David Baer @david@arktos.social

Watching Miracle on 34th St. with my kid. How on earth did Fred Gailey convince a judge to sign a subpoena for the district attorney’s kid? Why is he not getting hauled before the state bar ethics committee?

He came down to earth from heaven
Who is God and Lord of all,
And his shelter was a stable,
And his cradle was a stall.
With the poor, oppressed, and lowly
Lived on earth our Savior holy.

https://youtu.be/Vdvj1-CMAo8

Søren Kierkegaard's parable "The King and the Maiden" reveals something about the Incarnation.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2018/12/07/advent-calendar-day-7-incarnation/

Spotted on our Christmas tree

This is a striking finding... 5.8% of young adults given opioid painkillers after having their wisdom teeth removed were addicted to opioids a year later, versus 0.4% who weren't given opioids.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/dental-painkillers-may-put-young-people-at-risk-of-opioid-addiction/2018/12/03/a3aa965a-f64e-11e8-8c9a-860ce2a8148f_story.html?utm_term=.d8485122b741

I had my wisdom teeth out a bit more than 20 years ago. The dental surgeon sent me home with Percocet and some kind of NSAID. I was a cautious kid, and I remember resolving not to take the Percocet unless the pain was completely intolerable with the NSAID alone. It wasn't.

On second thought, Google appears to feel free to clobber message headers if you do this. (For example, "format=flowed" disappears.) Going back to mutt's built-in smtp transport instead.

Mischief managed. Just POST the message to https://www.googleapis.com/upload/gmail/v1/users/me/messages/send?uploadType=media with these headers...

Authorization: Bearer <access token>
Content-Type: message/rfc822
Content-Length: <message size>

... and you're good to go.

Now to figure out how to send... I usually use msmtp, but I know I've got some python code to send email using Google's API lying around somewhere.

Very excited to be able to use #mutt for my gmail-based work email! (Our admin had disabled "less secure apps," so I needed oauthbearer authentication to be able to use mutt for IMAP access.)

I need Zoom conferencing for my second job. I'm installing #debian on a USB stick, and it's taking agonizingly long. Of course, the chances that stuff will "just work" are fairly good. And it's probably just as well I'm not using one of those distros where you end up having to read a dozen wiki pages just to remember how to partition your system and install the bootloader manually.

We are doing a great job preparing the next generation of subjects for the surveillance state.

My youngest child informed me that his preschool teacher told the class that Santa was watching them through the classroom CCTV system. 😧

"Although meant to unify people, the 19th-century campaign to make Thanksgiving a permanent holiday was seen by prominent Southerners as a culture war."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/thanksgiving-pumpkin-pie-culture-war

Time to make the cranberry sauce!

The most enraging detail in this piece is that the website where Arkansas Medicaid recipients are required MONTHLY to report their work hours, lest they lose their health coverage, goes down EVERY DAY from 9 pm to 7 am "for scheduled maintenance."

No website could possibly require this much care and feeding. Moreover, Arkansas is not going to pay state workers this much overtime to do it.

They're just trying to trip up poor people to cancel their coverage.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/opinions/arkansas-says-it-wants-to-help-the-poor-its-hurting-them-instead/2018/11/19/8e61f0a2-ec3c-11e8-96d4-0d23f2aaad09_story.html?__twitter_impression=true

Oh that's just super...