I keep hoping this will spark some sort of anti-capitalist zeitgeist. But labor might be too scattered and individualistic.

Like, why are we all scrambling for a handful of jobs when the rich have so many resources?

games? I found a civilization port for the phone and it sucked up a lot of time. Turn based so you can do it for a few minutes at a time: https://yairm210.itch.io/unciv

learn a language? duolingo and other apps are out there

People should probably protest this. go in person and demand to speak to your rep. or whatever. i don't know how to organize a protest. i just go when i hear about them happening.

This is a time of political crisis. The US government is upending decades of alliances and economics. The right wing is globally on the rise, and that means people's lives are in danger. The environment is becoming more unpredictable and less supportive for humanity.

There's a lot of important political shit to talk about. If we were living in a boring utopia, there'd be less, probably.

Also, what do you even consider "political"? Some people will tell you that a story about a man and a woman getting married isn't political, but a story about two men getting married is. That's a really low quality analysis there.

Like. Why was this bs ever illegal in the first place?

Us answer:

I believe Nixon realized they couldn't make it illegal to be against the war and otherwise left wing, but they could make things correlated with that illegal. And thus the war on drugs was born. It also lets the state enforce white supremacy.

Recommend reading "the new Jim Crow" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Jim_Crow

We probably shouldn't have let Fox News fester and metastasize all these years.

I think "what's good for me right now" is fundamental to the right wing viewset. Hypocrisy isn't a factor because that doesn't typically intersect with "is this good for me right now?"

You can point out they said X and now they say Not-X, but that's going to be as effective as someone telling you that your math is wrong because yesterday you were wearing green and today you're wearing brown. it's just a non-sequitur to them.

Reminds me of my first big success at work. There was a weekly report that people wanted generated - it showed how much like each operator had done, how much each warehouse had shipped, how many orders we lost from stock issues, etc. it was a low tech company, so they had someone going through the limited UI, looking up each thing one at a time, copying it into excel, and making the report that way. It took hours, and was error prone from stuff like mis-pasting or accidentally skipping a user.

Took a look at it and was like you could definitely automate this. Used some very primitive scripting to pull all the info out of the system's UI and dump it into a TSV. Took like a couple minutes to run it, import into excel, and add the colors. But it was super janky because it was manipulating the UI like a user instead of, like, directly querying whatever underlying data store it was running on.

Still, management was impressed. I later learned no one actually looked at the report most weeks, so that took some of the wind out of my sails.

This is an ancient joke but they replaced the original pigeon with a blue thing instead. :confused:

Having a minor crisis realizing that 9th grade was far more than seven years ago for me. This is fine.

I knew someone who refused to look up what words meant. If she didn't know one , she'd guess or infer from context, but never just look it up. I think she had some unaddressed trauma from school or childhood or something

Opportunity costs still exist

Oh, it's kind of like "life after hate" I guess.

Everything I've read suggests that effective ways to change people's mind require empathy and making them feel safe and comfortable. Most people don't respond well to being insulted, and cold facts don't do it either. So this seems like the right approach.

It's frustrating because it's a slow, expensive, process, and my emotional needs are unmet because I'm still mad at the maga-hat for what they did. But sometimes emotional needs are kind of stupid

I mean, if someone came to me and was like "Hey I wrote that paper for you. But I got my idiot little brother to do most of the work, and then I fixed it up," I would also look askance at them.

It's just myopic emotions. "Does this feel good for me right now?" If it's actually good, if it's good long term, if it contradicts a past stance - none of that matters.

Zohran ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zohran_Mamdani ) seems like a much better candidate. NYC has too more information voters and regressives than I like, sadly.

I think this is another problem where having an absolutely shitty police institution takes options off the table.

Like we could try to have speed limits and enforce it, but I'm very confident the NYPD would just use it to bother black people.

Anyway. A speed limit is probably better than a total ban imo, even if enforcement is going to be a problem. Just posting the limit will make some people behave.

I recently reinstalled BL3 for a bit and I think I spent more time downloading it (like 100gb for unknown reasons) than I did playing it.

The pacing is bad. Too much walking around or listening to people talk, not enough doing stuff.

The itemization is kind of bad. Like yeah there's millions of guns but most of them are trash, and looking through a dozen to compare [damage, clip size, reload speed, etc] in that fucking awful UI is tedious.

The gameplay is kind of bad. Most things don't really react to being shot. It's just shield and HP sponges.

They haven't really changed much since like the first game launched in like 2009. That's like 15 years. Still basically the same game.

It'll probably sell a bunch of copies because of the brand, and a lot of people are low information, but I don't think it'll be good.

I don't have any real disagreement, but I think the problem is capitalism. The abuses in sex work are more visceral, but capitalism will create horrors for a few pennies.

There's a great band Priests that I believe are pretty lefty