Guessing this might be non-essential workers as per covid lockdowns, ie how important it is for them to attend a workplace in person, but it’s definitely funnier if it is a ranked list of perceived importance to society, so let’s go with that

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

Saw someone making a sandwich once in stop-start traffic, cutting board resting against the (airbag) steering wheel and using a knife. Didn’t hear about them on the news that evening so can only assume Darwin missed it.

Spiders keep bugs under control

Snakes keep spiders under control

Dogs keep snakes under control

Humans keep dogs under control (sometimes)

Cats keep humans under control

As I understand it these are basically an insurance policy. The promoter takes out a policy detailing the odds of a payout being required, and pay a premium based on the insurer’s risk assessment.

And of course the insurer wants to minimise the odds of paying out, and the promoter wants to minimise their premium - so the top prize is usually, as above, near-unwinnable.

Kill them all.

Start with… that one

Live long and profile

Was about 3pm here /cries in Australian

We regularly get screwed over during business hours by things being pushed out overnight in the US/UK

That’s what would be called “a swing and a miss”

It’s almost like speculating has risks

I feel like all three of those accents have normal/fancy/wildcard options within them

90s Steven Segal went a bit crazy with the spray tan

Yeah… this isn’t a meme, it’s literally children being sold.

As I recall it, the family were facing eviction, and the kids were indeed sold, including the one she was pregnant with. A couple of them ended up basically being slaves on a farm somewhere.

I’ll laugh at plenty of things I probably shouldn’t but this isn’t one of them.