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  • We should treat people wearing maga-hats like someone wearing a nazi armband. The outfit is a threat.

    And I know if we get through this, there won't be any judgement. People will just be like "oh that's in the past let's just let it be", and people won't pay for their crimes, and the roots of this problem won't be ripped out.

  • I won't use a urinal unless it's an emergency and no other options are available. They're uncomfortable.

    I remember some bar I was at once only had urinals, and I was like "what do you do if you gotta shit??". Apparently the bathroom on the bottom floor had full stalls, but still. Yuck.

  • Parents often take time off from work to grieve. Classes are often disrupted when a student dies abruptly. This isn't Skyrim where someone dies and forty seconds later it's "Must be hearing things". Plus, as I said, letting the kid die means the resources spend raising and educating them are wasted.

    My point is that "oh if he dies it only affects the family" is stupid.

    If I’m on my land I’m gonna do whatever I want. I’ll get drunk and do donuts on my lawn. Maybe I’ll set off 10 pounds of tannerite in my backyard because that’s what people do in the middle of nowhere.

    [mean words] Edit: I take that back. I'm hangry. I don't like rugged individualism but that was uncalled for

    Should my mom not have allowed me to practice my drums in the barn because the audio was escaping the property and the neighbors could hear faint drumming in the middle of the day sometimes?

    Non sequitur.

  • If it’s on private property who gives a shit. If your idiot son wants to build a structurally questionable tree house and the parents don’t do anything about it and he dies that’s on them.

    it's on all of us, because all the money and effort that went into educating and raising that kid is wasted. Plus the rippling effects outward from everyone who knew the kid grieving.

  • Also the more exceptions you have to rules, the more confusing it is and the more likely people are going to fuck it up.

    "Always wear a hardhat on site" - easy. simple. minimal room for interpretation.

    "Always wear a hardhat on site when any of the following conditions are true: [a, b, c, d] unless [e, f]" is going to lead to errors, and then people will get hurt.

    People aren't that smart. Especially when they're not motivated, or distracted.

  • People are emotional creatures. They feel a thing, and then pick evidence that supports it and discard evidence that doesn't.

    We all do this to some extent- like when people root for a local sports team that's kind of bad, or when someone likes a movie that's unpopular. They'll ignore stuff like a 10 game losing streak or a large plot hole, and focus on the one time they hit a grand slam, or that one quotable scene.

    It's mostly harmless when we're talking about small stuff, but when it's about history or social policy it's a problem.

  • It's not always tourists but stopping in unexpected places is a common irritation in NYC. Like, they're walking on the sidewalk and just stop, and mess up the flow of foot traffic. Maybe to look at their map or to gawk at something. It's extra annoying and a little dangerous when it's on the stairs

  • No, I'm saying the board (or whoever hires the CEO) should pay less, and take someone qualified who would accept it. You don't see software engineers making six million a year, because that's not good value for the money. But as I said, it's a joke- the rich have class solidarity like no one else. They look out for their own.

    Most CEOs don't produce much of value.

  • Yeah but like... so what? Hire someone who's good at the job for a reasonable rate. Let your competitors blow millions on high comp CEOs, and invest that money you saved in your business.

    Except that's a joke - it's all a circle jerk where the ownership class pays themselves well.

  • Renting games and music seems like a bad idea to me, but I am in the minority. Buy a new album once a month for $8, after a year I have 12 albums. Pay that to spotify and I have nothing.

    Gamepass is priced more aggressively at $12/mo, but I assume it's a loss so they can eventually raise prices. Even so, if I buy a new somewhat discounted game for $36 every three months, after a year I have four games. With gamepass, I'm pretty sure I end up with nothing.

    But I don't think humans are known for long term thinking.

  • Magical Diary is a fun little game about being a teenage girl that goes to wizard school. There's 2 but I only played one: https://store.steampowered.com/app/211340/Magical_Diary_Horse_Hall/

    My time at Portia and my time at Sand Rock are pretty chill. They're kind of like Stardew but 3d, and I liked them more. It has some fighting but it's very PG cartoon-ish. It has a major mechanic where you just hang out with the NPCs, or go on dates with them. The second game, sand rock, is better but they're both good: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1084600/My_Time_at_Sandrock/

  • I still sometimes think about the time I was exiting my apartment building, and as I passed through the outer doors some choral music started blasting from nearby. It definitely felt like the building door was a fog gate and I was about to find a large field boss on the street.

    Luckily for my low vigor and "int but i haven't felt any spells yet" build, no boss attacked.

  • More generally, it's in-group vs out-group. For many people, the in-group is "white men" and the out-group is "everyone else". But this behavior is pretty baked into humans. We'll form stupid groups over anything. I was reading a book about how people change their minds, and it talked about some experiments they did. Like, they gave kids at a summer camp different colored shirts, and sure enough they formed separate groups. They had to stop the experiment when one group tried to burn down the cabin of the other group.

    I don't know how to fix this.