GissaMittJobb

Sweden sends less than 1% of waste to landfills, this is well documented. No fairy tales.

Again, not universally applicable, I'm sure other countries are a lot worse in this regard.

I'll rephrase - this is a problem that has an established solution that you can easily copy.

Non-sense, there's plenty of potential to have green spaces including community gardens in cities.

My apartment building has a shared use workshop.

We also have a gym and a sauna, along with an apartment you can rent per day for cheap if you have visitors and a space you can rent if you want to host parties.

Yelling for the fun of it would perhaps not be the most respectful thing to do to our neighbors, so I would advise against it. It's not strictly speaking something that I miss, though.

Speak for yourself, this is not universally applicable.

This is a consequence of the inane policy of mandatory parking minimum requirements in local zoning codes. Remove them and this problem goes away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotment_%28gardening%29

This is a solved problem.

This has literally been a non-issue for me in every apartment I've lived in for the last 10 years here in Sweden. You probably need some better building codes, this is a solved problem.

That's not even remotely true. Do Americans actually believe this?

What's the derogatory term for boat foamers?

Disclaimer: I think the current U.S healthcare system is hilariously bad and should be heavily reformed.

Insurance is not a bad thing, and there is a clear product involved in it. To demonstrate, you can go to a doctor in the U.S and pay in cash for the treatment. As I've understood it, you can even negotiate lower prices than the list prices if you are paying in cash. Still, it's probably going to be expensive to the point of potential financial ruin.

This is the product that insurance offers in any domain it operates - buying your way out of risks you cannot accept. Fundamentally, the concept is sound, albeit very poorly implemented in the case of U.S healthcare.

It's basically just a bunch of people pooling their money together and having that pool of money pay in the case of an adverse event.

One of the primary alternatives to the mess that is U.S healthcare today is in fact another form of insurance - it's just that enrollment would be mandatory and as such the risk spreading would be as uniform as possible, along with subsidies for people carrying higher amounts of risk. That's fundamentally what universal healthcare is in other countries.

It's implied from the combination of English and the boss being mad about the worker taking their vacation days tbh