Gave episode 1 of The Pitt a chance. I usually hate medical dramas because I have to yell at the screen about inaccuracies. The whole vibe is usually wrong.

This one is, I grudgingly have to admit, solid. Pretty real, actually. Maybe a little too real for people with squeamish stomachs. I even cheered twice when they said the systemic problems out loud.

Only had 3 issues with it, which is great. A doctor isn’t going to run down the street after anyone, especially not a non patient. Potassium 6.1 is no bueno. And no administrator would debase herself among the riffraff, worse, risk her pretty pink suit, by coming down to the patient care area to talk to someone. She’d summon people to her clean, quiet office instead. The artistic license works there though because it conveys what needs to be conveyed about hospital administrators, including the blatant disregard she shows all of the human suffering unfolding around her.

They cram a lot of pertinent info into one little episode. Noah Wylie of ER (terrible medical show) is recycled here. And Homelander is in it as a normal person.

The reform needed is money based at the corporate level. Watch episode 1 of The Pitt and listen to all the commentary about the system, including the talk with the administrator, happening around the medical cases. THAT is the stuff that needs fixing. “Boarders” as they talk about, are very real.

Reform involves breaking big pharma. Reform involves breaking the nonsensical pricing practices of insurance companies. A CT scan should have 1 price. Period. But it does not.

If Kennedy had his way in 2020, there’d be no vaccine. Hospitals would’ve shut down because healthcare workers likely would not have stayed without it. (Yes, a sliver of workers into nonsense and anti vax left, but let’s not inflate those numbers alongside the majority of doctors, nurses, and other staff.)

Kennedy reform involves snake oil and nonsense instead of actual medicine. Raw milk? Really?

Also, the LA Times has gone fascist.

It’s a game for people who like to play rogues. Frankly, I love it. Sniper cheese is available everywhere.

Dishonored 2 is in my top 5. The crafting of the Crack in the Slab chapter alone is masterful.

Even in DND, there’s an evil requirement to specialize in assassin, so it makes sense that things get darker on that path. Regular rogue, you can still be good. There are very, very few games that allow for pure stealth runs, Dishonored happens to be one of them.

No

Because 1980s smog will make America great again.

The healthcare industry can’t handle more influx of lung ailments right now. But they’ll create that problem anyway.

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’m assuming half of that is FPS which is very much not my thing. Give me a story I can play. BG3 I understand.

If I was in my 20s souls would likely appeal, now I’m an old fuck and just want a good, ad free story I can play along with. And DnD. No one is too old for DnD.

Ok, and Stellaris, Civ, etc. Those are like the fentanyl or crack cocaine of the gaming world.

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.