Fourth-year academic, but wasn't listed in the seniors list. However, his transfer portal status seemed inevitable since he was passed by 3 others on the depth chart.
Less than ideal…tho after having visited TCU in Sept., there’s about 8000 co-Ed reasons why I could see this happening, plus 1 big one called the holy trinity dinner at Woodshed Smokehouse & BBQ
Random question, but is anyone aware of any alumni presence in Montana? I've met tons of California ex pats here so I figured there has to be a few, but there's nothing official on the alumni association website and they never responded to my question.
CAA will never ever give out personal data unless you're an official chapter. My recommendation is to start up an unofficial site on Facebook page. That's how I started the NC chapter.
So... I had a guy apply for a unit, and he seemed kinda pushy, wanted me to guarantee him he would get the unit if I pulled his credit report (one point is the end of the world), wanted free rent, was hot to trot, but then didn't follow up.
Anyway today he wanted me to send him a word doc of the lease, instead of the pdf I sent because he had some redlines - but I don't re-write the lease for anyone. I was overjoyed to reply today that I had leased that unit to another applicant.
I just can't with her. And I find it very interesting, because Dr Bob Wachter, who is her superior at UCSF, is very measured and yet reassuring. She's just bananas.
Yeah, and I'd also point out that there are some who are plainly looking for clicks in the other direction, trying to be as alarmist as possible (Eric Feigl-Ding comes to mind). It can be exhausting.
A guy like Wachter must find it helpful to have her around. There is probably value in hearing from people who are willing to stick their necks out, even if they are more often publicly wrong because of it.
You just can't fall into the trap of making her voice the only voice you hear.
I hate that I feel like I need to start reading original research in real journals on health topics, rather than trusting that sound bites on the news aren't going to kill me.
*ears start steaming* our director does this all the time. random important topics in something unrelated and that half the people in the cc list don't even know what it is.
This is what I will do. Or if I find that my responses are specific to certain conditions and I want to make sure that my answer is matched up to the appropriate question.
I tend to copy the questions/things I am responding to into the body of my email rather than replying inline. If you must do inline, for all that is holy USE A COLOR.
I use inline a lot when responding to a bullet list.
But I start a new line below each one, put my name/initials at the beginning, and bold it (prob not color, but sometimes...I find that colors can go odd with email).
absolutely dreadful - especially when people start using different colors of text to differentiate their comments. If there's a need to do something collaborative like that, and your organization has something like Teams or google docs or whatever, then put the text there and use the email to alert people that they need to go edit.
I have the opposite pet peeve. One of the attorneys we work with has an annoying habit of replying only to an individual in a group thread, so then we need to manually copy everyone back in so they can see his usually important input. Or sometimes you don't notice he has only replied to you and you assume everyone saw his email, and... nope.
The answer is in between...if it's an email to 39 people, don't Reply All asking a Q specific to you. But if it's a 3-person thread (and everyone is needed), don't just Reply (and make the receiver add people back).
I've found that a lot interviewing candidates (we have a two-person interview "committee"). We keep having to add each other back to Reply (not all) responses that we get from applicants.
The managing partner of my firm got upset about this a few years back so now when you email a broad d list you have to click through a bunch of pop ups designed to make you feel like a schmo for wasting everyone’s time
I have to admit, at this point 95% of my gmail use is reading broadcast information - I do very little back and forth, maybe with the missus, that's about it.
Actually just went to our company Slack and someone posted a screenshot of an email with an attachment and the body text was just "Please find the attached".
We get enough phishing emails with attachments that I'm not opening anything that isn't obviously from a person with a purpose related to me.
Take the time to add 12 words to make it obvious that this is legit.
I absolutely hated Clippy, but that thing in Outlook where it says "did you forget an attachment?" when I have written an email saying I've attached something and I haven't is very useful. Thank you, Clippy's successor.
Subject lines that are not topic specific. I am in the building design world, in a niche field where we work on like 100x the projects as an engineer or architect does.
The number of emails I get that just have "walls?" as the subject line is maddening. I realize that you're only working on one project, but this doesn't help me. Or "what about the walls?"
I knew someone who didn't think to include the email trail when replying, so her emails would simply say "Yes" or "No" with no context. However, I think she's retired now.
yeah, that's lame, but I also (just this morning even) had the opposite, where a thread includes like 20 replies and *everything* is there. So it takes forever to find the relevant text.
I try to blockquote the relevant text in my reply, and then lop off all the stuff that isn't relevant anymore.
A few years back, we received a firm-wide e-mail from the top partner at our firm that started with. "It has come to my attention..."
ok... not good...
"...that the quality of the pizza we have been ordering has dropped as of late. I propose we start a weekly tasting of all the pizza places around [city our firm is located] and vote on the best pizza."
these are also the scenarios where the robo-advisors can do well. some stocks are up, others are down. the robos can sell the declining stocks for a loss and replace with equivalents and lower overall capital gains.
i have the most familiarity w/ Wealthfront. above certain investment thresholds, they effectively create an SP 500 lookalike fund for you made of a couple hundred individual stocks.
A few more eps into S2 of South Side. Not feeling it. They seem to be doing a bit what Mythic Quest did in S2, which is side stories. But I find it less interesting with SS.
he's going to end up taking the fall because he was the coordinator / the one dumb enough to put things in writing. Of course it won't be much of a fall to take, because apparently we don't care enough to enforce laws around the integrity of the republic.
I agree 100% with this take, and it's why I'm prepping the offspring to be stateless in their future--be able to go where they need to, not tied to any particular country
Officials arrest 3 people from a Florida town for voter fraud because they voted twice. I'll give you three chances to guess who they voted for President.
Schefty says more than 25 more expected today, and the Rams have had to close their facility and enter the intensive protocol. I might be kind of pissed if I were the Cardinals.
Wonder if Ashtyn Davis, Cameron Jordan, Stephen Anderson, Marvin Jones, Jaylinn Hawkins, Patrick Mekari, Jake Curran & Cam Bynum were among them? That would be interesting, and another indicator of the City of Berkeley’s reach on all things pandemic... ;-)
I have a lot of doubts that this will actually do any good. The core problem is that the regions that least need such a mandate (blue cities with high vaccination rates) are going to be the most likely to follow it. The regions that most need additional protections (rural red areas with low vax rates) won't enforce it.
Do you remember when Barry Tompkins used to do Cal games with Dan Belluomini during the Braun years? Still, he's better known for calling the Balboa/Drago fight in Russia....
I don't think I can agree with denying care to people because of poor personal choices. Where do you take that, in the end? Deprioritizing smokers? The obese?
I have sympathy with this view, but I think it's not exactly analogous; refusing to get vaccinated isn't just a personal choice, it's also a social one. You're endangering others as well as yourself.
I wouldn’t implement something like this during “normal” times when beds and care are abundantly available, however, when healthcare systems are at capacity and you have to ration care they should implement a system.
9/11: 3,000 Americans killed, the conservatives happily signed away their right to privacy, certain freedoms. Covid: 800,000 Americans dead & counting. Conservatives: you can't tell me what to do. I have no sympathy. It's a plague. If you don't get the shot, you are moved down the list. Make it public knowledge, shout it far & wide. Everyone one will still have a choice.
That's because 9/11 the perceived target of the removal of freedoms was brown people., whereas for Covid the perceived target of the removal of freedoms was white people.
The large national financial institution that employees me is full steam ahead for January 10th. No mask mandates, no capacity limits, no vaccine mandate (except in those localities where laws demand them). Can't wait! 🖕
open space is easy, everyone wears a mask all the time, and no in person meetings/cube chats. We've been having our weekly group meeting over teams for a year and a half, even though we all site no more than 15 feet apart.
the federal agency I support is going to slow their roll for the planned January return. Even before Omicron, I'd assumed that winter / school holiday spikes might put a crimp on those plans.
The NCAA head coach who has won a National Championship and a Super Bowl is Jimmy Johnson. He won a National Championship with the U in '87 and two Super Bowls (XXVII, and XXVIII) with the Cowboys.
Cheaty Petey's first HC position was with the New York Jets ('94). He then was a DC with the 49ers ('95-'96) and then HC with the New England Patriots ('97-'99). His record in the NFL at that point was 2 games over .500 (33-31, .516).
He then found success with USC, winning 8 straight Pac-10 championships and two National Championships ('03 and '04), with a record of 97-19, .836.
Subsequent to the end of his college coaching career, Carroll was hired by Seattle where he has been the head coach for 12 seasons (incl. 2021). He has won 1 Super Bowl (XLVIII) and lost another (XLIX). The Seahawks have made the playoffs in 9 of the 11 complete seasons so far.
The NFL has a bad history with national championship college coaches who try to make the transition to the NFL. Off the top of my head Steve Spurrier is the example that most readily comes to mind. Spurrier had been a head coach at Duke ('87-'89) and Florida ('90-'01), playing for a National Championship in '95 and winning one in '96.
Spurrier spent 2 seasons with the WFT before giving up the idea that he could translate NCAA success into NFL success. He returned to college ball and coached 11 more years at South Carolina.
Let's also not forget Nick Saban. Saban had 2 years with the Miami Dolphins as their HC before bailing and returning to the college ranks at Alabama. Saban had won a National Championship at LSU in the 2004 Sugar Bowl (ending the 2003 season). He's won 6 other National Championships at Alabama ('09, '11, '12, '15, '17, and '20). His '21 Alabama team is in the playoffs...again.
Prior to the Dolphins stint, Saban had NFL experience with the Houston Oilers ('88-'89 as their DC) and Cleveland Browns ('91-'94 as their DC)
Porch Pirates
I feel seen: https://twitter.com/ThomedySci/status/1468369111117799427
pltm
Cal
Go Bears!!!
Tattersall in the portal
https://twitter.com/rivalsportal/status/1470837631957221379?s=21
Fourth-year academic, but wasn't listed in the seniors list. However, his transfer portal status seemed inevitable since he was passed by 3 others on the depth chart.
Not surprised at all.
yep, he was simply passed by the younger guys.
Signing day is coming up. Let's get some more recruits to flip!
Prediction: it won't be a good signing day for Cal, but we'll make up for it from the portal later.
I like the sci-fi undertones of the term “the portal”
this
I agree that it won’t be good for Cal and we will have to make up for it with the portal.
Garbers has announced he's heading to the NFL draft.
https://twitter.com/ChaseGarbers/status/1470882540747513857?t=gKE0f0EwJQmCODMvE8NX0w&s=09
Good luck with that.
Just saw that. Late round pick?
UDFA
this
Insurance salesman.
maybe he could call Matt Leinart and dabble in commercial real estate in between being wooden on Fox
Damonic Williams decommits and flips to Dykes and TCU
HE HAS FLIPPED BACK TO CAL.
https://247sports.com/Article/Damonic-Williams-re-commits-to-Cal-Bears-TCU-horned-frogs--178302100/
LOL 😂 oh the fickle heart of an 18 year old
Damn you Sonny!!!
Wait, Sonny Dykes is stealing defensive recruits from Justin Wilcox?? WTF
Sonny HAS defensive recruits?
*Sonny Dykes*
That’s a big loss. Salt in the recruiting wound losing him to Dykes and TCU.
Less than ideal…tho after having visited TCU in Sept., there’s about 8000 co-Ed reasons why I could see this happening, plus 1 big one called the holy trinity dinner at Woodshed Smokehouse & BBQ
crop top, mini skirts, and boots.
Wilcox gotta flip some guys too
https://youtu.be/Rntm3yDAQuM
Random question, but is anyone aware of any alumni presence in Montana? I've met tons of California ex pats here so I figured there has to be a few, but there's nothing official on the alumni association website and they never responded to my question.
CAA will never ever give out personal data unless you're an official chapter. My recommendation is to start up an unofficial site on Facebook page. That's how I started the NC chapter.
I actually did. I just wanted to make sure I wasn’t reinventing the wheel.
I suppose Travis DeCuire doesn't count
he does not
OMG THESE ARE AMAZING
1. https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/rfwgmc/aita_for_perpetuating_ethnic_stereotypes_about/
2. https://www.reddit.com/user/throwawayorangecat/comments/rgi000/update_aita_for_perpetuating_stereotypes_about/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Torties are smarter than Lynx points, so I guess I perpetuate ethnic stereotypes.
Well...amazing can be good or bad. Or something else.
What am I reading?
Landlord joy
I have one tenant who is a delight. I hope they never move out. I sent them cookies last year.
I know Cugel has at least one as well! 😃
But I generally give wine.
That reminds me! Do you have an updated inventory from your ongoing cellar sale? I'd be happy to buy some more bottles off you.
So... I had a guy apply for a unit, and he seemed kinda pushy, wanted me to guarantee him he would get the unit if I pulled his credit report (one point is the end of the world), wanted free rent, was hot to trot, but then didn't follow up.
Anyway today he wanted me to send him a word doc of the lease, instead of the pdf I sent because he had some redlines - but I don't re-write the lease for anyone. I was overjoyed to reply today that I had leased that unit to another applicant.
Did he say what he wanted to redline?
He wanted cookies rather than wine for being the best tenant ever.
He did not
I'm guessing that for Cugel any redline is a red flag. In that context, doesn't matter.
I have that with (potential) clients. if they are a pain during the proposal process, they'll be a pain during the project.
Sounds like a chronic headache saved
are you still a tenant of the cugz?
👍🏽 indeed
A thread compiling Dr. Monica Gandhi's dangerous assertions https://twitter.com/KindAndUnblind/status/1470389931679883268?s=20
listen, if not knowing your ass from a hole in a ground becomes a problem in this country, I'm in REAL trouble.
Of course I'm not giving stupidly bad advice on pandemic management, so I'm the only one at risk from my errors
I just can't with her. And I find it very interesting, because Dr Bob Wachter, who is her superior at UCSF, is very measured and yet reassuring. She's just bananas.
You would hope that scientists could rise above the lust for clicks, and yet here we are…
Yeah, and I'd also point out that there are some who are plainly looking for clicks in the other direction, trying to be as alarmist as possible (Eric Feigl-Ding comes to mind). It can be exhausting.
A guy like Wachter must find it helpful to have her around. There is probably value in hearing from people who are willing to stick their necks out, even if they are more often publicly wrong because of it.
You just can't fall into the trap of making her voice the only voice you hear.
I have found some of her commentary valuable, but you definitely have to check her predictions against other experts.
Though I guess that last part pretty much goes for everyone.
I hate that I feel like I need to start reading original research in real journals on health topics, rather than trusting that sound bites on the news aren't going to kill me.
email pet peeves
Replying to an email with a subject line about matter X only to discuss unrelated matter Y in the body.
thank you!
*ears start steaming* our director does this all the time. random important topics in something unrelated and that half the people in the cc list don't even know what it is.
^^this^^
Forwarding an email without adding any information to it. Not even an FYI.
I get that from a certain older relative.
I have to stifle myself from replying all with "...and you wanted say...?"
responding inline.
i would rather you type out what is important rather respond to every question or comment as if it was a script of a play.
I respond inline if you send me a million questions. Otherwise, no.
a shorter version of what I just wrote ;-)
This is what I will do. Or if I find that my responses are specific to certain conditions and I want to make sure that my answer is matched up to the appropriate question.
Same.
I tend to copy the questions/things I am responding to into the body of my email rather than replying inline. If you must do inline, for all that is holy USE A COLOR.
I use inline a lot when responding to a bullet list.
But I start a new line below each one, put my name/initials at the beginning, and bold it (prob not color, but sometimes...I find that colors can go odd with email).
those are all good ways to handle it. Color can be a real pain in the ass (also a good way to find out who on the distribution is color blind)
absolutely dreadful - especially when people start using different colors of text to differentiate their comments. If there's a need to do something collaborative like that, and your organization has something like Teams or google docs or whatever, then put the text there and use the email to alert people that they need to go edit.
my approximately 100 year old boss does the inline-different-color-response thing all the time and it drives me so insane
it only works for two people and one (maybe two) rounds. After that, gotta past the relevant text up top and start again.
Or...use the "if this has lasted two or three rounds, talk to the person" rule
Reply all. Fuck those people
A way to avoid this is to send to yourself and bcc the recipients (if they don't need to correspond with each other, just you).
"Add xx to the contact list" that only the original sender needs to know.
"Great news!" x 23
I use this method when sending out Delegation of Authority emails for my boss.
I have never gotten a reply in return apart from Out of Office autoreplies.
I have the opposite pet peeve. One of the attorneys we work with has an annoying habit of replying only to an individual in a group thread, so then we need to manually copy everyone back in so they can see his usually important input. Or sometimes you don't notice he has only replied to you and you assume everyone saw his email, and... nope.
The answer is in between...if it's an email to 39 people, don't Reply All asking a Q specific to you. But if it's a 3-person thread (and everyone is needed), don't just Reply (and make the receiver add people back).
I've found that a lot interviewing candidates (we have a two-person interview "committee"). We keep having to add each other back to Reply (not all) responses that we get from applicants.
Yes, true. Clients do this a lot because they think it will save them money
The managing partner of my firm got upset about this a few years back so now when you email a broad d list you have to click through a bunch of pop ups designed to make you feel like a schmo for wasting everyone’s time
our big boss got the same way, sent a hissy email about it and now we can only email the list "with approval from management" lol
The great irony of reply all problems with:
1) my graduate department (bioinformatics...you know, people who SHOULD know how the internet works)
2) one of my workplace email lists (all the communicators across my organization)
Well, like the picture, forgetting attachments.
Gmail putting every back and forth email into a conversation where it gets hard to tell who sent what to whom.
I have to use gmail for some school stuff and I hate it! I just set it to forward to my "regular" email address and use that app.
I think you can make it stop doing that. Most of my gmail is notices and spam.
I have to admit, at this point 95% of my gmail use is reading broadcast information - I do very little back and forth, maybe with the missus, that's about it.
and text and Slack and those types of communications seem to be better for the back and forth.
Two reasons that I sometimes avoid text are:
1. Can edit (or delete) after the fact (like in Slack)
2. Can't mark Unread (like in email or Slack)
If I get a text and am not ready to respond, I have to leave it unread, otherwise it'll not have a notification anymore and it'll be gone forever.
texting is the answer, for me at least...nobody at work uses collaborative systems like Slack or Teams, even though they have tried to set up Teams
Yeah me too, tho primarily because it is blocked on my work computer
Actually just went to our company Slack and someone posted a screenshot of an email with an attachment and the body text was just "Please find the attached".
We get enough phishing emails with attachments that I'm not opening anything that isn't obviously from a person with a purpose related to me.
Take the time to add 12 words to make it obvious that this is legit.
Oh, and about 5% of the time, I'm the person who forgets the attachment. I love that meme! Gonna steal it :-)
I absolutely hated Clippy, but that thing in Outlook where it says "did you forget an attachment?" when I have written an email saying I've attached something and I haven't is very useful. Thank you, Clippy's successor.
there's a successor?
wouldn't help, since I don't use Windows (or Outlook), but that's a clever function
It's just a pop up message, rather than a damn sentient paperclip.
Man, you struck a nerve here with this topic! ;-)
Subject lines that are not topic specific. I am in the building design world, in a niche field where we work on like 100x the projects as an engineer or architect does.
The number of emails I get that just have "walls?" as the subject line is maddening. I realize that you're only working on one project, but this doesn't help me. Or "what about the walls?"
I knew someone who didn't think to include the email trail when replying, so her emails would simply say "Yes" or "No" with no context. However, I think she's retired now.
yeah, that's lame, but I also (just this morning even) had the opposite, where a thread includes like 20 replies and *everything* is there. So it takes forever to find the relevant text.
I try to blockquote the relevant text in my reply, and then lop off all the stuff that isn't relevant anymore.
Wow, that is strange.
Whoa, that's hella weird.
"No"
that's scary if it was coming from a boss lol
This actually happened.
FET
A few years back, we received a firm-wide e-mail from the top partner at our firm that started with. "It has come to my attention..."
ok... not good...
"...that the quality of the pizza we have been ordering has dropped as of late. I propose we start a weekly tasting of all the pizza places around [city our firm is located] and vote on the best pizza."
I hate that I want to end every email with "Best" or "Best Regards", stupid PR training
I just use Thanks. Maybe not the most professional.
I'm the same. for clients I know well, I'll often change it to Cheers
I'm a cheers-er.
I use a lot of 'let me know if you have any questions'
My penultimate sentence before closing is "Contact me with questions."
Most of my emails are about imparting information gained through research or institutional knowledge I have simply stored in my brain.
My signature in Outlook begins with "Regards,", then three returns, my name title, etc.
Pretty much the same for me, but I add the Regards manually.
No one reads past the 2nd line.
DBD Not Official Financial Advice
S&P 500 and Nasdaq are declining. If you dollar cost average, you'll pick up more shares, which is the silver lining.
these are also the scenarios where the robo-advisors can do well. some stocks are up, others are down. the robos can sell the declining stocks for a loss and replace with equivalents and lower overall capital gains.
i have the most familiarity w/ Wealthfront. above certain investment thresholds, they effectively create an SP 500 lookalike fund for you made of a couple hundred individual stocks.
DBD Test Kitchen
DBD AV Club
A few more eps into S2 of South Side. Not feeling it. They seem to be doing a bit what Mythic Quest did in S2, which is side stories. But I find it less interesting with SS.
that was funny! :-)
Taylor Sheridan’s Mayor of Kingstown on Paramount+ is damn good television...
Our Crumbling Democracy
The deeper one dives into Mark Meadows, the more one realizes that he may be the biggest traitor in US history.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/02/politics/mark-meadows-election-fraud-liaison/index.html
he's going to end up taking the fall because he was the coordinator / the one dumb enough to put things in writing. Of course it won't be much of a fall to take, because apparently we don't care enough to enforce laws around the integrity of the republic.
I agree 100% with this take, and it's why I'm prepping the offspring to be stateless in their future--be able to go where they need to, not tied to any particular country
Being stateless is almost impossible to achieve (and I think literally impossible if you start out American).
Derek Chauvin stops resisting
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/13/us/derek-chauvin-federal-plea-change/index.html
GA State Senate President Pro Tem has filed legislation to ban all voter drop boxes in Georgia.
https://www.ajc.com/politics/georgia-gop-senator-running-for-lt-governor-wants-to-ban-election-drop-boxes/YZ4SH27BNZFPVFDCNYOMSSKM7I/
Officials arrest 3 people from a Florida town for voter fraud because they voted twice. I'll give you three chances to guess who they voted for President.
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2021/12/13/3-residents-of-the-villages-arrested-for-casting-multiple-votes-in-2020-election/
The link gives it away. The Villages is a as close to a Trump retirement playground as anywhere. Drugs, prostitution, sex parties, etc.
Today in Omicron
800,000
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
I just read that Pfizer (2 shots) is only 36% effective against Omicron. Gotta get that 3rd booster folks. (Getting mine today, finally)
i bet this is subject to some accounting issues ..
- the 2 shot effectiveness is being measured several months after
- the 3 shot effectiveness is being measured right after getting boosted
most likely not matter how many boosters you have, there is some decay in effectiveness over time.
that being said, you should get your booster as it will give you more protection.
i am sure we will be getting 4th, 5th, 6th boosters as coronavirus times drag on indefinitely ...
it will be incorporated into the annual flu shot that is available every year.
36 NFL players tested positive for La Rona yesterday. One staffer tested positive, which was omicron variant
https://sports.yahoo.com/los-angeles-chargers-lineman-tackle-rashawn-slater-reserve-covid19-coronaviurs-list-chiefs-223723874.html
Schefty says more than 25 more expected today, and the Rams have had to close their facility and enter the intensive protocol. I might be kind of pissed if I were the Cardinals.
The NFL in general has been rather flippant towards Covid, so no one should be pointing fingers.
Wonder if Ashtyn Davis, Cameron Jordan, Stephen Anderson, Marvin Jones, Jaylinn Hawkins, Patrick Mekari, Jake Curran & Cam Bynum were among them? That would be interesting, and another indicator of the City of Berkeley’s reach on all things pandemic... ;-)
Sad that's how few we have in the NFL now
Uh oh
Indoor mask mandate back again
I have a lot of doubts that this will actually do any good. The core problem is that the regions that least need such a mandate (blue cities with high vaccination rates) are going to be the most likely to follow it. The regions that most need additional protections (rural red areas with low vax rates) won't enforce it.
Yep, I agree. I am tired of changing my lifestyle for people that have decided to not get vaccinated and won’t wear a mask.
Like Drago said in Rocky 4: “if he dies, he dies.”
Do you remember when Barry Tompkins used to do Cal games with Dan Belluomini during the Braun years? Still, he's better known for calling the Balboa/Drago fight in Russia....
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/9dbf972f-a285-489c-9aaa-def113ae1133
Hospitals should make a priority care list.
1. People vaccinated and children under 17 not vaccinated
2. Elective surgery
3. Non vaccinated people are last and only given care if beds are available.
I don't think I can agree with denying care to people because of poor personal choices. Where do you take that, in the end? Deprioritizing smokers? The obese?
people are already being denied care because of *others'* poor personal choices not to get vaccinated...
I have sympathy with this view, but I think it's not exactly analogous; refusing to get vaccinated isn't just a personal choice, it's also a social one. You're endangering others as well as yourself.
I wouldn’t implement something like this during “normal” times when beds and care are abundantly available, however, when healthcare systems are at capacity and you have to ration care they should implement a system.
9/11: 3,000 Americans killed, the conservatives happily signed away their right to privacy, certain freedoms. Covid: 800,000 Americans dead & counting. Conservatives: you can't tell me what to do. I have no sympathy. It's a plague. If you don't get the shot, you are moved down the list. Make it public knowledge, shout it far & wide. Everyone one will still have a choice.
That's because 9/11 the perceived target of the removal of freedoms was brown people., whereas for Covid the perceived target of the removal of freedoms was white people.
I agree with all of this and good point about 9/11.
I wish this could be implemented, but money talks in healthcare
It's been that way in LA since July
Santa Barbara too
So many companies pegged January as a return to office. Wonder how that plays out in reality. Open space particularly tough
i heard that some got hurt at home, sued for workers comp because they were "forced to work from home" and WON.
The large national financial institution that employees me is full steam ahead for January 10th. No mask mandates, no capacity limits, no vaccine mandate (except in those localities where laws demand them). Can't wait! 🖕
That's coincidentally the start date of the first full jury trial that I will have since Covid began.
open space is easy, everyone wears a mask all the time, and no in person meetings/cube chats. We've been having our weekly group meeting over teams for a year and a half, even though we all site no more than 15 feet apart.
the federal agency I support is going to slow their roll for the planned January return. Even before Omicron, I'd assumed that winter / school holiday spikes might put a crimp on those plans.
Pro
Take care of y'all bodies and y'all chicken
https://twitter.com/manscaped/status/1469389025572233220
sweet jeezus. he is darn funny, even with the sound off.
are you new to the internet?
Warriors SEGABABA
we (whole family) are going tonight. ticket prices only shot up after the game vs the Pacers ended last night.
nice SEGABABA!
I was thinking of you as Steph was missing shots that last few games. lucky you!
maybe you can sell yours and go to a bar and watch ;-)
You know things are bad under Urban Meyer when the NFL allows something that makes them look bad be written on its own website
https://www.nfl.com/news/tension-boiling-over-between-coach-urban-meyer-jaguars-players-staff
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The NCAA head coach who has won a National Championship and a Super Bowl is Jimmy Johnson. He won a National Championship with the U in '87 and two Super Bowls (XXVII, and XXVIII) with the Cowboys.
Doesn't Pete Carroll count as well?
Pete Carroll is one of those rare coaches who seems to have learned quite a bit from his failures, paving the way to success later in his career.
In reverse.
Cheaty Petey's first HC position was with the New York Jets ('94). He then was a DC with the 49ers ('95-'96) and then HC with the New England Patriots ('97-'99). His record in the NFL at that point was 2 games over .500 (33-31, .516).
He then found success with USC, winning 8 straight Pac-10 championships and two National Championships ('03 and '04), with a record of 97-19, .836.
Subsequent to the end of his college coaching career, Carroll was hired by Seattle where he has been the head coach for 12 seasons (incl. 2021). He has won 1 Super Bowl (XLVIII) and lost another (XLIX). The Seahawks have made the playoffs in 9 of the 11 complete seasons so far.
Barry Switzer won both.
What about Pete Carroll?
The NFL has a bad history with national championship college coaches who try to make the transition to the NFL. Off the top of my head Steve Spurrier is the example that most readily comes to mind. Spurrier had been a head coach at Duke ('87-'89) and Florida ('90-'01), playing for a National Championship in '95 and winning one in '96.
Spurrier spent 2 seasons with the WFT before giving up the idea that he could translate NCAA success into NFL success. He returned to college ball and coached 11 more years at South Carolina.
Let's also not forget Nick Saban. Saban had 2 years with the Miami Dolphins as their HC before bailing and returning to the college ranks at Alabama. Saban had won a National Championship at LSU in the 2004 Sugar Bowl (ending the 2003 season). He's won 6 other National Championships at Alabama ('09, '11, '12, '15, '17, and '20). His '21 Alabama team is in the playoffs...again.
Prior to the Dolphins stint, Saban had NFL experience with the Houston Oilers ('88-'89 as their DC) and Cleveland Browns ('91-'94 as their DC)
Signs point to Saban being a very good NFL coach (of the Bill Belichick mold) if he wanted to stay
But he didn't and his NFL record was middling at best.
Diamond Dallas Page recently got married. His wife's name is now Payge Page. Not quite as good as Lauren Lauren, but still...
https://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/2021/12/ddp-gets-married/
Payge Page is apparently a "retired adventure athlete"...huh?
Cris Collinsworth claims that up is down while defending Aaron Rodgers.
https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1470218361401491457
Collinsworth is a buffoon.
frustrating, as he used to be good as an analyst, but has gotten to far afield in recent years.
Feels like his actual gameplay analysis is still good, but he now also thinks he knows the players as people when he really doesn't.
IMO, he has surpassed Joe Buck for commentator buffoonery.
MNF ended for me when Collinsworth took over
SNF? Current MNF crew is perfectly cromulent.
Other College
Former Indiana pre-season hype-train Michael Penix (giggle) Jr transfers to UW Huskies
https://twitter.com/allasley/status/1470834145156816896?s=21
Wow, I didn’t see him going to UW.
really? He played for DeBoer when he was OC at Indiana
I forgot about that connection. Thanks for reminding me.
Notre Dame fans are not happy about the recently announced changes
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/notre-dame-restoration-modernization-plans-approved-1234613176/
I saw this and thought "they seemed pretty excited about the new coach, what's wrong now" and then realized that was the wrong Notre Dame
shit, you got me.
Nike with NIL support for Ducks football team
https://twitter.com/boardroom/status/1470520421653139463
Wazzu's Max Borghi declares for NFL draft
https://twitter.com/max_borghi/status/1470570774088015877?s=21
he was really fun to watch play, good luck to him
He's got New England Patriots written all over him
I think Shanahan and the Niners draft him.
Spencer Rattler transfers to USC
https://mobile.twitter.com/spencerrattler/status/1470575906947100676?s=21
Following in Ronnie ‘Sunshine’ Bass’ footsteps & playing for the ‘Gamecocks....
Shocking!