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Labor should organize and tell management if they don't get their heads out of their asses they might lose them.

I've recently started to have to use Teams at work and wow it's awful. In subtle and overt ways.

Thinking about the pedocon theory post again : https://www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-talk-about-pedocon-theory/

Google is complicit

At a customer service job I'd read whole books in the browser. Just keep the window small and it looks pretty inconspicuous.

Now I work from home so I look at Lemmy and such on my phone.

I have a hard rule of never playing video games on the clock because that's a slippery slope.

My favorite encore might be one time I saw Sincere Engineer. Someone in the audience shouted "play corn dog sonnet!. That's one of their "hits" as far as small bands go.

But the band had already played it earlier in the set, and said so. The audience person shouted back "I was late! I missed it!"

The singer went, "well, I guess we could play it again if everyone wants to hear it again"

The crowd cheered , so they played it again.

Pop!_os worked fine for me out of the box. The UI is a little mac-like (dock on bottom, spotlight like search when you hit the super key) by default.

Steam just works. Heroic launcher just works. It's simple.

I've also used mint, but had slightly less luck with its install working out of the box. All issues fixed eventually but there was some head scratching.

Linux nerds tend to have opinions and it's easy to lose sight of what it's like as a beginner.

But ultimately it's pretty easy to switch distributions. They're all free.

is it doesn’t address the issue of youth access to porn. I think any semi-intelligent person knows this is a parenting issue

There sure are a lot of stupid fucking people then, huh?

Unfortunately this is becoming enough of “A Thing” that the left is going to have to, once again, be seen doing “something”

Personally I think the left should hammer in on "The right are too lazy and incompetent to raise their kids. They want the government to do it for them. No one who's too unwilling or unable to spend time with their kids should be in government" or something like that. Just rub their noses in how stupid, lazy, and incompetent, the right is. Because they are. They are the worst people.

given democracy doesn’t work when people vote based on vibes or propaganda feels.

Unfortunately, it seems like a lot of people are primarily vibes driven. Everyone is, in some cases or other. For example, a lot of otherwise reasonable people will flip their shit if you suggest eating less meat for environmental or animal welfare reasons. You just get excuses and variations of "but i like it" and "but i'm a good person".

I agree the privatisation was a big mistake, also in healthcare, energy etc.

Privatizing is always a mistake. Profit is waste and theft. Making public services for-profit is inevitably going to turn to shit.

I would not be surprised if my old coworker-friends started a separate group chat without me after the nth, "Maybe you should come to one of these protests" and "Please at least read the wikipedia summary on this historical topic before you start going off about it" message from me.

They're fine people but they're also kind of very... apolitical.

Never thought about it before, but the two systems I like most don't do that.

In chronicles of darkness, you get penalties when any of your last 3 health boxes (out of 6-10) are marked. In fate, you start getting Consequences, and those both adversely affect you and provide bonuses for your opponents.

I think some people don't like this because it can cause a death spiral, where whoever gets injured first is likely to get more injured from the penalties. But, that makes sense for a lot of genres.

I routinely found it extremely irritating in BG3 when I'd do a sneak attack critical, and then the enemy would have like 3 HP left, and then they'd turn around and attack just as hard as if i'd done nothing. Unsatisfying.