Windows is pretty bad. Microsoft should be split up. If I had the magic powers, its leadership would be stripped of wealth, barred from holding similar positions for life, and have their faces on some sort of wall of shame. Everyone is allowed to throw trash at them, and they have to pick it up.

Yep. Place I'm at is in some sort of "hiring freeze". They're not replacing people who left. They also told the many (probably not strictly legal) contractors that they won't be renewing them. It's absurd.

It's not hard to eat less meat and animal products. You don't have to be perfect. You don't have to go to zero overnight.

Some people are emotionally invested in meat, and I can't understand that. Especially if they just buy it at the supermarket.

Most people want to think they're good people, and anything that suggests otherwise will get an irrational, emotional, response back. It's annoying that you have to like coddle and massage people, but that's how people are.

I want to say that everyone hates that kind of purple job prose, but I suspect there's some small minority of people who actually think and talk like that.

I kind of want to build a LinkedIn but you're only allowed to talk like a real person. If you post slop or whatever that kind of shit is, you're banned and we all pledge not to work with you.

What I was trying to get at is something can be worthwhile even if you don't personally enjoy it.

Conservatism, probably. The whole in-group supremacy thing is pretty bad.

I think a lot about how "good" and "fun" are two different things.

You can have a game that's a fascinating exploration of a theme that really unifies mechanics and story, but is an absolute downer of misery to play.

You can also have a game that's a glorified slot machine with bugs, no real player input, and abusive monetization, but people's brains light up playing it.

There's some subjectivity of course, but sometimes I see games that are good at what they're trying to be, but I don't have any fun with them. Some people seem to demand those overlap all the time.

We need less consolidation, not more. Fuck this.

Hahaha! They don't write tests. They are unfamiliar with the concept of unit testing.

I had to explain to them the concept of "you import your function and call it with different arguments to make sure it returns what you expect". It took a couple tries.

Meanwhile, the head of the "quality" team keeps telling me that I should stay in my lane and not tell the developers how to do their work.

I found Lemmy world kind of basic/conservative. Not like far-right, but more passive "don't say anything too mean about the power structures that hurt you". Just an impression, no real data to back it up.

I've known plenty of polyamorous people, many of which have otherwise unremarkable, happy, lives.

There's always people ready to shit on it online.

"I could never do that". Ok. So don't.

"I'm too jealous". That's a character flaw. Maybe work on that.

"I knew a couple that tried it and broke up". Many people break up for many reasons.

"It's cheating". Cheating is breaking agreed upon rules. If the people involved say it is not, then it is not.

"It's confusing for kids". No it's not. Kids are very adaptable.

DND is a weird mix of too many rules and not enough rules.