Notices by GuerillaGrue (guerillagrue@hachyderm.io)

I don't want much out of life.

Food in the fridge.

Power.

Internet access.

The ability to go a week without facing existential dread because a vocal minority of the world population would rather see anyone who doesn't think exactly like them dead rather than just accept that folks can be different and that's okay.

Simple stuff.

....

Also, I'd like to pet an alpaca one day.

GUILTY ON 34 CHARGES.

Now let's see if there's actually a punishment attached to this. They could always just slap him with a fine and house arrest, in which case none of this mattered anyway beyond a moral victory... and let's be honest, his supporters gave up any concern about morals a long, long time ago.

@sashag

Same!

Nothing annoys me more than when people insist that competition is always beneficial or, worse yet, EVER necessary.

@sashag

Most businesses (in my experience) hate competition when it comes to the business itself, but love it when it comes to their employees, mostly because they always see that competition as a way to squeeze more out of their workers while short-changing them at every opportunity.

Then again, going down THAT rabbit hole will lead to a whole socioeconomic discussion I am entirely too short on spoons to handle right now, since it's 3 AM and I should be in bed :)

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I understand why companies do this. They consider the competition inherent in such social comparisons to be beneficial to their "engagement."

Sure, okay. Whatever.

That doesn't make that competitive or comparative drive in all your users *healthy* though, for either the users themselves, or for your service.

"Game-ify"-ing things often has the same negative impact as any other "engagement" incentive: it takes something someone should like doing and makes it a job, not a joy.

Fudge that.

I know this is going to be an opinion that a lot of people disagree with, but hear me out:

If you're going to "game-ify" your service... make it optional.

I'm not talking "you can just ignore it" optional. I'm not talking "just don't take it seriously" optional.

No. Let me disable it.

I want to use DuoLingo and NOT know what my ranking is or who my stuff is being compared to or what my score is? Let me.

I want to disable achievements on my Xbox or Steam? Let me.

It's not that hard.

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@thomasfuchs I mean... I'ma be honest, there ain't a day goes by I didn't wish there weren't still a market for cases designed to sit *under* the monitor, even nowadays. Thin as monitors are, most of 'em still have a base broad enough to justify at least an ITX if not full MATX motherboard's footprint, and with just a little bit of horizontal design that could easily translate into a powerful under-the-monitor system.

Instead, that's where we put sound bars now?

Why not both?

*shrug*

I'm sorry, but when I see someone in a repressed/marginalized community adopting the language of their oppressors in order to use the same kinds of rhetoric against other repressed/marginalized groups it always makes me itch.

"SOME of group X aren't shitheels" doesn't cancel out "SOME of group X are really huge shitheels," because the overall implication of what you're saying is that the majority of group X are somewhere on the shitheel spectrum.

Keeping the quiet part quiet doesn't erase it.

@lowqualityfacts

I mean, counterpoint to your counterpoint: I follow you because you post stuff that is often legitimately funny and irreverent.

When I think of "shitposting," I think of the assholes who jump in and "pretend" (or claim to be pretending) to be racists, misogynists or homophobes because they think it's funny making other folks upset. Likewise, the folks ostensibly on the left who bait right-wingers just to make them angry rather than to actually change things.

Fun ain't shit.