Random Rants Q': I protest against subtitles

[Chicken Pizza]

As near as I can tell, there is a backlog because of Covid.

I will cross my fingers!

Is it possible for you to rent a Judge Dredd outfit? You could enter court saying "I Am The Law"!

 

[The_J]

A friend of mine got yesterday hospitalized with a heart attack. We always joked that he's "old", but right now he's 40, so actually not old.
His GF is with him, but they've had a hard time over the last year, so I'm now concerned about her too.
Damn :/.

(and related: blood clots might be caused by the corona virus...)

 

[Kyriakos]

A friend of mine got yesterday hospitalized with a heart attack. We always joked that he's "old", but right now he's 40, so actually not old.
His GF is with him, but they've had a hard time over the last year, so I'm now concerned about her too.
Damn :/.

(and related: blood clots might be caused by the corona virus...)

40 is old.
Like Dostoyevski wrote, it is almost a sign of having no manners, to wish to keep living past that age.

(I am 41, btw)

 

[Valka D'Ur]

40 is old.
Like Dostoyevski wrote, it is almost a sign of having no manners, to wish to keep living past that age.

(I am 41, btw)

Spring chicken. My 58th trip around the Sun will be completed 3 months from now. Maddy's 14th trip around the Sun will be completed 16 days after that. As cats reckon years in comparison to humans, she's already older than I am.

 

[The_J]

A friend of mine got yesterday hospitalized with a heart attack. We always joked that he's "old", but right now he's 40, so actually not old.
His GF is with him, but they've had a hard time over the last year, so I'm now concerned about her too.
Damn :/.

(and related: blood clots might be caused by the corona virus...)

40 is old.

Not old enough for a heart attack.


And I forgot: My mom fell and tore 2 ligaments and partially tore a tendon. And my nephew is in hospital again, which is... the 4th time this year, I think. High fever, ongoing infection, they're now testing everything, incl. leukemia. Let's see what the results say.

 

[Kyriakos]

I think that a considerable number of people have heart-attacks in their forties. Obviously due to high anxiety...

 

[EgonSpengler]

My employer informed me that someone filed an unemployment insurance claim with the state, under my name. I don't know if that necessarily means I'm fully victim to identity theft or this is an isolated event, but I guess I can't wait to find out. *groan* So I have to get a credit report, change all my passwords, ask my bank to suspend my credit cards and send me new ones, yadda, yadda, yadda.

Evidently, fraudulent unemployment claims have become rampant, because the state website has a big "report fraudulent claim" button right on their homepage, above the proverbial fold.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Not old enough for a heart attack.

Anyone can be old enough for a heart attack. Even children have had them (there are reports of kids participating in gym classes or sports practices and experiencing them).

An elite Russian pairs figure skater, Sergei Grinkov, experienced a heart attack while he and his partner (wife Ekaterina Gordeeyva) were rehearsing one of their programs. He died on the ice right there, if memory serves, leaving behind his wife and their three-year-old daughter. He wasn't even close to 40.

Or maybe the older SF fans here might have heard of author Cyril Kornbluth (short story author, mainly, but collaborated with Frederik Pohl on some novels). It had snowed quite a bit, Kornbluth had an appointment to get to, he shoveled his sidewalk, made his way to the train station, and died of a heart attack. He was 39. Dunno about his family, but he was respected among the community of SF authors, and had so much potential for some really great stories.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson signed his state's near-total abortion ban into law, which provides an exception only for procedures necessary to save the life of the mother. Notably, it does not provide exceptions for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest. The law effectively violates the US Supreme Court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade*, and is expected to be challenged before it even goes into effect.


* This is deliberate, fwiw, not a stumble. 'Pro-life' groups want to get this issue back to the Supreme Court while they have a conservative majority there.

 

[Chicken Pizza]

Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson signed his state's near-total abortion ban into law, which provides an exception only for procedures necessary to save the life of the mother. Notably, it does not provide exceptions for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest.

Very good. As soon as your pregnant, you're responsible for two lives, not just your own. Doesn't matter how it happened, the child isn't less worth.

If men got pregnant from intercourse, we'd probably hear "dude, you put your thing in there without protection, take responsibility for it". Shouldn't be any different for women.

 

[The_J]

You notice that Egon mentioned the cases where they're explictely NOT responsible, right ?

 

[Chicken Pizza]

You notice that Egon mentioned the cases where they're explictely NOT responsible, right ?

In those cases, somebody else made them responsible. If you find a lost child or elder in the mountains, don't you take care of him/her (with support of others) on the way to the police even if it's a nine month journey?

 

[EgonSpengler]

Very good. As soon as your pregnant, you're responsible for two lives, not just your own. Doesn't matter how it happened, the child isn't less worth.

If men got pregnant from intercourse, we'd probably hear "dude, you put your thing in there without protection, take responsibility for it". Shouldn't be any different for women.

I don't know if this is the thread for a full debate on this issue, and I don't want to put the mods on the spot. I'll just point out that the bolded part is not a settled issue, and is probably the first place where I'd disagree with you. Your analogy about the ethical questions upon finding a helpless person in the mountains (could add an injured person, I suppose?) is interesting, but again, I'm not sure this is the thread for that.

 

[The_J]

In those cases, somebody else made them responsible. If you find a lost child or elder in the mountains, don't you take care of him/her (with support of others) on the way to the police even if it's a nine month journey?

Not a good analogy, I think.
Would be better to say if e.g. someone chained themself to you against your will, and then demanded that you feed them.

 

[r16]

our fundamentalists , who would hate abortion with 100% American fundamentalist style , readily called for abortions during the war in Bosnia , when the rapists were Serbians .

 

[Sommerswerd]

Not old enough for a heart attack.

I can personally assure you that 40 is indeed plenty old enough for a heart attack, sadly

Another rant... Massachusetts is effing up the coronavirus vaccinations. Can't get appointments even when you meet the criteria. It sucks.

 

[EgonSpengler]

I can personally assure you that 40 is indeed plenty old enough for a heart attack, sadly

Another rant... Massachusetts is effing up the coronavirus vaccinations. Can't get appointments even when you meet the criteria. It sucks.

I'm in Phase III, so it doesn't matter to me yet, but a guy at work told me it was a pita getting his mom vaccinated.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Very good. As soon as your pregnant, you're responsible for two lives, not just your own. Doesn't matter how it happened, the child isn't less worth.

This is your opinion, not a universally-accepted fact. There are many reasons for not wanting to go through with pregnancy.

If men got pregnant from intercourse, we'd probably hear "dude, you put your thing in there without protection, take responsibility for it". Shouldn't be any different for women.

Men are told this anyway, even though they're not the ones carrying the fetus. Doesn't seem to help much, considering the sheer number of single mothers who would have preferred that the father had stuck around, or at least abided by court-ordered child support.

In those cases, somebody else made them responsible. If you find a lost child or elder in the mountains, don't you take care of him/her (with support of others) on the way to the police even if it's a nine month journey?

Not the same thing at all. Lost children or elderly people have already been born, and you don't have to do that again. Being born occurs once per person.

I don't know if this is the thread for a full debate on this issue, and I don't want to put the mods on the spot. I'll just point out that the bolded part is not a settled issue, and is probably the first place where I'd disagree with you. Your analogy about the ethical questions upon finding a helpless person in the mountains (could add an injured person, I suppose?) is interesting, but again, I'm not sure this is the thread for that.

A serial thread isn't the place. Given how contentious such threads have been in the past, I doubt the mods would love another one. As for the 'save a life' aspect... there's a similar thread over at TrekBBS, basically asking, "If you save a life, does that make you responsible for it?" It's an interesting thread that I've been curious as to how it would work here.

As for abortion... I'm thinking about a notorious former member who isn't here anymore... and his learned ( ) 16-year-old's opinion and vociferous insistence that ALL women who get an abortion should be executed. He didn't care what the reason might be. It was a black and white issue for him.

He finally shut up and backed off, at least on the "all" aspect and allowed that "maybe medical reasons might be okay" when I told him that hypothetically he could be advocating the execution of some woman who is a fellow CFC member, for medical reasons that might have killed her if the pregnancy had continued (note that I know of no one on this forum, then or now, to whom this might have applied, and have never asked, as it's absolutely nobody else's business). I told him my own medical reasons why I would have an abortion if I'd ever been pregnant (I've mentioned this elsewhere in OT, years ago, and was promptly condescended to and chastised for "depriving the world" of "somebody who could have been great")... would he have wanted me to be executed?

He thought it over, and softened his stance. Somewhat. I hope I helped him reach some greater understanding that kicked in before he reached voting age. We'll never know, of course, since he's been gone from here before that age, but one can hope.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Moderator Action: Let's not go down the abortion rabbit hole in this thread. Feel free to start up a new one if the previous ones are too out dated.

 

[Cutlass]

A friend of mine got yesterday hospitalized with a heart attack. We always joked that he's "old", but right now he's 40, so actually not old.
His GF is with him, but they've had a hard time over the last year, so I'm now concerned about her too.
Damn :/.

(and related: blood clots might be caused by the corona virus...)

Back a year or so after I got out of high school one of my classmates had a heart attack. Age 19. Big guy, heavy, but not exceptionally fat. High school athlete.