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🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞

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  • Oh man, I would love to be able to go down the journey of discovery on Indian food. Although I guess for that matter, I haven't had a whole bunch. More of the "packets" you can buy (although at least those are generally made in India and shipped heh), only because most Indian places I've encountered are..... not cheap. heh. I wish more cuisines had buffets so you can try more stuff :) I have to be careful because I can't do onions or bell peppers unless they're cooked to smithereens like in gumbo. heh.

    And yeah, plenty of asshats in rural, but also urban. :) But I do think, bringing politics back into it....... we definitely have a huge rural/urban divide as far as things like social safety nets and, y'know, human rights. lol.

    I had to block most of my family over the years for that shit. It gets old. heh

  • Medicare for All Would Be $40 Trillion Cheaper Than Our Shitty For-Profit System | Common Dreams

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  • Let's start with the fact that I was there. It was in the news. I don't think that's anything I need to prove.

    I remember when it made news that it became projected to cost less. I was pleased because it made the debate easier.

    Believe it or not or look it up yourself.

  • I don't enjoy the Internet any more

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  • Not a bad post and has some good points but I think they're reacting to broader social changes. Not just the Internet. That mentioned co-workers, and that to me indicates a broader issue.

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  • I agree, and I think it's unfair. lol. There's a definitely divide betwen urban people and rural people, and I'm not talking politics here.

    Urban people all have to get along in a shared space. They don't wave and say "howdy' every time they pass on the street because they'd go hoarse within an hour. Rural people tend not to encounter as many people.

    Rural people recognize that strangers being around is much more likely to be bad news. Help is also farther away. So there's a tendency for a culture of self-reliance, and suspicion of outsiders.

    If you know someone rural, there's a good chance they'd give you the shirt off their back if you needed help and they were able to help. People have to help each other, there's nobody else that can.

    In an urban environment, we're more used to being able to have social safety nets - even if we largely don't in the US - and being able to call someone to help someone in need.

    So I think a lot of the reputation is undeserved. Good people and bad people everywhere.

    I do think the fascist figured out that the rural folks were easier to manipulate, although they do try to manipulate everyone.

    But anyway. lol.

    Certainly the food of the South is generally fantastic. And it should count toward honest US cuisine. People don't consider it to be haute cuisine, so they downplay it - but consistently people outside the US who come and try it love it. lol.

    And then you get into places like Louisiana and Cajun and Creole, for example, and there's a whole other little world of delightful things.

    It's wild to me because as Americans we tend to take pride in far too many things we shouldn't, and yet we are down on ourselves about our food that is legitimately awesome.

    I mean, take pizza and burgers - the ideas came from elsewhere, but we made both of those things our own. They are fully American in the way they're presented to the point that it is generally our version of those things that has spread back around the world (and then locally enhanced and changed in places). lol.

    But that's just how it goes. Curry went from India to Britain, and then when it went fro Britain to Japan, they call it "English curry". And now I buy "Japanese curry" (S&B brand) because I love it and love the Japanese "English" curry that came from India. lol.

  • Medicare for All Would Be $40 Trillion Cheaper Than Our Shitty For-Profit System | Common Dreams

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  • Good faith? This all stems from my top level comment, which I will remind was:

    I remember when cost was at least a valid part of the debate - when public was projected to cost more than private. But it was still worth it to give healthcare to EVERYONE.

    Now, it’s just ridiculously cheaper to go univesal, but the fascists don’t like it.

    What part of that makes you think I was ever talking about the cost at the point of service?

    And I'm thoroughly aware of the timeframe I was talking about. I'm 51 years old. I became an adult in 1993. I am aware of politics from at least that time (more vaguely aware as a child, but quite aware as an adult).

    So I don't know where the hell you got the conversation wrong, but it ain't me. :P

    All that aside, a quick thanks for keeping going with it. I have a feeling we're getting close to figuring out where things went wrong. lol. I feel like I haven't made mistakes so far here, but depends on what you reply with, I suppose. It sounds like I was talking the actual total cost, period, for healthcare in the US (because that was the debate and the point I was talking about), not where it costs and who it costs, and it sounds like you were on another page. lol. But we'll see if that makes sense.

  • 1960s-style frosted ribbon loaf

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  • So basically you thoroughly considered that aspic of the situation? ;-)

  • Medicare for All Would Be $40 Trillion Cheaper Than Our Shitty For-Profit System | Common Dreams

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  • Can't keep up with the context of the conversation because neither one of you people understands what the hell we're talking about. Go have your own conversation about stuff. I bet you'll find. I probably agree with 90% of whatever you believe. But none of it has to do with the conversation we're having here

  • Medicare for All Would Be $40 Trillion Cheaper Than Our Shitty For-Profit System | Common Dreams

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  • Only if you have the memory of a goldfish. The context of this conversation was about whether or not private sector medical care in the United States was cheaper or more expensive than public sector medical care.

    Neither one of those is free. Things cost money.

    It's not that you don't have a point, it's not that you're not correct in some contexts because you are. The problem is what you're saying has absolutely nothing to do with this conversation in any way whatsoever.

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  • No it wasn't. It was free to the end user. Or do you think every medical person donated their time and every medicine producer volunteered their time?

    What a ridiculous reply.

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  • smorgastarta is an appertizer. It's inthe name - smorga-starta, the best meal starta youse can gets!

    ;-)

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  • I never have figured out what to do with it, but when I was a kid I mixed mayo with tomato paste and it is tasty. It should go on some sort of sandwich.

    I also grew up eating ketchup on my scrambled eggs. And I'd make a scrambled egg sandwich with mayo on the bread. All tasty.

    So really, for me, egg an mayo and tomato have several possible ways to make it work :)

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  • Yes, except it was really mostly just the 50s-60s with a bit into the 70s before sanity was regained. Source: aspic, motherfuckers!

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  • Lighthearted exhortation - I still love a lot about Texas, but there's a lot going wrong there. Was basically playing with you a little very very very indirectly alluding to the "Don't Mess With Texas" slogan :)

    Very well explained, I think. Don't discount the Native American contributions, too!

    Some of the dishes of Tex-Mex:

    • Chili con carne
    • Fajitas
    • Nachos
    • Hard-shell tacos
    • yellow chile con queso (Mexican uses white cheese, Tex-Mex uses yellow cheese)

    Also, interestingly, the entree-with-rice-and-beans is also Tex-Mex.

    It's wild that people dismiss the cuisine as some sort of lesser thing. It's just how food works - ideas spread, ingredients spread, people create new things that stick around and BAM you have a new cuisine. :)

  • Medicare for All Would Be $40 Trillion Cheaper Than Our Shitty For-Profit System | Common Dreams

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  • I don't remember exactly when the projections flipped, but yes. Something like 20-25 years ago, the public option was projected to cost more. Then it became about the same, and now it's projected to be less.

  • "One of the biggest successes of neoliberalism was convincing most that depression can ONLY result from deranged internal chemical imbalances rather than as normal reaction to external shittiness"

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  • Ain't no worries. With my ADHD, I do have that happen a lot. My brain doesn't always realize where I'm expecting people to fill in the gaps I didn't realize I left, for one. hehe

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  • Only if you have insufficient love and respect for Texas (ignore recent fascist bullshit). :D

    But I think it works. It takes the best from both to come up with... well... in practice, you can take a few ingredients and make them into a lot of different things...... but they are all very tasty, so there's that. hehe

  • Is there a website that can tell you the new names to I guess "classify" people? Like the R word, or the N word or skin color or nationaility? For ex. Is African American still acceptable and so forth

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  • In Canada they use "First Nations", which I really like, so I use that a lot of the time (of the rare times the subject arises). :)

  • How to Keep House Smelling Okay?

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  • House MD I think. Tv show I didn't watch

    Silly joke :)

  • At Long Last, Americans Are Starting to See the Truth About the GOP

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  • sure, but I was referencing "[x] Doubt" :)

  • National debt nears $40 trillion: How we got here and why it matters

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  • This article's title is a lie. It did not address how we got here.

    I can tell you how we got here, at least the largest portion: Our oligarchs got tax cuts passed for themselves and routed money to their pockets. That'll be the single largest bit.

    Beyond that? Dunno. Crises hurt, yes. Wars also hurt.

    Corruption is a huge one.

    But NPR PBS wussed out on calling Republicans out. I was expecting them to be "both sides', but beyond a little mention of Republicans in a very general small way, they didn't do what the title said they would do.

    A rare, shitty NPR article.

    Be better on this.