The NRA will release a plan to arm nurses and doctors by the morning. Scalpel in one hand, gun in the other hand. This is AmeriKKKa. 

Get rid of all the hospitals. No hospitals, no hospital shootings...huh? Amirite?

This is Oklahoma. Don’t think it’s not an option.

Hospitals are clearly the problem. We need to either minimize the amount of doors or shut them down entirely.

This ruling should be appealed. Although Heard might be too fucking exhausted to put herself through it again. The jury was asked to rule on the headline alone

Channel 4 has never been shy of political writing, hence why the Tory Government is keen to sell it off so it will concentrate on its shit (but cheap) reality shows.

It’s very strange how British television is (largely) publicly funded but isn’t afraid to get very political, while American television is (largely) privately funded and tries to stay apolitical as possible. There was a television film with Jodie Comer and Stephen Graham that aired on Channel 4 last autumn about a…

As someone who has worked as a hospitalist in the US (and knows docs who have done similar work in Canada, the UK, Belgium, India, Pakistan, the Netherlands and Germany), I can say without a doubt, it's a stressful, exhausting, almost dehumanizing job with a high burn out rate no matter the country or how they fund…

His run from 1975 to 1983 is unassailable (yes, even Beaubourg). Truly an original, who made the Yamaha CS80 forever HIS sound. Can’t think of many artists who so successfully made a career out of steering wildly from pop-appeal accessibility to die-hard experimentation. Hopefully his estate puts out at least some of…

It’s an incredibly well done show, imo. But you need to be prepared for the last two episodes. If you know, you know.

Driving in Germany is expensive. Getting your license costs thousands and can take months of work.

In Germany, driving like a selfish douche gets you jailtime.  That’s how. 

Apart from stricter driver licensing and better public transport, Germany also has stricter vehicle safety checks, and also road design explicitly includes safety, and also enforcement of the existing rules is stricter. These all emerge from a broader culture of regulation for public safety.

I live in Germany. Traffic fines are a joke really, as long as you don’t truly misbehave. I live by the rule of never breaking the speed limit by more than 20 km/h outside of town and 10 inside. The (rare) resulting fines are a joke really. Nothing but a mild slap on the wrist. I’m originally not from Germany, and I…

Speeding laws are also brutal compared to the US. Get caught by a speed camera in a 50km or 35km zone going 10km over and you will get absolutely wrecked. Like lose your license wrecked.

I like to use Germany as an example because they have unlimited speed roads and are *still* way safer than the US. Really messes with people who think lower speed limits is a solution.

Right, because they have good transit infrastructure. But they have fewer deaths per km anyway.

That’s why I referenced the per-capita stat, but Germany also has way fewer deaths per vehicle AND vehicle mile traveled anyway.

per capita normalizes for different populations.

Good driver training too. We don’t have that. Most states don’t even have car safety inspections.