Tabletop RPGs. I’m sick of DND. Hard to find good groups for other games. There’s a meetup I go to every once in a while but I want a regular group building a big story together

The whole venture capitalism thing is bullshit. It’s just vibes and rich man hubris.

Is this happening on android, too?

Not in any way I can discern! She’s in the planning meetings but her entire role seems to be sharing her screen so people can tell her what to click on. (This is excruciating to witness. It is so slow.)

Sometimes she’ll say “remember to check your capacity!”, but two other people on the team say that too.

She seems to be entirely non-technical, too, so she doesn’t have much input on any of the discussion. The inter-team stuff is handled by two other people. (A lady of importance whose title I don’t know, and some sort of business analyst)

Maybe shame and embarrassment would work, but the kind of people who drive this kind of car are probably anti-social assholes who don’t care about other people very much.

But these people get off on being jerks. There’s something wrong with their brain so empathy doesn’t work right.

The place I work at I wouldn’t say is “over staffed” but it is maybe “wrong-staffed”.

They have a full time “scrum master” and from what I can tell all she does it share her screen so people can awkwardly tell her which tickets to click on, and she calls on people in order during the morning meeting. That’s a whole-ass job. Meanwhile, devops is like crying blood because there’s like 2 of them managing decades of systems, and no senior engineering roles have been backfilled after people left for years.

That doesn’t sound so bad

Fuck cars. Fuck big private tech.

If fines scaled with wealth that might create an incentive for the police to harass rich people instead of poor people. It won’t, because the police serve the wealthy, but it’s a nice day fantasy.

I’m so tired of every job posting frothing at the mouth over AI. “We’re ai native” , “we want employees who are excited about ai tools”, “agenic workflows”

Just fuck off.

Even if all of this stuff was a real productivity increase, who is keeping that extra production? Not the workers!

I see a lot of ads for ai slop on the subway and I refuse to engage with them. I don’t look them up. Fuck 'em.

Sometimes people vandalize them and if I saw someone doing so, I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Another way I’m a little insufferable but like… yeah the pandemic and quarantine sucked, but I read a lot of books, played a lot of video games, had a great online DND game.

Some people just seem so helpless and inept. They’d be like “I just need to see other people” and I’m like please develop some discipline.

Cars (well, the car-first infrastructure in most of the US) is already a pretty effective forment nexus.

Cool. Fuck cars. Take transit in NYC.

They could pay people to check, but it’s more important that they spend billions on slop and executive bonus.

Fuck Spotify. I’ll buy albums (drm free, mostly from Bandcamp), pirate, or go without.

Today is bandcamp Friday, too. Bandcamp passes their cut on to the band.

Sometimes I make a conscious effort to think about what I would say to someone else in my situation. It’s helpful.

I miss my pandemic D&D¹ group. It was an 18 year old that just finished high school, two people in their mid 20s in grad school, me in my mid 30s, and one person in their mid 40s. Every once in a while we’d get some interesting generation-gap moments.

¹ I don’t even like D&D specifically, but that group really made it work.

Once again I am reminded of an old coworker. He’d talk a good game about caring about things, but when it came to the slightest inconvenience he’d dither and usually just do the basic thing. Still an avid reddit user, last I heard.

People are lazy and don’t think very much. Spotify is right there.

Also enshittification: it was better to draw people in, and then they made it shittier and people stay