Meh. Need more details but I don’t feel that excited about this.

Yarvin is trash and I hope he suffers some lonely, embarrassing, fate.

That makes sense.

I personally think unequal enforcement of traffic laws is fundamentally unjust, anyway. If it’s really only safe to drive 25mph, enforce that equally. Don’t let it be a vector for harassing minorities.

The current system is nonsense, and allows the rich to control too much media (and thus culture). There are some movies or books that are hard to find “legitimate” copies of, because the “rights holders” don’t want them out there, or a complicated confluence of “well the movie has music in it” or whatever.

The main thing I would like to see protected is for some nobody who makes a cool creative work to get credit. I don’t want someone to make a cool cartoon, and then Disney just swoops in and makes their own movies and tv shows based on it while the creator is left in the dust. But I also don’t want people to be able to hold onto an idea for decades, either.

I feel like anyone should be allowed to go make a Lord of the rings movie without needing permission. That shit is old now. It’s just part of our culture.

Some sort of “you have exclusive rights for 3 years” plus “you must attribute previous works to their creators” might work for me.

I’m not a scholar I’m just shooting from the hip, but it was really annoying not being able to find a"legitimate" copy of spinal tap to stream recently.

Yeah I think I filtered out like anime or hentai or something years ago, so I don’t see that kind of game anymore.

It’s funny because the US says it’s all about freedom and democracy, but it’s not. You go to work and you do what the boss says. That is the day to day for most people. That’s not freedom. That’s petty tyranny.

J’ai acheté Splendor (sans DRM) sur “Humble Bundle”. J’ai le “.apk” (Android), mais je crois que ils ne le vendent pas maintenant.

En anglais, où ils disent pourquoi : https://asmodee.helpshift.com/hc/en/6-splendor/faq/945-end-of-google-play-and-itunes-support/?s=specific-questions&f=end-of-google-play-and-itunes-support

Il y a Splendor pour Steam. Le “steam deck” (je ne sais pas le nom français) est plus grand que le portable, malheureusement.

You’re not listening to me and I don’t think you’re worth listening to. Go away. Goodbye.

In my imagination, some sort of referral/voucher system might work. A invites B, B invites C. C turns out to suck. Ban C, discredit B heavily and discredit A lightly. Enough discredit and you get banned or can’t invite more people.

A well written review will detail why they thought it was good, so the reader can think about if those reasons would make it enjoyable for them.

Unfortunately, most people are semi literate and writing at that level is a challenge

I like and respect teachers, but I’m a software developer and I’m telling you that adding extra parenthesis often adds clarity and makes the whole process smoother. You exist in a whole other context that has norms and assumptions that do not apply to what I’m talking about.

You being technically correct is irrelevant.

Adults who have forgotten the rules who I work with and read/write code where it’s important. In the real world.

This is like some pure maths vs real life engineering cliché.

You’re either being deliberately obtuse or you’re painfully naive.

Scheduling, mostly. The classic big bad of DND.

That’s because it’s already clear as is, as per the rules of Maths.

More people evaluate 2+3x4 incorrectly than 2+(3x4). So, no, your answer does not hold up to my observed reality. You can throw as many “well technically” and “well actually” as you want, but that’s not going to fix the bug or make a pr.

Used hinge. It’s the least bad, as of this year anyway.

Most people who use dating apps are, frankly, bad at it. People send garbage messages with garbage profiles. People half-ass it and expect the other folks to carry the whole thing. I feel like I could write a short book on how to do it better.

Condensed into like three bullet points it’s

• Ask questions. Do not dead-end the conversation and expect them to do all the work
• actually ask them out. Like, in the first conversation after you clear any must-have deal breakers (eg: if you have a kid)
• put stuff you want to talk about in your profile. Don’t be “clever” and respond to “what are you looking for?” with “my keys”. This is where you give the other person topics to talk about. (Also if you are tired of people asking about the stuff you put in your profile, change it you doofus.)

Being “an introvert” doesn’t excuse you from being present and engaged. The other person isn’t going to be that interested in someone who responds every couple hours with “lol”. If you can’t muster up the energy to have a real conversation, you aren’t ready to date.

Ok so you’re probably correct but I also like seeing the opposite of the usual “omg socialism everyone in NYC is already dead!!!”

Out-groups to bind, in-groups to protect. That’s it. Often on a purely emotional level. Having the out-group be just out and about living life feels wrong to that kind of person. There has to be hierarchy, they feel.

Part of that falls under the “don’t show up when invited” umbrella, but mostly that sucks. I’m sorry you feel like your efforts and friendship efforts weren’t appreciated.

I’ve definitely had a couple friends (“friends”) that were lopsided. I remember posting about one way back in the 2000s on some web forum, and a guy with a otter(?) avatar told me “This guy, that flakes on your plans and only shows up when it works for him? He doesn’t respect you. Don’t put up with that”. Good advice from a small furry animal, I think.

Some people just aren’t worth it. Maybe they were in the past. Maybe they will be again. But I find it’s important to have boundaries for oneself. It can be hard to balance.

I always wanted to get one of my lawyer friends to play a devil in a DND game I ran. Just have him write the worst contracts for the players that are more air tight than I can come up with.

A lot of our behaviors and coping mechanisms come from our parents. So if they’re lonely and have no friends, you should examine why that is, and try to change it in yourself.

One of my friends realized after therapy they had a lot of behaviors from their dad. Stuff they hated when their dad did (lashing out when uncomfortable, mostly). Once they saw it, they were able to work on it. Before that, it had been a real source of friction with friendships.