Eh. If you’re on social media, and he is, he’s here, you know. Higher odds on deliberately stirring the pot.

He already knew, it was part of his prescient comedian bit on dating.

https://youtu.be/yRzs7v0do_Q

Don’t make excuses for this man. He used his power over, as a successful comedian with a lot of control in the industry, to force sexual acts on unwilling women who feared for their careers. Then tried to justify it on a technicality. It’s creepy, it’s psychotic, and he should be on a list for it.

It would be adjacent to a prison guard dropping trow and making the inmates in his care watch him jerk off to them, their bodies, their presence. The guard in that scenario shouldn’t keep his job either. Or should he? He didn’t touch them right? He only touched himself, right? So that guard should keep his job, by your logic.

Louis had power over. Maybe not the same kind of power over but it was power. And he used it, and them, in a foul manner deserving of dismissal and possibly litigation.

It certainly puts his bit about men being the scariest thing for women in the dating world into perspective.

Why are we posting sexual predator pricks?

This is a disease which ravages kids instead of the middle aged and up, and diabetics. As such, people will care more.

The future cognitive dissonance will likely be “if only we had a safe and effective vaccine for measles”, because to admit we already do would be tantamount to admitting guilt re your kid’s death.

Mom had this big illustrated version of the Hobbit. TV off, she read it to us kids across many evenings, determined that we would know Tolkien.

Yes, but those probably don’t taste like childhood.

And in so doing, dig a hole for the entire nation as home grown talent and innovation dies.

But maybe that’s the point. They prefer the indentured servant status of H1B visas.

This is sad, well beyond the educational aspects.

Imagine not being in a mental position to enjoy books. The Hobbit. Asimov’s Foundation or Robot books. The Expanse. D H Lawrence. Jane Austen. Vonnegut. Stephen King. Lewis Carroll.

Even worse, not having the capacity for the full nuance of Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams.

We eat well. We cook. We grow vegetables. We even bake our own bread. However, I feel called out by this in that my hot summer evening splurge are those flavorice popsicles in the plastic tubes. I don’t even gravitate to sugar or trash food generally, but those things hit the spot in the heat of summer.

Except they did, COVID. That first year saw quite a lot of death. Granted, the experience difference between healthcare and people hunkering down at home would be miles apart.

There would have to be a disconnect there, with the visitor bans. Necessary, but it may have contributed to the fallout of skepticism and conspiracy theory.

You see a loved one go in, get some screen time with them in a hospital bed, maybe, then a phone call from a nurse or doctor telling you your loved one is dead, no you can’t come in, the body will be delivered to the funeral home, do you have one picked out?. Then you see a body at the funeral home. No experience, no visual of real time decline in between, a black hole of time between alive and this dead body in a strange funeral home.

Denial is part of grief. You could even say it’s a normal part of grief. Combine that with the black hole of time between alive and dead, sprinkle with personal tendencies to conspiracy theories, and you have yourself a fake illness.

In addition, other people hunkering at home with nothing but time, screaming into the void in their grief, add fuel to the notion.

I guess COVID doesn’t count. I can only add partial sarcasm to that sentence.

E Jean talks about what happened in the latest episode of the Criminal podcast.

There was literal plague in California.

https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2025-08-25/the-plague-reappeared-in-california

It’s likely a non-city thing.

So it’s all going to plan.

Unfortunately, if USPS doesn’t send junk mail, they don’t afford to stay open.

Fun fact. Now, postal carriers are considered contracted employees, similar to the bullshit Amazon engages with some workers. For $19/hr, the expectation is that a new hire mail delivery person buy their own vehicle with the driver’s seat on the right side of the vehicle. It’s a requirement of the position. I currently live in a locale with no mail carrier. They borrow carriers from various other locations across the state to make deliveries happen in a sporadic, wrong way.

Expect privatization soon. Expect political fuckery with elections to follow.

Fair question. The government. People protest. Whether they do or not isn’t going to change the day of anyone in power there.

Why do they care so much? It’s bizarre.

Not a great headline, some may interpret it as limiting payments by low income people.

We knew this was going to happen, we said it loudly since the idea was presented. Hospital income is 30-60% Medicare and Medicaid payments, rural and critical access hospitals representing the majority of those on the 60% side of things.

This is why the last couple of months had seen a quiet wave of layoffs across hospitals. Anticipation.

There’s no charity aspect here, even with the so called “nonprofit” versions. They can and willcut staff to skeleton crews (in unregulated states), and even shut down, once corporate fails to achieve requisite profits. Most clinics/PCPs are owned by venture capitalists now, so those clinics can shut down too.

Expect access to medical care to decline each and every time MAGA touches Medicaid or Medicare.

I’m still convinced flat earthers are an internet hoax/troll.