It’s Loony Toons physics.
Leviosaaaaaaa
That’s why you want a national health care program funded by taxes (they call it health insurance, but it’s mandatory and based on income, so it’s a tax, really). Private insurance is still allowed, but everyone gets a baseline.
Sure, this system has got its share of problems, and they’re massive, but if you need care, you generally receive it regardless of your financial situation. Again, bureaucracy happens and there are waiting times etc. etc., but the idea that you may lose everything because you got sick is so alien to me I have no words.
It shouldn’t exist? I’d like to see you pay for your medical expenses out of pocket.
P. S. No, I am not American.
“Tell me the history of the world using a woo doctor and a scientist as actors.”
The amount of magical thinking around federated protocols both on Lemmy and Mastodon is astounding. Sure, design decisions make a difference, but federations gonna federate.
No body writes noone as one word because there’s a similar word written that way.
Actually, by its original definition, the word “cromulent” is not cromulent.
I work in documentation. We aren’t allowed to use words like “simple” or “easy” precisely for this reason.
X marks the spot.
Quite strange when you know the scene.
Yep, same in the Czech Republic.
The stated problem is actually more pronounced with a larger number of parties than 2. If the governing party is strong, but doesn’t have majority, and the opposition is split, they usually need to trade favours with the opposition parties to get anything done.
That could be pretty easily abused, imagine, by straw men siphoning state money without any prospect of winning.
At least in Europe, there are campaign financial limits so things don’t get too out of hand. Corruption, therefore, is done via other means.
On the internet, nobody knows you’re one of these:
He did say something to that effect, yes.
Rude.