I was a student in Japan and paid something like $35/quarter for health care. Many years later my wife gave birth in Japan and then Europe—don't even get me started on how cheap that was compared to what we would have paid in the US.

The EU hasn't mandated it, but one state taking in refugees mean all states take in refugees. Barring truly extenuating circumstances, EU member states have to maintain a unified immigration policy plus open borders in the Schengen Area (basically EU - UK and Ireland). So if Greece gives a bunch of migrants resident…

Interesting; didn't realize that was the OED definition. Mirriam-Webster's has "a person who strongly and unfairly dislikes other people, ideas, etc. : a bigoted person; especially : a person who hates or refuses to accept the members of a particular group (such as a racial or religious group)", which is the way I…

Pessimistic, maybe. "Bigoted" would be giving up on the human race because they're all Jews or Mexicans or something. Disliking people for the way they think rather than the way they were born is literally the opposite of that.

Now that you mention it, I AM strangely comforted by the fact that the sun will eventually go supernova and swallow the Earth.

Clearly your imaginary friend's mate's time is not so worthless.

FYI, your sister's friend is probably a cam girl.