Overturning Chevron deference was the best gift to America. Remember when the CDC got involved in prohibiting evictions? Or when OSHA got into the business of mandating masks and vaccines? No more!
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Oregon only added 4000 jobs in May, and much of it in healthcare and social assistance. That's making up the loss of jobs in healthcare and adding to government staff to help dispense for welfare and unemployment payments. Manufacturing, construction and retail saw job losses. Not a sign of a healthy economy.
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Tech is working on developing holographic doctors. Has this actually been shown to improve health? This seems to me to be working on the shell, the outside, but not working on the inside, the infrastructure of healthcare. The lack of practitioners will be dealt with by creating shadow-practitioners.
Amazon is going all in to transform doctors into commodities, whose time is worth $49 for a video visit. Well, if that's all that the market will bear, so be it, I guess. It'll be interesting to see what kind of doctors sign up for this.
OHSU Board formally approves job cuts. And the union goes wild. This bit of dialog was enlightening:
At one point in the presentation, someone shouted to Jacobs, “Why did you take a bonus?”
“I haven’t had a bonus — that was retirement,” Jacobs shot back.
“You’re not going to lose your house or car,” a voice cried out.
“I might,” Jacobs responded.
That's disingenuous. If Danny Jacobs is at risk of losing his house and car on his salary and retirement account, he's basically admitting to gross financial incompetence.
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Ronin approves. Why I'm terrified of old people.
Well, we old folks have something under our belts. Not sure if they are tricks anymore, though.I have like 5 years of experience of real life. What kind of tricks under their belts do people in their 50s, 60s, 70s have? What kinds of crazy heuristics and meta-heuristics they’ve got in their minds, hearts, and muscles after decades of poking the world? I have no clue and this is what makes me really worried about them.
Try not to lose both ovaries if you're young. And just supplementing with estrogen is not enough.
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Love this article on TED talks. I've felt the same way. The old Scientific American approach doesn't appeal to modern Americans. We don't have Huntley-Brinkey Report or MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour or Ted Koppel's Nightline anymore. No daytime shows where they bring on Milton Friedman. Today, we have Brian Stelter and Don Lemon type shows. We have The View. America has gotten dumber, and TED talks are how we get high-brow science. There are a lot of pop-math and pop-science videos which are fun to watch, but they're aimed at high school kids. Wish there was something for grown-ups.
