This is a hard hitting point. We could have a better world, but a few rich people and their enablers don’t want it.

I wouldn’t be interested in going hunting myself.

I would disapprove of hunting for sport.

If someone does hunt and it’s actually for food or whatever, I don’t like it but it’s not such a priority that I’m going to die on that hill.

I haven’t heard of it being banned. Source and details?

I really don’t understand how so many people are unwilling to be mildly uncomfortable

One of my friends won’t get off Twitter “because that’s where the good memes are”. I’m like ma’am you can live on slightly stale memes.

No. Minimizing spending until / unless I get a better job. Fuck 'em. Fuck the capitalist dogs. I’ve got a library full of books and a decade of old games.

Aardwolf is still up and fairly active as of when I last played, maybe a year ago. Has a nice client you can download with some QoL features like an automapper

https://www.aardwolf.com/

It’s not my favorite mud ever in terms of gameplay (RIP project Bob. Too good for this world) but it’s pretty good. I did like 3 remorts and got bored of the random “go kill this mob” quests, and some of the area puzzles are annoying. These are related thoughts.

It just takes one industrious plumber.

I don’t especially want to live in a world full of stochastic terror, but if we’re going to have some I’d prefer billionaires were on the receiving end sometimes.

billionaire could pay off someone’s $500,000 mortgage, their $30,000 car, pay off $50,000, give them $100,000 in cash and forget about it the next day

They could, but they won’t, and that’s part of the problem.

If billionaires walked around clearing people’s mortgages and paying for everyone’s dinner, they’d be less hated. They’d still be a problem, but they could buy popularity.

But they don’t. Because they’re assholes.

Maybe this will scare some of them into changing the behavior. Maybe it will get some of them killed.

You all remember that “you are Jeff bezos” game, I hope: https://direkris.itch.io/you-are-jeff-bezos

Someone in the friend group does some sort of interactive theater thing. She was telling me about one where the protagonist is paid shit with poor insurance, but is told by the boss she’d have her sick husband’s medical needs taken care of if she goes to the union meetings as a spy for him.

I was like, I’d want to go to the meeting and tell them all what he said. Then we all roll up to his house before dawn and wake him up at gunpoint. We say, you’re going to pay us more or next time you don’t wake up.

She was like you’d all go to jail or worse.

I was like I know but I want this power fantasy.

She said, that’s not the point of this exercise.

Anyway, I think about this sometimes.

Middle managers like to set targets and goals because it counts towards their bonus, and it looks less like they’ve got their dick in their hand when the boss comes calling.

It’s the same problem all over. Capitalism. You have people who don’t do work keeping the benefits from the work.

Most people aren’t going to give themselves stupid or useless metrics. Software people aren’t going to impose “tokens used” or “lines of code” metrics on themselves. They know those are stupid.

. The net result is that everyone has learned very quickly to praise executives on their visionary AI prowess, or they will be gunned down in the proverbial streets.

Once again, the people making the decisions are idiots.

Labor should keep the profits of its work. The owners just sit around and make bad decisions. Fuck them. They’d be lucky to walk away, if there was justice in this world.

Javascript is a language full of weird quirks. A language with fewer footguns would probably be smoother for learning fundamentals. Python is pretty good in terms of letting you do the thing, instead of making you find a third party library (not that one, that’s deprecated) or having unexpected default behavior ( in JS [1,2] + [3,4] is the string 1,23,4, for example)

TypeScript adds more guard rails, but is a little more complex to get going.

This shouldn’t be allowed. We need to stop letting corporations consolidate.

That aside, I don’t think I’ve ever used either of these. I used to use seamless for restaurant delivery, but not so much anymore. Shit’s too expensive.

It’s a big multiplier on incompetence. It lets someone who’s kind of bad at their job produce a lot more bad than they could before.

When I was young and that video was new, one weekend I went to hang out with a bunch of friends. They were all quoting it and I hadn’t seen it. I was real worried about Al’s butt until someone showed me the video.

Does signal do like team meetings anyone can join with a link?

Apparently yes: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/7860719423002-How-to-create-and-share-call-links

But I’ve never tried it for that.

I use it for text voice and video with friends though.

$3 million. Averaging 10% returns is plenty of money without touching the principle.

Then there’s sliding “hmm this is risky” down to maybe $2million. Far below that I don’t know if it could tank a market dip or sudden expense.

You can use uv to manage python versions and deps now. You shouldn’t fuck around with your system python much.

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/

‘I know he was going to start deporting people but not innocent people, not hardworking people,’ she said.

Heartless.

she voted for Trump in the 2024 election, mainly for religious reasons

What religion? Some trimmed down Christianity that skips the good samaritan and sheep&goats , give your possessions to the poor stuff?

Probably. There’s a lot to cherry-pick from the bible, and most people aren’t critically thinking scholars.