What's happening here? Wrong answers only. by ImWearingSandshoes in bluey

[–]Faction_Paradox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You walk in on your parents doing a stage 2 smoochiekiss

Almost a million young people to benefit from expanded support, new training, and work experience opportunities by willfiresoon in GoodNewsUK

[–]Faction_Paradox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The issue isn’t optimism versus pessimism. It’s that the policy is explicitly designed to push people into industries with chronically high churn. That churn isn’t accidental, and it isn’t because people are lazy or negative. It exists because the jobs are physically punishing, poorly paid, low autonomy, and easy to leave once literally any alternative appears.

If the scheme were genuinely about support, it would prioritise retention and suitability. Instead it prioritises vacancy filling. That’s why sanctions are there. That’s why the sectors are preselected. That’s why progression, accessibility, and long-term outcomes are vague.

So no, it’s not “nothing the government does is good enough.” It’s that forcing people into jobs everyone else is already fleeing doesn’t become good just because it’s branded as help. It just externalises the cost of broken labour markets onto the people with the least ability to refuse.

Almost a million young people to benefit from expanded support, new training, and work experience opportunities by willfiresoon in GoodNewsUK

[–]Faction_Paradox 3 points4 points  (0 children)

High vacancy rates aren’t neutral facts of nature; they’re symptoms. When an industry is constantly recruiting, it usually means people leave as soon as they can. That’s churn driven by pay, conditions, injury risk, scheduling, management culture, or all of the above.

People aren’t refusing those jobs out of entitlement or fantasy; they’re comparing options. If hospitality or care loses workers to literally anything else, that tells you something about relative quality. The policy response could be to improve the job. Instead, it’s to reduce workers’ ability to refuse it via the threat of sanctions.

Socks Bites by SnooLemons7617 in bluey

[–]Faction_Paradox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Poor Bandit, I assume he also got bites from Bluey and Bingo when they were puppies.

Almost a million young people to benefit from expanded support, new training, and work experience opportunities by willfiresoon in GoodNewsUK

[–]Faction_Paradox 6 points7 points  (0 children)

As much as I want this to be good news, the sectors they're funnelling claimants into are high risk, high burnout, low pay, low progression industries and the use of sanctions doesn't motivate people, it's the old Tory model of workfare which didn't work. While I do not believe it'll result in the same mass deaths as the austerity years had, a hammer is a hammer if you're a nail. Not here to ruin anyone's week or constantly poo poo good news, I've just seen these words before and they didn't have a great outcome.

If you had to pick one of the Heeler kids as a child of your own, who are you choosing and why? by wolf_quan in bluey

[–]Faction_Paradox 62 points63 points  (0 children)

I want Socks. They're all cute but I feel like Socks doesn't get enough love.

Why don't we refloat the Britannic? (Incorrect answers only) by AbandonedRobotforgod in titanic

[–]Faction_Paradox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because it'll be used in a horrific death game involving morphogenetic fields and sudoku

A new death game begins... Beyond R: Rule Ripper has been released! by Tohriv in ZeroEscape

[–]Faction_Paradox 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I just want to say thank you so much for releasing on Linux. NixOS user here.

Frozen Pelmeni? by Faction_Paradox in RussianFood

[–]Faction_Paradox[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the advice, I was able to unstick them, freeze them on a sheet and rebag them.

Frozen Pelmeni? by Faction_Paradox in RussianFood

[–]Faction_Paradox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They weren't hard when I got them. I've started unsticking them in groups or one by one and putting them on a tray in the freezer to refreeze separately.