Michael K. Bassham

Attorney, but not providing any legal advice on Twitter. Healthcare litigation and regulatory. Immersing myself in crypto.

[Michael K. Bassham @MichaelKBassham]

@Kohler Hey Kohler - I don’t appreciate your customer service person telling me they are sending me a new board for my DTV as an accommodation. I paid for a replacement. It didn’t work. You sent another one. It was the wrong one. Getting it right is not an “accommodation.”

[Michael K. Bassham @MichaelKBassham]

@StateFarm Why is your adjuster, and her supervisor, refusing to accept my call or call me back on my claim?

I’ve been with @statefarm all my life. My parents were with @statefarm before I was born. I’ve never been ignored by @statefarm until now.

[Sana Ebrahimi Ledene @SanaELedene]

As an Iranian watching this rescue mission unfold, I was praying the American pilot would make it out alive, not just for him, but so the Islamic Republic could not use him as a bargaining chip or claim some twisted “victory.”

At the same time, I felt a deep envy.

Your government sent elite special forces, million-dollar aircraft, and moved heaven and earth to bring one American home. No hesitation. No excuses.

In Iran, the regime uses human shields and recruited child soldiers to clear minefields during the Iran-Iraq war. They treat their own people like disposable tools. They are now recruiting child soldiers as we speak.

The Islamic Republic has zero regard for human life. That’s the brutal difference.

One side risks everything to save their own.
The other sacrifices their own to stay in power.

This hits hard when you have lived under both realities.

[Patrick Wilson @Orinocopat]

@MarkHalperin Our president speaks to the primitives in language they can understand.

[Michael K. Bassham @MichaelKBassham]

@FedEx is f’d up. I put down a vacation hold. They held the packages. When it was time to deliver, they couldn’t without the Apt number. That number was in the hold that STOPPED delivery. It’s a small building, 3 apartments, 1 exterior door. Only 1 place to leave them. Sigh.

[Michael K. Bassham @MichaelKBassham]

The volunteer moderators @craigslist mostly have the maturity of spoiled 12 yos. A question about why my ad was removed was met with mocking condescension and obscenity. They seem drunk with Craigslist power. @CEOlsonn

[Michael K. Bassham @MichaelKBassham]

@NESpower Cancel the football game or make them run the stadium off AA batteries.

[Michael K. Bassham @MichaelKBassham]

@Tennessean And yet the stadium remains lit and the game will go on at noon. Are they powering the stadium from AA batteries today or will it be subject to the same rolling blackouts?

[Michael K. Bassham @MichaelKBassham]

Over a year since the storm damaged my house - 3.25.2021 - and the house is finally repaired. Now to tackle some projects that have been waiting.

[Michael K. Bassham @MichaelKBassham]

@natealex I am a neighbor of yours. Sent you a DM. When you have a moment, please check and let me know how things look.

[Michael K. Bassham @MichaelKBassham]

@KevinMartelli Very cool.

[Michael K. Bassham @MichaelKBassham]

@RichardKeppler1 @DoombergT The question is irrelevant. Free speech is not limited to “acceptable” views. If it was, it wouldn’t be free speech. Sadly, our friends to the north do not enjoy the same protections for their speech as we do (or at least theoretically do).

[Michael K. Bassham @MichaelKBassham]

@belkin I wish your Wemo stuff worked. Ever sense the last firmware update, functionality has been intermittent. Sometimes the rules run. Sometimes they don’t. All are up to date. Wifi is strong.

[Michael K. Bassham @MichaelKBassham]

@GE_Appliances The really disappointing thing is that a @GE_Appliances employee screwed up to the detriment of a customer and @GE_Appliances won’t take responsibility for it and make things right. The 1st service guy should have informed dispatch this is a 2 person job. He didn’t. I’m screwed.

[Michael K. Bassham @MichaelKBassham]

@GE_Appliances GE sells me appliances I depend on. Too late I learn I can’t depend on @GE_Appliances. Three adults with no working washer sucks.

[Michael K. Bassham @MichaelKBassham]

@GE_Appliances That's just in case you missed the timeline.

[Michael K. Bassham @MichaelKBassham]

@GE_Appliances @GE_Appliances thoughtless customer service. GE washer broke 8/11. Scheduled appt for 8/19. @GE_Appliances moved to 8/21. Tech comes. Needs part. Orders. 8/23 FedEx says part to arrive 8/30.
@GE_Appliances sets appt 9/7. I move to 9/4. Tech comes. Needs helper. New appt 9/15.

[Michael K. Bassham @MichaelKBassham]

@GE_Appliances This is Comcast level of service. You should be embarrassed.

[Michael K. Bassham @MichaelKBassham]

@GE_Appliances What would help is someone coming to my house to repair my GE washer tomorrow.

[Michael K. Bassham @MichaelKBassham]

@GE_Appliances Your repair man should have told you this is a two man job. 36 days without a washer and you don’t care. Again, THIS IS YOUR FAULT!

[Michael K. Bassham @MichaelKBassham]

@GE_Appliances You should have set the return appointment when you knew the part would be here instead of waiting.