8 pointsby keepamovin8 hours ago5 comments
  • bottle_roket6 hours ago
    We really just need to figure out the paying for healthcare thing, and then get money out of politics, then America is undeniably the best place in the world to live.

    A few more trains would be nice too.

    • MarkusQ4 hours ago
      The trick for paying for healthcare is simple, though no one likes it: we need to start paying for healthcare.

      By building a huge byzantine bureaucracy around everyone trying to get someone else to pay for it, we've driven up the cost (now we're paying for the health care plus all sorts of insurance administration and all their lobbyists and so on). By hiding the costs we've deprived ourselves of the ability to comparison shop. By opening the door to third parties we've taken a simple transaction between doctor and patient and added lawyers, private equity, government and who knows who else, and each and every one of them is taking their cut of the money.

      I agree trains are cool.

  • doydoy3 hours ago
    He says America, he means the United States. He says Europe, he means Germany. I wonder what else is he being "accidentally vague" about.
  • thisisnotauser6 hours ago
    As an American, I always see this kind of "cautious" foreign culture he talks about in shows and anime and I always thought it was meant to be a commentary of specific characters in the show, but everyone is like that? That's... kinda sad. I can only hope our good vibes here stateside become more contagious over time =]
  • zhoBEENG8 hours ago
    Everyone I know who has immigrated to America talks some version of this.
    • Guestmodinfo8 hours ago
      'emigrated to'.

      Sorry for correcting grammar. But being from one of the previous colonies, one desires to be a master of English and help others also to master it.

      We emigrate to a country from our own country.

      And other people immigrate into our country from some outside country.

  • archonis7 hours ago
    I wonder if rural farm town to Miami is the real story here vs. any sort of national culture clash.