He appears to have gone from being dismissed as too lowbrow to being dismissed as being elitist. No mean feat.

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Not sure I agree that the change to EV cars will require more manpower and jobs. But, like anything, a lot of jobs have moved outside the US. Maybe what they are doing with the EV tax credit is good - requiring higher sourced or manufactured in the US to qualify for the higher tax credit.

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I was surprised at the high % number of people that live in urban areas. From the Census bureau, here is the definition of urban area: For the 2020 Census, an urban area will comprise a densely settled core of census blocks that meet minimum housing unit density and/or population density requirements. This includes adjacent territory containing non-residential urban land uses. To qualify as an urban area, the territory identified according to criteria must encompass at least 2,000 housing units or have a population of at least 5,000.

Taiwan and Singapore have most of the expressways set up to allow this. The center is not a grass or anything, but movable planters that can be pushed out of the way to allow planes to land and take off. I thought I read somewhere that the US expressways were originally set up for this also. Cool idea for sure.

https://x.com/drefanzor/status/1705404974531052026?s=20

Per the article, the surprise billings are due to insurers not updating their computer systems promptly. The vaccines should be covered by insurance without out-of-pocket cost. This is yet another example of the insurer as an unnecessary middleman in the way of delivering healthcare screwing things up. Single-payer universal healthcare FTW!

Maybe Tommy is on to something! Throw the bums out!

UAW union files labor complaint against US Senator Tim Scott https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/uaw-union-files-labor-complaint-against-us-senator-tim-scott-2023-09-23/ Sen. Scott has suggested that auto workers on strike should be terminated.

@Axtremus said in Flail Chest: The rib cage broken? Yes. With ribs broken in two separate locations, there's no support and when inspiration occurs, the "flail" segment moves into the chest rather than expanding with the rest of the chest wall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flail_chest Flail chest is a life-threatening medical condition that occurs when a segment of the rib cage breaks due to trauma and becomes detached from the rest of the chest wall. Two of the symptoms of flail chest are chest pain and shortness of breath.[1] It occurs when multiple adjacent ribs are broken in multiple places, separating a segment, so a part of the chest wall moves independently. The number of ribs that must be broken varies by differing definitions: some sources say at least two adjacent ribs are broken in at least two places,[2] some require three or more ribs in two or more places.[3] The flail segment moves in the opposite direction to the rest of the chest wall: because of the ambient pressure in comparison to the pressure inside the lungs, it goes in while the rest of the chest is moving out, and vice versa. This so-called "paradoxical breathing"[4] is painful and increases the work involved in breathing.

As I think about it, maybe not. Biden needs the oil. The country needs the oil. But he also needs the Greenies. If he doesn't appeal, the leases are given, but at least he can point to the mean ol' judge that wouldn't let him say "No".

The author seems to think there is power in merging long Covid with chronic fatigue. I wouldn’t have thought so. I thought the medical establishment shrugs off chronic fatigue.

@LuFins-Dad said in Lowe's Approach to Retail Theft: Oops, looks like Lowe’s needs to pay these guys more… And train them a little better https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1705680055228125513 Dumb to steal. Dumb to pick a mower with a bagging system. Dumb to steal a Crapsman. The easiest way to load a rider like that is two guys on front, load the front wheels on the tailgate, then both guys on back to load the rest of the mower. That front most likely has a cast iron front axle and 20hp+ engine. Heavy.

Just another piece of meat...

I know a lot of surgery assholes jokes

It takes a while to get the hang of it, but now I wouldn’t want to be without. You see all this food detritus going into the sink and it inspires you to do it more often. I also have a lot less tartar at cleaning time.

I’m mostly quarantined to browser-based activity anyway so the OS is becoming increasingly unimportant to me.