I thought the term was geriatric millennial.
The youngest millennials are currently 26 (I continue to use Pew def, 1981-96 birth).
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Follow up to a previous thread discussion. Final NZ voting results in and NZ First will need to be in the coalition. From initial results, National lost 2 seats (by 29 and 131 votes) and the chamber size increased by one as the Te Pāti Māori party won more electorate seats than their percentage would have it.
Still a pretty robust trouncing of Labour.
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But for 7, you must now eat porridge for supper.
I'm just outside of Millennial and my kids are just too young for Gen Z. Border gens for life.
On OP3: I recently saw a Bluesky post about someone's memory of being instructed as a juror to hold arguments on someone's mental competency to a high standard because if confirmed that would take away their liberty. (In the context of George Santos, who would not lose liberty by being summarily expelled from Congress.) We have such a strange bipolar system for conservatorship where sometimes it requires a high bar and sometimes it doesn't: Britney had it imposed without a jury verdict, and many less known probably have too.
Shocking article specific to California: jury trials are almost never requested by the conservatees' lawyers (one case out of 5,000 in a year), because (a) the latter are usually court-appointed and requesting jury trials would tick off the appointing judges, and (b) because this has been the case for so long there are no set jury instructions, so creating them would take even longer for everyone involved and be weighty decisions.
I'm surprised that conservatorship is ever jury triable. It really looks like equity to me.
Now I'll read the link.
The jury instructions should just be that crying "leave Britney alone" video.
From the article, it's jury triable at the option of the conservatee by statute.
15: Yes, a statutory option almost never used (0 to 3 times a year), which is what they're examining.
Even if a jury trial were generally not advisable, I'd expect it to be used at least 1% of the time (client insistence, etc.) unless there were some really, really strong pressures against it regardless of merit.
California has been doing a lot of conservatorship reforms in response to the Britney case, and one of them seems to have been specifying that the (proposed) conservatee's attorney has a duty to advocate for the wishes of their client, not just their "interests"; the latter apparently facilitated their leaping to conservatorship as the "best interest" option concurring with others in the room.
But we love to implement lots of overlapping reforms bill by bill, giving each legislator a chunk of personal valor, more often than thinking through and enacting a wholesale reform.
The ethics session at the Water Law conference this year was about mentally impaired clients. How to stay on the right side of the rules when it seems like maybe they aren't there.
How often does that come up, in water law?
2: Hard to imagine Beyoncé and Lorde belonging to the same generation, but there it is.
I'm pretty sure that a solid minority of those being "O.K. Boomer"ed are really Gen X. Time marches on.
20 Ranchers get old. You're in a decades long case, where the key evidence is about what happened in the 1940s or 50s. The client has to make various decisions as a case proceeds -- budget, but also whether we're going to spend the money to pursue X, when it might not work.
The thing about water litigation is that there's no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. The quintessentially correct water court result is that the status quo from the 30s or 50s or whenever is preserved. The doesn't create cash. But the litigation involves experts, discovery, short multi-party bench trials.
Thank you to the plain people of Unfogged for recommending Eve's Hollywood. It has been the very thing these last couple of days.
On topic, because near-Boomer and generations.
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This whole thing is making me feel old, like when I realized you could be both young enough to be my daughter and a MILF.
Someone is taking what I think are senior pictures while sitting on a rail of a reasonably used track.
There's another train. I guess the tracks are heavily used.
According to our photographer, the police can and will cite you for photography on those tracks.
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I found the following misplaced note in my files, and as I have no real use for social media anymore, I will share it with you:
Scrolling down the timeline I saw "bish" and "bisher" juxtaposed. Bish, bisher, bishest, bishopric of bishs
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This whole thing is making me feel old
Agreed. A few weeks ago I did some slight cyberstalking of a girl I had a crush on in high school and discovered she had a 25-year-old daughter. (Or rather, I already knew she had a daughter who would be that age. The discovery was that they were both still alive and in the same region.) Bizarre.
... and is a grandmother. Way to bury the lead.
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Open enrollment query. My company recently added a bunch of supplemental insurance products. Tim's did this a few years ago. I think they hired some kind of benefits consultant and this is the solution everyone offers. Basically there are higher out of pocket costs, so you can now by accident and critical illness coverage which Paz out cash if you get critically ill - for medical bills or to cover other expenses like transportation to appointments. Have other people at bigger companies noticed this?
As far as I can tell, they are basically acting as an insurance agent for Aetna and not providing me with a benefit. It feels so sketchy. One of my less sophisticated financially co-worker was kind of intrigued, and when she was in her consultation she learned she wasn't eligible because she was on intermittent FMLA (because of we mon's kidney transplant and dialysis). So find this really disturbing and it feels contrary to the spirit of a welfare plan, but I'm assuming tense aren't regulated by ERISA.
The outside counselors are spectacularly poorly informed too.
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We have a bunch of those that don't seem like good deals unless you're high risk and therefore benefit from some sort of community rating. Open market is better rate for most people. But we have basic ADD and death benefits included so these are on top of that.
We had some benefits consultant survey a year or two ago and it was asking things like "do you want to keep receiving the same stock incentives or would you take a little less if we added a benefit of someone who would walk your dog midday?" and they were rightfully laughed out of the building.
38: ADD makes sense. It's just when they market it as "this can cover your co-insurance or inpatient co-pay, it's like "why can't we just have less stingy health insirsnce? And if someone is on a do-not-sell list, it doesn't sound like community rating.
I wonder how bad one's castration anxiety has to be before insurance will cover a steel codpiece?
All this talk of health care reminds me that I finally pooped in a box and mailed it today. It was not as difficult as I thought it would be, but the corner store where I usually drop UPS packages wouldn't take it. I had to go to a full-service UPS store.
I had a weird insurance experience, where I was scheduling my next PT appointment. I asked if we could do 4:30 next Monday again. (My past few appointments have been at 4:30 on Mondays.)
He said, "Can you do either 4 or 5?" and I said sure, 4 works fine.
Then he got a little farther and said, "Oops, with your insurance it needs to be on the half-hour. So can you do 4:30 after all?"
Now, my actual sessions are still an hour. I cannot imagine the convoluted hocus-pocus needed to lead up to that exchange. But yes, 4:30 would be great, thanks!
But if they ever set your appointments on the quarter hour, that means your employer is really cheap.
I would take any other option besides Aetna. Buncha crooks.
Does insurance cover eye injuries from UV lights at ApeFest? Asking for a friend.
45: it's the add on supplement and it's s scam. When i started we had 3 insurance companies with basically 2 plans and most people chose Blue Cross. Then just Blue Cross. Now we can only choose our own health plan, and I go with Tim's because he has Blue Cross and i don't get penalized for getting care from hospitals I don't work for.
I feel like I was guilted by 42 into doing the exercises my physical therapist gave me. Also, I was in pain the exercises do fix usually fix the pain if I keep at them for a couple of weeks.