For a minute I thought it was Torvalds and was highly confused.

Ireland. I’d happily live in more or less any European country. Ireland is pretty great though IMO, especially for raising kids.

Unfortunately anything beyond this point is tainted. The only thing that can save this is the USA coach deliberately not fielding Balogun.

Absolutely amazing how intact the cabin is. Modern car safety is phenomenal.

No shade on folks who live in trailers. Dat poverty trap 😭

certainly not the hassles with configuring interrupts on expansion boards, getting CD-ROMs working on “older” PCs, juggling conflicting DOS config.sys and autoexec.bat configs

Jeez I really forgot about all that shite. ISA cards sound cards being a total whinge. Doing clean installs every once in a while because your bloated registry meant your computer had gone to shit. Burned CD’s with your favourite apps on them so you didn’t have to download them again on dial up.

I never really liked South Park (with occasional exceptions where it shone) but I loved the movie.

I would, but my stomach hurts when I do 😭

I had amazing ramen in Estonia. It was run by a Japanese lady though so I’m not sure that counts.

I just discovered this yesterday and went all the way down that rabbit hole. Holy moly they are really trying to beat down on the guy trying to do the right thing. That police department is NASTY.

It looks like he has some good lawyers coming his way though. Looking forward to the second part of the civil rights lawyer’s video (and part three of his own).

I teach all of my kids that “no” is a complete sentence. I want them to be very conscious of consent, but I also want them all to respect their own wishes.

Unrelated, I also teach them all how to throw a good punch and keep their god damned hands up and chin down as soon as I think they have enough self control not to abuse it.

That’s not what I learned, it was that she was wearing male clothing (for safety) then renounced that, then later ended up in male clothing (probably through coercion) and that was considered a renunciation, ergo murder.

She was fucked anyway from the get go after being caught by the English who had declared her a heretic early.

I just finished listening to the episode on her on half arsed history…

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7aZ4UHNYzApJUOxoSdObzZ

Twice. Once for the launch of the GameCube which had a midnight launch. There was essentially no queue for that

Second was in the run up to Christmas. We do one big present for each kid at some point and I had to queue for a very limited number of PS3’s in the country from about 3am. We knew there were some coming to a local store but it was very limited.

Nearly got in a fisticuffs with an attempted queue skipper. Prick. He was behind me so it didn’t directly affect me and he kept saying as much and telling me to relax but fuck that for a game of soldiers. I wasn’t going to let him steal someone else’s further back.

Without seeing your choice I was oscillating between blue and green but settled on green.

Just three for me. I don’t fancy that comedown.

That’s cool!

blood works are €80 on the GP, but specialist might require specific tests that GP doesn’t offer, I have paid around €600 for some blood exams

Sorry to tell you but you were being robbed blind.

Bloods are free at my GP. If I’m going private (after the initial consult which I did forget to mention), once I’ve been referred it’s all been covered. Public it’s all free of course.

That’s fucking wild shit. Honestly never heard of it. Not doubting you for a second. I’ve just never come across it.

Edit: I wonder did your employer just pay for an absolutely shit private cover?

Ireland. Public health is high quality but it can be slow to get into the system. If you want high quality and fast you pay for insurance which is about 2K per year, depending on age and cover.

All prescribed medicine maxes out at 80 euro / about 95 USD a month for our entire family. Government covers the rest.

You pay for trips to the GP (local doctor) which are about 60 euro / 75 USD unless you’re low income in which case they’re free. They will refer you to the hospital if necessary and that is free.

At that point if you’re not private things can get slow but my most recent example was fast. Daughter had ongoing headaches for a while. Third trip to the GP she wrote the referral letter and we went to the emergency room. She got seen quickly and they set up an MRI for the following week. After that we had two follow ups with a consultant (high level specialist doctor). All free.

There is huge room for improvement but I honestly couldn’t imagine living in a place that will let you die if you don’t have enough money. I honestly find that notion both crazy and disgusting.

Edit: I forgot to add, if you just show up to accident and emergency without a referral it’s 100 euro / 120 USD. Regardless of treatment that’s the full cost. Triage can mean that if you don’t actually have an emergency you’ll be waiting hours. If you show up with life threatening symptoms you’ll be seen very quickly though.

Ambulance is always free.

There are other supports for folks who need regular trips to the hospital but can’t drive (e.g. regular chemo). There’s a community car here in my town for example (10k people) with volunteers but I think they cover taxis in many cases.

Last edit: you can claim any medical expenses for the year off your tax bill

It’s cool. Loads of sunflowers have been planted to offset the carbon emissions.

That sounds pretty cool. How was it?