@Bozza Healthcare here is a series of intertwined, highly regulated markets that are rigged to benefit key players and harm consumers and the public. Foolish people here think the problems would go away if the government just picked up the tab for everyone. It already does in that it is by far the biggest player in the market, and that hasn't worked out so well.
@Typo-MAGAshiv The other day, there was a story about an older woman in Canada who went to the doctor for back pain and they tried to sell her on euthanasia rather than treating it. People like the idea of free stuff. They don't understand that goods and services can only be rationed by price or by queueing. No other mechanism exists. So if something is "free," that means it is rationed by queueing and regular people will have long waits and lower quality products and services.
@Vermillion-Rx I tried it years ago when I was having joint issues. It didn't do much for that (nothing did), but I had the same experience you did. After a fairly short time, though, it quit having that effect. I've read that the red strains have the opposite effect, but I didn't notice anything when I tried one.
@MentORPHEUS I remember reading, long ago, that he'd opened martial arts schools in California. I assumed they were franchises or he'd sold the rights to his name. How interesting that they were like that. You'd think that cultivating bulliew would have been high on the list of things to avoid.
@SeasonedRP it was probably much less deep than you imagine.
After their success with Venezuela, they got cocksure that they could bully Iran to fold in a few days.
It has been a while since there was a US intervention, too, and some in the military wanted, as Trump put it, "fun".
It's absurd, but a lot of what happens in international relations, war as well, is based on emotion rather than logic and planning.
@MentORPHEUS Not having a plan to secure the Strait of Hormuz and/or control Kharg Island seems foolish to me, though clearly there is a lot of information I don't have. I don't get the strategy here or endgame.
@Typo-MAGAshiv That reminds me, I need to go to Home Depot again, especially since I now know what's going no. It was somewhat startling to have women approach me there. I'm old, and I wasn't dressed nice at all. They weren't early 20s smokeshows by any means, but both were a good 15-20 years younger than me and were nice looking and had good figures.
@Typo-MAGAshiv The whole "stolen land" trope always seemed to me as a cynical way to play on white women's guilt. It falls apart when looked at rationally because, as you point out, all land was "stolen."
@adam-l Those billionaires you mention who argued for systemic change conveniently wanted systemic change that wouldn't materially impact them but would impact those trying to get to their level. So yes, they were hypocrites. Headlines and mainstream news on such topics are never accurate, and are usually puff pieces planted by PR people.
