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jjjalljs

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  • 58 UK public libraries have parenting books with advice to encourage children to detransition

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  • On the one hand, you don't really want to give people the power to decide what books are available. Assholes would use that to remove queer books, for example.

    On the other hand, that power is already implicitly in place. There's finite space in a library, so they must choose a subset of all possible books. I'd want to know how the existing processes work before suggesting changes.

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    Group Dynamics

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  • Reminds me of a long road trip I took in my youth. After a couple days we were basically speaking in in-jokes

  • We've all met this DM

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  • This joke is why I will say to DMs getting railroad-y, "are you sure you wouldn't rather write a book?"

  • Geoguessr, but actually fun

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  • Interesting. The inability to pan and walk around makes it very different. I liked "walking" around in geoguesser until I found a landmark or something, but I never played competitively or obsessively.

  • 10+ year manager named Joe was apparently fired for bringing cookies to be thrown away before their sell by date to a food pantry in my town

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  • I worked in a grocery store that had a little pizza making section. End of the day they'd throw out a lot of pizza. Management absolutely did not want employees to grab some at the end of the day.

    Well, I was friends with the guy who worked there so he'd "throw it out" into my possession. I had a lot of free pizza back then.

    Nowadays there's an app "too good to go" where you can get cheap food at the end of the day from places. Not as good as free, but like four slices of pizza for $5 isn't bad.

  • The City of Chicago will allow residents to issue parking tickets

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  • On the one hand, fuck the police and all that.

    On the other, I want people who park in the bike lane to suffer

  • It's a good thing we named most of the dinosaurs like a hundred years ago

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  • I'm ready for that style of language to be passé. But probably the next slang will also be unpleasant.

  • Do you like working from home? Yes or no, gimme some reasons.

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  • As others have said, working from home has many benefits

    • no commute
      • save time
      • save money
      • less risk of disease and accident
      • often easier child care options
    • greater control over environment
      • offices are often too hot or cold for some
      • stock own food, drinks, toilet paper, etc
    • better pet access. Cat on lap. Dog walk easier.
    • easier wardrobe
    • several distraction categories removed
      • people walking up to your desk
      • loud meetings

    The commute alone is pretty big. If your commute is like an hour, that's changing your salary from like $x / 10 hours to $x / 8 hours. That's a big bump. If your daily pay was $1000, that's like going from $100/hour to $125/hour.

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  • No disagreement here.

    I realized when reading one of the other comments that my similarly sized complaint is it creates a lot of potential for problems at the game level as well as narrative when people make their characters in isolation. I kind of assumed that comes packaged with "and you all meet in a tavern".

    Like, everyone makes a fighter and shows up to session 1. The dm's going to have a head scratcher thinking about balance, and some players might be annoyed they don't really have a niche of their own. A weird party like that can work, but it'll be a happier experience if folks talk about it ahead of time.

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  • It can work, as clearly shown by your rather wholesome example and many people's games. But it's also leaving a very large surface area for problems. Unlike real life, you can just avoid that by making your characters together.

    Maybe I should have said in my previous thread that while the "you all meet for the first time" is kind of cliché, there are more serious problems at the game level. And like it can work if everyone makes a fighter, but you can also make everyone's lives easier if you discuss up front.

  • Rightwing critics blame Mamdani as New York snow fails to melt

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  • They don't care about the snow. They care about getting people mad at their enemy. The post, and conservatives more generally, are bad,. dishonest, people.

  • Trump abolishes the Second Amendment

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  • Conservatism is exclusively about in-group. Everything else is a post-hoc justification. They're just less, I don't know, morally developed. Like children.

  • We mourn our craft

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  • So as a senior, you could abstain. But then your junior colleagues will eventually code circles around you, because they’re wearing bazooka-powered jetpacks and you’re still riding around on a fixie bike

    Lol this works in a way the author probably didn't intend. They are wearing extremely dangerous tools that were never really a great idea. They'll code some circles, set their legs on fire, and crash into a wall.

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  • I think the best game I've done started as "it's a DND world and you're a band on tour".

    It started with a simple "the bridge is out on the way to your next show", then there was a battle of the bands, a sketchy record label, and then the players organized a recall of the mayor that was in bed with the capitalists. That game went great places.

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  • Yeah I don't think I would happily play another "and then you all meet for the first time and work together" game unless it was like intentionally subverting the trope. It adds so many problems and suspension of disbelief problems.

  • What are your thoughts on apolitical people?

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  • Not good.

    They could be ignorant and not understand how politics affects pretty much everything.

    They could be foolishly cynical and think that "none of it matters", so they just don't pay attention.

    They could be like pathologically avoidant and don't want to talk about a potentially disharmonious topic.

    They could have shitty views they don't want to talk about.

    Not good. Not good people.

  • To Make New York City More Affordable, Extend the Subway

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  • It's not as bad as it used to be.

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    March for Billionaires — San Francisco, Feb 7

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  • Not sure if the person who made this site is joking, stupid, or evil. Or some combination

  • Walking is canceled

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  • Racism and capitalism, mostly.

    Those things lead to poor education for the public, which makes all subsequent decisions stupider.

    Then, the stupid people try to make as much short term money as possible for themselves.

    Simultaneously, anything that benefits the minorities (eg: black folks) is disliked. Mass transit, for example.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Linux on a 2014 macbook air?

  • Guild Wars 2 @lemmy.wtf
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    how do people feel about spears?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    What's up with memes suffixed with "rule"?