We are all mosaics. Surprising but true. All throughout life, we accumulate mutations in each cell, and eventually become a conglomerate of cells with different genomic makeups.
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Canary in the coal mine. Pendleton's Cancer Center will soon close. People will have to go to Boise or Walla Walla for radiation, and radiation treatments are a daily dose for several weeks. Shame, because the cancer center just opened in 2020.
This will be very inconvenient. I am surprised that CHI St. Anthony Hospital, where apparently people get chemotherapy, weren't able to buy them out. Even OHSU has a Doernbecher clinic nearby. Meanwhile the Oregon Healty Authority just wants to focus on how to resist Trump. They'll make sure that illegal aliens get taxpayer money for care, while eastern Oregonians suffer. This will just get worse for all of us, and Pendleton is but the first to feel the effect....due to increased expenses, wage inflation and low reimbursement rates from the Oregon Health Plan and Medicare, costs have become too high for the center to keep its doors open
Lenovo is removing the signature TrackPoint nub from its laptop computers. I don't have a ThinkPad anymore, but when I did, the TrackPoint was surprisingly useable and convenient.
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Canoo is filing for bankruptcy. Without subsidies, EV vehicles don't make sense for most use cases. We're not ready yet for these vehicles.
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If you're a tech worker getting laid off, being labeled a "low performer" can end your career. Unlike in government, where you just get reassigned.
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Things are so bad for Japan's elderly, that they'd rather commit crimes and live in jail. This is not a healthy society.
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Huawei is developing their own Starlink program. Space is going to get really crowded. Satellite collissions are going to be common.
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Confusing. Microsoft is renaming their Office Suite to 365 Copilot. Which people will confuse with the coding assistant. Why, Satya?
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Charles Hugh Smith of the blog "Of Two Minds" gets called "always so negative". He responds. What's interesting is that I took it for granted that people knew how bad things were, but I guess things have been bad for so long that younger folks think dystopia has always been that way. We old folks know how good things were, but a lot of younger folks who grew up during the Obama administration don't know any better. To them, there has always been media censorship, destructive protests in cities, lack of social civility and thug attitude, deterioration of racial relationships, acceptance of "I identify as..." lunacy, unchecked crime with resistance to enforcement, and outright weaponization of government.
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