Linkee-poo, hey Lady!

"The day of the long-awaited coast-to-coast solar eclipse has arrived — and if history is any guide, it's likely that somebody's eyes are going to get hurt." Don't be one of those people.

In one day both Jerry Lewis and Dick Gregory, and the day before Brian Aldiss. Wow, 2017 is certainly trying to top 2016.

Florida monkeys around with people on Medicaid. Specifically children on Medicaid. Fuckers. Well, to be fair, Medicaid is very much like this all throughout the system. Patients are asked questions they really don't know exactly what is being asked, but because they're asked a question they feel they need to respond. And they make that's choice without knowing all the consequences of their answer. That doesn't mean they should lie, but say asking someone if they need in home care, etc may say no because someone is hoeing them temporarily. However, when they then say they now need in home care, Medicaid can say that they declined. Or because of the way Medicaid works it will now take 3 months or more to get someone or help. When if they had said yes, it would still have taken 3 months, but that's how long their friend was staying. (Grokked from Chuck Wendig)

"In the aftermath of the white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville, Va., many civil rights activists took to Twitter and shared photos of people who allegedly were at the march. The idea was to identify who they were and shame them. But identifying someone from a photo can be tricky — and the activists managed to make at least one mistake." Sometimes crowdsourcing isn't the best option. Now imagine when the various sides realize they can play disinformation campaigns against each other.

"As President Trump doubled down on his defense of Confederate statues and monuments this week, he overlooked an important fact noted by historians: The majority of the memorials seem to have been built with the intention not to honor fallen soldiers, but specifically to further ideals of white supremacy." It's time to remove them. Understand that these statues are different than the statuary in our National Battlefields. Those were actually erected to memorialize those who fought and died (for the most part). While some serve dual purposes, they are not there specifically to terrorize and impose a (discredited) world view.