MeanwhileOnGrad

So you recognize your colleague from the other side huh?

It looks like in 2009, the CCP indentified that there was a problem in rural access to health care, took a big swing at fixing it, and it worked. My sort of stereotype of it is that for all their heinous treatment of anything that “threatens” them, they really do sometimes make sweeping policies which are just aimed at making things better for the average person, which the US as a general rule does not.

I think the increase in the US is probably real, maybe increasing desperation as the combination of the financial crash, opioid epidemic, and increasing rents drove people increasingly into the margins.

Mostly, government intervention means to help people only in the cities, yes, but one of the really notable things about Chinese modernization is that the government pushed to have it spread out to the rural areas, too, with big investments in modernizing and improving basic quality of life everywhere

Yeah. In addition to causing massive suffering, [sanctions] often work backwards, too, strengthening the regime they’re trying to weaken.

Also, if you’re mentally disabled, your employer is allowed to pay you less than minimum wage.

USA, whee

It took until 2017 for universally accepted for decades rapist Harvey Weinstein to even get fired. It took until 2018 before he was charged.

The contest of whether being a successful white man who doesn’t rock the boat should enable you to do literally whatever you want, is still very much up in the air in this country.

America in general is making Americans miserable.

Drive everywhere, media is awful, job is either $12/hr or good money to spend all your day making things worse, people are fake, food is poisoned, plastic is in everything, it all gets more expensive every year to pay people who already have enough, and public space is nonexistent.

[email protected] is pretty good.

Yep, just another day in Eglin.