Cook shortage threatens to sink U.S. Coast Guard operations

Maybe having pairs (one doctor, one non doctor) for those jobs would be a solution.

But it's probably not the only problem.

France has a budget problem, it's been borrowing more and more, and producing less and less. We can't maintain our way of life without cutting some spending, and you do it where people complain less, or where consequences will be seen way down the road.

As a whole, they are clearly going senile and mentally declining a lot faster than their parents. Also they’re selfish whiners. Most of em deserve cattle call retirement line up take your meds in run down projects they never bothered to upgrade.

Prison not pensions for a bunch of them.

It's a modern form of indentured servitude trending to slavery.

As an aside, pretty much all the "but you have to put up with <insert military structure here>" gripe that anyone can come up with has a "but you don't have to put up with <uncertainty of civilian life>" on the other side of that coin. People who are good at picking up on what the organizational goals are as well as the goals of the various parties they are subordinate to tend to fit really well in military life and there are a lot of these people out there.

I think the real kicker is there is/was a group of people who would do 6 months on the boat, 6 on shore and were happy with that setup, but now they can only do on the boat or just give up and go work on land.

Of course I do not know any highly-placed military officers, but the officers I have known do not seem to be and would not describe themselves as religious. They all have sort of a mentality I am not really prepared to put my finger on. Generally, their whole world and interpretive lens centers around the USM.

An 18 year old has spent their life eating what they’re given, exercising when they’re told, and having to get permission to use the bathroom.

The costs of eating healthy are high. 2 years online schooling for most kids coming out of high school has lowered overall comprehension levels. Parents working long hours put in little effort to see that their child is active, healthy, and studious. No role models, no healthy lifestyles, no belief in a future.

The lack of physical activity is down to the parents. Generation X raised their kids with strict rules and a high safety concern. Can’t play outside when you’re not allowed to cross streets or climb trees.

I aslo didnt realize the arrogance that is embedded in it as well as the role that chance played in my good financial position.

My best friend is a chemical engineer. He's studied 2 or 3 magnitudes harder than me, but the last 20 years didn't favor Chemical Engineers as much as software engineers. He's done well or plenty good, but to reduce the question of economics to a sense of personal responsibility as if those who are not financially stable -- deserve it, because they are lazy or not aware -- is a gross understatement and exactly why there is a such division in this country.

Yet some people live in food deserts and can't readily access reasonably priced healthy foods. 19 million Americans have lim­it­ed access to a proper store (https://www.aecf.org/blog/exploring-americas-food-deserts) and unhealthy foods cost poor Americans less than healthy foods in both money and (more importantly) time.

> Broadband is subsidized or free for poor families.

and yet during the pandemic school districts had to drive school buses acting as hotspots into poor communities in order to help the ~15 million public school students who had zero internet access but had to participate in remote learning. (https://all4ed.org/publication/homeworkgap/) Millions more have some form of internet access, but don't have internet speeds or devices capable enough for online learning. In Alcona county for example 60% of the students don't have reliable internet access at home.

The system is failing a whole lot of people. That doesn't absolve people from personal responsibility but it's wrong to pretend very real problems don't exist and influence people's actions and outcomes.

Healthy foods have been hit by inflation, and if you grew up on food stamps you may never have had access to the right amount of healthy food to make it through childhood with a decent diet.

Social housing, widely distributed low rise apartments run by the city or state to ensure we can house everyone. Avoid high rise or dense social housing clusters.

Tax the wealthy, increase pay for teachers (not administrators), pay teachers overtime. Build more schools, and provide nutritious food for every student both because it's the right thing to do but also to build knowledge of what healthy food looks like.

Vacate convictions for things like possession.

Those are the simple ones, there's plenty more we could do.

And of course, I certainly wish that people were/had more opportunities to be healthier and more literate in the US in general.

But apparently now that's socialism soo....

I don’t know how it is phrased in army recruitment, but if they are willing to take the fat and stupid, they might also allow the honest.

It's extra tortured because of the "literally", and the original "all but" is an odd phrase to start with, but in the end I knew exactly what it mean and didn't even blink at it.