This feels like ByteDance going out of their way to paint the outgoing president and party as truly awful and give the victory to Trump in a week

God damn it.

I just want to point out that the attempt to compare medical costs in a direct comparison in US dollars isn’t exactly easy as it does ignore purchasing power and base wages.

The point would probably be better made with hours of labor at a base pay to pay off treatment which I do think American healthcare would probably still lose quite handedly.

Yeah as an American that lives in a rural area, I started working at the age of 8 doing small jobs like penny saver delivery to help pay for groceries since my mom was wasting child support on booze and drugs.
By 14 I was an assistant chef at a restaurant because I started as a dishwasher the year before and the other chefs quit or had a heart attack (miss you Bob). And I worked until 1am basically doing clean up and still had to go to school.

If no one around you is caring about the rules and life of others, big federal/state rules are easily ignored, even in America.

I will say I don’t get quite the logic of being like:

“Yeah this countries spyware is bad so I’m running straight into the arms of this other countries spyware just to stick it to you original spyware!”

Instead of just, like, getting off the spyware.

It’s like being robbed and pulling out a gun to shoot yourself before the robber can and throwing your wallet into a street.
Sure it spites the robber but they can just shrug and move on to a weirdo who isn’t shooting themselves and they will probably just loot your pockets for spare change anyways.
Maybe I don’t feel that drive to be social at all costs.

So a light rail train is a surface ground public transport system similar to a tram, it moves around on street level and can be quite fast but is usually plastic on the exterior and lighter and slower than a typical train.

So anyways, one time as I am walking down the sidewalk in college my hat blows right off my head, without thinking much of it I sprint off after it hoping to catch it before it ends up in the street.
I manage to catch right before I’m in the actual road, but apparently still right on the tracks for the light rail that had right of way through the intersection.

I am still bent over grabbing my hat as I look over my shoulder to see the train hitting me.
I bounced off the front of that train probably a good 10 feet, skid across the ground for the last bit but immediately jump up slap the hat back on my head and stare at the driver of the light rail just long enough for us both to realize I am still on the tracks. I don’t know what they were ever going to say as I just held my hand down on my hat to stop it blowing away and sprinted as fast as I could away.

I have been hit by nearly every mode of transportation but that one always makes me giggle compared to the trains, buses, cars or boats.

Last I checked school teachers didn’t make medical diagnoses

Then you are not paying attention to the American school system. Qualified to? Oh most certainly not, but doing it anyway. Heck my 5 year old sister is being diagnosed with just about everything the teachers can offer to the point that there is now a discussion on what tranquilizer to prescribe her without yet talking to a doctor.

We are fucked. Let’s at least call out the guy that clearly has an IQ from drug abuse to be qualified as retarded so and you can get upset at my slur of calling him a man-child instead.

That’s a medical diagnosis and a slur and also fitting. It’s hard to treat the retarded man child unless we first accept that he is one.

Just like birds are born with wings but it does not make them able to fly, humans have the capacity for empathy but it doesn’t mean it’s complete from birth.

Things need to be cultivated and let grow.
No one and nothing starts at complete. And this is something that we as a society need to learn again.

I’m glad you found space to grow.

There is only 3 uses of the word there actually. The location, the animal, and the act of bullying or pushing others.

So it’s locational buffalo are also bullying Buffalo buffaloes who happen to also bully Buffalo buffalo beneath them.

Oh yeah they do. Have you heard:
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

Some days you are strong enough to carry it. Others it’s all you can do to just keep dragging it forward to not stop moving.
It’s an aspect of you that may never have a key for, I thought I would get mine from an apology but instead it just changed the shape of the weight, and changed how I carry it.

You just can’t let it be all you focus on and don’t let others designate how you carry on. They can’t carry it for you only help, and the help may not always be there.

To all the others with your baggage to carry, I wish you cheers, good health and tears, may you never forget what it means to be human and stop feeling.

I wonder if it is more used by people that don’t want to accept suffering as a base for all humans cause the only people that repeat that phrase to me are ones that don’t want to make allowances for hurt people to exist in their world.

Yeah, I mean my morals are based on thinking about what my parents would do and then always choosing to do something else.
I was given a blueprint of what the worst people look like and do but it’s what I got as my history to rely on for my future.

I don’t have the time to just dump all those years and the pain just because I want to be as ignorant to its possibility as others are and relearn existence. The ability to change is possible but that doesn’t work on the past. It’s truth is what shaped me into the person I am today I can change how I respond to it only.

Him photoshopping on facial hair I thought was bingo for me but apparently we aren’t playing 4 corners.

Gen X is the generation that got just enough from their boomer and silent Gen parents that they don’t really care to change anything and keep up the system but pretend they hate it.

They act like they are separated and completely uninvolved but they are the last generation to have a semblance of a nice thing and they won’t rock the boat. Especially now that they are getting more of the positions their parents held.

They may pretend they aren’t here, but they are, and pretending they stuck to themselves and they don’t do anything that impacts others is just wishful thinking on their part.

For you. Specify for you.

I really liked the joke where as the city is filling with lava he still can’t stop himself from shouting “Whee!” As he jumps from object to object, and that wouldn’t exist if it stopped at 3 panels.

The artist made what they made. Your opinion is fine but use it to make something new then.

You need to educate yourself on why this is offensive!

Gross. What a demeaning response.

You know I can see you talking down to me like it’s a kindness. Just doesn’t make you seem better by default.

Alright. I agree with everything you say.

I dislike the idea of drugs as a “fix” as they are not and the idea of fixing is not very reasonable an end goal.

Also yes the world is designed to pick at that and it clearly is affecting and dragging down people further up the spectrum of capable time management. This culture of recommending specific name brand drugs is not one I am comfortable with and one I don’t agree with doing as it really only supports the manufacturer and not the sufferer.

I think we agree that people should be able to get real and helpful diagnoses but I disagree the path of getting there that is often used skipping steps and is far to socially spread, especially using the same mechanisms that eat at people to make their symptoms worse.