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.