squirrel

squirrel, 11 months ago

No bully turtle. You mean.

squirrel, 11 months ago

It’s so absurd: On paper Huffman has managed a social media platform much, much longer than Musk, but somehow he is so ignorant that he looks to Musk to tell him what to do with it.

squirrel, 11 months ago

My answer to that question is always “King of Dragon Pass”, a narrative/management game that is unlike anything else out there. It got a spiritual successor with “Six Ages”.

squirrel, 11 months ago

Have fun! It’s a weird little game, but I am always happy when it finds some new players.

squirrel, 11 months ago

Yeah, as someone who modded for several years, there were two insults people loved to throw at us: Either we were power tripping or we were janitors who didn’t matter.
Either of these were used whenever we enforced the rules of our community and kicked out people who didn’t want to play nice with the rest of it. Of course, they will never have a positive opinion of people who enforce a community’s rules.

And that’s the thing: The community. You do not spend several years modding a subreddit without getting to know the people and having some sort of relationship with them. The community is not an abstract, it’s people you get to know - often over several years - and that’s not something you want to leave behind.

squirrel, 11 months ago

Middle-aged people not getting enough sleep are less likely to see the benefits of exercise when it comes to protecting against a decline in skills such as memory and thinking, scientists have said.

Why are these people not getting enough sleep? Why do they not have enough time to exercise?

I am not doubting the results of the research, but we all know that most people have an ever decreasing amount of free time. Burdening people with an ever increasing list of things they “should” do and make appeals to “personal responsibility” achieves nothing, if the systemic issues of capitalist societies forces people to make tough choices when they are alloting their very limited time.