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  • If I was going to make something like this, it would have to incorporate trust chains. I don’t care if some maga-hat says this lady is horrible. I care if my good friend Alex says she’s horrible. One person’s “this person won’t shut up about communism” is a big red flag (no pun intended) but for someone else that’s the dream.

    When you sign up, you’d need to be referred to someone or be a root node. Anyone connected to you can be weighted differently. If some section of the tree is misbehaving, prune it.

    But that’s a lot of work


  • I’ve lived here for almost two decades and I’ve almost never had a problem with bikes.

    I did once see a driver make a right turn and hit a delivery bike kid, drag him for a few feet, and then speed off. Luckily, teenagers I guess are indestructible and the kid got up and rode away after a few minutes.

    If you want better bike and pedestrian safety, the solution is probably build better bike lanes. There are a lot of spots with nothing, or a painted suggestion. There’s a spot near prospect park where they expect the bicyclist to turn right, pass through a lane of traffic, and then just hang out in the center lane with all the cars. It’s a nightmare.



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    I don’t understand why people are making plans they don’t want to do. I see this kind of thing all the time and I don’t get it at all. I like doing stuff. That’s why I agreed to do it. I got invited to something I didn’t want to do this weekend, and I said no thanks. Just sitting at home scrolling the internet or playing a video game is fine, but it’s way less rewarding than doing stuff with other people.

    Maybe the internet just selects more for introverts and sad people?








  • And issues with communication are made worse when everything is pushed to text where nuance is lost and everything is archived which can be used against you.

    There’s some truth to this, but also video chat is commonplace now. That can be recorded too, but so can anything. Some of my coworkers started using Signal for out of band communication even though zoom/slack said they didn’t retain any recordings.

    If they can’t work remotely, they should be leveled up. Stop dragging everyone else down.

    And again, if you can only communicate in person you’re probably bad at communicating in person, too, without realizing it. I think a lot of CEO types think they’re amazing because they walk into a room and everyone’s like “yeah boss got it that’s great feedback”, and they don’t realize they just said a bunch of garbage and people just agreed because he’s the boss.




  • I really dislike that a handful of people who can’t get their shit together to communicate over zoom are dragging everyone else (and the environment) down.

    I’d also wager that some of those people also communicate badly in person, but at least do communication shaped activities so it gets a pass.

    Like at my old job, there’d be long meetings both in person and over zoom where nothing would be accomplished. The problem is not if we’re in the same room or not. It’s that people don’t know what the fuck they’re doing at any level of this task. They don’t understand the system, and they don’t know how to run a meeting. The few times I just seized control and ran it like a D&D session went better. eg: "It’s not your turn. Please wait to speak. That’s an interesting idea but the game we set out to play meeting is about [topic], so we’re going to stay on topic. No, the rules say you can’t do that that’s not an option in a web browser.

    That worked fine in person and on zoom. The problem isn’t the medium. The problem is people.