Stop buying Harry Potter shit. It’s so fucking easy to not kill trans people. Jesus fucking christ.
I don’t understand how so many people just cannot accept a mild amount of inconvenience or deprivation. Like, I get not everyone can de-google or even get off facebook. That stuff can be entangling. But harry potter is just one little franchise.
It’s a disgrace what capitalism has done to dating apps.
Used to be you could put in a lot of free text, and search for whatever you wanted. Get the unadulerated list sorted by match percent.
Now it’s all opaque algorithm bullshit. Fuck 'em. These executives have blood and misery on their hands.
My friends always say “You can’t just kill them. There will be someone to take their place.” The obvious response is kill them too. Eventually, people will stop being so eager to take their place!
Though as the comic says, there’s always going to be assholes. Limiting how much power they have would be great.
I am currently running a game of Vampire predicated on “what if you all just… took out the ultra rich?”. It has been satisfying.
I dislike feeling pandered to, yes.
Capitalism has always sounded great in theory,
I dunno, “People who don’t do the work get rich” sounds kind of shitty.
People use the word “capitalism” to mean different things.
If you ask someone “Should someone who doesn’t do any work get money from people who do?”, a lot of people would say no. And they’d probably think you’re talking about welfare or communism. But that’s capitalism. The guy who “owns” the company can sit at home and watch netflix while all his office workers make stuff, and he keeps the profits. If you frame it right, you can get people to agree with you or suffer some cognitive dissonance.
But none of that is what some people are thinking of when they think capitalism. They think “free markets” and “competition”. They often don’t really think about how that trends towards monopolies or cartels. Either because of magic, or “the government will prevent monopolies.” But not too much regulation. There’s got to be a few decades of suffering before an intervention, typically.
There’s also a lot of binary thinking. Either capitalism, or total state ownership and oppression.
I’m pretty happy with libre office. Not keen on AI code
I bring it up a lot but the book “dying of whiteness” was a horrifying look into this. A significant amount of people don’t want national health care, even if it means they themselves get sick and die, because then those people would get it.
The money facts don’t matter. It’s just emotional sludge.
I often find it’s hard to really capture lyrics just writing them out.
"The weather never really matterered it was just something there was to talk about
We fall into patterns and habits and there’s not much we can do about that
Rearrange the room again I want to live somewhere as small as i feel when i fall asleep or wake up"
Little known band joyride! is a consistent favorite of mine.
Reminds me of the game where you awaken as monstrous vermin Jeff Bezos: https://direkris.itch.io/you-are-jeff-bezos
Except that one you can use the money for good
On September 29, federal prosecutor Jerome Morgan, assisted by FBI agent Jennifer Runyan, publicly charged a Michigan nurse with assisting the escape of a man held by ICE from a hospital.
That sure is a guy with a name and probably address.
When you’re interfacing with the world emotionally, that’s how it goes. I mean, we’re all emotional, but for some people that’s the bulk of it. Emotions create reality. For other people they’re more advisory.
Is it an old person thing that I listen to entire albums instead of shuffling tracks?
Is the driver going to go away for attempted murder? Lose their license? Anything?
Not sure what the clichés about Fate are. I think it’s a fun light system.
Also there are dozens of us who prefer vampire: the requiem over masquerade. Dozens! I recently started a game of it. So far they killed 3 CEOs and blew up a data center (in the game).
It’s been fun seeing the DND player adapt to “wait I can just do my cool thing as much as I want?”. Like he was going to punch a dude and I was like “are you sure you don’t want to just Mesmerize him? It’s free and more likely to work, given your stats”
I don’t think “decent Nazi” is a valid combination
People making the decisions are removed from how work gets done, how users engage with the product, and any real consequences. But they keep most the profits despite contributing minimally.
I feel like it should be expensive because of the externalized costs , but I don’t have any real data for that
Millions of dollars spent to replace status messages and what slack/teams already do. There’s no mechanism to keep it in sync with reality so it’s not even especially accurate.
A real stretch to call that efficient.
Oh! I remember that one!