Midweek Meh-Ness [DOT 26/6/24]

26/6/24 MegMegMcGee 31

Hope everyone is having a great week so far. Our weather has cooled down to bearable so that is good. Work is insane – we just had two people on the client service side leave and it’s a nightmare. RIP me.

My ex has good friends in Saipan I’m dying to hear what they think about this spectacle!
Julian Assange to attend plea deal hearing in Saipan
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/06/25/julian-assange-plea-deal-updates

So pro-life!

Infant death rate spiked in Texas after restrictive abortion law, study finds
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/25/texas-abortion-ban-infant-mortality

Ew

Lauren Boebert is favored to win her contest, although bitter intraparty fights within GOP have divided the party
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/25/colorado-primary-election-boebert

Yikes

At least 2 are dead from catastrophic Midwest flooding and a Minnesota dam is at risk of failing
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/24/us/rapidan-dam-collapse-risk-minnesota/index.html

Sprots!

Another underwhelming draw was enough for England to top Group C – and for Slovenia to make history
https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2024/jun/25/england-v-slovenia-euro-2024-live

Stonks!

How Delta made itself America’s luxury airline — and what United wants to do about it
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/25/delta-air-lines-americas-luxury-airline-and-what-united-wants-to-do-about-it.html

This was in my bookmarks and I don’t remember if I shared it before or not. If I did, I don’t apologize for sharing Jack Schlossberg’s chaotic energy!

Have a super day!

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31 Comments

  1. Jack Schlossberg! The only Kennedy out of the hundreds of Kennedys who doesn’t have or use Kennedy in his name. And JFK’s grandson, no less, not one of the lesser Kennedys’ grand nieces or anything. Modesty is a vastly underappreciated virtue.

  2. My work “day” yesterday evening didn’t start off great as the “great Micromani” aka my supervisor started trying to micro manage my work schedule. It’s pretty fucking insulting that someone who doesn’t have a clue on how to work is telling me how to work.

    I usually become more obtuse/stupid/petty when I get Micromanaged, but I did that earlier in the week which pissed him off and ruined what he planned, but not what I needed to do so I avoided getting nailed for insubordination/deliberately delaying work.

    Anyway, he tried to lecture me about how I should have done this instead of that. I barked at him and told him “Yeah I know and I would have done it if you left me to do my job” and stomped off. I kept it on the edge of insubordination and respectful as well as avoided dropping the 500 or so F-bombs I wanted to say to the motherfucker.

    It seems I stung him where it hurts and he left me alone the rest of the shift.

    I can’t wait to leave.

  3. Maybe actually be the friendly skies, United.

    United is basically the airline I’d avoid being Asian as they’ve a habit of somehow miraculously always seem to pick the Asian folks to boot off the plane when they over sell the seats and sick the airline cops on the few Asians who stand up and tell them to fuck off.

    This is unfortunate as I’m leaving for Las Vegas for a friend’s birthday travel weekend this holiday weekend and I fly home with those motherfuckers (because they partner with Air Canada) on Sunday.

    /don’t worry about the Sat NOT, I will have taken care of it/

    • I read an article this morning, which, strangely, I can’t find, that said this was AIPAC issuing the Dems a warning to stay in line. If they stray, they get primaried and outspent.

      • It very much is, and what’s worse: They’ll very happily fund challengers to anyone not pro-genocide enough for them in the primaries and then will fully back their GOP challenger in the general. Lattimer is probably in a safe enough district where it won’t matter, but have to know that they’re rooting for Trump because he’s ready to nuke Gaza and Biden has at least expressed some concerns (if done very little publicly otherwise.)

        There’s been a lot of talk about Biden not getting the situation in Israel — and I think in part that’s true — but he’s also a longtime political operator and knows what happens to people who fall on the wrong side of AIPAC.

    • Deep with in that article, the third to last graf is interesting:

      AIPAC’s political arm entered the primary season pledging to spend, along with its affiliated groups, up to $100 million across the board against candidates critical of Israel’s war with Hamas. But their spending had failed to move the dial in any key races before Tuesday.

      Along with the info that AIPAC didn’t jump in until polling already showed Bowman down by a lot makes it pretty clear that AIPAC is trying to manufacture a PR offensive to cover up a lot of weakness.

      I think one problem they have is that a lot of the US Jewish community is done with them. They’re not necessarily joining campus protests against Israel, but they’re closer to the majority in Israel that wants Netanyahu out.

  10. The JAMA study on infant deaths in Texas covered in that Washington Post article is really disturbing. The numbers are still preliminary and the causation is still a work in progress, but it’s real.

    And one thing to note is that this connection is too new to reflect what happens when OB-GYNs and related medical professionals give up on Texas and the quality of care crashes.

    It’s worth noting that the right has the same strategy lined up for a lot of other rights including gay rights and civil rights. They want to turn these issues into state decisions and let legislatures return to the days where being gay was illegal and mixed marriages were grounds for arrest.

    They want to give religious groups the abilility to prohibit the treatment of entire groups like  gays or religious minorities at medical institutions like Baylor. Good luck if you’re going into septic shock in Texas or Alabama and your name pops up in one of the databases they’re setting up to track people with undesirable lifestyles.

    • Texas is currently short something like 22,000 doctors and the shortage is accelerating. Almost half of their current residents say they’re leaving, and I’d bet big money that’s understated — many are probably keeping their cards close to the vest. There’s zero incentive for medical professionals to work there. One crazed MAGA lawsuit and your career is over.

      • Just like we should be seeing standard headlines  in major outlets using the term climate crisis instead of climate change, we should be seeing headlines about the medical crisis in abortion banning states.

        But the word crisis gets a much lower standard of scrutiny for right wing narratives.

      • At my last in-person medical visit my doctor/resident and I had a heart-to-heart. He told me about his woes. It was was very difficult for him to secure a placement, whether to become a full-fledged doctor or a fellowship or something. I was in disbelief. “All you hear about is the almost criminal shortage of medical professionals. You would think that anyone would grab any credentialed doctor who expressed interest.”

        And he said, and this was very interesting, that Manhattan is drowning in dermatologists. Manhattan does not need any more of them. Parts of Pennsylvania desperately need gerontologists, but no young newly minted doctors want to live there and deal with the elderly.

        Frowny face, on my part. “So, it’s a misallocation of resources. Everyone wants to be in Manhattan…”

        “I got a slot at X Hospital in Brooklyn…”

        “Ew,” I said, because I know that hospital is not very well-regarded and is somehow implicated in one of Kickback’s schemes but that was swept under the rug.

        Thank God we’re not Canadian or European and shackled to a National Health regime. God forbid we extend our life expectancies by three or four years and save ourselves months’ worth of time avoiding phone trees with the doctors’ offices, the hospitals, the specialists, the insurance companies.

         

        • It’s basic risk/reward behavior. A rational human is going to practice in a location where he or she makes the most money with the least risk of problems like lawsuits.

          And, not for nothing, gerontology is actually at a pretty high risk for malpractice suits. I think it’s the second-highest specialty for malpractice. Having worked in assisted living facilities, I suspect it’s because if Nana or Pop-pop dies for any reason that might be considered preventable, the families think they’ve won the lottery and immediately contact Better Call Saul.

          • One of the things the right is doing along with criminalizing abortion services is attacking insurance reimbursement for even life saving procedures, blocking funding for med schools to teach medical care which could be used during abortions, and driving up liability insurance costs to impossible levels.

            Apologists want to wrap these things up in technical debates or cloud the issue in any number of ways. But they’re attacking on mutiple fronts and not just abortion but a whole host of health care issues they hate.

             

          • I know. It’s the same for ob/gyns. I read a really interesting article years ago from a gerontologist who himself was aging (He was in NH or Maine; Maine is a very old state population-wise). He was in his late 70s and still practicing, and described what was happening to him and why.

            That same conversation I asked the doc, “How many dead people have you seen?” He said, “Quite a few, but they haven’t actually died in front of me. I come in later.”

            And I complain about Apple software issues.

    • I hate myself for saying this but best case scenario is most of that infant mortality rate increase reflects scenarios like hydrocephalus where a few years ago, the parents would be grieving and chose an abortion due to fatal fetal health issues.

      I would really like to see numbers about these things pre-Dobbs and now. Obviously I expect a spike in births with these conditions, but the rest of the numbers are going to give insight to how much worse maternity care has gotten from loss of providers, etc.

    • This doesn’t mitigate the horror of this but this scenario plays out all the time with folks posted to the UN. Domestic employees are basically enslaved, they’re not allowed to leave the residences, their passports are impounded, the verbal and physical abuse is indescribable to a westerner living in the 21st century. Not quite as bad as what happens to the Pakistani laborers in the UAE but Dickensian workhouses were more humane environments. I don’t know how humans can do this to each other.

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