This would be embarrassing for microsoft, if microsoft had shame or a soul.

One of the clues they found was from a survivor from the antagonist’s party who had gone in ahead of them. He said the boss-man had kept asking them lots of questions about their youth, where they’d grown up, their hobbies. Just a lot of personal questions. The survivor didn’t know why, since boss-man had never taken an interest in them before.

One time in a DND game I had a dungeon with the property “you’ll never find what you’re looking for”. This has a bunch of fun effects. Among them when the players found a spiral stairway around a hole, they tried to find the bottom and, because of the rule, could not reach it. They tried to go back up, and couldn’t reach the previous floor either.

So they decided, since they have feather fall, to just jump into the central hole and find the bottom that way.

They fell for an uncomfortable long time. They passed the other party members who had split up (and couldn’t find them).

Good times. Players heads were very fucked with.

They did eventually figure it out.

Some clothes don’t work for some people

“Work” for clothing typically means comfort and protection. “Do random people find it attractive?” is not a universal requirement.

At least twice now I’ve had math nerds get really mad when I suggested “if people are misreading it, add parentheses”. Very much skinner “it’s the children who are out of touch”.

Some people would rather be right than understood, I guess.

No one’s going to die because you write x = c + (a * b) even though those parentheses aren’t strictly needed.

How will it reduce demand for parking? Do you envision the car will drop someone off and then drive away until it finds a parking spot that’s farther than the person would want to walk?

That sounds like a very hard problem , and people wouldn’t be happy waiting 5-10 minutes for their car to navigate back to them. Or it would just cruise around looking for parking, causing more traffic.

Cars could tailgate like virtual train cars following each other at highway speeds with very little separation, lanes could be narrowed to fit more cars side by side in traffic, etc.

Once again reinventing buses and trains

It took like 100 years to build the car-hell we have now. It’s going to take a lot of time and effort to fix it.

And people are, famously, stupid. They’ll fight like hell to avoid change, but once it’s in they’ll fight like hell to keep that change.

Plus there’s a lot of selfish idiots that need to be overridden.

So leave that problem for later. Let them keep driving themselves, and focus on improvements where people actually live.

Most people live in or close to cities.

I don’t have the means or motivation to do research now from the couch, so I’ll concede you may be correct. However, I think it might be even safer to take those same billions of dollars and invest them in mass transit and other infrastructure changes. That would mean fewer car accidents, less pollution, nicer spaces, healthier people, healthier economies, etc. private car ownership cannot be the long term solution. If it’s not an outright dead end, it’s certainly a side street instead of high speed rail (if you’ll pardon a strained metaphor).

Self driving cars are a great idea, but they aren’t a fix everything solution, they just one part of an overall solution.

Why are they a great idea? What are they making better? How is it worth the real and opportunity costs?

To be clear, I didn’t insist we run women candidates anyway. That’s a tactical decision I don’t feel qualified to make from the toilet where I make Lemmy posts.

I just want us to agree that those 30% of men or whatever are trash. Because they are trash. Trash that votes, but still trash.

(And not irredeemable - many things that end up in the trash can be fixed or repurposed. People are not immutable.)

Some men will simply not vote for a woman, it’s sad, but it’s reality.

Can we all agree that those men are trash? I don’t care what else they’ve got going on, if they refuse to vote for a woman because she’s a woman, they deserve to go into the dumpster.

I’m so sick of all these sacks of shit making the world worse

Self driving cars have always been a stupid solution to the wrong problem.

We shouldn’t be investing billions in them. We should be investing billions in creating livable spaces that don’t need cars so much. Then people will be happier and there will be less pollution.

But I guess that’s not profitable so I guess we’ll just do idiotic garbage that gets people killed.

Much of this slots into time outside work rather than the workday itself.

• walk a different route to a destination
• pick an algorithm and walk with no destination (eg: straight until you hit a light not in your favor, then turn. Works in urban envs)
• go somewhere you don’t normally go. Eg: library, different coffee shop, that little art store you always see
• go to the library. Walk along the shelf with eyes closed and pick a book at random.
• pick a genre of music you never listen to. Listen to it.
• cook or prepare a meal unlike your normal fare
• go to a thrift store. Buy a cheap article of clothing you wouldn’t normally wear. Wear it. See how it feels
• find free or cheap art (music, theater, whatever) in your area. Go.
• journal. Spend a few minutes writing down your day’s details
• hit wikipedia’s random article button. Read it.

I didn’t think anyone liked Vance. But I guess there are a lot of sexists and Republican cultists out there.

Some states in the US are marginally better than others. I think they’re all bad, by any reasonable metric. I think Texas has no guaranteed paid time off. New York gives you one hour off for every thirty hours worked, to a maximum of 56/year.

It’s stupid, cruel, and self destructive.

If someone was sick, told to come in anyway, and they held their boss down and vomited on their face, and I was on the jury, I would nullify.

I’ve seen at a very large company a workflow that involved manually updating an excel workbook and (I think) saving it on confluence, so a python script could download it and parse it later. It wasn’t even doing formulas. It was just like less than a hundred lines of text in a half dozen sheets.

Not defending them at all here but there’s no compelling reason for most users to change when discord works and it works well

I understand this but it’s also a little “There’s no compelling reason for us frogs to get out of this water. It’s warm and comfortable”. It’s inevitably going to boil.

But you’re right that there aren’t great alternatives (that I know of). I think matrix is out there, but I don’t know anyone who uses it.

As someone who works in software, I’ve been using macs at work for more than a decade. One job had Linux machines. One place had windows for developers and it was a shit show.

Apple isn’t amazing but at least the terminal is sensible.

It’s hard to explain a real plan when most people are only semi literate, with no attention span, and no real knowledge of how government works.

What percentage of people believe the president writes laws, do you think?