Google still has a chat embedded in Gmail, but because Google is grotesquely incompetent they've never succeeded in making a good messaging service. I think they've had like 15, but they are too fucked up to just make one work.
One of the things I bring up if someone says "we should run the government like a business"
Running games has definitely helped me run meetings.
I mean, that's kind of been the case for like all of recorded history
Many people don't want to date someone destitute or with poor financial prospects. That's just going to be hardship, and there are many other people that are probably just as good a fit without that problem.
Similarly, someone who makes way more money than you can add tension. They might be like "oh let's go out for dinner!" to someplace expensive, and you don't have the budget for it. Are they going to pay for it? Are they going to resent that? Are they going to pressure you into paying? Their expectations and standards may not align.
Also, if the relationship is going to be long term most people assume there will be some merging of finances.
Some jobs are also just gross. I wouldn't date someone who worked at Facebook. I wouldn't date someone who worked for Fox News. Your job 100% can reflect your values and personality.
Americans are just stupid, and it’s easy to whip us into a moral panic.
I'm having a thought. It's easy to write them off as stupid, and they may be, but there's also like... If they have really bad information, the decisions they make given that info as true make more sense. If you really believed that Harris was eating babies, or "she's a communist that's going to put the christians in a labor camp", it would make sense to vote for the "lesser" evil.
Just need to figure out why they believe such falsehoods. it's probably fox news et al.
Step 1: Acknowledge the problem.
Just getting the bulk of people to acknowledge, out loud, that the current capitalist structures are creating many unacceptably bad outcomes would be a start. People often leap to "well anarchy is bad too!" without spending enough time on how big the current state is.
Related:
"ai will make you twice as productive!'
"Cool. So I'll be paid twice as much, or work half the hours?"
"Lol no. I'm keeping the profits"
Yes, I am very aggressive about turning off notifications. The use case I had in mind is texts from friends, and I don't want to turn those off. Like someone texts me something that requires thought or online connectivity, but I'm on the subway or at a concert. I want to snooze the message so it'll remind me in a couple hours.
Sometimes for really important stuff I'll set a timer myself, but that's more steps than if the OS just had a "remind me later" built in.
Not the person you asked but I'm taking this opportunity to talk about why I wouldn't play pbta as my main game.
One, I rarely feel like my character is competent. I'm usually rolling mixed success, and that feels bad. A good GM can take the edge off there. they can make it so the problem was circumstances or the strength of your enemy, instead of your fuck up. But most GMs aren't good, they're average.
Related, and I think this might have been a result of not liking the GM, when I do get a mixed success it often feels like the GM is just fucking with me. It felt very unilateral. They decide what happens with no buy-in from the table needed. When I run Fate, mixed successes are a proposal the player can accept, decline, or suggest another idea.
Third, playbooks feel like mad libs instead of writing. So much is already defined, typically, it's constraining and anchoring. I don't feel like I'm really making something of my own. I can see how that's really helpful for some people but I don't enjoy it. I much prefer the utterly freeform mode of Fate. I want to be a chaos magick using librarian? I can just write that down.
I had fun doing a one shot of rapscallions a couple weeks ago, but I wouldn't make it my main game.
Mostly backend for web development (django most recently), though I'm moderately proficient at react and JavaScript for frontend. Also testing and QA.
I've been applying to all of full stack, backend web dev, and test/QA. No bites. Learning more languages might help, but I feel like having 0 years experience in (say) Rust won't get a lot of traction.
Maybe it's imposter syndrome but I feel like I've always been a sort of middle of the road engineer. Good at some things , bad at others. It feels like with all the layoffs and AI, there's less room for broadly competent people. There's just going to be the top tier, fighting and getting paid less.
Wow those replies are terrible. I regret clicking.
They're stupid and corrupt.