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@kluurs said in Just my luck…(health update):

Yeah, I work out more than most people - at any age - and yet...I know I have to be much more careful. A good friend who works out 2-3 hours a day - missed a step and broke both legs when he stumbled down a single step.

I work out a fair bit, and hike a lot when I have the chance. Over the summer I was strolling down from Mary's Rock in the Shenandoah when I slightly hyperextended my right knee. Bam, pain. I hobbled down the rest of the way and was very sore and careful but it went away over the course of a week ... until, bam, a slight rotation and I felt it go again.
After about five episodes I sought some help from a sports med doc. It's the same knee that has a broken or minimally functioning ACL ... an injury from almost 20 years ago. She felt around, pushed, prodded, extended, shifted, ... no real pain. But with images she said I probably had a meniscus tear. So, I leave her office and later in the day, bam, it goes again! Karma.

I do not have a big problem, but just the idea that at any moment the damn thing can go again is a real problem. What do I do if I'm four miles into an eight mile hike in the wilderness? Well, I'll try some PT to strengthen the area, and she put me in a Donjoy soft brace to help out. Getting old is not for the faint of heart.

Passive voice FTW, as always.

Oi, the world doesn't make sense any more. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Rand Paul aren't spouting nonsense 100% of the time ...

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m5vws7zun72j

I'm sorry you're going through all of this.

I think Roseanne Roseannadanna had a line for this ...

"Well, Jane, it just goes to show you, it's always something — if it's not one thing, it's another."

Wondering why the buddy-taping thing was so problematic. That suggests some damage to the joint rather than just a simple break. But yeah, there isn't much they do for a broken pinky toe. Been there, done that.

And it is what makes all too many Republicans salivate and smile.

Why did I think this was going to be about the Titanic ...

I wish I could say that liberals are particularly blessed with the curiosity and persistence needed to watch (and process) a 35 minute argument, but ...

Long form takedown of Lindsay Halligan ...

https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/halligan-is-in-deep-trouble-in-the

@ShiroKuro said in Virtual staging:

The line between presenting possibilities ("look how nice it would be if you did this!") and deception is tricky, but this one is too close to deception IMO.

Yes indeed.

But I understand the appeal of virtual staging in a nice home whose furniture has been removed. Staging a home with real furniture adds thousands to the cost of selling your home while putting virtual furniture in place costs a few hundred.

Increase the supply of housing FTW.

... had a brain transplant, a soul transplant, or what. This is some road to Damascus moment.

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m5qwecmb222j

@jon-nyc said in GOP plan in Utah backfires:

Im wondering if, to the extend the Latino swing to Ds this year endures, if Texas might get bitten in the ass by their new gerrymander. That would be glorious.

I have seen speculation to that effect. In order to increase the number of red-leaning districts in Texas the GOP has had to split off some voters from red districts, making them only pink, in order to turn existing blue-leaning districts pink as well. In a wave election the GOP could lose both of 'em.

This NYTimes review is coming out on the 16th, but is up in pixel form now ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/arts/television/ken-burns-the-american-revolution-documentary.html?searchResultPosition=2

@jon-nyc said in Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown:

True that.

I still think it could be a political win for the Dems, when the premiums rise. (Putting policy aside, obviously)

Agree on both counts, but we're in the usual Democratic civil war territory again.

I've heard some rumblings that some of the 8 were taking the fall for many of the rest who wanted the shutdown over.

The difference here is that the side that held its caucus together (the GOP) was the side getting most of the blame for the shutdown.

Sen. Kaine has lost me going forward. If I'm still voting in Virginia when he comes up for reelection I will vote against him in any primary and will leave my ballot blank in a general election. Yes, even if I detest the Republican.

I said as much in my email to his office.

The article that WTG posted has an interesting graphic that allows you to see the magnitude of the vote shift between parties from the last gubernatorial election (2021) to this one. The blue shift is uniform across the state, even in ruby red rural areas. They stayed red, but the shift is large.

https://interactives.ap.org/election-results/customers/layouts/organization-layouts/published/49221/26649.html

Look who I ran into a few days ago ...

And Zohran wins a big Mamdate in NY.