I don’t know how to grade myself on clarity of communication, but I’ll share some things I think have helped.

Avoid long sentences. Many people don’t read well, and even those that do will get lost in a long block of text.

Read back what you wrote out loud.

Do not neglect the emotional front. Conversations and convincing are about emotions more than facts. Acknowledge their position. Make them feel heard.

Read more. Read a variety of things. Op-eds in newspapers. Books of various genres. Old stuff. New stuff. Feed your brain more than word junk food.

Ask questions. Sincere questions. Don’t try to trick them. People are usually happy to talk about themselves and their beliefs. Use this to find common ground and shared experience.

It seems like their calculations always return high prices. I can’t think of any service that has had the price drop significantly.

People are social creatures. They follow peer pressure. If you want to make the world better, one of the ways is to spend the effort to be better, to work on being kind with other people.

I had two different work friends, years ago. Both of them had low to mid grade homophobia. They’d say things. But after a couple years of me working on them, they stopped.

Was it worth it? Maybe. It was harder than just writing them off, but I like to think as a result of my spending the time with them, they hurt people less.

Pc.

• more utility than just games. Code, write, etc.
• a backlog of games going back like 40 years
• will still be usable and with new content for years. A PC today will probably be able to play some hot new indie games in 15 years.
• no subscription fee for online play, generally
• more free games
• many games are cheaper
• broader range of input choices
• emulators and the high seas, if that’s your thing

Why would they lower costs when they can just not do that?

Having these self driven cars run by private profit driven companies seems like a bad idea. Infrastructure, which this is trying to be, should not be private.

Why would you use another privately owned platform that’s likely to enshittify?

Cool. Been on Linux for a couple years. No real complaints. No tinkering. It just works and is a boring-ass plasma kde desktop environment.

Reddit could have just continued on a place with good user generated content. Could’ve been profitable and popular. Instead they shitted it up. So fuck it. I hope their leadership suffers.

Fuck. Fuck all this AI slop.

Google is run by assholes and fools. They should be broken apart.

Went a couple months without much beyond form letter “we have decided to move forward with candidates who better align with our needs” rejections. Got one internal apply going now for the sad mega Corp I’m at (but a better team, I’m told), and one referral got a call back.

I think referrals are still the way to go. Sadly even that only goes so far.

Maybe I should try it again. I like the idea of the three action economy and teamwork from what I’ve read of pf2e. The mod didn’t have all the normal tutorial stuff, if I recall.

Does it do initiative the same way as 5e? Because that sounds like it would make teamwork annoying. “I need you to distract them, but you rolled low on iniative and I can’t just like wait for you to do it”

It didn’t just happen like the stars moving overhead. People with names and bones did it.

I have to admit I was wrong - a shit-load of google docs are also visible on search. I wasn’t aware it works this way. That’s really bad. I found so many people’s resumes!

Does it say they posted it on the Internet?

Google Docs has a “anyone with a link” sharing option. I would not expect setting that and texting my friend the link to result in the document contents being indexed for searches.

I would not assume “anyone with a link” includes people who do not have the link.

It’s funny because people who have never been to New Jersey aside from like an airport or maybe the Secaucus train station will shit on it. Meanwhile, they’re from like bottom-of-the-barrel Mississippi or something.

I dunno, I’ve always felt negatively about, like, unoriginal things people just repeat to feel like part of the group.

I was just playing the old genesis Shadowrun (an old favorite of mine) and had a dark laugh at how the DocWagon you get, where they pull you out of wherever, treat you, and drop you off outside the hospital has a maximum fee of 5000. The default is just 10% of your money.

That’s better than the US for a lot of people.

Unfortunately, the idea of “then we go into the board room and execute all those assholes” has a certain emotional appeal that’s absent from “we’ll boycott, vote, run better candidates”.

More active resistance like strikes or blocking production are a little more poetic, but tend to draw violence