Yea not everywhere is equipped to do all types of operations.

Shit, in America I know someone that just wants a blood work type test done in the largest city in the State. Can't even find anyone that knows shit all about the test. Several doctors refused to draw the blood and send it out of state. Test can be done at Johns Hopkins (or other 1st rate places around the globe) but hasn't trickled down to 50 states yet. Doctors stay in their lane and if you want a specialist at the cutting edge you'll have to travel even in America.

Yea, the grind is becoming impossible though. My old man worked a summer job and could afford university all year on that.

After joining the military for the GI Bill, finishing that commitment, I worked in IT to keep us afloat while my wife went to university.

I left at 5AM for work, worked as much OT as I could, after work instead of sitting in traffic or stuffing on the train like sardines I studied, did all my IT certs, and left work at 7pm. The weekends I worked a second job doing IT. All through university I worked IT on nights and weekends.

The grind you have to do to reach "middle" class is becoming: come from money to afford college, or go into debt for life for uni, or work nonstop always.

How can people take care of kids, family?

I've never had a negative experience contributing to open source.

I've also been to scrums where everyone is equal, and we have to be very PC, about explaining "processes" and "best practices" to people that break the build pipeline every single day. Eventually I just coded error handling and guard clauses into everything so no one could screw anything up by not following the documentation being a cowboy. That is a best practice, sure, but you'd be surprised by how people break things even after being warned not to do a very specific thing.

A cowboy that fixes things always 24/7 can be a maverick and talk shit.

But in todays PC world you can also be a cowboy that breaks everything always and spends weeks fixing something they themselves broke...

I wish I could say the things Linus said instead of just putting people on a performance improvement plan.

Sometimes being angry is appropriate. When I am I step back and try to figure out solution where the fuck up can't happen again and no one gets hurt.

I've seen people be VERY angry and even hands on working in jobs where fucking up can kill people.

I'd rather see anger than people dying. Did Linus go too far here? Probably, but there is a time and place for anger and being direct.

US tax money pays for 7 separate programs and all that administration.

Medicare

Medicaid

Children's Health Insurance Program

Indian Health Service (IHS)

VA

Tricare

Then all the private insurances for federal employee

Then all the private insurances that corporations pay money to have even more administration.

So that's what 10 times the admin staff that a public program and private option would have?

Compared with Australia: Public (tax money) 1 program: Medicare Private several options such as: Bupas, Medibank, AHM.

Germany also has both public and private.

A crazy part of talking about single payer in America is the hang up over buying out public health providers with tax payer funds.

That never happened in Australia. They simply let private healthcare exist but built new public hospitals that became teaching and training hospitals. By slowly expanding pubic healthcare, which started in Queensland, they simply provided an option for more people to access local public healthcare.

Everyone gets stuck on trying to quick fix all this overnight. If we look at Oz Medicare didn't cover all Australians until 1984. But Queensland became the first state in Australia to introduce free universal public hospital treatment in January 1946. By building public hospitals one by one, training staff, and providing better care Queensland changed the way Australians thought about public va private care.

It costs more to have more administrative staff in America. But we refuse to train new doctors or build hospitals based on the needs of the communities they should serve. Therefore we end up with hospitals that serve shareholders, not doctors, not patients. We provide care for dollars instead of people.

Who's educating the parents on what's going on in the games? The casinos? The slot machines? The sports betting apps?

Where do the average learn about these things?

All well and good if you are fairly well educated and know about some of the psychology going on. But damn I do not have any hope for the next generation raised on tick tocks as the GOP dismantle public education.

It's going to quickly get like Idiocracy in here all the while bystanders will say, but the parents working two minimum wage jobs to put food on the table and a roof over their head should have taken responsibility for their child!

People fall through the cracks and we all as society benefit when we are responsible enough to try to make sure the cracks can't just swallow you whole.

Shit, I've got 3 university degrees and top certifications for my specify IT field and wouldn't know much about this topic if it weren't for Sout Park Freemium Isn't Free.

We can't depend on being educated or involved with children to protect them from 24/7 365 always online dopamine addiction to compulsion loops.

Yea l knew someone that gave remote access out to one of these scams. Couldn't be sure they didn't leave a reverse shell so we just formated the drive and reinstalled windblows.

Let's not pretend that ranked choiced voting in Oz didn't elect Tony Abbott, the prototype for Trump's one liners and spewing hate.

Every answer to whatever question: "Stap the boats"

Don't get me wrong. I'm all for it. But it's not some silver bullet that will make all the party candidates turn into Jesus.

Is this the same young voters that don't turn up to the elections anyway?

Overhead a young coworker, "they have to give you time off during your shift to go vote, right?"

Me, Yes, but the state law says you have to ask for that time off at least 1 day in advance.

"Oh well. Maybe next year..."

Me, Set a calendar notification for next year!

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Concern trolls are going to concern troll.

I see this corporatists allegations, and raise the military industrial complex that Eisenhower famously warned of.

The military industrial complex in America is a vast public jobs program.

Parts for the F 35 fighter are made in every state: https://www.f35.com/f35/about/economic-impact.html

Other countries have public healthcare with the government running hospitals.

We instead use tax dollars to pay people in every state to make weapons.

There's also NASA and a fair amount of money for medical research and computers.

But our country has been obsessed with over preparing for war since WWII.

If that's something you would like to see changed you should probably be vocal about the policies you would like to see implemented and examples of how well it's beneficial in other countries.

To simply say, the state is wrong about everything. Or all war is horrific and therefore everyone that worked in the largest jobs program in this country should pack it up and go home has zero chances of success.

Politics are complicated without trying to resort to absolutes with no room for negotiation.

There's very few things I can only get at target. Or that are vastly cheaper at target.

Even if I can get it at target, if it's locked and I need to wait a long time for a worker, who keeps bitching on the radio that he needs to finish the shift and clock out.. I just kinda get the feeling that target isn't worth it.

They no longer stock unique things. They treat their stores with ALDI level of staff but keep things locked up.

Why not just shop at Wegmans, LIDL, IKEA, Trader Joe's, Meijer, or at least Fred Meyer/Kroger.

Fuck if I really need convenience the experience of picking shit up and just walking out of Amazon go is addictive compared to locked shelves and long lines.

Cry me a river.

In cut throat retail innovate or die.

They finally hit a stride right there at the end!

If they had 26 episodes then it would have evened out and there'd be more gems. It can't be easy write, get the episodes thru the board, get the actors to do it well, and still have good content after composing with executives and panels. But if they made more it'd be easier to overlook.

Nuclear weapons are expensive and complicated to maintain. The military has been bitching for many years that the price to maintain old nuclear munitions is rapidly increasing.

Instead of seeing this as working as intended, and trying to get everyone to agree not to develop new nuclear weapons... The military strategists decided that since China was making 500 new nuclear weapons we needed to make new ones too and pulled out of the agreement with Russia not to develop new nukes.

I would have thought that if it was hard for us to maintain the nuclear weapons with a massive budget that Russia might fail at that task. Which would be good for everyone.

But there's always been more money in star wars and missile defense then diplomacy.