La Blogue

Erin. New York. UConn.

[ana-elisabeta]

[notherenottherenotanymore]

If you tried to live on iceburg lettuce alone, you would have to eat 34 heads of lettuce daily and you would spend $17,551 annually before dying of multiple nutrient deficiencies.

[tlredgravity-deactivated2017081]

why was this calculated

[tvwolfsnake]

shoutout to lemony snicket for being honest with children that adults are horrible at recognizing child abuse, or that if they do recognize it they will act like their “hands are tied”. I’ve seen so many people get indignant about that but it’s absolutely true to my experience also shoutout to lemony snicket for filling an entire page of a book with just the word “ever”

[books-n-quotes]

“How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?”

— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

[epicallyepicepicosity-deactivat]

[raccoonfootproductions]

This is the most wholesome political comic I’ve ever seen.

[pankhearst]

The Grand Budapest Hotel, dir. Wes Anderson (2014)

[tonightweredrinkingfromthebong]

gwen stefani was right when she said this shit is bananas

[minuty]

[twitblr]

This can’t be legal

[trevenanl-deactivated20200913]

not even Burt and all of his Bees could save me this time

[kid-khidr-deactivated20201030]

reflections from an underwater wave 

[w0ahcam]

[coqillage]

[egberts]

im really pissed that palindrome isnt palindrome backwards

[viridiscrow]

Ah, yes but emordnilap is a word!

An emornilap is any word that, when spelled backwards, produces another word. Examples of emordnilap pairs include:

desserts & stressed

drawer & reward

gateman & nametag

time & emit

laced & decal

regal & lager

And therefore “emordnilap palindrome” is an emordnilap palindrome.

Which I, for one, think is really frickin’ cool.

[egberts]

dude

[quilavastudy]

I get really confused when americans, when talking about universal health care are like ‘yeh but it’s not free sweaty :) :) you have to pay it through taxes :) so gotcha!!’

and I’m like ….???? That’s the whole point??? Everyone pays their fair share so that no one has to be turned away because they don’t have insurance??? And no one has to set up a Fundraiser page just so that they DONT DIE???? So people don’t put off going to the doctor because they’re scared of going bankrupt?? Because healthcare is a RIGHT and should be free at the point of access?!?

[peccatopotpourri]

“So no one has to be turned away” she says hahaha go to a universal health care country and get a necessary operation in less than a few years and come back and talk shit.

Look at the cure rates compared to mortality rates in universal health care countries and compare them to ours, then talk shit.

Tear your ACL in a universal health care country and see what the people say if you should go to their hospitals or go to an American hospital, then talk shit.

[fluffmugger]

2010. I’d been feeling a bit ill. Work was going nuts, so I figured it was stress.  Pretty good call considering a week later work fired their entire IT department (of which I was part).    

But then I got sicker.  And it turned out I had cancer.

Burkitt’s lymphoma, stage 4a. It had spread into my brain and spinal column. 90% cure rate, but I needed nine months of chemo - and not the outpatient chemo, nope, talking multiple week stays per round of the magrath protocol.  Drugs were about 10k an IV bag.  I was unemployed.  And there were complications.

Thankfully I live in a country with universal healthcare.   And it didn’t cost me a goddamn cent to save my life.  I’m now officially past the five year mark to move me from “remission” to “Cured”.

I’ve lived in a universal healthcare country my entire life. And I’ve seen the US system in action.  Your system is fucked. Straight up fucked. You’ve got fucking Dickensian shit going on there, people dying on streets from preventable causes or ending up broke for breaking a hip.   Your health insurance companies have you by the balls and people like you are begging them to squeeze harder.  What the actual fuck is wrong with you? 

“But but but TAXESSSSSSSSS”

yeah no shit. That story above? Happened when I was 32.  I’d spent 14 years of my life paying those fucking taxes that funded the system that saved my life.    And guess what?   Now I’m cured, I’m…Back..at work..And have been for several years…earning waaaay more money and paying back into the system. This shit doesn’t exist in a vacuum, dickhead.  You’re not feeding some imaginary pack of leeches, you’re paying forward on your own damned healthcare so you don’t have to argue with an insurance company while trying to heal. 

[breefolk-hates-staff]

The argument that lines are long in a universal healthcare system is essentially arguing that people should have to die so that you can get to the head of the line quicker.

[tkkatherineblog]

[all-comes-crashing]

me and my friends dancing to “mr. brightside” 

[callunacthulhu]

I can’t get over how well this fits