jjjalljs @ jjjalljs @ttrpg.network

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The cops always park in the bike and pedestrian lanes in prospect park, and it makes me so mad.

Personally I feel like if you park in the bike lane for any reason that's not life or death, people should be allowed to do what they want to your car. Maybe move it. Maybe key it. I don't care. It's a hazard for everyone.

If I was going to make something like this, it would have to incorporate trust chains. I don't care if some maga-hat says this lady is horrible. I care if my good friend Alex says she's horrible. One person's "this person won't shut up about communism" is a big red flag (no pun intended) but for someone else that's the dream.

When you sign up, you'd need to be referred to someone or be a root node. Anyone connected to you can be weighted differently. If some section of the tree is misbehaving, prune it.

But that's a lot of work

I've lived here for almost two decades and I've almost never had a problem with bikes.

I did once see a driver make a right turn and hit a delivery bike kid, drag him for a few feet, and then speed off. Luckily, teenagers I guess are indestructible and the kid got up and rode away after a few minutes.

If you want better bike and pedestrian safety, the solution is probably build better bike lanes. There are a lot of spots with nothing, or a painted suggestion. There's a spot near prospect park where they expect the bicyclist to turn right, pass through a lane of traffic, and then just hang out in the center lane with all the cars. It's a nightmare.

Yes. Good. Tell Clarence Thomas not to be afraid. Just go outside. You don't need security. Just go for a nice long walk. Nothing to be afraid of.

I don't understand why people are making plans they don't want to do. I see this kind of thing all the time and I don't get it at all. I like doing stuff. That's why I agreed to do it. I got invited to something I didn't want to do this weekend, and I said no thanks. Just sitting at home scrolling the internet or playing a video game is fine, but it's way less rewarding than doing stuff with other people.

Maybe the internet just selects more for introverts and sad people?

Conservatism is entirely about protecting the in group and hurting the out group. That's it. That's the whole thing.

Thus, they are bad people. That's how bad people behave.

I've played a fair amount of PbtA and close relatives, mostly at a meetup I go to that does one shots. Never seen anyone playing apocalypse world.

I don't really like pbta that much, though, so I'm not seeking it out.

Google probably wants to keep you on google.com, where they have ads. By doing the AI stuff, you never click through to someone else's page. They get 100% of the interactions and can sell all the clicks.

It's monopoly stuff. They should be stopped, with whatever box of liberty is needed.

This guy sucks. Some of his friends should take him aside and set him straight. Like at night, with alibis

Last book: "Last Call" by Tim Powers. It's great. Poker and archetypes. Big inspiration for Unknown Armies, which I loved.

Current: Medusa's web, also by Powers. Not sure if I'm into it yet but it's got some of his signature weirdness

If they know, and it's not vital, and they don't care, then I think less of them.

Some people have less self control than a toddler

When I worked an old job in the office, the game of telephone from the CEO down was so bad. People would get in their head that some things were MUST HAVE, but if I sneakily just asked the CEO directly he'd be like "no that's not important". But the designer thought he wanted it so she told the product lead it was important so our team product guy was told this was "straight from the top".

And issues with communication are made worse when everything is pushed to text where nuance is lost and everything is archived which can be used against you.

There's some truth to this, but also video chat is commonplace now. That can be recorded too, but so can anything. Some of my coworkers started using Signal for out of band communication even though zoom/slack said they didn't retain any recordings.

If they can't work remotely, they should be leveled up. Stop dragging everyone else down.

And again, if you can only communicate in person you're probably bad at communicating in person, too, without realizing it. I think a lot of CEO types think they're amazing because they walk into a room and everyone's like "yeah boss got it that's great feedback", and they don't realize they just said a bunch of garbage and people just agreed because he's the boss.

It’s not in your job description.

I've noticed a lot of job offers say like "Other duties as required"

You are not going to outsmart the corporate lawyers.

The rich have class solidarity.

He would talk about how many people told him they were longing for the day when we could all be on-site again. I have no idea who those people were, because everyone I spoke to thought WFH was fantastic.

My old CEO would pull this bullshit, too. He'd say like "I've heard from people that [wild claim]". The team was like 5 people it's not like I couldn't go ask people if they actually said that. I think it's some sort of asshole-lying mechanism.

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.