#systemic problems

[b0bthebuilder35]

Too often, people believe homelessness is due to some type of character flaw. In reality, that’s not even close. The top causes being…

1. A lack of affordable housing

2. Unemployment

3. Poverty

4. Low wages

[pratchettquotes]

He shouldn't have done that with his badge. It wasn't like the old days. He had responsibilities. He should've stayed on and made things just a little less--

No. That never worked.

Terry Pratchett, Jingo

[tommyandtabitha]

[somelonelywordmonger]

Preventing mental health crises, burnout, and trauma caused by external factors is often easier than treating and recovering from mental illness, burnout, and trauma. And in the long run, it also saves money. The problem, however, is that many in positions of power (both governmental and business) want the gains and the wealth because even though addressing the roots of the problems is easier, it isn't easy. It means putting in effort and spending money and fixing systemic issues brought about by systemic racism, ablism, late-stage capitalism, environmental issues, and on and on. There would be no immediate gains, although there is evidence of the effects of such practices improving the business within a matter of months. [1] [2] But if people would work toward fixing their surroundings, if business owners would take the proper steps to ensure the welfare of their employees and the continual safety and quality of their product(s) while those in government work to improve the situations they can support, then maybe we could make that step. But we need to continue to support the treatment and the proper treatment, at that, of those already afflicted by mental illness, burnout, and trauma. Sadly, fixing these problems is seen as a luxury, socialism/communism (which is oh so bad), the overstepping of government, the responsibility of those who suffer from these problems, i.e., the victims of the system, and from the viewpoint of the worst in power, a means of losing their control and power because prosperity and hope are something that loosens their grip on us.

Original Source Links (in case the Archive links aren't right or break): [1] [2]

[victusinveritas]

[buzzofnews234]

BPSC Exam Protest: Chaos at Gandhi Maidan Amid Hunger Strike

The BPSC row marks a pivotal moment in Bihar’s politics and administration. Kishor’s hunger strike has placed the onus on the state government to resolve the issues affecting thousands of aspirants. The protest now moves to the High Court, where justice will be tested. Will it prevail or become another reminder of systemic recruitment problems? For more updates on the BPSC controversy and Bihar politics, visit our blog frequently.

[roseangelxx]

My biggest sexual fantasy? Having the people in my life to actually want me instead of tolerate me.

[penig]

Every one of these crashes has cost at least one company money. Which companies hate! If the driver is driving for a trucking concern, the trucking concern loses money repairing or replacing the truck and goodwill from whoever paid them to haul the goods, which are now delayed. They may have just lost a customer; their contract may require them to eat the cost of damaged goods and delays. If the driver is an independent contractor, he just wrecked his own rig and has to deal with the same customer problems.

I think we can safely assume that the number of individual drivers who do this twice is vanishingly small. This is a new driver doing this, every time.

If he works for a company where someone has done this, there is an excellent chance that a warning about paying attention to low bridge signs, using this specific bridge as the horrid example, has been emphatically issued to him in some form - during orientation, or training, or as part of his assignment to this specific route. If nothing else, truckers talk to each other. The individuals who've done this have been roasted alive by their workmates right in front of the new driver, if they weren't fired outright.

So most of these drivers have probably been warned in some fashion before they ever got near this road. A percentage of them probably assume that the stories they hear are gross exaggerations. But that doesn't mean they can't absorb the moral of the cautionary tale: if your load is too tall for the bridge you have to find another route around.

Clearly, this is not a problem soluble by warnings alone. Another factor, or factors, is coming into play that applies in the moment.

This is, I fear, the visible sign of serious problems in the industry. Ones that also manifest in less spectacular, but even more dangerous, ways.

There's a lot of pressure on truckers to make time. They may be fined for late arrivals; they may be paid by the trip; they may have schedules that allow no margins for normal travel delays like other people's accidents and weather. Truckers are often on the road without enough sleep, cutting their own food, rest, and bathroom breaks in order to make up lost time.

A sleep-deprived trucker amped up on caffeine or speed, whose eyes are strained from driving for six hours straight, is not in a mental place for reading signage. He sees a light go yellow, he sees flashing lights which indicate nothing to his addled brain besides an oncoming interruption of his progress, his reflex is to step on the gas and get past the interruption before it can happen.

And then the top comes off his truck, and then he remembers. The rest of his day is shot, and everyone who isn't laughing at him is yelling at him, and what's he going to say? The meth made me do it?

(Most recurring problems are systemic, don't you find?)

was reminded of that youtube channel that records footage of that bridge that scalps trucks today. one of the fascinating developments that's happened since i last heard about it is that, in one of their many attempts to stop the trucks from being can-opened, they installed a traffic light that detects when a vehicle that's over the allowed height is coming and turns red so the driver can stop and hopefully notice the signage all around that's screaming "YOUR VEHICLE IS OVERHEIGHT TURN AROUND" and avoid an accident. However as a result sometimes drivers see the light turning yellow and IMMEDIATELY start flooring it to avoid having to stop, ensuring that the roof of their truck just gets fucking annihilated instantly. Really beautiful stuff you should check it out

[teaandinanity]

Happy Year of the Snake! I am done with my art for the bang so now I'm inflicting silly doodles on everyone in response to the author's notes and since it's not For The Bang Specifically I'm posting this one because I made myself laugh 😂

[sunderwight]

Shen Qingqiu gets hit by a rare wife plot.

And it actually is a rare one because Airplane didn't even write this one down! He toyed with the idea before ultimately dismissing it as being too controversial for the tastes of his readers, and adapting only a few of the same elements for a subsequent chapter of PIDW.

But apparently the System can pull inspiration even from the author's thoughts, especially when there's nothing to contradict the concept and even a few threads of it still to be found in the original, and somehow Shen Qingqiu runs afoul of this previously-unwritten plot bunny.

The core concept was a cuck scenario, of all things. One of the Luo Binghe's wives gets afflicted by a poison that can only be cured by dual cultivation, but specifically can't be cured by by dual cultivation with anyone who has mastery over demonic qi. Something something conflicting energies, something bullshit something. Peerless Cucumber would have ripped the chapter to shreds if it had actually made it to publication, not just for the insult of implying that Luo Binghe should let one of his wives sleep with someone else, but also because why would Luo Binghe -- able to use both kinds of cultivation -- somehow not be able to keep his demonic energies from influencing the situation just in this one case?

Well it turns out that in his specific case it's because sex gets him too worked up to keep things strictly separate, and the degree of control required to treat the affliction whilst dual cultivating is extensive enough that even a little slip-up would be fatal.

Of course, in the actual chapter of PIDW, this same plot device was altered and used to create a harem orgy where Luo Binghe oversaw several of his wives "treating" one another's "afflictions", but Shen Qingqiu just had to go and get a fatal of dose of the more severe version (he didn't realize the risk, because again, this version didn't even make it into the novel).

Anyway, of course this ends up with Shen Qingqiu trying to figure out another way to cheat death, while Luo Binghe goes through the five stages of grief before accepting that he's just going to have to let someone else fuck his husband. This leads to an argument because of course Shen Qingqiu's not going to cheat on Luo Binghe, and he's especially not going to force one of his martial siblings to sleep with him, come on now, and Luo Binghe trying not to cry tears of blood while bringing himself to explain that a fair few of Shen Qingqiu's sect siblings would be happy volunteers for this task.

Shen Qingqiu's just like, well of course you think that, for some bizarre reason you think everyone wants to sleep with me. Bias is what it is. Really it's flattering Binghe but obviously every other person we know is straight, that's just statistics, and everyone in the entire cultivation world knows that Qi Qingqi would sooner chew glass than have sex with a man!

Luo Binghe, weeping now: Shizun please. This is serious. I need you speak words that make sense in the order you're saying them.

They argue, they reach an impasse, the clock is ticking. So Luo Binghe reluctantly turns to the most reliable source of information (outside of himself) on Manipulating Shen Qingqiu to Do Things That Are in His Own Best Interests -- Shang Qinghua.

At first Shang Qinghua is like, well I'm flattered Junshang but I don't think I could shoulder the baggage of fucking Cucumber-bro for you. But then Luo Binghe is like no I need someone who is way hotter and more capable than you, if Shizun is going to fuck someone else at my behest they're going to be TOP TIER so that when I fuck him better afterwards he's really impressed with me. Liu Qingge, obviously.

Not Yue Qingyuan, Shang Qinghua asks? (He'd take the insult a little more personally but honestly he's just relieved that he's not being asked to navigate this social minefield.)

No, Luo Binghe says. He's not 100% sure he could beat Yue Qingyuan in a fight even to this day, which in his mind also translates to not being 100% sure he could do sex better than him either, so Yue Qingyuan is an emergency last resort. He's way more likely to cry on Shizun too and Shen Qingqiu is into that shit, it's too risky.

Alright, says Shang Qinghua, and he thinks about it, and then he comes up with the beautifully simple solution:

Luo Binghe has to fuck Liu Qingge first.

Because of course the crux of the issue is that even with permission, Shen Qingqiu doesn't want to cheat on Luo Binghe. But in the twisted annals of his mind, Luo Binghe himself is still entitled to a harem, even if Luo Binghe is also happily monogamous in this life. So if he shacks up with Liu Qingge first then Liu Qingge essentially joins Luo Binghe's harem, at which point if Shen Qingqiu sleeps with him it's not an affair, it's the gay version of those fanservice-y 3P scenes that the wives in PIDW did. Shang Qinghua translates the concept as best as he can to Luo Binghe, who -- though slightly dubious -- must accept that so far Shang Qinghua's wisdom hasn't steered him wrong with regards to his shizun's eccentricities.

Luo Binghe's mission: seduce Liu Qingge, or at least convince him to have sex, or possibly to lie and (convincingly!) tell Shen Qingqiu that they had sex. That last one is the longest shot so he's probably going to have to just fuck him (Luo Binghe still underestimates how willing his husband is to believe that just about anyone would have sex with him).

Shang Qinghua's mission: convince Shen Qingqiu that he owes his husband steamy threeway gay sex or something so that this plan he pulled out of his ass doesn't backfire and get him killed.

[possibly-a-secunit]

[willtheweaver]

Ways to solve the Why Can’t They Use Magic To Fix Everything problem:

•Magic has a cost. The more powerful the spell, the more it drains the caster’s life.

•’We tried that ages ago.The gods grew angry at our arrogance and stripped most of our powers away.’

•Magic is tied to the stars and planets. Its full potential can only manifest on certain astrological events.(And these are once-in-a-millennia type events)

•Only one will a pure heart and selfless intentions can use their full power.

•All magic users are descendants of a (god/spirit). As the years have gone by, the blood has become more diluted, and magic has grown weaker as a result.

•Spell casters can only cast (finite number of spells). They end up using their gift on trivial matters.

•’After the war, we realized the dangers that magic presented. And so we sealed it away, lest it destroy the world.’

•Everyone has magic. Trying to solve one problem is futile as it can be easily undone(often violently and with much destruction)

•inverse of the above: everyone has magic, but their powers are limited and (mostly) harmless.

•Individual, company, or nation has a monopoly on the only substance that can negate magic. As they rule the world, they have installed anti-magic devices everywhere.

•Individual, group, company, or nation has a monopoly on magic. To insure their grip on power, all magic users that do not submit to them are killed.

•An act of good will spawn one of evil. The use of fire will cause somewhere to grow cold and dark. And to save a life, one must sacrifice another.

•The only magic people have access to is Chaos Magic. No one uses it, for obvious reasons.

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[reformthesystem]

Opinions About Making A More Society-Oriented Political System

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head disciple shen yuan and his two little shidis who for some reason keep sneaking into the beast tamer peak ⛰️🐉

[teaboot]

Sorry to bother you with this, but I just don't really know what to do and would like some advice.

I'm a teenager in high school and I've been reading more and more about politics and the world and it just leaves me feeling tired and hopeless.

I see violence against women every day and both political parties of my country encourage it. I feel scared and hopeless and I don't know what to do about it. I'm scared that I'll be attacked in one way or another.

Do you have any advice for this kind of thing?

Society is cyclical. One generation learns a lesson and teaches it to the children who take it to an extreme, then their children learn a lesson and teach it to their children who take it to an extreme. Like the width of your high-heeled shoes, or the height of your waistband or the size of your hair.

One thing we have seen over and over and over again is that things will swing to the furthest possible edge of a dichotomy, and when it it can go no further it swings back the other way.

It’s a scary time to be living, yes. The collapse of Rome was probably pretty scary too. The idea of big things changing like that is scary.

But also, we’re not nobility, we’re peasants, and those of us in North America are still very very blessed right now. As bad as things are, through all of (vague gesture upwards), we’re still going to have to work. We’re still going to go to school. We’re still going to wash the dishes and scoop cat litter. And through all that, we’re going to see our neighbours, and our teachers, and random kids on the street, and cashiers and homeless folks and middle-aged women named Nancy, every damn day of the week.

And while we can’t control our governments (apparently) or our economy or the fucking price of beef, we’re going to see each other far more than we’re going to see politicians and oil tycoons.

Civilizations collapse all the time. Governments fall apart all the time. The people don’t have to collapse with it.

So what you do is the best you can. You wash the dishes. You scoop the cat litter. You go to work and you go to school and keep doing all the boring and mundane and unglamorous things they don’t tell you about the end of the Roman Empire and you CARE ABOUT PEOPLE and be KIND to them, and then when you come across a clear and baldfaced injustice in front of you that you can DO something about you think to yourself, “I could help, but I don’t want to, because it’ll be hard and uncomfortable and awkward and I don’t know what I’m doing and I’ll hate it so much the entire time,” and then you do something anyway.

Because if you’re going to be scared no matter what, you might as well be scared making things better. You might as well be scared with a friend. You might as well be scared while you keep the world moving than scared in a hole in your yard, ‘cause without the bomb, the only real difference between a lone man in a bomb shelter and a dead body in a casket is a can of meat and an air filter.

Things could be worse. Things could GET worse. We’re not all going to be okay. That sucks. Now grab whoever’s on your left and hold on.