I don't know how difference france is from the US, but I generally believe people are kind of ignorant and thoughtless. These will pull in people. People click on "Four things that are secretly unhealthy - #3 will SHOCK you" chum all the time.
Companies demanding return to office is such a twist of the knife. It's a pay cut, making someone spend an hour or two commuting without paying them for it. But the boss doesn't care
Yes, I am very aggressive about turning off notifications. The use case I had in mind is texts from friends, and I don't want to turn those off. Like someone texts me something that requires thought or online connectivity, but I'm on the subway or at a concert. I want to snooze the message so it'll remind me in a couple hours.
Sometimes for really important stuff I'll set a timer myself, but that's more steps than if the OS just had a "remind me later" built in.
Not the person you asked but I'm taking this opportunity to talk about why I wouldn't play pbta as my main game.
One, I rarely feel like my character is competent. I'm usually rolling mixed success, and that feels bad. A good GM can take the edge off there. they can make it so the problem was circumstances or the strength of your enemy, instead of your fuck up. But most GMs aren't good, they're average.
Related, and I think this might have been a result of not liking the GM, when I do get a mixed success it often feels like the GM is just fucking with me. It felt very unilateral. They decide what happens with no buy-in from the table needed. When I run Fate, mixed successes are a proposal the player can accept, decline, or suggest another idea.
Third, playbooks feel like mad libs instead of writing. So much is already defined, typically, it's constraining and anchoring. I don't feel like I'm really making something of my own. I can see how that's really helpful for some people but I don't enjoy it. I much prefer the utterly freeform mode of Fate. I want to be a chaos magick using librarian? I can just write that down.
I had fun doing a one shot of rapscallions a couple weeks ago, but I wouldn't make it my main game.
Mostly backend for web development (django most recently), though I'm moderately proficient at react and JavaScript for frontend. Also testing and QA.
I've been applying to all of full stack, backend web dev, and test/QA. No bites. Learning more languages might help, but I feel like having 0 years experience in (say) Rust won't get a lot of traction.
Maybe it's imposter syndrome but I feel like I've always been a sort of middle of the road engineer. Good at some things , bad at others. It feels like with all the layoffs and AI, there's less room for broadly competent people. There's just going to be the top tier, fighting and getting paid less.
If you own the company (or a lot of shares), you gain wealth by doing literally nothing if the company's value increases. On top of probably just keeping the profits. Plus the "use my stock as collateral, give me a low interest personal loan, that's not taxed as income lol" wealth back.
I'm not talking so much about the petit bourgeoisie that's working hard every day making donuts to sell. I'm talking about big C Capital that buys something and just takes the profits.
The CEO at my old job can't code. He can't do UI design. He doesn't do sales or customer service. He sometimes talks to other rich assholes to fundraise, but mostly he makes questionable decisions and hurts morale. But if the company goes big, he'll get filthy rich and the people who actually built the thing will not.
That said, higher taxes on the wealthy (plus closing loopholes like the loan thing) would help. So would universal basic income.
It's funny because conservatives cry about "welfare queens" that just take money for nothing, but it's the rich who can do that. If you have a few million, you can just coast on investments. Little to no risk. Once again, projection.
Wasn't he already rich, though? Once you're over, like, $10mm, you don't really need to work anymore.
And then when he took the money, I think he just squandered it on bullshit.
If someone handed me 2 billion dollars I'd probably be building trains and houses, or maybe something for the climate crisis. Not jerking off alone in a house full of candy. He's a shithead failure of a human, if that's all he's done.
I don't know how difference france is from the US, but I generally believe people are kind of ignorant and thoughtless. These will pull in people. People click on "Four things that are secretly unhealthy - #3 will SHOCK you" chum all the time.