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This is an impossible choice 😭

The vast majority of Asian healthcare systems are better than those in the West. I have seen it first hand in Thailand 🇹🇭. In the West you have either “free” healthcare with 10 month wait lists like in Canada, or $1,000 monthly insurance and $100,000 medical debts like the U.S. In Bangkok you pay 50 bucks a month for *GOOD* insurance. If you don’t want the monthly cost, you’ll pay a few bucks out of pocket for doctor visits, or $100-ish to see a specialist. Scale tops out at a few thousand for the most complex surgeries. Despite the low cost, you sacrifice nothing in terms of quality of care or wait times in Thailand. Thai doctors and nurses are world class, and many Thai hospitals are like luxury resorts. You can walk into a doctor’s office and be seen by a general practitioner in minutes. If you book a specialist (e.g. psychiatrist, dermatologist) you’ll be seen in a few days. Consider this contrast: In the part of Canada I’m from, the wait time for psychiatrists is about 1 year. In Thailand you can see one less than a week after calling. The Thai psychiatrist will in many cases be just as well educated as the Canadian one. The advantages of the Thai healthcare system are so immense that a whole cottage industry of medical tourism has emerged here. People literally MOVE to Thailand for YEARS at a time, just to get good affordable healthcare! It’s no wonder why. You can come to Thailand and get your braces, physiotherapy or surgery more quickly than you would in Canada or Europe, and more cheaply than in the USA. In fact, I’d argue that healthcare in Thailand is also cheaper than in countries with “free” heath care, because a health insurance plan that covers all procedures you can think of here, of costs about the same as the plans that covers just drugs in Canada. It’s a night and day difference.

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You know I am 100% on board with this post and TOTALLY agree that mindset and governance set the tone of how an economy grows and hence how a country feels. But culture lies under all this, its why middle income countries get trapped as they do, its not (entirely) the labor rate or the easy to measure metrics, its how on very broad averages, people work, how much they care, how detail oriented they are, how much 'honor' they place on a commitment. etc. I think it is declining generally in Europe which is why its felt acutely.

Imagine being so p*rn-brained that you can’t see women - your own daughter included - as anything more than a s*x object for men.

This might be a long war. If it is a long war the United States should try to win it. The prerequisite for winning it is similar to what would be needed to win a war against China: Complete military reform, drone manufacturing capacity, energy resilience. Let's go.

Most people in the world are living paycheck to paycheck.

Stay hydrated. Research shows even 1.36% dehydration is enough to cause significant mood decline in women: ↑ Anger-hostility 8% ↑ Fatigue 17% ↓ Vigor 12% ↑ Mood disturbance 19% ↑ Task difficulty perception 58% ↓ Concentration 45% ↑ Headaches 2x

What's something that experts/practitioners in your field universally agree upon, but that remains a "hot take" among the general public?

As a Muslim, your prayers are not accepted if you turn your back on Saudi Arabia, and if you are able to visit it but choose not to, then you will go to hell.

The moments when the "gaokao" scores were released. Gaokao - the college entrance examination of China. I hope my kid can also have such a moment.😭

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Scrolling during sex is the ultimate Gen Z jump scare. We’ve officially reached a point where dopamine addiction and sedentary lifestyles are killing the mood before it even starts. If a third of encounters are failing because people can't put down the phone, it’s a full-blown biological glitch.