Several elections apparently.

Not even slightly surprising to me. Mention China, directly or indirectly, and the fee fees of American neocon thugs get hurt and the downvote brigade comes out to fight as only they know best to fight.

snort

The downvoting brigade is out in force I see.

Terrified, are we, about an alternative to the current broken system?

Oh, I fucking HOPE so! The thought of all those assholes dying horribly of radiation and/or starvation on the trip or on Mars proper just fills me with joy.

Isn’t that what I said? 🤣

There are still people who will claim that this isn’t a Hitler salute.

Hitler disagrees.

Let me prove it:

I give it a week or two.

It’s funny. I’ve been called a “tankie” too for stating truths about China that are uncomfortable to its critics.

It’s almost as if “tankie” is a word that has no intrinsic meaning outside of “you are someone I disagree with and I need an epithet”. Pretty much the same as every other political epithet this way.

So I pretty much take anybody using the term “tankie” unironically and give them as much credence as I give anybody who uses words like “woke” or “DEI” or even “sheeple” unironically. I assume they’re a) ignorant cunts, and b) assholes.

If u break your leg - is hospital going to turn u away?

They will do the minimum amount of care to stabilize you and if you can’t pay, send you away.

If u don’t have insurance - are u going to owe 200k for broken leg?

Not 200K. Not even in RMB. A broken leg will be a few hundred. But yes, if you do not have insurance you’re paying.

If you cant pay for treatment - do they take your house?

If you can’t pay for treatment you may just die. A student of mine got hit by a bus and took tremendous head trauma. The surgery for this was 30,000RMB. He was from the countryside so he and his family didn’t have 30,000 RMB. He got no treatment beyond basic stabilization until his classmates and teachers gathered up a substantial portion of that 30,000. Then they saved his life.

In. That. Order.

I think u maybe confused about what universal health care is.

I think you may have no clue what you’re talking about vis a vis China.

Now all that being said, if you’re employed at all, by anybody, anywhere, you automatically have health insurance, mandated by law. And, being state-run insurance firms, they’re not the utter steaming shitpile that American “health insurance” is. But if you’re not employed, or if you’re self-employed, you either get insurance on your own, or you pay out of pocket. There is no universal health care.

P.S.

An AMERICAN telling a CANADIAN that she doesn’t know what universal health care is is hilarious. Also, an American telling someone who’s been living in China for almost a quarter of a century how China really works is even more hilarious.

What’s next? Are you going to tell me what the city of Wuhan is really like?

China does not have universal health care (if that’s what “uhc” means).

Source: I live here.

One of many reasons I don’t trust “EVERYTHING MUST BE COMPUTERIZED!”

Because it’s easier to throw the latest Monster of the Week at players than it is to craft NPCs and relationships such that there is compelling drama. Combat is easy. Drama is hard.

Yeah, like I said I was gone long before the Ketamine Kid took over so I didn’t have to watch that pattern develop.

I just got this creepy “we don’t know what ‘consent’ means” vibe from their continued forcing of accounts I don’t give a shit about on me. I’d open each day by blocking each and every “recommended” account and figured out that I was spending more time doing that than actually using the site.

So I ditched.

I have no autism superpowers and spotted the pattern that Twitter was a toxic shitpile before Kaptain “Ketamine” Kidd took over the helm.

All it took was for me to recognize “you know, every time I use Twitter I feel like shit”.

“Think” is doing some very heavy lifting there.

That’s really weird to me.

If I’m playing a board game (like Xiangqi/Chinese Chess) what’s cool is when I spot an opportunity and exploit it. This is playing according to the rules of the game.

If I’m playing a card game (like Fight the Landlord) what’s cool is when I assemble a good combination of cards that drains my hand with inexorable play. Or when I find just the right timing to interfere with someone else draining their cards. Again this is playing according to the rules of the game.

In sportball, presumably when the audience is going wild at a cool play by some player they’re playing according to the rules of the game. (I can’t attest yeah or nay to this because sportball isn’t my vibe.) Is this not cool? (I’ll let sportball fans answer here.)

So why would RPGs be the exception to this? Why do you have to break the rules of play to do cool things?

That’s really weird to me.

The USA doesn’t have an administration any longer.

It has a regime.

It hinges on whether Canadians will continue to tolerate Americans in general or not.

Signs point to “no”, if prevailing trends are anything to go by.

Why don’t you stay in your homeland and fix the problem you had a hand in creating instead of exporting it?

The fact you’re using “fee fees” unironically says enough about you that I’m pretty sure that Canadians don’t want you. We have enough assholes, thank you very much.

I still have no idea. “I critically succeed.” How? Why? With what?

There’s a reason why rule books are larger than half a page of A4. I genuinely have no clue how this works even with an example. Because there’s no explanation.

Your example needs to be “explain like I’m five”-grade. YOU know how this works. WE don’t.