beam semens around the world

Ya, sad he’s gone but not super tragic given his age and health. His popular level writings were always full of humor and down to earth common sense style thinking. Proper care for someone with dementia, I imagine, is pretty expensive, and just Medicare probably sucks for it. Makes way more sense for his family to sell it and pay for his care than keep it just to look at.

my dad is going into a medium-level spot for like 7 grand a month.. the medicare places were not nearly as nice and most really looked like hospitals.

https://twitter.com/mmasnick/status/1047959721615876096

These people could not run a hot dog stand.

Does Medicare pay some of that? My Dad's life savings would last about 3 months at that rate.

you can get medicare/caid to pay for it, definitely. it depends on the income level of the person going into the home and the community spouse. the community spouse is allowed to have 120k or so in assets(not including house and 1 car) and up to 4k a month from their own income source. anything other than that needs to be hidden away in non-liquid medicaid qualified income streams, like trusts and medacaid qualified annuities.

there are ways you can "spend down" to the amount that will qualify the person for medicare to pay for all of it. so like my mother could buy a bigger house and get down to 120k in liquid and get medicare to pay for my dads care.

in my parents situation it just didnt make sense since my dad has a good pension and social security still coming to him in the neighborhood of 5k or so combined a month, which in no situation can my mom keep if he goes to medicare.

so my mother is choosing to put him in a private pay place that is closer to her and that she has heard good things about and they dont have a medicare bed available right now anyway(i think the gov't requires every place to have a couple of medicare beds). so she's paying something like 1.5k a month or so out of pocket.

eta- disclaimer i am in no way an elder/medicare specialist, this is just me, a criminal attorney, trying to decipher medicare/caid rules in a state im not even licensed to practice in..

Yeah I'm sure it gets complicated with actual money. My Dad is single and like I said I'm guessing has $20-$30k to his name with no assets.

I know it's at least $13k because he loaned me that to make a downpayment on my place - and because he was too terrified to put it in the market. I gave him 10% interest compounded annually. Good deal for him.

My mom will hopefully have my stepdad who's a bit younger and in pretty good health.

It looks like they’re having this inside the gymnasium from “Hoosiers”

So bears are doing sumo now.

Not all facilities take Medicaid, and the ones that don't tend to be a lot nicer than the ones that do. We had to make some tough decisions placing my father with trade offs between his quality of life, his life expectancy, where we expect him to be cognitively when the money runs out, and how broke my stepmother is going to be for the rest of her life.

Oh, and just this week the VA made it more difficult for veterans to qualify for long-term care benefits. Yay America. I love this country so ****ing much.

If it's the Chautuqua in Boulder that's pretty close. All the buildings are old, think hunting lodge or church basement type buildings.

Musk is dropping Ambien again:

He is a known drug user.

That Elon Bachman guy doesn't understand what short selling is.

And people say there's no God.

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1048075571304046592?s=19

A little nuts is so much better than tightly controlled CEOs who are agressively uninteresting to mask thier mediocrity.


https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/...694696966?s=19

https://twitter.com/mandydennison/st...829883905?s=19

So maybe Bart O'Kavenaugh was right after all about the boofing thing.

You should be putting weed up your anus instead of smoking it, doctors advise

awww

White progressive parents and the conundrum of privilege

Interesting op-ed talking to parents who believe in social justice, but generally:

The author says kids seem to absorb their view of society based on the choices their parents make more than what their parents tell them:

It's political advertising time around the country, and here's a taste of California's. Prop 10, to repeal a state law that bans local governments from instituting rent control:



"Prop 10 has no protection for renters, veterans, or seniors. Not one."

Protection from...rent control? And renters (???), veterans, and seniors need...special protection? From rent control? What in the **** are you talking about, dude?

All of this **** is just throwing words at the screen they think will scare people with zero regard for the underlying facts.

This **** does work. I remember when i was a kid taking the muni bus to school in SF and an adult rider saw a sign attached to a light pole that simply said "No on Prop XXX, It will raise your rent" and he commented that he needed to remember that one and wrote it down in a notebook in his pocket. It shook me enough that I remember it pretty clearly 30 years later.

I've been reasonably surprised at how well the masses of California have voted, generally, in recent elections. Examples include passing the Jerry Brown tax increase and some criminal justice reform (softening the three strikes law, reclassifying some felonies to misdemeanors). There are certain areas like taxes and crime where the ads against doing the right thing write themselves ("Jerry Brown wants to take your money! dangerous criminals roaming your streets!") and voters saw through it. But yeah, stuff like this has to make a difference.

On the flip side, there's been 2-3 death penalty votes in the last few elections and we get it wrong every single time.

Your death row is slower than Dominic's pony; the inmates have literally had to resort to killing themselves https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...emned-prisoner

We've got kalo plants, squash plants, cilantro, lemon basil, some sweet pepper. Just planted our first pineapple plant. We've got a few potatoes, some sweet potatoes, and the strawberries are coming out, they're looking amazing. We've got broccoli and onion, some cilantro, and we're working on papaya and langan plants. Looking like a good harvest next year. Maybe I'll take some pics for you guys this weekend if I'm feeling generous.