I’m glad my favorite bands sell tickets in the $20-50 range. Though I almost always get a T-shirt or something, and maybe a drink, the total night out is under $200. I just couldn’t justify spending more than that.

Metaphorically paying in some other way - skip the party, but spend time together in some other way - can sustain the relationship.

I don’t think the reasons why matter all that much. If someone’s not coming to the shared experiences (a party, a get together, a nice chat, whatever) then they’re not paying into the relationship.

Go on? Are you splitting the hair on not owning the music, since the artist retains copyright? Please elaborate.

I pretty much only have drm free music

I wouldn’t really characterize many things in life as the same kind of random. Throwing a dart at a dart board isn’t a random action in the same way as rolling dice

Furthermore, dnd’s randomization produces flat probability, which is often jarring.

Generally random factors allow players with less skill to win. I think about that with games a lot.

It’s one of the (many) reasons I don’t really like DND very much. Huge random factor. You can make excellent tactical decisions and lose. You can be an absolute baffoon and triumph.

Some randomness is okay but not like that.

Shouldn’t be allowed. Companies shouldn’t be allowed to buy each other. We already know what happens with consolidation.

Most people just aren’t that bright. And many people are struggling to get food and shelter.

Many people do have time and money and decided they didn’t care, though. Gotta go play video games, I guess.

I don’t understand what he wants the pedestrian to do. Not cross at all? Wait until there’s no traffic?

I always thought that kind of social media was a recipe for bad times. Alas, most people don’t care or think much, so here we are.

As with all things involving humans, you can’t really change minds with facts. It’s just emotions and peer pressure.

Not a bad post, but I expect it won’t sway people who aren’t already on board.

I despise interfaces that try to be “friendly” by showing relative times. It’s not helpful. It’s counter productive. If you tell me it was at 08:45 I can look at what time it is now and fucking figure it out. Not so if you say “20 minutes ago”

And then some of them have fucking javascript to update the text. Fucking insanity.

Sometimes I think we should get rid of 3/4ths of the “product people”, but then wi the just engineering websites would just be like plain text and the occasional still photo. Which, honestly, sounds okay.

It almost certainly was not a sincere threat of violence. No one is asking you to condone threats of violence against children. You can narc on your friends all you like, but that’s a separate discussion.

Did they? Was this a genuine threat to student safety?

And even if they did get it right, how much privacy is worth giving up? How much would you like your speech chilled?

They shouldn’t, but that’s irrelevant to “should an allegedly private message be preemptively shared with the government?”

I don’t think the government should be reading private messages

That feels like a system with misaligned incentives.

I do not understand the mind of that kind of copycat.

I can see that reading, but I think the joke would work the same with him bringing home any threatening partner. If it was an orc lady, the dialogue could be the same.

I mean, yeah, I think there’s some low grade homophobia in here but not malice.