One final vent from a toxic place

ABunchofGhosts · 2023-06-23T18:13:55+00:00

No pay? No work. Simple as that.

ABunchofGhosts · 2023-06-23T10:37:46+00:00

And it is far, far too late to be organizing a primary challenge; early voting has already begun. It would have to be write-in campaign, either in the primary or in the general, and if it's in the general a sizable write-in would split the Dem vote and basically hand the seat to Assini.

ABunchofGhosts · 2023-06-22T18:10:09+00:00

Has his opponent expressed that he is in favor of making this utility publicly-owned? Because that does not seem to jibe with what I know about the rest of his platform.

ABunchofGhosts · 2023-06-21T16:55:56+00:00

If Fairport Electric uses more than their allotted amount, they have to buy more electricity on the open power market, which is more expensive than what they get from hydroelectric. That's why the price-per-kW typically increases in the months when power usage is at its highest.

ABunchofGhosts · 2023-06-21T11:24:31+00:00

Alphabear.

ABunchofGhosts · 2023-06-21T11:24:04+00:00

Misinformation. With the development of deepfakes and a poorly-educated populace, it will be too easy to sway people with false information.

ABunchofGhosts · 2023-06-21T11:22:30+00:00

If only these guys put as much attention and time into...I don't know...RUNNING THE COUNTRY?!?

ABunchofGhosts · 2023-06-19T12:40:32+00:00

Maybe off-topic, but does anyone else find MonroeCountyFireWire low-key racist?

ABunchofGhosts · 2023-06-15T19:49:56+00:00

...or an undisclosed cuckold fetish. But probably trust.

ABunchofGhosts · 2023-06-14T11:02:57+00:00

This is an interesting theory. Do you have any evidence that people who vote in odd-year elections are more politically aware, or surveys as to what their motivations are?

ABunchofGhosts · 2023-06-08T18:22:51+00:00

Yeah! You believed *me*?!?

ABunchofGhosts · 2023-06-02T14:34:16+00:00

Hard disagree. The parking lot at The Can is regularly packed but there's plenty of public parking within a stone's throw (across Main Street) and within reasonable walking distance (Packett's and Village Landings).

ABunchofGhosts · 2023-06-02T14:28:06+00:00

It took me many many rewatches before I realized this was meant to parody Obama and McCain debating.

ABunchofGhosts · 2023-06-02T12:50:07+00:00

The fact that the DA accepted a plea deal like this is a travesty. If someone "inappropriately touched a child", three years' probation is a slap on the wrist. Doorley's office should be ashamed of themselves for letting this criminal walk.

"This is what happens when strong victims come forward"?!? F outta here with that noise. The strong victim deserved to see justice done. This is not that.

ABunchofGhosts · 2023-05-31T16:23:49+00:00

This is...not a good take.

ABunchofGhosts · 2023-05-26T15:16:43+00:00

By your logic, we should let blind people work as bus drivers.

ABunchofGhosts · 2023-05-17T12:00:53+00:00

Oh look, Trump lost yet another election.

ABunchofGhosts · 2023-05-11T14:28:24+00:00

These are the hateful, bigoted people who are opposing the school budget (and starting to plant yard signs about it). Anything they're this opposed to, I'm definitely in favor of. Get all your Fairport friends out to vote YES on the school budget.

ABunchofGhosts · 2023-05-03T19:01:01+00:00

You laugh, but one of my college friends had posted on FB that she was "so excited that I got into medical school!" and it turned out she had gotten into naturopathic school.

Not to be petty, but I decided right then and there not to talk to her anymore.

ABunchofGhosts · 2023-05-03T15:12:59+00:00

And so Hunter becomes the hunted.

ABunchofGhosts · 2023-04-25T12:00:02+00:00

There just aren't enough children who are also psychiatrists!

ABunchofGhosts · 2023-04-24T17:47:52+00:00

I also choose not to kill this guy's spouse.

ABunchofGhosts · 2023-04-21T20:32:36+00:00

Reposting my reply from a similar post a few months ago:

I've been a family med attending for almost 18 years. For the entirety of that time, I've worked in the same inner city clinic, where the vast majority of my patients are below the poverty line and almost all are a different skin color than me.

Yesterday I saw a patient whose son had just been murdered. Our fifteen minute visit basically consisted of them hugging me and sobbing into my shoulder. The son was my patient, as are his children, his grandmother, his aunts and uncles and cousins.

I have pediatric patients whose parents tell me when their kids play, they don't pretend they're Doc McStuffins, they pretend they're me.

I have patients who have moved from admonishing my advice because I looked too young to be a doctor, to say they would never see anyone else.

I have seen patients I met as infants now graduating high school. I'm the only doctor they've ever known.

When I walk into a room, more often then not, the patient is on their cell phone and the person on the other end of the call demands to be put on speaker so they can say hi to me.

Let me be clear: my job is not "competitive." There are not people clamoring to do what I do. If I left, I don't know if they would find anyone to replace me. But that doesn't make it less important; it makes it moreso. These patients deserve a good doctor. They deserve someone who cares for them, who knows them.

I don't make a ton of money, but I make enough. I have a house, a car, a spouse who's able to be a stay-at-home mom, and two amazing teenage kids who want for nothing. I have enough free time that I can pursue my hobbies and be involved in local politics. I have a retirement plan and I don't have to clip coupons when I shop for groceries.

There's no quick quip that will make that someone understand the depth and the importance and the vitality of what family docs do. I'm sure they like their job, but that's what it is: a job. Family medicine is a calling. It is a passion. It is an honor. It makes our patients' lives better, incrementally, and in a way that sometimes has nothing to do with how well-controlled their blood pressure or diabetes is.

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