MisterFrog
@MisterFrog@lemmy.world
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 1 week ago:
We shall have to agree to disagree then. Calling a healthcare system that doesn’t cover all available healthcare universal just doesn’t make sense.
I can accept that’s what people call it, but that’s about it.
I think they’re wrong.
By this logic the USA has universal healthcare, because a hospital must treat you for emergency, life-saving care, even if you’re unable to pay.
So, the definition is absurd if it’s just that a system covers everyone.
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 1 week ago:
Universal healthcare means it covers all healthcare. If you’re needing pay pay out of pocket to private providers, and it doesn’t even cover a bunch of things, I refuse to call that universal - and so should you.
Universal means nothing, otherwise.
Medicare defenders really need to dream bigger, damn.
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 1 week ago:
Yes, but the first one is not true.
Tired of calling what countries like Australia and Germany have as “universal healthcare”.
It isn’t. Simply isn’t.
In the case of Australia in most familiar with. It’s a weird mix of public and private, with most medical costs covered under a private subsidy model, where your health service can change whatever, and you have to pay the gap between the Medicare rebate and what the services charges.
Doesn’t cover dental, has a small rebate for physio and other allied health (again, private providers, public rebate) and covers a basic check up for eyes every 3 years only, but doesn’t cover most optical.
The hospital system is also and absolute mess of a two-tiered system I won’t get into here.
It’s not fucking universal and I’m sick of people pretending like it is. It’s just kilometres better than the USA, which is the lowest bar ever.
- Comment on Anon makes games 1 week ago:
The OOP desperately needs some class consciousness.
Why are
Western devsgame publishers like this? - Submitted 3 weeks ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 18 comments
- Comment on bone 3 weeks ago:
🦀
- Comment on Say hi to Flocky! 5 weeks ago:
Nobody wants to spend the money to convert entire industries
There are multiple industries who prove this isn’t a blanket rule.
There’s a reason you buy soft drinks in 2 L bottles and not by quarts or whatever unit you use for that kind of size. Because of alcohol sizes, people also intuitively know 500 mL (which I believe has pretty much replaced 16 floz~us~ bottles) as well as 700 mL bottles for wine, etc.
There are a bunch of other examples where metric is seeping in.
I feel very sorry for US based engineers though, since many industries don’t really have the same push to convert, RIP.
I also LOVE seeing that many American social media creators have started using “grams of protein” (they still say per “serve”, instead of per 100g, which is silly, but in time they might notice that grams per 100g is a percentage and see how much more useful that is for comparison purposes).
There’s even this guy who weighs food to see which is more “justified” for the price. Eventually his viewers will know how much things weigh.
We’ll get ya, in time. In time you will be assimilated, resistance is futile ;)
- Comment on Say hi to Flocky! 5 weeks ago:
Europeans
This is the the real way I know you’re American lol.
It’s the WHOLE WORLD other than you (and perhaps special mention to the UK and Canada being weirdos using multiple systems)
- Comment on Stay hydrated, folks 5 weeks ago:
Either ~4.55 L (imperial) or ~3.79 L (US).
Ugh. Why do they do this to us?
- Comment on Astronomers seek global ban on space advertising 5 weeks ago:
Definitely, but we can’t let this crime against humanity happen in the first place.
- Comment on DNAddy 1 month ago:
You’d think they’d change DNA test methodologies so this sort of thing doesn’t happen again
- Comment on YouTube now 1 month ago:
Practically everyone.
If you were searching for a tutorial, it was a fantastic time saver.
- Comment on Who's in the wrong here? 2 months ago:
Not sure if I’d count what Green did as bad, in any way.
Petty, maybe, but justice demanded grey have some social consequences for their behaviour, and green most certainly delivered.
- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 2 months ago:
We did just fine before these existed. They should just be outright banned, and the existing ones be phased out in some way where the owners are completely screwed (though, if I were being vindictive I’d say tough shit, you shouldn’t have participated in this arms race)
- Comment on Miss me 2 months ago:
Hope things get better, but this is low-key genius
Props to you, it’s not pathetic at all.
- Comment on Getting told by Lemmy to stop taking drugs 2 months ago:
Salvia is not a walk in the park for the dyslexic, damn
- Comment on average red state university 2 months ago:
The more you learn, the greater you are aware of how much is uncertain.
Yes, but similarly, the god of the gaps is pretty hard to ignore.
There will be questions we never will have the answer to, and if you’re actually serious about the scientific method as a philosophy, you aren’t uncomfortable with “we don’t know”.
To me, a mysterious universe is more wondrous than “god did it” and yes, I do very much question religious scientists, despite many great scientists being religious.
If you’re willing to just believe things “just because” then how can I trust you’ll actually apply the scientific method (also a philosophy) reliably?
I can happily coexist and work with mildly religious scientists/engineers, but I would straight up refuse to work with a creationist or someone born again. Religion is anti-scientific.
Religion vs science is not a false dichotomy, despite it being possible to be religious and a scientist at the same time.
- Comment on I have a plan 3 months ago:
To me this attitude is the equivalent of telling a comedian to “stick to comedy” when they make jokes about politics, or how “woke” sci-fi is when they make commentary on society.
These things are intertwined, to a large degree.
- Comment on The future was yesterday 3 months ago:
It’s an apple inspired UI thing. Luckily, the built-in android date selector isn’t stupid anymore.
A banking app I use (on Android) put in a bespoke date/time selector with scroll wheels, with no option to type.
It’s like they went out of their way to make using their app a pain in the ass.
- Comment on betrayal 3 months ago:
Why would we do that to ourselves? I’d be willing to bet the proportion of people who watched the film who also regularly played the game at some point is less than 50%
- Comment on WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR? 3 months ago:
Recommend PowerToys if you’re forced to use windows at work, it has heaps of neat stuff including find my cursor.
It makes windows 11 somewhat more bearable
- Comment on Population per capita of US states 3 months ago:
#DIV/0
- Comment on You've Seen Too Many Trump Memes Today, Rest Here Weary Traveler 3 months ago:
Voyager works fine for me (Android stock)
- Comment on Spicy spicy 3 months ago:
This is why I hate coins. Good luck keeping them neatly sorted in your wallet.
Notes only gang~~~ (sorry coin collectors)
Just gonna take a moment to hate on UK bank notes being different sizes in both dimensions, though. Wtf is that?
(From Australia)
- Comment on They seemed nice and normal until.... 3 months ago:
I feel mean, but at first I thought it was subtle CGI to indicate mutation over generations due to radiation living in the vaults.
Hope she never reads this comment. She is very good looking, just has comically large eyes.
- Comment on Unhinged... I'm gonna start doing that 4 months ago:
lol serves its own grammatical function now I reckon.
It’s a marker for response to irony (actual irony, Americans…), or as a way to indicate you think something is stupid to the point of humour, or as a kind of “that tracks”.
Or at least, that’s how it’s used amongst people my age in Australia.
I don’t think I use it in a positive sense at all any more
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Some. Many, if not most, are just flawed human beings.
I don’t enjoy this “everyone sucks” mentality you see online a lot.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Is the Sabbath Sunday? I thought it was Saturday. But regardless, some countries start the week on Sunday.
It’s cursed as heck when we call Saturday and Sunday the weekend.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
2015 can be written as Y-2.015E3S4
When would this ever be required, wtf hahaha
- Comment on 4 months ago:
I routinely do this in emails and documents. No one has ever questioned me on it because they’re used to it from folder/file names.
Please do join me in slowly changing the world over to year, month, day order.
(Though I prefer the non-standard dots instead of hyphens, as they are non-line-breaking, and allows for hyphens to be used as separators for other parts in a file along with underscores)
YYYY.MM.DD is my fave
