Ioper
11mo ago
It seems far more likely that Hollywood adapts imo. They've seemingly realised that low budget horror movies can be very profitable and low risk. It seems like a fairly small step to producing other kinds of low budget movies with "AI" effects. In fact, a lot of modern TV kind of is this.
It doesn't seem like a massive step for this to graduate to the big screen. Make things like "The Northman" on 10 million instead of 70-90 and you'll have big financial success even if it only makes back half as much.
Ioper
11mo ago
it's not exactly something you can hum
What are you talking about? I took a look at the video and it seems easy to hum? Or do you mean it's difficult to sing along because you don't understand the language?
I don't know what to tell you, the chord progression is very simple and easy to hum along to.
To be clear I don't like the song either, It feels like the lower grade kind of soulless shit they play in malls to make you shop faster, I just thought the claim that it's hard to hum along to bizarre.
The issue with the song is that it's soulless and boring, not that it's hard to hum.
Ioper
11mo ago
Pleas don't generally exist in civil law so plea bargaining is therefore rare/non-existent.
The prosecuted can confess and that might affect sentencing but it doesn't really impact the trial beyond the confession being entered into evidence. The trial will proceed regardless and someone might even be found not guilty despite their confession.
Ioper
11mo ago
I'm talking about criminal cases, not civil cases. Out of court settlements for civil cases exist in both civil and common law.
I believe plea bargain by definition pertains to criminal law, but I might be wrong.
I don't know if this is accurate for Italy or not but this is something I've noticed in Sweden.
Primary care is becoming a low status speciality due to a combination of increased workload and an influx of poorly educated and wetted non-eu doctors working in that sector (non-eu doctors that are not in primary care seem decent enough). This means that going to the doctor has become a complete gamble and unless you know that your gp is competent you can expect to have to do their job for them.
However, If you for some reason end up in a hospital you'll receive excellent care by competent doctors.
The end result is that if you unwittingly go for a one-off primary care visit in Sweden and you uncritically accept what the doctor says then you're more likely than not to receive very poor care for non-emergency issues (where they can refer you to a hospital).
I try to not watch Eurovision because I think it's boring and the music almost always mediocre and I don't care who wins, if anything I prefer Sweden not to win so that the final doesn't end up here.
That said, sending artists with established careers is very common and so is sending previous winners, they just don't tend to win.
That Loreen won with that stale euphoria interpretation says more about the general level of the competition this year than her imo.
One might even say that the claim that things get meaningfully better is a cope in itself, since it distracts from the reality that the primary deficiencies in one's life very well might be mostly internal, especially if what one feels one might reasonably be able to accomplish is acquiring money...
Ioper
11mo ago
Is there any indication that the opposition is any more competent and less corrupt?
Ioper
11mo ago
Or the productive people increasingly leave as the country enters a death spiral.
It's boring and stressful. You're essentially an administrator getting yanked in a million directions with little to no power.
Of course this can vary between sectors, organisations and projects but project managment being a kind of shitty gig consistently been my impression from my own career and those of my friends and acquaintances.
This is mostly in the Nordics and UK mind you.
Ioper
11mo ago
This is like saying "why do people want money or status?". Power gives you the ability to accomplish things, whether that is furthering your career, helping people, grifting, avoiding work, furthering a cause etc.
What you don't want is responsibility. Power frequently comes with some responsibilities and you have to weigh whether the power is worth the responsibilities, just like you have to weigh whether paycheck is worth the responsibilities.
Ioper
11mo ago
What do you mean? I'm using the standard definition of power.
the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behaviour of others or the course of events.
Ioper
11mo ago
I'm not going to do that this deep in a thread no-one is going to read. I'm done.
Sweden has a growing cost/efficiency problem with our healthcare system as well and the identified main cause is growing administrative bloat.
The interesting thing is that while documentation requirements have gone up (partially and possibly mainly due to privatisation) that isn't perceived as the main driving factor to the bloat.
The main driving factor is that the administrative department isnt doing administrative work related to the hospital care. They are engaged in more prestigious make work they create for themselves, like creating "strategic communication plans", leaving the health care professionals to deal with the actual administration despite massive administrative departments.
This is perceived as a black hole that can consume an endless amount of resources without ever helping the core business.
Ioper
11mo ago
No, sorry. I'm not deeply immersed in this, it's just a narrative that has developed in media, among doctor friends of mine and some researchers.
If you search for news articles on the matter you're most likely going to find people decrying the unnecessary amount of administrators, noting of the rapid growth of administrators compared to caregivers.
Like this in the doctor union news paper: https://lakartidningen.se/aktuellt/nyheter/2022/11/kraver-mindre-administration-och-byrakrati-tjanstemannavalde/
When I said that the perceived reason wasn't necessarily demands for increased administration that caused bloat, i was referencing researchers studying the issue said in articles I've read in the paper and in tv interviews. I wasn't able to find any free articles on it after googling a little unfortunately.
There seems to be a growing consensus that we need to cut down on administrators but even when there has been explicit initiatives to cut down the number of administrators have kept growing. https://www.dagenssamhalle.se/samhalle-och-valfard/sjukvard/vardbyrakratin-svaller-sa-har-ostergotland-minskat-administrationen/
Now there are hiring freezes for new administrators in multiple regions/large hospitals but I'm sceptical. https://lakartidningen.se/aktuellt/nyheter/2023/04/karolinska-satter-stopp-for-ny-administrativ-personal/
Ioper
11mo ago
A short video with some of the context for the car part.
If you really don't like videos you can just watch the 1:26-3:46 part.
Ioper
11mo ago
- white collar crime / ‘non violent crime’ can almost always be punished with alternatives to prison like asset seizure, wage garnishing, industry bans and so on.
If you define this are most offenders, sure. If you define it as most white collar crime in amount of money or amount of people affected then no. These people are very good at hiding assets and using patsies. Some people are just committed to building their life around being anti-social, whether that is through violence or white collar stuff,and punishments don't deter them but locking them away can prevent them from hurting others and society at large.
Ioper
11mo ago
That is the point, they keep posing a threat. Industry bans, wage garnishing and asset siezures most often don't do anything to stop reoffenders.
Ioper
11mo ago
To fix this - you must make punishments for rational people inevitable (not necessarily that high) and to lock the irrational away from the society.
You also need the punishments to be significant enough that it isn't rational for anyone to defect. As it is, it frequently is rational to do so even if you're caught. And you need to accept that there is going to be collateral damage.
Holmes is a aberration and not worth focusing a ton of energy on, I don't care what's being done with her, it doesn't matter.
I'm talking about organised white collar crime. People who build their careers embezzling money from corporations and states and (illegally) hide money for the rich. These people don't just work as accountants man whose licence you can take away and they stop.
Perhaps you think of these people as just organised crime but most of them literally only engage in white collar crime or indirectly as enablers for the literal mob to engage in white collar crime (which is far more lucrative than the drug trade). The policies you prescribe are well studied and understood as ineffective for those who reoffend.
A reason for why people feel like there has been such a decline in visual storytelling I think is due to how it has declined.
Firstly, while some kinds of "prestige" shows and movies have been made throughout this entire period but in contrast to earlier eras some genres have been practically abandoned, like comedy.
Secondly, I feel like the some current trends just are much shallower creative wells than earlier trends. The most prominent example of this is irony, meta commentary and deconstruction. This is further exacerbated by a ton of things effectively being serials, which do run out of steam eventually, even if the underlying concepts doesn't.
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