Ew. I think a lot of people won’t care because they’re kind of thoughtless children

I got a mod to adjust the flow of time, which was nice.

I still lost interest pretty fast though. Shame, since it seems like a nice game.

I dislike all the long term on street parking here. Some of it I’d rather was just 15 minute parking for when you need to load or unload something. Most of the time I look at the cars and I’m like why are you here. There’s a subway stop and two bus lines here.

Oh. Well. Good. Fuck the ultra rich.

At the risk of repeating myself, “dying of whiteness” was a pretty interesting and depressing look at this. Turns out a lot of people would rather suffer if it means those people have it worse.

Someone in the friend group does some sort of interactive theater thing. She was telling me about one where the protagonist is paid shit with poor insurance, but is told by the boss she’d have her sick husband’s medical needs taken care of if she goes to the union meetings as a spy for him.

I was like, I’d want to go to the meeting and tell them all what he said. Then we all roll up to his house before dawn and wake him up at gunpoint. We say, you’re going to pay us more or next time you don’t wake up.

She was like you’d all go to jail or worse.

I was like I know but I want this power fantasy.

She said, that’s not the point of this exercise.

Anyway, I think about this sometimes.

The opportunity cost remains large. That renewable energy could have been spent elsewhere, on something useful.

That’s an interesting point I hadn’t considered. Probably not the case with my coworkers who are on a physical keyboard, but maybe my parents

Reddit initially catered to a young, libertarian, white male internet crowd, clinging to a “free speech at all costs” ethos, until the hate speech and harassment became too extreme, and too alienating, to ignore.

Idiots.

In the end, Reddit became just another neoliberal venture, seemingly willing to cash in regardless of any concerns of social harm it might inadvertently cause.

Yep. Capitalism.

Reddit’s foundational problem is that it grew out of a narrow demographic with socially negative and often exclusionary values.

What a polite phrasing

Structural flaws, cultural toxicity and algorithmic design have turned what could have been an ideal forum

I don’t think a privately owned for profit platform could ever be ideal

No, I meant one where the business is owned by all the workers, not one where the owner also does some work.

Among the multitude of medical problems women suffered to achieve these drastic measurements were deformed ribs, weakened abdominal muscles, deformed and dislocated internal organs, and respiratory ailments. The displacement and disfigurement of the reproductive organs greatly increased the risk of miscarriage and maternal death.[5]

This makes me feel better about finding the look, at least from the photos on the page, deeply unpleasant

This is saying if you have a module with public functions A and B, they shouldn’t call each other, right? But it’s not saying that module A shouldn’t call module B’s public functions. That’s what I thought it meant at first, but that seems crazy.

Capitalism remains a problem.

I don’t think worker owner businesses would be so rabidly eager to do this AI shit. It’s ghouls and anonymous shareholders. People who don’t even work on the stuff being made.

Middle managers like to set targets and goals because it counts towards their bonus, and it looks less like they’ve got their dick in their hand when the boss comes calling.

It’s the same problem all over. Capitalism. You have people who don’t do work keeping the benefits from the work.

Most people aren’t going to give themselves stupid or useless metrics. Software people aren’t going to impose “tokens used” or “lines of code” metrics on themselves. They know those are stupid.

Some players are hoarding all the resources, and formed gangs to keep their power. Sucks. You can’t just shoot them because the other players whine, and you’ll probably get banned.

testing is fine as long as it doesn’t slow anything down.

Insane position.

I’ve found that there’s a weird rift where a surprising amount of people who like board games dislike tabletop RPGs. I think because they’re so open, where board games are more structured and directed.

In the biggest polycule I know, there’s a mix of “likes both”, “doesn’t do RPGs but like board games”, and … I don’t know if anyone likes neither in that crew.

If I expanded that explanation to everyone, that would be silly. In no way am I proposing everyone has the same reason for disliking pink Floyd as my 10th grade friend. I do think some people feel like he did, though, about various things.

This is vital context. Big difference between like working in a kitchen with a bunch of people and working a software remote job.

I did poly for a long time and wasn’t that into board games. But yeah a lot of poly people are into them.

I’m more into tabletop RPGs, but never achieved the dream of a polycule party.

Nowadays I wouldn’t even recommend crossing the streams that way.