Nah this guy’s experience is not average. After all, ~5-7% of American citizens can expect to be incarcerated in their lifetime. The average experience is to never be incarcerated.

I stand by what I said. He’ll probably be fine. It’s not that bad. It’s not “I’ll never step foot in the U.S.” bad. Give me a break.

I live in the U.S. and just based on my lived experience so far I don’t see this type of thing as being particularly likely to happen to someone. To me it’s similar to how I probably won’t die if I drive to the grocery store. But every year tons of people die in traffic accidents so there IS a non-neglible chance that I will too. But I probably won’t. You’ll probably be fine if you come here, it’s not that bad yet.

Comedian Frankie Boyle has a funny bit about blackmail sponsorships where you threaten to say negative shit about a company if they don’t pay you. Like, you’re watching Law & Order and suddenly it’s

“Caught another pedo Sarg.”

“Oh? What was he doing when you caught him?”

* faces camera *

“Eatin Walker’s Crisps®” .

Why has the author of that article decided to sereptitiously add “white Europeans” to that quote.

Just put what he actually said. Just put the full quote. The mf said “they” in the part that was ACTUALLY quoted. Surely that “they” had an antecedent a few sentences before, yes??? So put that! I’ll decide for myself if what he really means is white Europeans.

What sort of job was it? When I was younger I did this data entry job as a temp.

Called out sick my second day. Then just… carried on working there.

Either you or the other guy is off by about 500 orders of magnitude.

lol what? Well how much danger am I allowed to put myself in before doctors get to tell me to eat shit when I turn up at the E.R.?? If I break my collarbone playing backyard football should insurance companies refuse payment because I wasn’t wearing shoulder pads?

Seems like a simple enough case that there can be a fact of the matter. Either U.S. wait time are shorter than single payer systems on average or they’re not; no need to rely on anecdotal stuff.

Is there anyone that can point to some good data on the subject?

FUCK, was this a Dark Tower spoiler??? I keep meaning to read past the first book.

Sounds shady. Prolly for the best they banned you.

OPs IQ^-1

I didn’t steal this industrial freezer because I’m NOT concerned about fruit stackability.

THIS level of political nuance qualifies as torture? He boiled it down for us into TWO men’s decisions and delivered it in like 300 words.

Yeah, we’re cooked.

Idk that food vernacular is necessarily downstream of rigorous taxonomies at all lol.

The good news is that these things pass, buddy. All things pass, and it’s almost over really. This economy, this president, they won’t last forever. This country, this current set of land masses, this current set of planets. It’s all gonna just…pass. Gonna be just one drop in a lake of space and an ocean of time. Gonna be pressed into a microscopic crease in the fabric of a spacetime already contorted by titanic folds of incomprehensible number and arrangement. Until it can hardly be said to have happened at all.

I can’t believe how fast people are willing to say this based on such tenuous evidence as this post of his. “very likely”?? I think you all should get a grip on yourselves.

Imagine, instead, a joke. Cause that’s what’s going on here. There’s no chance that this guy is serious and seriously thinks he knows the particulars of how a universal simulation is being implemented.

If you think Moe’s holds a candle to Chipotle, you should have your voter registration revoked.

OK well my counter story is that I move a lot for work too and I’m only slightly overweight but my upper back feels like it’s going to break in half when I wake up in the mornings, and my lower back tingles like a 9 volt battery to the tongue just always. 32 yo.

I guess just do whatever and maybe your back will feel fine and maybe it won’t. Just like all health advice.