mike carey

When you are typing your search terms in the search box, there is a drop-down menu at the right for what parts of the site to search. When I searched for 'giantboy' from this thread I initially left it on the default of 'This Topic' but they came up when I widened it to 'This Forum'. https://www.companyofmen.org/search/?q=giantboy&quick=1&type=forums_topic&nodes=82

There are two earlier threads about him, both with speculation and neutral to positive opinions on his ad, but no one reporting any meet-ups.

This thread is about the Natural History museum and there is a category difference between displaying indigenous artefacts in such a museum and displaying indigenous art in gallery. Displaying art is more likely to give indigenous people agency in a way that treating them as part of 'nature' does not.

Welcome to the forum! People here have a variety of opinions and yes, some if them might be disrespectful, but most will not. Take what you read with a grain of salt, but most of it will be well-meaning and supportive.

I agree, but doubt that it is in any danger of bankruptcy. If it were a stand-alone commercial aviation company I would be less confident but with its substantial military division far less so. Still, it's a big source of US exports and a big employer and both of those are intrinsically valuable to the economy, both of the whole country and the regions where it and its suppliers have their plants. Recent events have illustrated that maximising profits can be at the expense of long term value and Boeing management would do well to take that lesson on board. If they can. Building mutually beneficial relationships with suppliers (if it persists in out-soucing parts of its manufacturing process to unfortunately named companies like Spirit), its work force and its local communities and to governments rather than rent-seeking for short-term profit might be a useful business model, even if it has a utility rate of return. I read a critique of management practices in a different context that said company management is prone to manage in their own best interests rather than the best interests of shareholders or any other stakeholders. I wonder if that is a factor in Boeing.

*Counts number of times contacting Benjamin* *Gulp!* *I guess I haven't talked about rates, more often about fares*

Indeed not, but as the thread was started with the express purpose of discussing this particular alleged murder, talking about the general level of safety for short-term casual visitors to Rio de Janeiro would be off topic. (Except perhaps to comment on whether the death was relevant to the broader safety issue.)

Rather than continue this delicious tangent in the Deli and risk being called out for being off topic, I've started a thread on Sarma in the Cooking Forum here -

Although a Deli may be an appropriate place for food, the one here is reserved for other delectable morsels. Hence the food element of this Deli thread belongs elsewhere, and by 'elsewhere' I mean here in the Cooking Forum. I had not heard of the Serbian and Croatian dish Sarma, so I googled it. Turns out that it is one version of a whole family of similar dishes (it's a Turkish word for 'wrapped') that includes stuffed vine leaves. It seems that in parts of the Balkans both types, vine and cabbage, are used depending on the season. For your culinary pleasure: Sarma (food) - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

I'm wondering if Qantas is regretting ordering more B787s as well as the Project Sunrise A350s. They've gone all Airbus for their narrow-body replacements.

So, a prostrate prostate check?

I watch a left-leaning British politics podcast not known for its favourable attitude towards the monarchy or the king himself but it recently selected him as its hero of the week from its panelists' nominations for a hero and a villain. They noted that since his announcement there had been a marked increase in men seeking prostate tests. In case you were wondering, their villain of the week was not one of the usual roster of politicians but rather five African grey parrots who had been removed from their public-facing place at a zoo for excessive swearing. When they were moved, the other parrots they were placed with also learnt to swear. Zoo-keepers were planning to put them into a larger flock of birds in the hope they would alter their behaviour to be more like the others. What could possibly go wrong?

Mod's reminder Folks, this thread is about racism in health care delivery not the cost, general availability or choices in the US compared to elsewhere. Keep to the topic at hand.

At the risk of one of those tangents, I remember as a kid reading the Britannica Yearbook (yes, I was and am that sort of person) and seeing the Südtiroler Volkspartei as being represented in the Italian Parliament. South Tyrol was an Austrian province until it was annexed by Italy after WW1 and remains majority German-speaking.

I flew out to DC on Tuesday afternoon last year, and the PSP terminal wasn't crowded, there were places to sit that actually had access to a power point. Not a non-stop flight, but a simple connection (and access to the Alaska lounge) at SFO.

Well, the day I checked the timetable it's listed as a Max 9. And FWIW, $239 Saver, $289 Main Cabin, $2123 First (or 25K/125K AS miles + $6) one way, and it's an 11.45am JFK departure. It doesn't tempt me to change my flights!

(He's from the German speaking South Tyrol region of Italy.)

An epic final. Forza Italia!!

"That's the best tennis I've ever seen. Even Rod Laver is out of his seat cheering that 27 shot rally that Sinner just won." ABC radio commentary from the match in the seventh game of the final set.

Moderator's Note Gentlemen, a reminder that this topic is about racism in the delivery of healthcare. The OP didn't specify whether his question was about the US, but the interview and the book are specific to that country. It is not about access to the heath care system in general nor about the politics of health care in the US. Please stay on topic and steer clear of politics. And yes it is possible to discuss the issue that way.

No such luck, if I'd been anywhere today it would have been in Brisbane at the cricket where the West Indies narrowly won its first test match against Australia in this country since 1997. But alas, I've watched both the cricket and the tennis on the TV.

@BSR, in the crowd at the final of the AO just now, there was a sign, 'Sinner, Sinner, Carrot Dinner'!

Dr Blackstock has entered into a serious debate about the apparently entrenched attitudes of medical professionals towards people they don't see as being capable of making accurate assessments of their symptoms. It's not a new observation that doctors make that assumption about anyone who is not a middle to upper class straight white male, and that it's not necessarily a conscious bias on their part. The same issues have been raised in this country but mainly in relation to women, race not being as salient issue here as it is in the US. The rev-head wife of a mechanically illiterate man would recognise a similar experience if she were in the workshop or car show-room with him. As she notes it is a two-way issue with people starting to doubt their own ability to understand their bodies, and so their 'permission' to question the doctor. There is also the distrust of the medical profession to contend with, the Tuskegee syphilis experiments that she mentions being one of the more notorious sources of that distrust. There is a parallel type of distrust here among indigenous communities, of government officials from police to child welfare, because of their historical roles in the removals of, especially mixed race children from indigenous families during the stolen generation. Older women, now grandmothers are the among the elders in those communities and many of them were among the children who were removed, so the distrust is visceral. My take from the interview that it is mainly the attitudinal change she and others see as being needed in the medical profession that she is seeking to address, less so the suspicion level of patients. The issues affect the quality of health care that those subjected to them, women, POC and other minority and disadvantaged groups, are likely to receive. I also didn't get the impression that she was looking at casual racism in health care settings. They are likely to be no more or less prevalent there than in any other facets of life, and although they too can affect the quality of care, they are less likely to be systemic, and so less amenable to the systemic change she advocates.

Yes, the government pension (funded from the current government budget not prior individual contributions, and open to everyone but means tested on a sliding scale based on other income and on assets), is poverty level. I don't qualify for that. Mine is one funded by my lifetime pre-tax contributions, and employer contributions over my career. It started out as a military retirement scheme but was rolled into a fund that complied with the mandatory national superannuation scheme when it was implemented in the 90s.

I feel better off now in terms of available cash flow but that's entirely because I had not started to collect my pension at the start of the pandemic and was spending accrued savings. Since my pension was a lump sum in the pension fund (and would yield an incrementally higher fortnightly payment the longer I delayed starting to draw it down) my then-and-now comparison is an illusion. I have other tax-exposed investments and a tax-protected pension fund that I know are there but don't factor in to my day-to-day financial situation. In the last four years I haven't been spending all my pension income, and six months ago paid cash for a new[er] car, and have been travelling, including hotel rates I would have blanched at in the past (I'm looking at you, InnDulge) and paying to sit closer to the front of the aeroplane. Like @Luv2play my pension is CPI indexed, biannually in my case, and my house has increased in value but I'm not planning to sell it so its value is, for now, immaterial. So whether it's real, an illusion or just that I have settled into a new pattern, I feel better off now than I did in 2020.