I really don’t disagree about the government’s currently delusional priorities. None of those things are better, or even good uses of taxpayers’ money. I suppose it would be an expedient way to make use of already existing healthcare facilities and staffing, at least in the interim before they can start gradually streamlining.

My comment was influenced by my mentality as someone who does live in a(n actual) welfare state, but I’m sorry I was so ignorant about it!

Obligatory “not American” warning, but I think the problem is more complex than just making the government a customer. Countries with public healthcare generally don’t refer to private providers because the cost is orders of magnitude higher than a state run operation. (With few exceptions; my country paid for me to go to a private hospital once because I needed a specialist for something uncommon, and there weren’t enough in public hospitals / I was overspill.)

You don’t just have hospitals, you have an entire economy of insurance, administration, and severely inflated pricing to account for all the useless jobs and bloat. If none of that goes away, then I don’t see why the government would be incentivised to use them, rather than just set up state hospitals.

Also, unrelated but I just re-read the title; does Dr Oz still have any credibility whatsoever?

It breaks my heart that apparently most of the British public have never had good black pudding.

Tasting History with Max Miller has a video on exactly this topic! Highly recommend it.

Not at all. On the contrary, I found them quite liberating, for 2 main reasons:

• not having to decide what to wear every day
• I was in a British private school, where students came from upper middle class to upper class backgrounds. A lot of the really rich students were shallow, superficial, and cruel. If we didn’t have uniforms we would have had a serious bullying problem against those who couldn’t afford to wear high end/designer brands.

The only downside is that we had to pay for the uniforms, and they were quite expensive compared to the awful materials they were made of. I had 3 sets on rotation.

God, I rapidly lose brain cells whenever I read a post of his. Reads like a Daily Mail headline.

I find frogs really cute, so I hate this lmao

Syria indeed! I haven’t been home since 2010 though.

No need to excuse your Arabic haha, I don’t speak a lick of Hebrew (yet?), and my own Arabic is probably at the proficiency level of an 8 year old.

I live in the UK and am very passionate about learning languages. I’m working on my 5th - Chinese.

Ah, sorry I hadn’t appreciated you were after split tunnelling… You can do this with Tailscale for services where you’re connecting to a fixed IP/FQDN, which I think rules out torrenting/P2P unfortunately.

The only way I’ve seen to pass a specific app’s traffic through Tailscale appears to be an Android exclusive feature.

If I’m wrong someone please correct me!

You can absolutely use Tailscale; your host in the unrestricted country needs to be set up as an exit node (CLI argument in Linux, or a menu option in the system tray in Windows.)

Then, your local machine needs to be set up to use that remote machine as its exit node. (tailscale up --exit-node=remote-tailnet-ip-here)

Levantine Arabic speaker here. 👋🏽

Yep; same issue here. Does my absolute nut in. If you use a VPN or a cellular connection on a brand new Reddit account, it’s already doomed.

Reddit stinks.

Freezing! We (England) seem to have skipped autumn entirely.

Are you only referring to the national rail network, or also local services like tube/metro/etc?

If it’s all inclusive, yes, absolutely.

Shirt goes hard, I can’t lie. Is there any proof that Allah isn’t a lesbian?

Nope and never claimed they are.

Are you from North America? In Europe, almost nobody smokes joints with pure weed.

I remember enjoying The Force Awakens in the cinema, but I probably enjoyed it about as much as I would have enjoyed rewatching A New Hope, because frankly they’re the same movie.

I started watching the 2nd one in the new trilogy (don’t even remember the name) and got bored. Never watched the 3rd one.

And then there was Rogue One, which I also watched in cinema. I did enjoy it, but it was also an absolute nothing burger of a movie with 0 lasting impact or characters worth remembering.

I don’t feel like I can give you literal conversation starters that aren’t super boring or generic (like chats about the weather), without way more context than is possible to obtain at this stage.

But, one thing that did help me strike conversations and eventually friendships with people, was just hanging around campus doing stuff that piqued other people’s interest.

A couple of times it was me playing on my Nintendo 3DS between lectures, and once someone even came up to me to compliment my Sony Discman.

Other times it might be something as simple as there not being any empty tables in the cafeteria, so you ask to sit with someone. If they’re not clearly busy or studying, you might start by asking what course they do, how they’re finding it, etc. These are all fairly passive approaches though, and that’s possibly related to my extreme introversion.

A slightly more active suggestion – take advantage of group assignments! (As much as I hate them.) Make plans to meet up. Get a few hours of work done together then hang out with a few beers or a soda or whatever. Win-win.

As much as I think disclosure is important, they didn’t have sex. This is literally just trans panic. I cannot believe she got charged with anything.