horizon's silver
glimmer between the storm clouds
galumph towards Spring
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#vss365 - #galumph
#VssPoem - #inability
#DailyHaikuPrompt - glimmer
#WritingCommunity #poetry #haiku
horizon's silver
glimmer between the storm clouds
galumph towards Spring
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#vss365 - #galumph
#VssPoem - #inability
#DailyHaikuPrompt - glimmer
#WritingCommunity #poetry #haiku
"The ultimate goal of #terrorist movements is to expose the #inability of #governments to #protect their #societies, thus to compel concessions to the terrorists' causes. Where that end cannot be achieved because either the government is too powerful or the cause is too impossible, a steady diet of #pain and #suffering for the #TargetCountry becomes the terrorists' surrogate goal."
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*Me, my Mom & my youngest brother are some of the many thousands of patients in #BritishColumbia who have been on the #WaitingList for a new family #doctor since our previous GPs retired.*
When the province introduced its #HealthConnectRegistry in 2021, we were told this would help #patients to find a #FamilyPhysician.
About 900,000 #BritishColumbians have no doctor, and while the #Health Ministry continues to announce the recruitment of new #physicians, that number has remained fairly constant for years.
Yet the #inability of the Registry to make meaningful progress is only one of its failings.
More troubling is that the Registry makes no attempt to place patients based on their age or #medical condition. This conflicts with one of the basic principles underlying medical practice, that faced with an inability to treat everyone who needs help, those with the most pressing requirements should come first.
A quotation from Bierce, Ambrose:
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AGE, n. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we have no longer the enterprise to commit.
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/bierce-ambrose/65585/
I've heard the suggestion that Facebook is great if you're interested in people, and Twitter is great if you're interested in ideas. That was certainly the reason that I favoured Twitter!
#My #worry #about #Mastodon #is #quite #foundational—#its #apparent #inability #to #search #for #terms #that #aren't #hashtagged. #This #makes #it #much #less #effective #as #a #way #to #see #who's #talking #about #a #particular #aspect #of #a #topic.
Unless you write like that, of course!