Funny Events of the "Woke" world
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Right... but the USA also spends vastly more on healthcare.
I found some figures for the USA.
Apparently the total amount spent on food & drink in the USA was ~$1.8 trillion (2019). However, its healthcare expenditure was $3.8 trillion (2019). So in fact it's even less true of the USA than the UK: the average American spends around twice as much on healthcare as on food.
Questionable.
The USA, as a major cultural melting pot, has a lot of influences bringing in different ideas that have contributing to lots of interesting styles of food - "cuisine": but lots of the raw materials can be low quality. The UK had poor cuisine, but the food quality could often be quite high (although rationing during the world wars severely damaged that too as people got used to using low quality and processed foods). Unsophisticated cuisine can still be very effective as long the food quality is good: a typical British roast dinner thrives or dies on food and cooking quality.
Since the 80s the British kind of woke up to their terrible food and had a huge explosion in cuisine (much due to immigrants with better stuff) which means it is very easy to get hold of good food across much of the UK these days: hardly anyone eats traditional British cuisine regularly. Some restaurants describe their cuisine as "Modern British", which is sort of traditional British basic concepts but heavily re-invented with other techniques and styles, usually Continental European.
Thus we might very much argue that (traditional) British cuisine tends to be very poor, but in fact "food" generally in Britain these days is decent-good.
I'm sure you know as well as I do that a large portion of the "healthcare expenditure" is companies and the government passing each other big fat checks without accomplishing anything.
How about we go with a source that has a more direct comparison:
You definitely know as well as I do that I will defend my flippant comments into the ground.
Wouldn't rationing be a thing for pretty much every European country though? Rationing didn't ruin French or Italian cusine for instance.
I think the implicit statement is that England has never had a strong culinary tradition. Not like what exists in France or Italy at any rate.
I mean, in the case of France (urban France, at least) rationing was essentially a starvation diet, and that's if you could even find food at all amidst the massive shortages. The Italian experience was less extreme, but still very bad for a lot of people.
You don't get things like rationing cookbooks in France because rationing wasn't a thing you learned to endure. In Britain, it was, and hence we ended up with a postwar culture still obsessed with frugality when it came to food. My parents still had those old, wartime rationing cookbooks when they went to university in the 1970s. They were born a decade after the war, and they still grew up with an ethos of literally eating garbage if it meant saving money. I think that's a pretty uniquely British thing.
But so what? It's healthcare expenditure. If it's pissing away substantial quantities money for corporate profits, that's part of your nation's healthcare expenditure.
I'm pretty sure that's looking at direct, out-of-pocket healthcare spending. But I think that's an extremely misleading way to look at health expenditure.
As Terminal Blue explained above.
WW2 heavily converted the British to stuff like egg and milk powder, processed meats like spam, etc. - and for nearly 15 years, because rationing only ended in the mid-1950s. That brought a lot of people up with some less-than-distinguished culinary skills and practices. Part of the impact is also that the UK has far less agricultural land than most European countries relative to population, and back in those days a lot of non-processed foodstuffs were harder to transport and remain fresh.
But not part of what any individual is spending.
It's not. That includes health insurance.
And the food industry numbers are padded the same way. Prisons, military, government, assistance programs
So we agree: Health Insurance companies are vampiric middlemen who leech money out of the system while providing no value
If you're buying insurance personally, it's coming out of your pocket.
However, people getting insurance through a scheme such as an employer insurance package is de facto paying for health insurance. Technically they are not in that they are not the ones handing over the money. But that healthcare package is something they receive in lieu of salary (which would otherwise be necessary to maintain an equivalent "reward" for labour).
lower case as Indigenous 'eventing' support resistance | MRU
the explicit demonstration and practice of aboriginal culture in everyday life or at places of resistance is called by academics ‘eventing
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You heard it here first folks, capitalization is oppressive.
Or I dunno, maybe someone mixed up anti-capitalism with anti-capitalization. 0_0
I guess it gives new meaning to de-colonization. I can only hope that semi-colons are spared the process.
How does something like that even get on your radar? You a frequent peruser of Mount Royal University press releases?lower case as Indigenous 'eventing' support resistance | MRU
the explicit demonstration and practice of aboriginal culture in everyday life or at places of resistance is called by academics ‘eventing
You heard it here first folks, capitalization is oppressive.
Or I dunno, maybe someone mixed up anti-capitalism with anti-capitalization. 0_0
I guess it gives new meaning to de-colonization. I can only hope that semi-colons are spared the process.
No. Just popped up randomly on Twitter.
Got plenty of time these days to just browse, to find stuff that makes me laugh, cry, or both.
Man, I thought you wrote capitalism.lower case as Indigenous 'eventing' support resistance | MRU
the explicit demonstration and practice of aboriginal culture in everyday life or at places of resistance is called by academics ‘eventing
You heard it here first folks, capitalization is oppressive.
Or I dunno, maybe someone mixed up anti-capitalism with anti-capitalization. 0_0
I guess it gives new meaning to de-colonization. I can only hope that semi-colons are spared the process.
This is a leap in logic I can't follow
Go home Canada, you’re drunk.lower case as Indigenous 'eventing' support resistance | MRU
the explicit demonstration and practice of aboriginal culture in everyday life or at places of resistance is called by academics ‘eventing
You heard it here first folks, capitalization is oppressive.
Or I dunno, maybe someone mixed up anti-capitalism with anti-capitalization. 0_0
I guess it gives new meaning to de-colonization. I can only hope that semi-colons are spared the process.
That's one of the best things about computer games: gives you something to do instead of sift through the cesspit that is social media.Got plenty of time these days to just browse, to find stuff that makes me laugh, cry, or both.
Today in woke world, Wi Spa did happen and a person has now been charged
www.theguardian.com
meaww.com
The thing that people were saying would never happen has seemingly just happened
Person charged with indecent exposure at LA spa after viral Instagram video
Charges filed two months after woman’s claims about Wi Spa sparked anti-trans protests
www.theguardian.com
According to the gossip news site Meaww Darren Merager is already on the sex offenders register and has two prior convictions for indecent exposure.
Wi Spa: Darren Merager charged for exposing 'partially erect penis' in women's section
A warrant was issued in LA County for the arrest of Darren Merager, based on 5 felony counts of indecent exposure in connection with Wi Spa incident
meaww.com
The thing that people were saying would never happen has seemingly just happened