That’s bad for the environment.

Probably. They could have used their wealth for anything but they’re like dragons. Do you mourn for dragons in stories of knights slaying them?

I’m reminded of how old video game Dragon Age had Justice and Vengeance as two different manifestations of the same spirit.

I don’t think we’ll see justice in our life time. Not to make up for the evils enacted by Musk and those like him. But we might see him suffer and die in terror, and that would be a delight.

the worst thing you can do is execute Elon Musk

Doing nothing would be worse

The problem is you can say it’s mass murder. I can say it’s mass murder. Maybe a dozen of our friends can agree. But we need to take the next step. Get a bunch of people together, stop laboring, and demand Musk face justice.

Maybe I should write a short story about a small cell of activists who kidnap “Musk”, live stream a trial, and then execute him.

Every day I’m disappointed that Musk and friends continue to just walk around living free.

I mostly buy music from bandcamp. Drm free, different format options, you can stream before you buy (if the band has it configured as such)

Need to account for the cruelty and insecurity of management.

Ah that’s interesting. I’m too much of a pack rat and the idea of selling some of my music makes me uncomfortable. Though I guess I have some games that were duds I wouldn’t mind selling.

buying drm-free digital media is probably also okay, if you back it up yourself.

i don’t do any subscriptions, myself.

Why not both?

The difference between honor and victory.

Also, feel like a badass when you parry bullets.

Also also, with the throw star + lunge move, you can interrupt him before he shoots.

Good times.

Also don’t forget the Inner version with his screen filling mortal draw!

If I recall, in ds3 you get embered whenever you clear a boss. Not so in DS2. You need to co-op (which is rare now that the game is old, but even when it was new soul memory complicated it), or use a hard to farm item.

I actually never used the great runes in elden ring because I never remembered they were an option. I probably would have if you started powered up and lost it. Feels much worse that way.

The mace at least is a surprisingly strong weapon.

At some point they nerfed lightning, sadly. It used to have a lot more casts

I was replaying it a bit this week and the loss of max life on death is just annoying. Like, dying to a pack of dogs because I was bold instead of cheesing it is not fun, and losing max health each time is just an insult. It clashes with the whole “keep going until you get it right” motif.

I started using bruno for lazy gui “make a request” needs.

But for anything serious python requests is right there, so I mostly used that for testing.

I’m really not sure why they don’t just hire the contractors full time, since they’re keeping them for years anyway. The staffing company is taking a cut, and that can’t be that much cheaper than just giving regular benefits.

It probably works out via cruel economics to do it this way, somehow.

There was a meme like 15 years ago that was like “I don’t know how to explain to you that you should care about other people”

Some people just … don’t. If I had a magic wand I’d just send them off to their own private pocket planes, but alas.

The place I work (a multinational company but not one you’ve probably heard of) has been hiring almost exclusively “contractors” for a while.

They hire someone to be a software developer or qualify assurance engineer or whatever, but via a third party staffing company. Then that person acts exactly like a full time employee - goes to meetings, does work, reports to a boss - except they don’t get the same benefits as full timers.

This seems like it shouldn’t be legal, but most people are too worried about losing their job to push much about it.

Most companies hiring process seems to be a mix of incompetent and malicious.

Many posts are for jobs that don’t exist or they have no intention of filling. That should be illegal.

I had a posting the other day that said python, Django, react. I actually heard back from the recruiter, but he said the job was actually for Java. He didn’t seem concerned that that’s a whole other language.

Unfortunately, they don’t really have an incentive to be better. They get so many applications that they can be inefficient and still get candidates.

They have poor media literacy and reasoning skills. If they were smart and empathetic, they probably wouldn’t be hateful.