Return to office mandates should be climate crimes and the people responsible should be punished appropriately. I want to see these CEO ghouls and souless VPs on the side of the road picking up trash for the rest of their damned lives.

They just want their team to win, even if it means they personally suffer.

Have you considered a book club? Locally or on Lemmy. That might be nice, though I’m not sure how to level it up from “we’re reading this” to include “and we did some critical analysis”. Also online is more vulnerable to slop, even though I don’t understand why someone would use AI to think for them in an exercise that’s entirely about thinking.

A friend of mine had a book club and was reading a book a month, but then the ring leader had a kid and it’s on hiatus.

It’s just a tribal thing for a lot of people. They’d die personally if it means the out-group suffers more.

In a 2019 interview, Goodman responded to criticisms of three cueing, saying that “word recognition is a preoccupation” and emphasizing that he places greater value on making sense of language as a whole than understanding specific words. In response to the example of children failing to distinguish between “pony” and “horse”, Goodman argued that it was irrelevant whether children understood the specific word, as “pony” and “horse” are similar concepts, and a reader failing to distinguish between them would still understand the meaning of the story as a whole.

Absolute nightmare

Some sort of online community for people to practice reading, especially critically so they practice skills like recognizing subtext, irony, themes, etc, could probably be cool

Unfortunately, the people on a text based platform like Lemmy probably have better than average reading skills. The people who need more help probably stick to video.

Also there’s a surprising amount of anti-intellectualism, sometimes, where people say things like “it’s just a story it doesn’t have any deeper meaning!”. Fundamental misunderstanding of how meaning works. (You don’t find the correct answer. You make up an answer and justify it with the text.)

Glad I upgraded mine before all this shit started. Barring disaster it should play games for years. I don’t need all the bells and whistles.

That was what the AI lovers promised. Use AI to hire fewer people. This is not surprising, except in that maybe it’s unexpected the companies using AI didn’t fail yet.

I use keepassxc. It does the job.

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Probably get more return on resources investing in therapy to address phobias, in that case.

That doesn’t sound much different than a traditional vaccine, unless you can self administer it

Oh, hard to pick! Maria was a good fight. I finished it by parrying her with the pistol, and then missed the critical attack so I just bonked her and she fell over. Still counts!

Moon presence was also pretty cool, and felt like it was a few tweaks from being Really Hard. It does that move where your health goes down to 1 and you have to rally it all back! Luckily for me the axe is good for rallying, and the boss is very generous about waiting for you. Elden Ring feels like it wouldn’t have given such a long recovery opening!

I finished it and the dlc! The orphan was tricky. I don’t think anything took more than five tries though. Hunter’s axe is MVP.

Definitely a good game. Interesting setting.

Tried a bit of a new game with the cane sword and it’s way less solid.

I don’t enjoy it. I think it’s sad when people get addicted to it.

I don’t even like big random factors in games. One of the things I like about the dark souls franchise is there’s very little randomness. You never win or lose because “lol critical hit”, like you might in something closer to D&D

Microsoft should never have been allowed to buy LinkedIn. It should be split off.

That’s an important detail. Clicking through, it says

A first date in our study means one shared starter, two main courses and two cocktails. For each restaurant, we pulled the median starter, main and cocktail price from the menu. For each city, we took the median across all fully-priced restaurants.

That’s extremely heavy for a first date. It’s a poor strategy for several reasons to go that hard the first time you’re meeting someone.

As a real cheapskate, you should keep an eye out for places give them out for free. There’s an LGBT center near me with a giant basket for free, and a free clinic a longer walk away that gives them out and also does free STI tests.

Finally got around to playing Bloodborne. It’s good, but after playing Elden Ring it seems easier than expected.

I don’t want to dox myself but my two go-to bars with cheap drinks are within walking distance of prospect Park. The second favorite’s cheap beer is like $7