Unknown Armies is a tabletop RPG that has a school of magic predicated on a. Being drunk all the time and b. Drinking out of really cool cups.
Post reminded me of that. Good game (though I only know 2nd edition)
This was going to be my answer. Except we didn't even read it as a class. We were doing some other boring stuff and I was flipping randomly through our textbook, where I found it and read it. I still think about it, and sometimes use it in RPGs.
It would've also been super appropriate if I could never find it again in the textbook, but I can't remember if that's true.
Well "love that dog" made me cry a little just now, so thanks for that.
They sold Bandcamp to some company I've never heard of. SongTradr https://www.songtradr.com/blog/posts/songtradr-bandcamp-acquisition
I buy music from Bandcamp. Drm free. Musicians get a bigger cut. You can write a note to the band when you buy and sometimes they write back. Their recommendations and write-ups feel more human than algorithm. Feels pretty good. Renting music on Spotify sounds like a bad deal for me and my personal habits.
Of course, they sold themselves and probably will enshittify in a couple years.
For older stuff that's not on Bandcamp... Honestly I don't feel bad about pirating music that's 15 years old. Copyright is too long, anyway.
And for new mega pop stuff? Not my jam, but I'd probably still buy it drm free somewhere.
New Jersey is fine. A lot of north jersey is overshadowed by NYC being right there. One of my friends moved here from florida, and one of her friends was like "Why don't you move to jersey city? it's cheaper" and she went "I didn't move to new york to live in new jersey". But even if you do live just outside the city and none of your friends want to visit, you're still a short train ride away from it.
I don't know as much about south jersey, but, like, it's fine. And unlike, I don't know, Iowa, you can usually get on a train to a world class city.
That's true for this specific thing, but won't solve the underlying problem of "things I'm comfortable with are good, and abstract things like facts and fairness don't matter"
Unfortunately, most people are emotional creatures first. Sometimes only. So facts don't really matter because they're engaging on the emotional level of "christian stuff feels good and safe, but other stuff feels dangerous and foreign". We all do this to some extent. There's no solution.
People mostly change their mind because stuff coming from their in-group, or horrible trauma.
I also cannot recommend her novels The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed.
I hope you meant you can recommend them. They're both very good.
I liked the dispossessed a lot
I imagine it's because the Republican party is "absolutely evil turds" and the Democratic party is "everyone else". Unfortunately, "everyone else" includes some farts and sharts, too.
If libraries didn't exist, and someone tried to invent them, I am confident that conservatives would fight them tooth and nail with a thousand bad reasons.
Meanwhile, one of the 3 guys at work is working nights and weekends for free. He's salary. I keep telling him to go outside and live life. Stop giving everything away to the owners. He doesn't listen. He thinks he's going to save the company. I'm like buddy if those extra hours are all that's between success and failure, the company's fucked. That's flu away from disaster. He doesn't listen.