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  • Kazumarato196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneAGAB rule
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    5 hours ago

    Except Switzerland. Yaay second most expensive healthcare system in the world over here.

    And you know why? Because we have a system of private insurance, with various band aid fixes aimed at preventing the worst outcomes. It’s better than what the US gets, but not a good system because it’s still fundamentally wrong.













  • KazumaratoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldIt's On
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    6 days ago

    Peter Magyar was even in Victor Orban’s Party “Fidesz”, and formerly the husband of Orban’s Justice Minister Judit Varga. Then two years ago there was a schism over a pardon of someone who covered up child abuse.

    His new party “Tisza” is conservative, centre-right, but also pro-European and anti-corruption. I hope it wasn’t a mask that drops soon, but I don’t know enough about their politics, to say much.



  • “The path of the downed aviator is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men,” Hegseth prayed.

    "Blessed is he who, in the name of camaraderie and duty, shepherd the lost through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children.

    “And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to capture and destroy my brother. And you will know my call sign is Sandy 1 when I lay my vengeance upon thee, and amen.”

    It’s already bad enough that they have sermons in government buildings, but then it’s with this kind of content?




  • I think kids are always excited by new stuff, and if it’s big or complex stuff the excitement generally increases accordingly. Buses, trams, excavators, trains, planes, firetrucks, road rollers, cranes. And then as they get used to them the excitement either subsides, or it just keeps getting more and more specific.

    So for a European kid who at some point starts traveling by train regularly, it either subsides quicker, or it has more of a chance to get specific, because they start noticing the differences between the trains they use, and possibly the tracks if they use multiple kinds. This eventually results in lots of train nerds among grown ups.

    By the way, now I’m wondering, is the hobby of building and maintaining and running model trains on model tracks in a fixed installation at home common in the USA? I know at least three people who do that here in Switzerland, it’s not like sports or something, but for the large effort it still seems relatively common to me.

    One colleague at work has all the train models ever used by Rhätische Bahn in his collection now. That’s a regional train company that only serves mountainous regions by way of narrow (1m) tracks in one corner of Switzerland, but it’s still a big collection.