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50+ hours, when a loved one went into septic shock several years ago (they eventually got better). When they were stabilized and I was finally able to sleep, I just basically said "okay, now is fine" to the darkness creeping in from my peripheral vision every time I closed my eyes and let it finish doing so. I was asleep within a few seconds.

I looked through a few of the materials. Just like Florida's slavery materials from a year ago, it uses dark patterns and weasel words to make it seem like it's no big deal. There's shit like, "The Christian Bible claims a man named Jesus was born in a manager because there was no room in the inn and when he grew up his followers viewed him as the messiah, and eventually the entire Roman Empire became Christian."

There's also a pointlessly long description (unless you know what the real point is) of how the Apostle Paul used the Roman road network, first to persecute Christians than after something (wink wink) happened, to spread Christianity.

It's gross.

I still have a 4gb Eye-Fi that use just as an SD card to shuttle files out to my laser cutter. I assume the wi-Fi would be horrendously slow and insecure if it worked at all. Was pretty cool when we still had a standalone P&S digital camera though.

One minor cultural artifact of this general idea:

Pease porridge hot, Pease porridge cold, Pease porridge in the pot, nine days old.

Ol' Phil may have a tiny vestigial conscience, and I do mean tiny, but it still may be disqualifying for this administration.

there are relatively few doctors in the billionaire class

And HOO BOY do some of them know it! 🤣

The broader point is well taken, though.

Poetry. Sheer poetry!

One, surgeons were already the dumb jocks of the medical community, relatively speaking. I know he's got some legitimately brilliant feathers in his cap, but that brings us to...

Two, other than techbros, MD's are maybe the worst offenders in the category of "I'm smart about some things, therefore I can easily intuit my way to mastery of all things, I have no blind spots, and my prejudices are simply common sense."

Three, the man has been in a fame bubble for twenty plus years now.

I don't think it helped that, at least at that point in his career, Anthony Montgomery was simply a bad-to-meh actor. I think they maybe saw a wide-eyed optimism that they liked in the audition or something, but his line-readings were often school-play amateurish, to say nothing of communicating any lifelike emotion or pulling off the "I'm young but I've seen more shit than most of you" vibe a boomer was supposed to have. The episode on his old ship should have been really powerful, but it just sort of fizzled.

Padma Lakshmi was better. There. I said it.

I don't know why, but Glen Powell always makes me think of a wish.com Ed Norton who's being treated like a wish.com Brad Pitt.

So I guess yeah, he's a wish.com Tyler Durden.

Jeff Daniels was great in Gettysburg. And, if it glossed over the entire reason for the war, at least it showed Lee being an overconfident moron who wouldn't listen to Longstreet and had Chamberlain and Buford as its big heroes.

Gods and Generals... we don't talk about Gods and Generals.

Gotta trust the experts on something like this.