I feel like some people are really, unhealthily, conflict avoidant. Like the customer may have been told they could speak up, but were too irrationally scared to do so. That sucks. Sometimes it’s hard to work on ourselves.

Kind of reminds me of the “ask vs guess culture” thing.

Leaving a negative review is uncalled for, regardless

I definitely learned from the experience. Specifically, be explicit about what tone and such we’re going for, and be firm if someone is going off in some other direction.

In her defense, she’d played little to nothing before.

I think, generally, a lot of people have poor literacy and analysis skills. Like, they might know how to read the words but pulling any deeper meaning out is a reach. I’ve seen too many people that think stories are just stories, and or they have secret meaning for you to find like a puzzle with one or two “correct” answers.

So I think a lot of people read Lovecraft and latch onto “oh yeah squid monster cool”, very literal, and don’t really think about what this post is about. Kind of a shame.

There was a book for an RPG I liked that talked about horror. It said something like yeah monsters with tentacles can be scary but also that’s very mundane, really. You can see and understand that, and probably shoot it. But horror can come in other forms. Like, how would you fight an enemy that is a song?

This came up in the thread last night. Why would you dynamically load content that, practically, never changes?

I would not be surprised if some 20 year old “vibe coder” touched it, since they don’t know shit about computers they made bad choices.

In the romulan disruptor kind of way?

If I was going to answer from the hip I’d probably say something something similar. Taking “virtuous” to mean “good”. Virtuous then to me means something like “benefitting without harming others, or minimizing unavoidable harm”

Typically I’d say riding a bike to your friend’s place is more virtuous than taking a car. Not because it’s harder, but because taking a car has many harms. Burning non renewable fuel and other pollution, encouraging a car-first culture, taking up extra space, extra wear on infrastructure, etc.

Picking up litter I think is virtuous. Making the area nicer. It’s not less virtuous to do it with a broom than your bare hands.

Maybe virtuous also can include “taking on hardship so other’s don’t have to”. Cleaning up litter. Letting someone else sit down on the subway. That kind of stuff. Those aren’t virtuous acts because they’re hard. They’re virtuous because they help people. It would be hard to put a bunch of painted pumpkins on the street, but that’s not benefitting anyone, so I wouldn’t say it’s virtuous.

Virtue is probably detracted if you’re doing it for gain. If I’m getting paid to pick up litter, it’s less impressive.

Anyway. Writing this on my phone while walking. Kind of a rambling answer, but hopefully it supports my position of “it’s not difficulty alone that elevates an act to virtuous”

It can be useful to do things the hard way. But to clarify, my position isn’t “never do things the hard way”. I was only saying that the hard way is not in all cases virtuous. There’s no innate virtue in difficulty.

Based on his social media presence, it is evident that Watkins was a passionate hunter who believed wildlife conservation was crucial. His profile displays him posing with various trophies he’d acquired through the years, including mountain lion and multiple deer.

Double think, or unintuitive definition of conservation

Asher was fatally injured in a sudden and unprovoked attack by an unwounded buffalo. He was tracking it together with one of our professional hunters and one of our trackers

Unprovoked? Seems like they were planning to kill it.

I’m not sure. I said in another comment in here that maybe having the public vote on districts would make it harder to pull off. Like, if the entire state needs to look at the map and say “That looks fair”, maybe it’ll be hard to make those paint splatter ones.

There’s no reason to believe trump would do anything good. The republican party is just full of bad ideas. What kind of false reality are these people living in?

For many people, in-group is the only thing that matters.

There are no good republicans, but there are some exceptionally nasty ones.

That’s not inherently “virtuous”.

I don’t think we have a shared definition of virtuous, but I think it often depends on context. Taking longer to do something such that a deadline is missed and people suffer isn’t desirable.

I don’t think “the hard way is more virtuous” is defensible without adding so many exceptions and clarifications it’s not saying anything at all.

Cool. How walkable and transit-able is Denver?

I will say, doing things the hard way is virtuous.

This is not true in all cases. If you want to go from New York to Maine, traveling South until you loop around and come to Maine from the north isn’t somehow more virtuous.

I remember once in college buying condoms when the cashier was my (woman) friend’s mom. I’m pretty sure she thought I was fucking her daughter, since we hung out a lot, but I wasn’t and had no interest. Still got a stink eye.

Someone should stop this

I wonder if “I know it when I see it” would be good enough if it had to pass a public vote. Do you think the regular people on the street would vote to support gerrymandering? Getting good voter turnout and education is its own set of problems, admittedly.

Do you immediately close the text app after sending the message? In the scenario I described, I’d see the “they are typing” indicator and then wait for their message.

Gerrymandering should be a crime and conviction should mean removal from office and a life long ban on working in politics.

Now we just need a way to do that that isn’t vigilante violence.

It is kind of frustrating how every system needs to resist people (usually conservatives) from acting in bad faith.