It's hard to say how informed the people are, but at the very least loudly drumming out undesirables should appease them somewhat. There's an actual desire to punish those deemed acceptable targets, and it's not like people know that the investigation is actually somewhat underdelivered. The bigger danger here is from SupSov taking a dim view of a such tactics, in my opinion.
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[X] Plan Gorky Cooperatives and Ministerial Consolidation
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-[X]Aggressive Restructuring
-[X]Prioritize Quality
-[X]Accept the Goal
-[X]Enable Consolidation
[X] Plan Gorky Cooperatives and Apolitical Consolidation
-[X]Aggressive Restructuring
-[X]Prioritize Quality
-[X]Accept the Goal
-[X]Apolitically Maneuver
Terminator57
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[X] Plan Stabilize the Ministry
-[X]Bailouts and Restructuring
-[X]Prioritize Quality
-[X]Accept the Goal
-[X]Enable Consolidation
[X]Plan moar jobs:
-[X]Bailouts and Restructuring
-[X]Prioritize Quality
-[X]Deviate Towards Labor Policy
-[X]Apolitically Maneuver
[X] Plan Stabilize and Fuck The Voz
-[X]Bailouts and Restructuring
-[X]Prioritize Quality
-[X]Accept the Goal
-[X]Apolitically Maneuver
-[X]Bailouts and Restructuring
-[X]Prioritize Quality
-[X]Accept the Goal
-[X]Enable Consolidation
[X]Plan moar jobs:
-[X]Bailouts and Restructuring
-[X]Prioritize Quality
-[X]Deviate Towards Labor Policy
-[X]Apolitically Maneuver
[X] Plan Stabilize and Fuck The Voz
-[X]Bailouts and Restructuring
-[X]Prioritize Quality
-[X]Accept the Goal
-[X]Apolitically Maneuver
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Where do you get the idea that "it's not like people know that the investigation is actually somewhat underdelivered"?
See here:
People are mad and they are in part mad at what they see as a weak anti-corruption drive.
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fasquardon
Ah fuck it, I'll throw a vote at ending prison labor to make more jobs for good upstanding Soviet proletarians. It wouldn't technically be impossible to find the money for paying our construction labor, just highly unpleasant. But rioting mobs of unemployed workers are also highly unpleasant.
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The vote is a forgone conclusion at this point, so I'd like to highlight something else to the Threadviet: That Klimenko has been forced to eat his words, because the ASU has been an ABSOLUTE RIP-ROARING SUCCESS in ways even Voznesensky did not expect.
This is what we expected:
Even a critical success would be unlikely to get boni this good for average projects, and we got this from regular rolls. Klimenko was not prepared, WE were not prepared, perhaps even the managers were not fully prepared, for the massive transformation computers bring to the white collar parts of the Soviet economy.
The narration mentions the managers are starting to experiment with direct computerized process control, and our automotive industry has also started experimenting with the Nat 100 on the automotive plan. The age of automation is dawning on the USSR, which will bring big transformations that the SupSov might have trouble with.
This is what we expected:
And what we GOT:
Never mind all the narrative information we got about how enthusiastic the enterprises are adopting these computers, the direct mechanical impact is far larger than anticipated. Indicated by electricity consumption, the scale of adoption is almost twice what was expected. The automation potential with it was so extensive general labor utilization dropped by three points immediately. The administrative use is so much that we got an entire +1 modifier to our dice, in spite of us not even being the main beneficiaries.
Even a critical success would be unlikely to get boni this good for average projects, and we got this from regular rolls. Klimenko was not prepared, WE were not prepared, perhaps even the managers were not fully prepared, for the massive transformation computers bring to the white collar parts of the Soviet economy.
The narration mentions the managers are starting to experiment with direct computerized process control, and our automotive industry has also started experimenting with the Nat 100 on the automotive plan. The age of automation is dawning on the USSR, which will bring big transformations that the SupSov might have trouble with.
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I am touched that my plan is only 6 votes behind the leading plan.
I hope the poor sods in the prison industrial complex don't have to wait too much longer... Even if we're past Stalinism, being forced to work by people who think suffering is what you deserve and the path to reform is pretty brutal.
Utilization being twice what was expected is worthy news.
If we can keep the momentum on this... Wowee.
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fasquardon
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Cautionary observation:
This may reflect the computers consuming more electricity than was expected or allowed for. Perhaps someone in Voz's department didn't plan for peripherals, or the most recent generation of computer is more power-hungry than Voz predicted it would be before it was fully prototyped, or maybe something else like that.
They are mad at seeing guilty get away with hardly even a slap on the wrist, but as long as there's an actual loud end to the investigation with culprits punished, the people generally wouldn't know that the end came prematurely instead of naturally. They are not expecting the investigation to run for two more years.
Ah! Gotcha. Yeah, I don't get the impression that people outside know that either.
But as far as a loud end to the investigation and culprits getting punished, we're kinda at the mercy of the dice.
We can but hope.
Regards,
fasquardon
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With this talk about the populace angry that the corrupt people are getting seeming slaps on the wrist, I think the low roll on Resumption of Punishments is not as good a thing as some people are celebrating.
But seriously, if we get that opportunity we got to take it. Having the foundational infrastructure of the Soviet internet be under OUR control instead of the grubby jackbooted mittens of the Army or Ministry of the Interior or such would be huge for our ability to shape it into something that provides the most benefit it can to the people of the union as it develops.
The clear and totally obvious next step from the ASU, once every individual enterprise location has a computer, is to build a telecommunications system that allows digital information and documents to be seamlessly and quickly transferred between enterprises, their branches (blech),and most importantly between enterprises and the central ministry. This would allow the infinite gains of computerization to be applied on scales of entire Republics instead of individual buildings! No way the threadviet can resist such an internal network.
But seriously, if we get that opportunity we got to take it. Having the foundational infrastructure of the Soviet internet be under OUR control instead of the grubby jackbooted mittens of the Army or Ministry of the Interior or such would be huge for our ability to shape it into something that provides the most benefit it can to the people of the union as it develops.
Honestly if we wanted to get started on it we might wanna make some progress on.
[]Universalization of Telephone Networking: The telephone has revolutionized business and commerce but it has still only partially spread into the private sector. By funding a large program of telephone integration and unifying standards overall utilization can massively increase to improve private sector performance. Nowadays as more deals are conducted over the phone instead of in person telephones are an essential good for any business, making their availability essential for ensuring growth in less infrastructurally fortunate areas. (140 Resources per Dice 0/175) (-16CI1 Electricity)
This isn't internet lines, but starts getting us more experience in telecommunications. Klim might also be underestimating it like he did ASU, which is saying something considering he's saying that it'll massively increase performance. Given that he says they'll help ensure growth in less developed areas (with our roads, most areas), they might also allow a distribution into smaller plants to help avoid the problems of over-centralization (cough Gorky).It's pricey but given it's in services Klim's bonus would be useful here.
Considering our first internet connections will almost certainly be modems, these actually could be internet lines.
I strongly agree that we want to do that project now that we're done with ASU.
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I'm getting a bunch of "winter" reactions to that post rather than likes. What does that mean?? Is that better or worse???
Anyways, thanks for pointing out the importance of Universalization of Telephone Networking and how it can synergize with our computer rollout. Definitely an important project for next turn.
Also solving the garbage problem. We can't let those snack wrappers cause too much trouble.
Anyways, thanks for pointing out the importance of Universalization of Telephone Networking and how it can synergize with our computer rollout. Definitely an important project for next turn.
Also solving the garbage problem. We can't let those snack wrappers cause too much trouble.
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Once more walking the path of the catgirl.
It's a special version of the like that can only be used during, like, the month of december.
The next step is to do what we can to foster software development, preferably by separate enterprises to the ASU hardware manufacturers. The importance of software development is very much not obvious in this period, when it wasn't simply left to owners to program their own machines, it was generally written by the manufacturer and bundled with the machines in a way that obfuscated the importance of software as a component.
If there's enterprises that specialize in writing software for the ASU, it will become clear to them the importance of their code.
A national network won't be much value without software.
Telephone exchanges were hugely important drivers of the technology package we now call "the internet" and indeed of computers in general. So yes, this project would help get us closer to a national network.
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fasquardon
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X] Plan Gorky Cooperatives and Ministerial Consolidation
-[X]Aggressive Restructuring
-[X]Prioritize Quality
-[X]Accept the Goal
-[X]Enable Consolidation
[X] Plan Gorky Cooperatives and Apolitical Consolidation
-[X]Aggressive Restructuring
-[X]Prioritize Quality
-[X]Accept the Goal
-[X]Apolitically Maneuver
-[X]Aggressive Restructuring
-[X]Prioritize Quality
-[X]Accept the Goal
-[X]Enable Consolidation
[X] Plan Gorky Cooperatives and Apolitical Consolidation
-[X]Aggressive Restructuring
-[X]Prioritize Quality
-[X]Accept the Goal
-[X]Apolitically Maneuver
