Unfortunately, laws only matter when they’re enforced and people have equal access. It’s easier to management to just break the law and, in the unlikely event someone challenges it, deal with it using their vast resources.
That’s why I think the penalities for anti labor actions should be capital (sorry, pun). If you do anything to fuck with labor, your life should be ruined. Assets seized, lifetime prohibition of management roles.
I think a lot about how one place I worked at, when people started talking salaries, Management said that was a fireable offense.
Personally I think everyone involved in saying that should have been barred from management roles for life.
But because most of the people working there were in their early 20s, with no power alone and no organization, they went along with it.
Some years later the company build a salary comparison tool on their website.
I really would like to somehow convince more people to adopt the idea that, like, Facebook and friends are run by bad people and you can choose not to use their products. Just stop. Find another way. Be uncomfortable for a little while.
But people aren’t up to the challenge.
I remember talking to this one woman who was like “I don’t get polyamory and non-monogamy. Why don’t you just cheat?”
Because I have standards and care about other people, which seems not to be true for many people.
I’m reminded of that post that showed all the people in the “boycott cod” group playing call of duty.
The bulk of video game players seem to be feckless marshmallow eaters.
I’m happy with my linux machine. Consoles would have to be a lot cheaper to be tempting. Or I’d have to make a lot more money.
Yep. Place I’m at is in some sort of “hiring freeze”. They’re not replacing people who left. They also told the many (probably not strictly legal) contractors that they won’t be renewing them. It’s absurd.
I remember once at a diner with some friends I ordered pancakes and orange juice without looking at the menu, and was pissed when the orange juice was like $10. Now I always check.
Wages are not up. I’m not going to spend that much money on a redundant toy. Pay me more then I’ll think about it.
I have discovered that a gentle nudge makes them stop snoring. This might not be universal but it has been working for me.
Otherwise, white noise can help. Like a fan or something
I had a really fun game of Vampire back in like 2016. I’d love to have another go at that, or Mage. The dice pool system always felt simple but exciting. Characters started out competent and being able to buy individual skills or powers was more satisfying than waiting for whole levels.
I’ve heard good things about Delta green, but never looked into it.
Alas, my college days where “hey you look nerdy you wanna play vampire?” are long gone.
For the first point, you could use a random generator and make it pick from a Gaussian or Poisson or other probability distribution depending on the situation.
Many RPGs that aren’t so closely related to DND use a dice pool. Instead of like 1d20, you might roll 3d6. Now you’re more likely to get an average result. Only one way to roll 3, but a bunch of ways to roll 10.
The nWoD games you roll d10s and count how many come up 8,9, 10. Very fast, and once you’re good at a task you know you’ll generally succeed. It’s more a question of how well you’ll succeed and how strong the opposition is.
I’m not mathy enough to talk beyond that, but I find it much more satisfying.
I hear pathfinder 2e is a big improvement, but still has some of the stuff I’m sick of.
Why don’t we want to dismantle the business?
Tabletop RPGs. I’m sick of DND. Hard to find good groups for other games. There’s a meetup I go to every once in a while but I want a regular group building a big story together
We had cars. People still used them a lot instead of walking.
I am going to take this opportunity to shit on car culture. Walking several miles a week because I live in a walkable city is pleasant, and almost certainly good for my health and weight.
I don’t have objections to the rest of your post. I just hate car culture.
The whole venture capitalism thing is bullshit. It’s just vibes and rich man hubris.
They’re bad people and too many folks are pretending they’re not.
Is this happening on android, too?
It’s one of those self fueling problems. Businesses post on Instagram because people go there, and people go there in part because that’s where they found out about businesses doing stuff.
Better options are possible, but the big money is backing this hell. Less money to be made from RSS feeds , web rings, and email newsletters.
I don’t use any social media other than this. I find out about bands I like playing from their email lists or bandsintown. I’m on a couple “things happening in the city” email newsletters. It doesn’t demand my attention.