jtrek

Most of the people don’t want to be convinced. They come adamant that they won’t change their opinion

I link this comic a lot but I think it's often relevant: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe

Basically, people don't believe things or accept facts that conflict with their emotions.

I don't know. A coworker years ago said to me "you have to make what you want people to do the easy thing", and I think he was right. But someone still has to do work. Back then, it was me changing the deploy script to automatically run tests and open the report so people had to go out of their way to skip all that.

I'm not sure what that looks like for the fediverse. Linking them directly? Some sort of "sign up with Google" SSO mechanism? Just make the account for your friend and give it to them?

Ideally we'd go up one level and address why people are so mentally depleted they can't handle a sign up form.

I've been using Linux with Nvidia for a few years now without any problems. I don't play the most cutting edge stuff at high resolution, but like path of exile 2, elden ring, expedition 33 all ran just fine.

Yeah, that could be some of it. We can't all be perfect all the time. It's impossible.

I'd appreciate more honest appraisals, though. "I know Twitter is garbage run by a Nazi, but I got linked to it and scrolled a bit" is far better than "well other people are worse so who cares". There's this childish whataboutism that a lot of people bring out to justify their poor behavior.

People don't really care about anything other than convenience. Twitter could be grinding up puppies live on camera and most people would just shrug and be like "well the good memes are here".

Personally I think that's downstream from how we're all too polite about shit like this. We just smile and change the topic instead of doing the intensely uncomfortable "You really shouldn't use twitter" conversation. But also we're all too... childish, I guess, because most people if someone says that will not respond with "You make a good point and I will change in accordance," but rather with "Fuck you for saying things that make me feel bad. You suck. I'm not listening to anything you say."

So I guess we're fucked because people are immature, fragile, little shits.

trying to shame people into switching without taking into account these environmental variables just makes you a prick.

You're right about how shame doesn't work. It's an enduring peeve of mine that you have to butter people up and manage their emotions to get them to do anything. It just feels like everyone's a toddler that needs a shiny sticker so they won't poison themselves. You'll be like "smoking is bad for you and everyone around you" and they'll be like "fuck you I'm going to smoke more now".

However, in this case the person said they had viable transit. It was just ten minutes slower.

You are making the world worse by driving when other options are available.

You then responded to this claim by changing the topic to how billionaires are making the world worse. That's a whole other topic. That's probably a deflection to preserve your sense of self as a good person.

If you truly believe "other people are worse so I'm allowed to be bad too" then go ahead and say it. I don't think that's a great moral framework, but it would require you to admit that your unnecessary driving is in fact bad, so I'd take that as a win.

Because my driving to work in my car is somehow so much worse on our entire world compared to what billionaires are doing

That wasn't the claim. My point was that driving makes the world worse. The presence of other people making the world worse to greater degrees or at greater speed is irrelevant.

You're arguing against a made up claim, probably to justify feeling attacked. Your ego is threatened. It's common for people to lash out when their sense of being a Good Person is threatened.

As discussed at length in last week's planning meeting, we agreed to continue using isort at this time. Here is the decision document to review: {confluence link}. If you would like to relitigate the issue, which I would not recommend, please add it to the tech planning meeting agenda.

(More seriously, I started using ruff and have no complaints about it.)

I agree, play the class how you want, it’s one of the major appeals of the game

I remember the first time I encountered systems that aren't strict class + level, and realizing I had so much more freedom to make the ideas I had. D&D (and close relatives) are surprisingly anti-creative.

I think all of my shirts either have no logo, or have a logo for something i like and want to talk about (eg: a band, a local attraction).

I wouldn't want to advertise some soulless megacorp like adidas