I remember in college sort of independently coming up with the idea (there’d be a large pool of representatives, to make bribery harder. And I think we had an idea of like some of them their votes secretly won’t count at the end, so your bribe might not even count)

Then one of my friends linked me to the wiki page and I was like “oh”

Rich people don’t want to give anything up.

Assholes don’t want their out-group to have anything nice. Even if it means they suffer.

Many people don’t know shit about fuck, and they’re just trying to get through the week.

The dark urge, as a warlock. Shit. Could be worse.

(Side note: I keep starting and abandoning Baldur’s gate 3 because I really do not enjoy DND as a rule system.)

My dad used to rant about how government should be run like a business,

Anyone who sincerely believes that is too fucking ignorant and or stupid to be taken seriously. They’re a hazard to themselves and their polity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_3%3A16

In the King James Version, this is translated as:

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

I don’t understand what he wants the pedestrian to do. Not cross at all? Wait until there’s no traffic?

Management are assholes and idiots.

Nothing will get better without demands. People need to organize.

But if I’ve learned anything from history, it’s that the ownership class would rather murder all of their employees than give a few dollars more a day.

Right? I often like being around people. I don’t want to do it in the fucking office

Honestly, many conservatives have such bad empathy this might move the needle. If it’s not happening to them, they don’t understand

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro-masculinity

Weak shitty men know on some level they’re weak shitty men. They lash out and desperately cling to toys to prop up their failing ego.

Happily on linux for a while now. No problems. kde desktop looks almost the same as windows, anyway. Fuss with it less than windows.

My current partner I got to try FromSoft games. Sekiro did not go well for them.

I’m mostly the same.

I often think about one time a friend invited me to play “DND”. I get there and it’s revealed it’s not DND, but a different RPG. I was like “ok hold on…” and spent like 20 minutes skimming the book while we all ate pizza and settled down.

By the time we started I knew the rules as well as everyone else, which was admittedly a low bar.

The authors are (typically) trying to write the rules in a way for you to understand. It’s not a puzzle.

Of course, being familiar with the genre helps immensely.

One friend sort of explained it to me. It’s anxiety. They were afraid they weren’t learning fast enough, or were playing badly, or other people were judging them. Fear shuts down the brain. You’re explaining to them, “You can take three actions on your turn” but they’re not hearing you - they only hear anxiety-fear-screams

Every time this happens, it’s worse the next time. It’s one more example of “humiliation” on the stack. Even if no one else thought there was anything amiss.

Anyone who seriously advocates for abstinence only education is not qualified to speak on policy. That’s it.

We really need to do something so we have fewer scumbags and fools running our government.

These ice goons are lucky all they’re getting is mild push back.

Whenever a chat bot is aggressively presented on a website, I like to ask it how to disable all AI features. Often it will tell me to click on menu options that don’t exist.

Buying drm free music is a good long term plan. You build a library you can share with friends and family.

Reminds me of the olde classic video “Happy Souls” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kr7KDCsIws

I played the whole franchise with a friend and had a blast.

Right. Conservatism is about hierarchy. Hierarchy is good and natural. You get shit on by your betters, and you get to shit on your lessers. Trying to change that is horrifying. It’s going to mess up the world! And if hierarchy isn’t good and natural, then all the suffering I experienced was unjust, and all the cruelty I inflicted was mere cruelty. Can’t have that. I’m a good person who deserves my lot in life. Even if it’s not royalty. There have to be royals.

It’s a shit world view built on cruelty and cowardice.