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  • I really dislike that a handful of people who can't get their shit together to communicate over zoom are dragging everyone else (and the environment) down.

    I'd also wager that some of those people also communicate badly in person, but at least do communication shaped activities so it gets a pass.

    Like at my old job, there'd be long meetings both in person and over zoom where nothing would be accomplished. The problem is not if we're in the same room or not. It's that people don't know what the fuck they're doing at any level of this task. They don't understand the system, and they don't know how to run a meeting. The few times I just seized control and ran it like a D&D session went better. eg: "It's not your turn. Please wait to speak. That's an interesting idea but the game we set out to play meeting is about [topic], so we're going to stay on topic. No, the rules say you can't do that that's not an option in a web browser.

    That worked fine in person and on zoom. The problem isn't the medium. The problem is people.

  • I used to work at a supermarket that had a little pizza shop inside, in the deli. They'd throw out all the unsold pizza at the end of the night.

    I was like, "wait. What? Let us take some home. Or give it to some homeless people"

    They were like, "we can't give it away because of liability. And we don't want to attract homeless people. And you can't have it just because "

    I'm pretty sure the liability thing is made up. The "don't want homeless to show up" thing is cruel, and not really applicable to rich suburbs.

    Well, joke's on them I was friends with the deli guy and he'd "throw out" the pizza directly to me.

    Then they went out of business because the upper management types over leveraged themselves

  • It takes a lot of will power to avoid the delicious evil chicken. And the Mac and chees

    It would never even occur to me go go to this place for food. That's like a DC 0 will save.

    And since I'm trying to be more vegetarian anyway, I think I'd roll with advantage.

  • I think I wrote this recently elsewhere, but I just never drink nor desire soda. It just doesn't even occur to me as a thing to want. When I was a kid, we mostly drank water. It's kind of alienating to realize how many other people are seemingly fundamentally different on such a basic part of life like "drinking"

  • I was the kind of kid to get good grades without really trying, and I think I would have been better off if I had been challenged. Instead I just coasted, and when I got to calc2 I failed. I still don't have great learning habits.

  • I didn't go to a lot of these in my youth, but house parties definitely existed, and still exist. I'm ~40.

    A friend of friend just had one this weekend, and I went as a +1. I don't know what the occasion was but there was a lot of food and drink and socializing. Someone even set up beer pong like when we were younger.

    Another friend of mine has pretty regular parties at his place. He just invites a bunch of people and has some food and drink, and it's a good time. It probably helps that his friend network is massive and he's generally well liked.

  • That seems like hubris and foolishness. Like, if you know you have limited experience with food saying the one you've tried is the best of all seems unlikely to be true. Maybe this is a bad example?

  • You are defending the Nazis from the Nazi fund raiser. You don't want them to be exposed.

    "Woke shit" and "Nazi shit" are not comparable.

    You're conflating "illegal" with "just" or "the right thing to do". Those are two different attributes. Something can be legal and horrifying. Something can be illegal and just.

    So this part:

    It’s not illegal to be “woke” or whatever the fuck MAGA is calling people, and it’s not illegal to follow dumb Nazi shit. Therefore, NEITHER should be illegally survived.

    Doesn't work. It's not a question of if it's illegal. That is largely irrelevant. The proposed action of "we should find out who these Nazis are" may be illegal, but that's irrelevant. Unimportant.

    Nazis are a threat to everyone and should not be tolerated.

    You're giving very lawful-neutral vibes, but I wouldn't be surprised if you were lawful-evil.

    You can make an argument that all laws should apply to everyone equally all the time, but that's not how the world works right now, neither in practice nor theory, but you also should consider the "paradox of tolerance" problem. It is not a good idea to let Nazis just go around doing Nazi stuff.

  • I should switch this new desktop back to linux. Need to figure out what's the best distribution. Used mint on the old desktop, but on this one for some reason hdmi, ethernet, and wifi didn't work out of the box and I gave up after a couple hours.

    edit: It'd be used for gaming and also some software development (mostly python and js, and docker)

  • Too many Americans are eager to lick the boot. "We have to work (for free) this weekend to get this feature out [for the deadline the owner made up and customers don't care about]" was something my old team unironically said to me more than once