Meanwhile in burgerland: Sure you can see a specialist, in the new year.
Me: okay great so early January?
Person on the phone: No, early July
I was supposed to go see a specialist back in October, but the schedule was wrong and so my appointment has been moved to March. Cool stuff! Hopefully it’s nothing serious or life-threatening. Be a shame if I had some sort of cancer or whatever the fuck and it had another 6 months to spread.
That’ll be $2500 thank you
It’s this ubiquitous thing when an American travels abroad and they see an institution functioning. Whether they fill up their gas then go pay for it, get better quality food for less than if you cooked it yourself, walk through a walkable city, get healthcare, travel via public transportation easily, some tourist attraction does any quality-of-life improvement, or someone is nice to them. You might know intellectually that America is a deeply unwell place, but when you escape, even to other parts of the anglosphere, you realize that it’s fucking cooked.
Free museums were a culture shock for me.
well, obviously the solution here is to reduce the material security of the working class so much they can’t afford to travel abroad, to ratchet up global tensions through militarism and “warnings” to make traveling abroad seem more dangerous than it is, and to increase the bureaucratic hoop-jumping around gathering/maintaining the documentation necessary to travel abroad.
It took me years to realize what I liked about Japan was the walkable city and good public transportation. I can fill up on anime slop at home, but I couldn’t place it for years that what really made me love living there was the fact that as a teenager I could just go out to a place and just do stuff. I ended up being in really good shape and lost basically all the excess weight at the same time. There was also a lot more of a community in the local block I lived on, small neighborhood events that you’d do with the neighbors for a night just to kinda stay familiar not to mention the more culturally Japanese things like 回覧板 where you’re just passing around a notice from household to household so you kinda have to interact with your neighbors a bit.
That original video is much longer and they really do a great job explaining way more than just healthcare. I’ll see if I can find it
Here’s a link: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Nss8tY/
ah nice
Let me guess:
: “Those evil EVIL authoritarians let me see the doctor and it was all paid for by….the T-WORD!1!1! No deductibles, no premiums! And service wasn’t deliberately sabotaged!1! The HORROR!1!1!1”No it’s more “everything bad people say about China is propaganda, dealing with their healthcare system was way cheaper and easier than dealing with the one in America”
I’m scared of what the comments might be like though.
I wrote a toot as an reply to the video on Mastodon. Turned out that he’s Russian/Ukrainan (“Copyright © 2024 Dmitri Sotnikov” in the footer of his website) and think that EU is worst than China because (what it seems) Meta ignores GDPR. When I asked for a source he linked to this article. After my reply on that, he linked to 2 articles (this and this).
His toot:
in China the government has access to the data the same way every western government has access to the data.
The big difference is that in the west there’s very little regulation to whom the companies can sell the data too.
You’re just regurgitating propaganda you’ve been fed by your regime here uncritically. You should be deeply ashamed of yourself.
I replied:
I have read about how China treat their people and visitors. Very good that they do have a strong privacy law now, but that doesn’t make them the best on privacy.
People (both regular and professionals within the field) warns people to interact with services from China because of privacy concerns.
I am not ashamed of myself. In my eyes, everyone who love how China gather peoples identity and how they welcome tourists/emigrants (privacy-wise), should be ashamed.
Over and out.
He responded with “I see your state propaganda you guzzle is doing a good job keeping you scared” and then blocked me.
Such nice guy :)
He linked you to sources, western ones that are anti-China at that, and you responded with hearsay. The fact that you think this is some sort of own, so much so that you reposted the exchange yourself, is absolutely hilarious.
I don’t think it was some sort of own. I was just as honest as I could be :)
Your honesty is irrelevant because you’re uninformed.
I am aware of USA and EU have a thing together. I am also very keen of my privacy and have read GDPR for Sweden, both for my own sake and for how I should handle others data that uses my websites.
What have I missed? Please give me links to the sources. I want to learn more.
You were given links to sources, but you decided to ignore them. Why should I waste my time doing the same?
The links I got from him was (in my eyes) not source for EU being worst than China privacy-wise. It was about China having stronger privacy laws these days (maybe stronger than mainly GDPR) and old news that EU are trying to fix.
It is illegal in EU to gather as much personal data as what China does. That’s all I’m saying.
The first article that you re-linked in your original post is about how Meta is ignoring GDPR. If the EU does not enforce GDPR, then it’s useless for protecting your privacy. Contrary to popular belief, Facebook and Instagram are not banned in China. They do not operate there because they are unwilling to abide by China’s stricter privacy laws.
You’re such an utter clown.
Well hello there again :)
I see you’re enjoying humiliating yourself on a different platform. :)
It’s always heck a lot of fun :) /s
If debasing yourself in public is your kink, who am I to judge.
It’s not my kink.
nothing to be ashamed of
