Retire. Don’t like my job. Tech is circling the drain.
Other people posted some details but essentially if you’re not an idiot you can park that in safe investments and live a happy life.
I get so frustrated when I read about people who like win a few million, blow it on like stupid cars and houses, and end up poor again. Just don’t do that.
Agree with the other poster - too open is a net negative. There’s like 3 games I don’t want to play for 1 game I do.
There’s an RPG meetup I go to sometimes. They list some games on their blurbs so people know it’s not just a DND hangout.
Personally I would want to know what kind of games. There’s a wide range. Monopoly? Catan? A six hour indie extravaganza? Same with cards and video games. Like I would go to a sekiro tournament but avoid a CoD thing.
I dislike AI. It’s like the one ring. Stop trying to use it. But all these people think they’re stronger than Boromir.
Can we play an RPG that’s not DND specifically? Fate is cool and light weight.
These fines need to increase by like a factor of 100, or key decision makers need to see serous jail time.
I cleared inner isshin without getting damaged in Sekiro , so I thought I’d play a charmless run. Then I died like 10 times to the chained ogre. So maybe more sekiro.
just say i don’t know enough to have an opinion on this
It would be so nice if people could do this.
Also admit that they were misinformed or that they need a moment to think about what you’ve presented. Sometimes it seems like we expect everyone to have an immediate iron clad opinion.
I had a partner for a little while that would do the “good morning!” texts. Didn’t especially enjoy that. I like some actual content. Even if it’s fluffy like “the dog saw a squirrel and I had to carry her the rest of the way home because she was obsessed”
Give me something to work with.
I also had a partner for a few months that wouldn’t respond for days. That was bad. Glad that one ended.
Haha get fucked DoorDash. I’ll pick up my own food before using them.
Parrying Isshin’s gun at the end of Sekiro is pretty satisfying.
I got a friend to play Path of Exile with me once. They hadn’t really played a lot of video games before. When they leveled up and it did all the sparkly lights they were like “oooh wow!!”
I was like oh, I guess I’m numb to that thrill since I’ve seen it a million times. But the sparkle reward was fresh for them and got their attention.
I remember playing some shitty free MMOs in my youth. Kill 12 foobars, kill 10 bazbots. Being legitimately excited when they overlapped so I could do more than one at the same time. Some part of the brain just gets excited seeing numbers go up and progress bars fill.
Ah I see. I’m not sure where the line is between “merely wrong” and “mad”.
Like, if you tell me the population of London is 5 million, that’s wrong but plausible. If you tell me it’s twelve people that’s absurd.
So when I look at privatization I can’t see any path where it works out for the majority of people that isn’t entirely wishful thinking. There’s no mechanism where private ownership of public resources and infrastructure works out in the long term. Believing in it seems so egregiously wrong it’s another category. Like someone believing that letting the foxes watch the hens will yield more eggs. There’s no good reasons to believe that, but plenty of Fox written propaganda.
Though I am sort of backed into a corner in that I was sort of firing from the hip. I don’t have the most robust argument for my “maybe written on the toilet” posts. “Mad” might not be the best word. “Foolish and poorly informed” maybe?
To me it seems perfectly plausible that changing the incentive structure around how a company is operated would have a way bigger impact than that.
I feel confident one can change incentives and operational practices without privatizing.
So you’ve got to put yourself in the shoes of someone who fervently believes that there is a lot of waste in the public sector.
Some people are delusional but I’m not sure the value of spending a lot of time in their shoes. In the US many people fervently believe the Republicans are “better at the economy” despite evidence pointing otherwise.
And just to emphasise, the idea of privatisation was not “let some rich people become richer.” It was to sell shares in privatised companies to as many people as possible, and make investors out of all of us.
This seems like an inefficient way to share public wealth that gives advantage to the wealthy. Let’s say you’re correct and the value of the shares goes from 10 to 100. People who bought more shares profit more. People with more money on hand can buy more shares. It’s a large advantage to the wealthy.
As you said
making some decent money but yielding the longer-term benefits to bigger investors.
So it sounds like we agree? Privatizing advantages the bigger, wealthier, investors.
No, their ideology was that state-run enterprises are less efficient than equivalent private ones
I dunno this seems like madness to me. Any private profit is, essentially, waste. Efficiency gains by, like, not supporting the entire public are also not real efficiency gains.
If a public service is running badly, the appropriate solution is to look into why, not let some rich people become richer off of it.
HR at the horrible mega Corp I work for has been described as “day care”. They all seem to move at a glacial speed, which when you’re dealing with time sensitive tasks I’d say is incompetence.
The few I’ve talked to are nice, in a polite small talk way, but it just shouldn’t take a whole month to go from application to phone screen. Certainly not for internal candidates.
Just ban private jets.
There are so many things we could just stop doing, but they make rich assholes unhappy. That’s true for like all of humanity, but the scale is global now instead of just “the peasants are eating dirt”
Though now I’m thinking of a story where someone infiltrates their way into being the pilot for a rich asshole, and then jumps out and lets the billionaire blow up in the crash. Noting that down for my near-future dystopia tabletop rpg.
I wonder if this was a form of sabotage by an engineer, or regular incompetence
I thought this was going to be about entirely fictional plates like some US sovereign citizens do. That’s a whole other, arguably real, problem. “The spy cameras can’t see you” is not much of a concern.