On average a person works 40 hours a week, but "round-the-clock in-home care" means 24x7=168 hours a week of dedicated labor, more than 4x of the typical 40-hour work week. IOW, it takes four people's labor to provide for one person's "round-the-clock in-home care." Of course it's expensive! At scale, few societies can ever afford this with human labor. It will be a long while before robots become advanced enough to be competent caregivers. May take longer still to transfer our consciousness into machines so we don't have to age in decrepit biological bodies. Interim solutions are centralization/statistical multiplexing like nursing homes and having most people dying quickly as to not need round-the-clock care for long once they started needing "round-the-clock care. Centralization/statistical multiplexing means giving up "in-home" care. The "die quickly" option also has its shortcomings. From a public policy perspective, support legal euthanasia to make the "die quickly" option more palatable, especially if you want such on option to preserve some dignity.

@Steve-Miller said in Heading home from Pittsburgh: @Mik No, just lunch at the train station. Our guide on the city tour told us that everyone there used to say y’unz but that switched to y’inz some time in the 80’s. I had never heard of y’unz. Or y’inz. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/yall-youuns-yinz-youse-how-regional-dialects-are-fixing-standard-english

Sad news. Big Al

"Putin is a scumbag, but I just happen to agree with him on most points and have happily been his useful idiot for lo these many years ..."

I think the opposition to the merger/takeover (however you might characterize it) is more politics than economics. The global steel industry has been subject of a lot of acquisitions, mergers, and sales. Ultimately, the largest threat to US steelmakers has been China, but the various tariffs on steel imposed by the Bush II, Trump, and Biden administrations have fended that off to a large degree, possibly at the expense of the consumers or the larger US economy. Locally in the Pittsburgh area, opposition does not seem as strong as some reports suggest, particularly among local US steelworkers who have legitimate concerns that the modernization of local US Steel plants could be jeopardized by rejection of Nippon's offer. The US steel industry saw some substantial takeovers by India's Mittal Steel earlier, but those were reversed when Mittal sold those holdings to Cleveland Cliffs, a US-based company. The major Russian steel company, Severstal, had significant US holdings in this century, but those were sold off as well. The world iron and steel trade is a very complicated marketplace, influenced not only by economics, but also politics and concerns of national interests and security. I think the name US Steel plays into reactions to the proposed merger because it sounds like a takeover of an industry, not a single company to people who know relatively little about it. Big Al

I took the "cross-grade" offer and is transitioning to Dorico. Just ran through a few of the demos that shipped with Dorico 5. So far so good. Dorico takes up even more (a lot more) disk space than Finale. If nothing else, at least Dorico is Apple silicon native -- something I suspect MakeMusic/Finale will not be able to do just because it doesn't look like MakeMusic can afford to invest enough to make the transition to Apple silicon. At some point I will also have to try to move some Garritan virtual instrument sounds/libraries that I have paid good money (to MakeMusic) for over to Dorico. MakeMusic says that will work, but we will see.

@Axtremus

That is fantastic! That is a parasail or parapente, not a parachute.

@wtg said in Jennifer Garner's house: https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/step-inside-jennifer-garners-cozy-california-home Love it, just too tidy ... I suppose they all "clean up" before letting the photographer take pictures, just a matter of "how much" each has to do before picture time. :man-shrugging:

Glad to hear Mrs Ron and Mr WTG are bother doing better! @wtg said in At the hospital: The big guys like IBJI and ATI seem to have their therapists working with multiple people at the same time. We didn’t think that was optimal. That’s how it was when I was doing PT for my plantar fasciitis, one PTist was taking care of several people, and each time you went, you might or might not have the same person. At the time I remember thinking if my problem were anything more serious, I wouldn’t like that set up, so I can’t imagine doing it like that after a TKR. Meanwhile, my superwoman neighbor had her knee done a week ago tomorrow and said she drove for the first time yesterday. That means she’s not taking any pain meds. This is her second TKR, and she said she didn’t take pain meds the first time around. She has amazing recuperative powers…. Wow!!

Is there an emoji for dismay?

sic transit gloria mundi It wasn't long after this that the Enron and Worldcom collapses took Authur Anderson down as well. Perhaps worse than fiddling while Rome burns is fiddling when the fire fizzles out. Big Al

I like those a lot!

bump for @DeweyLOU Any chance your husband knows this violinist?

@Piano-Dad said in Well, hurry up and let's open it!: and other booze Ah, I see you are familiar with the technical jargon associated with liquor production.