Ioper
1mo ago
The absolutely huge gender disparity in medicine is a complete disaster because you need psycho hard working men for the whole thing to work.
And those men are either increasingly choosing to not work in medicine or have a different view on work life balance from their predecessors.
From what I've gathered from my doctor friends this issue is magnified in rural areas. Doctors choose to work there have a ton of leverage and their salaries are completely out of step with the local cost of living so just working part time still puts them in the local upper middle class, which many now choose to do. The local government can do nothing because most doctors want to work and live in the larger cities and they currently have no way of forcing doctors to work there beyond residency.
The exception to this is are smaller population centers that are effectively pseudo resort towns, like Östersund and Åre.
Night time shifts are another matter and don't seem like a problem for now, as apparently some people kind of enjoy them and the benefits they bring.
I'm not sure what of any music that Romero actually has composed for the game. The music they've revealed, including the main theme has not been credited to any composer and if Romero composed it I would think they would be loud in their marketing about that.
Furthermore, of the music I've listened to only the menu theme sounds vaguely Romeroish.
Ioper
1mo ago
I meant more for your free time and all your projects. Relaxing more will probably leave you less high-strung at work as well.
I feel like the premise is false. Consumption takes a very small amount of resources.
The question real question is: would you be fine living in a low COL area with all the social isolation (moving away from family and friends) and lack of services that entails? Otherwise the question should be what amount of money for consumption do you need per year in order to be satisfied, to which the answer for me is almost nothing.
I don't work in order to be able to consume more, I work to pay for my house and as a meaning generator.
Ioper
1mo ago
There is a little bit of that but giving it to trump also seems very premature, especially given his other proclivities.
Ioper
1mo ago
Which is of course why there were more or less constant peasant rebellions until the industrial revolution...
It's just corporate management speech in text form. It existed well before LLMs and is where their speech patterns come from and are aimed at.
It isn't artificial as much as it is a bit soulless, which I suppose might be fitting for the output of a literal machine.
That is true but its also relatively rare. The vast majority of senior managers are extremely replaceable/interchangeable (not by anyone, of course) and the arguments for why their compensation is as high as it is could as well apply to anyone responsible for a system which's continued operation affects a lot of money, from something as lowly as system administrators to say the commissioner of the IRS (that apparently only makes some 200k a year).
A lot of the excessive senior managment compensation is friendship/class corruption and there are reasons beyond "justice" to care about this as well, like why the money isn't going to shareholders or reinvestment in the business.
Excessive compensation for labour is a bad idea. Driven and capable people should be incentiviced to start businesses and compete/disrupt markets, not capture positions for what essentially is rent extraction.
Some of the really budget single ply stuff is somewhat similar to sand paper tbh, and given that he works for the NHS I wouldn't be surprised if he's encountered literally the worst toilet paper ever produced by humankind.
Ioper
1mo ago
I wouldn't trust Europe to figure out a way to manufacture toilet paper really. Low cost manufacturing or processing just isn't their strong suit.
Its funny you say that seeing as europe is the world leader in the production and export of toilet paper.
Ioper
1mo ago
so it'll work well for the conscientious owner and poorly for the lazy owner.
That may well be true, but its also true that the conscientious owner doesn't need an invisi-fence, so what effect does their availablity really have?
Ioper
1mo ago
I've not encountered their use. I've encountered conversations about them not working very well and essentially amounting to lazy owners abusing their dogs. This is from Americans exclusively, seeing as they're illegal or heavily restricted in much of Europe.
Ioper
1mo ago
In theory sure, in practice it's a reliable signal that you're abusive. Furthermore, i don't want to give abusive people the social go ahead for using that tool and plausible deniability for going over the line.
I don't have a principle against physical negative feedback, I would support corporal punishment where there is a neutral third party evaluating and administrating said punishment, like Singapore style caning.
Ioper
1mo ago
It's wild how you seem to think negative feedback has to include physical pain. Dogs are social animals that are easily trained without pain.
Ioper
1mo ago
Now that I think about, everyone I knew with well trained dogs has them on shock collars. But maybe that's regional or social bubble related.
I would assume so. As I said, I know literally no-one that uses them and that includes Trump voting Americans with land (California, Nevada and Colorado).
It is? I have literally never encountered anyone in real life that uses one or even talked of using one outside of joking about doing something cartoonishly evil.
That isn't true at all. You can do granular enough tests if you want, some countries do, and barring that you can have a lottery, which some countries do, mine among them.
The lottery has not really been a meaningful thing here (at the very top level) for about a decade though now since they increased the number of spots at the medical programmes and also made the test slightly more granular.
I don't see why America couldn't do one of those things. I personally think the runaway competition for those university spots is extremely toxic and would bound the competition for like the top 1-2% (for the top bracket) or so and then have a lottery for them. Picking the lucky seems preferable to torturing your children for some zero-sum competition with no societal gain.
While I had gotten a good deal further than you had at the same age, i still had insecurities in similar ways and my impression was that a it was true for a lot of my (successful) friends as well, so i don't really think success solves this issue, at least not normal levels of success, even if it might lessen it.
My only real advice is to keep your head down and work on the material goals so that you secure your financial future. This will allow you to solve your other problems (but not solve them by itself) and for me almost all of my anxieties went away with becoming a father. I feel like society really understates just how meaningful parenthood is and how it ties you together with your family, community and the future in general.
Ioper
1mo ago
That's not quite what I'm getting at. I don't really care if someone wants to read a an endless webserial or not, I don't see how that matters. What I tried to respond to was the media addiction part, with the implication that sufficient amount of quality media of ones preferred sort, like endless office episodes for those who are into that or an endless webserial, would lead people to only engaging in that, essentially amounting to a low tech wireheading.
My point is that even if we got endless episodes/chapters/whatever, most people would still want to do a variety of things outside of media consumption.
I don't believe people want to game or watch TV endlessly on repeat though, I certainly don't. Regardless of how good something is I want to cycle between different sorts of stimuli and types of activities, some providing "fun" and others "meaning".
This seems to be a lot like gambling and many addictions to me. The vast majority have no issues to engage in moderate use while a small minority can't control themselves and self destruct, and young people are more vulnerable.
Ioper
1mo ago
Or why not just straight up report whatever some state propaganda organ says?
Why would the Russian/Ukrainian/Isreali MoD ever lie? Or why would Hamas or any of constituting parts for that matter? Surely we can uncritically re report their press releases, often with barely acknowledging where said statements come from and that won't lead these organisations to try to use us to launder propaganda?
That has not been my experience with my 3 kids. My impression is that there has been significant pushback against the push for breastfeeding so now the nurses and doctors are so careful not to push for breastfeeding that it feels like they are marketing formula.
I've talked with similarly aged parents (35-45) in other countries, including the US, and they shared similar experiences.
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