I’ve no significant opinion of India beyond anti-Modi, and that’s a product of John Oliver. Most of my engineering team are Indian and some I like, some I tolerate. And a fear of Indian traffic by reputation alone.

But you could swap “American” with “Indian” in that first paragraph, change nothing else, and it be largely (if not entirely) accurate.

My grandmother was the county coroner for a while. She was a pharmacist professionally. In those places, it’s more “give it a quick kick and say they’re dead” (she never did that) more than anything else. She only declared death, not attribute cause to my knowledge.

The other part of it is that, for whatever reason, in my county the only higher arresting authority than the sheriff was the coroner. It was her job to serve him with papers when he was being sued and, not that it ever came up, arrest him when it needed done.

Weird system.

Quick guideline that’ll help you be more empathetic to the rest of humanity: other people’s experiences aren’t like yours. Their bodies behave differently, they have different socioeconomic statuses, their minds struggle with things yours finds easy and vice versa. So “skip a meal” is trivial for you and impossible for another. That’s why many different diets exist.

Stop painting humanity with one brush just because you can’t see outside your own world view.

Also: A chunk of human history where we skipped meals regularly also involved getting eaten by predators. Just because it was true in the past does not make it true now. Having access to calorie bombs 24/7 is normal now. And society hasn’t figured out how to deal with that. Some handle it fine, others handle it poorly.

Where did they assert that it was a substitute for water? I missed it. I also missed your justification for the same (approximately) beverage being twice the calories in America, thus contributing to that problem that you blame on individuals. Almost like you don’t have one. Weird.

Clearly because you don’t struggle with this thing, the struggles of others are invalid.

Capitalism is significantly at fault because it pushes more and more food, makes cheap (read: affordable) food severely fattening, and creates industries that prey on people’s insecurities and entices them into all kinds of disordered eating. To say nothing about the general decline of physical and mental health caused by unfettered capitalism that often manifests as disordered eating.

But yeah, eating too much is the only problem. Thanks I’m cured /s

I’m pretty sure the amount you’d have to increase it to break even with the new insurance you’d need and all the cleaning would rather defeat the purpose.

Liability and drivers don’t want to clean up blood to start.

I honestly don’t know why Americans accept their healthcare system.

We don’t have enough money to pay off our lawmakers compared to the healthcare industry’s bribes.

You do. And not a small amount, like an Uber. Hundreds of dollars, regardless of how far it goes. I’m sure there are markups for care received, but I’ve not been in one to know.

It’s a metaphor for getting back up after you fall down, which is the kind of shit people who actually use LinkedIn as a social media eat up.

Looks at the 2016 US election…

Yeah, I thought that was Wayfair…

Duress is also a good word. “Sign this loan or you’ll be sad and poor forever”.

I’ll bet they’ll still come for you. That shit will follow you to the grave and beyond.

I mean, we weren’t forced into it. We were just told we’d be homeless (or some other stand in for poverty) if we didn’t.

Now a lot of people with loans are in poverty because of them. We weren’t forced into them is only technically true.

Oh man. That’s on my short list of games that I 100%ed when I was a kid, alongside the banjo kazooies and Mario 64.

Now I’m itching…

I sent one to get my history. Took them like a month to send it. I’m in the midwestern US and they never asked me or said anything about it. I imagine it’s different for a more exciting gdpr request (I assume there are other requests).

Warehouse 13 and The Librarians always scratched similar itches for me.

I liked it a bunch, but I’ve told anyone that I don’t recommend it until the next season comes out. That cliffhanger ending was too nasty.

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