haaahaaaahaaaaa

norway is lucky to have at the moment massive oil revenues and per capita income which allows them to have a welfare state of that kind

so does saudi arabia, emirates, etc

how come nobody ever mentions the saudis

let's have an absolute monarchy

one could create a similar cartoon about “i hate capitalism” etc. to point at the absurdity notions.

also im not a professional wrestler or whoever those people are, and don’t discuss things by yelling throwing chairs etc

but anyway make room in your house bud im moving in with 4 destructive pets and pizza-greasy fingers i am entitled to rub on your couch, since private property should not exist and that couch belongs to the people :D

You know how I feel about strangers entering my castle

Good luck getting past my moat, it's full of Faygo!

I'm a millennial. I have no time for your old man gobbledygook like common sense and basic economic theory.

Lmfao how on earth do you remember my story about my shitty friend wiping his pizza hands on my couch? Lmfaaaooo dudebro

lmao

we your new tenants of the people will drink all the faygo like a pack of zombies, cross the moat, and accidentally clog the toilets!

anyway funny story, in recent times norwegians have been hiring swedes as servants, which is historically hilarious. but looks like the trend might be reversing.

https://www.thelocal.no/20160804/nor...tune-in-sweden

CAPITALISMO :D

that's hilarious that you're using a tv show to extrapolate to reality.

there are a bazillion problems with this meme if you take a minute to think it through

1) new mexico public school teachers receive modest pay but get good benefits. i don't know why walter had to work at a fucking car wash. if he had become a nationally certified teacher (something he had the capacity to do) he would have doubled his pay. plus there are things they can do like coaching for extra money.

2) teacher pay is low but they work only nine months: 2 weeks off for the holidays, a week off fall break, a week off spring break, plus two months vacation. a lot of teachers work summer school for the loot.

3)there's a union contract and get very good health insurance. the maximum out of pocket this year is $4000 per family, and deductibles run between $750 to $2000 per person. this is, oh, a decade after? the employer pays the bulk of the premiums. there's also dental, vision, life, long term disability, plus other options.

see here:
https://nmpsia.com/PDFs/2018-07%20Be...2018-07-13.pdf

4) in addition to this there is catastrophic and umbrella coverage for things like cancer. ever heard of AFLAC? he should have gotten AFLAC.

5) the reason walter white turn to meth is because he had emotional/psychological problems. this is why he left his company, this is why he had a shitty marriage, this is why he turned to crime.

so, hm, tv is not reality, but even tv needs to be watched critically

but now i wanna go rewatch that first episode lololol

The point of the meme is that the premise of the show is relative enough for Breaking Bad to not only break record numbers, but win multiple Golden Globe & Emmy awards. Walter's situation shouldn't be conceivable.

I'll quit pushing your buttons, it's Saturday night and I have busywork.

We're comrades after all *teehee*

(you make pretty good refutes for every point I bring up though, and I commend that)

hah hah, yes tovarish

it’s all good man, i am glad to clarify ideas and mistaken notions that politicians use to manipulate people and get votes, and it does not push my buttons.

i am not a man of faith and i change my mind often, but i need a convincing argument to do that.

propaganda doesn’t work too well on me. so, sell me a good idea and i’ll gladly buy it on its merits. bad ideas go through the shredder, lol.

i agree with the premise that health care is fucked up. obamacare reduced the number of ininsured by 20 million people, but lately it’s on the rise again.

and yes part of the problem is the clusterfuck that is the health insurance industry. but i dont believe that a government takeover of the health care system is the answer though. that is a heavy and radical move that amounts to an expropriation that would break a huge sector of the economy and put it under government control.

a public option for those who wanna buy it, though? sure, why not, as long as it pays for itself and doesn’t require life support from the rest of the economy and becomes a drag on the budget.

here’s a good argument FOR single payer actually

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politic...th-care-system

of course the devil is in the details, and for his anecdote about him not having a problem in germany i have another anecdote about a person being unable to find a provider because everyone is booked up. so maybe not all is gold with the german system.

https://www.eyeworld.org/doctors-short-supply

everyone has problems. there are no magic solutions. everywhere there are tradeoffs. see: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-38899811

anyway, great discussion, and something will have to happen one way or another because with the current system neither patients nor doctors are in charge, so everyone must kowtow to incomprehensible and byzantyne insurance schemes.

taking over 20% of the economy with the stroke of a pen is easier said than done though...

ha ha i am now reading this...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...y-bracket.html

from that article it looks like switzerland would be a better model for us as we’re already halfway there with current law and it preserves private enterprise while reducing costs and optimizing outcomes.

eta: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heal...in_Switzerland

eta: https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapot.../#422b2c177d74

Yesterday the T20 cricket team I support won the tournament, and I was there to see it!

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I'm currently waiting for the teacher to arrive in my Specialist Maths class, and for a while there were just two people in the room - me and another kid who I haven't gotten on well with.

I don't want to be offensive or anything, but he's possibly autistic - he picks things out of bins and stuff like that. And I'm kinda scared of him after an incident from last year (I was waiting outside class, then he went up to me and just started stroking my arm - it was really creepy and I was on edge for a lot that day).

He was actually in the class before me, and I would have rather waited outside to avoid him. But then he opened the door, and I didn't want to be rude so I accepted and sat in my usual place, far away from him.

Just figured I should get that out.

autistic math person? lol you don’t say... xD

(yeah probably)

anyway chocster are you interested in fashion? i am really not but found an article that might interest you. don’t know what’s in it cuz my eyes glazed. but judging by the headline...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/s...y-fashion.html

I mean, there's a specialist school literally next door, so the fact that he's not going there suggests that he's really quite good at stuff. It's just...who knows what's going on?

I did have a look at that, mostly because it's interesting to see what kind of stuff people would make if they ditched the (stupid) binary framework. That said, advanced fashion doesn't really intrigue me - some of it can look kinda stupid.

I'm unexplorative. Just give me comfy shit - I like stripes. :D

My English Language teacher has used The Simpsons as an example in class.

Today to a kid he knows: "you don't have cancer - sometimes I wish you did, but you don't"

English Language teacher: "Put your phone away."
Girl I'm friends with: *drops her phone on the table*
Me: "Not where he can see it..."
Girl: *opens her textbook to a random page, puts the phone there, and closes the pages of her textbook*

Tfw yr gf is listening to music while studying, so u politely place yr Sony MDR-1A headphones on her head, and plug 'em into her laptop so you can read yr fantasy novel in silence...

...only to have her start singing Elliott Smith songs w the headphones on.

*sob* a filling in one of my teeth is causing me serious aggro today. It just puts you off your whole day where all you're thinking about is this throbbing pain in your mouth. Annoying thing is I can't get to the dentist til tomorrow.

take some painkillers and chew on a clove

i swear by the clove. or clove oil. it numbs ya.

but a strong ibuprofen (not sure of brand names) could help more

i’ve gotten up to 800mg for oral surgery, you likely dont need as much rn

Stinky breath here we come. Thanks man.

keep the clove/ oil/ clove paste (you can grind up in a mortar) on the afflicted area only

SO i rewatched the first episode of breaking bad last night haaa haaa haaa

#1 walt becomes interested in the meth money BEFORE he finds out he's got the big C. it's his barfday partee, hank is there being a general dickhole, appears on tv with the drug bust, walt looks at the money starts asking about it. yeah.

#2 he's got inoperable cancer when he decides to ask for the ridealong. he doesn't have an inability to pay medical bills.

NOTICE that he gets an ambulance, an expensive MRI, etc. he doesn't have a problem being denied insurance or treatment. he's gonna get chemo. the system is working for him at this point.

#3 from the beginning he's got rage problems
a) when he quits the car wash he doesn't just walk out, he says fuck you and starts smashing shit off the wall
b) he really puts the hurt on the idiot kids making fun of his son instead of scolding them like an adult should ha ha ha
c) he's a chickenshit who explodes. a bit like the hulk.

#4 he's also an exploitative asshole from the start. he tells pinkman if he doesn't work with him he'll turn him in.

ah ha ha ha i had forgotten how good this show was. also forgot that skylar was pregnant from the start. if he doesn't have money why didn't he get the snip?

BUT ANYWAY.

vegan bacon lmao.

i need to get back to work...

Some kids in my class who are also doing a Music thing were talking about how they have seven half-finished songs.

I told them they should do it 'Paranoid Android'-style and just weld them all together, lol.

I'm so glad I came across this because my honey bunny has a hurty tooth and needs something. Fortunately we have cloves. I tried making the paste with olive oil, should I try with water?

with drool, like.

just put the powder on the finger and rub rub rub

Ok thank you!

School photos today.

I ALWAYS got a haircut the day before school photos were taken and I ALWAYS looked so weird in the photos.

now I always look weird in photos, no matter whether I get a haircut or not

At the moment I'm trying to grow my hair out (Claire's epic quest towards femininity!), but it's in the awkward middle phase at this point. Much like my life in general.

A lovely weird though!

I never smile well when I know I'm being photographed. Might be because I don't like my teeth, but IDK.

growing hair out + never smiling + not liking my teeth = same !

I love my teeth.

Ugh. Another day of like 2 hours of work and the rest of the time just dickin’ around.

TIL a girl in my class has the middle name Danger

Like really really?



(TWO MORE FUCKING HOURS AT WORK. IM GONNA FUCKING FLIP.)

Well, it's what she's been registered to the school as having - on the online roll, it literally says '[Lastname], [Firstname] Danger'.

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My English Language teacher makes Powerpoints for the class, and they're hilarious in some cases.

Today he used, as an example of an imperative sentence, 'Don't steal lockers that aren't allocated to you.' He's the year level coordinator, so he has skin in the game.

And for an exclamative sentence, 'What a f**kwit' on a slide with a picture of Nick Kyrgios.

I have no idea who Nick Kyrgios is....but that’s cool. Now I’m starting to miss high school...fuck bein’ an adult waiting another hour to leave work when there’s nothing to do.


I do miss my Senior year English teacher: Vietnam vet who was cool as fuck. Gave us a lot of terrible advice(a la Hunter S Thompson), but also some really great stuff.