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  • That doesn't refute my statement in any way. We're talking about diamonds vs other gemstones. Had you said "gemstone X is valued more than diamonds both in monetary and world-wide cultural sense, here is a source", I might agree, but all you're saying is "we are mining more diamonds than other gemstones, and we could be mining even more but aren't". That says nothing about whether the are more gemstones out there than diamonds or not.

    Imagine we had 1 billion gemstone X , 10 billion gemstone Y, and 100 billion gemstone Z, but gemstone X was the most culturally and monetarily valuable gemstone and the others were worth a fraction thereof. Gemstone X would naturally be mined more and thus be more prevalent. If you mined 1k of gemstone X and held back others from mining to control the number on the market, sure, you could say "we could mine much more, therefore it is incredibly abundant", but that would be false because Y and Z actually are the more abundant gemstones.

    The article doesn't reveal any numbers whatsoever, so simply saying "it's the most abundant gemstone out there" is a valueless statement.

  • Fuck the USA and their goddamn tipping culture. Pay your staff properly.

  • The article makes the claim but doesn't back it up with anything. I could also write an article and say "although many people wear diamonds, the most abundant gemstone on the planet is rutile" without providing a single source.

    This is what it says:

    However, diamonds actually number among the most common gems. Ask yourself this: "How many people do you know who own at least one diamond?" Now, ask this question about other gems, like rubies, sapphires, or emeralds.

    While we have much to learn about the Earth's interior, our current knowledge of gem formation indicates that diamonds are likely the most common gem in nature.

    That's it.

  • Surely that's because we value them more and they are thus mined more.

  • The fucking ultra-wealthy not paying their taxes and their wealth not being taxed. It's the root of every single one of my problems.

  • RIP

  • The Onion had some amazing videos xD

  • Flight was too heavy

  • You aren't poor because you don't work hard enough. You're poor because the rich are sucking up all your wealth.

  • Why is this "Not The Onion"? How is this oniony?

  • Do you? Do we? We currently consistently have about 20-50% of the population in Europe voting for far-right to conservative - parties that don't give 2 shits about medical staff unless they require treatment. And even then, some of them don't care about them because "do your job and stop whining".

    And that's just the people that vote. At municipal level the voter participation is abysmal.

  • We have to vote. They can't be left alone.

  • Yeah, I saw that they were "limited" to 80 fucking hours a week (in the US). Quite the limit.

  • this is bad

    this is just as bad

    I think we agree

  • It damn well is, no doubt about it.

  • I'd like to see those numbers. I'm not finding clear numbers on shift-length mortality. This meta review (Systematic Review of the Impact of Physician Work Schedules on Patient Safety with Meta-Analyses of Mortality Risk, 2023, DOI: 10.1016/j.jcjq.2023.06.014 ) says

    Limiting all resident physicians to 80-hour work weeks and 28-hour shifts in 2003 was associated with an 11% reduction in mortality (p < 0.001). Limited shift durations and shorter work weeks were also associated with improved patient safety in clinical trials and observational studies not specifically tied to policy changes.

    I think we can all agree that a 28 hour shift is fucking insane and that anybody doing such a long shift will not be of sound capacity.

    And if hand-offs are killing more people than work hours, then that just means that the hand-off procedures are terrible. I'd want to see what kind of hand-offs are being compared and if hand-off methods have different patient events.

  • Your answer is based on bad faith and therefore blocked.

  • Dunno where you're from, but insurances are also partially to blame for this. They limit patient appointments to a few minutes and any minute above that is out of the doctor's pocket.