Read more books. Read different kinds of books. Not slop on the Internet.
This prose you’ve posted feels a bit purple and forced. I personally find all the comma separated clauses excessive, but some styles do that.
Are you still in school? Take creative writing courses. They’re fun and you get feedback from peers and the (hopefully) professional teacher.
This is an important point. There’s a big difference between guys with guns telling you what you can say, and a local get-together. Sometimes people act like they should be able to say whatever they want wherever they want, even if they’re like standing in someone else’s house
I vote in every election. New York has ranked choice for some things now, which is nice. The way judges are picked is pretty bad, though.
I think there’s something with age and lead poisoning that makes people short sighted, easily manipulated with emotional appeals, and short tempered.
why don’t they look into ways that cars might cause fewer injuries instead of abandoning the injured?
I’m pissed they’re repaving the streets near me but they’re not taking the time to make them any safer. No curb extensions or daylighting. Certainly nothing so extreme as a separate bike lane.
What I was trying to get at is something can be worthwhile even if you don’t personally enjoy it.
Conservatism, probably. The whole in-group supremacy thing is pretty bad.
I think a lot about how “good” and “fun” are two different things.
You can have a game that’s a fascinating exploration of a theme that really unifies mechanics and story, but is an absolute downer of misery to play.
You can also have a game that’s a glorified slot machine with bugs, no real player input, and abusive monetization, but people’s brains light up playing it.
There’s some subjectivity of course, but sometimes I see games that are good at what they’re trying to be, but I don’t have any fun with them. Some people seem to demand those overlap all the time.
Maybe shame and embarrassment would work, but the kind of people who drive this kind of car are probably anti-social assholes who don’t care about other people very much.
But these people get off on being jerks. There’s something wrong with their brain so empathy doesn’t work right.
Fuck cars. Fuck big private tech.
I see a lot of ads for ai slop on the subway and I refuse to engage with them. I don’t look them up. Fuck 'em.
Sometimes people vandalize them and if I saw someone doing so, I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Cars (well, the car-first infrastructure in most of the US) is already a pretty effective forment nexus.
Cool. Fuck cars. Take transit in NYC.
They could pay people to check, but it’s more important that they spend billions on slop and executive bonus.
People make money on it. People don’t care enough to organize around stopping it.
This is the best answer.
The receptionist really doesn’t care. You’re one of dozens of people they see every day. They’re not going to remember or care if you ask for help.
Cars ruin everything. The primacy of cars is upstream from a surprising amount of problems with modern life.
Off the top of my head …
Why would you expect them to be immune to stupidity?
If I was a talented writer I would consider a short story about someone getting onto the medical staff just to murder Zuckerberg.
Maybe some sort of rom-com where two people have done so and they suspect each other of being corporate bootlickers, but in the end they fall in love. And murder Zuckerberg.