Idk, my in laws in general agree with us on politics. I’m playing with water because they keep making mean comments about my wife and I’m this close to loudly explaining what portion of her therapy is about them.

If you don’t have the money you get debt. At some point in a hospital visit a person swings by to get your financial information. They can’t refuse care, but they can demand your info.

If you can’t pay your bill that’s totally ok, it’ll sit there waiting as debt collectors hound you every few days. Or you can reach out to a hospital run charity program to prove you’re sufficiently poor and get a reduced cost payment plan.

It’s dystopian, yes, but more in the “a lot of Americans go into medical bankruptcy” way than the “you’re forced to give birth out back” way.

Yeah and while some of their charity pushes their religion’s rules (adoption and hospitals are the big two), they aren’t like the salvation army who restricts who can have access to their food and shelters.

If you find yourself in actual need somewhere you don’t know what resources are available, a Catholic Church is one of the best bets for where find someone who can direct you to immediate relief regardless of who you are.

I love and cherish the women of Iran. I’ve watched and cheered for their resistance with respect and admiration from across the world my entire life.

He really is the national grandpa we don’t speak to anymore

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I’d say it’s not about being worse than trump. He wins unless he went below 18

Lunar chernobyl would be funny enough I’m here for it

That would be the perfect representation of the current zeitgeist

Yeah it’s not enough to heat up the air enough to arc, likely because the vast majority of it is going through the conductive wire it’s supposed to be

People too dumb to understand how huge of a thing it was to be able to get basically anything we wanted within reason, just not everything we wanted

Unfortunately in all things like that it’s also really good at getting people to admit to shit they didn’t do when operated by someone good at that

The US food rules are weird because we highly regulated food a hundred years ago so well we stopped regulating nearly as much since. This means our rules are designed largely to stop 19th century style adulteration

Nah I’m an American and didn’t think of Kenyan but seeing it mentioned and yeah they’ve got gorgeous accents.

I love an Arabic accent. Scottish accents are also beautiful in a rough way, as are Appalachian ones.

It’s not like they’re gonna have a Little Tokyo in Osaka.

“Welcome to wee Glasgow, the most Glasgowean neighborhood of Edinburgh”

People also tend to point towards the most extreme versions of ocd in response. I have diagnosed ocd and it’s just the way my anxiety disorder manifests. I get fixated on a point of anxiety and spiral around it and before treatment would develop rituals to prevent those points. Locking the car door three times meant I was sure the door was locked for example.

I still have low key anxiety every time I go on vacation that I left the door unlocked

Avatar the last Airbender taught me to think when in conflict

Telling my accountant relative how I heard I should put money into an IRA, and so Seamus says him and the boys are grateful for the aid

When America invaded German France we sent a hangman for our troops who raped the locals. Any invading army that fails to do so must accept the possibility that others will provide one for them at a later time