Bugmenot sometimes has LinkedIn credentials https://bugmenot.com/view/linkedin.com

Don't click any of the scam ones though

I'm told one time in my sleep I sat up, looked down the hall, and said "You can't see it from here but it can see you.". Then laid down again and went quiet. My partner at the time was not amused

I play guild wars 2 pvp sometimes. Gosh, people are so whiney sometimes. Like the first couple minutes go bad and they're like "GG" and just idle in the spawn room.

I still think targeted ads should be illegal. I would accept static ads that are based on the content of the site rather than me as a compromise.

So like if I'm looking at example.com/cool-bikes you can show me bike ads. You don't need to know who I am or track me.

It's good enough for the past few decades (centuries?) it's good enough for now. The Superbowl doesn't serve a different ad to every viewer.

I mean... If I was playing like The Sims and one of the Sims was like "yo can I get a new bike?" I might be like sure bro. From their perspective I'm a god that exists outside time and space.

That's not really how Christianity talks about its God though, usually. But also like the story of Job does seem like a kid and his friend fucking with their game.

I'm pretty sure that simply putting a picture of eyes in the scene reduces theft. People are emotional creatures , and if they feel like they're being watched by someone who doesn't approve of stealing, they're more likely to refrain.

As a result of this article, I learned the Faircloth Amendment exists, and seems like anti-social madness.

https://nationalhomeless.org/repeal-faircloth-amendment/

I thought about editing that article to reference Musk and this thing, but it would probably be reverted.

• A solid, reliable, trusted, friend group. I've got a handful of people but some folks I know have like a whole crew.
• At least one smart, hot, kind, loving, partner with at least one shared, actionable interest.
• Power. Like, give me the infinity stones and I'll fix the world.

No other crisis at the moment, but you never know when you're going to wake up with double cancer or whatever. I try to appreciate the nice moments.

The point is to make it harder for "those people" to vote and participate in society. If you came up with a magical, iron-clad, mechanism for everyone to have ID, the conservatives wouldn't support it because that's not what they want. They want minorities to suffer.

That's not the point. The point is people spend most of their day under an authoritarian regime. Taxes and services are irrelevant to this.

It's funny because the US is usually like "rah rah democracy!!" but also loves private corporations, which are extremely authoritarian.

Many people are kind of stupid. Not ignorant. But like, incapable or unwilling to evaluate what's a good source and what's nonsense. Also incapable of drawing plausible conclusions even when given good sources. It's all emotional. It's how you can have stuff like "the outgroup have all the money and power, but they're also poor and taking all our welfare" at the same time. Feels truthy. Anti-vaxxers get the high of bonding with their anti-vax friends and feeling like they're part of the in-group.

There's not really an answer. Invest in public education for 100 years, maybe. But we're going always going to have authoritarians shitting life up for everyone.

https://theauthoritarians.org/

They tend to be more authoritarian. That means they're more likely to prioritize in-group above all else.

There's a book about authoritarian personalities I was reading a while ago. It talks about an experiment where they did like a model UN, but secretly sorted all the authoritarian types into one game and everyone else into the other.

The authoritarians ruined the world. Like, nuclear war. When they got a do-over, they still fucked it up.

The other group basically cooperated and solved world hunger.

Authoritarians probably shouldn't be allowed in positions of power. The GOP attracts a lot of them.

I would also accept a "pay what you want" system. Wasting money on enforcement of $3 fares is idiotic.

The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews are rich and help each other through a secret web of mutual assistance. However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy.

Ur-fascism, by Eco. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism

This is bad. I'm so tired of people doing bad things. Stop undermining public education you donkeys.

Are you my coworker? He keeps doing stuff on nights and weekends and me and the other guy keep telling him to stop.

Meanwhile, one of the 3 guys at work is working nights and weekends for free. He's salary. I keep telling him to go outside and live life. Stop giving everything away to the owners. He doesn't listen. He thinks he's going to save the company. I'm like buddy if those extra hours are all that's between success and failure, the company's fucked. That's flu away from disaster. He doesn't listen.

Unknown Armies is a tabletop RPG that has a school of magic predicated on a. Being drunk all the time and b. Drinking out of really cool cups.

Post reminded me of that. Good game (though I only know 2nd edition)

This was going to be my answer. Except we didn't even read it as a class. We were doing some other boring stuff and I was flipping randomly through our textbook, where I found it and read it. I still think about it, and sometimes use it in RPGs.

It would've also been super appropriate if I could never find it again in the textbook, but I can't remember if that's true.

Well "love that dog" made me cry a little just now, so thanks for that.

They sold Bandcamp to some company I've never heard of. SongTradr https://www.songtradr.com/blog/posts/songtradr-bandcamp-acquisition

I buy music from Bandcamp. Drm free. Musicians get a bigger cut. You can write a note to the band when you buy and sometimes they write back. Their recommendations and write-ups feel more human than algorithm. Feels pretty good. Renting music on Spotify sounds like a bad deal for me and my personal habits.

Of course, they sold themselves and probably will enshittify in a couple years.

For older stuff that's not on Bandcamp... Honestly I don't feel bad about pirating music that's 15 years old. Copyright is too long, anyway.

And for new mega pop stuff? Not my jam, but I'd probably still buy it drm free somewhere.

New Jersey is fine. A lot of north jersey is overshadowed by NYC being right there. One of my friends moved here from florida, and one of her friends was like "Why don't you move to jersey city? it's cheaper" and she went "I didn't move to new york to live in new jersey". But even if you do live just outside the city and none of your friends want to visit, you're still a short train ride away from it.

I don't know as much about south jersey, but, like, it's fine. And unlike, I don't know, Iowa, you can usually get on a train to a world class city.

That's true for this specific thing, but won't solve the underlying problem of "things I'm comfortable with are good, and abstract things like facts and fairness don't matter"

Unfortunately, most people are emotional creatures first. Sometimes only. So facts don't really matter because they're engaging on the emotional level of "christian stuff feels good and safe, but other stuff feels dangerous and foreign". We all do this to some extent. There's no solution.

People mostly change their mind because stuff coming from their in-group, or horrible trauma.

I also cannot recommend her novels The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed.

I hope you meant you can recommend them. They're both very good.

I liked the dispossessed a lot

I don't think you can eat deep dish pizza with one hand while riding the subway quite so easily.

I imagine it's because the Republican party is "absolutely evil turds" and the Democratic party is "everyone else". Unfortunately, "everyone else" includes some farts and sharts, too.

Holy shit. I had no idea.

Sounds a lot like aspects from Fate.

Fate still has numbers, but you could probably hack them off without too much trouble. I don't know if "the troll is fantastic brawler and you're a good swordsman" is especially better, but it's an option

Low density places are always going to kind of suck on a lot of metrics. You just don't have the people to support a lot of stuff. I'm sorry that small towns are dying but like there's not really a reason they'd thrive.

Cities have been important since like the dawn of history. At least farms grow food. Suburban sprawl is the worst.

Cost of living needs to go down and wages up, but no one should be vying for low density.

That doesn't address the opportunity cost. Spending time on this means not spending time on something else. There are other optional things and user choices they could work on instead. This is always the case when doing anything, but AI is very far down the list of things I think are worth paying the costs for.

Opportunity cost

If libraries didn't exist, and someone tried to invent them, I am confident that conservatives would fight them tooth and nail with a thousand bad reasons.

I have very little patience for people who can't or won't do the hard thing. Like, yeah withdrawal is going to suck but sometimes you have to do something unpleasant to get something better.

I mostly keep it to myself though. A lot of people have this problem. Not just about smoking.

Conversations like

"I'm so tired I don't know why."

"When did you go to sleep and get up?"

"Uh sleep at like 3am and up at 7am."

"Well that explains it. Why up so late?"

"... YouTube videos."

"You should probably stop staying up so late watching videos so you're not exhausted all day."

"No."

But I mostly keep it to myself because there's not really anything I can do to make someone listen.

Most smokers I've talked to get really defensive about it. "it's not that bad! Sugar is worse for you! It's not like you exercise or anything! I don't smoke as much as so-and-so!"

It's pathetic, really. I'd respect them more if they could just own "this is bad for me and everyone around me."

You might enjoy this 1964 essay "the paranoid style in American politics" : https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/

American politics has often been an arena for angry minds. In recent years we have seen angry minds at work mainly among extreme right-wingers, who have now demonstrated in the Goldwater movement how much political leverage can be got out of the animosities and passions of a small minority. But behind this I believe there is a style of mind that is far from new and that is not necessarily right-wing. I call it the paranoid style simply because no other word adequately evokes the sense of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy that I have in mind.