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blarghly

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  • What's an open source app for language exchange?

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  • Open source? I mean, you could try finding language partners here on lemmy. Maybe make a language exchange community if there isnt one already?

    HelloTalk and Tandem are the two largest language exchange platforms I know of, but they arent open source. If you insist on open source, you might find some somewhat funtional but dead platforms - open source platforms tend to suffer from being on the shit end of the network effects stick.

  • Road rage

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  • I mean, really, representative democracy.

  • I wonder if anyone will read it

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  • Really? The books where space monarchy is see as the natural and obvious form of government to dominate the known universe?

  • Say it ain't so

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  • 34 year old american. Same. I learned to type by commenting on reddit.

  • What's the biggest misconception you think many people have?

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    Here, you dropped this

  • What's the biggest misconception you think many people have?

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  • What store are you shopping at that has €300 toasters??? How could anyone ever get that much value from a toaster???

  • What's the biggest misconception you think many people have?

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  • Yeah, well, me and Sol are bros, so imma keep calling him by the cool nickname he got when he was travelling through Spain

  • For Americans who still use cash, what's the highest bill denomination you commonly use?

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  • $500. Pesos. When I'm in Mexico

    $100uad in the states, though. I almost never withdrawl except to pay for a cash only fb marketplace seller.

  • Technology has come a long way

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  • The heros we need

  • What would you do if you found out your dad changed his name and went no-contact with his family years ago, before you were even born?

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  • I would be incredibly impressed that he found a whole other family to go along with his ruse fir 20 years?

  • Technology has come a long way

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  • My impression is that it is definitely not as demanding as when you were plowing feilds with a team of oxen... but it is still physicall demanding. Sure, machinaty automates a lot, but that just means you are more productive and end up doing more of the labor the machine doesn't automate. Also from what I've heard, a lot of the work of modern farming is fixing and maintaining the machines that do the heavy lifting - which is also fairly taxing physical labor.

  • Why are we OK with doctors and nurses working double or triple shifts?

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  • Sure, but there are a few problems here.

    First is that the total cost of a health intervention is not fixed, and there is always a give and take between providers, who want to provide better care/make more money, and whoever is paying, who wants good care without overpaying. Writing a bureaucracy a blank check is never going to happen.

    So you would need to quantify how much reclaimed productivity you are gaining, which seems like a rather fraught endeavor.

    And most medical care provided to people in developed nations is care provided to the elderly, who are not in the work force. So your productivity reclaimation tax would still have a shortfall, which you would need to make up somehow. And voters tend to not like higher taxes, so governments tend to not want to raise them, even for reasonable things like adequate funding of medical care for seniors.

  • Why are we OK with doctors and nurses working double or triple shifts?

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  • I mean, I didn't say anything about making money. Public institutions will face the same pressures in the face of rising wages outside the healthcare sector. Hospitals are filled with old people, who are sometimes racist assholes, who need their bedpans cleaned. And whoever needs to do that cleaning needs to get paid a competitive wage. And so if a public institution isn't allocated additional funds to compensate for increased wages (and bureaucracies and legislatures hate increasing funds) they will need to find a way to save money.

    Also, a very large portion of people in hospitals will never work again, as they are the elderly. Of course, we should care for these people - but just saying that if you try to take an economic prodictivity tack with your argument, you will run into this problem

  • What is something you lived as a novice and then later enjoyed teaching?

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  • Sweet, thanks dude!!

  • What is something you lived as a novice and then later enjoyed teaching?

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  • I started rock climbing around 2011, and began teaching others maybe a year or two after that. I still love teaching just as much as actually going climbing, and it is kind of annoying sometimes how the two conflict. But it's always super rewarding to watch someone break new ground - their first toprope, their first lead, their first lead on gear, their first time seeing systematic training work...

    I'm always super safety conscious when I teach people systems, and I really harp on the important things, having people practice them again and again on the ground before they go up, and then again and again on toprope or with supervision or on easy routes. And then the most rewarding part for me is when I get to tell them "Okay, you know the systems, you know how to keep yourself safe. Now it's time to flip the switch and fucking go for it." Watching a new climber push through their fear and go to their limit is probably the most inspiring thing I see on a regular basis.

  • What is something you lived as a novice and then later enjoyed teaching?

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  • I juggle a bit, and have considered fucking around with a contact staff. Any tips?

  • Why are we OK with doctors and nurses working double or triple shifts?

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  • This is a fair enough critique of the US system.

    But to the topic of "why are medical staff overworked?" we see this in countries other than the US as well. Typically because even if institutions arent trying to maximize shareholder value, they are still having to make due with limited funds allocated to them by the government in the face of rising (or potentially rising) healthcare worker wages.

  • Why are we OK with doctors and nurses working double or triple shifts?

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  • I mean, it also seemed high to me. My guess is

    1. Employee benefits (like, ironically, medical) are more expensive for the company than we would assume, but aren't included in nominal worker pay.
    2. The company subcontracts out its lower wage work, like custodial staff or CNAs. So it ends up paying a bunch of doctors $200k per year, and twice as many nurses $50k per year. Assuming this custodial staff don't count in the metric I found, since they aren't on payroll. And we could argue that CEO pay could be directed to them as well.... but then we are just splitting the pie more ways.

    Of course, if you have some proof that 90% of those wages are going to 10% of earners in the company, I'm all ears. But I kind of doubt it.

  • Say you have some downtime with no obligations today. What are you going to spend your free time doing?

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  • Apparently I'm removing old weed stumps in my back yard, lol.