finland hates nurses drama pt eleventybillion

So nurses in Finland are in short supply because they don't make enougn money, full-time, to like, afford houses and cars and families and the kinds of things that your average Finnish waitress can afford. Oddly enough they're unhappy with that and there's been months of drama. They're not allowed by law to go on strike so they've quit en masse instead.

Now the reigning government is working overtime to draft a new law to force them to go back to work instead of paying them. I hope all of them have already moved to Norway and it's too late, the bastards.

And I'm really loathing this fuckhead Stefan Wallin dude.

-Why is it so hard to give nurses more money?

- I have sometimes imagined that politics are a little bit more complicated than that everything can simply be solved with more money, but maybe I've been wrong about that.

öakljfdsöas. The opposition's position is that forced labour is unconstitutional and a grave trespass of people's fundamental citizen's rights, but the government says that "the right to life is more important than the right to quit your job".

Well, you know, it is, and I would have a little more sympathy for that position if those two alternatives were the only two in play and were in direct opposition, like in some imaginary world where people quitting was like, lowering the guillotine. But since there's the entire governmental-medical complex and the entire, you know, governmental spending and taxation complex in between, I'm inclined to look a little cynically on claims like that from people who are simultaneously supporting spending money on other things which are presumably also less important than the right to life.

hmm.

A couple of days ago, I dreamed that I was visiting my parents and we went to some open house day at the University of Alabama (seated in my hometown of Tuscaloosa, the college football capital of the country for reals, dudes. Don't ask me about football, though - I've never watched and I hate it - gymnastics is cool).

Anyway, some mysterious magical field had enclosed campus and they didn't know how to fix it, so they had just kept having classes. It caused everyone who walked on campus to temporarily turn into a cartoon version of themselves. I was like, "Why is my tshirt coloured yellow? Oh well."

Yeah, that was funny. Also, apparently cartoon nursing students all wear long skirts and act like hippies. And cartoon anthropology students are stupid. I know I shouldn't be surprised - everyone is stupid, especially if they're willing to go to someplace like UA - but you know, anthropology is the closest relation of sociology which is my peeps, so I was expecting intelligent conversation. The dream me left enraged, with Daddy patting my back and soothing me as usual. It was actually totally plausible, except for the magic part.



What I love about this image is how I look like a Hallmark card, all "♥ ♥ ~!", and the Crazy's like, ">.@ YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS. JUST WAIT. YOUR TIME WILL COME."