Zonetrooper

Small horses, like small dogs, are herd animals, are utterly convinced they are ten times their actual size, and will show this off at any opportunity.

In some circumstances, I have heard of employers asking prospective employees to expose their social media accounts during the hiring process.

In most cases, this seems to be just a formality check of "Is this person exposing their previous company's info / making threatening statements / generally being an asshole of some kind?" or, in one case, to determine if someone was an anti-vax/anti-science type before they started a medical position.

This wasn't done by an "agency", though, and they really didn't look that deeply. In some cases it seems to come with a wink-wink, nudge-nudge "So these are tooootally all your accounts, riiiight?"

Not that guy, but also a (not-software) engineer. Coding is really great for a few things:

• Software stuff is in really vogue right now. Like there's demand for all engineering disciplines in my area, but software guys are the hot position, with pay to match.
• Even if you're not software, knowing a little is helpful for other stuff - e.g., whipping up some quick and dirty test interfaces, or interacting with older systems with non
• It also really, really helps for little things at home.

Unfortunately I cannot actually write code to save my life, but it'd be real useful if I could!

I am tinkering with something similar right now, with the elf-equivalents being virtually illegal outside the borders of their own empire.

So, here's what I would suggest you consider:

• First, discuss it with your players and make sure you're not going to piss any of them off by doing this. If any of them were planning on playing said race, make sure they're okay with the impact on their play style.

• Consider the storytelling conflicts you want to explore with this. What encounters do you want to put your players through, and why? What themes are you looking to explore?

• Consider the larger impact on other parts of your world. Try to make this more than a point that exists in isolation and a vacuum.

It's a fair point. I don't know if I could say I put all the blame on bad parenting, but I do think absence of parents (or, maybe, absence of parental attention) is definitely a thing that stunts kids emotionally for a number of reasons (including overexposure to social media).

I think the incentive to be a better parent is already there for most people; humans are pretty well hardwired to want to look after our offspring. But it's being drowned out by multiple other incentives to spend time elsewhere, or risk falling into trouble - financial, social, whatever. It's going to take more than an hour off from work a day to ease the incredible anxiety we're filled with to focus on working more/harder.

Unfortunately, I don't think I have all the answers either, but I think it's going to take a multi-pronged approach.

It's hella weird around here, because I consider myself moderate-to-reasonably-left wing, but by Lemmy standards I'm probably waaaaaay conservative. Like some of the stuff I see celebrated around here definitely makes my eyebrows shoot up.

And like, I'd actually enjoy having this discussion as well in that frame, but I don't think I can honestly answer as a "conservative".

A little more appreciation for nuance, empathy, and chill when it comes to "hot" topics would be appreciated.

Like just about every day I check Lemmy, and I find some really awful, yet highly-voted take (usually on politics, sometimes on tech or something) that sends my eyes rolling so hard I could probably hook them up to a generator and get carbon-free power.

I can deal with downtimes, community drama, and needing to grow conversations. But the hostility I see almost daily turns visiting Lemmy into a stressful, not welcoming experience.

Candy Corn. Some people insist they taste like wax, and I'm like, "What?!" I will chew those things all day long.

This. "Overstressed" doesn't begin to cover it. It's an unimaginably stressful job even when things are going right.

Sencha is an absolute beast! A gorgeous one, though.

Yeah, I feel you. On both points.

That's a fair point too; if you go in anticipating a conversational slap, you're in a defensive posture from the start.

This reinforces my feeling that setting out to specifically create that no-slapping environment from the start is critical, but it also adds in another twist and problem: There's increasing evidence that political "language" between various groups is diverging. In other words, ~20 years ago people used the same words to mean the same things, even when they disagreed. Now people on different sides of an issue use identical words to mean totally different things - including some that can be perceived as a verbal slap.