You don't keep a guy like that around because of his ability to turn a wrench. You keep him around because he's seen everything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_(sports)

Miscellaneous

In any context where a game score or the pair of teams meeting in a game are mentioned, the team mentioned first (left or top) is the home team, except in the United States, Canada, and Japan, where home teams are mentioned second. The North American and Japanese practice of listing the home team second likely derives from baseball, in which the home team bats after the visiting team in each inning.[citation needed][8] Exceptions are found in most North American soccer competitions, where the international standard of listing the home team first is mostly adhered to.

Eyebrows, very different contours.

@doctor-phibes said in Biden tells the pope...:

You don’t think His Holiness thought Trump was a bit of a twat, by any chance?

I don't think most people (including those here) didn't think that Trump was a twat.

But thanks for killing the meme...

@mark said in "Medicine is quickly becoming overwhelmingly corporate":

@jon-nyc said in "Medicine is quickly becoming overwhelmingly corporate":

@mark said in "Medicine is quickly becoming overwhelmingly corporate":

I agree with Jolly, outlawing for profit health care would be a good start.

Most of these hospitals doing this are non-profits.

I am talking about the entire "health care" system not just hospitals. Specifically, the insurance racket.

Making profits on human illness and injury is just wrong on every level. Making me pay an obscene amount of money per month plus another obscene deductible, and then making me go to a specific group of facilities or I have to pay even more should be illegal. Down with network based health insurance. Health insurance should be just like any other kind of insurance. I should be able to pick and choose who I see and where I go to see them.

The problem stems from zero controls on cost. Doctors don’t know what specific procedures cost and that’s seen as a virtue. Treatment A may cost 10k and have an efficacy of X, Treatment B may cost 1k and have an efficacy of X-5%. Docs don’t think along those lines.

No one in the system does. It’s gold plated steaks all around if you’re fully insured.

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Ok, The Shining was well done…

Going out and interacting with other people is selfish, full stop.

Pretty opportunistic article. The opportunity being to stir the shit.

No lips.

@klaus said in Yuja, spare us the skintight sonata:

I wonder whether I could propel my piano career by showing (even) more skin. Thoughts?

Yes, but only if you can play a sonata with your penis.

@jolly said in An entire state is being cancelled:

Time to end any anti-trust privileges they have under Federal law.

It's always a good time to end anti-trust privileges. 👍

Speaking of cancel potential, a few years ago I found out he would privately refer to James Baldwin as “Martin Luther Queen”. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@mik said in Superman sings the hits in Atlanta:

In country music a whole lot of the top artists are playing covers, at least in that they didn't write the songs.

I love that they're still doing it, though. It makes the world better.

Photography's similar. It's the visual equivalent of guitarists: not that special of a thing anymore, and not an aspiration that most kids currently share.

But there's even more shit out there that's amazing than there used to be. I follow one guy who works a campsite in the desert out west somewhere. He takes absolutely amazing landscapes as he checks the site each day. He'll never be famous but who cares.

John Free completed a 30-year photo project documenting railroad tramps in Los Angeles. Over the years, he moved his body shop closer to the rail yards to make this easier for him. He's been hired by all the magazines you've ever heard of to do photojournalism but he still kept his auto body business, and no one's ever heard of him. He finally put a book together, and you bet your ass I bought it.

Who in the hell cares whether or not people become famous. That's not the point. I'm glad that in the midst of all the silly shit going on out there, plenty of people still care about trying to make and do amazing things.

@lufins-dad said in Dune 2021:

Go back and read the book again first, then go see the movie? Or watch the movie and then read the book?

I've read it 3 times, most recently about a year ago, so it's pretty fresh in my mind.

However, I don't think you'd miss much by seeing the movie first. There are subtle differences, and things the movie skips (Gurney's suspicions of Jessica), but overall, it's a really good adaptation.

See the movie first, then read the book to flesh it out, and then wait two years for the finale.

I think I posted something about this a few years ago. I can certainly see applications for business flight.