jtrek

This is the best answer.

The receptionist really doesn't care. You're one of dozens of people they see every day. They're not going to remember or care if you ask for help.

Many people have as an immutable axiom "I am a good person"

When you suggest they are doing something bad, like contributing to climate change, this clashes with that axiom.

That clash causes discomfort. Most people are, frankly, lazy cowards. They could accept that they are not being a good person all the time, and update their axiom. But that's scary and feels bad. They could also try to do something about climate change (or whatever the topic is. see also: veganism), but that's also hard. It's far easier to just lash out at the source of discomfort.

The oatmeal did a comic on basically this topic: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe

I feel like if you're not going to use an app, you should focus on real life. Join meetups. Join a local sports team. Posting on a forum isn't going to be more effective than that.

It's hard to make a full judgment without knowing more details but "the pay is good and it's easy" isn't really a compelling justification for "and I help evil manifest in the world".

I also commented there by accident once because I didn't read the community name. They politely asked me to refrain from doing so. I was embarrassed, and have been more careful.

Apparently for some people this is unacceptable.

I knew a guy who went to work for palantir a bunch of years ago. Was always friendly at work. I asked him "but what're you going to do if they do bad stuff, like spying on people?"

He just shrugged. Didn't care. The money was good.

I don't know if this alone is proof that's a bad person, but I think it precludes him from being a good one.

Do you think they're intentionally trying to weaken the US, or just stupid?

There are several problems.

One. Wotc are seeking players who aren't paying attention and have no head for rules. They don't want complexity.

Two, it's bad to make one class have a ton of complexity while others stay at "I move and attack", and they really don't seem to want to give other classes more complex options.

DND isn't designed well. It's the Harry Potter of RPGs. Also the JavaScript.

I saw batboy in Brooklyn and it was a great show.

I don't see a reason not to teach more about personal finance. How interest works. Consequences for missing payments. I knew a guy that when he was 18 just maxed out several credit cards to buy fun stuff. He got out of that hole eventually, but it was a rough couple years.

I think there's an underlying problem that I don't know if you can just teach people, but I think people need to be better at delayed gratification and thinking about consequences. Like that old friend of mine, even if he knew that the credit card debt was going to be more expensive long term, he wanted the tv and stereo now. I don't know if you can teach that.

And, even if you could, it's fucked up that people who are poor through little fault of their own are told to just live with less, while people born into wealth can squander it.

So, at the end of this tangent, we should have mechanisms so the floor is high enough people can still have a decent life, and the ceiling is low enough that no one has four mansions.

The legislation seeks to amend existing immigration law to bar entry and naturalization, as well as create new grounds for deportation for anyone linked to what it describes as “totalitarian” parties, both foreign and domestic.

Trumpism is pretty "totalitarian". I wouldn't be that upset if all the magas got removed from power, and the irony of their own law being used to do it would be delicious.

That humor aside, this is a terrible idea that should be grounds for Roy's immediate removal from office.

My leading theory is there are many, many, people who are semi literate and don't realize. They think reading is just kind of uncomfortable and slow, and don't understand why anyone else would. Maybe they're reading each word out loud in their head, sounding some of them out. You wouldn't find a lot of people like that on a text based platform like this.

But for someone like that, an AI summary or video is probably a relief.

I took some dubious online reading speed tests the other day and it said like 350wpm, but the average is like half that.

Personally, I think the solution would be to invest in education, but there's no quarterly money in public good.