It’s day two and time has already stretched 1 week. I’m exhausted.

This is a deeply personal question only you can answer.

The other piece is impact on other children.

I was privy to one situation in which the mother told the father she would divorce him if he did not agree to place their heavy needs child in a home. Why? Their two other children didn’t know their father and the entire household revolved around 1 person instead of the family unit except on private outings between the two non-special needs kids and the mom, who scrambled to give them normal kid experiences. Caring for this needs child became all the father did when at home. Sometimes caring was sitting in the room with the heavy needs child, a child content in a bed, unable to walk or communicate (congenital) to the exclusion of the other children.

We have all probably read those Reddit threads from kids who were screaming into a thread about hating their special needs sibling as well.

Consideration needs to be made for every member of the family unit. And healthcare being what it is lately, outside the home care options may not be as available today.

Nothing about this is easy and there is no one right answer.

This occurred a while back. I was standing at a nurses station, when the technician watching the heart monitors announced that a patients heart rate had jumped from 80s to 140s

For those who don’t know, parameters are 50-100. 40s if you’re an athlete. And the heart rate is generally allowed to go to 129, in a hospital, if you have no symptoms.

This individual jumped from 80s to 140s. This being a significant change, staff ran to the room to check the patients well-being and found this patients girlfriend riding him in the hospital bed.

The question you should ask is how much privacy do they want?

Proton up people. And get your people on Signal or WIRE.

We’re probably the most boring people day to day and we’ve dove it for a while on general principle. Now, it feels important to have already made that shift.

I like the way the Behind the Bastards podcaster explains it. Each journalistic outlet had strengths to certain things and part of learning to consume journalism is knowing what each sources’ strengths or weaknesses are. Or learning to follow specific journalists across platforms.

And some just play to the echo chambering of political parties saying exactly what their reader base wants to hear. It’s good to learn what those are as well.

The real news.

A kid. Better odds people will take it seriously but I’m not hopeful.

It does fit the President Musk narrative. You play around with H1B you can skirt some pesky American labor laws, pay less, etc. I’d be curious to know what the benefits package, if any, looks like for H1B workers. We need a contract to post.

Musk is not a friend to the American working class, as defined by his behaviors. Quite the opposite.

Great system btw. Jack up the price of education making it inaccessible to Americans. Screw around with the loan system such that student debt never really gets paid down. (Someone in Musks tier is cashing in there). Contest student loan forgiveness on people who’d been paying for 10yrs (condition to get the forgiveness), win.

Give education spots to people from other countries instead.

But you have your degree and debt and have a job now too. Then, as an American, get fired only to be replaced with an H1B worker.

Outsourcing American education and jobs inside the United States.

American Dream level, that.

An unconnected people can’t rally. So this will go away.

I’d worry less about the sweet tea and more about how contaminating your laundry is given the amount of plastic microfibers washing away with the waste water. Polyester is plastic. You deliver microfiber bits of plastic into the wastewater with every load of wash. How much of that is really filtered out?

If you end up in the ER or hospital, you will have an up close and personal experience with plastic. Blood: in a plastic bag. Plasma: in a plastic bag. Platelets: in a plastic bag. IV fluids: in a plastic bag. The tubing that delivers any of those things directly into your bloodstream: plastic. The syringes used: plastic. The IVs placed in your veins: plastic, including the catheter that sits inside your vein for the duration (heated to 98 degrees). The wrappers on each individual pill: plastic. The bottles the pills originally come in: plastic. Thermometer covers: plastic. The tubing used during dialysis: plastic. Tube feeding: plastic bottle of food fed through plastic tubing directly to stomach. A chemist or engineer could detail out what type of plastic is used and whether it’s a potential problem far better than I.

I question the “biodegradable” items used with seedlings. Why is the mesh from the Burpee peat pucks still fully intact in my compost pile after 4 years? Pucks baked wetly on a heating mat. Buy seedlings? Probably baking in the sun at a garden center in a cheap plastic pot.

A lot of shelf stable food is stored in plastic, and we don’t know how hot or cold its getting in the trucks or warehouses before it hits store shelves.

Trevor Noah’s latest podcast is a discussion with him, Josh, and Christiana about this topic. One of the more honest discussions I’ve heard.

Haven’t seen this yet.

Oh yes. One of my Family members was obsessed with that bit of history and still believes Cheney might be the antichrist.

Love or hate it’s still a power vacuum.

You’re backing my point. I’m not saying it’s all positive. Remember what happened in the Middle East when Saddam was removed.

Threat and diplomacy both, yeah. Leader of the free world is a title we used to wear, for good or ill. On a side note, Israel is what we raised them to be. The most colonial of the colonialists backed them and still are. Britain just sent them more weapons. Tempered by Abrahamic religion and modern tech, ofc Israel is even more violent.

It’s complex, but the base element is there’s a hole where the USA once stood. And the example of leadership is now no longer normal, but an impulsive fuck with two middle fingers in the air saying “I do what I want.” Not FDR, or Kennedy, or even Obama, but the impulsive fuck who can’t even ring the stock exchange bell outside the paradigm of a 7 year old. There’s permissiveness in that.

We’re not in charge of the world stage any more.

USA was a world stabilizer. 1 trump term and a quiet Biden follow up and we have Russia and Israel losing their damn minds. Even N Korea is marching.

And why not? Who will stop them? China amassing around Thailand per a couple articles.

Impulsive. With a “I do what I want.” slogan is the new USA example. The world will follow. The USA guardrails were only broken the first Trump term and only the boldest broke through. Now they’re completely off. Anything could happen.

Between this and our internal rage regarding healthcare and money, I’m not feeling optimistic about the next few years.

Bill Burr isn’t really my humor but I listened to him talk about it as a New Yorker. That was enlightening.

Two thoughts here:

1. How do they find an impartial jury? Is it possible to find an impartial jury?

2. Will we ever learn if the McDonalds employee who turned him in received a payout?

To the latter. I was into OSINT to a lesser degree for several years. There are people who engage with it for the sole purpose of trying to find criminal people in order to collect reward money. However, the deal is, the amount posted is typically “up to” the amount posted, and, worse, can be contingent on conviction in a court of law. So, yes, I want to know if the McD Employee was paid as of yet.

Exactly. There are many great stories like this.

He’s an old man with no more fucks to give. 80 yr old energy is its own thing and it can be glorious. Biden wields it publicly on occasion. There is impulsivity to 80 yr old energy.

I think this act was simply that. Biden wanted to spend Christmas with his boy and had the means to make that happen. He’d just missed Thanksgiving with his boy. I can’t imagine that didn’t impact his decision.