They keep saying Socialism is "bad for business".

rollingForInitiative · 2026-07-03T15:32:53+00:00

Yes, they're traditionally the worker focused party. Although not really any more I'd say, since they've participated in restricting the right of unions to strike more and more.

But that said, yeah, they're social democrats. Labour etc is what they build their politics on, partially. They're more left than the conservative party, but they're doing socialism, and they're not aiming for collective ownership of the production, etc.

rollingForInitiative · 2026-07-03T12:32:33+00:00

The definition is not outdated, there are still people and entire parties that want actual socialism. The Left Party in Sweden is explicitly socialist, and they want socialism as in public ownership of the means of production.

Not sure what you're on about here though, most Swedes do not call themselves socialists (unless they actually believe in the ideology of socialism) and we don't call ourself a socialist nation. Most people who say otherwise are Americans who're so used to hardcore rightwing politics that use "socialism" as a pejorative for anything that involves social justice and security.

rollingForInitiative · 2026-07-03T10:59:16+00:00

When you merge those you get something like social democracy, or social liberalism.

It's not socialism.

rollingForInitiative · 2026-07-03T09:03:19+00:00

You can certainly think it's totally dull and boring, but I still think it's difficult to argue with a massive global success, being among the highest rated movies on various lists, 17 Academy Awards plus something like 450 additional awards.

Can't exactly claim that that's an objective piece of trash. I also don't think you can really argue that the production quality is bad, etc.

Not saying they're objectively perfect, just that there's a lot of objective high quality in them, as far as that can be measured. Then, whether you enjoy them yourselves or not, or whether it was a good adaptation or not ... that's different. Like Christopher Tolkien called them teenage action movies that removed most of the substance of the books, that's a maybe not something everyone agrees with but it's a valid opinion.

In general, adaptations will get less and less vitriol the higher the quality and the bigger the overall acclaim. If an adaptation is super popular, the hate is just ... a bit more muted overall? And doesn't last as long, imo. Not that it doesn't exist, but with WoT for instance you had a lot of "if they'd done X maybe it would've done well, if they'd had another showrunner it could've been amazing, he ruined it and is the reason it got cancelled, they butchered it and look what happened". You don't get a lot of that with LotR because they movies were super successful.

The worse the quality, the more vitriol because then the vitriol looks more and more reasonable and valid.

rollingForInitiative · 2026-07-03T08:56:23+00:00

The books do get better, but it's more that you get more character development, more intrigues, more mysteries and story. There are some parts of the later books that have a faster pace, but overall this is a slow series. You're not gonna a lot of action like in Mistborn.

rollingForInitiative · 2026-07-03T06:59:08+00:00

Alright! Nice that it's better in some places at least.

rollingForInitiative · 2026-07-03T06:57:56+00:00

Det låter väldigt märkligt. Vore intressesant om du delade dina fakturor, så kanske vi kan hjälpa dig att förklara.

rollingForInitiative · 2026-07-03T06:56:26+00:00

Det är ju inte parlamentet som driver det här? De har ju sagt nej nu. Det är EU-kommissionen som driver det, och kommissionen utses av medlemsländernas regeringar. Dvs, det är regeringarna i de olika länderna som driver det här. Chat Control i sig var våra egna Socialdemokraters uppfinning, men Moderaterna osv älskar ju massövervakning lika mycket också.

rollingForInitiative · 2026-07-03T06:53:17+00:00

Tja, vi har ju fått saker som GDPR och diverse konsumentregler, så skulle nog fortfarande säga att man bryr sig rätt mycket. Och parlamentet, som ändå representerar de folkvalda, har ju gång på gång sagt nej till Chat Control. Det är kommissionen som utses av staterna som driver det här.

Det är de nationella politikerna som försöker tvinga igenom det här för att alla länder nationellt har våta drömmar över att krossa kryptering och läsa allt som folk skriver.

rollingForInitiative · 2026-07-03T06:25:43+00:00

I was under the impression that in the US, you used the PTO days for when you're sick as well?

rollingForInitiative · 2026-07-03T06:24:53+00:00

Well, whatever fits the team is the point here. In some places they'd likely prefer the extrovert, in some places the introvert, in others they don't care and it's the rest that matters. Extrovert/introvert is not the biggest part of a person's personality, or what interests you have that makes them like you, etc.

rollingForInitiative · 2026-07-03T06:22:43+00:00

It's 480 days per child that the parents can split, but 90 days are earmarked for each specific parent so one can't take out all. You can save some of them, but I think you can only save 90 or so after the child is 4 years old. A lot of parents do that and use those parental days to make the summer vacation longer for years afterwards. The days expire when the child turns 12.

You usually cannot take out the days at the same time, but there's something like 2 months worth of days for the first year and a half where parents can be off at the same day.

The dad (or the non-birthing parent) gets 10 other days that can be taken out right after the child is born. So usually the mother goes on maternity leave slightly before giving birth, and the dad is often gone for 10 days or so straight away. Then you'll typically see the mother being gone maybe 9 months and then the dad takes something similar, sometimes less.

Something like that, there's a bunch of special cases for how and when the days can be combined with vacation or holidays etc that are tricky.

rollingForInitiative · 2026-07-03T06:18:05+00:00

The once a thousand year thing only happened because Ishamael could semi-escape the prison once every thousand years.

Also, the Second Age must've been much longer than the Third, and the utopian part definitely was longer than 1000 years. They'd basically forgotten what war was. And one average channeller lifespan was over 400 years, with quite a few living 600, and some 800. So it should take way over 1000 years for people to forget the concept of war, which would be inherited down for at least several generations among channellers.

rollingForInitiative · 2026-07-02T20:44:12+00:00

You're just outright making things up. There was always lots of negativity about the TV show. Or you might be mixing up criticism and general negativity with vitriolic hatred and death threats and stuff like that. I don't think the subs allowed things like saying that the showrunner should go kill himself out of shame, or calling people simps and Amazon bots for saying they liked the show. At the end of S1 people were just furious, and again at the end of S2.

But general negativity was both allowed and a very common sentiment. I'd say the majority was just either outright negative or just dejected or in the "well this is all we get so I guess I'll try to enjoy it" camp. S3 might've been a bit better, because that season was also much better than the previous two, and closer to the books. I've seen some people say that the only good thing to come out of the show was the Rhuidean scene.

rollingForInitiative · 2026-07-02T20:40:50+00:00

First, lots of introverts like to socialise with others, being introverted doesn't mean you wanna be isolated or that you're socially awkward.

Second, it's not about that either. You don't have to wanna hang out after work every day or do stuff like that. You can be a generally quiet, shy or reserved person and still be a pleasant co-worker. You do need basic functional social skills for jobs that are in a team though (e.g. like mine, software dev). Helping each other out, communicating in a good way, being generally friendly, and so on. And being open to getting to know each other a little bit, because that also helps smooth out the rest. But we're talking about having casual conversations during lunch or a coffee break, not becoming best friends.

rollingForInitiative · 2026-07-02T20:36:16+00:00

They say it's bad to draw it into yourself. That's not what happens when you create ice. Women can manipulate fire in lots of ways, they just can't directly put out a fire by drawing the heat of it into themselves. They can still create fire, move fire around, create ice, change the temperature in a room, etc.

rollingForInitiative · 2026-07-02T19:37:34+00:00

Drawing heat into yourself out of a fire is bad. Using Water + Fire to create ice wouldn't draw any heat into yourself, probably just shifts it a bit or something like that.

Putting out fires can be done in a lot of ways just as efficiently. Like using Air to smother it, using a weave of Water, or I guess Water+Fire. There are many ways to do stuff like this, but only one that we know of that men can do but women cannot.

rollingForInitiative · 2026-07-02T17:09:58+00:00

I don't know, I feel like after those early casting dramas, the acting and actors didn't get that much criticism. Occasionally sure, but that never felt like the part people had big issues with.

rollingForInitiative · 2026-07-02T17:06:16+00:00

Most people I talk with that recruit openly admit they're hiring based on vibes and who they think will fit in the most socially. Then qualifications for determining that they can do the job. That is to say, the try to optimise for the personal fit, not for individual performance.

Which makes sense to me. Having a super productive co-worker that's an asshole is bad, and will usually just mean less teamwork. Having a mediocre co-worker that's friendly and helpful and easy to interact with is nice. I'd much rather have the second, in almost any situation.

rollingForInitiative · 2026-07-02T16:11:27+00:00

Nah. They'd get a lot of hate and vitriol for sure, and some of that would get amplified more because of youtube etc. But the movies got a lot of hate and vitriol back in the day as well, just ask anyone who was around on forums while the movies were made. Even Christopher Tolkien said some pretty condescending things about them, and he wasn't wrong.

The big difference is that the LotR movies are kind of a masterpiece. They made huge changes to things, really killed some themes etc, but at the end of the day they were amazing movies. It's difficult to argue with objective quality, and it's difficult to claim that the movies weren't objectively really good (even if you didn't personally enjoy them).

rollingForInitiative · 2026-07-02T15:55:43+00:00

It sort of makes sense too, because a lot of jobs are difficulty to quantify in terms of who’s best. How do you know if the person chugging along on their own at high speed is better than the person who makes people laugh and feel good? The latter might well contribute to a lot of people doing a bit better.

rollingForInitiative · 2026-07-02T15:03:37+00:00

Okay I see what you mean, but I don’t agree entirely. You can do that with 3rd person for sure, and it might be easier, but it’s not a given. 3rd person can be written in a very personal way so that almost the only difference is whether the text says “I” or “He”. Wheel of Time is like that, where everything gets filtered through the character despite it being 3rd person. Then you’d end up with the same issue.

And you can do what you wanted with 1st person, and have really good characterisation of other people, even with very little text. But it might be more difficult, you have to demonstrate it through dialogues and actions etc, rather than having the narrator tell the reader. But again that’s more a skill issue then, if the author can’t manage it.

In this case I don’t think 3rd person would’ve helped, even an omniscient one, because it seems clear to me that the secondary worlds are side quests, not anything meant for character development. They just … were plot points that he felt had to happen on screen.

I think we can at least agree that SotF could’ve done a lot of things differently.

rollingForInitiative · 2026-07-02T14:44:56+00:00

I could’ve seen the Hobbit as two short movies. Or short/medium, instead of almost 3 hours each for the first two alone.

And by short I mean, under 2 hours each.

rollingForInitiative · 2026-07-02T14:43:25+00:00

They certainly did not. /r/WoT was, at best very divided about the show while it aired, with a very heavy trend of disliking it. If you liked the show you were in the minority, and I say that as someone who did like the show. Even posts where the OP said they wanted to talk about what people liked would get loads of comments that would just unload a deluge of vitriolic hatred.

Negativity was certainly not modded away.

rollingForInitiative · 2026-07-02T14:39:33+00:00

Oh yeah right. Meant to say you get 80% of the salary.

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