Nah, too pronounceable. If it was an extra letter longer without any vowels it could probably squeak by our high standards for horrible acronyms, but GAYS pales in comparison to the glory that is TMGDPRGLANDHPE or whatever HeroCooky comes up with for our rocket names.
That Time I Became A Dictator Of A Small Asian Communist Nation
Forgothrax
Not Going Gently
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@HeroCooky and @CyberEnby , with his permission, may I introduce my colleague @PainRack ? He's much better at the Public Health stuff than I am, and Singaporean so he may have better insight into the workings of healthcare systems in a very different climate than mine.
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Welcome!
HeroCooky
Unverified Monstergirl
Patient: "I need help! I broke my arm!"
Doctor: "Will you die from that right now?"
Patient: "What? It's a broken arm?!"
Doctor: "But will you die from that? If no, git, if yes, please stand in the 5-hour long line and hope you'll make it. NEXT!"
Basically, if they ain't dying from injuries right now, they ain't getting treatment this month. If ever.
The GISS is still providing hormonal treatments, but yeah.
Forgothrax: "So, where are the problems with our medical system?"
HeroCooky: "Yes."
Did so, and I'll now crash after a 13-hour shift.
SovietWomble?
SovietWomble.
They are more than welcome in this madness.
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Hmm, so, some ideas. We happen to have a world-class educational system, presumably also including universities, though it was the focus of less attention. Could we offer subsidized/cheap education for doctors/nurses in exchange for spending a few years (paid years, of course) working on the island? Obviously that's very much a short-term solution, but right now we need to halt the bleeding so that we can rebuild the system from scratch.
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Right, looks like the only change for the Revolution Unending options has been the addition of a followup option to Rainbow Road:
This is nice, but it's hard to judge how useful it is because we don't have any idea about maluses. @HeroCooky, could we get some sort of guide to how ambitious something has to be before it triggers a malus? Or is this one of those fuck around and find out things?
Also, could we get an idea for how big the bonus for Sanctuary for All is so we can have a better idea of how it balances vs Professionals to the Fore?
This is nice, but it's hard to judge how useful it is because we don't have any idea about maluses. @HeroCooky, could we get some sort of guide to how ambitious something has to be before it triggers a malus? Or is this one of those fuck around and find out things?
Also, could we get an idea for how big the bonus for Sanctuary for All is so we can have a better idea of how it balances vs Professionals to the Fore?
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HeroCooky
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If it can be made with current tech-levels+technoloies+2 years, then you're gucci, if not, malus. Scaled by ambition and scale of use.
Everday personal power armor for civvies? -34
Experimental Normal-Human-Sized PA prototypes? -8
So a bit of system and a whole heap of fucking around.
That is narrative rather than mechanically numbers-relevant. No +1/2s, but chances/opportunities/unlocked options for international diplomacy/espionage without cost/improved gain.CyberEnby said:
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So hypothetically if we threw enough money at western med students and medical suppliers, how much can we blunt this short term?
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I'm not gonna lie folks. I'm awful tempted by that malus reduction. Just keep the Belkan Witchcraft memes going and use our technical ability to became a lynch pin of communist R&D.
There's definitely something to be said for min-maxing and Diamond Pony is definitely that. It would basically force us to constantly propose cutting edge stuff.
There's definitely something to be said for min-maxing and Diamond Pony is definitely that. It would basically force us to constantly propose cutting edge stuff.
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I would like the Efficient Administrator for more actions, but then that could be handled by a more restrained 5YP. Decisions, decisions.
Chimeraguard
We do deserve to exist.
I personally like the idea of boosting our ability to do foreign affairs and diplomacy, and punishing the parts of the world that aren't as socially progressive as Guangchou.
"But Chimeraguard, that's basically the entire rest of the world."
"And?"
"But Chimeraguard, that's basically the entire rest of the world."
"And?"
"I mean, all they need to do to dodge the effect is to do some civil rights reforms, right?"
*Day 150 of the LGBTQ rights protests*
"DARN YOU GUANGCHOUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!"
Barondoctor
The things I chase come to me.
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Teach For America, except Healthcare and Guangchou?
I mean, the quick-and-dirty way is buying Cuban healthcare professionals; if we want to pivot them into teaching and being supervisors for our fresh-out-of-school residents and such, that's a time-honored means of turning a few experts into a skilled population.
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That's a good idea too. We have a surplus of people, we have a very good education system in general, even if we probably will need to improve our medical education...
Given we did free housing for all, the easiest step to secure public health is vaccination and sanitation .
Easiest way to reduce overworked critical care is to reduce the need for it. (Glau skit in particular is relevant since Singapore new Covid wave outnumbers the US reported cases but we have a mere percentile of hospital/ICU admission. Get vaccinated for Covid guys. )
You do need civil engineers but hey, you got all those new houses right? You have some.
Fun fact: Singapore ended nightwaste collection only in the 90s, that's a decade after full public housing or the successful stabilising of the housing crisis.l and 3 decades after HDB began it's rampant build build build. Tied in with a massive floodwater prevention and Hawker licensing program, we ended the scourge of cholera and other diarrheal disease.
It also helped that we synergised health matters with public housing, reducing the scourge of TB by you know, having better public housing instead of cramped rooms. A dedicated anti TB organisation SATA was then able to effectively screen, vaccinate and treat said patients, because hey, we lowered numbers of TB.
Infectious Disease is usually one of the top few killers in developing countries. Look at India for example where diarrhea is top 5. India has the unique issue of having developed world and developing world health problems in their system
Easiest way to reduce overworked critical care is to reduce the need for it. (Glau skit in particular is relevant since Singapore new Covid wave outnumbers the US reported cases but we have a mere percentile of hospital/ICU admission. Get vaccinated for Covid guys. )
You do need civil engineers but hey, you got all those new houses right? You have some.
Fun fact: Singapore ended nightwaste collection only in the 90s, that's a decade after full public housing or the successful stabilising of the housing crisis.l and 3 decades after HDB began it's rampant build build build. Tied in with a massive floodwater prevention and Hawker licensing program, we ended the scourge of cholera and other diarrheal disease.
It also helped that we synergised health matters with public housing, reducing the scourge of TB by you know, having better public housing instead of cramped rooms. A dedicated anti TB organisation SATA was then able to effectively screen, vaccinate and treat said patients, because hey, we lowered numbers of TB.
Infectious Disease is usually one of the top few killers in developing countries. Look at India for example where diarrhea is top 5. India has the unique issue of having developed world and developing world health problems in their system
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Oh yeah, that's definitely caught my attention too. I don't think there's going to be much mechanical difference between permanently reducing the advanced malus on research by one and permanently boosting research rolls by one, so it's going to come down to whether we think we've got something that can make good use of that 1-time -4 reduction without being too advanced. Since if we misjudge how advanced what we use it on is, or just get an unlucky dice pair, and have that -4 be eaten on a failed roll it's going to be painful.
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Inb4 ring vaccinations by military force. An infectious disease pops up, and suddenly the whole town is rounded up and vaccinated.
"But muh freedoms!"
"NATIONAL SECURITY!"
Though we do still need more doctors and medical professionals. Yes, reducing infectious disease helps, but there's still the problem of people with non-infectious conditions like broken arms being turned away.
HeroCooky
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You could scrape into -2 with enough money thrown. Barely, and that wouldn't be sustainable too.
The people would honestly line the block to get that vaccine if something like that happened. Or you just had a general vaccine drive for the country.
Anti-Vaxxers aren't a thing yet in Guangchou, and most people want those vaccines for their kiddies currently growing up.
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So, clearly, we know what the next 5-year plan is going to be. Personally, I'm actually in favor of either the anarchism mending or increased immigration.
In the short-term, immigration will help poach medical professionals, and in the long term, consistently devoting an action to it Is the only way we have a chance at climbing the ranks of political might. That said, I understand it might be better to put that off until after we can fix the healthcare disaster.
To that end, I am going to fervently request that we choose Red-Black Reconciliation as our boon. We need diversity of allowed political thought for a stable country, and thinking about our retirement and our successor starts now. The more controversial actions we take in the eyes of the west, the more they are going to push back politically and loudly. Healing the schism on a global Comintern scale Is the only way that our big allies survive, into that starts at home.
To put it more simply, we can't survive alone. We need allies, and that means our allies need to shape up. Lead by example, and take a gentle guiding hand, for everyone's sakes.
Edit: Anarchists are also really good at catching and handling problems on a local scale, making a great indicator of things we need to deal with, as well as a source of community knowledge to draw from.
In the short-term, immigration will help poach medical professionals, and in the long term, consistently devoting an action to it Is the only way we have a chance at climbing the ranks of political might. That said, I understand it might be better to put that off until after we can fix the healthcare disaster.
To that end, I am going to fervently request that we choose Red-Black Reconciliation as our boon. We need diversity of allowed political thought for a stable country, and thinking about our retirement and our successor starts now. The more controversial actions we take in the eyes of the west, the more they are going to push back politically and loudly. Healing the schism on a global Comintern scale Is the only way that our big allies survive, into that starts at home.
To put it more simply, we can't survive alone. We need allies, and that means our allies need to shape up. Lead by example, and take a gentle guiding hand, for everyone's sakes.
Edit: Anarchists are also really good at catching and handling problems on a local scale, making a great indicator of things we need to deal with, as well as a source of community knowledge to draw from.
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HeroCooky
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Howard Baker - Wikipedia
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The MSFR test reactor would be a good candidate for that -4 reduction. Generally the dominant polities are the ones who master the dominant source of energy of an age. Brittain had Sail and then Coal, American had Oil. If we become THE nuclear power then it gives us a major advantage in terms of being able to spend more energy than our competitors.
Through overall the general +1 from PtF is better. I misread Diamond Pony and thought it was a general -4 malus reduction.
That was my thought as well. I was thinking to take Sanctuary for All first to give the debuff time to work, and nab Red-Black Reconciliation in the next plan to do a whole load of political reform while we're also doing the space program (high profile stuff that will draw attention to us and that we can use to also showcase political reforms).
That's why I was talking about it coming down to just what we use that -4 on, and whether it succeeds. Sure a -1 to advanced tech mali is worse than a +1 to everything in a vacuum. However if we use that -4 to crack some fundamental tech, lets take a completely ludicrous example and say room temperature superconductors, then how much technology is no longer considered "advanced" enough for a malus? And what tech remains that we just made easier to do ahead of time?
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Oh gods. If we have RTSC - or even HTSC it would open up so many propulsion projects. Hybrid-electric aircraft and cars. Magentoshells for spacecraft aerocapture without the weight of thermal protection. Solar-windmills for spacecraft that can give you the same sorts of energy densities as nuclear reactors without the radiation. MHD topping cycles for high temperature powerplants.
Also, lol, the cost of the MSR is literally ???.