We're talking America here - kids don't really walk to school.

I'm a night owl -- HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Spain is a nation aligned with my sleep habits and work ethic. I should consider moving there.

Ironically, I can afford to move. Just thinking about whether it's worth to abandon people whom I love.

If you want to be pedantic - "citizenship in a Schengen state", which entitles me to live/work in other Schengen states.

And do you think that Iran is a threat to the US even if it built said WMD? They're not stupid - they know the US has 5000 nuclear weapons and would obliterate Iran if they used WMD on US soil. I guess them using it against Israel is a risk, but Israel can damn well protect itself - not really the US's problem either.

Outcomes (life expectancies) say otherwise, despite your lips being around American chode.

You're talking about code-monkey (CS) schools and psychopathic training (MBA) schools - I'm talking about medical and law school admissions, which are notoriously selective in the US vs Europe (where both are basically another undergrad degree accessible after high school).

3. Or maybe COVID is ovah, and they can socialize in person. Less Netflix, more chill. Get those birth rates up :D

I would support your leukocytes if they became immortal and highly prolific.

Have you been to any of those countries, or are you repeating what the crazy media are telling you to say like a senile parrot?

You don't get it - about 90% of French are on the same baseline health plan, with the next 5% being farmers on a similar health plan. If 95% of people are on "Medicare", providers really have no choice as to whether to accept it - if they want to stay solvent, that is. There's also private insurance equivalent to "Medigap" in the US, often through employers. But France restricts insurers much more strictly - for one thing, it forces them to be non-profit/mutual.

It's hugely different ... getting into postgrad professional programs (law/medicine/dentistry/vet) requires not just good grades and standardized test scores, but ability to bullshit about yourself in letters and application essays. Procedure in most countries in Europe is more straightforward - more heavily based on test scores, school grades (in some cases), much less on "whole person" criteria that require applicants to be good salespeople with high self-esteem. And it's typically straight out of high school - no one gives a damn if you went to Botswana for 9 months and volunteered.

This type of bureaucracy and standardization is a good thing since it doesn't reward people who can spin a good yarn, vs those that have the cognitive skills and knowledge needed to do the damn job.

No - I'm just not really happy with American society and hustle culture. Americans work on average 1800hr/yr, compared to the French as 1500. French have more free time to be social as adults with other adults - Americans tend to stick with existing family units much more after age 30 or so. I realize that this is probably NOT true for all parts of the US e.g. rural Deep South, but that has other issues, especially if you're unchurched or prefer living somewhere with public transit.

Boeing 2707 was a non-flying test mule.
Tu-144 required earplugs in the cabin, afterburners while cruising, and had enough of a range to get passengers from New York to the Azores, if they were lucky.
Concorde was genius. Proper FBW with synthetic feel, used the fuel tanks as a heat sink and as ballast for CoG adjustment, had variable intakes to avoid use of reheat at cruise.

Not opposed to mandatory military (or other?) service, AM opposed to the US military constantly being used for senseless, expensive wars in countries where it has no business being. In fact, with mandatory service, the public might actually become more resistant to those wars. See also: Vietnam.

I'd rather simply have it subsidized for everyone, and have national service be separate. Private scholarships are often very dependent on whom your parents know, whom you know, what church you're a member of, etc.