This is the best answer.

The receptionist really doesn’t care. You’re one of dozens of people they see every day. They’re not going to remember or care if you ask for help.

It’s hard to make a full judgment without knowing more details but “the pay is good and it’s easy” isn’t really a compelling justification for “and I help evil manifest in the world”.

I also commented there by accident once because I didn’t read the community name. They politely asked me to refrain from doing so. I was embarrassed, and have been more careful.

Apparently for some people this is unacceptable.

I knew a guy who went to work for palantir a bunch of years ago. Was always friendly at work. I asked him “but what’re you going to do if they do bad stuff, like spying on people?”

He just shrugged. Didn’t care. The money was good.

I don’t know if this alone is proof that’s a bad person, but I think it precludes him from being a good one.

There are several problems.

One. Wotc are seeking players who aren’t paying attention and have no head for rules. They don’t want complexity.

Two, it’s bad to make one class have a ton of complexity while others stay at “I move and attack”, and they really don’t seem to want to give other classes more complex options.

DND isn’t designed well. It’s the Harry Potter of RPGs. Also the JavaScript.

I saw batboy in Brooklyn and it was a great show.

I don’t see a reason not to teach more about personal finance. How interest works. Consequences for missing payments. I knew a guy that when he was 18 just maxed out several credit cards to buy fun stuff. He got out of that hole eventually, but it was a rough couple years.

I think there’s an underlying problem that I don’t know if you can just teach people, but I think people need to be better at delayed gratification and thinking about consequences. Like that old friend of mine, even if he knew that the credit card debt was going to be more expensive long term, he wanted the tv and stereo now. I don’t know if you can teach that.

And, even if you could, it’s fucked up that people who are poor through little fault of their own are told to just live with less, while people born into wealth can squander it.

So, at the end of this tangent, we should have mechanisms so the floor is high enough people can still have a decent life, and the ceiling is low enough that no one has four mansions.

My leading theory is there are many, many, people who are semi literate and don’t realize. They think reading is just kind of uncomfortable and slow, and don’t understand why anyone else would. Maybe they’re reading each word out loud in their head, sounding some of them out. You wouldn’t find a lot of people like that on a text based platform like this.

But for someone like that, an AI summary or video is probably a relief.

I took some dubious online reading speed tests the other day and it said like 350wpm, but the average is like half that.

Personally, I think the solution would be to invest in education, but there’s no quarterly money in public good.

With a 9 prefix for organic!

Given the amount of people saying they don’t want a stranger engaging with them in this thread, and the op describing it as liberating, you may be in the minority.

And it’s not apathy really. It’s more like… respect. If someone asks for help, that’s different than just barging into their space.

The stagnating wages and fraying social bonds are problems, though.

There was someone a while ago who was trying to get a web ring going for like nerd stuff. They said so many of their friends and people they talked to loved the idea, but no one made a site of their own.

I posted it in a local community group, and everyone said the same thing.

This is infuriating and I don’t know what to do about it.

In my experience in New York City, people will generally ignore you, except (usually) when there’s a real emergency.

Someone crying? No big deal. Let them cry.

Saw a lady trip and fall down the stairs in the subway, and a bunch of people ran over to help her and return the stuff she dropped.

Yep. Infrastructure shouldn’t be privately owned.

Yes that is the legal justification. I am not interested in the legal justification. Laws are not inherently good. They were clearly paid less than their worth if there’s six figure payouts to be had here.

This is the fundamental injustice of capitalism. The owner pays you a small amount and keeps all the profits. A child would recognize that as unfair.

This matches my intuition. I extremely rarely do any city driving (I don’t even own a car anymore) but like… You’re not going to go that much faster. You’re probably not driving very far. The total amount of time can’t be that big.

This feels like theft. Maybe not technically legally but the people who did the chatting aren’t getting the money. Capitalist hellscape

I feel like the penalty for wage theft should be extra severe to make up for how rarely it’s reported. Like, complete forfeit of the business to the workers, leadership banned from holding a similar position for life. Then if you only nail one, the others might learn a lesson.

If we could channel their cognitive dissonance to turn turbines, we’d solve the energy crisis.

At work, the team isn’t very good at python. They’re mostly SQL people. Which is fine. I’m happy to mentor and guide.

The product lady said to me “can you write a guide on confluence about how to do python good?”

I’m like, people write whole published books about that you gotta pay money for. I’m not going to bang out a couple paragraphs and code blocks and suddenly people are heavy weights.

I wrote something anyway because I don’t want to further irritate the product lady.