jjjalljs @ jjjalljs @ttrpg.network

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Conservatives are wrong about pretty much everything. I don't know of a single problem where they have a sensible policy. They're worse than toddlers.

I'm just waiting for someone to Mario Party their boss after a return to office mandate. It would be deserved.

I had a recruiter (in the US) message me about some jobs. They're all on-site 6 (six!) days a week. That should be a crime and everyone involved in that banished from the land. This wasn't climate change work or anything important. It was like ai fintech nonsense.

I think content-first social media like forums is far less bad than user-first like Twitter, Instagram, etc.

Interesting. Thanks for the link. I realize I didn't really define "smart", so I'm not sure education is a good proxy for it, but this does make my hypothesis look more doubtful

To an extent. but think about how like some people are super eager to get in on the latest in joke and drive it into the ground. You see it on forums sometimes where someone will come up with a bit, and then some people just want to keep repeating it forever. They're the kind of person who relentlessly said "I'm on a boat" in 2010.

Hypothesis: Stupider people with weaker senses of self are more likely to use chatgpt. That kind of person is also more likely to adopt the language of others. There are many such people.

Thus, the language used on average changes.

I expect smarter people with stronger identities won't have much change.

True, but that's not unique to DS2.

In a similar boat. 3 years ago I got like 3 offers after like two months of interviewing, plus a bunch of other interviews I bombed. Now I'm not even getting phone screens, despite having more experience.

AI is eating everyone's lunch on top of everything else

Seems to be https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Icelandic_women's_strike for anyone else unfamiliar

I feel like there are some games that people just shit on because that's the "cool" thing. Dark souls 2 and DnD 4e.

Thinking about it, that probably applies to more than just games.

Usually people talk about the pre tax cost.

I have a tinfoil hat theory that the taxes are kept like that to give people a recurring, low grade, anti-tax sentiment. There are a lot of crazy idiots that don't want government to exist here, so by making people feel bad about paying taxes (instead of obscuring that by baking it into the listed price) they can win sympathy.

Interesting. I use spreadsheets for a lot of quick and dirty stuff, and I wonder if the constraints would be a problem.

Not sure where the details are. I hit find an action and it took me to a page that says 0 events in New York :|

One: Where are they going to go? They could move someplace more lawless, and then maybe get killed and lose everything.

Two: Ok, go. Leave your stuff here, though. Spreading wealth out over more people is better for everyone.

Cool. I've been off Spotify for years. Buying music from Bandcamp and similar has worked out. (Though now that I'm unemployed I'm not spending any money, but like I always say if capital wants me to spend money they have to pay me some first)

I wonder if it would change anything if instead of a quiz you just like handed people a printout of like a summary of how government works from Wikipedia. Like, maybe convert some people who think the president makes laws.

It would probably still be corrupted by conservatives, sadly.

Social media was always kind of garbage, and the modern algorithmically sorted stuff is worse.

I'd rather just text my friends

I don't really use Spotify anymore. I started buying albums mostly on Bandcamp and I feel pretty good about it. Less beholden to shitty capitalism for-profit hellscape

Capitalism leads to bad outcomes like this, yep.

Out of curiosity, do you live here?

I've never taken a cab across town, but I don't live in Manhattan itself. Bus, train, or just walking has always been enough. (Or biking, for the brave)