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MsDaisy 2 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:10 am Vertigo is a royal pain in the ass, I fell to the floor yesterday and today my head is still swishing. I have to stand up very slowly and hold on to something solid and remember NOT turn my head to the side

jez wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 7:00 pm

MsDaisy 2 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:10 am Vertigo is a royal pain in the ass, I fell to the floor yesterday and today my head is still swishing. I have to stand up very slowly and hold on to something solid and remember NOT turn my head to the side

Highly recommend the meclazine (aka, Non-Drowsy Dramamine). I also recommend running the side of your hand when you walk down a hallway or in a room. Helps me orient when the Tilt-o-Whirl goes a bit crazy.

MN-Skeptic wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 2:34 pm My brother's daughter had identical twin girls last week. He was talking to the other grandpa at the hospital a few days later, talking about how difficult it is to know which twin is which. (Right now it's easy because one twin is one pound heavier than the other.) Anyway, the other grandpa is a farmer and he suggested that my brother look closely at the girls' ears. Sure enough - one girl's right ear is the mirror image of the other girl's left ear! Now you just have to take photos and write it down.

sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:33 am Someone posted a CBS poll the other day that showed 79% trusted trump for their Ukraine-Russia news and now I can't find that post. Any help?

John Oliver on Medicaid mess: ‘Could the government blindside people with something beneficial?’
Last Week Tonight host digs into Medicaid ending insurance for millions in ‘unwinding’ emblematic of the system’s issues

Adrian Horton
Mon 15 Apr 2024 17.08 CEST

John Oliver dove into the bureaucratic mess of Medicaid on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, amid a “great unraveling” that has dropped enrollment by more than 11 million people in the past year, including 4.8 million children, the vast majority of whom were kicked off their healthcare for surprise procedural issues. “Just for once, could the government blindside people with something beneficial, or even just fun?” Oliver wondered. “Like if one day Congress announced they’d be adding Shrek to Mt Rushmore.”

In numerous cases, care was terminated without any notice from the state – one of several instances in which “everything about the current unwinding is emblematic of much larger issues with how we’ve always administered Medicaid”, said Oliver. The program was first enacted in 1965, as a partnership between the federal government and state governments, with much leeway given to states for running their programs with matching federal funds.

John Oliver dove into the bureaucratic mess of Medicaid on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, amid a “great unraveling” that has dropped enrollment by more than 11 million people in the past year, including 4.8 million children, the vast majority of whom were kicked off their healthcare for surprise procedural issues. “Just for once, could the government blindside people with something beneficial, or even just fun?” Oliver wondered. “Like if one day Congress announced they’d be adding Shrek to Mt Rushmore.”

In numerous cases, care was terminated without any notice from the state – one of several instances in which “everything about the current unwinding is emblematic of much larger issues with how we’ve always administered Medicaid”, said Oliver. The program was first enacted in 1965, as a partnership between the federal government and state governments, with much leeway given to states for running their programs with matching federal funds.

The program, when working as it should, provides insurance for low-income adults and children, and pays for crucial services for those with disabilities, mental illness and other chronic health issues. But even for those who qualify for Medicaid, “basic administrative fuck-ups” can prevent access to care, such as the case of one child who was declared “not born yet” by the state Medicaid system despite being a year old.

From state to state, Medicaid recipients are beset by poorly designed websites, long wait times and complex forms, among other issues. “Glitches can occur in any system, and they can happen more often in government programs, which do tend to be underfunded, understaffed and operating on ancient technology,” said Oliver. “And I’m not trying to rain shit down on honest government employees who have to process an endless barrage of paperwork. I have total sympathy for how demanding those jobs are.

“In fact, there’s exactly one group of government employees that it’s OK to make fun of for something that is not their fault, and that is Secret Service agents, for the fact that they are constantly being bitten by the president’s dog,” he added. “I’m sorry, I hope they’re all fine, but I’m still going to laugh every time I think about that.”




https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... r-medicaid

bill_g wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:25 am Tell me it's GOP controlled states without telling me it's GOP controlled states.

R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts wrote: #BREAKING: A circus elephant has gotten loose after escaping from its circus tent

#Butte | #Montana

Watch as Law enforcement and other authorities shutdown the streets after a A Circus elephant was running loose in the streets stopping traffic while a handler ran after it after escaping from traveling circus tent in Butte Montana Officals from Jordan World Circus said the elephant’s handlers were washing the female elephant outside the civic center when a passing vehicle backfired and spooked the animal causing it temporarily to escaped The spooked animal was soon safely corralled back at the civic center without injury

#UPDATE: Watch as security cameras capture a roaming circus elephant in the town of Butte, Montana, temporarily escaping while its handlers chase it down. It was later safely returned to its home.

Trader Joe’s and Starbucks are helping Elon Musk undermine the US government
SpaceX is trying to kill a federal agency that accused it of labor violations. Ostensibly progressive brands have leaped to join in

Steven Greenhouse
Wed 17 Apr 2024 12.01 CEST

Elon Musk boasts that he’s a “free speech absolutist”, but that didn’t stop his rocket company, SpaceX, from firing eight workers who had criticized him for making light of reports that SpaceX had settled a sexual harassment claim against him.

Not stopping there, SpaceX has moved to put the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the US’s top labor watchdog, out of business. Earlier this year, a day after the board accused SpaceX of illegally retaliating against those workers, SpaceX filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit that seeks to have the labor board – which has successfully overseen relations between business and unions since the 1930s – declared unconstitutional and shut down.

In so doing, Musk and SpaceX have joined a broader, rightwing effort that hopes to hobble the federal government’s ability to regulate business. Indeed, SpaceX’s lawsuit could serve as a potent wrecking ball in the right’s push to weaken and perhaps demolish the administrative state – the network of federal agencies that the US Congress created to, among other things, promote workers’ safety on the job, prevent fraud in financial markets, protect workers’ right to unionize, limit environmental hazards, make sure consumer products are safe and administer social security for seniors.



https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... rader-joes