I wash my knives in the dishwasher all the time. Wood handles and riveted handles suffer, but plastic handles wash just fine. Stop buying shitty knives.

So are avocados. The creature that was supposed to eat avocados whole is long gone.

Thank you for pointing out the flaws. Americans glorify universal care, and non Americans don’t understand what they are missing.

As an immigrant to America from a country with universal care, as well as suffering from an auto immune disorder, I am doing considerably better under the USA system than I was in the country I came from.

Besides the difficulty seeing specialists and getting advanced medication and procedures you have mentioned, proponents of universal care often forget to mention the proliferation of private medical services in every country offering universal care. How come there is a market for private hospitals and clinics if the public system is as great as they claim?

That being said, I still think the USA system needs major improvement, and in my 20 years of living in the USA, has noticeably gotten worse.

I occasionally watch an American YouTuber married to a Chinese man, living in china, and they can’t afford a car (my observation, she claims they don’t need one). They have recently upgraded to a bigger electric scooter as their family car.

Only if you don’t have insider info.

Someone make a rule that a new community is visible to the public only if it has more than 5 posts. At the very least, the person who opened the community needs to be active on it.

An American is trying to explain to a Russian what freedom of speech is.

American: I can go out to the street and shout for everyone to hear that my president is an idiot.

Russian: I can also go out to the street and shout for everyone to hear that your president is an idiot.

Chickpea cakes = breaded falafel?

At this point, American health/dental/vision insurance is just a monthly payment / membership fee needed in order to be able to access medical care at a somewhat reasonable price.

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Normalize paywall.

You had to buy the newspaper to read the newspaper, so paying for a digital newspaper isn’t any different. Plus, people will pay a reasonable fee for good content.

Even the ny times has paying subscribers. This isn’t much different from Netflix. As long as the pricing is fair, and the articles don’t double dip by including ads on top of subscription, it will work just fine.

Give people a free trial to test the content.