WC 1M Post Challenge - You Ready?!

[N_LaRUE]

Just to give you an idea of how the great country of Bosnia works. As a COVID relief strategy, a town of 5000 (yes 5k people in the whole municipality) got 350000€ help, but a city of 110000 (this is one of the biggest cities in the country, we're quite small), got 0€.
Why? The big town's mayor isn't the same party as our prime minister.

I'm not overly shocked by this. Also in the USA their 'leader' had hinted more than once that he doesn't want to help Blue states as much.

Outside of the pandemic a lot of governments do this kind of thing. That's why the UK has all those issues in the North of the country. Lack of funding for being the Labour heartland for so long.

Sad isn't it?

 

[libra89]

He gave up on the idea, once he realised how dumb it was. So he figured out even a dumber move. We'll all have to share our screens so we can't cheat. That is a really bad anti cheat.

Whoa, I didn't know it was possible for this to become worse. I can't even say that I'm glad he realized. He just needs to let it go. These times are already weird enough.

 

[libra89]

Just to give you an idea of how the great country of Bosnia works. As a COVID relief strategy, a town of 5000 (yes 5k people in the whole municipality) got 350000€ help, but a city of 110000 (this is one of the biggest cities in the country, we're quite small), got 0€.
Why? The big town's mayor isn't the same party as our prime minister.

That's crazy. I would love to know what happened to providing public need for the whole country went. It's not like one part is affected and the other is not. Everyone is. Last I checked, it's not optional to do certain things that help run the country.

 

[N_LaRUE]

What were they thinking?

https://twitter.com/ESRTsocial/status/1244753835236655104?s=19

 

[libra89]

Having the program manager say that it's okay to feel a lack of motivation right now is encouraging. It's been really up and down and I wish to be done with school. The class that I have a final exam for though, ehh I'm still concerned about what that looks like.

 

[libra89]

What were they thinking?

https://twitter.com/ESRTsocial/status/1244753835236655104?s=19

Good question.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

What were they thinking?

https://twitter.com/ESRTsocial/status/1244753835236655104?s=19

They were trying to be supportive in their own way. It can be easily taken in a non supportive direction, which I take it is at the source of your point. Not sure if they thought that throught or they thought that more people would take it as supportive vs being no supportive.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

Bring thoughtful is one of the hardest and most frustrating things to do as a human being.

 

[Rose640]

I'm not overly shocked by this. Also in the USA their 'leader' had hinted more than once that he doesn't want to help Blue states as much.

Outside of the pandemic a lot of governments do this kind of thing. That's why the UK has all those issues in the North of the country. Lack of funding for being the Labour heartland for so long.

Sad isn't it?

Unfortunately, there's even more f-ed up reasoning behind this. All the Croat-majority municipalities got extremely high sums of money (one even 1.2mil BAM), while Bosniak and Serb ones got peanuts. Our ministry of finances is Croat. That's why there will never be a progress in this pile of **** of a peninsula.

 

[Rose640]

Whoa, I didn't know it was possible for this to become worse. I can't even say that I'm glad he realized. He just needs to let it go. These times are already weird enough.

This is a weird country, our university can't really be that much better, and it's the number one. Imagine how bad others are.

 

[Rose640]

That's crazy. I would love to know what happened to providing public need for the whole country went. It's not like one part is affected and the other is not. Everyone is. Last I checked, it's not optional to do certain things that help run the country.

You don't seem to be too informed about the area I come from. If you have a few minutes to spare, I'd recommend watching Geography Now video about Bosnia, you'll get a decent image about how things are here.

The finances minister is Croat, those municipalities are Croat majorities, so there you go.

At the start of a crisis, one canton made an official decision to ban Bosnians from entering (while the canton itself is in Bosnia, but again, it's 90% of Croats there), it was quickly removed shortly after since it goes against the constitution.

One of the first things they did, regarding finances, is distribution of money amongst the political parties, that was the priority. And so much more.

 

[Rose640]

What were they thinking?

https://twitter.com/ESRTsocial/status/1244753835236655104?s=19

Awful attempt at gaining social media praise?

 

[Rose640]

Having the program manager say that it's okay to feel a lack of motivation right now is encouraging. It's been really up and down and I wish to be done with school. The class that I have a final exam for though, ehh I'm still concerned about what that looks like.

I know the feel, I have so much work on a pile, I'll need at least a full week of hard work to catch up.

 

[Rose640]

Bring thoughtful is one of the hardest and most frustrating things to do as a human being.

I'm having a hard time believing a large companies and such have empathy as much as they're trying to show us.

 

[Rose640]

Been painting the house for the last three days. I can't really say I've enjoyed it. I've never really liked when my house is in the mess.
But at least it looks miles better now.

 

[Rose640]

One about Bosnia
https://youtu.be/KO0rEwwyB0g

One about Balkan in general
https://youtu.be/ED0b0E6xUL8

Good luck not getting dizzy.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

You don't seem to be too informed about the area I come from. If you have a few minutes to spare, I'd recommend watching Geography Now video about Bosnia, you'll get a decent image about how things are here.

The finances minister is Croat, those municipalities are Croat majorities, so there you go.

At the start of a crisis, one canton made an official decision to ban Bosnians from entering (while the canton itself is in Bosnia, but again, it's 90% of Croats there), it was quickly removed shortly after since it goes against the constitution.

One of the first things they did, regarding finances, is distribution of money amongst the political parties, that was the priority. And so much more.

Was the head of your country that European knucklehead who when the parliament had granted those emergency autocratic powers to address COVID-19, he decided to push through non covid-19 related (aka partisan) issues (like stuff surrounding LBGT criminalization) first?

 

[MSFTisMIA]

I'm having a hard time believing a large companies and such have empathy as much as they're trying to show us.

Well, my comment was more mirco (individual) level. Because of how companies are designed, I've thought it was hard for companies to execute thoughtfulness consistently - especially publicly trading ones with shareholders.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

I'm not overly shocked by this. Also in the USA their 'leader' had hinted more than once that he doesn't want to help Blue states as much.

Outside of the pandemic a lot of governments do this kind of thing. That's why the UK has all those issues in the North of the country. Lack of funding for being the Labour heartland for so long.

Sad isn't it?

It's par for the course, sadly.

Another way in which the country is biggly ****ed. There will be a fair amount of those small businesses that were holding on by a thread that will likely not reopen. For those who like the economy, the small business loan rollout this weekend has been a cluster**** similar to when people crashed that website for health insurance when rolled out under the ACA. Obama got roasted for that really good. No talks yet on this one.

Personally I don't see a difference - lots of people applying in both cases. We will see if this stimulus is going to be as bad of a wreck as the last one.

We common folks are still ****ed either way.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

It's mostly an American thing in the so called 1st world. The puritan mentality still runs strong there. The far right religious control of a lot of states and government education is the other issue.

The need for enlightenment in the USA is long overdue.

That's not to say other countries don't have other issues though.

Europe is pretty bad for domestic violence for example and when I say Europe I mean all of it. The statistics are pretty appalling.

The interpartner violence (the more modern, all-encompassing term replacing domestic violence in the literature) stat that always stood out to me is this:

In the US, 48% of the people who visit the ER with an injury related to interpartner violence will die within two years of that ER visit.