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  I also worked for an health insurance company, tho my experience was less extreme than yours it still sucked ass. I worked the phones, and was hired together with a couple of other students through a student-oriented job agency. They lured us in with talks about how you can "really help people", and that pretty much every income call was "always positive", and naive young me believed it. I found out real quick that, surprise surprise, people don't call their insurance to...

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  "People" - The 1975 I learned about them from a cover of the song by one of my favourite bands, FIDLAR, and was saddened to find out that the rest of their music isn't in the same style. Or at least, the albums it's on is, to say it lightly, is far away in style from "People". Imagine a single punk song on an album filled with slow electronic music. That's that album.

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  > Both approaches have technical challenges. Returning to land requires a slower landing speed (although as a percentage of the starting velocity of a spacecraft its a pretty insignificant difference) and landing on the sea requires the carrying of flotation devices and designing a capsule with buoyancy in mind. Does landing on the sea really require that much more braking when compared to land? Sure water has _some_ give but I've always understood that, from a large enough hight, due to...