http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-me-pol-berkeley-la-times-poll-20181004-story.html
«But if the tide ebbs only slightly, the GOP could emerge with much of its control intact.»
Welp… cheap Chinese hardware for the win.
I wonder if they’ve infiltrated compilers, too.
Tin-foil-hat time.
«With Democrats already up fired up for this election, the Kavanaugh confirmation fight has apparently had the effect of rousing a dormant GOP base.
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“The Republicans’ approach has been, and continues to be, all about the base,” Miringoff said. “This is their M.O., and that’s what we’re seeing. That works if turnout is not high.”»
https://twitter.com/_justinlevitt_/status/1047543133657939968
Seriously, kids? Just gonna let the adults pick the country’s leadership, eh?
«Certain to vote in ’18, based on late-Sept. Gallup poll:
65+ 82%
50-64 69%
30-49 55%
18-29 26% <—– »
Wow.
«I think it’s crazy that Republicans are opposed to all gun control when we have such a rampant problem with gun violence. But I just never tackled it. Or when Republicans deny climate change, which is a scientific fact, I didn’t deal with it. I just stayed in my lane, foreign policy and national security policy, and ignored the craziness all around me. I went with the tribe. I took the path of least resistance, and now it’s making me realize, no, I’ve got to think for myself, and that’s something very few people do, because being part of one of these political tribes, as much as anything, is a substitute for thought.
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I respect some of my friends trying to work on reforming the Republican Party, but at least for the time being, I think it’s a lost cause. So my hope is that the Republican Party will suffer massive and repeated drubbings at the ballot box. [“Repeated.” Not just one election or two, but “repeated”. — John L.] That’s why I urge everybody to vote straight-ticket Democratic even though I have a lot of disagreements with Democrats. I’m not a Democrat; I’m an independent. But for the health of our republic, I think we need to destroy the Republican Party.
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we’ve had over 200 years of democratic tradition, and we do have pretty strong institutions. But we’re not as different from the rest of the world as I had previously thought, and so I’m no longer as optimistic about America [as he was when he came here in 1976 from the Soviet Union — John L.].
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Every election people say there’s a lot at stake, but this time I really think that’s true.»
Source: https://undark.org/republishing-guidelines/
Wow. Journalism is getting WEIRD.
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https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1047293759535415297?s=17
I’m really struck by how thoroughly the Republican Party is now identified with the worst humanity has to offer. It’s almost a reflexive reaction by now to feel the party represents the worst.
Nobody questions it, they just make excuses. “Yeah, but the trains run on time now.” “Yeah, but the economy’s doing great.” “Yeah, but you have to admit immigration IS a problem.” “Yeah, but what about the Clintons?” “Yeah, but we’ve been winning elections so far.”
«The party that chanted “lock her up!” over lax email protocols is now busy shrugging off allegations of sexual assault, repeated acts of perjury, and decades of tax evasion and fraud.
That’s the self-styled “law and order” party, of course.»
Via retweet by @MuslimMarine
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/02/651439266/married-women-may-be-moving-away-from-the-gop
«Jouppi says voting Democratic probably costs her more money, given her husband’s income, but she’s willing to pay more taxes if it means she isn’t sacrificing her moral values.»
Source: https://undark.org/article/medical-records-fragmentation-health-care/
«There was the oncologist who needed the biopsy results for one of her new cancer patients. The biopsies had been done long ago, at another hospital, and the patient couldn’t remember who had done them or what they showed. So the oncologist cold-called all the physicians in the department; when none of them knew the patient, she asked for the names of all the recently retired doctors and called them, too, until she got what she needed.
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More recent studies suggested this number was too low, raising it to more than 400,000 deaths per year. If they were a disease, medical errors would now rank as the third leading cause of death in the United States, a 2016 analysis published in The BMJ found, right behind heart disease and cancer.
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The Joint Commission, a large accreditor of health-care organizations with a focus on patient safety, studied transitions of care and concluded that they are largely ineffective, leading to adverse events, hospital readmissions, and soaring costs.
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The advice usually amounts to this: When the system fails you, be more careful. Work harder.
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We can cold-call retired physicians from distant hospitals and we can print rhythm strips to stuff in wallets. Something relevant will eventually go missing. Maybe not this time, and maybe not the next. But as an aggregate, this can’t be counted on as a backbone system of safety. It’s also a waste of resources to rewrite a new chart every time a patient enters a new building. I’ve seen doctors go above and beyond in every possible way and yet I’ve seen how hard it is to always get it right. It’s as engineer W. Edwards Deming said: “A bad system will beat a good person every time.”»
Meta: Holy cow, I thought I was posting a link from The Atlantic, but somehow it got transmogrified into this Undark link. Looks like the same article, so… how did this happen?
Let’s see how well this works out.
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