These days, when someone starts appealing to common sense I automatically assume their position is fraught and their other arguments weak. I have yet to encounter one instance of this not being the case. Demagoguery has destroyed whatever was left of common sense.
ZC3rr0r
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Having lived in several different countries with both public and private healthcare, I can say with confidence that privatization is the death of a healthcare system.
Health for profit makes everyone's care worse except for the really rich, who still end up paying more under that system than they otherwise would have.
Even something like government reimbursemrnt for privatized healthcare means public health care suffers, as public institutions now have to compete with higher salaries paid by private hospitals, slowly eroding the system from the inside out.
There's no such thing as cheap healthcare, but public systems are a hell of a lot better at keeping it affordable and accessible.
That's a pretty hot take, seeing as it's the most successful single off the album in terms of sales and airplay.
I love how all Germanic languages can pull that stunt. Be it German, Swedish, Dutch, they all have this magic "turn a sentence into a single word" ability.
I know it's a joke, but with the level of scrutiny Germany has attracted for its dark history there's litle chance people wouldn't have heard of it by now ;-)
What on earth kind of fever dream did I just read? This looks like it was written with the power of hindsight to be able to present the exact inverse of everything that happened, yet somehow wasn't.
Seriously, this reads like a time traveler trolling us on the long con.
I can't wait to get completely stuck on logic defying puzzles again. Like old times.
It's hard not to get both sad and angry when you look at average snowpack numbers over the last two decades. I'm fairly certain gen alpha will be the last to experience the type of winter conditions we've grown to expect as "regular".
As the climate heats up and winter become shorter, less predictable, and more violent due to the unstable polar vortex, we'll come to sorely miss the defining characteristics of it. We can't ignore the cultural impact winter has on lots of places (such as Canada, Scandinavia, Russia, and many places in the US) and I'm quite sure it'll have more than just ecological and employment impacts to these regions.
You'd be surprised how many people don't know the difference between being sore and having pain, but I digress. I never wanted to discuss semantics, just make a jokey comment about trading pain for discomfort. Forget I mentioned it.
I think there's a non-zero percentage of people that confuse being sore with having unexplained pain. And there's probably also another group of people that think they can excercise without being sore, given how lots of people exercise tout it as fixing all pain, which might set incorrect expectations.
Anyway, I am just sharing my own experiences.
To be fair though, the soreness from regular exercise is what you get in the tradeoff. I have both a regular cardio and strength program I run through every week (5 days of exercise) and a pretty active lifestyle (2 days of outdoor activities every week (hiking, mountainbiking, splitboarding,etc)) and I am generally sore at least somewhere in my body.
My wife signed on for SFI after she moved, and found that the level and expectations were so low she had difficulty staying engaged with the classes and course material.
She looked into private tutoring and was fluent in Swedish in 4 months, and ended up teaching Swedish to highschool aged kids after just 2.5 years.
To this day she wonders if SFI wasn't secretly designed to push anyone with any kind of ambition out of the system.
I personally think it's a case of bigotry of low expectations, but it's clear it really doesn't work for the intended purpose.