They vote for their material interests in the same sense that a man walking at night with sunglasses picks the best path. He thinks it's obvious but he really needs to take the sunglasses off and maybe get a flashlight. He's walking a stupid path and will probably fall into a ditch.
Fox News is probably the sunglasses in this metaphor.
My mother told me she took some sort of business class in college as an elective. The professor said something like "there are no ethics in business. There's only the law."
Did a one shot in high school where to cast any spell you had to sing a relevant line from an extant song.
I don't remember everyone's picks, but one player pulled out a pretty enthusiastic Beatles' "got to admit it's getting better, getting better all the time" for a heal.
I feel like a lot of people who bemoan the lack of friends also don't invest in friendship. Don't show up when invited, don't organize anything themselves.
I used to run a book club and a board game club, and it was always kind of a struggle to get people to show up. The pull of "just go home and look at Instagram" is strong, I guess.
Many years ago I had to explain to a coworker how progressive taxation works. He was like "that's a great idea! We should do that! It's stupid that now your pay goes up but you take home less because you get taxed more"
I had to tell him, yes it is a good idea. It's how it works now. You don't get more pay and suddenly your whole income is taxed more.
I did a lot of stupid stuff as a teenager but most of it is forgotten.
Someone tricked me into stealing my unique gloves in diablo2 once. Felt real stupid after but they just blocked me and I never saw them again. (I think it was that if you die when the item was being moved it drops onto the ground, so they told me to swap my gloves in a pvp fight and then killed me)
I had an ex partner get upset because I used a period at the end of an innocuous text. This is among the reasons why they are my least favorite ex. Just a mess of anxiety and arrogance, where they'd worry about bullshit but be completely convinced that they were right and their way of thinking about things was the only sensible way.
Unfortunately they're still distantly connected to the friend group, but luckily I haven't run into them in years.
Social media users on text platforms are probably above average on reading skills. I'm convinced the average person is only semi literate, and there's a shocking amount of people who can barely read at all.
il y a des jeux de societé sur mobile. J'aime "splendor" (ma copine peut le gagner), et "lords of waterdeep". c'est un peu plus difficile, mais je l'aime.
les jeux de société ne sont pas très "whoa" comme les jeu vidéo, mais ils sont bons.
(Désolé, je parle anglais et je veux pratiquer écrire français)
I'm not super wealthy. I worked in tech and was making less than 300k. Not quite "retire super early" money, but still good money! And, frankly, that's enough. I can afford to pay taxes.
I haven't used spotify for years. I never paid for it. I've been buying music (mostly from Bandcamp) and I have no regrets. I try to see bands live when I can, too, and buy a shirt or something.
I've seen some garbage slide through code reviews. Most people don't do them well.
I'm doing contract work at a big multinational company, and I saw a syntax error slide through code review the other day. Just, like, too many parenthesis, the function literally wouldn't work. (No, they don't have automated unit tests or CI/CD. Yes, that's insane. No, I don't have any power to fix that, but I am trying anyway). It's not hard to imagine something more subtle like a memory leak getting through.
In my experience, people don't want to say "I think this is all a bad idea" if you have a large code review. A couple years ago, a guy went off and wrote a whole DSL for a task. Technically, it's pretty impressive. It was, however, in my opinion, wholly unnecessary for the task at hand. I objected to this and suggested we stick with the serviceable, supported, and interoperable approach we had. The team decided to just move forward with his solution, because he'd spent time on it and it was ready to go. So I can definitely see a bunch of people not wanting to make waves and just signing off on something big.
Everyone who would believe this already knows this
Everyone who needs to know this won't believe it
The amount of people who are ready to believe the republicans are trash and don't already know how to be vanishingly small. Maybe there's a set of, like, freshly minted 18 year olds who somehow have been politically asleep for their whole life?
But maybe there's a couple people this will knock off the fence, somehow.
They vote for their material interests in the same sense that a man walking at night with sunglasses picks the best path. He thinks it's obvious but he really needs to take the sunglasses off and maybe get a flashlight. He's walking a stupid path and will probably fall into a ditch.
Fox News is probably the sunglasses in this metaphor.