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

I wouldn’t really characterize many things in life as the same kind of random. Throwing a dart at a dart board isn’t a random action in the same way as rolling dice

Furthermore, dnd’s randomization produces flat probability, which is often jarring.

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.

Generally random factors allow players with less skill to win. I think about that with games a lot.

It’s one of the (many) reasons I don’t really like DND very much. Huge random factor. You can make excellent tactical decisions and lose. You can be an absolute baffoon and triumph.

Some randomness is okay but not like that.

It’s funny that corporations are like “no one wants to work” but also don’t want to do the work of interviewing candidates

Fantasize about violence. Probably no real action other than banging into it when walking on the sidewalk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro-masculinity comes to mind again

The firm took £70m from small investors before it collapsed in 2015, Southwark Crown Court heard.

Pickard, who pleaded guilty to fraudulent trading, was jailed for six years. Greenaway and Laver, who also admitted the charge, received sentences of five years and three months and four and a half years respectively.

That sentence doesn’t seem appropriate. Do they lose everything? They should have to make up for their harms, not just sit in a cell and come out to a cushy life.

My job gives me the day off but doesn’t pay me. So that stinks

I accept that your job likely has different cadences than software development, in addition to personal preference.

Most software engineers I’ve talked to don’t like being interrupted in the middle of some deep thought. Especially if it means shelving current work to check out something else

I didn’t mean I need them to keep it digital. I meant I don’t want my train of thought interrupted. A “take a number” and “now serving” sign would work fine, if it gated the conversation until I was ready. Or just they send a message asking to talk and wait for me to say “ok come on over”

• poor heating/cooling. Usually offices aren’t a comfortable temperature for everybody.

• not getting compensated for the commute. It’s a pay cut. Fuck you, management.

• people that just walk up to your desk and start asking questions. Send a message like “can we talk about XYZ?” and I’ll get to it when I get to it. Though this maybe is a learned behavior from people who are bad at responding to messages.

I had a pair of coworkers that would chat over slack all day. One of them had a laugh. My other coworker at the other side of the large office would message me “what’s so fucking funny over there?”. I never knew because they never shared.

I think we agree, then? What I was saying is you have to talk to people like your family. You have to have bonds with people, whether that’s from being a family or just spending time together.

I just to debate them enough and provide them with the necessary examples that they can form their own actual opinion.

This will be fruitless if they don’t trust you. That’s another way of saying you’re in-group.

In-group pressure and trauma are the only things that change minds. Traumatizing people is often rude, and maybe a crime, so it’s safer to try to get people to see you as trusted in-group and then work on changing their minds.

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.

Surely he exists in the real world, with like an address and favorite outdoor dining spots. These people are too comfortable in their evil lives of wealth.

Always been an effective rich people’s strategy to get labor to to fight amongst themselves. Labor as a whole actually knows how to do things, and actually does the things. Rich people merely “own” stuff, and have class traitor goons willing to use violence to enforce that.

I can think of some people that, if they got stabbed, I’d be like “yeah that seems fair”