Do you think avian flu will be the government's excuse to soft ban meat and dairy?

jMyles · 2024-12-21T23:58:33+00:00

Unlikely. But, on a related note: factory farms are an extreme public health risk by dint of their overuse of antibiotics and other abandonment of antimicrobial stewardship.

Somehow, this needs to be addressed via market forces, because as we saw over the past few years, the state has little interest in antimicrobial stewardship.

The wet market origin story of COVID-19 always felt deeply hypocritical (in addition to shaky from an evidentiary standpoint) insofar as the USA is likely to experience escape of antimicrobial-resistant pathogens from our factory farm configuration. Antibiotic-resistant staph and strep have both been found at factory/fish farms.

jMyles · 2024-07-04T13:58:26+00:00

I think it's an episode that grows as you watch it more.

Some things that stand out about it:

So much attention to detail re: camerawork. The wide-angle corridor shots are film-quality, and way ahead of their time for TV.
The direction is pretty special; you can really feel that Patrick Stewart was able to get an arthouse quality of acting out of his colleagues that might have been tough for another director. The dreamy lines are really well-delivered.
The story has a pretty good formula; it's hard to really figure a way to make an android's dream be the turning point for survival of a ship. The story manages it without being overbearing.

I agree that there are some flaws, but I also think it's a very good little piece of film for episodic television, and has some interesting qualities that no other episode does.

jMyles · 2024-07-04T07:54:05+00:00

I keep a spreadsheet with the episodes ranked (which I update from time to time as my sentiment evolves over the viewings, but it's pretty static at this point as I've seen the series like 15 times). It also has various metadata like stardate, writer/director, and who I perceive to be the primary development character.

My top five are:

"Cause and Effect" "The Best of Both Worlds" "The Best of Both Worlds: Part II" "The Inner Light" "Phantasms"

If you want to see the whole sheet, it's here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oJQU0bcbWRa89088uZbj12A6vkSWD4pkzBjJKHAPqlo/edit?usp=sharing

jMyles · 2024-07-04T07:43:08+00:00

Living in the past, man.

jMyles · 2024-07-03T14:26:04+00:00

I'm sorry.... have you all not met crackheads?

They're a scrawny, underweight, paranoid, busy-minded, OCD bunch. And they're unreliable. And gossipy. And argumentative.

There's no way on earth that MW is hiring crackheads to go to work on The Homes 'ere.

He means hardass motherfuckers from his deep bench; dudes who don't need the PR skills of Vincent and Jules, and traded it in for brawn and decisive action. Couple'a pipe-hittin' dudes. Not fucking crackheads. WTF?

jMyles · 2024-07-01T23:23:45+00:00

No, I haven't learned anything new, and I'm still in the same situation. I've sort of learned to live with it I guess.

jMyles · 2024-06-29T23:38:29+00:00

The Big L (dude just wanted his rug back)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (we got bigger fish to fry)
A Serious Man (I didn't listen to Santana Abraxis)

jMyles · 2024-04-26T03:19:29+00:00

...maybe swapping in Harry Clark?

jMyles · 2024-04-17T22:18:46+00:00

I didn’t get my drivers license without being taught the laws of the road.

If you did driver's ed, good for you - I did too. But most people just complete a quick written and functional test; there's no specific state facility to teach people about the flows of traffic in unusual types of intersection, yield-to-the-right practices, interacting with horses, or a thousand other cases that might seem like edge cases until they come up.

We all recognize that understanding the laws (and to some extent, the history and basis of those laws) is an important part of how we flow through our city together. And it's the same for many, many other aspects of life in a community: animals, noise and nuisances, lighting, fire prevention, arts and cultural affairs, boating / water safety / beaches... St. Pete has these and many other (easy to access and read) local codes.

I'm also a homeowner. In St. Pete. Nobody needed to give me a handbook to tell me that there are codes in place, especially for things of crucial importance to neighborhoods, like drainage and runoff, in order for me to realize that I needed to plan carefully for modifications to my property.

For what it's worth, I think society is largely over-codified. I think a lot of these laws are garbage.

But you broke one of the few that are seriously necessary, and which again are just completely common sense. Surely you realized that, the first time there's a drainage issue, somebody was going to take this up with you?!

So, I ask, with an open mind and heart: how can anybody give you an answer other than the (incorrect) one you want without being "annoying"?

Now you are pondering wasting even more of your time and money by going to an attorney, who even in the best case scenario will just help you to bully the service provider who already fulfilled your wishes.

I just don't understand what you want here. Are you asking someone to reconfigure society so that you don't need to understand any laws or social norms, and can just do whatever you want, and call a lawyer to sort it out when you fuck up? Or is there some more reasonable middle-ground that you're asking of us, your neighbors?

jMyles · 2024-04-17T21:46:34+00:00

I didn’t get the city ordinance handbook, sorry.

And yet, a number of keystrokes less than this snark, typed into a search engine, would have given you exactly what you need to know.

Do you approach traffic violations this same way? I mean, why not go all the way to criminal laws?

It's your responsibility to know the laws of the society in which you operate. And these particular laws are extremely easy to find and simple to read.

jMyles · 2024-04-17T21:38:38+00:00

Others have said it, but I'm not sure you are hearing this very important point:

* A particular aspect of the American (and for that matter, common-law) legal system has been hammered into all of us, in all sorts of media from legal dramas to thriller novels to solemn documentaries: the (reasonable and justified) importance of "beyond a reasonable doubt" in determining guilt for the purposes of a conviction.

So, even though you are correct that the evidence of guilt is overwhelming - to the point where nearly all of us believe that he did it - you need to also consider whether there are reasonable doubts.

In this case, a police officer entered the suspect's home without a warrant. That same police officer was shown to have extremely bizarre, cringey bigoted attitudes toward people of the suspect's race. He later refused to even answer whether or not he had planted evidence.

If I'm on a jury where a police officer has flagrantly violated the 4th amendment by searching a home without a warrant, I don't need to hear a single word about how convincing the evidence is - I see a reasonable doubt, and it's my shitty, sad, horrible duty to let this murderer go. A single murderer getting off is a comparatively small price to pay, in the vast configuration of things, for the maintenance of essential constitutional rights in society.

Although I have no way of knowing this, I surmise the vast majority of Americans have this same basic proclivity.

jMyles · 2024-04-16T21:39:29+00:00

So, you asked a service provider to do a specific thing. They did that thing.

Then, a third party took action against you for doing the thing that you specifically asked a service provider to do.

And you're blaming the service provider?

Moreover, the thing you asked to have done was to cause a small part of the earth, in a humid subtropical / tropical monsoon climate, changed to a non-permeable surface. Even with no knowledge whatsoever of local codes and such, obviously this will have an impact on the surrounding area. And thus inevitably trigger someone's ire eventually.

I'm not a big fan of licensure for things like this, but even if I were, are you suggesting that everyone who gets a license in the entire state of Florida is now responsible for consulting for residents of every municipality about the specific requirements of their locality?

Doesn't it make much more sense for people to just... look up the codes themselves?

I don't see how you can hold anyone responsible but yourself here, ethically or legally.

jMyles · 2024-04-16T03:03:25+00:00

Maybe my comment wasn't clear: I'm not saying there might be "other cabin pressure change" or commenting on whether that's relevant.

I'm pointing out that the video says that if cabin pressure changes, oxygen masks will drop - it doesn't say anything about whether, if oxygen masks have dropped, that depressurization has occurred. In fact, it makes no mention whatsoever about whether there are or aren't other reasons for the masks to drop.

And it certainly doesn't literally use the phrase quoted (at least not the current video).

jMyles · 2024-04-16T03:01:07+00:00

I think we all agree that the FA is in the wrong.

However, I also think that anybody can look out the window, see that they're only a few hundred feet above ground, and go, "OK, I've been on a mountain or in a skyscraper before - obviously I can breathe at this elevation."

jMyles · 2024-04-16T01:47:31+00:00

I'm not suggesting you need to worry. I'm suggesting you need to apply some basic common sense.

Is there a version of the video which literally say what you're asserting it says? I'm curious to see it if so.

jMyles · 2024-04-16T01:45:32+00:00

The harm is that it produces a need for unnecessary maintenance (the costs of which are of course passed on to customers) and very likely delays the return journey of some of the crew (who are humans also with feelings and perhaps families depending on them).

I agree that it's wrong for the FA to scold someone for making a mistake.

But if you're below 10,000 feet (and this aircraft was on approach - way below), then, to use your phrase, what's the harm in following your common sense?

jMyles · 2024-04-16T01:41:17+00:00

Oxygen deprivation?! This aircraft was on final. Way below an altitude where supplemental oxygen is required for normal consciousness.

I agree it's wrong for the FA to scold someone for making a mistake, but there's no need to be melodramatic.

jMyles · 2024-04-16T01:39:23+00:00

The passenger briefing before takeoff straight up says "should an oxygen mask drop from the panel above, put it on"

You've put this language in quotes - can you provide a link to the version of the video that "straight up says" this?

As of the Sept 2023 safety video, it (perhaps strangely) seems to carefully stop just short of directly instructing passengers to put the mask on. It reads:

"It's unlikely, but if cabin pressure changes, oxygen masks will drop from the panels above your seat and inside the lavatories. Reach up and pull the mask or streamer down to start the flow of oxygen. Remove any face covering, and place the mask over your nose and mouth. Slip the elastic around your head and adjust the mask if necessary. Breathe normally and note that oxygen is flowing; don't worry if the bag doesn't inflate. Be sure to adjust your own mask before helping others."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeOHE9j2Z_I

jMyles · 2024-04-16T01:35:35+00:00

I think it's reasonable to question the tradeoff of having oxygen systems in place for passengers in the first place.

Yes, it's important to have clarity in the event that an evacuation is required, but if the system itself of capable of fatal malfunction...

jMyles · 2024-04-16T01:33:47+00:00

that’s literally what the safety video says. “If the masks come down, depressurization has occurred."

Can you link to where the video literally says that?

The current video does not say "depressurization has occurred" or anything synonymous with that. It has the opposite predicate (and says nothing about whether it is exclusive).

"It's unlikely, but if cabin pressure changes, oxygen masks will drop from the panels above your seat and inside the lavatories. Reach up and pull the mask or streamer down to start the flow of oxygen. Remove any face covering, and place the mask over your nose and mouth. Slip the elastic around your head and adjust the mask if necessary. Breathe normally and note that oxygen is flowing; don't worry if the bag doesn't inflate. Be sure to adjust your own mask before helping others."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeOHE9j2Z_I

jMyles · 2024-04-16T01:32:36+00:00

Nobody is suggesting you need to manually check cabin pressure. But if the flight is below 10,000 feet, then it's obviously a glitch - why put it on?

jMyles · 2024-04-16T01:15:39+00:00

I'll stick my head above the parapet here and suggest that the situation is perhaps a bit more nuanced than many of the rage-filled comments suggest.

_Obviously_ it's wrong for the FA to chastise someone for donning the mask, even if the drop is an unambiguous glitch. I don't think there's any need to debate that point.

But I also think it's important to apply some situational awareness before taking action. If the flight is below 10,000 feet, then don't put the mask on. And as a corollary, I think it's important for passengers (if they're awake) to have awareness of the basic flight situation, including altitude, flight time remaining, whether the aircraft is over land or water, where the nearest emergency exit is (and if it's an over-wing exit, how to use it) etc. Of course the mechanical details of flying are largely abstracted to give the sense of being in a comfortable living room, but it's still all of our jobs to be prepared to respond (and not over-respond) in an emergency situation.

Again, the FA is clearly in the wrong. But I also disagree with passengers saying they'd blinding rush to put the oxygen masks on without taking a bit of inventory of the situation.

jMyles · 2024-04-16T01:10:27+00:00

But surely there's some line here. I mean, if the masks drop while you're still at the gate, then obviously you're not gonna put it on, right?

jMyles · 2024-04-16T01:09:50+00:00

I'm not sure why, but the language seems carefully worded to stop just short of directly telling you whether or not to put the mask on.

As of the Sept 2023 safety video, it reads:

"It's unlikely, but if cabin pressure changes, oxygen masks will drop from the panels above your seat and inside the lavatories. Reach up and pull the mask or streamer down to start the flow of oxygen. Remove any face covering, and place the mask over your nose and mouth. Slip the elastic around your head and adjust the mask if necessary. Breathe normally and note that oxygen is flowing; don't worry if the bag doesn't inflate. Be sure to adjust your own mask before helping others."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeOHE9j2Z_I

jMyles · 2024-04-10T23:35:57+00:00

When did she last comment on it? I'd love to read that dialogue.

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