it’s like a “you break it, you buy it” policy - you charge as much as the broken thing costs

So if the thing they broke can never be whole again, we take infinite value out of the company? Leave all the shareholders with nothing, seize their personal assets, and put their pictures on a big “WALL OF SHAME - DO NOT SERVE” mural? I could get behind this.

It has to be worth, not just income. There’s too many loopholes around “I don’t have income I just have stock I use as collateral for a loan” or “I don’t have income but my LLC happens to pay for all of my daily expenses”.

But yes, all fines need to scale with the perpetrator. The more dollars you have, the less each dollar means.

A $100 ticket for parking on a crosswalk means nothing to a millionaire, but is potentially ruinous for someone living in poverty. It needs to hurt the same for everyone. The millionaire should have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars. They need to feel pain.

A lot of people are really shitty and operate at a very basic level of moral reasoning. It’s just “did I get punished?”.

billionaire could pay off someone’s $500,000 mortgage, their $30,000 car, pay off $50,000, give them $100,000 in cash and forget about it the next day

They could, but they won’t, and that’s part of the problem.

If billionaires walked around clearing people’s mortgages and paying for everyone’s dinner, they’d be less hated. They’d still be a problem, but they could buy popularity.

But they don’t. Because they’re assholes.

Maybe this will scare some of them into changing the behavior. Maybe it will get some of them killed.

You all remember that “you are Jeff bezos” game, I hope: https://direkris.itch.io/you-are-jeff-bezos

I believe it was this one : https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/169

I also got one to speed up the walk speed, since the default is glacial. I think this one: https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/2736

I got a mod to adjust the flow of time, which was nice.

I still lost interest pretty fast though. Shame, since it seems like a nice game.

I dislike all the long term on street parking here. Some of it I’d rather was just 15 minute parking for when you need to load or unload something. Most of the time I look at the cars and I’m like why are you here. There’s a subway stop and two bus lines here.

That’s an interesting point I hadn’t considered. Probably not the case with my coworkers who are on a physical keyboard, but maybe my parents

This is saying if you have a module with public functions A and B, they shouldn’t call each other, right? But it’s not saying that module A shouldn’t call module B’s public functions. That’s what I thought it meant at first, but that seems crazy.

Middle managers like to set targets and goals because it counts towards their bonus, and it looks less like they’ve got their dick in their hand when the boss comes calling.

It’s the same problem all over. Capitalism. You have people who don’t do work keeping the benefits from the work.

Most people aren’t going to give themselves stupid or useless metrics. Software people aren’t going to impose “tokens used” or “lines of code” metrics on themselves. They know those are stupid.

Some players are hoarding all the resources, and formed gangs to keep their power. Sucks. You can’t just shoot them because the other players whine, and you’ll probably get banned.

I’ve found that there’s a weird rift where a surprising amount of people who like board games dislike tabletop RPGs. I think because they’re so open, where board games are more structured and directed.

In the biggest polycule I know, there’s a mix of “likes both”, “doesn’t do RPGs but like board games”, and … I don’t know if anyone likes neither in that crew.

This is vital context. Big difference between like working in a kitchen with a bunch of people and working a software remote job.

I did poly for a long time and wasn’t that into board games. But yeah a lot of poly people are into them.

I’m more into tabletop RPGs, but never achieved the dream of a polycule party.

Nowadays I wouldn’t even recommend crossing the streams that way.

“knock knock”

“What?”

“Interrupting cow”

“What are yo–”

“MOO”

Hm still works.

Anyway, about memes, there have been illustrations since maybe longer than the written word. You see a picture of the guy using the stairs during a fire instead of an elevator and you don’t go “I don’t know who that guy is I don’t understand”.

It definitely seems like we’re setting ourselves up for a dystopia, where no one knows how to do software anymore. Like the time machine or Idiocracy. Management just wants short term gains, and they don’t care if there’s no one around in 10 years with any experience

A guy at work got so mad when I asked if some confusing code on a PR he submitted was from his brain, he went directly to my boss to complain.

Fuck you, Sam. I hope your AI lover tells you to mix household cleaners.

. The net result is that everyone has learned very quickly to praise executives on their visionary AI prowess, or they will be gunned down in the proverbial streets.

Once again, the people making the decisions are idiots.

Labor should keep the profits of its work. The owners just sit around and make bad decisions. Fuck them. They’d be lucky to walk away, if there was justice in this world.

I don’t relate to why some people need a call instead of just writing their words, but I guess that’s just how some people’s brains work. I’d almost always prefer clear written words I can refer back to.

Assuming they’ll respond in a timely manner. Some people seem to send a text message, then throw their phone out the window, and only reply again once they’ve fetched it.

Maybe we can work together with Gen z to overthrow the capitalist hell scape that has made a handful of people disgustingly rich while the world burns.