I don't know why you act like this doesn't matter when it seems to matter a great deal.
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simonwolfi can feel a differencetoday, a differenceRegistered Userregular
Sad news! Station Master Tama has died.
In the early 2000s, the Wakayama Electric Railway destaffed all stations on the Kishigawa Line to cut costs. Instead, local townsfolk were chosen to be the "stationmaster", and in 2007, Tama - a stray cat who was fed by the Kishi Station master - was chosen by the company to become the new official station master of Kishi. Her role mostly consisted of greeting passengers, and in lieu of a salary, she was paid in cat food.
Tama grew to be a local superstar, directly contributing to increased tourism in the region and use of the train line in general. She was promoted to Super Station Master in 2008, gaining an office with a litter box; in 2010, she was promoted to Operating Officer, making her the first cat to be an executive in a railway company.
She was 16 years old when she died.
May she ride the train into the afterlife, shiny and chrome.
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spacekungfumanPoor and minority-filledRegistered User, __BANNED USERSregular
Of course calling Obamacare socialism is a bit like calling a subway sandwich food.
Obama care is literally the largest wealth transfer to wealthy interests in decades. It is a massive hand out to the insurance industry, which forces people to obtain coverage but which does not require the insurers to control their spending.
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AManFromEarthLet's get to twerk!The King in the SwampRegistered Userregular
a buddy of mine who is a doctor in california did a rough estimate of how much my wife's whole shindig with the medical system over the past six months would have been had we not had medical insurance in the US, surgery included
he was like
oh
about $27,000
and i was like
hrgk
he's like but!
nowadays you'd have Obamacare
so it'd be more like
maybe a grand, grand and a half co-pay
hrgk
i dunno if he was fuckin' with me or not, i haven't tried to run the numbers myself
but jesus h christ
what a nightmare
those numbers both seem low to me
but i live in Florida so idk that we even have doctors capable of performing that procedure here
Oh fuck I forgot it says how much much memory it has on the hard drive
aaaaaaand thank god oh man it says 250GB
oh man okay so my parents are gonna talk about it
still not might get a One but hey it feels so much better to have it be a possibility rather than not even having to possibility because of 21 GB
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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VanguardBut now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERSregular
that is all well and fine but i am willing to bet a not insignificant percentage of those in the "no" column have a tenuous grasp of socialism
and likely benefit from socialist programs in america
I would not risk a near-certain victory on the hopes that we could educate the people who do not know he word they hate they don't actually hate.
i'm not saying that at all, btw
i'm just saying that citing yourself as representative of a view that most americans hold but do not understand is not really an argument
a far better poll would ask their opinion on socialism, ask if they benefit from any social programs in america (but not call them that - just simply list the programs they are enrolled in), and then ask if they considered those programs socialist
Auuuuuuuguh. DAMMIT. The trade in deal needs an Xbox with 250 GB of storage, mine has 229.
God.
That is just... so fucking frustrating.
um, where are you getting that number?
I think it's just the formatted/unformatted difference.
If I'm right I'm going to lol at you for a few days.
if you're going to do so I'm going to remind you that you're an old
I am younger than the games you played when you were a kid
Probably younger than the games you played while you're in college
spool, tell me, what was hunting wooly mammoths like
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
a buddy of mine who is a doctor in california did a rough estimate of how much my wife's whole shindig with the medical system over the past six months would have been had we not had medical insurance in the US, surgery included
he was like
oh
about $27,000
and i was like
hrgk
he's like but!
nowadays you'd have Obamacare
so it'd be more like
maybe a grand, grand and a half co-pay
hrgk
i dunno if he was fuckin' with me or not, i haven't tried to run the numbers myself
but jesus h christ
what a nightmare
really depends on what the details of your health insurance plan are
unless you made little enough to qualify for medicaid
which depends on if you're in a state made out of assholes or not because that can be $21,707 household income for a family of 2 in a state that took the medicaid expansion
or like $13 for a family of 8 in texas
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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surrealitychecklonely, but not unloveddreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered Userregular
that is all well and fine but i am willing to bet a not insignificant percentage of those in the "no" column have a tenuous grasp of socialism
and likely benefit from socialist programs in america
yes the "americans are idiots, if they only really knew what they believed they'd agree with me" argument.
I'm not a fan.
the same is true of the british population also
in fact almost all populations have very large numbers of opinions which are shall we say reality-orthogonal, ie held not for empirical or rational reasons but group-identity or other reasons
this is not a sign of stupidity but is simply way brain and bros work
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simonwolfi can feel a differencetoday, a differenceRegistered Userregular
Winky keep in mind that Miyazaki was also saying that stuff in the 1980s - his reflective essay on the life of Tezuka was entirely framed around him saying things like "everything Tezuka said or thought was wrong", that Tezuka's work had ruined the Japanese animation industry, etc. There's another essay published in 1982 where he derides animation that isn't within his specific vision, and says that the advent of home video will finally be the death knell of bad/limited animation (since it will just start cannibalising itself) and he can start getting stuff he likes out there.
There's definitely changes that happened in the period, and the presentation I'm giving at a conference next week is mostly about the changes in narrative structure that changed between the pre- and post-1990s, but Miyazaki has always loathed the animation industry spawned by "Tezuka's curse" (aka anything limited animation).
Alright, so after reading this post I wiki'd Tezuka to see what else he'd made besides for Astroboy and Metropolis, and I'm ashamed to learn that he had made a film in 1970 called "Cleopatra: Queen of Sex" and I didn't even know about it!
It's really bad - it was made as part of Tezuka desperately scrounging for money wherever he could, and it was a dismal failure.
Tezuka: really influential dude, but maybe that wasn't for the best in some ways
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MortiousThe Nightmare BeginsMove to New ZealandRegistered Userregular
a buddy of mine who is a doctor in california did a rough estimate of how much my wife's whole shindig with the medical system over the past six months would have been had we not had medical insurance in the US, surgery included
he was like
oh
about $27,000
and i was like
hrgk
he's like but!
nowadays you'd have Obamacare
so it'd be more like
maybe a grand, grand and a half co-pay
hrgk
i dunno if he was fuckin' with me or not, i haven't tried to run the numbers myself
but jesus h christ
what a nightmare
When people here were taking about baby deliveries cost I was like that. It was like a lot.
Here it is free. And that includes after-care.
Not sure how much a major surgery would cost here.
Of course calling Obamacare socialism is a bit like calling a subway sandwich food.
Obama care is literally the largest wealth transfer to wealthy interests in decades. It is a massive hand out to the insurance industry, which forces people to obtain coverage but which does not require the insurers to control their spending.
i think we call that capitalism
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
a buddy of mine who is a doctor in california did a rough estimate of how much my wife's whole shindig with the medical system over the past six months would have been had we not had medical insurance in the US, surgery included
he was like
oh
about $27,000
and i was like
hrgk
he's like but!
nowadays you'd have Obamacare
so it'd be more like
maybe a grand, grand and a half co-pay
hrgk
i dunno if he was fuckin' with me or not, i haven't tried to run the numbers myself
but jesus h christ
what a nightmare
As someone who grew up without insurance 1.5k would be a really good deal!
Oh fuck I forgot it says how much much memory it has on the hard drive
aaaaaaand thank god oh man it says 250GB
oh man okay so my parents are gonna talk about it
still not might get a One but hey it feels so much better to have it be a possibility rather than not even having to possibility because of 21 GB
Overall, these results demonstrate two primary messages.
First, a large nationally representative sample of Americans
seems to prefer to live in a country more like Sweden than like
the United States. Americans also construct ideal distributions
that are far more equal than they estimated the United States
to be—estimates which themselves were far more equal than
the actual level of inequality. Second, there was much more
consensus than disagreement across groups from different
sides of the political spectrum about this desire for a
more equal distribution of wealth, suggesting that Americans
may possess a commonly held ‘‘normative’’ standard for the
distribution of wealth despite the many disagreements about
policies that affect that distribution, such as taxation and
welfare (Kluegel & Smith, 1986).
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Friends and coworkers of local man Alan Tessler confirmed Wednesday that whenever they feel discouraged or depressed, they need only think of their 36-year-old acquaintance to put everything back into perspective, a fact to which Tessler, by all accounts, remains completely oblivious.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
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VanguardBut now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERSregular
Auuuuuuuguh. DAMMIT. The trade in deal needs an Xbox with 250 GB of storage, mine has 229.
God.
That is just... so fucking frustrating.
um, where are you getting that number?
I think it's just the formatted/unformatted difference.
If I'm right I'm going to lol at you for a few days.
if you're going to do so I'm going to remind you that you're an old
I am younger than the games you played when you were a kid
Probably younger than the games you played while you're in college
spool, tell me, what was hunting wooly mammoths like
idk ask your dad at home where you live because you're too babby to sell your xbox without permission.
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
Of course calling Obamacare socialism is a bit like calling a subway sandwich food.
Obama care is literally the largest wealth transfer to wealthy interests in decades. It is a massive hand out to the insurance industry, which forces people to obtain coverage but which does not require the insurers to control their spending.
i think we call that capitalism
No. We don't really have a word for it. It isn't even regulatory capture or special interest lobbying. It's really just law makers being bad at their jobs and not being able to imagine a system that is different from the current private insurance system. The ACA is not really such a huge reform. It's mostly some nice changes to insurance laws coupled with an attempt to solve the individual insurance market failure of adverse selection, but with no incentive for insurers to offer their plans at lower prices than they did while the market failure was on going.
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AManFromEarthLet's get to twerk!The King in the SwampRegistered Userregular
that is all well and fine but i am willing to bet a not insignificant percentage of those in the "no" column have a tenuous grasp of socialism
and likely benefit from socialist programs in america
yes the "americans are idiots, if they only really knew what they believed they'd agree with me" argument.
I'm not a fan.
You know about the polls that said Americans like everything obamacare does when listed out separately
But when asked about obamacare as a whole people were against it
Lol
I mean, yeah.
People like free stuff.
They weren't so thrilled at getting a big fine for not opting in.
But yes, that was true.
I feel you're being intentionally minimizing here. It goes far being "free stuff" because of course it isn't "free stuff" in any sense and support for social welfare programs is much deeper and nuanced than a simple desire for that for which you must not pay.
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surrealitychecklonely, but not unloveddreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered Userregular
Of course calling Obamacare socialism is a bit like calling a subway sandwich food.
Obama care is literally the largest wealth transfer to wealthy interests in decades. It is a massive hand out to the insurance industry, which forces people to obtain coverage but which does not require the insurers to control their spending.
i think we call that capitalism
No. We don't really have a word for it. It isn't even regulatory capture or special interest lobbying. It's really just law makers being bad at their jobs and not being able to imagine a system that is different from the current private insurance system. The ACA is not really such a huge reform. It's mostly some nice changes to insurance laws coupled with an attempt to solve the individual insurance market failure of adverse selection, but with no incentive for insurers to offer their plans at lower prices than they did while the market failure was on going.
Winky keep in mind that Miyazaki was also saying that stuff in the 1980s - his reflective essay on the life of Tezuka was entirely framed around him saying things like "everything Tezuka said or thought was wrong", that Tezuka's work had ruined the Japanese animation industry, etc. There's another essay published in 1982 where he derides animation that isn't within his specific vision, and says that the advent of home video will finally be the death knell of bad/limited animation (since it will just start cannibalising itself) and he can start getting stuff he likes out there.
There's definitely changes that happened in the period, and the presentation I'm giving at a conference next week is mostly about the changes in narrative structure that changed between the pre- and post-1990s, but Miyazaki has always loathed the animation industry spawned by "Tezuka's curse" (aka anything limited animation).
Alright, so after reading this post I wiki'd Tezuka to see what else he'd made besides for Astroboy and Metropolis, and I'm ashamed to learn that he had made a film in 1970 called "Cleopatra: Queen of Sex" and I didn't even know about it!
It's really bad - it was made as part of Tezuka desperately scrounging for money wherever he could, and it was a dismal failure.
Tezuka: really influential dude, but maybe that wasn't for the best in some ways
Simon did I ever link to you to the interview between Urasawa and Eguchi?
They have some pretty hilarious Tezuka anecdotes.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
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Hi I'm Vee!Formerly VH; She/Her; Is an E X P E R I E N C ERegistered Userregular
Auuuuuuuguh. DAMMIT. The trade in deal needs an Xbox with 250 GB of storage, mine has 229.
God.
That is just... so fucking frustrating.
um, where are you getting that number?
I think it's just the formatted/unformatted difference.
If I'm right I'm going to lol at you for a few days.
if you're going to do so I'm going to remind you that you're an old
I am younger than the games you played when you were a kid
Probably younger than the games you played while you're in college
spool, tell me, what was hunting wooly mammoths like
idk ask your dad at home where you live because you're too babby to sell your xbox without permission.
daaaaaaaamn
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
Auuuuuuuguh. DAMMIT. The trade in deal needs an Xbox with 250 GB of storage, mine has 229.
God.
That is just... so fucking frustrating.
um, where are you getting that number?
I think it's just the formatted/unformatted difference.
If I'm right I'm going to lol at you for a few days.
if you're going to do so I'm going to remind you that you're an old
I am younger than the games you played when you were a kid
Probably younger than the games you played while you're in college
spool, tell me, what was hunting wooly mammoths like
idk ask your dad at home where you live because you're too babby to sell your xbox without permission.
previous posts have established I will be needing my parents for this, yes
old can't even remember posts from a few minutes ago
who wants to talk about comments made in prior days about breastfeeding and nipple piercing
i prepared slides
are you pro or anti nipple
that part of the conversation is actually the boring part because there's no evidence that nipple piercing impacts your ability to breastfeed (no strong evidence the other way, either - not something studied rigorously for obv. reasons, altho lots of anecdotal claims that it doesn't matter as long as you get it done well in advance of your pregnancy and take the stud/jewelry out when doing the feeding)
the more interesting part is the claim that not breastfeeding your child is harming them (esp. because i think that claim wasn't made on the basis of the short term benefits of breastfeeding but the alleged long term benefits)
Shameful pursuits and utterly stupid opinions
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AManFromEarthLet's get to twerk!The King in the SwampRegistered Userregular
I pay for water service, my police, fire, and ambulance service, my local schools, social security and medicare, medicaid, the US military, etc etc
all of these are social services provide by my government (which I own and pay for) for the benefit of myself and my fellow citizens
much of this would even be considered "socialism"
none of it is "free"
to boil it down it "people like free stuff" tells me that you either don't respect the opinions being written about in this conversation or you are uninterested in joining the conversation in a serious manner and are having a laff
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I don't know why you act like this doesn't matter when it seems to matter a great deal.
In the early 2000s, the Wakayama Electric Railway destaffed all stations on the Kishigawa Line to cut costs. Instead, local townsfolk were chosen to be the "stationmaster", and in 2007, Tama - a stray cat who was fed by the Kishi Station master - was chosen by the company to become the new official station master of Kishi. Her role mostly consisted of greeting passengers, and in lieu of a salary, she was paid in cat food.
Tama grew to be a local superstar, directly contributing to increased tourism in the region and use of the train line in general. She was promoted to Super Station Master in 2008, gaining an office with a litter box; in 2010, she was promoted to Operating Officer, making her the first cat to be an executive in a railway company.
She was 16 years old when she died.
May she ride the train into the afterlife, shiny and chrome.
Obama care is literally the largest wealth transfer to wealthy interests in decades. It is a massive hand out to the insurance industry, which forces people to obtain coverage but which does not require the insurers to control their spending.
those numbers both seem low to me
but i live in Florida so idk that we even have doctors capable of performing that procedure here
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA
i'm not saying that at all, btw
i'm just saying that citing yourself as representative of a view that most americans hold but do not understand is not really an argument
a far better poll would ask their opinion on socialism, ask if they benefit from any social programs in america (but not call them that - just simply list the programs they are enrolled in), and then ask if they considered those programs socialist
You know about the polls that said Americans like everything obamacare does when listed out separately
But when asked about obamacare as a whole people were against it
Lol
I am younger than the games you played when you were a kid
Probably younger than the games you played while you're in college
spool, tell me, what was hunting wooly mammoths like
really depends on what the details of your health insurance plan are
unless you made little enough to qualify for medicaid
which depends on if you're in a state made out of assholes or not because that can be $21,707 household income for a family of 2 in a state that took the medicaid expansion
or like $13 for a family of 8 in texas
the same is true of the british population also
in fact almost all populations have very large numbers of opinions which are shall we say reality-orthogonal, ie held not for empirical or rational reasons but group-identity or other reasons
this is not a sign of stupidity but is simply way brain and bros work
It's really bad - it was made as part of Tezuka desperately scrounging for money wherever he could, and it was a dismal failure.
Tezuka: really influential dude, but maybe that wasn't for the best in some ways
When people here were taking about baby deliveries cost I was like that. It was like a lot.
Here it is free. And that includes after-care.
Not sure how much a major surgery would cost here.
It’s not a very important country most of the time
http://steamcommunity.com/id/mortious
i think we call that capitalism
there's a difference between being an idiot and being ignorant and being intentionally misinformed
As someone who grew up without insurance 1.5k would be a really good deal!
I don't doubt many Americans know what they believe.
I also don't doubt that many Americans use the term socialism to mean "things I don't like."
http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/norton ariely in press.pdf
this one I think does this that for you
this graph pretty much demonstrates the point i am making
I mean, yeah.
People like free stuff.
They weren't so thrilled at getting a big fine for not opting in.
But yes, that was true.
this exists in Arkham Knight
It's annoying.
Vet visits are like $70. They should subsidise that.
It’s not a very important country most of the time
http://steamcommunity.com/id/mortious
idk ask your dad at home where you live because you're too babby to sell your xbox without permission.
"people like free stuff" seems about as cartoonish as "people are idiots who don't know they agree with me"
i don't think there are many people in favor of police departments who don't realize they also pay for them through taxes
No. We don't really have a word for it. It isn't even regulatory capture or special interest lobbying. It's really just law makers being bad at their jobs and not being able to imagine a system that is different from the current private insurance system. The ACA is not really such a huge reform. It's mostly some nice changes to insurance laws coupled with an attempt to solve the individual insurance market failure of adverse selection, but with no incentive for insurers to offer their plans at lower prices than they did while the market failure was on going.
I feel you're being intentionally minimizing here. It goes far being "free stuff" because of course it isn't "free stuff" in any sense and support for social welfare programs is much deeper and nuanced than a simple desire for that for which you must not pay.
basedman
Socialism =/= free stuff.
This is kind of proving my point!
that was a glib joke, spaceman
but i agree with everything you're saying as well
i prepared slides
But many would agree that we need to have more things given to us that we don't need to pay for, if you offer that option.
are you pro or anti nipple
Simon did I ever link to you to the interview between Urasawa and Eguchi?
They have some pretty hilarious Tezuka anecdotes.
daaaaaaaamn
who's offering that option?
old can't even remember posts from a few minutes ago
the more interesting part is the claim that not breastfeeding your child is harming them (esp. because i think that claim wasn't made on the basis of the short term benefits of breastfeeding but the alleged long term benefits)
all of these are social services provide by my government (which I own and pay for) for the benefit of myself and my fellow citizens
much of this would even be considered "socialism"
none of it is "free"
to boil it down it "people like free stuff" tells me that you either don't respect the opinions being written about in this conversation or you are uninterested in joining the conversation in a serious manner and are having a laff
r u avin a laff m8?