Albert is in a car accident. Albert might die. Albert has an advance directive that states his doctors must not be vaccinated for COVID-19, must advocate for the horse dewormer Invermectin (sp?) as a treatment for COVID-19, and all medical treatment options must go through Mehmet Oz’s team first. Let’s say Albert’s family agrees.
How does that play out?
In another scenario, Albert sets up tests to ensure such a doctor as described above does not treat him while he’s out of it. Let’s say Albert’s family agrees.
How does that play out?
What happens if the directive and the family don’t agree?
What happens if the directive and the family agree but the assigned doctor doesn’t?
To be clear about me, my organs should be donated. I want all of my health care staff fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and everything else appropriate for where I’m getting treatment. No celebrities should be involved in my case. All of my medication must have scientific backing for use in people and none of it should include horse de-wormers.
If my organs become tainted because someone deviated from my wishes I will terror haunt them brutally until they have no choice but to shuffle off their mortal coil. And then I will hire a demon to haunt them in purgatory because I’ll be that pissed off.
I’ll find a lawyer to put that into actionable language.
There’s a new Batman movie, creatively called The Batman. It’s yet another new take on, you guessed it, the Batman. I’ve little interest in seeing it, I’m not into reboots (or re-imaginings or whatever) in general, and I’m 100% sure my SO will watch it with me.
Let me explain that last bit: she will watch it, I will be cozied up with her, and the odds are good that I will fall asleep. Somewhat famously in my circles, I can sleep through almost any superhero movie no matter the venue and volume.
Once I slept through Christopher Nolan’s first Batman movie in an iMax. My extended family piled into one tiny living room to watch that Marvel Endgame movie. I was asleep and snoring in 30 minutes. I’ve tried watching both again with the same result.
Anyway, the Batman movies remind me of the Spider-Man movies in that they are seeming always rebooting/retelling the same story. Batman’s nemeses also see constant rebooting with meh results.
Let me be clear: many people I love and respect love these films. You may also love these films. I am happy for all y’all.
Excuse me as I don this old timey sleeping cap and cozy flannels.
Why hasn’t the United States adopted the metric system for widespread use? I’ve generally thought there were two reasons. One is that with the enormous US internal market, there was less incentive to follow international measurement standards. The other was that the US has long had a brash and rebellious streak, a “you’re not the boss of me” vibe, which means that there will inevitably be pushback againstsome external measurement system invented by a French guy and run an international committee based in a Paris suburb.
However, Stephen Mihm makes a persuasive case that my internal monologue about the metric system is wrong, or at least seriously incomplete, in “Inching toward Modernity: Industrial Standards and the Fate of the Metric System in the United States” (Business History Review, Spring 2022, pp. 47-76, needs a library subscription to access). Mihm focuses on the early battles over US adoption of the metric system, waged in the 19th and early 20th century. He makes the case that the metric system was in fact blocked by university-trained engineers and management, with the support of big manufacturing firms.
This is not a battle for today. At some point the US and the other outliers will embrace the metric system. I drive friend, family, and SO crazy with my adherence to matrix measurements (and 24-hour clocks) where I can.
YMMV
We can’t have nice things anymore, especially in architecture.
