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You will eat your fermented fish and you will like it!

(Just meant that ppl who eat halal or vegetarian or something can get that lol)

Every single human, regardless of work, should have nutritious, culturally appropriate, tasty food; a dignified home suited to their needs; clothes in good condition etc.

If your country has a better system, it is because the unions and the left have fought for it. Don’t let the Macrons of the world do to you what Reagan did to us.

In addition, medical costs in the US are higher than many places, because the insurance companies don’t have to bargain with the whole nation at once. Even Medicare and Medicaid have historically been prevented by law from using their full bargaining power in some cases.

I don’t actually know what happens to medical coverage if you have medical debt. It will eventually go to collections and can be used to garnish your wages, I believe.

Are you asking about the specific course of treatment, which will verify by type and stage, or how people pay?

As for paying, the only national programs are Medicare (restricted by age) and Medicaid (restricted by income). The US veterans administration is a separate govt program for military veterans and I believe their families, too. Everyone else either has some level of insurance provided by their employer (which will still generally be terrible), or nothing at all.

The charts here are helpful https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6778988/

It’s great that you’re trying to take care of yourself!

“Overpopulation” is a lie spread by the right wing to distract us from the way that capitalists, oligarchs, etc. take from us. You might find a useful project in looking into community movements that have rejected, in the past and currently, exploitation under capitalism and other hierarchies. https://inv.nadeko.net/playlist?list=PLvwoHdNGq9wUbrwTZ2k8yXE5oABPBQ4NX here is a playlist with short videos talking about still-active resistance groups of many kinds. There’s always something we can learn from them. https://srslywrong.com/ this podcast is a sweety pie take providing fun and funny analyses of various hierarchies in society (check the sidebar for recommended episodes).

Talk about these feelings with trusted people in addition to your therapist. Pull back from watching the news/doomscrolling/social media for a while. See if you can take a trip to a place where life looks different, for a week.

Cops have no reason to put forth effort unless you’re at least locally important or someone above leans on them to make their numbers/look like they’re doing something.

Also is it “justice” to put someone in jail? Let’s say there’s no way to return what was stolen (money spent, property sold/destroyed etc). It certainly doesn’t stop them from doing more crime, it tends to force them into doing more bc it makes them less hirable and more economically desperate. It doesn’t make your situation any better either. It’s just more money for the prison companies.

There are privileges to being an empire and the capitalists in the US continue to use that empire to get access to those privileges. Favorable trade, commercial, and financing terms are a big one.

Also the US war industry pushes the country to intervene. You can see how there are interventionist and isolationist movements in the US fighting right now over how much the US gets directly involved in Iran-Israel.

What kinds of beginner guides do you think would have helped you get most things done? (genuine question - trying to help documentation writers understand new user issues)

No link?

Evolution has made us a lot of things, but mostly it made us cooperative beings. We have the ability to do all kinds of good, bad, and gray-area stuff, it’s more a matter of which of those behaviors our society pushes us towards.

For most relatively-nontechnical users, UX is among the most important parts of any OS. As long as it “feels snappy” and doesn’t run out of memory too quickly, marginal differences in resource usage won’t even register. Ideological considerations about being in control have been there since the beginning of Linux – it’s only the absolute horror of Windows 11 that has brought that to a crisis point that has more people switching.

I make these points out of frustration with some linux software devs who seem to hold UX in contempt. Darktable, for example, is powerful enough to pull tons of market share from the ever-more-expensive-and-resource-hungry Lightroom/Photoshop, but the mediocre UX is a powerful disincentive. “Fork it!” is… an answer. But, despite using Linux, I’ve never written a line of code. Neither have most of photographers in the world currently using Adobe products. UX is extremely valuable and shouldn’t be a second-order consideration.

More left victory memes for the cause ❤️

DOGE is not just a Musk thing. Privatizing government has been a long term goal of the republicans and capitalists for a very long time

Linux is super configurable! You’ll just need to try out a bunch of different window managers, taskbars, etc to see which one you like best, but maybe look for some videos to preview a couple first.

The unixporn Lemmy community also has examples

Don’t pick a whole distro based on the UI. The distro choice is about stability vs bleeding edge packages, package manager, minimal/maximal installs, security hardening vs convenience, use or avoidance of particular systems (e.g. systemd), and things like that.

The UI will come from your choice of desktop environment, window manager, compositor, etc. Those can be installed on most distros. You can also look at dotfiles for more theming. Ofc it’s silly to install a different UI on a particular flavor/version/spin of a distro built for a given desktop environment (like Kubuntu), though it’s still possible.

I’m enjoying Niri rn. It’s a scrolling & tiling window manager. I have it running on opensuse.

Dual boot

Telekinesis

What, no formalwear option?

I have lived in suburbs, subdivisions, and city neighborhoods with green space. People (or their landscapers) use leaf blowers in all of them.