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Australia seems to be doing its best to ditch it. Medicare levy plus a surcharge above a certain wage, but that surcharge goes away if you have private health cover. Health insurance companies have zero incentive to set premiums below what that surcharge would have been, particularly when, if you take up private health after you turn 31, then there's a govt loading on it. Gap charges (ie the cost over and above that covered by Medicare) grow every year, bulk billing is disappearing, the public hospital system is constantly being underfunded, etc.

Just privatise healthcare, what's the worst that could happen?

/ looks at US healthcare, and how well privatising just about everything else has gone for us so far

My app doesn't support spoilers so I don't know if this has worked. Maybe collapse this comment if you don't want to see it, just in case.

Edit: fixed maybe? Thanks @[email protected]

I've not tried them but you can get replacement pads which apparently have a cooling gel in them. Eg these.

No idea if they're any good but would be interested in hearing from someone with first-hand experience.

Sounds like someone is full of shit

Avoid talking to them!

They might make sense, and we haven't finished indoctrinating you!

There's no sound but all I can hear is Yakety Sax

Aussie here, to me xmas = summer time. Xmas movies always felt irrelevant, and the idea of Santa wearing all his gear is mental when it's often 40C+ and humid af.

Being cold would feel alien that time of year, even more so if it snowed because that doesn't happen in 99% of the country regardless of the time of year.

I don't know how I feel about this, but tbh that is based on what they were, not what they are.

That is brilliant, should I be worried? 🤣 (Just noticed I had a message, oops)

I suspect we're not taking about actual storytelling here as much as anecdotes that signal whether you will or will not agree with the rest of what's about to be said, but to answer the question as asked, imho good storytelling depends as much on the listener as the teller.

Some find joy to be infectious, they'll enjoy a story because the teller's eyes light up, and watching someone loving the shit out of something is itself a joyful experience.

Some will only enjoy a story if it's of direct positive relevance to them, regardless of who's telling it.

Does your ISP block ports? Many do, at least where I am. Some allow you to opt-out.

There are also some cons

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