You're right, voting isn't the most powerful thing you can do.
It's getting involved in politics altogether, getting more people to vote.
And not "We got the president and maybe a senator" vote. The crowd that's fighting climate change every step of the way has infested all the way down to the local levels making it harder to vote on the national platforms. I'd say this is a US thing, but if there's voting, they seem to be infesting all of it.
In Kansas City there's a little shack called Town Topic. 8 people get in that place and it's packed tight. Been around forever. I first noticed it when I moved here and late night Friday and Saturday when the bar crowd was looking for food a line would be wrapped around the building.
It is a type of smash burger that's cooked on an old griddle, greasy in all the right ways a drunk man could want at 2am without being a problem during the more sober times. To me it's the best burger I can get hold of.
Your complaints are valid, but I'm going to counterpoint US healthcare for those that reads this and is "Ah hah!"
The US is getting hit by the same med shortage, I'm not as strongly linked but I know a couple friends being bounced from one anti-depressant to another because one after another went short.
But our for profit system is literally shuttering hospitals across the country. What you'll get is private investment firms that buy up hospitals, bleed them for capital until the hospital is unable to run and it closes. Kansas right now is one of the worst states for hospitals in rural places where they're closing up left and right. One of my hospitals I traveled to that I was shocked didn't close was because a doctor committed suicide and had evidence on his phone that he molested patients while they were under sedation. This brought JACO and every other hospital regulatory commission on this hospital where it was found the hospital was bought up by one private capital firm after another, their debt dumped on the hospital and sold off. Literally the commissions coming in is all that saved the hospital because the current firm is now being forced to modernize the hospital and get it back to standards.
And in the case of the abortions being criminalized, states that have it criminalized are now having OBGYN doctors leaving the state than have to be put into a struggle against their ethics and the draconian law, leaving birthing centers closed up in hospitals and leaving it to the ERs that are already over capacity from being the only safety net left to those that can't afford insurance and all the hospital closures pushing more to those individual places.
Response is headphone jack is beyond just the use of the bluetooth buds. My work truck doesn't have a bluetooth adapter, a $2 cord takes care of the problem. My parents Subaru when I'm driving them around when they visit does have Bluetooth, but gets angry if you try to connect another phone, guess what? Same $2 cord in my truck allows me to connect in. When I'm working a 12 hour day, headset batteries don't last that long, nor does my phone really. But I can hook up my phone to a battery pack, then have it plug into a speaker by aux, by god it just works.
Bluetooth is fantastic if you go to the same place every day, and every piece of equipment is yours and connected in and auto connects. But those of us that travel it's nice to have a plugin that just works without playing the "Why is it not recognizing?" game.
My mechanic buddies all swear by Toyota, the Prius is rated the kind of car least likely to seen in a shop and pretty much any other Toyota is bullet proof.
Flipside, I will never own a Nissan. Worked at an auto auction for 6 months as an inspector. One thing that was hammered on us is check engine oil even before it went to the auctions mechanic for sludge. The reason it was hammered so hard is because it was a problem. Only with Nissans. In 6 months, hundreds of cars a day, Nissans were the only ones with the engine sludge issue.
I wish I had the skillset to do a work from home job, instead with me having to do repair work I have to go in. But if I could do everything on the computer at my house I'd do everything I could to never be in the office.
It's funny the irony of I Am Legend, it is an allegory to an older society having to make way to a newer one, and somehow every time that's the story they can't do.
Enough cooking and adding spices, and they can add a lot to a meal
Lets be honest, Indian butter chicken is why I don't just outright say I'm allergic to them because that is delicious and apparently tomatoes are a main ingredient with the sauce.
The texture is a high part, I'll always remember "horror fleshy grenade" about them now, but my dad who hates tomatoes as well found heirloom grape tomatoes and eats them just straight. Okay, I'll try them. Nope... that I don't know how to describe other than tomato taste just was there and awful.
I can eat marinara and tomato sauce, but if I can have an alternative 10/10 I'll pick something else, ketchup I don't really like, and if it's spicy enough I enjoy salsa as long as it's not chunky, but that's because I find salsa is like butter chicken, the tomato taste isn't there, just a vehicle for the spices.
But seriously, I'm the guy when everyone is ordering a pizza I know I'll be able to eat it but I'll be "meh" unless there's a white sauce pizza.
Old WoW player, hit Guild Wars, EVE Online and ESO. Had fun in them... but I had a lot of the same problems you're talking about. EVE was fun because it was screw the story, the fights are on, but any of the others, there's story and your character is off to the side.
Few months ago a friend got me into Final Fantasy 14. Note, it's the first FF game I've played so I didn't go in with the love like so many but holy lord it scratches that RPG itch I've been looking for for years in an mmo setting... like straight up the story is at a point where I say my character is really not in a good place. Frankly it's story is better than some of the single player games I've gotten to recently.
Ah, another Galaxy S9?