Grew up in the rural northwest US, been living the last decade-ish in Germany, Austria, UK.

All of these places have rich and poor, but the poorest in the US have it sooooo much worse than those in the other countries I mentioned.

Also, they are geographically isolated which kept them out of most destructive wars.

The poorest inhabitant of the USA has rights, possibilities and duties that only the richest in any other country can only dream of.

Sorry but this is the biggest load of bullshit I’ve ever read.

I grew up in an area of the US with poverty issues and now live in Europe. The lives of poor Americans are so much worse than where I live now (central europe) that it’s almost hard to fathom. Poverty in the US is systematically CRUSHING and can be near impossible to escape. It’s a soul-destroying existence…

There are certainly places which are worse, but we just don’t have that here in Europe to nearly the same extent! I’m far from rich, but life is much nicer here…

Being a scientist is a ridiculously hard career path these days.

Yeah weed easily smells at least as bad

The flexibility of the rights platform is actually one of their greatest strengths.

They are happy to flip-flop on things that they kinda care about in order to keep people onside and get what they really care about.

We on the left should learn from this. Less purity tests and trying to die on every hill or we’re fucked.

“I wish I could work at home tidying up the house for no salary and have no income of my own!”

As a fun aside: both my wife and I would both love to do this! Unfortunately it’s just too tough financially in the modern world, so it’s never a really serious discussion.

Plus we would have to flip a coin or something to decide who has to be the breadwinner.

We don’t really have a relationship that revolves around power-roles though, so it’s a bit of a different discussion.

At least europe it has kind of switched to the opposite in recent years.

I did a doctorate in physics and women had a much easier time finding PhD/post-doc positions because there is just much more funding available.

Most groups in my institution were majority women.

Professorships are still nearly all men, but that’s largely down to the sexism of the previous generations (back in the 60s-90s when they got their positions). This will slowly shift in the coming decades.

MMOs are the reasons that my typing style involves my left hand covering 60-70% of the keyboard and my right hand getting the remaining 30-40% that I can’t easily reach.

Only need to bring in the mouse hand of absolutely necessary!