@Mik said in Adam Schiff's Achilles heel.: Sadly, publicly ignoring it while working in the background is exactly the right thing to do. If it can get rid of Schiff, well that's a bonus. Yeah, that's probably right.

I wholly agree. They are a problem up and down the line. Hell, we had a bruhaha over fraudulent use of proxies in an HOA here.

How much Borges does George Georges abhor if Borges made George Georges bored?

@Mik said in What’s in My Ink: Many of these folks are vegans, who would not dream of ingesting foul chemicals. "My body, my choice."

@Horace said in Chemically castrating prepubescent DOESN’T prevent suicide!: What a total shock that self mutilation isn't a cure for depression. Well put.

@George-K said in George Plays Piano: @LuFins-Dad said in George Plays Piano: No, George doesn’t play piano. George plays fortissimo. Non stop. As fast as he can. LOL, you're right. A few years back, the concert band I was a part of played Rhapsody in Blue with George as our special guest artist. I took the Gershwin Plays Gershwin piano rolls that had been converted into a MIDI file. His tempo was so all over the place that I had to add a click track to the file for the conductor. Also “smoothed” a few tempo changes. It was still FAR different than what you are used to. The band sucked… a bunch of old high school band nerds that missed playing, but it was still interesting. Link to video

Perfect.

He and Hunter have a pen pal correspondence.

Got an email: No issues found We ran a series of tests. Unfortunately we couldn't replicate the issue. Since your product is working, we're shipping it back to you. I don't believe them. But now it seems we're at an impasse. I have a non functional robot, and they won't honor the warranty they sold me. :man-shrugging: I guess I will have to invasively do something to the robot to cause it not to work in even the simplest test, but not in such a way that they'll suspect foul play.

It’s so interesting how people who see themselves as more moral and virtuous are the first to rise to anger and violence. Horseshoe theory of human psychology. Anyway, opening one’s eyes at the human experience will always vindicate those of us who despise moralizing and self righteousness. It’s inevitably the gateway to all sorts of destructive stupidity. People aren’t nearly as smart as they think they are, and they damn sure aren’t as moral as they think they are.

89th's Just-us Department.

OTOH, government employees operate under much stricter rules. Some agencies do give them a wink and a nod, but most adhere to spending standards for travel, lodging and meals.

@bachophile said in Unprepared surgeons?: hole in the stomach-no biggie, just suture it up trocar in the aorta or vena cava, thats a whole different kettle of fish. thats when the patient can bleed out even before u have time to open the belly, put a clamp on, scream to high heaven for help. as for what the article says about training, its very multi factorial, and yes includes work limits. i think it also includes residents being a lot less independnet than in the past, because litigation has limited the amount of responsibility on residents and transfered it to attendings. which of course in some sense is a good thing but robs residents of experience of acting independently in the OR. When i was a youngin, i did lot of operations on my own, the night energencies like appendix and incarcerated hernias, with the attending being a phone call away, but still, in the OR i was on my own (with another resident). now, no one has any procedure done in the OR without an attending physically present, which spares the resident the ass puckering feeling of being on your own, which is essential to the learning process. think-learning to fly without ever doing a solo and getting a pilots license. its impossible. We had Tulane residents. Ortho, Surgery, Medicine, Ob-Gyn and GU. For things like Oral Surgery, Radiology, Pathology etc., we had staff physicians. We were just a meat and potatoes hospital, and referred the neuro and other complicated cases to Confederate (LSUS Med) or Big Charity. Guys liked and disliked our hospital. Old, creaky, sometimes without the latest tech. But we did a lot of trauma, our OR crew was very good and surgery had some specialty instruments that no other hospital in the area had. Residents, especially senior residents, functioned much on their own. Especially in the middle of the night, the attending was only called out for the wooly-booger cases. That was a bit different than the big hospitals attached to the medical schools. Junior residents got stuck with more than their share of ED duty. Didn't matter your specialty, you saw everything from soup to nuts, but at least the junior guys had resident consults to fall back on. I'd like to think the system turned out some pretty decent docs...

Maybe God needs to flush the toilet. That was how many people down here referred to the Chocolate City concerning Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans before the storm, had become even more violent and graft-ridden than its historical self. After Katrina, a lot of the gibmedats - the nonproductive, criminal culture element - became disbursed throughout the South. Crime soared in Houston, Atlanta and other big cities in the region. But a funny thing happened in city and state politics. Things overall got a little better concerning crime. The state became a bit more conservative and some of the emphasis on certain programs changed. Some of the graft went away. Now, it hasn't stayed that way. Over time, New Orleans is becoming a bit more like its previous self... I'd say some of that is due to typical Dem big city politics. Katrina did show what happens to a city, at least for a decade or two, when the reset button is pushed. Don't know if that would work in Chicago and I don't wish catastrophe on anybody. But without a certain element, cities do change. At least for awhile.

It looks pretty constant other than COVID. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JTS1000LDL

We don't need furriners... https://m. Link to video