One time I made a joke to the players, "Yeah watch out, the woods could be full of dangerous things. Like fire bears."
The players were like "lol right"
And then there were fire bears. Bears made of fire. (Some industrialists had started a forest fire, killing a local druid and wildlife, and now they were haunting the place.)
People are emotional, tribal, creatures. It's very easy for us to hate the out group. That was probably beneficial for pre-history humans, where the other tribe could be a real threat. It's not so useful today, where "the other group" is just some people waiting for the train.
I think the best paths forward have to make people believe more people are in-group. That's a reason why stuff like representation matters. People might be like "who cares if there's a trans main character in a movie?", but that helps people be less hateful. They don't hate the character from the movie, they relate to them, and then a person in real life gets seen in that light.
It’s like…the solution is right in front of their noses. Just treat people better/not like robots
I've been saying this in response to a lot of things lately, but.. people are emotional. It's an emotional problem. Management feels a way, mostly contempt, and any studies about how treating people better would be cost-effective don't matter. Studies show that a 4-day workweek is good for productivity and profits? Nope, feels wrong, can't be true.
Essentially, people are stupid and I don't know how to fix it. Can't just bop a CEO on the nose with a newspaper when he's being bad, unfortunately.
il pleut. j'aime le son. je suis en train de lire sur le canapé avec mon chat. (il dor)
I accidentally made a rom-com subplot in one of my games... Twice... And the players loved it both times.
The first time there was a divorced smith lady who sort of had a death wish, and the timid tavern owner who had a massive crush on her. Of course the players wanted to set them up.
The second time, the players had to infiltrate a masquerade ball. Sadly I'm starting to forget the details. I think there was tension around meeting them while masked and, like a rom com, trying to figure out what they thought about the PC. And then they tried to get the NPC involved in their heist, because they just happened to have a skill they needed. And of course it wasn't a clean heist, and the NPC had some trauma.
Those people aren't a good match for you (or maybe anyone).
My work uses python and it hasn't been bad for new code that has tests and types. Old code we inherited from contractors and "yolo startup" types is less good, but we've generally be improving that as we touch it.
A warrant was issued for Brackin's arrest on Tuesday and he was charged with seven counts of aggravated cruelty to animals and eight counts of reckless endangerment. He turned himself in and has since been released on bond.
Maybe he'll actually be punished.
I get the impression that some people have such decision fatigue, asking them to do something seemingly trivial is akin to asking someone without limbs to pick up a spoon.
People's brains don't work good.
Most people don't know much, and don't care that they don't know much. Half of US adults can't read at a 6th grade level. They don't care about and probably do not understand complex topics.
That's it. They just want cat gifs, and that's the end of the thought.
I knew someone who was smart and successful and politically aware. She didn't care about any of this. She was tired from work and just wanted the familiar ease or twitter. Trying to figure out which server to sign up for and finding content was too much work.
A lot of people have executive dysfunction. Making a choice is hard.
Satire is dead. Unfortunately, this guy somehow survives despite his best efforts to get sick.
All of these stories I feel the same way: moving to another centralized privately owned platform is stupid.