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  • FavouriteShapes@sh.itjust.workstoPatient Gamers@sh.itjust.works•Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
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    3 hours ago
    Life and Suffering of Prince Jerian.

    A Really patience demanding game - even when you know the story by memory you still need to click through all the pages to test options. I played three runs in a row and don’t feel like playing it for a while now. Which is probably good because it’ll make it last longer.

    Probably not everyone’s cup of tea but I find the stat-mixing aspect of it fascinating, and I know I’m not alone because it’s how other players in the discord play as well.

    Today: Balatro and Anno 117

    Also this week: Stardew Valley. Started yet another new save, deleted all my others; this time I will take it from start to finish without starting any new saves. (I’ve reached perfection once already and gotten to ginger island half a dozen times)

    SDV makes you feel so good.

  • FavouriteShapes@sh.itjust.workstoGreentext@sh.itjust.works•Anon works in an office
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    4 days ago

    Yeah, also it’s outrageous because American style/insurance based healthcare generates extra large profit margins and the system doesn’t even capitalise on that by transferring the surplus down to the nurses - the actual legionaries of the Healthcare machine.

    And some few people try to argue that nursing is easy, so anyone could step into the role (it’s not) - but even if that were the case, it’s:

    • A “human contact” role; things like flight attendancy, car salespeople and many other things, they get duly compensated just because they provide the human face in a system that would otherwise be massively uncomfortable to interact with.
    • A death facing role; anyone who has to see people dying deserves a lot of compensation for the psychological/mental health risk - NO job has this higher than nurses. Especially if we count people literally transitioning from alive to dead. Jobs like Morticians, Train drivers, Firefighters and soldiers are highly compensated along for the same principle.
    • A high risk role; you risk probation constantly if you do something wrong or are thought to have done something wrong. You have to challenge doctors and other nurses on their decisions and be right when you do that.
    • Communicating with disabled and foreign people role - it’s just tough. People all across industries are paid more to work with the disabled and try to communicate with foreign language speakers. Nurses are paid their same basic rate.
    • Possibly a healthcare advisory role? We tend to consider advise giving and mentorship as a quality worthy of salary raise, both in the private and public sectors.
    • on that note, In the case of my country, UK, it’s effectively a public servant role. Now while this does have favourable retirement conditions, it would, in bureaucratic roles, provide exceptionally bloated salaries for what the job at hand really is. Sigh.
    • When they strike, healthcare is harder to access. If they were organised they could strike a lot (or do semi-strikes so as to not let patients die). I imagine that the US system in some part works against this. We get a lot of NHS strikes in the UK.
  • FavouriteShapes@sh.itjust.workstoGreentext@sh.itjust.works•Anon's jobs
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    8 days ago

    Yeah i hate it when people try and reinforce the idea that i deserve to suffer. Wtf did i do to him!

    Remember all, that capitalism is not designed to reward hard work and talent.

    Even if you assume it was implemented with good intentions in mind, capt. was designed around the assumption that employers are already being perfectly generous and fair, tirelessly seeking out the most capable talent - including people more capabke than themselves - to work with them.

    I however assume it evolved naturally. Though there aee some cases where a country will try to “re-implement” or reinforce adherence to a capitalist system after it slips away.

  • FavouriteShapes@sh.itjust.workstoGreentext@sh.itjust.works•Anon invents a time machine
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    9 days ago

    That was a very very very interesting thought experiment and a very satisfying explanation for questions like “why did God create Hitler,” if you’re religious. Truly we cannot decipher the tapestry of history except for from the other side.

    EDIT: while it’s true that someone else would have taken Hitler’s place, it’s clear that the premise of this greentext is actually “what if Nazi Germany never formed”