Cards.....a big mistake!

   Today Republic Trash Company delivered our new Trash Containers.  We can now try to contact the Cards Trash Company and suggest that they pick up their containers.  Probably they wont accomplish the pickup.  Indeed, this Trash Service, which is relatively new to Branson is amazing.....in a bad way.  It must require significant capital to run a Trash Company, and we imagined that, when we signed up for a modest monthly savings, they would do what all Trash Companies do....namely pick up the trash and ratationally account for their customer's payments. Cards did neither, at the most astounding fail rate of any Service Provider we can remember.  At least Republic was kind enough to allow us "bargin hunters" to come back.

    During this election season when we are all focused on leadership, we're divided as to red or blue, but everyone in Branson must now now that.....IT'S NOT IN THE CARDS!

....all with broad public support!

   "The President's popularity has come in spite—or perhaps because—of his defiance of constitutional, political, and legal constraints. Since 2022, he has ruled under emergency powers that suspend key civil liberties, including due process. His security regime can make arrests without warrants, including of minors as young as 12, and hauls hundreds of suspects into mass trials. One in every 57 Salvadorans is now incarcerated—triple the rate of the U.S. and the highest in the world. Bukele’s allies have fired top judges and packed the courts with loyalists, allowing him to dodge a constitutional prohibition to run successfully for a second term—all with broad public support."

     President Nayib Bukele’, that is; El Salvador's way cool leader, code named "mano dura", aka "iron Fist".  Seemingly for 6.6 million "normies" living in El Salvador it has been a salvation experience. For the 200,000 "non-normies" reading about the "land of surf, volcanoes, and coffee" from their jail cells, well, not so much.

     Hey world, step right up and take your chance. A .0125% risk seems like a "no-brainer". 

Convergence.....at least in my imagination

What is common about Stephen Wolfram's "Ruliad", Computational Irreducibility, Peter Singer's evolving views regarding Philosophical Objectivism and Moral Source, and the Current Best Guesses at WTF is happening inside LLMs.

A Quickie for the... smfs

Meritocracy is the Vanguard for Domination

Branson's "Trolley Car" Dilemma

     For a hundred years, Moral Philosophers have used the Trolley Car Story to illustrate the "Right vs. Wrong" implications of one of life's thorniest problem....."Do the Good of the Many, Outweigh the Good of the Few".  All of us see it, face it, choose it, and cry over it, every single day.  This "hard choice" is not just a personal dilemma, it is embedded in the dynamics of families, cities, states and nations.  Often we speak obliquely about our alignments with these morallly burdened situations.  We speak utilitarian, or melencoly or with feigned obliviousness.  But we know! 

     That having been said, shine a light on Branson, Mo., the Ozark's wildly successful small city "funplex", that just happens to have nine milion visitors and a tax base seven times that of size comparable cities.  Cool place if your one of the nine million visitors, or one of the counties 60,000 "Well" residents..........but not so much if you are a resident that is  "mentally ill".  

     If you live in Taney County and find yourself, or a family member/friend, in a state of disassociation, irrationalness and self endangerment, where do you go for help? Sometimes there is safety and recovery in the family structure, the church structure, the "appointment based/for-profit"counseling community,  the tax based EMTs, the police, and finally, the 60,000 citizens believe,....THE HOSPITAL.  

     But, as Dr. Phil asks: "How's that working for you?"  The sad reply is "not very damn well".  Why?  Well my personal assessment is that Cox Hospital, Branson's "single provider", technically non-profit, Hospital has policy implemented the "save the many" Trolley Care Option", thereby successfully saving we the 60,000 Wells,  from the burdensome financial cost of providing "full service mental crisis care".  Is this harsh choice really necessary? Who, or whom, is this policy saving?  Are we the 60,000 Wells really going over a financial cliff if we choose "better angels services" instead of "bottom line mandated services"

     Quite frankly, I don't remember voting on whether we, the 60,000 Branson Wells, want to pay for sensible mental health services, or whether we are satisfied that ...."it's not likely to be me on the Trolley Care and so I'll be okay with Cox Hospital ER just validating the stable vitals for the mentally ill and then sending "them" out the door in an Uber with three telephone numbers to call on Monday.