Another person who lives in Australia here, and those conversations with Aussies are bizarrely entertaining for me at this point. I recount how American healthcare costs a fortune (sometimes even when you have pretty good insurance), about how you basically need to have a job to have remotely affordable health…

I was discussing with an American friend (who does have decent healthcare through his work) about my brush with death when I had pneumonia. It included many trips to doctors, including calls to my house, tests, and a boatload of different medications. He was really concerned with how much in debt I must be - I’m not.…

I’m Canadian and regularly talk with my friends about how unable we are to comprehend what life is like in the States when it comes to health care plus the banana planet world of unpaid EXTREMELY SHORT maternity leaves. Can not compute how anyone can make a life in such circumstances. 

I wish all the Canadians who kvetch about wait times for stuff like knee replacements would read this thread. Our health care is not perfect - we do have some problems with getting doctors and specialists outside of big urban centres, which drives up wait times, but that has nothing to do with private vs public. And…

You know it’s so weird, I live in Australia, where we have a slightly fucked up combo system of public and private.(Not to mention a deeply fucked up conservative government). There’s currently a ‘crisis’ in our private insurance sector because young people aren’t taking it up. They’re not getting private health…

Do you have any idea how frustrating it is to talk to my right-wing family members about healthcare when they hardly know any people with nationalized healthcare and not only do I have tons of friends who live all over the world (husband lived abroad twice when he was younger and we live in a moderately bougie…

And people are so short-sighted that we don’t even worry about what pricing humans out of reproducing is going to do to our society within a few generations. (Maybe we know the plant will all be on fire/under water by then and it’s just as well?)

Yep. My friends & family back in Ireland (& those in England too) are gobsmacked at the prices of healthcare here.

Also, recently my Dad found & gave me a bunch of papers from around when I was born (so I can get my Irish passport). It included the hospital bill for my birth. Late 60s, Queens NYC: $225, total.

She’s trying to Be Best, okay. lol

Why is everything white?

Exactly. And also, if she had been carrying a weapon, and defended herself, the headlines would have been “Prissy Honors Student Viciously Murders Man Who Just Told Her She Is Pretty.”  

But were there 30-50 of them?

I’m so sad about Godfrey Gao! A heart attack at 35 is so tragic, especially for someone who appeared fit.

If accurately summarizing her method instead of mischaracterizing it means I’ve drunk the Kool Aid, then sure. 🙄

This is a really, really cynical article that also misrepresents what Marie Kondo said. She didn’t tell people to get rid of everything, or even most things. She doesn’t want everyone to have a minimalist life with only a handful of possessions. She just wants people to be mindful or whether or they ACTUALLY want…

🤣🤣🤣🤣 this is such a wonderfully incorrect take that I can’t tell if you are joking or not! Sara Lee is an American baked goods company. No one is being harrassed on social media. Eat a Sara Lee pastry and chill.

Get your hot takes! Hot takes here!

Totally agree. Those SNL skits are the best....you have no idea where it is going and then boom, you are completely absurd territory. I loved it too. 

gay-bashing? it was so unequivocally gay, with 2 (or 3, we don’t know her life) queer characters! the joke was never that he was gay! i found it was great representation for us depressed queers who are way too much online

The sketch was written by two gay men.