Exactly: a large chunk of the time, videos seem to simply be a way to stretch the content that could be a bullet list into a not-easily-parseable mess of content sandwiched into "Hey lovely people.... Don't forget to SMASH that like and subscribe button!"
Sometimes videos are done well, but an annoying number of them are just attempts to monetize fluid content with a lot of padding; they're like the recipe blogs of the video world.
My hunch is that we're seeing an influence campaign by people who own lots of commercial real estate swaying bosses. I don't have any actual info about who owns or has a stake in commercial real estate, but my gut tells me it's likely to be really wealthy businesspeople who a bunch of CEOs probably look up to/play golf with/whatever.
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If you're actually wanting a one-shot, as in just one session, you'll need way less stuff than you think. It'll vary depending on your players of course, but for a four hour session with my players, I think three encounters (with only one of them being combat) would be about right. My "one shots" always end up being "some shots" of 4-5 sessions.
Gonna have to agree to disagree here: to my mind, taking away tools that allow people to evade the restrictions of unjust regimes because you buy into the "for the children" fear mongering makes you complicit in the rising totalitarian state.
And the hazard! Cars are super dangerous, and odds are good that if you're commuting, there are some nearby, even if you're doing bus, train, or bike.
I'd settle for a 4 day week of 8 hour days
What I don't understand about these projects is why can't we both have them and protect the children
Think of this as closer to Signal than to a social media platform. It's a protocol, so there's no saying that you couldn't build a social media site with it, bit for now the demo app that I saw today is just chat. The parties involved share public keys with each other, and from then on, everything is encrypted so that only those people in the chat can read it.
With that model, censorship is not really feasible. If you're one of the perks in the conversation, you can say "guys, that's gross, stop" or send screenshots to the cops or whatever, but that's about it.
Ultimately, if the only way the Authorities have of acting against terrorism/pedophiles/etc is by infringing everyone in the county's right to privacy, they're doing a shit job and need to be replaced.
If I still did book design, it'd be InDesign unfortunately; Adobe is the devil, but I haven't seen a text layout program that compares.
The first problem I can think of with using blockchain for voting is that it kicks the door wide open for vote selling. The moment you can definitively prove that you voted a certain way, you make it rivial for people to straight up buy elections.
Obsidian is my Scrivener replacement. It's not the same, but it's a great tool that actually gives me more of what I wanted from Scrivener.