ChonkyOwlbear
@ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
- Comment on prudish mom 1 week ago:
RIP your inbox
- Comment on NYC Vs. Tokyo 1 week ago:
Only asking people with health insurance if they are happy with the American healthcare system is a bit like asking people in a boat if they are drowning. Ask the 8% of the population and more than 11% of American adults who don’t have health insurance what they think of the system. And that data is prior to implementation of Trump’s OBBBA which kicks 10-15 million people off Medicaid/Medicare.
- Comment on NYC Vs. Tokyo 1 week ago:
Yes, it doesn’t say what you claim anywhere. Can you explain how you came to the 70% figure?
- Comment on NYC Vs. Tokyo 1 week ago:
23% think it’s in major crisis and 47% think it has major problems. That’s 70% who don’t think the system is good. It proves you are wrong.
- Comment on NYC Vs. Tokyo 1 week ago:
Our current system works fine for most Americans.
That statement alone discredits everything you say. “A record 23 % of Americans believe the United States healthcare system is “in a state of crisis” and 47% think it has “major problems,” according to a recent poll from the West Health-Gallup Center on Healthcare in America.”
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- Comment on NYC Vs. Tokyo 2 weeks ago:
If a Democrat put an exact copy of the Japanese healthcare system into a bill before US Congress, Republicans would be screaming it’s socialism.
The main reason Japan has such a low crime rate is its very conservative society.
South Africa has a very conservative society too.
- Comment on If someone tells you that communism has led to famines in the USSR and China, that it doesn't have any incentives and that anyone who supports it use products of capitalism, how do you counter this? 2 weeks ago:
Look into Trofim Lysenko and Lysenkoism. His theories helped starve 30 million people.
- Comment on NYC Vs. Tokyo 2 weeks ago:
I think most people would point out their successful, homogeneous culture
Their culture isn’t any more homogenous than US culture. What you probably mean is they are racially homogenous, but it would be bad to imply that is superior.
The subways there are also private
Japanese trains were state owned until 1987. Once the majority of the tracks were laid (the expensive part), they handed it over for private management.
Another important element to Japans succes is that after WW2 they were banned from building a military which freed up a lot of money for social programs.
- Comment on NYC Vs. Tokyo 2 weeks ago:
Japan doesn’t have socialized medicine. They havle universal care. The government pays 70%.
So the payment for healthcare is socialised. In low income households the government waives the 30% copay. Everyone is covered by law and fees are set by the government. All hospitals must be run as non-profits.
Guns are not banned but heavily restricted.
Handguns are completely banned which are the type of gun used in most crimes in the US. Rifles and shotguns are heavily restricted.
- Comment on NYC Vs. Tokyo 2 weeks ago:
Guns are banned, they have strong environmental protection laws, and they have socialized medicine.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 2 weeks ago:
It gets all muddled depending on how you define the borders of the various political movements, but for the purposes of my previous comment the left is anything that isn’t the fascist right. We don’t have the luxury of adding any personal grievances. We all fight fascism together or we all go down.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 2 weeks ago:
Every fascist regime in history has gained power in part because the left was too busy infighting to resist.
- Comment on Why does most American's give shit to the French when if not for them we would have lost the revolution? 3 weeks ago:
I live in an area of the country that was explored by the French, so the names of many towns, rivers, etc are French. Locals seem to delight in butchering the French pronunciations as much as possible. Not a single one is pronounced anywhere close to correct. There is definitely an element of brotherly teasing to it.
- Comment on halal paintball 4 weeks ago:
I am thinking of a Dollop episode that discussed pigs in early New York City. They were the trash clean up before there were people dedicated to the job. They were allowed to just run free and scrounge whatever offal they could find. It could have been less that pigs were unclean, rather pigs kept things clean. If people ate all the pigs, there would be corpses and fecal matter lying around for extended periods of time which would cause disease.
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 1 month ago:
Therapists with specialties seem to dislike it when their client doesn’t fall under that umbrella. I had a therapist whose specialty was child sexual abuse. I told her I didn’t experience any and she defensively snapped “Are you sure? Maybe you don’t remember it!”. I did not stick with her for long.
- Comment on Tips 1 month ago:
🎶Lowered Expectations🎶
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 1 month ago:
I was thinking Russian Roulette, but I guess your way is fine.
- Comment on Why does everyone put celery in soup stock? 2 months ago:
Or the Holy Trinity of Cajun and creole cooking, celery, onions, and bell pepper.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 2 months ago:
Check out an app called Karrot. It’s basically craigslist but you periodically have to confirm your location, so you know all items are local. It also has a shockingly accurate photo identification and pricing feature.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 2 months ago:
- Comment on Are all dinosaur fossils 'replicas'? 2 months ago:
Also the real bones are often too heavy to support in a display, so lighter replica pieces are used.
- Comment on how do plants in a green house get enough co2? 3 months ago:
Plants only absorb CO² and release oxygen when photosynthesizing, which requires sunlight. At night plants undergo cellular respiration where they absorb oxygen and release CO². Some sealed terrariums haven’t had any water, air, or fertilizer for decades.
- Comment on "Does Hitler have a right to privacy?" and other big questions in research ethics. 3 months ago:
Most arguments for using Hitler’s DNA end up supporting the eugenicist trash Nazi scientists espoused. There is little practical use for it.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 3 months ago:
Depends on the group. Iroquois houses were communal but Pueblo were more like townhomes. Other groups, like the Mississippian culture built individual homes.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 3 months ago:
Because they built houses. It’s not like white people invented the idea of home ownership.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 3 months ago:
The Pueblo, Iroquois, and other non-nomadic Native American groups might disagree about the colonialism part.
- Comment on I don't like this 3 months ago:
As a geologist from Illinois, I wish we had some Igneous granite. In my field camp we cored 500 feet of glacial loess.
- Comment on Beans 4 months ago:
If you ever get the chance, Vietnamese chè is incredible.
- Comment on Beans 4 months ago:
Red bean ice cream is delicious. It’s not that odd when you realize that vanilla, chocolate, and coffee are all beans and all common ice cream flavors.
