Many people are weirdly helpless about computers. If you’ve ever tried to help someone with tech, you’ve probably encountered the

• “it didn’t work”
• what did it say?
• I don’t know it just didn’t work
• but what did the error message say specifically
• I didn’t read it

Kind of user.

I tip generously at my local bar and in return they sometimes give me free stuff. Got a whole sandwich recently.

I remember one time at a party, in my early 30s, some guy pops out “isn’t love just a social construct?”. Looked at him for a moment and said, “ok, I guess. And so?” but he didn’t have anywhere to go with it.

It was memorable because we were all like whole ass adults, but he still came off as a 13 year old the whole time.

Huh. I did not know this. It might make it a little easier to navigate! It’d still be a lot of options spread out in a weird way, but a filter could help.

There’s still going to be an opportunity cost. You can build massive renewable sources, but powering a data center with it is a shit use compared to other things.

A friend of mine at least once ordered delivery from the Mexican place that was directly below her apartment. She said the delivery guy was a little confused. She had a lot of depression at the time.

I don’t think I’ve purchased jelly in like decades, but I eat a lot of peanut butter. Sometimes with bananas.

Oh that reminds me of when I was like 4, one of the neighborhood kids convinced a bunch of the other kids to eat some of those cicada exoskeletons they leave on trees. I did not, but I’m pretty sure some of the other kids did.

It’s interesting when you get a mix of your sort of person and the other “let’s go out for drinks” together in the same office. One workplace most of us would go out for drinks and karaoke, or hang out for board games, but there was always one guy who was like “nah thanks”. Still friends with one guy from that group. The one that never came around, no idea what he’s up to. He’s probably happy that way.

I remember this joke from three panel soul in 2007 https://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/on-man-law

It’s hard for me to justify buying anything since my job is so crap. I have the money, I just feel spiteful and angry at capitalism.

Isaac is fantastic. With all the expansions, it’s hundreds of hours of goodness.

Grim Dawn didn’t really click with me. None of the classes I tried felt good, and the constellations stuff is hard to work with. There’s a lot of options scattered around, and I feel like I have to read and dozens of things to plan out a coherent build. Or use a guide, which is un-fun.

Path of Exile 2 is my current arpg

I would consider medical facilities at entry points so people can get vaccines and treated for contagious things on entry. Maybe it’s the top of a slippery slope but if someone actively has measles I don’t want them to just walk into a major city. I wouldn’t charge them for health stuff, because that’s monstrous.

Maybe some sort of placement service, too? Help people get settled. Language classes.

That is not enough of a penalty.

Leadership are mostly idiots. They don’t know how work gets done. They think like “wow it produced so many lines of code!” and don’t know that’s not a useful metric.

My job had Microsoft do a four hour copilot demo for the entire team last week. (Surely an immense expense. They won’t pay for most people to be full time with benefits). The guy used copilot to make a regex to parse html. A little surprised zalgo didn’t show up.

He shouldn’t be able to retire to a peaceful life. He should be ruined.

Things like this feed the idea that the justice system won’t produce justice, so if you want it you better get it yourself.

I forgot how much I hated working in an office. Our desks were directly under the vent, so we’d get blasted with cold air. Sales was off in a corner, where it was too warm for them. No amount of adjusting the thermostat would change their local temperature, but they’d try anyway.

In addition to being climate criminals who should all be stripped of their nice things, people who mandate in-office are often causing personal, physical, suffering.

None of the fines for these things are enough. It should be, like, the company is nationalized. The leadership is sentenced to years of community service and barred from working in the industry for life.

If someone is just trolling, sure. But usually I hear it when someone’s like “gay people should be allowed to live” and someone else goes “you’re being diViSiVe”

I feel like some counters should immediately banish the speaker to sitting in the corner. “Alarmist” and “divisive” are the top two that come to mind. It’s almost always idiots not engaging with the material in good faith who pop those out.