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I had no idea the numbers were that high.

They’re definitely not. First hand experience tells me that when a soldier enlists during in processing they start the process for naturalization. I saw several recruits that came in with me go through the paperwork with a drill instructor. If this 38% is “real” then it must be “all time”. But modern military for sure it is not.

Yeah, while I understand and agree with the sentiment… If you have 300 people and on average somebody gets sick once a year for 2 days… You’re going to have to hit some lotto style stats that they all don’t lineup together to get a clear day of 100% attendance. Now realize that normal is 2-4 times a year… not just once. It’s hard to corral that many people and get them all in on the same day available without some sort of conflict, sick days alone. Forget all the other stuff, birthdays, births, funerals, etc…

The USA is also significantly bigger than every single one of those “comparable” countries. Actually bigger (population, size, really just about any size metric possible) than all of them combined. It’s a bit disingenuous to clump all of the USA together. Which fuels and proves my point about outsiders not understanding the USA.

The range in “comparable” countries is also about 4 years… Why do you think that is? I mean the countries are basically right next to each other like states are here… yet for some reason despite sharing a border Switzerland and Germany have a 4.1 year difference in male life expectancy.

I’m willing to bet money that different parts of the US, possibly even on a state by state or even region by region location would have wildly varying life expectancy than is being insinuated with a single monolithic number for “the USA”… Just like the EU countries listed here…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_life_expectancy

Turns out that is wildly true… The top 30 states all compete with the numbers given and fall within the ranges between Germany and Switzerland given in the charts in your link.

Edit:

If you drill down to counties… which is at the very bottom of the wiki article. You can see even more disparity. And the only reason I bring this up is that some counties in the USA are bigger than entire as countries in the EU. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/largest-counties-in-the-united-states-by-total-area.html

There is issues with getting infrastructure EVERYWHERE when the country is just so damn big and sparse.

Edit2: I should clarify that I don’t doubt that the EU overall is better off… Mostly because being fat is a huge problem in the USA that is much less prevalent than the EU overall. But just clumping shit willy nilly is exactly what I was referencing… Mississippi vs California is a world of difference.

Most Europeans have a poor understanding of what the USA looks like as well… Turns out that most people have no idea what most of the rest of the world looks like! This could even mean inside of their own country! The USA is quite large and very much varied.

Eh… “Fuck” is just a filler word for most New York Natives in general.

and former army member himself.

Marine Corp

These checkpoints are illegal in all of the US.

No they’re not.

https://rdslaw.com/are-police-checkpoints-legal-what-about-my-miranda-rights/

A checkpoint is legal if it is for a valid, specified purpose such as checking compliance with motor vehicle laws, checking for possession of a valid license and registration, or checking the driver’s sobriety.

As long as they check ALL vehicles (not targeting) for licenses as an example… They can carry out additional actions as they find them. So in your little town they can setup a checkpoint, check that everyone has a valid drivers license… And if they find an “illegal” or believe that you may be transporting “illegals” that can evolve into a terry stop, especially in stop and identify states.

Now, I think there are a few states that are more strict on the matter… but certainly not illegal in “all” of the US.

Additional sources:
https://legal-info.lawyers.com/criminal/traffic-violations/law-enforcement-checkpoints-and-roadblocks-are-they-legal.html

when the doors should always be manual in the first place

Eh… I like the way Ford (I think? I could be misremembering) is doing it. Pull on the handle a little bit to do electronic. Yank it all the way to override and do it manually. One handle… And in the case of “emergency” your instinct is literally what is expected… Yank the shit out of the handle… door will open.

I think it depends. If Iran can be tenuously linked to AlQuaeda, then it’s legal.

Eh… We know that Iran was harbored AlQaeda, wouldn’t be hard to claim that they’re still doing it. I bring this up from time to time… While I was deployed to Jalalabad, we never had issues with the locals. Everyone that ever bombed that FOB while I was there was coming over the Iranian border and mortaring us from the mountains, then retreating back to Iran.

Sometimes we could get air assets up quickly enough to handle them before they got back to the Iranian border. But we couldn’t follow them into Iran. Many… many requests were made to Iran to stop this. Didn’t stop until the base was closed down due to the pull out.

proveb

I hope you didn’t pay that tattooist.

But nothing changed… Can you show a change in healthcare since? have acceptance rates gone up? premiums gone down?

Nothing changed.

Edit: Bunch of downvotes… but nobody can tell me anything that’s changed… interesting isn’t it?