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.

In the US we have like no laws protecting labor. They’ll just tell you to go into the office, or fire you.

Is this getting news coverage?

Anyone who says republicans are fiscally responsible should be laughed out of the room

I mean that seems like it would be pretty effective.

Right wing people are either stupid or dishonest. The stupid ones don’t understand the saying and never thought to look it up, and the dishonest ones don’t care.

Do they vet the people? Could someone hypothetically sign up for the app, case the rich person’s situation, and then do crimes? Sounds like a good way to find rich assholes.

I feel like the “I have to eat meat every day” people overlap a lot with the “I refuse to wear a mask” people. Are you thinking they’re largely different people?

Code reviews are important. Unfortunately, no-test-text guy convinced his whole team that he was right, and I wasn’t able to block it. I’d scheduled a meeting to try to get the wider org to adopt a more sensible standard, but then there was a mass layoff 🤷

The other guy with the bad messages is at a tiny startup where they’ve laid off almost everyone, and the other 2 guys don’t want to make waves. The CEO is big on “just ship it” (and also “why are there bugs in production? this is unacceptable!!”)

How is Nigel still alive and just walking around? Oh wait, he’s only 61? Fuck he’s going to be shitting in the pool for like 40 more years at this rate.