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The real lesson here - moderation is a necessity for civil discourse on anonymous or semi-anonymous mediums of communication.

There has to be a culture in place, and a guardrail in place to enforce that culture.

Lots more thoughts there, but I think that's the core of it.

This is just management advice. This has as much spice as day old oatmeal. It's also not new, it's management training 101.

There's nothing fucked up about this. If anything it's recycled shit from a mall store manager's book of training.

Management training exists so that people don't defer to their own egos and impulses when managing staff. It's a systemic/standardized approach to common behaviors found in employees. If anything it helps mitigate the more toxic behaviors of competitive environments. It's not perfect, but it is funny that tech bros have rediscovered Human Resources departments

Oh yeah, this'll scratch an itch.

^ this is correct

I don't think a lot of people understand the grueling nature of a judge. Day in and out of cases over years are going to generate bias in the judge in one form or another. I wouldn't mind an AI check* to help them check that bias

*A magically thorough, secure, and well tested AI

Hey this is really neat, thank you

Any one got a good MUD to recommend?

That's interesting. Is there any kind of mapping to these respective models somewhere?

Not mentioned here is the risk of importing polio from another country. The need for the vaccine can certainly be discussed, but I'm not going to pretend that the country exists in a vacuum

Only if you make it political.

Nah, politics is a cancer that's infected everything. Let the addicts get their fix someplace else

Yeah because it's the size of a small child

Seconding this. Dumbest, most obviously useful thing, yet we never think to buy one. My wife and I have our own now.

Amen

One of the best feelings is letting things go.

"It sure would be a shame to miss that photo! ... And so I did"

It's an act of rebellion towards a world browbeating you into performance for invisible strangers

But when they want the family, they have the option to go someplace to build it. That's the point. Right now the people meet in the city and stay in the city because they're tethered there.

Here me out here:

We make wfh a right for all appropriate jobs

We improve fiber optic connectivity in rural communities

We incentivize young families to move to rural communities

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The main thing here is we break the unnecessary chains of offices and commuting and allow families to build where they have the space and want for them.

Cities are inherently isolating - space is at a premium - which means there is constant pressure to not expand in many different ways.

I didn't read fuck all. I mean I read all of 2 books, which was fine, but I'm offended at my low book count this year. I intend of changing that asap.

For what it's worth, we're a handful of days out from our first so, thank you for that recommendation.

I wish you the best of luck

Just got a bucket list item out of that article, so thank you for that

Merry Christmas!

Isn't that just Calibri?

I would farm. Probably vineyards and orchards. With big flower gardens.

If you've ever worked land, you'll know your boss is the weather and the seasons, and time.

It's good.

That linear ad was icky.

I am condensing down a much longer thought here but I would argue that this is the result of consumerism.

You work to earn, you earn to buy.

But buying is not meaning. It's a momentary sugar high that's lost to the wind the moment the transaction is over. No deeper life meaning can be derived from this.

When your culture is based around constant self satisfaction, there's nothing bigger than the self.

Community is dead, culture over generations is dead, building and making is dead, even cooking your own food is dead - "just order it". There's nothing for us to do except our individual parts, and our individual parts often feel like we're just putting a quarter into a machine that spits out a paycheck.

Etc etc

These trucks were a boondoggle to begin with

That last point is important though. If you want a truck to be adopted it needs to tow.

I have a dyslexic friend who made leaps and bounds progress when given a paperwhite with dyslexic font. They were giddy the first time they saw it.

So, I'm a believer

I am hunting for the source code of VR-1 Crossroads

It was a mud style game in beta that ended up getting axed in the early 2000s (?) but it was brilliant and a few of us stuck around in it long after we should have.

If anyone has heard anything about it, let me know!

About all I can find publicly so far https://x.com/hellcowkeith/status/885362337384878080

Back in my day, changing the windows color pallets was the only form of video game we had.

And we liked it!