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  • This is why I’ve just never liked super hero universes.

    In isolation, it’s passable, fun even, and I’ve enjoyed some marvel stuff.

    When they actually try to do world building, it’s just so, so bad.

    This is my opinion, apologies to those who generally like the Marvel universe, but I just can’t stand it. (Based on the handful of films I’ve seen or heard about).




  • How else do you figure out who is being addressed? (I extremely rarely send an email to one person, there’s almost always like 3-7 people in the to and cc fields combined).

    It’s so reliable I can set up filters for “Hi Name” & “Hello Name” and catch like 97.5% of the emails addressed mainly to me, vs ones I should just know about.

    Almost everyone I know says “Hi Name” at the start.

    Chat messages, not so much. Depends how old the person I’m talking to is.

    The number of older people who will just write “Hi Name” and wait for me to respond is insane. This isn’t a phone call, you don’t have to wait for me to say hello lol


  • My biggest pet peeve is doctors referring to medication by brand name instead of active ingredient.

    Should be illegal, in my view.

    I’m a little shit and whenever “most dominant brand name for paracetamol”* and “most dominant brand name for Ibuprofen”* are mentioned by a doctor, I play dumb and ask if that’s paracetamol/Ibuprofen.

    They’re literally advertising for companies who’s product is 5x more expensive for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

    *I refuse to give them free advertising




  • Some dude I met who was previously working in Germany told me he came to Australia because tax was too high in Germany. He told me confidently that it was 40-something percent, flat tax when you earn over a certain amount. I queried if that was the top tax bracket and he told me no. I was shocked at high the marginal tax rate was based on that.

    Turns out, despite being a highly specialised metal machinist, he doesn’t know shit, and Germany has tax brackets like everywhere else…

    People are astoundingly uninformed.










  • Sort of. A lot of us (countries) have some kind of public healthcare, but it’s not really universal.

    From experience in Australia: dental isn’t included, physio is limited, out of pocket costs can be large for non-hospital visits because it’s not a public system just a private subsidy model (mostly), wait times for “elective” surgery can be way, way longer on the public system because private health is permitted to exist and the public system is underfunded/understaffed.

    What’s worse is that private health cover is allowed to just cover the difference between public and private, meaning even if you go private, the public is still paying. Like, you wanna be private, fuck off and go be private then… (Talking to the private healthcare advocates, not the people. I have some level of private healthcare cover, even though I think it’s a fucking stupid system)

    List goes on.

    It’s WAY better than the US, but I refuse to call it universal.