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  • You are conflating awkwardness with poor communication skills

    You believe that social skills aren’t dependent on communication skills?

    It really doesn’t matter that is fantasy, I think that makes it a more powerful as a teaching tool not less.

    The claim was that it taught social skills. I claim it will only do that if the teachers have excellent social skills. Not all teachers are good, or are good at teaching social skills.

    Also eeew no, almost all the managers I have had that were in the military (ESPECIALLY men) have trash leadership skills

    You’re conflating social skills, and military experience, with management ;-)

    I didn’t say the military made people good managers. Management is a very specific skill set, and you don’t have to be socially fluent to be a good manager, although it helps. And being a good communicator, and having good social skills absolutely does not automatically make you a good leader!

    You seem to be reading things in my comments that I’m not saying. For example, that I had a bad time gaming; or that the military makes good leaders. We have a communications gap here; how can I be more clear?

    I’m not sure how to read your last paragraph; it seems to be an expression of frustration with men, in general, and I don’t know what kind of response I can provide. You haven’t had positive experiences with ex-military (usually male) managers? How many of those have you had?



  • I didn’t say I had an awful time; I loved it. I said it doesn’t improve general social skills, which was the OP claim.

    Not only did I play AD&D from 12-18, I also played a lot of Traveler, a bit of Runequest and Cyberpunk, and a smattering of other games like Phoenix Command. And I’ll say that my observation is that not only did it not improve my social skills, it didn’t measurable improve those in the various friend groups, some of whom, 40 years later and still gaming, are just about as awkward as when they were in high school.

    It’s because it’s fantasy, and the reactions you get from NPCs is what the DM comes up with; they’re not real people, they’re all one person. The gamers in your group could be just as socially awkward as you; all you’re going to learn from them is how to interact with other socially awkward people.

    Now, if your party consists of a bunch of extrovert players, you could learn from them. But IME gaming only made things worse: it exacerbated the inside joke, us-vs-the-jocks, we’re skater because we play intellectually stimulating games mentality that contributes to social awkwardness.

    Building an echo chamber of friends, most likely much like you in headspace, doesn’t expand your ability to be socially fluid.

    You ever been to a convention? There are some really great outgoing people are those. There are also a large number of folks who are just plain fucking awkward. I was one of them.

    You know what guaranteed helps with social skills? The military. Enforced, constant interaction with a bunch of people of all personality types that you don’t get to choose.

    I am pro-gaming. I think it’s a great pursuit. It might even help improve your basic math skills, but I don’t think it cures cancer, and I don’t think it at all helps with improving general social skills.





  • Did you look at Pelican?

    I have not, but I will. I may also look at Zola, although it, too, appears at the surface level to be tightly coupled with markdown.

    the template language is buggy and inscrutable

    It’s just Go templates, which are pretty solid; I’d be surprised by any bugs, unless they’re in the Hugo short codes. The syntax is challenging, even if you’re a Go developer and use it all the time. It’s a bespoke DSL, and a pretty awful one: it’s verbose, obtuse, and makes some common things hard.

    Go is my language of choice, but my faith gets shaky whenever I have to use templates.

    I’m not a huge fan of Python; despite its popularity, it’s got a lot of problems, not least of which is the whole Python 2/3 fiasco; which, years later, is still plaguing us. However, if I can containerized it so it isn’t constantly breaking in the background when I do a system update, I’m not opposed to using a project written in it. At least it isn’t Node; I won’t let that crap onto any server I admin.

    Edit: Zola has the same problem as Hugo.


  • The fascists absolutely do not have the numbers.

    I was specifically speaking about the percent of sub-population that’s armed. There’s pretty good evidence that the average conservative (and particularly the conservative base) is also a gun owner than the average liberal base. Gun violence is a liberal plank.

    As for who has the guns, you’re probably grossly underestimating how well armed non-republicans might be.

    I don’t think so; I’ve been a gun owner since I’ve been an adult, and I’m pretty progressive. I’ve spent a lot of time at ranges across the US, and it’s pretty clear that that population leans right. And if liberals own guns and aren’t going to the range to practice… well.

    Furthermore, we’ve seen how ineffective the US military was at handling insurgency in Afghanistan and Iraq.

    Quite effective in Iraq; Iraq was both unjustified, and concluded. Major combat operations coincided within 3 months, and we pulled out in 2011.

    But the major factor in Afghanistan is that Afghanistan were a generation of trained insurgents with a decade of history of fighting insurgencies against invaders. We trained them; we trained and funded them, and helped them set up a robust cell-based insurgency. It was essentially a core component of Afghan culture by the time the US invaded. Are you trained, lean, and have a cell network set up? Anyone you know? How many people do you know, personally, who’ve ever had to suffer from anything more inconvenient than a temporary internet outage? If the US government cracks down on major carriers and network providers, can you even contact any of those people?

    The US public is not the Afghan public. We’re nowhere near as hardened and tough. As importantly, we’re divided, and there’s a vast swath of the center of people who mostly don’t give enough of a shit. Even if there were voting shenanigans in 2024, enough people voted for a guy who explicitly said during campaigning that he wanted to be a dictator that it was close. When the left rises up, they’re not only going to be fighting the government, they’re going to be fighting other right-wing fuck-jobs, and worse, their uncommitted, lazily leftist neighbor is likely to turn them in because an uprising might upset little Crumpsnatcher’s soccer practice.


  • Ah, Ok.

    I do as (or a similar workflow): I rsync the content directory and let Hugo on the server render. My sites are public, but perhaps they’re just much smaller or not as popular; Hugo renders even my largest site in about a second, but for a large, slow, heavy-use production situation I could see a push-and-swap process for a more atomic site update.

    I don’t see the degradation you do, but there are so many possible variables.

    My biggest gripe about Hugo is how limited it is in supporting source document formats. There’s no mechanism for hooking in different formats, and the team is reluctant to merge PRs for other formats. When I started with Hugo, I had a large repository of essays spanning a decade and written in a variety of markup, from asciidoc (which I used for years), to reST, to markdown; and markdown is by far the worst. I was faced with converting everything to markdown, which was usually a lossy process because markdown is so limited, or not publishing all of that history. And now we have djot, which is almost the perfect plain text markup language, but I again have to first do a lossy conversion to markdown to get Hugo to consume it. It low-key sucks, and I’m actively looking for an alternative that has a more flexible AST-based model for which new formats can be added; something that consumes a format like pandoc’s AST.