I started making the typography unweird, then decided not to because it's a direct quote. Much challenging, very dilemma.
I like that the authors use risk ratios instead of odds ratios.
14,000,000 deaths is a lot more than 23 centiHitlers. It's like 0.4 Hitlers.
It really depends on what the denominator for a Hitler is. There are several ways it could be calculated.
4: Yeah, I was also trying to work that out. If you give him credit for all the WWII deaths, then you get something like 16-20 centiHitlers.
This accounting reminds me of the bit in Mother Night where Eichman offers to give credit for some of the six million to Campbell.
You could give credit for all the WWII deaths but then how much is a Mussolini? How much is a Stalin?
Howard Campbell and Eichmann with two n's.
Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Hirohito, Eichmann and the rest are joint and severally liable. (But offsetting that, you do have to give Stalin and Hitler some credit for the death of Hitler.)
I'll give you five Mussolinis for a Stalin, take it or leave it.
we made it to Florida! It took us about 18 hours, including an hour long break to see family in Mobile. Hopefully zero centihitlers.
2:48 am here in my hospital bed on the beginning of my 8th full day here. 5 mg of oxycodone are not doing anything for the extreme pain in my leg. I don't really want to fall asleep anyway, because I'm sure if I do I'll yank my naso gastric tube out in my sleep for the third time and I really don't want to have to deal with a fourth insertion. Surgery is scheduled for tomorrow morning and I would happily die in the operating table if it saved me another week of this hell. I have no idea how we are supposed to pay for all of this, and I will wind up blowing through 70% of my remaining vacation days, most of which I was counting on to work on selling the house. This sucks so much
Fuckers are making me try IV Tylenol and one tiny Flexeril I'm in agony here and nobody actually listens or gives any credence to the fact that I have been dealing with this type of pain for 20 years and more.
No comfortable Way to put my leg and the goddamn self adjusting bed making it seem much worse
10: ranking of Campbells from best to worst:
Donald and Malcolm (famously high-speed, nothing wrong with them as far as I know)
Henry (great PM, sound on Home Rule, reform, pensions etc, died too soon)
Gordon (Q-ship VC, wrote a very entertaining book about it with rather more pictures of transvestites than one might initially have expected)
Bruce (just a great chap generally)
Joseph (harmless weirdo)
Sol (genius in the midfield for Tottenham)
Thomas Mustapha "Ingiliz Pasha" (killed a man in a duel, but, on the other hand, balloon pioneer and fought Bonaparte)
John W. (I mean, read any Golden Age SF author's memoir for a good idea of this weirdo)
Glen (dubiously right wing)
Robert (politically on the correct side but did do a bit of a massacre that one time)
Howard (extremely right wing, redeemed only by being fictional)
Also, what the hell, natilo, that sounds utterly miserable, why are they not giving you the good stuff? Sympathy. At least you haven't much longer to wait
Bono was on Joe Rogan recently. Somewhere in the two hours, he explains to Rogan that what EM had done was "evil". Bono had been tracking food not to delivered rotting in warehouses and the tracking study of Brooke Nichols Boston university. Here is an Irish Times article on this brouhaha: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio/2025/05/31/bono-criticises-usaid-cuts-in-lengthy-interview-with-podcaster-joe-rogan/
Feeling sick about the imminent passage of the horrible bill. I feel like my job is relatively safe... if my whole employer doesn't go belly up.
19: But at least it's being done by people with lofty principle:
"The president was wonderful, as always," Mr. Burchett said in the video. "Informative, funny, he told me he likes seeing me on TV, which was kind of cool." Representative Byron Donalds, Republican of Florida, is shown in the video, too. "Did you show them what he signed for you?" Mr. Donalds asks Mr. Burchett. "Yeah, he signed a bunch of stuff," Mr. Burchett said. "It's cool."
Mr. Trump knows how to make lowly lawmakers feel special. He sends them handwritten attaboys. He takes their phone calls at all hours of the day, even interrupting high-level West Wing meetings so as not to miss them. He brings them to Ultimate Fighting Championship fights and sits them ringside with his entourage. He invites them into the social whirl at Mar-a-Lago. All of which can feel incredibly heady for small-time members of Congress who lead unglamorous, workaday lives.
20-21: I don't know who the NYT's North Korea reporter is, but I guarantee you that person understands Republican statements about Trump better than the DC goofs who wrote this crap:
A clique of House Freedom Caucus members walked out of the White House in the early afternoon, their attitudes seemingly adjusted. Representative Tim Burchett, Republican of Tennessee, was one of them. He posted a video on social media gushing about the two-hour experience he'd just had with his president.
Well, thank goodness the surgeon actually snagged a spot at the front of the line for me this morning, so I didn't have to wait around being miserable and tried. Still trying to get a comprehensive report on the whole thing, but it boils down to they didn't find a smoking gun, just a small divticulus at the junction of something and something else, but nothing had to be removed. So that is a huge fucking relief! Currently back in my hospital room waiting for more info and feeling a million times better! Nothing like a bit of general anesthesia to get you feeling pretty normal again.
Good to hear, Natilo! Always nice to leave the hospital with all the equipment you brought in.
23 is good news. Hope you get home soon.
22: My Rep posts inane stuff on social media which makes it seem like she believes that they can peel these people away. Straight*out of central messaging with pictures of egg prices and everything.
23: My wife had diverticulitis a couple of years ago, and it was miserable. The advice (that worked without surgery) was basically the opposite of all of the eat healthy from the rest of our lives -- highly processed white bread and simple snacks for a few days helped her get through the worst.
Best wishes Natilo; that sounds awful.
21 -- That makes me think of Hendrick Hertzberg's comments about Carter -- both that Carter seems like a much better person and the "cost effectiveness" of having a way to impress politicians:
[Carter] lugged his own garment bag. He dispensed with "Hail to the Chief" and sold off the Presidential yacht. He vetoed daily car-and-driver service for his top aides. I'm not saying these were necessarily wise moves. The yacht was one of the more cost-effective federal expenses; an evening cruise on the Potomac and a glass of bourbon and branch water aboard the USS Sequoia was a cheaper way to secure a senator's vote on some bill or treaty than green-lighting a redundant "water project." And reading the morning papers in the back seat of a government sedan might've been a better use of Jody Powell's time than negotiating traffic jams behind the wheel of his beat-up VW bug. But that's Jimmy.
28: it amuses me that the sample menus I got for post-op low fiber diet consist exclusively of items that could be found at a small town grocery in the Midwest in 1954.
28, 30: That sounds very similar to the gastroparesis diet my middle child is supposed to use, though we also did the low-FODMAP thing to see exactly what we are supposed to avoid/modify. I had no idea this child's anosmia and gastroparesis would be so trendy in the world before COVID and GLP-1 inhibitors but here we are!
Doctor thought I had diverticulitis. A $450 abdominal CT scan later it turned out it was pneumonia!
31: from a gastro paresis article:
"Certain medicines, such as opioid pain relievers, some antidepressants, and medicines for high blood pressure, weight loss and allergies can slow stomach emptying."
Hmm, wondering if this could be a clue to my underlying issue
31: from a gastro paresis article:
"Certain medicines, such as opioid pain relievers, some antidepressants, and medicines for high blood pressure, weight loss and allergies can slow stomach emptying."
Hmm, wondering if this could be a clue to my underlying issue
Glad you're better, Natty!
The advice (that worked without surgery) was basically the opposite of all of the eat healthy from the rest of our lives -- highly processed white bread and simple snacks for a few days helped her get through the worst.
That's like the pre-colonoscopy diet: five days ahead of time, start living off things like Goobers on white bread, culminating in a day of gatorade before the night of a thousand poops.
Certain medicines, such as opioid pain relievers... can slow stomach emptying
Citation: Trainspotting, Welsh & Boyle, 1995.
Doctor thought I had diverticulitis. A $450 abdominal CT scan later it turned out it was pneumonia!
I am only a humble defrosted BA in Biology but I feel that these should be easier to tell apart.
(ACTUALLY ajay many Americans are forced by zoning restrictions to keep their lungs in their large intestines CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE)
I laughed.
Also I've been up since 4 am, due to insomnia over the prospect of having to deal with my parents' insane house when they someday perish. I've been productive, though.
36: Then for what it's worth, the thing that has helped them the most when the situation gets tough is to get botox injections around the pyloric sphincter, which basically keeps the stomach open and dripping through to the intestines rather than just having food hang out there indefinitely. The definitive test is weird and boring. You eat toast and eggs and drink apple juice that have been made radioactive or whatever, then go in for a one-minute CT scan once an hour until they've cleared out of your stomach or you've reached five hours without managing that and the test is over. Tyger has never gotten to leave early, but we also only go for diagnosis and intervention when the slowing gets so bad that food gets propelled right back up out of the stomach, which is no fun for anyone. It's definitely worth asking your doctor if it might be an issue. My brother had the diagnosis briefly while suffering from significant pancreatitis but it resolved on its own eventually once the pancreatitis finally did and he for real this time stopped drinking since doing otherwise would do him in.
You guys can get non-radioactive juice still?
NG tube is out! For good this time, I hope.
Starting back on clear liquids.
If things keep rolling the right way, I hope to go home on Monday
Gin is a clear liquid, if you get to pick.
I think that comes significantly after the radioactive toast.
Honestly, when we were on lockdown and I lost all that weight because I stopped eating convenience food? I had zero stomach problems. So I'm really hoping to deal with this by very strict diet alone.
Rice Krispies for supper tonight. Hopefully I can eat enough solid food tomorrow to crank out a bowel movement and then they'll let me out of here. Eleven days in the hospital for a discontented bowel is a long time.
My weight has remained unchanged since 2018. I'm the commenter Goldilocks quarantined with.
Getting out this morning!
I would much rather meet Apostropher in the woods than a bear, a gorilla or 100 five year olds.
I mean, can you imagine how freaky it would be to be walking alone in the woods and turn the corner and suddenly find yourself surrounded by 100 five year olds? Especially if it was at night with their eyes glowing menacingly at you? How many could you reasonably expect to dispatch while in that state of abject terror, before you were inevitably overrun?
"if you go out in the woods today, you're in for a big surprise...."
Apparently in Australia, they have so little freedom that you can be jailed just for serving mushrooms.
52: Glad to hear; hope the recovery is smooth!