Hubzilla looks interesting, I’ll give it a go, thanks!

Oh neato, thanks for sharing. Hope some other kind soul takes it up (and takes my donation money :3)

I’ve only ever seen this slander towards salads coming from the US, so I have to ask, are salads trash in the US?

Do people imagine eating healthily is eating only lettuce (it isn’t)?

I don’t get it

Expedient texting. Or hanging out, but over distance.

Riddle me this, call not-likers: what is the difference between calling your friend, over the phone, and calling them on your teamspeak of choice (or whatever is popular these days).

Is it the impromptu nature of it? Just don’t answer when it’s not convenient then, it’s not the 90s, they can follow up with a text if you can’t pick up.

Is it the talking to people in general? Then I fail to see why calls are the issue.

This is assuming you know the personal calling, via callerID.

Is it you feel more rushed and flustered because you can’t see each other, and thus can’t pick up on visual cues?

All in all, thoroughly confused why people have an aversion to calls, I think they’re rather expedient and useful. Depending on what’s called for. (I feel this way in both work and social contexts).

This will be bouncing around in my head for the rest of my life: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AD-E2B5GfI8

I wonder how long it will be before the white house issues a 9 dash line Trump has hastily marked up with a red permanent marker.

This is why you always copy something innocuous immediately after

Unfortunately I do not have Graphene :/ thanks for your reply though!

I tried looking this up, is this what you’re talking about? https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/PA.NUS.PPP?locations=AU

What exactly does this mean?

Media being owned by a few rich people was and always has been dangerous for press freedom.

I can only really see workers co-ops striking the correct balance here. (Basically, editor makes decisions, when needed workers vote on whether to publish or not).

Capitalism is always the problem, and anti-democratic.

This was a god-send on this one. So hard to read

I can’t remember the last time online sentiment was that next year would be better than the last.

I have no idea how people must have felt, back in the days where there was optimism for the future.

Every year I just feel we’re all just bracing ourselves for how bad it’s gonna be.

What a strange world we live in.

While I agree with the sentiment (where this should be the case), this isn’t actually true for some of these countries.

Australia, for example, though not sure if we’re included in this 23, we have a private system also.

For all emergency care, it’s single-payer. Private health insurance / private hospitals are not permitted to provide emergency care, nor out of hospital car, but all other hospital care is allowed (I am simplifying, as I’m not super clear on it either). Further, private health insurance is not allowed to cover things that Medicare doesn’t at least also partially cover.

Sounds good right? Sounds like private health is kept in check? I mean, sort of, but it’s still really profitable, and you even get a tax break.

What it doesn’t stop, is prices getting higher and you having to cover the difference because health care employees are not necessarily employed by the stat, and can set their own prices (which is either covered by private insurance in hospital, or out-of-pocket outside hospital as private can’t cover that).

If you don’t have private health, you often have to wait way longer in the public system for non-emergency (but still medically necessary) care, like hip replacements, eye surgery etc.

It’s kinda fucked, everyone ought to be in the same queue, and if things are taking too long well then gee, I dunno, pay more / hire more / train more doctors, this doesn’t take a genius to figure out.

Healthcare should be provided by the state, in-full, covered by taxes. We (and the US for that matter) have plenty of tax revenue to cover this. And if you’re feeling really frisky, perhaps very slightly increase corporate taxes and tax breaks for the wealthy.

So we now have a two tiered system, where the wealthy get care first, or whoever can afford to pay. And you even get a tax break for it.

The US system is trash, and ours is utopian by comparison, but let’s not pretend like all 22 of 23 countries have true, universal healthcare.

We don’t, let’s aim higher haha

I know the focus here is healthcare. But as an Australian, this is how I feel every time some fuckwit politician orders a shark cull: you farkin’ wanker…

Been sitting on this photo for 10 years, my time has come

“Do I speak Chinese or what?”

Found the German.

I couldn’t seem to get it connect to google drive (tried on my work profile, tried the various apks available. Made sure Google Drive was also installed in the work profile)

Also, it asks for complete local phone folder access. Really wish services like this would allow you provide access to certain folders, since this option has existed in Android for quite some time.

Thanks for the suggestion though!

I was not aware, thanks for sharing :)

I’m not claiming they’re the same as cigarettes. Just that if they hadn’t come along, a huge number of people (in Australia) may never have picked up a nicotine addiction at all.

And that’s a shame :(

there’s a lot more people quitting smoking than there are picking up vaping

Sadly, in Australia, this isn’t the case. We had very, very low smoking rates, and vaping has opened up the floodgates to new nicotine addicts, many, many of which never even tried cigarettes.

I’m pretty annoyed about it, to be honest.

Another generation who will reap the rewards of cancer, which will be a massive cost to society. Financially and emotionally.

I really hope we can stem the tide.