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I absolutely do not need this. Journaling is healthy. Take that up instead

I absolutely do not enjoy big random in character essentials for long games. If it’s a one shot, fine, I’ll have some fun with the 12 int wizard or the clumsy rogue. I don’t want to be stuck mechanically underpowered for months, maybe years, due to the whims of a tiny portion of dice rolls.

As for “but flaws make interesting characters”, yes, but there are systems that do it so much better. A character’s Trouble in Fate, or dramatic failures in CofD come to mind. I’ve ported both of those over to DND and it worked fine, so you don’t even have to change whole systems.

That’s a few decades put together into one list

Though APD fired Eder on July 17, prosecutors officially refused to move forward with felony stalking charges in the case.

Prosecutors are part of the problem

Did most people have bad literature teachers? I’ve encountered many people who have this idea that literature has a single correct answer you have to find, rather than the more correct (and fun) mode where it can mean anything you can defend. Author’s intent is a suggestion at best.

No thank you. I’ll stick with my basic Linux and be just fine.

I like to say, half joking, that no one should be allowed to hold high ranking offices if they can’t win every victory condition in civilization.

What do you mean, let Ubisoft die? That’s not the presidents decision to make.

I don’t know about france specifically, but in general the state has many options to prop up a failing capitalist endeavor.

Saw a store that was just rubber ducks. They had celebrity ducks and colored ducks and all sorts of similar things.

American treaties have a long history of being ignored. Treatment of the native peoples, for example.

By the time you’ve read this it’s too late not to read it.

But maybe you meant longer content than just a headline

You could perhaps still have enshittification in a worker owned organization. It seems more likely to happen when the decisions are being made by rich ghouls and absent shareholders, rather than the people who actually made the product.

A big problem is often lack of competition.

No one needs that much money. The people who could deserve it don’t get it. We’ve got teachers in poverty and this fucker has more money than he’d ever need. Fuck him. Fuck his enablers.

I’m pretty sure local models still induce pyschosis and hallucinate. Maybe the cat’s out of the bag, but they still suck.

My job told us all to use AI more, as its own metric. I had it walk through how capitalism is unjust. Not exactly a secret but probably the ghouls in management would probably be mad.

Make it progressive. First $x is untaxed, $x+y is taxed at some percent, the next $x+z is taxed higher, and so on.

Also build more housing in general.

The people who do work don’t keep the profits of work. People who “own” stuff do.

You have a guy who “owns” a factory. He pays some dudes to make widgets, market widgets, sell widgets. They all get $10 a day. They sell $200 of widgets a day. The guy who owns the operation, who’s probably just sitting at home, keeps all those profits. Capitalism.

The workers decide they want more rights. Get paid in real money. Sick time. 8 hour days. Owner says nah. Workers go on strike. Owner gets the police or the army to break the strike with violence. Arrest any leaders they survive. Historical context of capitalism.

Also the guy who owns the factory, maybe he just got it because his grand dad was friends with the king or something. Maybe they killed some natives and the state said the land is yours now.

I remember trying to explain fitts law at an old job I worked at when trying to push back against their horrible interface.

Also mouse tunnels are an embarrassment, but they made so many of them. (That’s where you mouse over something to reveal a new menu, but if you mouse out of the menus they close. If the second menu is on side and longed than the first, going from the top of the first menu to the bottom of the second will probably mouse out, and close it. Rookie mistake. Management wouldn’t listen.)

We’re not far off from The Smith Act making a comeback. That “we’re going to arrest people who attended a meeting once” stuff is in living memory. The US has never lived up to its stated ideals.