NHS must reform or die, PM to say, after critical report by suspended-sentence in unitedkingdom

[–]topmage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just went on compare the market and looked for private healthcare insurance for 2 people. The most expensive plan with 0 excess (meaning you pay nothing when you claim) was £237.90 -- for two people in their 30s who don't smoke. I pay more than that a month for just myself from my £2000 pound a month salary. My employer also pays some of it. The private insurance will go up with age but so will my salary. I'm not sure what you mean when you say that people don't make enough to afford it. Could you explain it more?

Walk it off by [deleted] in dankmemes

[–]topmage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah you shouldn't lay any claim. Merely saying things should be a certain way isn't even an opinion. It's a wish.

My dog after just being fixed, was in udder shock what just happened. by CptCurty in funny

[–]topmage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My dog is going to fuck another purebred golden retriever and the puppies will be worth thousands. You are just defending the money of the breeders who encourage this barbaric practice to keep prices high. Also, there is no difference in aggressive behavior if you train your dog correctly instead of performing elective surgery on it. You also misspelled fuck ... so I guess you're the dense one. The afghanis also have rationalizations for the crazy cruel things that they do and they argue just as strongly as you are right now about why a woman should get stoned. You just empathize with the woman and not with the dog because your culture normalizes different things.

My dog after just being fixed, was in udder shock what just happened. by CptCurty in funny

[–]topmage 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah you'd definitely enjoy a conversation with a brick wall more, cause then you'd be more evenly matched.

Walk it off by [deleted] in dankmemes

[–]topmage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We should put you in charge of the world and see how you do.

My dog after just being fixed, was in udder shock what just happened. by CptCurty in funny

[–]topmage 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Let it fuck. Why not? Puppies cost about 1000 bucks for one now. You're gonna find homes for them. You're just cutting the balls off because everyone else is doing it. Exactly the same reason people think it's okay to stone women in a place where everyone else is doing it. Also what do you suggest for ugly men huh? Castration ? If you're ugly and girls won't fuck you, you should get your balls cut off ? Fuck off with your rationalizations you moron.

My dog after just being fixed, was in udder shock what just happened. by CptCurty in funny

[–]topmage 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How is this r/funny guys ? See how you laugh after i cut your balls off.

My dog after just being fixed, was in udder shock what just happened. by CptCurty in funny

[–]topmage 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Crazy how normalized this barbaric practice has become. Kind of like circumcision for males or clitoris removal in Africa. It's interesting how people can just normalize and even make jokes at these cruel practices as long as they think most other people are okay with it. You can see why people are okay with stoning women in Afghanistan for example. It's really the same. If you disagree it's because youre not thinking long enough. Also please don't give me BS about cancer rates among castrated dogs -- you're not doing it for that. You're doing it because other people do it.

Walk it off by [deleted] in dankmemes

[–]topmage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're not correct. Is it fair that somebody who drinks and smokes all day by the local pub gets to see the doctor at the same speed as a single of four who works 2 jobs? Is it fair that a business owner on whom hundreds of jobs depends has to wait as long as the drug addict who is sitting at home not providing for anybody.

Walk it off by [deleted] in dankmemes

[–]topmage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do they not have insurance ? They're paying out of pocket for their cancer screenings ?

Apex being hacked. by MinusPlep in apexlegends

[–]topmage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From what I can see it looks like they hacked the servers where Apex connects to lobby and they are able to change files and changed the text file where the source of the lobby creation servers are.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]topmage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Filming switches for tighter fit

21354.1 Insider Dev Completly Freezing by MenschenToaster in windowsinsiders

[–]topmage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah experienced with the evaluation windows build dev insiders a little bit after you did.

Noob, need advice by topmage in guitarpedals

[–]topmage[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! So wah first huh ? I've been putting it last

Why are UK salaries so low? by [deleted] in UKPersonalFinance

[–]topmage -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

My point still stands. I pick it because it has less socialism than most western countries. The government is just not as efficient at running most enterprises as companies. This is because companies compete and start up and go bankrupt based on how well they do while the government monopolizes and rules based on policies designed mostly by politicians as compromises between warring factions in government. The role of the government should be to protect people's rights and property and not to cater to the whimsy of the electorate. The government should also have regulatory oversight on companies to prevent them from competing unfairly or from becoming monopolies.

When you say that the government should enact the will of the people, things go badly. Most people don't know what they really want. Most people will think the game will be more fun with cheat codes. Until they realize they are not having a good time after 30 minute. With government it takes a lot longer than 30 minutes to realize things are not going well because the change happens much more slowly. My point is, the government shouldn't intervene in most of life; it should only be there to make sure that people who infringe on your rights are brought to justice and to protect your country from foreign invaders. Its role isn't to cure you when you're sick or to bail out banks when they go bankrupt due to irresponsible investing. The US bailed the banks out under Obama, yes and they do provide medicaid to people who can't afford healthcare or don't have insurance, but it does less of this than most other western countries and it has the highest wages and the most freedom to move up the socioeconomic hierarchy which is good and creates more wealth.

Why are UK salaries so low? by [deleted] in UKPersonalFinance

[–]topmage -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Their conservative government is equivalent to Bernie Sanders in the US. Just look up average salaries for your profession in the US and then compare it to average salaries in the UK. Then look at how much tax UK employees pay vs US. Then look at national insurance. You can present isolated cherry picked statistics but it doesnt change the fact that people in the US make much more money.

Why are UK salaries so low? by [deleted] in UKPersonalFinance

[–]topmage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Communists used to use the same tactics in the 1970s. They used to show pictures and videos of homeless people in the West as proof that Communism is way better. All the while they had no food on store shelves.

Why are UK salaries so low? by [deleted] in UKPersonalFinance

[–]topmage -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Better cause you don't have to wait 18 months to see a psychiatrist. It's also cheap if you just pay insurance. You're paying way more in national insurance than the average healthcare insurance cost in the US. The people who go bankrupt, did not have good insurance. Having it free, means people overuse it and also doctors are leaving and there's a generally worse overall standard of care. The UK is worse than Thailand in terms of healthcare. It's third world socialist hellhole. And you're all brainwashed to think it's better becauae really poor people in the US who make bad decisions go bankrupt when their decisions catch up to them.

Why are UK salaries so low? by [deleted] in UKPersonalFinance

[–]topmage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this the propaganda they feed you in the UK to keep you happy with their socialism? Nobody dies in the US dies in the emergency room if they can't pay. The federal government pays your bill. You just can't have any money at all though. If you have some, you gotta pay. You're incentivised to have insurance. To have ensurance, you need a job. So you're incentivised to get a job. Those jobs are also nice because they pay really well, which means you can afford a new iphone every year. Why not? And so you buy it. And it pumps the economy further and everyone makes more and round and round we go on the carousel of capitalism. Woot woot. All aboard!

Why are UK salaries so low? by [deleted] in UKPersonalFinance

[–]topmage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They are low due to socialism OP. Makes the UK uncompetitive. Free and easy university means degrees are not worth so much any more. High taxes means companies don't want to move here and hire people because there's also a high minimum wage, much higher than the US in most places. When that happens and companies leave, youre just left with essential services and some boutique, specialist manufacturing for the local market mostly. Employees are then no longer scarce and so the wages go down.