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This is quite darkly hilarious tbh. And consistent with my experience of Blackpool. I once went there on couple-week-long driving course when I was a teenager, hoping but eventually failing to get my license. I was put up in someone's house that was run as a sort of unlicensed b&b. The entire place, the curtains, the linen, the pillow,.. all smelled of old nicotine and damp. On my first evening I went out by myself t…
This is so weird. Is it another way of saying "being poor is expensive"? Or poor people get sick more? If so then this some next level captain obvious stuff. Or do the authors have such a nice societal experience that this seems very peculiar to them? I mean, this is one if the top reasons people want money right? At least they have NHS in the UK, in most of the world and most of human history people either adapt or…
> If so then this some next level captain obvious stuff. m What a weird take, we should avoid naming things because checks notes they’re obvious??? > Give the addicts, the hobos and and the mentally unstable cash and good information/guidance on their options. That’s some next level captain obvious knowledge that you never give cash to hobos and addicts if you want to fix root cause of their problems, how could you n…
This is quite darkly hilarious tbh. And consistent with my experience of Blackpool. I once went there on couple-week-long driving course when I was a teenager, hoping but eventually failing to get my license. I was put up in someone's house that was run as a sort of unlicensed b&b. The entire place, the curtains, the linen, the pillow,.. all smelled of old nicotine and damp. On my first evening I went out by myself t…
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I don't see this as a "making fun of people" thing. It feels to me more like an open acknowledgement that there are a large number of negative health impacts associated with poverty, and it really sucks.
Maybe there's a cultural thing here. English humor is pretty self-deprecating: the term "Shit Life Syndrome" is the kind of phrase that fits the English mindset pretty well.
This is quite darkly hilarious tbh. And consistent with my experience of Blackpool. I once went there on couple-week-long driving course when I was a teenager, hoping but eventually failing to get my license. I was put up in someone's house that was run as a sort of unlicensed b&b. The entire place, the curtains, the linen, the pillow,.. all smelled of old nicotine and damp. On my first evening I went out by myself t…
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Instead of starting with blame and condescension of your own, try to seek understanding from the people you accuse.
Every profession that is about caring for other people have these jokes because it is necessary to maintain some distance from human suffering to remain professionally functional. Humour makes it possible to maintain two dissonant thoughts in one’s head.
It’s in the very website linked here. The sense of powerlessness and malaise and desperation shared between the patients and their caregivers. What else does one do to come into work the next day and keep at working to improve a hopeless task?
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Why do you think the SLS term is an inside joke? I actually appreciate the succinct directness of it tbh.
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Ugh. I hope there comes a day when using the money hoarded by the rich and influential to invest in the public, does not depend on the rich and influential choosing to do so out of a desire for maximal profits, or even benevolence. One day maybe.
> One day maybe TBH, I doubt it. Don't get me wrong, I sympathize with your values. Heck, I'm even called 'woke' by most people around me. Yet I understand that in this day in age, thanks to cryptocurrency, money is and will be a private matter. No government will be able to confiscate your wealth, at least to the extent that your wealth doesn't depend on assets related with the government (e.g. real estate is relate…
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You don’t get it. It’s uncivil to police jokes. Instead of starting with blame and condescension of your own, try to seek understanding from the people you accuse. Every profession that is about caring for other people have these jokes because it is necessary to maintain some distance from human suffering to remain professionally functional. Humour makes it possible to maintain two dissonant thoughts in one’s head. I…
I 100% agree!
This isn't a joke, it's an insult.
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English doctors don't really make banquet money: https://www.bmj.com/careers/article/the-complete-guide-to-nh... I don't see this as a "making fun of people" thing. It feels to me more like an open acknowledgement that there are a large number of negative health impacts associated with poverty, and it really sucks. Maybe there's a cultural thing here. English humor is pretty self-deprecating: the term "Shit Life Synd…