I remember trying to explain fitts law at an old job I worked at when trying to push back against their horrible interface.

Also mouse tunnels are an embarrassment, but they made so many of them. (That’s where you mouse over something to reveal a new menu, but if you mouse out of the menus they close. If the second menu is on side and longed than the first, going from the top of the first menu to the bottom of the second will probably mouse out, and close it. Rookie mistake. Management wouldn’t listen.)

YouTube and other platforms are guilty for platforming this stuff, too.

The Democrats are generally pro capitalism. They’re just, currently, less aggressively racist and sexist and stupid. They should be the right wing party. The Republicans should be in jail.

Sisko was never glorifying being dark. In the pale moonlight is a fantastic episode, but I don’t remember it glorifying the darkness.

The judicial is still separate in what I proposed, so there’s still at least two.

I don’t really think the separation of powers really holds up when they’re all elected in the same way, anyway. Not in a two-party system. We have a sort of incidental defense via staggered elections and terms, but as you can see the republicans are happy to collaborate across branches.

Now, now. It’s illegal to call for violence against the state in the US, or enough people believe it is that it might as well be.

We’re a conservative country. That means hierarchy. The people above can do what they want.

I like Star Trek because it’s optimistic. I want to see competent, emotionally mature, people solving problems by working together.

If I want to see bad apples I can look outside.

No? It’d be similar to today, except without the senate giving undue weight to low population areas, and the president doing whatever he wants. You’d probably also want to change the voting system to support ranked choice or similar, while you were waving your magic around.

In what way do you think it would be easier?

Vice president doesn’t have much power. Wouldn’t accomplish much.

Should probably get rid of the presidency and Senate, and just have a large house. Also reform the supreme court so it’s like a rotating pool of federal judges instead of lifetime corruption magnets.

Rich people have class solidarity. They’re not going to go for the throat on one of their own.

This supreme court is a farce. But my understanding of history is that that’s actually the norm.

There are people at google, people with names and addresses, who have collectively made the world incalculably shittier. I hope they get what they deserve.

Ed Zitron wrote a long post about some asshole in particular who shit it all up: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

We’re not far off from The Smith Act making a comeback. That “we’re going to arrest people who attended a meeting once” stuff is in living memory. The US has never lived up to its stated ideals.

Need more details to really make sense of this.

There are some things in games that could be parses as annoying or core, depending on what you’re looking for. Like, some people might say not being able to quick save/load is horrible, and being sent back to a checkpoint on death is bullshit. But that’s fundamental to some game loops

Once, I got a whole pizza pie from the place down the street, and ate it while hanging with my cat and playing some nice single player games.

Another time, a friend of mine surprise ordered me Indian food. Ate it while playing video games with the cat.

Different time, was cat sitting for a friend. She ordered me a pie, which I ate while playing games and chilling with the cat.

All were pretty good, really.

The why was “I’m not that close with my family, don’t want to travel, and I’m not seeing anyone who invited me”

Conservatives don’t care about truth or consistency. When they bullshit, and you get mad, it gets them off. Because what are you going to do about it? Nothing. You’re weak (in their mind).

CEOs and other managers that are like “you should do more work for me for free” are bad people who should not be allowed to lead

Like my old CEO at a startup wanted people to work nights and weekends to hit deadlines. I’m like, if we make it big you get rich and I get the same salary. That’s a horrible deal for me. Give me a lot of equity and we’ll talk.

• gym teacher manager. Not great at the math and science parts, but believes in his team
• checked out youth. Watches YouTube instead of working.
• checked out elder. He’s so close to retiring. He’s got stories to tell from before HR was all formalized
• checked out middle career guy. He wanted to fix things. Then he fell into the tar pit. Why bother when a ten minute fix is going to take two research spikes, a stakeholder meeting, a team meeting, a feedback meeting, a sprint planning meeting and so on. Fuck it.
• day care HR. Do they work? Who knows. They seem nice, when you can find them.
• quiet union sympathizer. Got a “talking to” about it, so now he just shit talks management in back channels. Joins meetings smoking from his back porch. Knows where some bodies are buried.

I work at a bad place.

Current system is bad. Capitalism sends profits to people who don’t work. Piracy sidesteps a lot of that, and some people send the money saved to people who do work.

A lot of Americans have shitty, immature, views on sexuality and the human body.

I remember some coworkers and I chatting about it, and two of them both said they’d rather their kid watch a movie where someone got shot in the head than one where someone received oral sex.