Whoops, this sent before I was ready… my mother, in the wheelchair… Unmoving… Listen to the guitar being played, and the young man singing. I suggested he sing patriotic songs, because my mother loved them… she loves singing… and to my delight, it was such a blessing when the Hospice social worker tipped her phone down to my mother‘s feet, and I was able to see her toes vaguely tapping to the beat of the music. A tambourine was given to her to tap on with the stick, if she wanted to keep beat… And she leaned over with it and tried to put it on her foot like a shoe.
Amy, thank you for sharing about your mom and her love for music. My mother died at short of 96 years old with full dementia. I had hospice involved and got the social worker to bring in a young man with a guitar to play music from my mother. My mothers parents came from Lithuania and my mother was raised very patriotic. I got on FaceTime with the social worker when my mother was with the musician… And got to watch her sitting in her wheelchair, unmoving.
Hey folks, a shameless plug here—flame me if that is not allowed, I’m newish here—but this bit of history unearthed reporting for a PRX Monumental episode is important and bears on our circumstances today: https://jmattpunchingup.substack.com/p/blood-and-guts-pattons-plan-to-take I’m the newsletter writer, and the lead reporter and narrator on the PRX episode this essay refers to. Thanks!
I’ve been seeing a lot of excitement about this Wordy Bird business
EV cars emit huge AC magnetic fields, shown to be carcinogenic:
https://romanshapoval.substack.com/p/acmagnetic
Hello! Thanks so much for the mention 😊 . Recent On the Side | Cauliflower post also a good place to start https://open.substack.com/pub/rocketandsquash/p/on-the-side-cauliflower?r=4z5xg&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Many thanks again for the mention. 👍
Waymo and Women drivers. Separated at birth?
(Ducks for cover)
This was a great read. Hope you guys enjoy
https://open.substack.com/pub/stirthepot/p/cant-spell-consumers-wo-con?r=rwjxd&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Loved Shalom’s note. It had everything in such a short piece which really showed their skill as a writer.
Oh baby!
Very interesting!
Indeed… singing into the empty spaces🙏
Whoops, this sent before I was ready… my mother, in the wheelchair… Unmoving… Listen to the guitar being played, and the young man singing. I suggested he sing patriotic songs, because my mother loved them… she loves singing… and to my delight, it was such a blessing when the Hospice social worker tipped her phone down to my mother‘s feet, and I was able to see her toes vaguely tapping to the beat of the music. A tambourine was given to her to tap on with the stick, if she wanted to keep beat… And she leaned over with it and tried to put it on her foot like a shoe.
Amy, thank you for sharing about your mom and her love for music. My mother died at short of 96 years old with full dementia. I had hospice involved and got the social worker to bring in a young man with a guitar to play music from my mother. My mothers parents came from Lithuania and my mother was raised very patriotic. I got on FaceTime with the social worker when my mother was with the musician… And got to watch her sitting in her wheelchair, unmoving.
I mean, Andy McNab launching a Substack was the most shocking thing I read today. But I love it!
Good educational text
Hey folks, a shameless plug here—flame me if that is not allowed, I’m newish here—but this bit of history unearthed reporting for a PRX Monumental episode is important and bears on our circumstances today: https://jmattpunchingup.substack.com/p/blood-and-guts-pattons-plan-to-take I’m the newsletter writer, and the lead reporter and narrator on the PRX episode this essay refers to. Thanks!
I’ve been using Waymos for several weeks now:
The good:
They don’t cancel on you.
The car accelerates an order of magnitude more smoothly than poor Uber drivers in an electric.
They are safely aggressive.
I feel dramatically more safe than in an average Uber.
Narrow lanes do not slow it down - it stays surprisingly close to cars on the right.
It clearly senses the presence of people, cars, scooters, and other objects, with 360-degree scanning quite up above the car, better than I could.
They don’t cancel on you.
The bad:
I live on a dead-end street high above the city in a cellphone black hole. That may be the reason it will not stop in front of my house.
The back windows are tinted black.
Every Waymo has the same crappy music setup.
It doesn’t seem to use windshield wipers.
They take really long to summon.
The steering wheel rotating is annoying, must it be coupled?
I’m not sure why the author felt people aren’t ready.
Aside from some cosmetics, and navigating my street, it was a textbook perfect driving experience.
Gets you where you want quickly and safely.
They are much further along than I was aware of.
The fire was if I recall on Chinese New Year, navigating that area was likely not wise.