My last two jobs had really great insurance with no deductible and little to no premium paid by me. Really lucked out when I had a bone breaking accident.

My current insurance from a rather large company is $3500 deductible in network, $6000 out of network, and $450 a month paid by me.

I feel like one possible future where I go to jail is when a conversation goes like

Me: “That thing you’re doing is unnecessary, bad for the environment, and bad for society.”

Them: “But I like it”

Me, screaming “BUT I LIKE IT” while I punch them in the face over and over and over and over.

Liking something is not a trump card that supersedes all other concerns, and yet some galaxy brains act like it is. Much more respect for people who can admit “I don’t care about the environment or society” out loud.

Saw a store that was just rubber ducks. They had celebrity ducks and colored ducks and all sorts of similar things.

American treaties have a long history of being ignored. Treatment of the native peoples, for example.

If you’re ever wondering why something in the US is bad, it’s almost always racism. Sometimes it’s corporate profits.

By the time you’ve read this it’s too late not to read it.

But maybe you meant longer content than just a headline

Go on? Are you splitting the hair on not owning the music, since the artist retains copyright? Please elaborate.

I’ve had several girlfriends who were like “you play video games? Like… <worried expression> call of duty?”

They were all relieved when I was like no.

Less relieved when I got them to play cuphead co-op.

You could perhaps still have enshittification in a worker owned organization. It seems more likely to happen when the decisions are being made by rich ghouls and absent shareholders, rather than the people who actually made the product.

A big problem is often lack of competition.

I pretty much only have drm free music

All these people at work are so eager to devalue themselves. They’re rushing to have AI do their work and accepting the same pay.

Anyone who knew how anything relevant worked could have predicted this. Unfortunately, most people don’t know shit about fuck, but they vote trump anyway.

No one needs that much money. The people who could deserve it don’t get it. We’ve got teachers in poverty and this fucker has more money than he’d ever need. Fuck him. Fuck his enablers.

I’m pretty sure local models still induce pyschosis and hallucinate. Maybe the cat’s out of the bag, but they still suck.

I wouldn’t really characterize many things in life as the same kind of random. Throwing a dart at a dart board isn’t a random action in the same way as rolling dice

Furthermore, dnd’s randomization produces flat probability, which is often jarring.

My job told us all to use AI more, as its own metric. I had it walk through how capitalism is unjust. Not exactly a secret but probably the ghouls in management would probably be mad.

Generally random factors allow players with less skill to win. I think about that with games a lot.

It’s one of the (many) reasons I don’t really like DND very much. Huge random factor. You can make excellent tactical decisions and lose. You can be an absolute baffoon and triumph.

Some randomness is okay but not like that.

It’s funny that corporations are like “no one wants to work” but also don’t want to do the work of interviewing candidates

Fantasize about violence. Probably no real action other than banging into it when walking on the sidewalk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro-masculinity comes to mind again