I was originally on programming.dev, but they had a database issue that lasted for weeks where lots of content would never appear. Someone suggested .zip and it’s been great. There is monthly communication/state-of-the-server posts, and otherwise it just works.

.dev was fixed long ago and I still maintain an account there, but I am invested in .zip at this point.

Swimming.

Shame on them. I mark my career by how long it takes me to regret the code I write. When I was a junior, it was often just a month or two. As I seasoned it became maybe as long as two years. Until finally i don’t regret my code, only the exigencies that prevented me from writing better.

Shitty code has been around far longer than AI. I should know, I wrote plenty of it.

I’m 52, and I don’t think I could date a 28-year-old. I mean, sooner a 28-year-old than a fascist, but either way I wouldn’t date her. I have children older than her.

I don’t know, but I hope she quotes him.

“When questioned about his inconsistent behavior regarding Epstein, Trump responded, ‘Quiet piggy,’ his neck skin flapping back and forth like a half-mast flag of surrender.”

Local LLM was up the whole time.

Better privacy, better uptime.

The talks:

DOJ: “You want $40 million from your pal, Trump?”

Flynn: “Can we make it a round $50 million?”

DOJ: “Sign here.”

Well, I’ve never had a problem with credit cards. Maybe they handle going over your limit differently. Hell, I couldn’t even rent a car with a debit card once when I was traveling for business.

Legitimate grievances? Mostly it just means the sides have reasons for acting the way they do. Ancient feuds or acts of aggression that were never reconciled. People doing the things they have to do but it impacts another group of people negatively and the affected people don’t look at or care about the reasons, just that they are being hurt.

For point 4, pit characters’ morals against results and see what happens. Are they willing to sacrifice some for the good of many? Will they tolerate lesser evils to ward off greater ones? Things like that.

Like… say there is a fascist-type ruler who is the first line of defense against an army of orcs or undead or whatever. Do you let him get steamrolled to weaken the enemy and dispatch an evil, militant kingdom? What about the people living there?

I mean there’s no end to possibilities, it just depends on the world and story you want to tell. The only thing is, make sure it’s not completely cynical. Everyone is flawed, but that doesn’t mean everyone is bad or there aren’t good guys and bad guys. Game of Thrones is good inspiration here.

Vampire and other World of Darkness games leap immediately to mind. But I’ve done that in nearly every system I’ve run including Dungeons and Dragons.

The key components (for my style) are:

• influence on the levers of power
• legitimate grievances
• true believers and opportunists on each side
• challenge the players point of view even as they challenge the system

None of those are really system dependent. But WoD has politics baked into the setting.

They are damn good spices and put my American cooking to shame. Share your secrets to Vindaloo or GTFO.

I don’t know if there’s anything in there for you to take away, but I can relate.

You might’ve missed this part because it was kinda buried there. I’m not telling OP what to do or judging. But I related to the feeling and shared what I did.

I mean… yeah. I’m not going to hang our laundry out, dirty or otherwise, but we have plenty of conflicts and sometimes it’s good to know what is worth fighting over and what isn’t. This wasn’t.

They need to make it big enough to cover folks driving F-350’s or something. Idk how much they take. It was generally $75 about 5 years ago. They don’t do that with credit cards. Hotels are really awful about that, too.

My wife got me a bartesian for Christmas last year. It makes the worst fucking drinks I’ve ever had in my life. It takes up space in my kitchen. The drink pods are like $3 each. It takes cleaning and maintenance. I hate everything about it.

I acted happy about it. Privately seethed and ranted. I literally would rather have gotten nothing than wasted money on that. And then I tried several drinks from it before “deciding” I had fun mixing my own drinks, but I still use it for guests and for her drinks that she likes.

I think it’s god awful but I realized it made her happy and that is something I treasure. I don’t know if there’s anything in there for you to take away, but I can relate. Sometimes we just put on a happy face and let our loved ones enjoy giving us something.

Fuck all of that. It’s nice to have cash as an option but I’d not do much where it was required because I’d have to run to an ATM to get cash just for that thing, and few things are worth that extra effort for me. And then I’d have to keep track of that cash, which means I’d just foist it onto the next homeless person I see.

Guess I’m not really making a good case against lol.

Not true. Over 50% of our population lives in suburbs and small cities.

I know I’m certainly part of the problem. But it’s a chicken and egg problem. You have to make people want to change while the change will be inconvenient short term. I don’t know how that happens, other than very slowly over time.

Most of us don’t want to live in cities or put our mobility in the hands of others. People who want it for everyone are primarily city folks who are used to that lifestyle. Those ideas are less popular with the people who would be most affected.

I know eventually the world will go that way and it’ll be a good thing, but I’m also glad I won’t live to see it because I have no desire whatsoever to live that way. The change will be generational. If folks try to impose it, there is going to be a lot of resistance and pushback. You have to get folks to want it.