Message from @King Canuck
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Dunno who she was, or what the situation was with her and Wu, but RIP
OH, I remember now!
@meratrix Remember several days ago in Voice Chat when I went on a spree of showing fasces in US architecture, and you wanted to know if any of them were installed post-WWII?
I doubt lolcow wiki is super reliable
but according to it, Sagal developed *Homesick* from scratch, but was a manipulator and paranoid and all sorts of nuts
Oh well. Setting oneself on fire is a shit way to go, though, so Ripperoni
Social security alone is larger than the military budget
Wot
Then why is it doing jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack shit
The mandatory spending portion of the US budget alone is either about to be or already is larger than US federal income, at least as of a few years ago
Then why is America's healthcare ranked one of the worst
Because it's ranked by fucking socialists
Becuase it uses a stupid hybrid system
Additionally, healthcare in general is either a privatized or state-by-state system, aside from the abortion that is Obamacare and its replacement attempts
It would take some serious chaos for y'all to impliment what Canada has but at least what we have usually works and keeps us not-broke
That privatization is why the US excels at innovation in that field
even when I had a cyst removed a few years back I was covered for the lion's share of it
Hormonal anticonception was developed in Europe
Folks from Canada come down here for shorter wait times and, in more extremen cases, rarer/more experimental treatments
That's true.
So there is innovation in Europe
From my family doctor saying "yeah that's a cyst, sorry man" cause it was in a spot that made walking and sitting pretty fucking annoying, to getting it removed, was almost a year
But it was almost free
That's the trade-off in canadia
especially with this "right to try" law we're looking at
if not already have
This is the trade off
Experimental traetmets are expensive
Yeah, Canada and the US have this healthcare deal almost in place where our folks migrate over the border if they need something from the other system
So it wont get funding
Ye Ye
But yeah like, other surgeries i've had, esp emergency ones
When I was... Between 5 and 7 some fuck picked me up by the feet and swung me around for kicks and cracked my head open on a brick pillar.
My biggest objection to nationalized healthcare will always be the potential for political weaponization
Got staples and meds within an hour, pretty much free
ditto the time I fell on a set floor and simultaniously split my chin open and bit almost through my lower lip