It's like with healthcare. The most realistic scene in the first Jack Ryan series was a person suffering Cs-137 poisoning going into convulsions on the floor while a nurse shouts at them, "Do you have insurance?" When I had Covid, 104 fever, I had to fill out 38 pages of forms at Urgent Care.

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"Europeans need to step up and take responsibility for their own security...no no not like that, you can't be mean to the smol bean Russians"

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What I love about the whole experience is the assumption that you know exactly when you think you're dropping dead and will save up enough money for that eventuality. Just like with PTO combined with sick leave. Every year you have to calculate how much time you think you'll be sick in December.

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There’s something particularly insidious about the way teaching gets presented as a vocation rather than a job in higher ed that results in people putting off retirement (just chatted with a colleague this week who woke up, decided fuck it I’m 70, and filed his retirement papers the next day)

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Removing 30 comments a minute is the digital equivalent of tying a knot in a cherry stem with your tongue imo

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