyed or disabled. At the same time, he acknowledged that just two of about a dozen of Russian missile carrying warships have been sunk and pledged that Ukraine will continue the strikes.

credo,

I’m envisioning this hanging up in a command planning center at the pentagon.

Russia warns Japan on missile transfer to Ukraine, threatens ties (essanews.com)

The Russian Ambassador in Tokyo, Nikolai Nozdrev, has issued a warning to Japan in response to the potential transfer of Patriot missiles produced in Japan to Ukraine. Nozdrev emphasized that such an action could have severe repercussions for the bilateral relations between Russia and Japan, including possible “retaliatory...

credo,

Oh no! Not our ties.

credo,

Yaay. Even the number of records is a record!

credo,

The worry is with supply chains. If an entire industry is reliant on a country who is antagonistic to outsiders, then that is an obvious cause for concern.

credo, (edited )

Where the oil comes from doesn’t fix the climate. Unless you count that it affects the cost, which then affects how people vote?

credo,

I’m wondering if the windows worked at that point.

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