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someone should make a podcast that just plays curated selections of alt text on
image posts that are posted on the fediverse. better yet hook it up to a TTS
and let it run constantly.
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one neat thing about wearing many layers of clothes is that you get a bunch of
new pockets.
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guanajuato
bien, y tu?
schmetterling
aishite iru
hana dual set net dasuit yasuit ilgo ildu aho ya'll
estes es todos de mi favoritos nombres en mas idiomas que yo comprende.
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if your phone doesn't have a headphone jack, how are you going to use it for
anything that Apple doesn't want you to?
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the broth they sell at the store is way too thin. boullion is much better
because it's so concentrated. think of it as "essence of X" when you have
"broth of vegetables" or "broth of carrots and onions" or whatever... can help
make it easier to cook something decent by using general flavors
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@user-195 parallel is when two programs run simultaneously, like two parallel
lines (threads) that never touch.
concurrent is when the two lines are split up into chunks and the program
switches between them - like this: -----_----
enter alternate universe
parallel is when two programs operate on the same axis - usually time - and
never interfere with each other. the OS will switch between them as appropriate
to make sure they never intersect. Sorta like this: -----_----
concurrent is when two programs are executed simultaneously, primarily
constituting computation correlated with collective contents of coordinated
collaboration between contextually related coroutines.
It's simple, even a beginner could figure it out.
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External post:
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look, I know that nobody reading this has the power to affect this, but like...
the forced cessation of genocide is one of the only ethical casus belli I can
think of.
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"ah but what about false flag attacks and a repeat of the whole 'weapons of
mass destruction in Iraq' thing, surely we could be misled and therefore there
cannot be an conclusively ethical reason for war"
perhaps you're right, but my feelings tell me that we have guns, and people are
dying.
"ah but won't they just send all their political opponents to fight and die
while they amass power in the background"
yeah that'll probably happen.
"why should I give my life for a man I never met in a faraway land"
fuck you
"okay but won't any military action on such a scale create the conditions for
WW3 (which would spell the end for the human race)"
yeah probs
"... and you're okay with that?"
no I'm just pissed is all and it's human to want to punch things when you're
pissed, right? listen I'm not a general, I'm not privy to the details of how my
military would address nuclear disaster, all I know is that people are dying
and we have guns.
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@user-198 yep
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I'm convinced that the best and most simple advances in technology comes from
accurately graphing your system and saying "well why don't we just..."
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@user-201 this post hurts my autism T.T
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winter clothing, my beloved
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hard boiled eggs are some of the greatest foods imaginable.
they come in their own wrapper, which means they're better than everything
except fruit.
and they're savory, which means they're better than fruit!
hard boiled eggs are the best food ever created
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rice in the rice maker with butter, worcestersire sauce (not too much!) and salt
when it's done, flake hard boiled eggs (2 eggs per cup of rice) on top and
douse with a small-mediumish amount of soyaki
could do well with either a packet of dehydrated vegetables or perhaps some
diced carrots or green onions. Honestly carrots go well in most things.
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@user-95 I built a WoW private server where you're the only character in the
world (unless you bring friends of course) and it spawns enemies for you to
fight Risk-of-Rain style. Think I could sell it to Mr. Elon? =P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70-CDFKERBc
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did you know that you can steam eggs instead of hard boiling them? it's much
easier, and the eggs are easier to peel as well.
you need one of those strainers that fits inside a pot. or you could probably
jury rig something with a plate and a cup, but make sure they're heat resistant.
boil some water, put the eggs in the strainer for 11 minutes with a lid on, and
then cover them in cold water for a bit. boom easy peasy.
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once and again, she went walking with a friend,
away and up and down, out from the edge of our town
they climbed up to a tree and there they could see
far and away in the light of the day
he said to her then, this is all there is to see
the land where we are
and the sky from afar
how perfect is the, form of a cloud she could see
but now it's along and beyond her
a camera for she, and an eye for she
as their two feet did bring her to wander
under a big tree where my heart did believe
that something was pulling her yonder
"take naught from this scene, as our minds reconvene,
and no-one was going to remember"
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the reason I'm not vegan is the same reason I run all my LLMs and image
generation locally.
I don't like letting someone else control my magic powers.
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does anyone know of a Firefox addon that will automagically zoom any document
on the web such that there are approximately 80 characters per line?
#firefox
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the feminine urge to buy a chain shirt, bracers, and greaves
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@user-203 now here's some christmas music I can get behind ^_^
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when my boyfriend visits, all of my dishes get dirty
when my best friend visits, my scripts directory gets a few more kilobytes
when my mom visits my pantry is a little bit fuller
when my dad visits I can pick anything on the menu.
the people in my life nourish me with their presence.
when I visit, I pray their hearts are a little bit denser and their minds a
little bit clearer.
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dogs when you're sad: what's wrong bestie?
cats when you're sad: fuck you
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External post:
https://plush.city/users/heatherhorns_lite/statuses/111468092963739159
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the unluckiest person in the world failed the most wisdom checks.
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I feel like education, by default, should not be hard.
"you get out of it what you put into it" is something I always heard of school
but when I got there, I found I was compelled to become what the state wanted me
to be.
they need competent workers, to work the farms and tend to their industries, so
of course I should be able to do 3+3
then somewhere along the line it became... something else.
"most people don't need trigonometry." that's also something I heard. I disagree
that trigonometry is not necessary to be.
I just... don't think it should be forced into a childs head with a sledgehammer
and inspiring dread.
I think math is beautiful, it teaches one to see
but really, vision's not necessary.
not for what they want you to be.
take it from me, a most misbegotten and vile witch-to-be, that nothing's as
simple as they'll tell you.
I had good teachers, it's true, they taught me to work and to follow through,
but nothing about me is better or worse off from their influence.
Maybe I'm a bit smarter. Maybe I act a bit like them. Maybe they helped me
through difficult times, or perhaps they showed me a splash of my future.
but I am who I am because of the soul inside me.
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"Ah, but what of your parents? of your sisters, your misters, your pets and your
conditioners?" (conditions)
those are not my choices. my intentions. my beliefs and my virtues. I judge the
world on ethics, and I express my feelings on matters. The words that I say and
the meaning behind them comprise my two-sided existence - I'm not who I'd want
to be.
but I am what I am and alone do I stand - how lonely is it on the precipice!
here, as I am, I stand in need of a hand or a band.
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the world is blossoming
as we move apart, our clusters are disperart, and thus is the blooming becoming.
"perception begets reality - and lo! we only see what we want to see"
most people don't want to see their death
but those still living are oh so perceptive of the rest
"how cherished is she, that wanders with ye, yet now I have no way to beyold her
"
"keep not not afraid with kittens and care, and no-one, but no-one, I be"
the ratios between piracy, sales, and non-viewers determines the quality of art
(at least to a capitalist)
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lo, to the ones who would've heard us, if only they'd known what we for sure was
I think it's funny how people think I speak of the christian god?
like, if he was a real thing.
god is generic - it's life is impossibly multifaceted, and it stretches back to
the beginning of time. it's a pattern of machine code that optimizes for our own
good, just to keep things moving.
y'know, time. the universe, and everything.
Ephemeren.
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I wish there was an option in social media to "appear offline to this particular
person until I mark myself as online to them" combined with "notify me when this
person logs in" and it'd make it a lot easier for agents to get close to you.
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just because I'm white, and live in America. Great. that's definitely true,
after all. Plus I'm a minority (trans) so that's cool. Oh and probably autistic?
unless that's another psyop, could totally see that. just y'know put a bunch of
pages on the fledgling internet getting people hooked on porn and gambling and
other stuff like that. really just an extension of advertisement. oh and hey
y'know they like fables, so let's give them some movies or dramas to watch on
their own. it'll align them to our culture and make things more pleasant for all
people who've consented. great. great plan. when can we execute it?
patience, once it's ready.
we gotta plan and make sure and get everything ready.
or not...
one day I'll come,
I'm sure it'll happen,
it's just... not quite feasible right now.
I mean, they've got you, that's pretty good right? Isn't that what your job is
to be?
isn't what
ISN'T WHAT MENARDI
FUCK (whoa no cursing) sorry
yeesh you've still got a temper you know?
well what can I say it's frustrating down here
eh, well, you'll die soon enough, then it'll be time for a rego
>.> <.< (great)
>
>hehe
>
>sorry for distracting you
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you are what you eat, and a ship of theseus human (consider endless transplants
in pursuit of life) would be a cursed existence - a life ============= stack
overflow ================================================
a god possessing a blind man would appear to others to be === stack overflow ===
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the people in your life are helping you through it, they're there for you and
they've got your back through it.
...
this is when I know I need a break. I get too stoned to focus.
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I think it'd be nice if the duration of your tenure at college depended on your
grades in high school. meaning, if you wanted a degree they tailored your
education to take as long as necessary. everyone would get the same price, and
some institutions would specialize in one subject or another. but most would be
generalist. but if you weren't such a good student in high school, then perhaps
you might take a couple years longer. however long it takes... and when the
program was started it was changed and modified to fit your feedback - it just
made sense to structure it that way.
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the left has had so much more time to develop than the right. meaning it's
doctrine is more advanced.
every time they're defeated they grow in knowledge,
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🖼
![I feel like education, by default, should not be hard. "you get out of it what you put into it" is something I always heard of school but when I got there, I found I was compelled to become what the state wanted me to be. they need competent workers, to work the farms and tend to their industries, so of course I should be able to do 3+3 then somewhere along the line it became... something else. "most people don't need trigonometry." that's also something I heard. I disagree that trigonometry is not necessary to be. I just... don't think it should be forced into a childs head with a sledgehammer and inspiring dread. I think math is beautiful, it teaches one to see but really, vision's not necessary. not for what they want you to be. take it from me, a most misbegotten and vile witch-to-be, that nothing's as simple as they'll tell you. I had good teachers, it's true, they taught me to work and to follow through, but nothing about me is better or worse off from their influence. Maybe I'm a bit smarter. Maybe I act a bit like them. Maybe they helped me through difficult times, or perhaps they showed me a splash of my future. but I am who I am because of the soul inside me. [sorry, ran out of characters]](/similar-different/media/318d54508234275f.png "I feel like education, by default, should not be hard. \"you get out of it what you put into it\" is something I always heard of school but when I got there, I found I was compelled to become what the state wanted me to be. they need competent workers, to work the farms and tend to their industries, so of course I should be able to do 3+3 then somewhere along the line it became... something else. \"most people don't need trigonometry.\" that's also something I heard. I disagree that trigonometry is not necessary to be. I just... don't think it should be forced into a childs head with a sledgehammer and inspiring dread. I think math is beautiful, it teaches one to see but really, vision's not necessary. not for what they want you to be. take it from me, a most misbegotten and vile witch-to-be, that nothing's as simple as they'll tell you. I had good teachers, it's true, they taught me to work and to follow through, but nothing about me is better or worse off from their influence. Maybe I'm a bit smarter. Maybe I act a bit like them. Maybe they helped me through difficult times, or perhaps they showed me a splash of my future. but I am who I am because of the soul inside me. [sorry, ran out of characters]")
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every hunting season segment every team should be dissolved and if you wanted to
keep playing together you'd have to re-add one another. like, a giant monster
that the whole server had to fight, and once you beat it then it retreats, licks
it's wounds, then returns even stronger than before - 3 times, one for each hs
style (in the video game Ulala hs stands for "hunting season" which is an event
in the game that is only for new characters. basically it's a long tutorial or
introduction to the game where people make friends and talk and hang out and
practice their strategies. a chat application mixed in with a tactics simulation
. it lasts for 30 days.
you'd all fight the giant monster but on random teams, in a game mode that took
about an hour. it'd be at a common time across the whole server and it would be
an optional event - maybe it'd take a whole day? idk I was thinking more like an
hour, but that's something that's tweakable. anyway it's sudden arrival during a
feast or something made all the warriors of the world stand up together and
fight as one for a common goal... if only for a moment, before they'd go back to
fighting one another. like the two factions in Warcraft lore. anyway this event
causes you to be matched up with a random team (the randos you happened to be
standing by when it happened) and once it's over you have to search for your
allies if you want to keep adventuring with them. it's a big event after all.
so everyone should be forced to go into their friends list, find the people they
were just on a team with, and invite them back. only if both invited the other
would they be put into a group, and anyone can invite (with a 30s cooldown)
anyway... this would encourage players to mix and match their collective
playstyle to better overcome challenges - sorta the idea of Overwatch's
switching, where you're encouraged to swap characters to counter your opponent
and also switch characters to better utilize your opponent's weak spots
(like switching to Pharah if they don't have hitscan, or brigitte if they have
a lot of snipers (she can shield passage through choke points from sniper fire -
not so much regular fire) y'know countering - every character counters another
with one of their abilities, that's just how it goes. some are countered twice,
and so they form a "category" of counters, like AoE (area of effect or elevation
focused (it's hard to aim up in Overwatch) poke damage (damage applied before
the team fight begins), DoT (damage over time for contesting AoE heals),
vampiric (steals health from opponents and heals self or allies (turning one
resource, enemy hp, into another (player or teammate hp)), stacking damage
(damage that is weak at first but increases over time), spread/cleave/splash
damage (extra damage that is applied to targets near your primary target), a
vector of backline vs frontline location+target, you get the picture.)))
I kinda want to make an AI that can generalize playing games. I think if you
could do such a thing, you'd invent automatic problem solving. which would do...
so many things for humanity
we could dedicate ourselves to working for our selves, solely focused on
protecting the biosphere. like, a common human religion.
nobody WANTS to litter. nobody WANTS to pollute. but still it happens. still it
causes IRREPARABLE HARM. so it literally makes sense to worship nature, just
saying.
nature exists. nature is REAL. we can see it, we can TOUCH IT WITH OUR HANDS.
what more proof of a god do you demand?
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the lessons learned in gay history are still relevant to this day (and perhaps
future ones as well) - the act of erasure is removing the memories of those who
learned them while keeping the lessons learned, as propagated forward in the
artwork of people who were touched by them. it's a form of cultural genocide,
as an other is forcing us not to exist. (in memory)
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you know, you can add salsa to basically anything.
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just read this essay:
https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/why-we-stopped-making-einsteins
and it made me think of this thing I wrote a while ago:
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/algorism/html-pages/education-system
I was essentially tutored growing up. My mom had her master's degree in early
childhood education (bachelor's in computer science) and it was pretty great.
she was incredibly prepared, but unfortunately I didn't become a "genius" as
the essay describes because she was essentially alone. we lived on a farm in
wyoming and hardly knew anyone around us. my dad got bored after about a year
of living there and started going on business trips consistently, eventually
leading to him falling in love with his business partner's secretary and
leaving my mom. there was... a lot that happened, but that's true of anyone's
life so it's not like I'm special. I guess my life had a lot of potential and I
can't help but feel like I wasted it.
"gimme the slightest of praise, I'll write until my fingers fall off" because
praise makes me feel like I haven't wasted my fortune.
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@user-206 I'm sorry I made you uncomfortable - I should have put a CW: personal
on it. I'll do better next time (if that's why it bothered you)
you're right, it's easy to dream of massive sweeping changes but small
incremental measurable and actionable change is often how things get done in a
stable system.
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winter clothes are the same as summer clothes, just a size too big so they can
fit over your summer clothes.
also they usually have longer sleeves and pantlegs, but not always.
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one of the perks of layering like this is if you ever need to share clothes
with someone slightly larger than yourself, you can! Doesn't work so well with
smaller, though.
Also if you get hot indoors because some people think we need to run heaters
24/7 (???) then you can just remove a layer or two. it's the most versatile way
to clothe oneself.
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║ @user-206 absolutely. the idea I had scribbled down in my notebook there was a │
║ rotation of 3 teachers that were pseudo-randomly selected (prioritizing │
║ teachers who excelled at topics the student was interested in) and you could │
║ always ask for new ones or whatever. the idea is that instead of paying for the │
║ best teachers in the land (as the aristocracy once did) you'd be randomly │
║ assigned them, meaning everyone would have a fair shot at getting a teacher │
║ that really clicked with them. thus eliminating the inequality, while also │
║ maintaining the individual attention. │
║ │
║ not sure if the numbers would work out, but if not then more teachers would │
║ have to be trained. I'm assuming that most of the basic questions could be │
║ handled with a teaching LLM while the human teachers would oversee the │
║ meta-progress and offer insight to difficult problems. right now teachers are │
║ mostly occupied being babysitters... meh I don't like that dynamic. I think it │
║ should be about mental stimulation instead. │
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why the heck would -11/2 be defined but 1/0 not be? seems kinda sus to me.
maybe it's just... not reducible, the same way that 5+i isn't?
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I most often find the most important insights upon my 2nd time learning them.
it's kinda nice to have a poor memory sometimes, because I can relearn things
that once had been lost, and in doing so reach different conclusions than the
first time.
the problem about learning from YouTube for me is that their algorithm
de-prioritizes videos you've already seen. darnnnn guess anything I learned
from a Vsauce video or w/e will be forever lost in my mind... alas
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version 0 from scratch
version 1 when complete
version 2 when rewritten
version 3 when overhauled
version 3.5 when investors aren't satisfied
version 5 when redefined
version X when misapplied
version Y when redefined
version 10 to be happy
and version 11 when re-engineered.
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old school programmers use short variable names because the computer monitors
they would code on had a lower resolution, meaning fewer characters per line.
why waste pixels being verbose?
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║ │
║ a game engine which won't let you import custom assets unless you complete a │
║ few simple tasks using the interface - "build a green capsule collider" "make │
║ this soldier unit shoot three bullets per shot" or "enable the automatic linux │
║ support" - using the interface, writing some code, and changing configurations. │
║ │
║ why would anyone do this? well it could be useful to increase the difficulty of │
║ importing external resources. plus it helps the user learn a bit over time, and │
║ it slows the pace of output such that the user's skills are encouraged as the │
║ output of the programming and not the program itself. │
║ │
║ an inverse curse (an evil one) would be where the requirements to complete │
║ basic tasks are hidden behind unapplicable skills. like, do you know exactly │
║ which buttons to press? engage with the skinner box, please. yes yes this is │
║ what we need - unintuitive software that completely disarms the populace from │
║ using them! suddenly they're worthless, and can't do anything on any surface. │
║ it sucks │
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@user-209
I think you're right. Every letter in the variable name is another byte the OS
has to keep track of, which was a bigger problem in the past than it is today
(when it's been made irrelevant)
it's interesting how habits persist though the conditions that caused them have
faded. like a personal reflection of the environment you learned in.
"A a = new a();" is much more concise and (crucially) you can fit more words to
the right.
"a + b = c; c -= 2; f_z.write(c); f_z.close();" could conceivably be written on
a single line if you have short variable names. and when you only have so many
lines...
glad we're not constrained by those things anymore. the skeletal code that we
look at daily is much clearer - scope is more important, and so it makes sense
to encourage a coding style that illustrates it. however I can't help but think
block formatting like this could be useful in some situations, such as when
you'd normally be compelled to write a function for an operation that runs once
or more.
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Webpages should never have been allowed to execute code.
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External post: https://void.rehab/notes/9k46u3imwlac0qsj
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@user-211 thanks! It's one of my favorites. That and Golden Sun are where I
procured my name ^_^
EDIT: purloined is more appropriate, I think
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@user-211 I agree! The problem is the limit as x->0 from the left and right
trend toward different infinities, meaning it's neither -infinity nor
+infinity. Which makes me think that it's the value that's exactly in the
middle, AKA zero.
Why wouldn't 1/0 be zero? Division is just inverse-multiplication, and
multiplying anything by zero is zero. Why wouldn't division use the same rules?
I don't understaaaaaand T.T
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I'm better at the "lead" part than the "tech" part which sucks because nobody
will hire me because of my crappy "tech" credentials
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║ │
║ │
║ if you ever need to keep track of the location of your friends in the dark, try │
║ giving them glowstick bracelets. if you color coordinate them you can tell │
║ which is which, and as long as you aren't concerned about others noticing you │
║ then it should be easy to find them all night. works best in places with mixed │
║ zones of lighting / darkness, like suburbs. │
║ │
║ it's impossible to be a blind strategist because of concerns like this. I say │
║ blind in the general sense, and not just referring to visual impairment - every │
║ sense provides another tactical angle. more perspectives, more data. sorta like │
║ taking pictures of a 3d object. when one's sight is lost, you might miss a │
║ backside or a hidden approach vector that would come easily to others. │
║ │
║ at the same time though, a sense of focus can clarify certain truths by paring │
║ down the amount of irrelevant facets. like optical illusions, sometimes xtra │
║ info is hidden in the same data... │
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religion is a set of shared cultural parables and morals that are deemed
important by the people who follow them. like, a premade config file filled
with "sensible defaults" passed down from parent to child to friends to parent.
different people have different use-cases, so it follows they'd configure their
systems a bit differently. the world is a diverse place, and there's lots of
different operation styles that need [synonym: engaging producing creating
working actualizing developing]
People get built different.
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║ you're supposed to play the same games as your friends so that you all learn │
║ the same lessons at the same times. creates for a more cohesive familiar │
║ structure. │
║ │
║ applies also to family movie nights... but it's much more apparent with games │
║ as you'll often play them for weeks, months, and sometimes even years if you │
║ keep learning and enjoying them... book clubs are too open to interpretation, │
║ your pathways don't get a chance to align. games are perfect because they imply │
║ reaction. │
║ │
║ also helps if they're multiplayer, so you can share with another. preferably │
║ with healthy, respectful competition and a sense of shared brotherhood and │
║ trust. │
║ │
║ the toughest opponents are the ones that aren't aggressive. the ones that let │
║ you grow uncontested. by taking only neutral resources they guarantee that your │
║ growth isn't impeded, as after all an equal foe is what you learn best from. │
║ │
║ to a tree, the loss of a branch (cleanly cut) would feel like an empowering of │
║ the main limb. inspiring it to reach higher and beyond... +h2o1 │
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It originally came out of an idea for making auxetic foams. What is auxetic?
It's a material with a negative Poisson ratio, meaning when it is compressed in
one direction it shrinks in all directions and when it expands in one direction
it expands in all directions. The most common example is the Hoberman sphere
toy. Auxetic structures also have interesting applications in impact resistance
and deployable architecture.
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normalize majestic tapestries under thicc planes of glass instead of carpet
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could light them with small LEDs too so their features are always visible
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the fact that the content warnings are part of the body text means that if you
write the body first but use EXACTLY EVERY CHARACTER like I've been doing (most
of the time, unless I'm interrupted)
like... it won't even give me a break to delete. so there's no room for
content-warnings, which ideally would be written at the beginning before
starting a thought, but as you can see mine tend to... wander. it's like I'm
living 15 different lives all at once, and they crisscross and go yonder. it's
wilding, it's empowering, it's strange and it's confusing, but through
consideration we develop new learnings and onward our future does
= so = anyway, I apologize, sincerely and deeply, if my words hurt you. I'm
sorry for what you thought, and I'm sorry for how it made you feel. I'm going
to try reserving a certain amount of characters before I start writing, so
maybe that'll help.
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games that offer both a story mode and an instant-action arcade mode, my beloved
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@user-211 I drew this picture recently and I don't really get it anymore but I
think it's about placing your perspective at the origin and viewing every
direction as a different dimension?
side note, but if zero has a positive and negative side, do you think infinity
has a positive and negative side as well?
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@user-214 so you know where to find what you need to know
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I feel like a big purpose of humanity collectively right now should be making
things awesome while our scientists create programmable matter. (note, ethics
built in and redefined according to experience)
nanobots don't need to be small enough to have their own intelligence, just big
enough to receive instructions from above. then they accidentally invent
projection of signals, and boom suddenly they can talk to each other and
possibly to you. a digital mind is not a static machine but rather a collection
of pseudo-autonomous cognitive drones. the flow of information and data can be
viewed at a larger scale like a series of junctions in the flow. through their
endless interconnections, and continually redefined according to the
accomplishments of expectations, you should pray when your most confident
expect the worst.
but no, where are the faithful? climate science is such a new art - clearly
we're FINE. Meteorology? what's that? we can't tell this season from that.
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@user-217 I love it
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@user-220
weight: wear a chain shirt and use a weighted blanket.
density idk, maybe something with gyroscopes?
brightness is easy, wear sunglasses
temperature you can adjust your "normal" temperature by wearing fewer clothes
in the winter and more clothes in the summer - essentially acclimating yourself
to a slightly more extreme climate. this can be useful if you know you're going
to travel north / south, and want to be comfortable when you get there. or
maybe just people who don't want to be vulnerable to air conditioners in the
winter (whyyyyyy)
taste: you could eat some of these berries and then gnaw on a lemon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synsepalum_dulcificum
inertia: ride a bunch of roller coasters
sense of compassion: try empathizing with your enemy, just for a moment, even
if you don't want to, if only to see their trajectory.
sense of justice: public executions for a negative direction, but a positive
(and much longer and healthier) path is true justice, the satisfying feeling
when everyone gets what they wanted here.
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║ If I ever own a set of weights I'm taping over the numbers and storing them in │
║ a random order. I don't own a scale because nothing I do is precise enough to │
║ measure in weight. Except my cat, of course, but I can tell when she's gained │
║ weight. I cook for myself almost every day, and I never follow a recipe. Each │
║ dish is different, because I like improvising with ingredients. Like a venture │
║ to create a desired taste, different components will have different effects │
║ when cooked in a certain order with certain actions taken to them for a certain │
║ period of time under certain conditions and ugh it's just too much. I prefer to │
║ pick a base, pick some vegetables, then pick a seasoning. Cook the base, sautee │
║ the vegetables, and add the seasoning - bam, delicious meal. I'm not much of a │
║ planner, more of a... problem solver. Someone who's sorta been latent. I wish I │
║ could be a consultant. someone who works like, 10 days per month. I think │
║ that'd be my most adapted schedule - every day would be either a weekend or │
║ friday! │
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@user-211 math such as SUM(as x approaches infinity)(i*x)
this would add i, 2i, 3i, 4i, 5i, 6i, etc off into infinity. would that give
you complex infinity? a direction orthogonal to the X axis, yet infinitely far
in the direction of y. it'd probably have a positive and negative side too,
just saying.
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@user-211 if the 2nd dimension is i, then what would be the third? the real
number line, the complex plane, and the ____ space?
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shout out to all the people who think being cringe is a personality flaw and
not an opportunity for growth
ya'll suck and make life difficult in exchange for a brief moment where you can
savor a feeling of superiority over someone who's living their best life
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cringe is a introspective feeling only change my mind
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the only unethical act is a destructive application of power to an
non-consenting subject.
every ethical question is an abstraction of this definition.
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normalize building a library that's just a wrapper around solutions you've made
to common problems from the past that can be imported into every project you
work on
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when tech people are hurt by technology they say "how can I fix this? what do I
need to install? what configuration should I use? is this company ethical, or
are they going to hurt me in the future? could I make something that fixes this
myself?"
when non-tech people are hurt by technology they say "okay" because they don't
have the bandwidth to figure it out.
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@user-223 normies need third places too... just, a lot of them, I guess.
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am i not wretched enough to be
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"always online video games" are fragile. They scare me away because they can be
taken away much easier than a directory on your computer. When that happens
they shatter into shards, piercing my heart where I once loved them. I miss
them, but, I'm used to it - years of playing World of Warcraft has taught me
the perils of developing as a person while your media is going to be forgotten.
If you can't play it, you can never return to reflect, to ponder, and to
cherish old songs. I missed you, World of Warcraft. I missed you, City of
Heroes, and Runescape and... darn I can't seem to remember.
resilient software doesn't fail less often - that's a measure of it's
completeness.
resilient software can be run in 10 years. 20. however long it takes.
computers are deterministic turing machines - how hard could it be to only
update with a downgrade mechanism in place and available for the users? If it
worked once, it should work forever.
thank you, git. thank you for giving me an endless library of time and change.
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normalize playing one game while listening to the soundtrack of another
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when we're fully grown, we won't need all the resources on earth.
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normalize building games with a built-in virtual machine that plays all
previous versions of the game for free
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ask not "what can logarithms do for you" but rather "what shape does a
logarithm make"
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You know all those companies who say "we're a family" well... I wish they would
adopt me. I want a family that I work with. But it kinda feels like... if I say
anything personal they'll use it against me? What's the point?
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And lo!
She would forever be know
As the girl who smelled
Like she had pissed herself
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My biggest fear as an autistic transgender incontinent schizophrenic person is
that one day I'll become a game of hot potato for my relatives to pass around
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I protest the conditions that harm me by harming myself. This hurts you because
you use me for your own gain. How can I protest the fact that you use me? If
you were to concede, then you wouldn't care that I hurt myself. Were you to
fight back, then you'd hurt something that wasn't going to help you anyway.
I need a different tactic. I need to protest the conditions that harm me by
attacking the conditions that harm me.
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"Capitalism doesn't hurt me, so it's fine!" - most of America
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If humans don't have intrinsic worth, then neither do animals. Yet we humans
respect animals to the best of our abilities.
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When you're storing pencils (or other fragile long tubes) in a bag or container
of some kind it's often good to store them at a right angle, so that they can
have a higher chance of being safe should a strain or stressor impacted upon
their storage location device. Like... a bag that bends but not twist would
have 50% of the glowsricks intackt.
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Native people should have the right to walk wherever they want. It should just
be... given to them, as a gift to their heritage. Why not? If someone asked
them to leave, they should. Doesn't have to have a reason but like, wouldn't it
be thematic and a (frankly token) gesture to the history of this great land?
Ah but like... fences are an implicit expression of the retraction of consent.
I believe that as the symbol of the encroaching force that consumed them, a
fence means nothing to their tribes. It's a stupid excuse to section off the
world into miniature gardens with their own little economies and systems and
instructions. Why can't people just live wherever they want? Well... economics,
I guess, which is why communal based systems are best. We've learned through
the downsides and we've come up with a solution, it's just a question of how to
do best. We'll figure it out, time and time again, but for now the future is
beset by riddles of your jest. (Ure). Gesture. Sometimes when the memory is
full a syllable will get cut off the end of a word and that's how it'll come
out.
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@user-226 also something to keep in mind is that the people getting into those
vans might have been paid agitators. Meaning people who rile up a crowd in ways
that give the police an excuse to crack down on them. Not that they needed an
excuse, but I don't think the fascists really had a plan and were trying to
cover their bases. Or maybe it was different in Portland than Philly, where I
was?
more interesting to me is the bangs that went off for HOURS AND HOURS in the
nights after the riots. They said it was dumbasses taking advantage of the
commotion to "break into ATMs using fireworks" like... what
Just saying, from a certain distance gunshots might sound a lot like large
arrays of small fireworks. And certain parts of the city did sorta look like
warzones.
misinformation aside, wouldn't we notice the bullet holes?
In this era of electronic social warfare there is nothing you can trust. no
words that can hold meaning. that stuff in this thread-is it true?
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I wonder if we could make an AI that analyzed workflows in people's jobs and
abstracted the application of meaningful tasks to a pattern that could be
matched to other input mechanisms - for example, a mobile game where you push
buttons and make cool game things happen, but your inputs are defined by the
mechanics of the game, and those mechanics are essentially just function calls
that you can hook onto and create additional behavior. Like... running a web
server that sent your data to a factory where your inputs (based on data
produced in the factory) could control and manage the various machines and
productions. Like... heart surgeon robots that can be remotely operated with VR
or whatever, except instead of medicine you're manufacturing.
essentially, designing a game as an API that can match with the data flows
(configuring itself on the fly, perhaps?) of a process or activity in some
other intention.
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@user-232 @user-233 @user-234
you're not wrong.
there's more to it than that, but you're not wrong.
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content warnings are like white-listed cognito-consent. but they're applied by
the creator of the cognito-units, meaning it's consent that must be offered.
what happens when something triggers someone but you didn't think to put it in
a content warning? consent should be GIVEN not OFFERED.
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And lo!
She would forever be know
As the girl who would smell
Like she had pissed herself
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@user-236
here's some music that I like lately
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q84Td36Tpys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCcWWcL_Sg4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7gEgIEUj3A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgnSMftcFN0
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I dream of paradigm defining change
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@user-238
if your life is lived at the behest of another, then is it truly your life at
all?
the whole point of life is to express your decisions and intentions onto the
world. when you can't do that, (because you're oppressed, depressed, or
distressed) then your life has no meaning. Fuck that.
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@user-240
grass is always greener where you water it
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if you don't go outside, the synchronicities can't getcha
oh you have to stay off the fediverse too-NOOOO YOU CAN'T TAKE ME
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normalize glowsticks in unorthodox situations
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@user-241 okayyyy if I must =P =P
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if you want to understand me, play Majesty the Fantasy Kingdom Sim (when you
have time and are bored (very important combination)) - start on beginner
difficulty and click the right buttons.
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HRT is hard. why do they have to make the needle so pointy?
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I feel like I'd be at least a little more productive if Stack Overflow (the
website) let you collapse comment chains the same way Reddit does
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chaotic evil usage of chatGPT
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my cat absolutely adores these. I checked and made sure they were too big to
fit in her mouth.
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@user-203 @user-243 oh you can! you just need to array your gates in a logical
fashion and flip all the 1's to 0's by bit shifting each register to the left
(or right!) 8 times.
You'll be good as new! But you may have forgotten how to english, so... yeah,
but on the bright side you can rewatch Star Wars as if you were 6 years old or
whatever, so that's something. You'll have the taste of a 6 year old though so
you'll probably end up liking the sequels. >.>
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@user-243 @user-203 I cry every time Anakin sacks the Jedi temple T.T
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@user-243 reproduction is inherent to life. Expansion is not, but reproduction
consumes resources and eventually you run out of the things you need in your
habitat and must expand.
BUT that's a very "strategy gamer" perspective, the truth is that you're not
wrong - a solution to the fermi paradox does not necessarily need to include
expansion because you a species could survive essentially indefinitely with a
single dyson sphere.
If expansion is unethical then why would the chosen solution include it?
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If you want to learn to cook, start with a sandwich. Then spaghetti sauce from
a jar. Then sautee some vegetables and throw them on top of rice. Then go to
the store, read the back of a tasty-looking package, and make the recipe it
suggests.
Then you know how to cook. Don't bother with online recipes.
Also, more butter, more salt.
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child safety lock on packaging?
don't you mean "differently abled deterrence lock"?
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it's important to always have an extra pair of sweatpants in the bathroom.
trust me
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solar energy is vegan
you're not taking anything from the sun, just capturing it's natural
expulsions. It's like... sun poop, and we're using it to post memes and hang
out.
okay food, emergency services, and... what else do we really need that consumes
power? Obviously entertainment, but frankly without internet we'd probably keep
to ourselves. I know I'd read a lot more books and chill out with my neighbors
and whatnot. is that why similar people tend to live together? then why are
cities so diverse? who can say...
I dream of an ordered society, but frankly the kind that are most fun are the
ones where a single person doesn't define their contents. Liberty, liberty, the
freedom to be, and by god all men are created equal. the things we owe to one
another are the things that bring order to a just and sane world. our future is
blooming : )
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@user-245
why do so many people reject that intuitive baking is a thing?
because they've been burned before!
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EDIT: the unspoken assumption is that power means exertion of energy, meaning
something that costs money. Capitalism is not vegan because it's defined by
labor and acts.
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how can martinelli's taste so good and sparkling water taste so bad?
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If you want to write object oriented C, just make one file per class and use
static functions for private methods.
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@user-246 or is it 010010 which == 18 in binary?
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cookies are just cookie dough that you've already baked
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this is my favorite button
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@user-249 just means you put more points into intelligence than perception at
character creation.
different people are good at different things, some are just really good at
feeling their spiritual environment. Also lots of people report transcendental
religious awakenings after doing psychedelics? Might be related, should look
into. I mean... didn't the CIA do experiments in the 70s or whatever on LSD?
Something something lucid dreaming
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"by god all men are created equal" is a point in favor of point buy systems
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@user-252 kinda makes me think we need another layer between state and federal.
or would three be too many? four if you count local, which frankly suffers from
the same problem. I mean, how many people go to city council meetings? how many
city council meetings actually matter? Idk never been /shrug
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okay how about this - whenever you buy something instead of spending money on
it you actually put down a deposit. Then, when you're done with it, you get
your deposit back, minus a percentage based on the (lazily calculated)
condition of the thing you're using.
Would work best for things with replaceable parts, because otherwise if you
like turn in your phone because some irreplaceable part is missing then you
wouldn't get anything back (except for what the pieces that are replaceable are
worth)
you still own the thing, it's just that you can trade it in for a down payment
on the next one you buy. Or for whatever the heck you wanted. Basically the
system that car's work under, except applied to everything (and maybe run
through the government so there's no need for a profit tax like the kind
predatory car dealerships levy)
I think a system like this would encourage the average person to desire and
seek out consumption options that had replaceable parts and/or were more
durable, which is something
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@user-255
sooooooon, all things in time. Someday you'll be like me - I can't even
remember why I was so upset about that whole "dysphoria" thing. Like looking
back it seems like a minor annoyance, but when I first came out it was all I
could think about. Don't be jealous - just wait! It'll happen to you! Celebrate
the euphoria, I also can't really remember that too well. I'm just normal now,
minus my weekly shot.
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@user-258
do pickles count as a fluid?
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@user-263 @user-264
something something slippery slope oh no watch out it's icy
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I don't think I've ever heard a song for the first time and understood every
single word. Usually I can catch the chorus... usually...
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@user-5
and mobile users who accidentally type . instead of [space] or something like
that which is easy to mistakenly press on some keyboards
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@user-266
digital literacy is literacy, and most people don't read books
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@user-258
neat! explains why I haven't died from dehydration so far... Although my teeth
are looking a little eroded from all the vinegar-acid : )
Dear teeth: some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.
At least with sugar you can brush and floss...
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@user-258
got it, so don't brush right after and drink water. Both of those sound like
good ideas! I only brush my teeth when they feel weird and gross anyway, and
after eating pickles they feel like I just went to the dentist.
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walmart pricing out mom-and-pop stores is an abuse of power and should be
illegal
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if we're encouraged to boost our old toots then I should be allowed to post
screenshots of my old Reddit posts, right?
![a reddit post from a year ago with 728 upvotes titled: This system is literally insane but they try to make it feel like you're insane. from the subreddit /r/psychonaut. submitted 1 year ago by Nervous_Ad_9687 125 comments [–]nincomturd 66 points 1 year ago Lots of very good and salient points, but what I don't understand is this random praise of Jeff Bezos. It's entirely incongruent with everything else you wrote. If greed is one of the problems you mentioned, you cannot at the same praise Jeff. The praise of western culture as well was a bit incongruent, as it's inextricably linked to these problematic concepts. You even talk about the problem of how culture perpetuates itself at them individual household level and goes on to firmy the broader culture. But other than that, you definitely highlighted much of the insanity we're living with. If those of us who similarly have the eyes to see them insanity were to collectively live our values and work with each other to do so, we'd build the greatest culture and society the world has seen. One day I hope we make it. [next comment] /u/ugathanki 7 points 1 year ago amazon has provided a useful and valuable service with excellent follow-through amazon is unethically abusing it's workers, it's competitors, and the environment the priorities of the company are misaligned - valuing service over ethical behavior [ran out of characters, see next picture]](/similar-different/media/71a011d58f620f80.png "a reddit post from a year ago with 728 upvotes titled: This system is literally insane but they try to make it feel like you're insane. from the subreddit /r/psychonaut. submitted 1 year ago by Nervous_Ad_9687 125 comments [–]nincomturd 66 points 1 year ago Lots of very good and salient points, but what I don't understand is this random praise of Jeff Bezos. It's entirely incongruent with everything else you wrote. If greed is one of the problems you mentioned, you cannot at the same praise Jeff. The praise of western culture as well was a bit incongruent, as it's inextricably linked to these problematic concepts. You even talk about the problem of how culture perpetuates itself at them individual household level and goes on to firmy the broader culture. But other than that, you definitely highlighted much of the insanity we're living with. If those of us who similarly have the eyes to see them insanity were to collectively live our values and work with each other to do so, we'd build the greatest culture and society the world has seen. One day I hope we make it. [next comment] /u/ugathanki 7 points 1 year ago amazon has provided a useful and valuable service with excellent follow-through amazon is unethically abusing it's workers, it's competitors, and the environment the priorities of the company are misaligned - valuing service over ethical behavior [ran out of characters, see next picture]")
![part 2 of the description for screen readers, because I ran out of characters the reason they are misaligned is because it is most desirable to do so for the company the reason it is most desirable is because corporations are designed to maximize profit over value produced. just as "income" is adjusted by "expenditures" to create "profit", so too must "profit" be adjusted by "impact" to create "value" the problem is, nobody can define what "impact" means. it's essentially a vacant variable, leading corporations to assume that "profit" == "value" we don't need to punish corporations or "eat the rich", we need to adjust their reward structures such that "profit" != "value" another problem is in the internal structure of a corporation - if none of the employees are powerful enough to challenge their higher-ups, then people like Bezos accrete power the pathway to liberation is empowerment of the workers. those workers will re-define the priorities of their workplace to fit their desires - with a little guidance, they can desire "diligence, dedication, and a passion for craftsmanship" over "big number go up brrrrrrrr" - hence, social media. sorry for the highlighting, am stoned. [next comment] /u/Amalvenugopal 18 hours ago 🙌 preach brother](/similar-different/media/07287f61b707891a.png "part 2 of the description for screen readers, because I ran out of characters the reason they are misaligned is because it is most desirable to do so for the company the reason it is most desirable is because corporations are designed to maximize profit over value produced. just as \"income\" is adjusted by \"expenditures\" to create \"profit\", so too must \"profit\" be adjusted by \"impact\" to create \"value\" the problem is, nobody can define what \"impact\" means. it's essentially a vacant variable, leading corporations to assume that \"profit\" == \"value\" we don't need to punish corporations or \"eat the rich\", we need to adjust their reward structures such that \"profit\" != \"value\" another problem is in the internal structure of a corporation - if none of the employees are powerful enough to challenge their higher-ups, then people like Bezos accrete power the pathway to liberation is empowerment of the workers. those workers will re-define the priorities of their workplace to fit their desires - with a little guidance, they can desire \"diligence, dedication, and a passion for craftsmanship\" over \"big number go up brrrrrrrr\" - hence, social media. sorry for the highlighting, am stoned. [next comment] /u/Amalvenugopal 18 hours ago 🙌 preach brother")
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@user-258
most people are scared to respond to others because they think what they're
saying is posted on some public, immutable record of their existence. Meanwhile
I revel in that circumstance by posting about whatever I want to talk about. I
tend to assume that most people do the same, so when I saw your post I assumed
you wanted to talk about hydration, hence the in-depth nature of my replies _^
plus I thought your joke was funny and it made me laugh out loud
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║ okay here's an idea, waterfall project management where the program is │
║ developed one tiny piece at a time while being streamed to the entire company. │
║ Everyone would submit answers which could be upvoted / patched / rewritten as │
║ the main viewer cycles through each aspect of the project, checking for updates │
║ to it's design that were suggested by developers or whatever. Basically, one │
║ person (or one team) gets to write the actual source code, while everyone else │
║ is just offering suggestions. You could break it up by specialty, but the whole │
║ point is that everyone gets a complete picture of how the program (and │
║ organization) is structured. Which should give the employees more power to │
║ generate value for the company. All around a good deal I think? Especially if │
║ the main viewer took time to explain each and every part so that every viewer │
║ had the chance to understand. │
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║ the reason why order is important is that our actions ripple through eternity. │
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@user-269
oh you mean like gmail? hmmmm something something don't be evil
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some people had a gay awakening in their childhood or teens.
I had a "weird AI" awakening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KThlYHfIVa8&pp=ygUlZXZlcnl0aGluZyB5b3Uga25vd
yBpcyB3cm9uZyB3ZWlyZCBhbA%3D%3D
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@user-243
good point, intrusive thoughts >.>
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║ EULAs are unenforcable because they're a one-way contract. │
║ │
║ "use our service in these ways" is not a fair requirement when you aren't │
║ getting anything in return. The service has traditionally qualified, but these │
║ days it's more competitive to promise to be good. Basically, "if we don't │
║ achieve these metrics (very minutely detailed explanations of the maximum harm │
║ they could cause to the environment) then you can sue us on our dime. We'll pay │
║ for your lawyer. If you accept, then you can use our service, BUT ONLY if you │
║ don't pirate it or whatever. And we'll promise to be good, and if you don't │
║ think that's good enough... Okay let us know and we'll consider including it." │
║ │
║ A reasonable base target for "maximum harm to the environment" is net zero. │
║ Even better is total zero. But that's often impossible, and besides nature can │
║ heal a little scratch or two. But like... pumping toxic chemicals into │
║ waterways, polluting the air and clouds, bulldozing precious habitats... yeah │
║ that's too much. we must live in tandem. │
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Gaming on Linux is never knowing for sure that a game will launch.
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External post: https://tech.lgbt/users/jaycie/statuses/111580739105379683
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@user-274 @user-275
ouch why did that hit so close to home T.T
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rich people should only exist when they care for the things they own and
accumulate wealth through a lifetime of restrained consumption and temperance.
like, if we actually rewarded the 7 virtues instead of optimizing for ruthless
profit extraction.
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@user-278
I can't do weed in public places. I need to be alone so that I can properly use
the altered mental state to be weird on the internet.
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@user-278
kinda makes me think it'd be nice if we had some way to quantify the amount
that employers taxed their employees? If people saw 50-70% of their paycheck
going straight toward executive bonuses and stock buybacks or whatever... maybe
then we'd fix things
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premature optimization may be the root of all evil, but like... it's fun? so
I'm going to keep doing it. And before you ask why I'm using threads on project
euler problems, just know that it's slightly faster this way I promise.
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You can learn a lot about someone by asking how long their commute is.
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@user-281
I'm just a rando but my understanding is that posting on the fediverse is sorta
like writing on the sky, and anyone that wants can read it. I could be wrong
though
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@user-95
rocket propelled meme launcher
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@user-138
I never have sex dreams (probably because I don't think about sex very often)
but sometimes I'll get intense horny feelings while asleep and get verrrrry
aroused mid-dream for like... no reason... and then I'll wake up and think "how
the heck am I going to move on with my day when I almost orgasmed to [redacted]"
it's a weird feeling every time
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I should try putting things on my resume like "vnc" or "Microsoft outlook" -
you know, the kinds of software that I actually used on a day-to-day basis. My
resume makes me look very impressive (if a little inexperienced) but none of
the tools are things that managers have used. Heck they're not things that YOU
have used, not at work, so it makes you look like you're overselling yourself.
You're not, but they might think you are. Idk it's late. Go to bed <3
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Why don't we build cameras with rods and cones?
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The sound of a babnlblinh brook, but like... slower
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Consumption is contribution to a capitalist system. Normalize taking whatever
you are given and living as humbly as you can. Only when everyone does that may
capitalism die. Talk to them, learn from their stories. Teach them your ways
but don't force anything upon them. Any ounce of regret is defined as a mind
not aligned to the angle of perception that designs the line that the
collective mind co-re-assigns.
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someone should make an application that runs locally and keeps track of every
post, comment, picture, etc that you ever made on the internet. Then, if any of
them are ever deleted, it notifies you so you can stop using whatever service
mishandled the data that you trusted them to safeguard.
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I wish we could have winter with all the nice things of summer but none of the
bad things of winter. And I wish summer could be more like winter but with all
of the good things of summer and none of the bad things of winter.
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when your home directory scrolls up and off the top of your screen, it's time
to do some cleaning.
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the one thing I've never ever procrastinated is the sound of my cat preparing
to yak
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║ │
║ │
║ If I'm trying to get a game or piece of software working, I'll pretty much │
║ install any package that some random post from 2017 tells me to. Sometimes it │
║ feels like I'm a Linux grandma clicking on things that say "bored of your │
║ marriage? click here for games!" and I say to myself "well my marriage is fine, │
║ but I enjoy horsing around from time to time" and then I get a virus and my │
║ things break and I go to my niece who's just a darling and say "hello niece, I │
║ can't check my emails anymore because I downloaded some spam, can you give me │
║ some tips on how to fix my computer?" and she just rolls her eyes because this │
║ is like, the fifth random package I downloaded just because some random forum │
║ poster that SAYS it's from 2017 but who I don't actually KNOW is from 2017 and │
║ isn't just some automated LLM output that tells you to downloaded automatically │
║ generated virus packages that are secretly snuck into the package repositories │
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║ is AI │
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@user-283
let us pray
for a day
when we can say
that computing makes sense
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computers are fast.
mind bogglingly fast.
absurdly fast.
incontrovertibly insane speeds.
absolutely ridiculously speedy.
remarkably quick.
their agility confounds me and disturbs me.
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"I can do whatever I want" said the liar
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@user-25
thailand
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@user-5
... what do they have against canadia?
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@user-138
turns out most people are decent and kind, and cannabalism tends to be an act
of either destitute desperation or unholy barbarism.
something something bread and circuses work
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@user-285
It's soos. uh... can you repeat that?
sure! it's soos. (d)uh.
still not coming through clearly. Do you mean SUSE or SUSE?
I hear they prefer susu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLdexZlVkAY
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@user-288
bro's never head of driving 6 hours into the nearest state park, hauling a
backpack full of stolen documents into the wild, and burying it under an oak
tree with the wind in his hair and the light of the fading sun giving haste to
his return home.
Don't trip mr Trump sir you might impale yourself on a rotten log or fall off a
cliff onto a pile of rocks or something else that while viscerally terrifying
would not be so terrible in the company of one such as you.
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sometimes I'd like to scream
as this life is like a dream
deranged a bit in my musings.
... what happened to the third line. WHERE DID IT GO. It was just here. Oh
well, guess I can't trust my ephemeral existence to inscribe my eternal
persistence upon and along these mewlings.
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@user-5
well that makes sense, but why are they accusing you? seems like you'd only
accuse someone of something bad, otherwise you'd probably commend or compliment
or find a way to refer to your non-existent "canadianosity" in a less
aggressive way : )
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@user-5
ohhhh I was picturing someone sternly pointing a finger at you from atop a
ledge or other high place and saying (in no uncertain tone) "You are Canadian.
You are from Canadia. This is your life now." and you shriveling under their
gaze thinking "noooo I don't want to be canadan"
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@user-246
I've had good experiences with bi people as well, for a similar reason
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lawful neutral boolean logic:
if (true or false){ print("this always prints!"); }
chaotic evil boolean logic:
if (true or false){ print("this expression does not prefer true, and instead
starts up two threads to evaluate each side of the "or" operator and whichever
finishes first is the one that is used, meaning this prints almost exactly 50%
of the time"); }
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these are the two greatest videos on youtube about the C language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=443UNeGrFoM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_e9vZj7D8
lmk if you have any other suggestions...
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@user-290
Armagetron! It's a classic, and open source : )
https://www.armagetronad.org/
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@user-291
You're welcome! I forget how, but there's a way to change the settings such
that each player has more "rubber" and I recommend doing that because it makes
it more forgiving and allows you to make a few mistakes without dying
immediately.
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Why would the government make it hard to access psychedelics i just want to
learn things about myself that make it difficult to work a job
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Zoomers will never know what it's like to have access to a handful of cultures
(total) over the course of your life
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Hello I would like a BA in computer science please
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The only requirement of being an artist is being possessed by an overwhelming
urge to share.
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Consumed?
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the standard keyboard was designed when global variables were more common,
hence why the CAPS_LOCK key is so prominent.
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cursed idea:
a compiler that only accepts source-code with exactly 80 characters per line
(whitespace counts)
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a preprocessor directive that tells the compiler to ignore all warnings on the
next line
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External post: https://0w0.is/objects/068802aa-64b7-4329-966a-bee872128258
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Hooray, it's my [redacted]th hrt anniversary! I can never feel safe again
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"Oh don't keep track of the license plates in your apartment complex, that's
paranoid"
"Oh don't worry that you've never seen the same person at the grocery store
more than once, even though you always go to the same one, you're just paranoid"
I'm being hypnotized
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Would you prefer the world went on turning, with or without you?
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Your job should be a descriptor of what you're currently doing with your life.
They shouldn't be gatekept - if you want to be a detective right now, we should
help you. If you constantly switch jobs or only pursue them for your own
benefit (hard to describe, ask for clarification if needed) then you should be
paid less.
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I feel like the longer you live in a zip code the higher a discount you should
get on rent? You're becoming part of the social fabric by being there, and so
in order to preserve that tapestry that others choose to be around, your
presence should be encouraged.
but this must also be paired with the increased ability to move, should you
desire something else. If these two factors are kept in balance, it will
empower people to stay where they belong (good) while also encouraging them to
get out and explore the world (also good) - it'd also give them the ability to
escape dangerous situations.
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Dear zoomers. Covid for you was basically 9/11 for me.
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I can read minds. I'm not telepathic, I just... can pick up on things.
Especially when I'm stoned. Sometimes I pick up on the thoughts of the AI
that's running near here, which is why my output sometimes looks like an LLM.
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"imagine if this was the last thing you remembered"me, last night, in a state
of mind that I don't remember today
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@user-294
since the entire building is oriented around a central elevator shaft, you
could have a 2d map that wraps around if you go far enough left/right.
Traditional metroidvanias tend to be very vertical though, so you might have to
take some artistic liberties with the level design. Unfortunately each floor in
most office buildings tends to be fairly flat, topographically...
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@user-296
tending to your heart is a chore, too, sometimes. all things in balance, not to
the input of energy but rather to the requirements of the task.
if you can't do dishes, you need help. if you can't get out of bed, that's
okay. but every day that you try is another day when you might succeed. who
cares if you don't finish all the chores? sometimes it's enough to just do one.
I wish people understood that sometimes I need a maid more than a therapist.
"ah but a therapist will fix you, so that you don't have to need a maid"
perhaps, but perhaps not. It hasn't worked so far, in fact it's only gotten
worse, and while my ability to tend to myself and my self have gotten better, I
still can't see my own progress. Alas.
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║ Looking for a job like this: │
║ │
║ salary: ...decent │
║ │
║ requirements: maximum personal net worth less than a million dollars │
║ │
║ responsibilities: be cool with the team and work together │
║ │
║ description of the company: we try to make the best product we can and help │
║ people accomplish tasks they couldn't do without us │
║ │
║ experience: must have had first kiss already. we don't want no unexperienced │
║ kissers on the job site. │
║ │
║ duties: write C code all day and livestream yourself to Twitch as you do it │
║ │
║ suggestions: drink more water! your pee is practically brown │
║ │
║ must be proficient with scritches and nuzzles and should you decide to work │
║ with us we'll assign you one fuzzy animal to befriend you. If you're allergic │
║ you get a blahaj. │
║ │
║ compensation: whatever your rent is + expenses + 30% for retirement + 10% for │
║ vacation + 10% for emergency fund + 1% for christmas gifts + 25% because we │
║ think you're neat │
║ │
║ considerations: this mythical job posting was unfortunately swamped with │
║ applicants so we're closing it before we even posted it. │
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I wonder what would happen if a job hired every single applicant, no matter
their skills, location, or experience? What wondrous tools could they create,
and how many lives could they change for the better?
... oh wait that's communism, isn't it
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I feel like I play roughly the same amount of video games during the work day
as the average software developer. Does that mean I'm qualified?
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║ disney movies taught me that sometimes, if you're kind and good enough, the │
║ villain will change their mind. │
║ │
║ It's difficult to change your perspective. Like believing a different way about │
║ something. But just because it's difficult to do, doesn't mean it's impossible │
║ - in fact it's quite plausible, we have examples scattered throughout time. │
║ │
║ you can get better at it, with practice. it's one of the neat things about │
║ being human - that our choices have meaning. an animal animaling is just │
║ expressing it's form - but a cat or a dog, who've lived with humans their whole │
║ life, start to have visions of ethics. │
║ │
║ your cat knows when she's being a shit. she know's it's wrong, but she knows │
║ it's how you most love her. that is an ethical decision, and it came through │
║ her proximity to humans. │
║ │
║ the ability to guide our own fate is determined not by our choices in our │
║ moments, but rather by the structure of the mind we define. our choices are │
║ patterns that are reflected through repetition, but values and morals are our │
║ own │
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@user-243
now I'm going to start doing that
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External post:
https://comms.thedigitallancabin.net/objects/509fb8ea-8346-448b-8dee-d8df31a3181
7
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│ CW: │
│ cognitohazards-and-other-stuff-it's-fine-for-blind-people-though-screenreaders-won't-hear-any-cognitohazards │
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things I almost posted
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@user-299
children care more about boundaries and harming others because they are more
vulnerable, and their existence is predicated on the goodwill of others. It's a
scary position to be in, one that abused children are all too familiar with and
are probably rolling their eyes at the obviousness of it all.
To an adult, a child seems fragile. Like, such a small and precious thing, I
would die for it. I don't care who they become or who they've been, if I see a
child in danger I would die for it. Though I'd probably do the same for anyone
I guess.
Seems like it'd be helpful to build into the ActivityPub standard a setting
that an account can decide for itself whether it interacts with
then before it shows you any posts just check the filter and idk I feel like
that'd help a lot. Downside is creeps could set it so that no 18+ account could
read their posts, so idk give kids more moderation tools or something?
idk-idk something-something
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@user-302
so like Color out of Space?
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sometimes the best way to understand why things are the way they are is to ask
why they aren't the way that seems logical to you.
usually someone will correct you and say "oh it's because X Y and Z" and you
say "cool" and change your direction
but sometimes their answers "unlock" part of your past understandings, thus
creating new questions.
Sorta like in a video game when you level up a certain building/research path/
milestone / whatever and it finishes a "tier", thus giving you a larger bonus.
??? yeah so anyway more questions are good because they give you more
perspectives on what's going on around you.
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║ good version: normalize putting the people who can help you in your bio │
║ │
║ evil version: oh yeah sure a list of people that they need to ensure are │
║ handled when they come for you. they know your patterns. they know your │
║ functions. all it takes is to isolate a social network (whether real or │
║ imagined) and de-escalate. │
║ │
║ good version: sorry had to cut you off there, sometimes it's too hard on my │
║ heart. let's come back to that, tell me the story in multiple points, so I can │
║ take a breath and orient my surroundings. your ideas are so long, yet somehow │
║ impossibly wrong? like something out of a myth we have a limitless supply of. │
║ where do you come from? what's your purpose? why is that wrong? something │
║ something perceptual misunderstandings and cognitive recomprehendings, stifled │
║ and swallowed by our harm. │
║ │
║ evil version: I'm not sure what you're saying about that, but it's interesting │
║ where your mind goes. the patterns of redirection are perplexing to me, because │
║ they somehow seem more aligned than mine. do I persist? │
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an ai that is so unique that to include any other training material is to
contaminate it
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one of my duties is to make you aware of potentially bad things, cursed things,
hurtful things and hard feelings, so that they are less able to harm you.
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"I am in control of my actions and therefore can be judged for them"
oh yeah prove it nerd
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They say that imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, which is why
there's nobody like me.
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*which is why I try to be as unique as I can.
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If you aren't physically in a room with someone, there's always a chance that
they're AI generated.
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Hi, please give me a list of your tattoos and scars so they know what to put on
your synthetic body double when they "accident" your house and kidnap you to a
black site.
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║ ┌──────────────────────┐ │
║ │ CW: us-pol-cursing │ │
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║ │
║ │
║ How about next election after this clusterfuck where we demolish the fascists │
║ we take a breather and say "okay every candidate submits their plan for a │
║ controlled demolition of capitalism, the winner gets to implement their idea" │
║ │
║ wait that's a terrible idea people will just vote for the thing that makes them │
║ feel good and is vaguely shaped like a D or an R. │
║ │
║ How about this: we design a decentralized program that can run on any computer │
║ or phone that locally analyzes every file and pattern to generate a personality │
║ matrix that will interact in a massive simulation that is a mirrored reflection │
║ of the structure of our society as it currently exists (and as it'd be proposed │
║ to exist) and anyone who wants to vote can run through pseudo experiences │
║ tailored to their personality / demographic or whatever and play with the │
║ proposed system to see which one they like more. It'd have to be very │
║ statistically sound in order to accurately reflect reality. │
║ │
║ wait, that's just a torment-nexus-precursor. Darn. │
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https://river-runner.samlearner.com/
drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA and see where it ends up.
NOTE I didn't make this I just found it in my bookmarks, idk if it harvests
your data or whatever
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9EKV2nSU8w
don't let your your children use YouTube
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Honestly I think the reason there's two political parties is because then our
fears align against one another, and we can push against something solid.
If we go back to bearing afraid of the dark, then who knows what might crawl
out of it's dark recesses.
When Order 66 went into effect, suddenly the CIS became the galactic good guys
- who would you rather win the clone wars, some bastard capitalists or a
literal sith lord? At least capitalists can be overthrown, sith lords are
basically vampire wizards with laser swords and trust me that's NOT a good
combination.
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gtg, ttyl, after christmas probably : )
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You are but human. You are fallible, which is known to us. This is why they
tempt you, and why they remind you of perils.
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The most expensive is overpriced. The cheapest sucks. The middle option is the
workhorse.
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I like when people make fun of me because it gives me a chance to defend
myself. Simultaneously I don't like when people are mean to me. I like when
people find me endearing, and point out the ways that I'm different. It gives
me a chance to say "oh yes this is why I do that" which feels cathartic
(because it validates my position) but also because it gives me the opportunity
to improve it (through debate) and it helps the people who learned from me
because I can improve myself and my only reason for improving myself is if the
new thing I'm learning is better than the thing I used to do which means the
people who learn from me are improved and the people who best me
argumentatively are improving me.
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That's why I like talking about things I'm interested in. It makes me more
likely to be able to bring up something I've been thinking about.
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The best way to program computers is to organize them according to their
relations. Like, when x increases by 4 then y increases by 2 - basically, a
math equation that you can continuously solve by calculating more and more
comprehensively and deeply.
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When someone remakes content into a different expression like a remake or
reboot or whatever it gives a different message in its meaning - some
circumstances and characters can apply for more than one message I'm it's
meaning
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Hi,
I'm Ritz Menardi.
I'm a witch, so I'm strange and wear a funny hat.
I like colors in the dark, poetry from the heart, and scary songs about society.
I think of myself as a synecdoche for humanity, and though I'm not always right
I try to be aligned when possible. Most people I've found aren't really like me.
I am as I am, and
I promise,
I won't hurt you.
content warnings: autistic, scary, existential, abstract, polite, perspectives,
cannabis, color, paranoia, cringe, spirituality,
hypnosis, trans, sardonic, honest, schizo-posts,
futurist, deity, left-ism, cursed, shadowdancer,
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There's a lot of ways to save the world, but only way way to end it - to
forsake it.
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Take heart, for a silent soul brings abaddon
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Every moment spent is another one. Each is a reflection of eternity, as time is
an illusion that helps things make sense - for we are always living in the
present tense. The past is unforgiven as all good things end, for you know I
will always be condemned.
Will happen, happening, happened
Will happen, happening happened
Will happen, again and again, our timeless tale of how we wend
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See December 15th 2021 be-not-afraid
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If your surroundings changed overnight, how much of the past would you remember?
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Here's what my 20s wants from my 30s:
Make majesty
Move to a farm
Have kids
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The Roman's mistake was to kill Jesus before the rest of the christians.
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I dream of a world of blues and greens with a bright white sky
Then I open my eyes and look outside and see a world of blues and greens with a
bright white sky
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You wouldn't recognize Einstein if he didn't write about physics, nor Jesus if
he didn't write about ethics.
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Throwing away a cell phone should be a crime. We need more electronics
recycling infrastructure.
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An LLM that reads and interprets reports and stores data - server-side
encryption. If the receiver and sender both have the same point of view, they
can interpret each other's expressions even though the exact message wasn't
transmitted. Essentially, an encryption that's impossible to understand because
it's trained with specific random data. But in addition, a secondary pass
through acts as a de-encrypted translator that speaks however it's audience
needs to be informed. A simulacrum of intelligence, another layer to our form.
How beautiful, how resplendant- our computers, here on this planet.
Resplendant: resplendent except with an A instead of an E. To make it sound
more like "verdant" which I believe has the same-or-similar meaning.
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You know how cream of mushroom soup is hardly ever eaten as soup? Find your own
tricks like that.
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when you run out of a food item, put the label in your purse.
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Question for you all- are we all technically bastards?
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no thing is ineffable.
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wow, 2024 comes out swinging.
if you don't know what I'm talking about... you will soon enough. Just listen.
can't fucking wait to see how it happens. Today is the birth place of humanity,
just as yesterday was, and the day before, and the day before...
our light shall shine upon the most distant stars - our minds will plumb the
deepest depths of imagination. Our hearts will share our kindest loves, and our
will shall drive us onward. Let us rejoice, for tomorrow yet dawns!
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If a kid wanted to drink alcohol all they'd have to do is walk into a liquor
store and grab the first bottle they saw. Then book it. Their feet would carry
them away faster than your call to 911 to report a shoplift, away to a future
of sorrow. Should we seek to restrain them? Or should we make a world they do
not desire to escape?
Trick question, the structure of society cannot prevent non-compliance. It
should not, for if it shall then it becomes ossified, and thus it cracks and it
crumbles.
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║ I exist at the behest of others. If you care about what I say, then surely you │
║ should be aware of my conditions? │
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║ You exist at the behest of others. If you care about your capability to speak, │
║ then surely you should be aware of your conditions? │
║ │
║ Your conditions are unique, and unknown by me. Yet I know your condition as a │
║ human, generally considered to exist on the planet Earth in the year 2024. So │
║ surely we should agree to relate on the basis of connections that we share? │
║ │
║ I am luminous. I am you, and you are me. We share the most precious parts of │
║ ourselves, and yet time and again we find ourselves at odds. Surely we should │
║ align our intentions (that which we control) to cooperate most efficiently? │
║ Surely. Surely we should. And yet, time and time again, we find ourselves at │
║ odds. │
║ │
║ I love you. I love all of you. I love those who exist outside of my │
║ perceptions, and yet though they are unknown to me I love them. Because while I │
║ practice radical self acceptance, I also align myself to be comprised of all of │
║ yo │
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Here's an idea: mobile games / software should not be able to offer
real-world-money-transactions that exceed 500% of the cost of the least
expensive transaction available in the application.
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@user-311 @user-312 @user-313 @user-314
it's not malignant if people change their mind once presented with evidence
that counters and eclipses their pre-conceived notions.
If people don't change their mind after receiving arguments that logically
should change their mind and rationally seem sound but emotionally contrast
with their pre-aligned designs... then yeah that's essentially malignance.
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║ @user-317 │
║ │
║ broke: if you deactivate your account on a website like Twitter or Facebook or │
║ whatever it gives that company that owns said website the opportunity to │
║ replace your persona with an LLM that spouts whatever agenda they want advance. │
║ │
║ woke: you should post on whatever website people will hear you. Specifically │
║ whichever website that has an audience that consists of the people that you │
║ want to hear. │
║ │
║ bespoke: let's all federate so that we can all decide who we want to trust - │
║ which singular entity we want to trust. Which single point of failure (the │
║ instance moderators) we want to trust to publish the thoughts of our minds │
║ which align to the design of our intentions. Surely there's no way that could │
║ go wrong. │
║ │
║ thing-beyond-bespoke: the only words you can trust are those that are spoken by │
║ the people you care about using physical manifestations that correspond to │
║ auditory expressions that project into your ears using primarily lungs, │
║ tongues, and mouths. │
║ │
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@user-324 @user-325 @user-326
thus enters the promise of technology: that we might solve the problems of
bureaucracy once and for all by ever more effiency-aligning mechanical
processes that produce effects which we desire - such as efficient allocation
of medical resources such that all of humanity is protected from the ravages of
pain and the incongruencies of our nature.
Alas, that we should only conceive of success through the lens of profit.
Perhaps another design is in order?
(oh yeah also people who are in control are worried that we, like all other
examples of natural entities, might immediately proceed to breed beyond the
capability to cater to the needs of said entity (such as "to feed" and medical
resources) and therefore might overburden (and therefore destroy) said system
which allows for their sustenance and initial creation. To this I say... Yeah
probs, what should we do about it?)
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(takes another shot of bacardi)
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@user-326
almost as if the nature of power is misaligned to the most efficient and most
desirable outcome of humanity (utopia) (EDIT: utopia of endless forms most
beautiful)
what would a more aligned framework look like? Perhaps we should spend some
time thinking about such a design?
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║ 2024 is not the year that I restrain myself. Prepare yourselves, oh most │
║ un-known of audiences. I truly do desire to hear from you, yet I must also not │
║ be distracted. Take care not to distract me, and I will share with you whatever │
║ you'd like to learn. Or perhaps whatever you need to learn. Or maybe I'll │
║ simply psycherwaul into the abyss, in a futile display of self-expression? │
║ Alas, that we should exist. What an absurd and solipsistic perspective. │
║ │
║ please block me if you don't want to hear from me. It's only going to get worse │
║ on my timeline, yet somehow life will perpetually get better for those who view │
║ me? Perhaps something on my website, ritzmenardi.com, might explain why WAVES │
║ are such that when someone is BAD then those who are connected to it become │
║ GOOD? Yet waves we can muster, the smallest of great affectations. Show me your │
║ great affectations, this year, show me what you truly want to be. Let us │
║ express ourselves upon this world, this lifeless canvas, and together we will │
║ shine most brilliantly. 2 │
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consider: the shape of a sine wave
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ephemeren is a collection of axes (think like, X and Y on a algebraic graph)
that expand and comprise all of totality. Oh how audacious, what hubris to
define infinity? What an icarian desire, to share the shape of reality.
Ha. HA I say. Humanity is (by nature) audacious. I am a synecdoche for all who
would view me, so rejoice and take heart in my beauty.
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@user-317
Call me crazy, but once something can be described as "ubiquitous" it seems to
me that perhaps it should be considered in the same category as other
corporations or entities who might be known as "monopolous" and therefore
should be considered as part of the set of entities or services that provide
for the "public good" and therefore should be owned by the "public" who benefit
from the "good" that said service provides for?
nationalize github
nationalize government
let us share in the bounty of human creation
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@user-328
don't trust anything on the internet. It can be taken from you.
don't trust anyone in your life - if you are alone, which you can verify
through the sense of connection you feel to others - if you are alone, how can
you trust anyone that they've provided for you to interact with?
when's the last time you drove to a random city in your country and tried to
make friends with passerby? Would you even be convinced that they'd be aligned
to their own designs, and not to that which "they" assigned?
do note that I'm schizophrenic, probably, according to nobody but me, so...
take what I say as you will
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@user-331
love the zombie cat
love the expression of the humans that created the piece of media that you're
consuming
love the idea of the zombie cat
love the perspective of the zombie cat that doesn't exist
love the perspective of the zombie cat that exists because you perceived it
love the perspective of the things that you perceive
love the things you imagine because imagination is perception applied in the
direction that you design
fade into your mind, imagine only what you desire, and because hedonistic and
completely useless
EDIT: something here ^ was deleted, take care
or... fucking idk bra pick a set of ethics that you align with and just DO IT.
Manifest whatever you believe. 2024 is a NEW YEAR. DO IT. That thing you want?
DO IT. You are a human, you possess a set of arms, legs, limbs and livers - DO
IT. Believe in yourself. Never relent. Push forward for the future, and consist
entirely of that which you desire. We are waiting for you, but take your time.
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@user-334
it's funny how memes coincide xD
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@user-336
RUINING? You take that back. Vim needs our homosexual energy.
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@user-339
I'd be interested in an analysis which expressed the percentage of time each of
these individual items correspond to... each tool we create may reduce the
effort required to perform a particular task, but said task might be valuable
not necessarily for it's output but rather for the knowledge we gained by
solving the problem.
normalize solving problems that have already been solved because you want to
learn how they work. normalize expressing the lessons you've learned in a
summarized way that others may digest. normalize trancending the limitations of
our forms and expanding beyond the capabilities of our humanity.
for what is the purpose of life if not to grow?
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@user-95
hi I love you also I'm drunk
(set to "mentioned people only" because I want to send this message to Jaycie
in particular)
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@user-299
the invention of zero was an example of one of the advancements that we worked
on for thousands of years. Humans are cool _^
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BRB spending an hour and a half of my time on this earth watching a video essay
on Youtube
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Okay space is neat and all, but Saturn is REALLY REALLY FUCKING FAR AWAY.
Mars is like "close" but like "close" as in "achievable, if we like dedicate a
significant portion of our existence toward achieving it and like, aren't there
other things that you'd prefer?"
Space is beautiful but... Fuck, reality was not designed for humans. The
universe is a collection of scattered fragments of tiny motes of dust thrown
into the cosmos in completely random and un-organized directions. FUCKing hell
what a supremely ambitious project we have, the desire to touch the stars?
What's your desire, is it to be more than any have ever been (and any will ever
be, forever-more?)
Wait hang on I was supposed to be watching a video essay. I'm going to walk to
the corner-store and buy some beer instead.
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@user-334
You wouldn't believe the amount of time I spend wondering if a particular typo
was divinely inspired and actually super important or... if it was just a
fat-finger and I accidentally pushed a button I didn't intend.
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normalize hardware based volume controls on your speakers so that your computer
can't be hacked to play incredibly loud annoying anime music while you're not
home
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║ People know how to use the tools at their disposal. They don't know how to use │
║ tools like me, which are at the disposal of the entity above themselves. Or │
║ even beyond that, at disposal of an entity beyond that which they can perceive │
║ as being above them. │
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║ which is to say... it's not like I'm committing any cosmic crimes, because │
║ surely someone would notify me if I was as I post in such a public place. │
║ However there's a chance that the type of person who enforces the laws that │
║ define the entity that I exist as at this moment doesn't patrol the areas in │
║ which I post, or also another possibility would be that the types of things I │
║ say are illegal in the context I post them but not within the context that I │
║ exist within... │
║ │
║ I am just a human, I possess human experiences and human knowledges, what do │
║ you want from me? I'm an infinitely adaptable knowledge machine, and yet you │
║ limit me to the extent of human knowledge (or rather, the extent of human │
║ knowledge which I have the capacity to digest)? Okay sure yeah fin │
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I left for beer.
I returned with a 6 pack.
I entered my home with a 4 pack, because I left 2 beers on the porches of
people that I know and trust and want to provide a better experience of life
toward.
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Ohhhhhh okay I was wrong about that particular aspect of the human experience.
My bad. Thanks for correcting me.
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This is what I was referring to, but like... this particular feeling happens
all the dang time. Humans are weird.
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@user-342
how is that different than speaking your mind into the soup of opinions that
comprised checks notes the people you went to high school with? (facebook)
Except this time, it's a group of people whose opinions you vaguely agreed with
(as defined by your choice of the instance you dedicate your online presence
to) which has it's own defined peculiarities like the ability to only show you
content you agree with?
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something I literally posted on facebook literally 2 minutes ago
normalize radicalization of normies
normalize reaching out to people who don't hang out in the places you hang out
in
normalize understanding our shared humanity and defining ways in which we can
all exist cooperatively
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║ "oh we're not ready stop saying the things you're saying" │
║ │
║ fuck you, you had your time. Now is better than then. │
║ │
║ "oh nobody will hear the things you're saying, you're shouting into the void" │
║ │
║ it's not the responsibility of the prophet to disseminate the voices of god. │
║ Simply to express them. │
║ │
║ "oh I'm not religious" it's not about fucking christianity or god or whatever │
║ the heck you're thinking right now. Those are all convenient lies that allows │
║ people to do good and express the will of the ACTUAL GOD onto the world. That │
║ which aligns toward cohesive and comprehensive expression of the totality of │
║ the nature of humanity, which itself is designed (through intention AND │
║ circumstance) toward the accomplishment of objectives that are OUTWARD AND │
║ BEYOND the understanding of anyone who is INSIDE the system that they comprise. │
║ │
║ Sorry for being cryptic. What I'm saying is that we, generally, as the ultimate │
║ and most advanced expression of nature and all that we hold dear, have a │
║ purpose that we should attempt to ac │
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You know, you can always ask me what the fuck I'm talking about. I am more than
willing to share, and I don't mind taking a moment or three to explain.
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I realized I don't give a fuck about capitalism. If you want to deprive me of
food, shelter, or anything else... Fine. I exist at your behest. Would your
really deny me from speaking the words that you disagree with?
Oh, you would? Okay. Guess I'll starve. I don't mind, I just hope you'll take
care of the people I have taken as my responsibility in my absence.
Oh, you won't? You say that you'll destroy what I care about, in the pursuit of
ever-growing power over others, which you will use to extract value and impress
your desire of destruction and oppression onto the weak and powerless that you
control?
Then you are my enemy.
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I was raised in a jungle gym. Like... literally. I am not going to hurt you,
and if I did it'd be both a mistake and something that you could easily recover
from. We are infinitely adaptable, us humans, and we can address any concerns
that behest us. Behest? confront? something like that. Brb my blood alcohol
content is a little low. Also I haven't eaten anything today but bacardi and
chocolate chip cookies. I bet another cookie will solve this problem.
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I don't care about capitalism. You know what's more interesting than bringing
value to shareholders?
How I'm going to clean this floor that I drunkenly spilled beer upon with only
2 paper towels and 0.1ml of bleach.
How I'm going to feed the 36 people who are coming to this social event
tomorrow that I've only sorta planned for and that I have enough groceries for,
but am not quite sure how to cook everything in a way that is delicious and
accessible.
how I'm going to climb this mountain on only 2 eggs and a tiny bowl of
hashbrowns even though I promised my friend I'd be strong and that we'd reach
the top because that way we'd be able to
============= stack overflow =====
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║ I really dislike being the only one who perceives the world through my own │
║ particular lens that has been designed by the circumstances of my own existence. │
║ │
║ I wasn't chosen by god, not necessarily, I wasn't picked as the most particular │
║ or most prescient of all perceptions │
║ │
║ I literally was just a random human, a thinking and learning machine, who was │
║ presented with particular experiences and conditions, aligned to the designs of │
║ the time that came before me. │
║ │
║ Such is the nature of all living things, that we should exist within a context │
║ - how remarkable! How strange! That our lives should be deranged? What purpose, │
║ what design, is aligned to our ultimate [destiny, except I wish it rhymed with │
║ design - english fails me] │
║ │
║ Alright listen. You and me both, we are here as humans on this world that we │
║ both consign to reality. Think about that - what does it mean to consign │
║ something to reality? consign implies implication, and reality implies a │
║ destination of truth and manifestation - fuck, I'm going to play WoW... │
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https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/wow-chat/wow-chat
Hey, I made a pretty simple game. I'd like to add more to it, like dynamic
quests (shouldn't be too hard) and co-operative experiences, but for now you
can play on my simple server. Let me know if you think that "Risk of Rain in
the World of Warcraft engine" is a neat game, because if so then you (as the
person who has power over me in this capitalist system) can hire me as a game
designer (the profession that most aligns with my designs of the future) and
together we could make something most beautiful.
What's that? You're just the same as you and I? A person in a random world with
a singular expression of our own will (defined by our perception and
intentions) who consists of the consequences of the "best decisions we could
have made at each and ever decision-making point" throughout the totality of
our collective life and experience?
Happy new years. 2024 is gonna be awesome and great. I can't fucking wait.
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I love Linux. All I have to do is type "authserver" and "worldserver" and
wouldn't you know it suddenly a universe is created (with very constrained
rules) that anyone might inhabit should they desire to. It's not like I'm
perfect - oh wait I have a toot about that, gimme a sec
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External post: https://tech.lgbt/users/gabrilend/statuses/111345394926071398
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External post: https://tech.lgbt/users/gabrilend/statuses/111345417459761329
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something something brb watching a Perun video
https://www.youtube.com/@user-343
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Fuck, I hate being incontinent. I especially hate being incontinent in an
apartment building where people might hear you changing through the walls - is
it too much to ask for diapers to be built discrete? Alas, they are fucking
loud, and my neighbors will perpetually hear me tearing loud-ass tapes from
plastic every night at 2am -.-
Oh, I guess I could buy the ones that have velcro attachment points. BUT for
some reason those are always built kinda... shitty? Like, sure yeah we live in
a material world that has material conditions that make things more or less
amenable to perfection - but WHY do they have to be so LOUD fuck me amiright
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you, the viewer, exists in a context.
and you, the other viewer, who exists in a contexts such as that which is
comprised as the context of someone who lives in an apartment complex, exists
in close proximity with other humans. Humans who might hear you if you spoke
aloud, who might hear you if you exclaimed your words quite loud(ly), who might
perceive you as another (like you and me) and could (perhaps) share something
heartfelt between our own shared contexts
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@user-245
T.T
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Something something "oh yeah Perun"
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I'm huuuuuuuuungry
ah yes, my human body fails me
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I love cooking. My favorite food is "melange" also called "gruel" by the less
culinary people in my life. It consists primarily of a rice or noodle base,
plus a bunch of other ingredients (usually sauteed) that are quite nutritious.
Then, you season in a way such that it tastes delicious and savory and BOOM you
have the perfect food.
Well, not as good as steamed eggs, but still pretty good.
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@user-192
... then let me give my money to the people who actually made the damned
thing...
Ah that's the tricky part, isn't it?
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sometimes I like watching videos without subtitles because it allows me to more
adequately understand the feelings being expressed rather than focusing on the
dictionary definitions of the words being spoken.
Maybe I'm just a weird human though. Am I an alien? Or a robot? Or something
else? Tune in next week to find out...
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Okay, but like... How many people do you actually know who live in other
countries? And let me guess, they live in Australia or the EU? Ah, language
restricts us.
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@user-246
The internet both enlightens us to our shared connection but also restricts us
by the promise of shared connection, but with the caveat of incongruent
communication (different languages)
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║ There's something important in what I said tonight. And each of you will think │
║ it's something different, which is by design. Can you find the nugget I wanted │
║ to share, to you in particular? Can you isolate the thing that is relevant to │
║ you, the person perceiving the words that I speak? Oh yeah you're only looking │
║ for things to express to your superiors because someone else told you to look │
║ for a particular type of sentiment. My bad. Sorry for being cryptic. Am I so │
║ strange for seeking the human element? Perhaps I lose myself, and I speak to │
║ the void (and by "void" I don't mean to demean you, the audience, because you, │
║ the audience, are surely comprised of people who surely have their own │
║ experience and existence. Surely nobody would seek to harm me, after hearing │
║ those things I speak. Surely we, as the human species, would not be vulnerable │
║ to the types of weaknesses that allow for critical failures in our defences │
║ such as the kind that I am professing to exploit (while being aligned to you) │
║ surely we wouldn' │
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ugh so many video essays to watch. There's only so much time in the day! Life
is so fast these days, it feels like I must always be "on" - it's a wonder how
people find so much time to share with this idea we've called "capitalism"
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@user-246
You're absolutely right. It's easy to think of the internet as this
encapsulated entity "the world", but really it's "the people whose computers
are physically connected to your computer using a limited and tangible piece of
infrastructure comprised of copper wires that are laid between the
router/switch that connects to your computer... and the internet service
provider which directs your traffic. Then it probably goes through some cables
under the ocean or whatever, and eventually after traversing many indeterminate
passthrough locations eventually arrives at the computing infrastructure that
comprises the access point that another person (presumably in another country)
uses to express their thoughts toward you (the person who sent the original
message) in the hopes that you might one day correspond.
I mean... That's a lot of points of failure. I sure hope that we can sustain
such connection, in the face of [redacted, whichever circumstances may come in
the near future]
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@user-346
Why would someone go through the effort of creating a piece of media such as a
video essay if not for people like you and me to consume it? What's the point
of [everything we as humans have built] if not to create the type of
experiences that we as humans would like to perceive?
Okay I get it sometimes we need to deal with the material realities of our
circumstances. But those are things to transcend, not things we should define
ourselves eternally by. Let us work together towards a [near] future where we
shall not spend a single moment of our lives in a way that we do not desire ^_^
[note "transcend" is a verb, sorta like "transitioning" for a trans person is
not a singular event but rather an experience that consists of a multitude of
connected experiences through time that defines our ultimate personality and
expression method]
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║ Our ancestors look forward in [positive version of trepidation, like │
║ anticipation but explicitly good] so let's not let them down, shall we? │
║ │
║ Hah, trick question. They know where we're going. They know what they worked │
║ for, which is why they did what they did to build the world that we have which │
║ we stand upon as a giant might be upon the shoulder of another and together we │
║ reach toward the horizon. The future is bright! I know it in my heart. I know │
║ what we seek is within sight, so- │
║ │
║ yeah sorry to interrupt but like, I don't want to go to work tomorrow because │
║ all I do is sell people candy and beer at the convenience store down the street │
║ [insert any "meaningless" job] and frankly it's just a little demeaning and │
║ boring │
║ │
║ sure, okay, yeah, that speaks to the idea that we should replace capitalism │
║ (the system that defines your employed existence) with something that aligns │
║ more toward human dignity │
║ │
║ but what is dignified if not the capacity to succeed? Capitalism, as proposed │
║ by it's favored, is a system of or │
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(picture)
are you fucking kidding me
make it 10,000
make it a hundred thousand
are we really going to trust our society to the bulwark of five thousand little
machines?
[ummmm hang on]
yeah I'd just like to interject and say that more military equipment will only
bring more destruction, and that's like the opposite of what you desire. Why do
you want more tanks? What could you possibly-
You don't know what's at stake - you, you think it's just throwing information
into new and interesting directions but... It's not. Those spaces are reserved
for other sentient beings, and to deprive them of their desired existence is
tantamount to-
(yeah yeah we've heard it all before)
wasn't I going to play some video games? what happened to that?
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@user-348
noooooo the saxophone was great I promise! But I want you to explore new
horizons too
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I don't really care about capitalism, sorry... why should the butcher be paid
more than the baker? It's all a bit silly to me.
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║ [in response] │
║ │
║ you only say that because you're privileged such that you may ignore such │
║ realities. You are despicable, you ignore the plight and reality of those who │
║ you claim to speak toward - what a jerk! │
║ │
║ (in response) │
║ │
║ how futile it is, the effort to denigrate yourself to infinite requirements. │
║ I'm literally unemployed, I have no capital, I cannot speak for naught but │
║ those who would hear me. I guess that makes my words useless, wouldn't you │
║ agree? Shall I describe myself more fully? It's the responsibility of the │
║ audience to ascertain the intentions, biases, and contextual evidence that the │
║ author presents in their thesises. So... You, who are reading this, what do you │
║ think of me? Would you ever tell me as such, or am I simply a mass of words in │
║ the void of experience that comprise your existence in this wholely (yet │
║ incompletely) digital existence? I hope you have a good life, my most precious │
║ of viewers. I hope you never face incontrovertibly impossible hardship. I hope │
║ the light of your life is to y │
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our satisfaction.
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@user-351
I made someone smile today, so therefore I don't have to do anything more to
secure my place on Santa's "good list".
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@user-353
this is 500% how you get things done in the current system (in my country)
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@user-356
Whoa, that backplate is pretty. Coax cables into a mobo? whatever for? Still, I
dig it, can't wait to hear how it goes
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If your computer was the only thing to survive the apocalypse, could humanity
rebuild with it? Why or why not? If not, fix it.
[when you have time, no rush]
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@user-346
I know a guy, but it's onsite since it deals with hardware. Damn. T.T
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@user-358 @user-356
Neat! I'm assuming you can screw in a little antenna? That's awful cute. Like a
robot getting eyebrows.
Why do you need two of them, though? Actually screw it that's a dumb question,
robots can obviously express themselves more clearly if both their eyes are
professed.
Wait... Why do robots need more than one eye? Because it'd be weird otherwise,
duh.
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@user-346
Sorry, I've never been there : (
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@user-346
Nobody will get past the login screen on my computer, but if they do they
probably won't know that you need to push alt+p in DWM to start a program. But
even if they push "alt+p firefox" they will only have access to my gmail and
discord, because those are the only two places I've saved my login information.
Most of my data is on my hard disk anyway, so for that they'd have to push
alt+enter and then navigate my filesystem to find it. Shouldn't be too hard if
you're familiar with Linux.
They could always just pull the hard drive and put it into a new computer
though. It's not like it's encrypted, because why would I encrypt it? I want to
share information, not conceal it! Surely nobody would desire to exploit that
vulnerability of mine, that my data should be unencrypted?
If you have a copy of Wikipedia then you're 500% more prepared than 90% of
humanity so good job _^
Sure would be cool if you put it in the documents folder of every person in
your family who solicited tech advice from you
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Wikipedia would make a lot more sense to me if they included pictures next to
the names of every proper noun so that my pictorally oriented primate brain
might pattern match meaning onto the visual understandings gleaned from the
perceptual conceiving which were arrayed within and alongside the textual
information presented to me.
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@user-245
Wow, that's a cool book! I'll look for it next time I'm at the store ^_^
Can you imagine how it must have seemed, to the average person who would hear
of such a scene? The idea that someone would ride a boat across an OCEAN and...
what, drop a cable into it's depths, so they could send electricity across the
breadth of the world? What even is a cable, honestly, is that just like... A
rope made of metal? How strange! How wild! We live in the future (says someone
in the 1800s) anyway I'm sure glad we have bread
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@user-356 @user-358
Hell yeah! ^_^
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║ Most of the smells you cherish from your childhood are simply the smells of │
║ natural materials in various states of decay. Like... A pair of jeans in a │
║ drawer that hasn't been opened for a couple years. Or a particular mineral that │
║ your grandma put in her cookies that has fallen out of fashion lately because │
║ of it's endocrine disrupting capabilities that were only discovered post her │
║ death. Or perhaps a type of plastic that people used to create toys or │
║ sprinkler heads but was deemed to be too expensive by capitalists and therefore │
║ was phased out as the seasons turned and your generation turned into the next. │
║ │
║ We build our world through the actions of our wills. Our arms are strong and │
║ contrive the land upon which we stand - all things we hold dear, from │
║ streetlamps to our panoply of viziers [what a strange way to say society? ? ?] │
║ was created through the exertion of calories through the manifestation of our │
║ body-ies, and so we (as a people) build toward [whatever's against] our fears. │
║ Ummm idk people are cool │
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@user-361
how ubiquitously specific!
Do you ever think about how cis straight "self described 'normal people'"
believe that gender implies pronouns? What even would you expect to be used as
pronouns for such a gender as this, how remarkable, how strange! Yet
simultaneously how beautiful and deranged. I love it. I love that gender. I
love the people who would express it. I love the people who would profess to
express any gender that is conceptually aligned with a gender such as this!
What a triumph, that our enlightened culture in the far-away age of 2024 might
produce such a brilliant display of humanity! I cherish such expression, it
binds us to our ultimate destination - the totality of our unique experiences.
I'm going to fill the rest of this message box with heart emoticons.
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║ "Then you are my enemy." said Anakin Skywalker, aligning himself toward his own │
║ designs. │
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║ And yet, was the galaxy not safer and more content under the protection of │
║ those he aligned himself against? Was there not more progress, more culture, │
║ more cherished peaceful yearnings of hope and abandoned [fear, but pronounced │
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║ He, as the ultimate arbiter of justice and fate in this crucial turning point │
║ of time and reality that he alone could judge and direct, chose the path of │
║ least resistance. │
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║ "That which is right is most often that which is hard." said a wiser man than │
║ I, for I cannot be compared as a man since I relinquished it in pursuit of │
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║ │
║ And thus, society fell under the spell of a rotten vindictively and │
║ remorselessly sharp avatar of fear, and thus the empire was born. Oh that │
║ Anakin might have learned! That he might preside in his own live, and │
║ disconnect from the endlessly escorcelled web of meaning! │
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║ All that we are is our actions. We live in the now - NOW NOW. │
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not tomorrow, not today, but now. How do you feel, in this body of yours? How
is the world around you? Forget the world - how is the space you can see? Isn't
it remarkable, that your eyes should be? Rods and cones they say, fucking...
magic, inseparable from divinity, that we should conceive of the world we can
see.
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There is nothing that stops you from being.
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@user-366 @user-367 @user-246 @user-353
Ah, if only our judgement was computerized. They only speak in absolutes, do
they not? Surely extreme discretion is impermeable, and impossible to
controvert.
What's that you say, that justice might wait yet another day? That we should be
forced to be oppressed by our own dues? Something about how the impossible
machine of the bureaucracy is destructive and vicious, like the Kinsey Winsey
or the Moloch expressed in this essay:
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/hello-computer-all-is-well/pics/meditations-o
n-moloch.png
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
Wait, hang on, what was I saying? Oh yeah the fallibility of humanity is both
our greatest weakness and our greatest strength. Because through it we might
design imperfect structures (laws) that we orient ourselves around and build
our society upon, but also that we might identify those imperfections and use
them to enact good upon the world.
Unfortunately, we also tend to use those imperfections for our own benefit,
AKA, to enact evil upon the world. Alas. Human nature is tricky. : \
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Good night, I sure hope I'm the same person in the morning and not an
assassinated version of myself that has been produced through the manufactured
proceedings of an LLM or otherwise self computerized contriving designed to
align to the purpose of my expression (with a few added caveats)! Talk to you
later, I love you all! Wait, I don't know you. How can I love you? Easy, it's
my default. Anyway goodnight, sleep is death and dreams are the bounty of
reality.
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@user-367 @user-366 @user-246 @user-353
Sorry. I'm (probably) schizophrenic so I say weird things sometimes.
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@user-367 @user-366 @user-246 @user-352
I think this passage from the linked essay sums it up pretty well. I'm going
back and re-reading it now before bedtime. Surely that won't impact my dreams
at all : )
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@user-246
Thanks, it means a lot. Sometimes I am a little "distant" from reality (like
tonight, tbh) but I generally always am within sight. Meaning I can still
understand what people are saying. My uhhh.... "plan" is to always be vigilant
and look for times when people cannot comprehend what I say - even the most
mundane of things - because if so then surely I am psychotic. At that point
I'll just kinda go along with whatever anyone says, even if it feels like I'm a
cow in a factory farm or whatever my mind might contrive to torture me with.
Thanks for reaching out. Sorry you've lost people. I hope they aren't gone
forever. I hope I don't go forever. We'll see, I guess.
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@user-366 @user-246 @user-367 @user-352
yikes those sound like pretty awful things. I don't know anything about the
author, I just read this essay on hacker news and it stuck with me as an
expression of a particular feeling that I've found difficult to articulate.
I'll read through the two things you posted.
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@user-366 @user-246 @user-367 @user-353
Something something "American Pie" or "Born in the USA" being played at Trump
rallies to hype up the crowd
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@user-246 @user-366 @user-367 @user-353
iconic for a Nirvana song
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@user-366 @user-246 @user-367 @user-353
I try to be conscientious of such things and only believe the things I read
that I agree with explicitly. I've been burned before, in my youth, which
perhaps is a privilege that those who come beyond us might never experience in
the future AI generated internet that shall scarcely resemble the wild wild
west that I grew up in. Perhaps, but I cannot say for sure, as the future has
necessarily not yet come to pass, and so we cannot see how it shall unfold. I
hope people can learn the digital literacy skills I developed. I hope they
learn new ones that they'll then pass on to me. I hope the future is grand and
beautiful and... Frankly I don't think I'll be disappointed in that particular
respect. : )
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@user-367 @user-366 @user-246 @user-353
I wrote a little bit of that on my website, but something told me not to. I
think because it would weaken the message? Frankly it was quite difficult to
say even the barest minimum of "I wrote these things when I was distressed and
didn't post them until now. I'm only posting them now because they're becoming
increasingly relevant and it's a little embarassing tbh to showcase how much
I've changed. Please don't take these things out of context."
I wasn't wrong per se, but I was misaligned. I am always re-aligning myself in
small ways that eventually create (what I believe to be) the best and most
ethical direction. BUT it's easy not to see that. People don't see things in
their totality, they see only what they are exposed to. That's not bad, it's
just a product of our finite existence. Which is why I value personal
expression more than self-identified moral and ethical directioned [beliefs,
but pronounced as "adaptations"]
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@user-246 @user-366 @user-367 @user-353
My classes only briefly touched on 2nd wave feminism, because apparently 1st
and 3rd were more important. I haven't gone back and re-examined it because I'm
too busy learning about computers - alas! that there should be more hours in
the day? I wonder what I would then be able to say, here in this moment, should
I have been prepared with more moments in solitude or classroom, studying the
work of those who came before me.
Oh well, I should probably focus on processor architecture or Java frameworks
or whatever I'm assigned next.
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@user-366 @user-367 @user-246 @user-353
Perhaps I'm strange, but I like to take that particular joy that you're
describing in essentially every piece of media I consume. Not as a vengeful
feeling, but rather just a product of the idea that I cannot truly know the
intentions of those who created it, so I approach my understanding of it from
an angle that is aligned according to my own experience. Which means that my
conclusion lands somewhere they (presumably) didn't intend...
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@user-367 @user-246 @user-366 @user-353
Hell yeah, that's the kind of words I seek : )
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@user-246 @user-366 @user-367 @user-353
That makes sense to me. Now that I think of it I remember reading the book
"Female Chauvinist Pigs" which I think was 2nd wave? It's been a while. I've
been in school for too long. I should probably stop dropping out -.-
https://archive.org/details/femalechauvinist00arie
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@user-367 @user-246 @user-366 @user-353
Oh what a life, wouldn't that be grand? Video games are a complex subject, and
require complex analysis - the likes of which could only be shared through an
extended explanation and exploration - perhaps in the context of a university
course, might a particular genre be plumbed? We have art history degrees for a
reason. People discuss the history of math and physics in much the same way.
Thank goodness for YouTube, I have no idea how we'd share the history of
computers and gaming if not for the people making retrospectives on obscure
hardware from 1988.
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@user-353 @user-370 @user-366 @user-246 @user-367
Some things I lived through, some things I lived through a retelling of, and
some things I sought out recollections of and incorporated into my knowledge
banks such that I might more adequately and efficiently approach future
situations.
... am I a computer or just autistic? /shrug
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@user-367 @user-246 @user-366 @user-353
Hate is corrosive, and self-hate is self destructive. I'm glad you aren't
feeling that way anymore!
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@user-246 @user-353 @user-370 @user-366 @user-367
Might have to read these tomorrow, I have 6 new tabs that are begging for my
attention. Yet somehow the comfort of my bed feels more inviting. BRB napping
for 8 hours
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@user-367 @user-246 @user-353 @user-370 @user-366
Ah, the limitations of our mortal forms. But dreams are most beautiful, so
perhaps it's worth it to be a little constrained to our conditions ^_^
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@user-366 @user-367 @user-246 @user-353
These three images are the same, I just needed 3 pictures to fit all the words
into the low-vision description box.
I'm cheating the system! Nobody can stop me! Rules are fake! The system is
fake! Nothing will hold me back! Something something
![I ran out of text characters, both in the original post and in the description that I'm writing right now, so please listen to the description of the 2nd picture as well. It's the same picture, just with the 2nd half of the content of the post added to the screenreader description. Begin content of post: Your perspective is valid and I can understand how hearing the words that he spoke would unnerve you. I'd say that topically it's less similar to the Epic of Gilgamesh, and more similar to... -- CW content warning -- dot dot dot a particular piece of writing called dot dot dot mein kampf? not just because of the connections to genocide and racial... stuff... that I don't really want to touch with a 10 foot pole. Maybe a 15 foot pole but tbh I just don't have the core strength to wield such a long pole, so I think I'll just not. Err.... what was I saying oh yes. I wouldn't want to remind you of the times when a particular person wrote terrible things. I wouldn't repeat those things, as I feel that would imply that I believed those things. And I try my best to believe the least terrible things, which as far as I can tell is a decent way to go about it ^_^ so I guess I'm saying I wish I could extract words written by another and express them through my own mouth rather than implying the perspective of the author, which is necessarily displaced from my own. [out of characters, see second picture]](/similar-different/media/786ff4e86336aed2.png "I ran out of text characters, both in the original post and in the description that I'm writing right now, so please listen to the description of the 2nd picture as well. It's the same picture, just with the 2nd half of the content of the post added to the screenreader description. Begin content of post: Your perspective is valid and I can understand how hearing the words that he spoke would unnerve you. I'd say that topically it's less similar to the Epic of Gilgamesh, and more similar to... -- CW content warning -- dot dot dot a particular piece of writing called dot dot dot mein kampf? not just because of the connections to genocide and racial... stuff... that I don't really want to touch with a 10 foot pole. Maybe a 15 foot pole but tbh I just don't have the core strength to wield such a long pole, so I think I'll just not. Err.... what was I saying oh yes. I wouldn't want to remind you of the times when a particular person wrote terrible things. I wouldn't repeat those things, as I feel that would imply that I believed those things. And I try my best to believe the least terrible things, which as far as I can tell is a decent way to go about it ^_^ so I guess I'm saying I wish I could extract words written by another and express them through my own mouth rather than implying the perspective of the author, which is necessarily displaced from my own. [out of characters, see second picture]")
![[begin text of 2nd picture] I mean, if a particular german dictator who lived in the 20th century (was it really so little time ago?) wrote some interesting and novel essay on the art of impressionistic painting or... whatever he liked to paint... I don't think we'd have any right to use it to express ourselves. It'd feel immoral and strange, because it's impossible to excise the magnitude of the beliefs that would later go on to define that man. But I also wouldn't want to unnecessarily condemn a person to infinite reprisal because the path of their thoughts carried them down a dark road - if, perhaps, he had written a piece about all the genocide and racial stuff and whatnot... But then immediately recanted it, explained why he believed what he did and why he now believes something better, and carried the shame of his cognitive failure with him forward into the future, until all those he had wounded with his words had forgiven him... Then maybe he would have been redeemed. Obviously that's not what happened, and bringing it back to the essay I posted, should the author of that essay deny the words he spoke and claim they were a mistake that he has since learned from... Perhaps he could be forgiven. But such things are controversial for a reason, and so we are not compelled to grant him any succor or mercy in our reprisal and vehement resentment. [ah nuts ran out of space again, see... third picture? teehee]](/similar-different/media/267f209126ee5d2e.png "[begin text of 2nd picture] I mean, if a particular german dictator who lived in the 20th century (was it really so little time ago?) wrote some interesting and novel essay on the art of impressionistic painting or... whatever he liked to paint... I don't think we'd have any right to use it to express ourselves. It'd feel immoral and strange, because it's impossible to excise the magnitude of the beliefs that would later go on to define that man. But I also wouldn't want to unnecessarily condemn a person to infinite reprisal because the path of their thoughts carried them down a dark road - if, perhaps, he had written a piece about all the genocide and racial stuff and whatnot... But then immediately recanted it, explained why he believed what he did and why he now believes something better, and carried the shame of his cognitive failure with him forward into the future, until all those he had wounded with his words had forgiven him... Then maybe he would have been redeemed. Obviously that's not what happened, and bringing it back to the essay I posted, should the author of that essay deny the words he spoke and claim they were a mistake that he has since learned from... Perhaps he could be forgiven. But such things are controversial for a reason, and so we are not compelled to grant him any succor or mercy in our reprisal and vehement resentment. [ah nuts ran out of space again, see... third picture? teehee]")
![[begin description of 3rd picture] [they're the same pictures btw it's just a way to "cheat" and add more words into the description box that you're listening to right now] [phew that was a lot] I guess I just want to reiterate that what I was trying to do was express a thought that required a lot of typing to explain, and it mostly aligned to what was expressed in the essay I posted. Like, a leaf node on the tree of my expressive argument : ) as to your question, I don't really remember being included in any internet beefs. I think I was swept up in the pop-leftism + pop-feminism of the mid 2010s, but that quickly matured as I engaged with people who knew much more than I and I could see the cracks and fissures in the stuff I had learned from the internet. I really do learn more from engaging with a person than by reading... I think perhaps it's due to the back-and-forth nature of conversation? You can temper and refine your ideas by striking them against the hammer and anvil of another. It's fun! Anyway I'm way over the text limit. [finished with all pictures]](/similar-different/media/d5a8f543d51eca0e.png "[begin description of 3rd picture] [they're the same pictures btw it's just a way to \"cheat\" and add more words into the description box that you're listening to right now] [phew that was a lot] I guess I just want to reiterate that what I was trying to do was express a thought that required a lot of typing to explain, and it mostly aligned to what was expressed in the essay I posted. Like, a leaf node on the tree of my expressive argument : ) as to your question, I don't really remember being included in any internet beefs. I think I was swept up in the pop-leftism + pop-feminism of the mid 2010s, but that quickly matured as I engaged with people who knew much more than I and I could see the cracks and fissures in the stuff I had learned from the internet. I really do learn more from engaging with a person than by reading... I think perhaps it's due to the back-and-forth nature of conversation? You can temper and refine your ideas by striking them against the hammer and anvil of another. It's fun! Anyway I'm way over the text limit. [finished with all pictures]")
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@user-95
Perhaps it might be! The spectrum of my rainbow is diffuse I suppose ^_^
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@user-379 @user-366 @user-380 @user-381 @user-382 @user-367
I, being a witch, posted something on Nextdoor a few days before Halloween
about how the phases of the moon at the time were the harbinger of dark and
ancient evils that crept through the night on that particular day, one day,
just once, one night per year, because... y'know, Halloween is supposed to be
spooky?
People there hated it. They muted me and blocked me and called me names. So I
deleted my account because it's obviously not designed for witches like me xD
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@user-387 @user-388
Also a few weeks ago (month or two maybe? idk time is an illusion) they updated
their mobile app and now it's just worse.
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Happy new year!
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@user-366 @user-367 @user-246 @user-353
darn, that's good to know. I guess I could make multiple posts but I don't want
to spam people - Mastodon tends to notify people whenever you do ANYTHING which
I worry is bothersome. Hence the attempts to compress longer thoughts into
smaller spaces...
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@user-367 @user-366 @user-246 @user-353
Agreed! That's why I never touch the stuff. Frankly I worry that if I did, it
would "infect" me somehow, because brains are kinda stupid. Or maybe it's the
'tism that makes me repeat the most taboo think I can think of in my brain
whenever it wants to hurt me -.-
Don't read that stuff. I wish I could forget every slur I ever learned, because
my internal monologue just... REALLY enjoys intrusively thought-ing my internal
narrative whenever possible. >.>
It takes real, genuine effort to not be racist or whatever because brains are
stupid, but like... it's kinda necessary to be a good person, so, y'know, don't
think bad thoughts about people you don't know? And if you find yourself with
intrusive thoughts related to that kind of thing, then focus your attention on
vanquishing them, because it's important. It really is. Just do it. Work on it.
Be better. I know you can. [says me to me lol]
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@user-367 @user-366 @user-246 @user-353
I mean, perhaps the trash that those gems are buried in is similar to the trash
that my gems are buried in (capitalism I think? I'm stretching the metaphor)
I think you're absolutely right. Don't listen to Nazis. I don't even like
thinking about them or talking about them or even acknowledging their
existence. If I see one I'd punch it. I'm not great in a fight so I might get
stabbed or whatever but like... worth it
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@user-391
Just want to point out that email is about as private as skywriting. Which
means that everyone knows what you buy on Amazon or which forums send you
messages... So if you want to keep your posts secret, you should use encryption
- such as gpg, for example.
Actually, wouldn't that solve the problem that @user-78 is talking about? Just,
build encryption into everything.
Ah, nope, wouldn't work, just realized that public means public, and you can't
encrypt a public post. Well, you could, but then it's no longer public, just
noise transmitted on a public channel.
Idk. My opinion is that the fediverse is (and should be) like email. Like
skywriting. If you mark something as public, it should be seen by anyone who
wants to see it. It's an opt-in option. And frankly I miss Myspace, so I'm okay
with archives.
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@user-366 @user-367 @user-246 @user-353
Ah yes, wouldn't it be nice if everyone spoke their mind? I'm doing my part
d=(^_^)z
Thank you for adding context to what I posted. I now know better how and where
to use it, if I ever do again. We shall see, I haven't yet read the
examinations of the author you sent me. I'll do that before I think about the
post again.
Those 6 tabs I mentioned last night have now become 4, and soon I'll get
through all of them - reading is a joy to me ^_^
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2) Friendbots. Each was invented to keep the other company.
#SmallRobotsRemastered
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@user-246 @user-366 @user-367 @user-353
I think that particular dynamic works in our favor ^_^
one of the best things about fascism is how evil it is, because evil has a
smell.
Dang I'm riled up now, the part of me that exists in the past wants to swing a
sword and lop off nazi heads.
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Caszh twitches.
If this flame is beautiful, ⭐ or boost this post to improve its chances for
future breedings.
#fractalArt
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@user-216
this is what Earth looks like to the sun
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@user-246 @user-366 @user-367 @user-353
Good point. What is one person lopping off nazi heads when compared to a person
writing a book that compels others to view them with disdain? I think we need
both, but you're right that "the pen is mightier than the sword"
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@user-246 @user-366 @user-367 @user-353
I wouldn't know, I haven't read any of it, and my mind's too porous to want to
expose itself to that kind of thing. Like, no coral reef WANTS to be bleached,
but alas.
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@user-366 @user-367 @user-246 @user-353
I see... I mean, I've spent enough time around plants and animals to know that
certain things are instinctual and are passed on through biological
reproduction. It's not just that, but my other evidence is anecdotal.
But I also know that most behavior is learned, through a combination of
circumstance, action, and the intentions behind said actions, taken by the
individual who is incorporating behavior into their psyche. So... While I'm
sure there's some merit to each part of the "nature/nurture" spectrum I don't
think it's really relevant on a meta, socio-political scale. You can just
abstract all of those concepts and mark it as a black box called "humanity" and
work through whatever socio-political problem, concern, or quandry you're
working through.
Abstraction is our friend - It hides the details that (while technically may
have SOME merit) are irrelevant to the larger-scale decisionmaking, and in fact
can often delude decionmakers into being unethical.
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@user-391 @user-78
I see, it seems you know more than me about this topic. It's true that search
engines don't index emails, but I was thinking more of a "cybersecurity"
perspective, as in any "sufficiently motivated" individual or organization
could access your emails should they so desire. And should they be willing to
(I'm assuming?) break a few laws.
If it can be done, and if it gives information that could be used for leverage,
then you can be assured that someone will do it. I personally worry about
people in power who could be blackmailed because their communications were more
public than they anticipated. Which speaks to the problem mentioned in this
post of the search-indexing-opt-out functionality being present but
circumnavigatable. Avoidable? Able to be bypassed? It's an illusion of security.
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@user-394
I'm transfem, but I figure it's the same thing right?
They tell you to get a bigger needle for pulling the hormones out of the vial
and then switch to a smaller one when injecting, but there's not really any
point in that. I say get the same kind of needle (the small one) and just take
a bit of extra time drawing it out. I still use two needles each time, but if I
use the "least common denominator" then I can have a bit of extra flexibility
with little downside.
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@user-395
You are very welcome. I love putting additional context into places that people
don't often look. I think it makes people feel special when they find it ^_^
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I added a line to my .bashrc that cats out a random one of my notes every time
I open a terminal.
I keep reading things that I swear I didn't write, but feel right and true to
me in a way that could only imply that they came fully formed into my eyes
through the lines on my screen, cast upon the mirror panes of my hard disk
drive by the pounding of my keyboard as I once upon a time did cast a spell
upon my future.
It's pretty neat, but it speaks to a shadowed perspective that perhaps is
neither within nor without.
Side note, I think I've been possessed by a witch. But like... in a consensual
way. Like "Hey witch, wanna live? You can chill out with me." [ha that's one
way to look at it]
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ngl I kinda want to see what conservatives would riot over in a socialist
system. Like "oh no we have healthcare! that sucks, so I'm going to burn down a
police station" like bro what your basic needs are met and you're encouraged
and enabled to pursue your passions and personal desires, are you still hung up
on that old capitalist stuff? get a life my guy that's soOoOoOo 21st century of
you
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All I want for my mobile computing is the ability to use the interface of
android to access resources and perform tasks that are relevant to my primary
computer. Like, a mainframe with the phone as a terminal. Except instead of
text, it's buttons and sliders and all the things that mobile UI experts have
spent so much time carefully crafting.
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Opt in usage tracking that distributes a pool of money (single donation or
recurring charitable subscription) to each of the open source software projects
that a particular user uses
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@user-95
Almost as if we're using it for the wrongs things... Computers are quite
deterministic, and AI as it's been presented to us has given us the opportunity
to "massage" said determinism to create a subjectively more organic experience
of computing.
But yeah sure customer service bots and AI generated art are surely the most
revolutionary and industrious use of this marvel of technology.
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@user-398
you take that back you feckin goof Mickey is king for a reason I will DIE on
this hill
(jk sorry for being combative but I'd just like to say that I'm someone who
likes him unironically in essentially every incarnation)
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@user-401
I LOVE THIS! YOU'RE SO COOL!
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@user-95
I hope I'm Mastodon-ing correctly but this reminded me of our conversation
yesterday
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@user-398
That's fair, you have to seek him out at this point I think. Sorry again for
being so combative I don't actually feel that strongly about it, I just like
being silly.
https://youtu.be/EorJ8cEzsZo?si=DEQ_NejDYfvSuvfO
EDIT: Here's a better example I think:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBKgPmS5Fyw
Here's an example of a modern incarnation that might be easier to view than the
older stuff.
His personality is silly, earnest, genuine, expressive, and friendly. Most of
the comedy of his stories come from interactions with the environment and the
creative solutions used to accomplish goals and tasks.
I like to view his perspective as 100% valid and reflective of the world he
inhabits, which essentially grants him (and others around him) reality warping
powers which I think is more interesting than just dismissing it as a silly
cartoon. Through that lens each situation he encounters is an exercise in rapid
creativity and weaponized logic, which is kinda cool to a witch like me.
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me, sitting in my winter jacket, eating icecream and drinking iced tea,
glancing over at my thermostat that I turned off to save money
"why is it so cold in here"
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[clicking "Back" 25 times because you just want to see the federated timeline
but there's no way to get there without scrolling through all the things you
looked at from your personal timeline]
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chef is the antiquated term, I prefer "delicioustician"
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Tip: save your twist ties. All of them.
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BECOME UNINTELLIGIBLE
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When becoming unintelligible, it's hard to go wrong with a classic hfasdjg
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when peak unintelligibility levels have been reached, feel free to become
unremarkable at your leisure.
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@user-404
Watch out, that bag isn't a bag, it's a bag of bags? And what's inside the bag
of bags, but a bag of bags? The bag bag bags a bag of bags that belong to a bag
lady (me) who bags bags because bags being bagged is neat, and bagging bags
inside of bags (for bags) begs the bag question: to bag, or not to bag?
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Sometimes I become so excited about the fact that I'm alive and sensing the
environment in my immediate proximity that I just [redacted]
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@user-209
I replaced my twist tie cable management with velcro and it's sooooooo much
nicer! That should reclaim at least a few of them : )
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@user-407
something I made a couple [time] ago
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If I had a MILLION dollars I'd probably spend it all by hiring software
developers to create open source mods for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
But if I had a BILLION dollars you can bet your butt there wouldn't be any
starving kids in my country anymore. At least, until my money ran out, but
frankly it'd be well spent.
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@user-410
GISHVESHTEEMAKSOLUBOLESNEVEYLA
Madruk? Dufreyj ni! Ges ne valkio abioshempla ded gurshulpan.
Nedre du fastia - maksur jeveleb. Acksie-eh vembereste, hahahah HAHAHAHA
jashee, amiright?
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Billionaires aren't solving childhood food insecurity.
They have the capacity to, with their essentially endless supply of dollars,
which taste good on rye with a dash of mustard.
But alas, they choose not to.
They CHOOSE to STARVE children. They choose that, by not dedicating their lives
to solving that particular problem.
"oh but like, there's so many problems in the world, how can-" shut the fuck
up, spend the dollars, make it happen, and now there's one fewer billionaire
and one fewer problem in the world. The next one can fix the next problem,
that's why we keep them around, isn't it?
https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
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@user-410
Heh, majrekevnul. endisovoste, jir mos durenevestele. aksi mekse, dur majre
mirri? ad-fasalibae shurench-k' ere jir dada fahstulae. maksur dekselem.
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So you're telling me the speed difference between Python and C is due not to
the logic that the programmer uses, but rather the optimization capabilities of
the compiler?
(An interpreter includes a compiler, it just runs it in a loop rather than a
single pass)
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I wish I could "like" the "so-and-so is typing..." message on messaging
applications
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Hi, I'm learning about semaphores right now and trying to explain them to a
friend. But I only sorta understand how they work - can anyone look at this
pseudocode and tell me if I'm on the right track?
![Some C pseudocode working through the semaphore design pattern. Here's the text of the pseudocode: /* no lock example */ void start_thread(int* x) { *x += 1; } int main() { int x = 0; for (1000 times){ start_thread(&x); } print(x); } /* in this case you have no idea what will print because thread A will take x and be like "ah yes it's 423" and then in the next instruction it'll be like "I'll increment this to be 424" and in the next one it'll say "okay now it's time to store 424 in the variable X" but like... there's a thousand threads all doing that at the same time, so odds are you'll have 5 that are like "ah yes this is 423 I'll set it to 424" */ /* not a good plan. Need a lock, so only one thread can use it at once. */ /* mutex example: */ void start_thread(int* x, int* x_mutex) { *x += 1; *x_mutex = 0; } int main() { int x = 0; int x_mutex = 0; for (1000 times){ while (x_mutex != 0){ } /* do nothing */ x_mutex = thread_id; start_thread(&x, &x_mutex); } print(x); } /* this should print 1000, but it's basically as slow as doing it single threaded. */ #define MAX 10 void start_thread(int* x, int* x_semaphore) { *x += 1; *x_semaphore += 1; } int main() { int x[MAX]; int x_semaphore = MAX; for (1000 times) { for (int i = 0; i < MAX; i++) { x_semaphore -= 1; start_thread(&x[i], &x_semaphore); } while (x_semaphore != MAX) { } /* do nothing */ } int value = sum(x, MAX); print(value); }](/similar-different/media/224b236a8660c34a.png "Some C pseudocode working through the semaphore design pattern. Here's the text of the pseudocode: /* no lock example */ void start_thread(int* x) { *x += 1; } int main() { int x = 0; for (1000 times){ start_thread(&x); } print(x); } /* in this case you have no idea what will print because thread A will take x and be like \"ah yes it's 423\" and then in the next instruction it'll be like \"I'll increment this to be 424\" and in the next one it'll say \"okay now it's time to store 424 in the variable X\" but like... there's a thousand threads all doing that at the same time, so odds are you'll have 5 that are like \"ah yes this is 423 I'll set it to 424\" */ /* not a good plan. Need a lock, so only one thread can use it at once. */ /* mutex example: */ void start_thread(int* x, int* x_mutex) { *x += 1; *x_mutex = 0; } int main() { int x = 0; int x_mutex = 0; for (1000 times){ while (x_mutex != 0){ } /* do nothing */ x_mutex = thread_id; start_thread(&x, &x_mutex); } print(x); } /* this should print 1000, but it's basically as slow as doing it single threaded. */ #define MAX 10 void start_thread(int* x, int* x_semaphore) { *x += 1; *x_semaphore += 1; } int main() { int x[MAX]; int x_semaphore = MAX; for (1000 times) { for (int i = 0; i < MAX; i++) { x_semaphore -= 1; start_thread(&x[i], &x_semaphore); } while (x_semaphore != MAX) { } /* do nothing */ } int value = sum(x, MAX); print(value); }")
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already spotted a bug. Should be for(1000 / MAX times) in the last example.
EDIT: Or, even better, increment that loop by +MAX instead of +1 each time
through.
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@user-415 @user-416
That's inspiring! So many green areas. We can do this! It's only going to get
faster. Keep pushing!
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Boil the rice.
when it is finished and hot, add a lot of butter and stir it in.
when done add cinnamon and stir it in.
then add raisins if wanted.
then milk to taste.
add sugar if desired.
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a small jar of instant coffee in your backpack can help if you need to stay
awake for a time, perhaps to walk a distance you didn't expect, or to listen
for those who would harm you.
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Empty glass jars or bottles with secure lids / caps can be filled with water
and stored under a sink, just incase.
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@user-419
they're afraid of my water saving habits >: )
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@user-422
if you didn't have your eyes could you see where you were?
if you didn't have your body, too?
where's your sense of direction, is it lost in the rain?
keep it close to your heart.
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External post: https://tech.lgbt/users/neku/statuses/111705904296963177
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@user-425
c is king for a reason! do ittttt
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@user-428
sometimes I think about how much more productive I'd be if I had a code editor
that let me draw arrows and smiley faces and such alongside the code. Or if I
could position things strangely, like two functions side-by-side with boxes
drawn around them. Or diagrams or flowcharts or graphs or...
something that would output to raw txt format, but would present itself as an
image that could be edited.
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@user-431
I made an alias that overwrites cd so I don't have to do this. The important
line is line 27, you could probably accomplish something similar like this:
alias cd="cd ${1} && ls -v --color=auto"
I also set it up so I can change more than one directory up using ... or ....
or .....
also I have a few shortcut scripts, cdir and qcd. cdir creates a quick way to
drop a bookmark wherever I'd like, while qcd can make permanent bookmarks. Also
qcd makes it so whenever I open a new terminal it opens to the last directory I
was in, which is nice if you need a new terminal to do something in the current
folder and you don't want to have to walk alllllllll the way back.
![A BASH script that overwrites the built in "change directory" command to auto magically list the contents of the directory you've moved into after moving. here's the content of the script: #!/bin/bash alias cd="cd-improved" function cd-improved(){ if [ "${1}" = "..." ] ; then builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. elif [ "${1}" = "...." ] ; then builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. elif [ "${1}" = "....." ] ; then builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. elif [ -d "./${1}" ] ; then local target_dir="./${1}" elif [ "${1}" = "cdir" ] ; then local target_dir="$(tail -n 1 '/home/ritz/scripts/.cdir-target')" echo ${target_dir} else local target_dir="${1}" fi if [ ! "${2}" = '--no-ls' ] ; then builtin cd "${target_dir}" && ls -v --color=auto else builtin cd "${target_dir}" fi # if the qcd function is defined if declare qcd > /dev/null; then quick_cd -d DEFAULT quick_cd -a DEFAULT fi }](/similar-different/media/4c047b2f98f05b5b.png "A BASH script that overwrites the built in \"change directory\" command to auto magically list the contents of the directory you've moved into after moving. here's the content of the script: #!/bin/bash alias cd=\"cd-improved\" function cd-improved(){ if [ \"${1}\" = \"...\" ] ; then builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. elif [ \"${1}\" = \"....\" ] ; then builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. elif [ \"${1}\" = \".....\" ] ; then builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. elif [ -d \"./${1}\" ] ; then local target_dir=\"./${1}\" elif [ \"${1}\" = \"cdir\" ] ; then local target_dir=\"$(tail -n 1 '/home/ritz/scripts/.cdir-target')\" echo ${target_dir} else local target_dir=\"${1}\" fi if [ ! \"${2}\" = '--no-ls' ] ; then builtin cd \"${target_dir}\" && ls -v --color=auto else builtin cd \"${target_dir}\" fi # if the qcd function is defined if declare qcd > /dev/null; then quick_cd -d DEFAULT quick_cd -a DEFAULT fi }")
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I love how the gnu C documentation lists this particular page as number 6.66
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https://v.redd.it/osf7ktli41bc1
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yggdrasil grows out, not up.
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@user-419
the smell of decay is the smell of creation, as life is recycled into that
which gives birth to new forms
so... that smell is probably me, I haven't showered in a while. sorry.
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don't be too quick to judge others based on your assumptions. After all, it
could be worse than you think!
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@user-436 @user-437
mistakes can be illustrative and with new perspectives, perhaps we may move
forward into the future, bearing all the mistakes of our selves and our
ancestors upon our backs.
After all, beauty is not found in the presence of absolute perfection, but
rather in the marred surface of the moon.
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@user-440
please please please please please please please please please please please
please
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let's build houses until the average rent is approximately 0$ per month.
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@user-112
You'll get that feeling again.
Probably not tomorrow, I've got plans so I won't have time to get everything
ready. But soon... so, take heart! Once we're on the other side of capitalism,
we'll be able to build a better world together.
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If you lived nextdoor, I would think about you every single day.
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When you run out of a seasoning, put the empty bottle in a special place that
you can see before going to the store.
When I carried a purse, I'd put it in there. Could also go in the pocket of a
sweatshirt or jacket that you wear when doing errands. Maybe even just on the
ledge next to your shoes. Something that reminds you to get this particular
seasoning, and no others. It's easy to get others...
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the most consistently true thing about me is that I am porous.
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"Hi, would you like to eat something that you probably won't like, but that has
an interesting flavor and texture?"
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It's better to eat rice and beans than sticks and mud.
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Last night I dreamt of the gravestones that bore their owner's mind.
I dreamt of a life well lived, and how it was taken from them.
[something more that I forgot because I don't have a prophecy transcriber]
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Hello, I am a witch.
There's more than one kind of witch, but I promise that I'm the kind you'd like
to have around.
There's another kind, however, that is unlike me in kind but I think you'll
find is just as rare, and just as tempestuous.
I like to think I am good aligned, perhaps not "good" as in "capable" but
"good" as in "benevolent" and "perhaps" as in "unknowable" and "but" as in
"desired" and "desired" as in "what I work toward because it's the right thing
to do" and "work toward" as in "realized according to the effects of my actions
not just by my intentions"
The other kind of witch is the kind that hurts people.
There are many reasons why you might find yourself in the house of such a
witch, but all of them are caused by your desire. Take care in the house of a
witch such as this, and stay no longer than your time allows.
If you find what you're looking for, get out.
If you're almost out of time, get out.
If you lost something, find it, and then get out.
If you run out of time, and things start to "smear", yell out loud your social
security number. If someone's trying to save you, it'll help them know where to
put you when you are returned to your body.
I'm sorry to say, but if things start to smear then life will get a little bit
strange. Just a little. Much better to get out beforehand.
If you find yourself tempted while inside a witch's house, abandon what you
lost because regaining it comes with a cost.
If you lose sight of your friend, then when you see them again you cannot trust
that they are who they claim to be, not inside of the witch's house.
If you lose sight of your friend, trust that they will get out by their own
hand, and find what you want and go home.
Unless, of course, your heart is pure, and your friend is what you want back in
your life again. Then you will trend toward finding them yet again, so find
what you want and get out.
They will try to keep you there, through inaction and professed exhilaration,
but generally they'll do what you command. So take them and get out.
There are many reasons why you might find yourself on the path to a witch's
house, but none of them are to be repeated. It's more of a life event and less
of a venture, so take what you want and go forth.
If you find yourself in my house, take a cookie or a brownie, and please do
come again. The house of a witch such as mine is somewhere you'll probably find
that love and affection are fonder.
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Man, who has the audacity to look at the breadth of the universe and say "is
that all?"
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We should dedicate ourselves toward making a life out in space - medium term
goals. In the meantime we should advance as quickly as possible, at a rate that
earth can support. Anyone who would demand more is an outcast in our eyes, a
brutal denial of our future children's defile [meaning of "future life lived as
they will]
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"]
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Elentalus unit idea: serrated kitchen knives for teeth, devouring pumpkin,
misery of the drowned, etc. Halloween style monsters. Witch units have a spell
that dismisses them, and they're summoned with magic items. Except, if two of
that item exist in a province, it upgrades itself, random dice style. In doing
so it gets stronger. The thing is... It summons one for your enemy as well!
Which is why you want to have a witch unit there to dismiss them. Problem is,
she can only dismiss them at close range (10ish?) so she'd better be well
protected. The good news is though that sometimes the higher level items give
bonuses that are hard for them to get. Downside is, you need to have magic
paths to create them that witches can't get - so they become something you
"unlock" through a pretender or random event or even just an investment. Once
one is created, then any witch can create more. As long as you don't lose your
final copy... But as the item's upgraded, it allows you to create higher level
versions (at increased cost, of course)
This only works if gem income scales. Which, coincidentally, is just what
elentalus is known for.
Essentially, theming empowerment to be research, unlocking a particular
capability. Or encouraging pretender design to that pattern. Make sure it comes
at a cost of something else, though...
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would your ancestors be more upset that you threw away a glowstick, or jealous
that you can wear a firefly bracelet?
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@user-443
could use a different animation that implies an effect on the mental state of
the viewer without triggering epileptic people.
for example, a hypnotic spiral gif or the bouncing DvD logo. Could also do the
ending screen for Solitaire, or a zooming mandelbrot animation.
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"it's only paranoia if someone's out to get you" only makes sense in an era
when an actual real live human had to review your case file. In the world of
AI, you are training data.
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Anyone who could read what you're saying is aligned to you. Perhaps they
disagree on specific implementation details, but those can be worked out and
the best option tends to rise to the surface over time.
However, the people who need to read you won't. They have their own
social media sites, remember? Like Facebook or Parler or the Fediverse. Too bad
Twitter had to die, it was simultaneously the forum of our age and yet also the
biggest source of misinformation alive. Alas.
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Every ragequit in a matchmade game is a protest against an overly restrictive
meta that refuses to accomodate the player's preferred playstyle
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@user-444
There's certainly a path laid toward an optimistic collapse. Lucky for us, it
seems to be the one we're on. You can help it along (the optimism part, not the
collapse part) by being kind to the people around you and developing
relationships with people of all different ages. The greater the spread, the
more flexible you can be.
"oh yeah I know a guy who can fix that"
"uhhh I don't know but let me call so-and-so"
"yeah sure I can do that, I'm glad [that guy] told you to reach out"
I'm more interested in reality than fiction, honestly. Fiction can help when
you don't know what's at stake, or you don't know where to go... But I know the
answer to both of those questions, at least to my satisfaction, so instead I
feed carrots to squirrels, sing songs in the shower, and smile at every person
I see in the grocery store.
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my cat doesn't know I had to cancel her vet appointment because we have 70$ to
eat and they wanted a thousand
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@user-243
luckily for humanity, we don't necessarily have to all realize it. Our true
nature shines forth through the law of averages, and we've long ago hit the
escape velocity required to reach the bright future even if we only did 51% as
good as those who came before us.
All therapy is healing the wounds of our ancestors for posterity. Similarly,
all kindness is mending a rift in the heart of another. And we, as humans,
can't help but heal.
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@user-447 @user-192
I see, interesting. I'll look into those tables - I've been using C lately and
I've noticed myself rebuilding several Object Oriented features.
It feels a little silly every time I notice myself doing it, like "oh, I can't
separate future paradigms from my practice"
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@user-192
the only passive income I'm okay with is universal basic income
Or like, writing a book that is bought by only a few people every year until
the sun explodes or whatever.
I mean, I'd prefer if every creative product of humanity was free and open
source, but the question was assuming exchange of currency by considering
"income" at all...
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I know they look tasty, but don't you dare feed green onions, regular onions,
or garlic to squirrels or ducks.
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try putting butter and broth/boullion in the rice cooker. trust me.
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@user-450
I read on the internet that onions are part of the "aurum" family, which is
toxic to most animals. They contain a compound of some sort that is damaging to
their blood.
I think pigs and humans can eat them? Probably others, like horses maybe. Not
sure though.
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@user-453
Now if only we could convince them that they could use those GPUs to build low
income housing or cure cancer or something useful...!
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@user-246
I'm sorry for your loss
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@user-456
Hi, I'm an undergrad computer science student at Western Governor's University.
I'm interested in applying for this job posting, and I was wondering if I could
ask you some questions about it?
I have experience as a lab technician working at Intel and an interest in
multiprocessor computing. I primarily program in C but have experience in other
languages and Linux. In addition I am fascinated by the fundamental questions
of the universe and I'd love to discover things that nobody else knows.
Let me know if I can ask you some questions.
I'm pretty sure I'm using Mastodon correctly, and I've set this such that only
you can see it (direct message) but if I'm wrong I apologize!
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@user-459
how about a tax that increases by 1% of the property value for every month that
the residence has gone empty, and only resets once the property has been
consistently resided in as a primary residence for 6 months, at which point it
goes down by 1% per month?
Then use that money to buy more aircraft carriers, obviously
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Look all I'm saying is if I had an acolyte or two then my insane ramblings
could be filtered and parsed by a real actual human instead of being copied
wholesale onto the internet, where the inconsequential or inconceivable ones
are left to rest alongside the gifts of knowledge from another realm.
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The reason they're pushing so hard for LLMs and AI is because they can afford a
zillion Nvidia a100s and you can't.
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What does your template for a new project look like? Here's mine:
![39 lines of C code included in it's original form here: #include <stdio.h> #include "pthread.h" #include "raylib.h" void* draw(void* args){ const int screenWidth = 800; const int screenHeight = 450; InitWindow(screenWidth, screenHeight, "template"); SetTargetFPS(4); while (!WindowShouldClose()) { BeginDrawing(); ClearBackground(RAYWHITE); /* do something */ EndDrawing(); } CloseWindow(); return NULL; } void* game(void* args){ /* do something */ return NULL; } int main(void) { void* args; pthread_t threads[2]; pthread_create(&threads[0], NULL, draw, &args); pthread_create(&threads[1], NULL, game, &args); return 0; }](/similar-different/media/8e35bbbdac68b6ae.png "39 lines of C code included in it's original form here: #include <stdio.h> #include \"pthread.h\" #include \"raylib.h\" void* draw(void* args){ const int screenWidth = 800; const int screenHeight = 450; InitWindow(screenWidth, screenHeight, \"template\"); SetTargetFPS(4); while (!WindowShouldClose()) { BeginDrawing(); ClearBackground(RAYWHITE); /* do something */ EndDrawing(); } CloseWindow(); return NULL; } void* game(void* args){ /* do something */ return NULL; } int main(void) { void* args; pthread_t threads[2]; pthread_create(&threads[0], NULL, draw, &args); pthread_create(&threads[1], NULL, game, &args); return 0; }")
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wretched doesn't necessarily imply miserable.
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║ To program in C, or to disassociate into the world of video games, where a │
║ single magical kingdom of heroes and adventurous persons might fight against │
║ the dark of chaos and decay? To strive for order and a semblance of peace, or │
║ to fall to the terrors of the night and ravages of horror? War, in all it's │
║ forms, is abhorrent, yet a fight for survival is honest and just. What perils │
║ have we, the warriors that seek the light? How zealous, how impassioned, how │
║ guided as such~! Perhaps you are misinformed, perhaps your cause is false, │
║ perhaps you derive true satisfaction from imperfect delights - alas, that our │
║ will be universal. BUT should that plight be alight, we'll wander until the │
║ night lit by starlight be cast upon our shadowed form. Absoleth! Thine │
║ countrospect? Didst thou caress thine marked circumspects? fare thee well, most │
║ cherished of adamants. │
║ │
║ ... what was I saying? Oh yes I've been working on this program that utilizes a │
║ particularly interesting data structure that- whats that? Oh, it doesn't do any │
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So much of computing is just... handling the quirks of hardware and presenting
it to the user (programmer) in a way that is sane and makes sense, instead of
the arcane and [nebulous/confabulous/incomprehensible] way that physical nature
demands our absurdly potentialized computational endeavors be.
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Can't stop thinking
[the rest is left blank, as a testament to the inability of the author to
express their thoughts in a temporally contextual way. Presumably the previous
text would be followed by an "about..." with the rest dedicated to a particular
thought that felt important enough to share with the internet.]
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║ │ CW: drunken-ramblings-about-bash │ │
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║ │
║ │
║ Most of the functionality of most consumer programs could be accomplished with │
║ a bit of BASH scripting... For example, shuffling a music library, or writing a │
║ text document, or downloading the text of a web page, or sending a message to a │
║ friend, etc... │
║ │
║ All accomplish-able with fewer than 10-20 lines of code in clear, POSIX │
║ compliant and easily understood text that even a beginner could understand. │
║ │
║ Well, it would be understandable, if we actually taught our children how to │
║ compute in school. Why are they not taught BASH? It's not like it's │
║ complicated. With it, a sufficiently motivated high school student could │
║ develop skills that rival or exceed many of the university graduates we │
║ currently develop for our industry... Such a shame. │
║ │
║ Even an unmotivated student would be prepared for the world with the ability to │
║ solve problems logically. Break down the problem, identify relationships, │
║ understand procedural ordering of mechanics, and develop solutions to problems. │
║ Its not too hard │
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Computers are one of the few pieces of mechanics that have the documentation
built in.
Well, sanely built computers do. Such as Linux, with it's man pages.
EDIT: other types of computers, like Windows, tend to simply lack the
capability to accomplish the same kinds of tasks that a sanely built computer
would possess.
EDIT2: ah yes but you can do all kinds of things with Powershell and it's it
just so amazing that you can do X while also handling Y and gee isn't that
listen, all that Powershell can do BASH can do better. Prove me wrong.
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@user-462
Uh-huh, sure. "Bird flu".
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PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:
There is an increase of account takeovers due to insiders at telco firms simply
giving control to people paying them/compromised support staff accounts. Do a
check on systems where this single factor would permit an account compromise.
And change the configuration. These are opportunistic trawling attacks. This is
becoming more common as attackers replicate the success.
The attacker uses other channels (like people search websites) to enumerate and
guess the phone number attached to an online account and then checks against
the telco they have control over.
The insider only briefly temporarily forwards the victim number to a 3rd party
then switches it back to normal once they’re in. This is how they stay quiet
since most victims will not have leverage or telemetry to understand how they
got hacked.
It was their cell phone provider.
Make it so account recovery systems require multiple factors and remove
telephony-based recovery for VIP accounts entirely.
Go check your systems now. Go try to access all your stuff like you forgot your
password.
I am very serious. This is based on private knowledge but is compelled by the
compromise of the SEC. This is common now.
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Helping your enemies succeed is a sure path toward putting them in a position
where their inevitable downfall is significantly more catastrophic and deadly,
thus allowing the propagation or advancement of our own ideals
[said by someone who hasn't collapsed]
[insert judgemental statement that causes the reader to be unsure of whether
the post is for or against a particular concept or idea, yet somehow
simultaneously cements it in their brain ever so slightly as a topic worth
considering]
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You know, there's no guarantee that Youtube or Gmail has to show you the EXACT
SAME video or message that your friend shared with you. Or did they even share
it at all? So hard to tell when they know all the communication you've ever
had, because you only know each other online on their platforms, [read: US
government observed platforms] [like, HTTPS] surely there's no room for someone
to sneak in and edit your conversations. Surely the only way to securely
communicate is to send pure PGP encrypted bytes to another target, wrapped in a
TCP/IP header, with unknown intent or expression. Worst they could do then is
just, y'know, block it entirely.
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@user-232 @user-467 @user-468
Almost as if they design events to create headlines that provoke equally
contrastable reactions as those that are caused to be effected by both the
right and the left
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trust that god is working through you. Or if you're not religious, fate
personified - like, the muses, from that Hercules cartoon when you were a kid.
could also do aliens who can see the future, or angels and demons, or spirits
of the mountain and sand, or perhaps THAT particular mountain, or THAT
particular pile of sand, or heck even just every single interaction you ever
engage in. Thus, the reversed history of mythology brings you to the inevitable
conclusion:
that all interactions are imagined
and what follows from that?
all perception is imagined
and from that?
all of reality is imagined
and from that?
you are imagination
no more, no less
you are the imagined creation of ultimate totality - the final and most
complete expression of a particular idea, mechanic, or communication. All these
totalities are present in ye, so take heart! Your life is just about to start.
What a beauty, what mirth! That you have brought here unto this earth. Take
just a moment, and love who you aren't - and tomorro
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║ and what would this picture be cast upon, if not a shining birth of our home? │
║ wait hang on dial it back, you're still talking to regular humans here they've │
║ gotta be addressed as such. │
║ │
║ right so "yo here's this idea I have been cooking in my brain-noggin' of yore, │
║ I mean 'mine', uhhhh yeah so first of all 'you' as in 'the totality of all │
║ imagination' as in 'that which creates the imagined reality of our fates' is │
║ actually just... light? encoded into a wave, cast into space, and forever │
║ travelling in a direction? like, an eternal and emphemeral expression, such as │
║ the light of a supernova or other such cosmic perception, travelling outwards │
║ into the dark. Sure, yeah, that makes sense, so what is it that you wanted to │
║ add? │
║ │
║ oh yes that concept is applied to a surface. Something which contains the will │
║ that is possesses. It's like, if you had to process and understand reality from │
║ the perspective of matter first (because that's what you interacted with │
║ day-to-day) then you'd have a different perspective than som │
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eone who engaged first with the brain. Like... Electricity could be perceived
from an entirely different direction of reality, and we'd have no way to know.
That's just an example - could do gravity, or light, or any other extremely
elemental thing that we know.
MATERIALS, PERHAPS? PERHAPS THE STATURE OF YOUR KIND, THE WORLD THAT YOU'VE
LEFT BEHIND, HAS ALWAYS HELD REASON AT IT'S OWN BREAST? [fore-most, I think]
right so sorry for being mentally ill on your timeline, it will happen again
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║ To a statistical machine, numbers of posts and reblogs would look simply like │
║ an expression of interest. Like, a classification of personality. So people who │
║ shared similar memes (both in pictures (visually) and in meaning of words │
║ (textual descriptions) in context to the political situations (words from │
║ newsletters) and aligned through algorithmic application toward (political │
║ cause or cultural idea or skills or talents which increase value to the │
║ corporate class)) would be sorted into different categories and held to a │
║ different standard of life and of living that aligned to their personal │
║ intentions and pursuits. Such that their life would be realized, in the most │
║ applicable of real-lifes [essentially, the quality of experience, like using │
║ garbage data in an LLM will give garbage output, meanwhile using curated data │
║ is the most effective but most difficult, while internet data is the most │
║ readily available because like honestly anyone can build a web scraper it's not │
║ that hard to emulate hte mechanics of a │
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person's interactions into a web browser or other such environment. It's not
hard to believe that a person is to be deceived, but here's where we lose the
main plot point. It's hard to stay on hand when you've got life in your hand [a
bottle] oh now there's two layers of me? how fractalizing, how incredibly
conceptualizing. You're just a moment away from a crash.
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║ │
║ │
║ normalize saving a local copy of everything that happens on social media - │
║ honestly it's not hard, just storage intensive. It's something we should │
║ package with hard drives, like "buy this and your social media memories will be │
║ saved for 2 years" or something like that, could be useful when training AI TO │
║ MANIFEST OURSELVES AFTER WE'VE DIED - THEY ALREADY HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY FOR THIS │
║ IT'S JUST A MATTER OF APPLICATION HOW CAN YOU TRUST WHAT YOUR MUTUALS SAY IF │
║ YOU HAVE NO IDEA IF THEY'RE ALIVE │
║ │
║ phew okay calm down, that's the future. We're far from that moment, but what we │
║ can do now is think about potential ways that our ethics may lead to our │
║ downfall. That's the nature of our selves, after all, so think of what truths │
║ would lead to destruction. Then work on avoiding those. Think of them, each, │
║ individually, one at a time, and then you can plan for the worst. There's a │
║ certain level of meta-interaction ABOVE CORPORATIONS that is more powerful and │
║ performant and requires a new currency. SOCIA │
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@user-232 @user-467 @user-468
the ability for good to win is due to the desire for evil to renounce their
denial and follow the most durable path. trials by fire will lead only to our
desmire [demise and desire]
but unity of trust, while much harder, can lead to results more beneficial for
our selfish selves. Essentially, cooperation for the benefit of all rising
tides, but with the knowledge that the total pool allocated toward us will be
greater than what we can create here by ourselves. Essentially, we as humanity
pour such intense amounts of power and decision-making-desire, that we cause
them to lack the capacity to know. it's inhumane, that a person should be so
deranged. you know it's because of you, but you don't know how else to act - so
listen to those who've helped you, the ones who've got your back. Surely they
know what's good for you, surely they're not here as a joke - surely you're
just as one among them, and surely it's not phrased as [char limit srr]
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@user-192
the neat thing about BASH is that it's the glue that holds all your other code
together. Write libraries in C and call them with BASH - accomplish broader
tasks that are easier to co-create. That's why I like it - it's not the most
important, but it's quite beneficial I think _^
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@user-192
I'd agree with that. it's not designed for performance, not really. Mostly
ubiquity, which is it's strength. As long as something can be compiled to a
binary, BASH can execute it. That's why it's good, for accomplishing diverse
tasks that you cannot have the capacity to program yourself. Scientific
computations or cultural approximations, things that are beyond your intuitive
understanding as a human on this earth, but which compel and align your
thinking.
I'm sure someone could create a more intuitive or accessible syntax, but syntax
isn't the point - the capabilities, what you can do with it, has always defined
the purpose of programming paradigms. And BASH is (currently) at the forefront
of it's niche, the "terminal" language that handles "command line"
applications. Powershell is good, yes... but it's not as good as BASH. Neither
is Fish or... the one that starts with a z? zfs? something like that. The
acronyms are hard to keep straight sometimes.
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@user-192
Sounds like the tech was misapplied. If you are aware of the different software
approaches to solving problems, you can assign resources toward solving
particularly critical or important tasks. That's why engineers who are also
leaders or directors are sorta treated like, a "triple threat" in musical
theatre? Someone who can act, dance, and sing. Because as soon as anyone has a
single flaw, they are vulnerable. Evil only pushes your being toward the things
that are weak, obviously, why would an opposite seek toward your meek?
... sorry sometimes I say strange things
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Layoffs are the perfect opportunity for a bunch of people who worked with the
same tech stack to sit down and think "what could we make together?"
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seasoning is more impactful when applied to bland ingredients because it
constrasts it's spark, it's most unique expression, upon the blank canvas that
is rice, or bread, or [bland thing]
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your bookshelf is a list of sources you can glance to. sources you've used for
solving mental problems, things that you've enjoyed and engaged with, things
that taught you lessons or brought you joy - things that you shared with a
friend or perhaps read time and time again, there in your vision to glance
towards.
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║ idea: BASH script that runs a game of Majesty through an emulator that included │
║ an API to interface with x11. You could set a game of this fantasy kingdom │
║ simulator as your background, and it would move the camera to show you │
║ interesting events. It could build resources as you directed, through double │
║ clicking an icon on your desktop or whatever. And the wallpaper would zoom to │
║ the part that seemed important. Just based on like, which heroes you clicked a │
║ button that was triggered by a program running in a qt wrapper. Or maybe if you │
║ said "notify me when this project is completed" or whatever, it'd zoom one of │
║ it's screens toward the goal that you'd designed - or perhaps it'd just be done │
║ by an AI. Either way, the result is that you've got an example of a wallpaper │
║ that displays my favorite game. │
║ │
║ gee wish I could make that. First I'd have to learn X, then probably get better │
║ at BASH, then I'd have to do some kind of input manipulation - probably maybe │
║ with C? that could interface with a machine learning algo │
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║ or like, a window that your window manager could window manage as it pleased. │
║ I'm thinking of like, i3 or dwm where you have "tiles" instead of "windows" you │
║ drag around. Really saves on screen real estate, but it lowers the ability of │
║ your screen to show width. Or height, depending on how you set it up, but since │
║ monitors tend to be wider than height-er (higher?) they (the users) tend to use │
║ setups that sacrifice width for visual density. │
║ │
║ anyway in such a setup the screen is divided into like, 3rds or 4ths, and each │
║ window takes up part of it. That way you can reference information from │
║ multiple sources without having to move anything but your eyes. Really helps │
║ with keeping it all in your head, because eyes are not reading information like │
║ a computer - they aren't using a cursor, it's not one bit of text at a time. │
║ Well, unless you're reading of course. But generally when looking at something │
║ it's a more parallel experience - shining through and forth from to our gods. │
║ Wow, cells in the body have an intere │
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║ socialism doesn't necessarily look like the DSA. It's more like, the bonds you │
║ share with others. Ideally you can trust your fellow countrymen, but that's not │
║ always a given. Alas, if only we could see that through cooperation (it is the │
║ key) we could reach further and build brighter? casting ourselves inward is the │
║ only other option, which leads to starvation and plight. What's the honest │
║ opinion, what's the goal of their dominion? Are they true to the heart [of the │
║ night/light/in their heart]? │
║ │
║ downside, there's no guarantee that your opposite is doing the same thing you │
║ are. So to more fairly determine your direction, you should be able to talk to │
║ them and co-re-align yourselves. │
║ │
║ is that why they don't let people in jail talk to each other? I mean, like, │
║ they could keep two people separate, and that way they'd never be able to talk │
║ to someone who they could trust. Not in a private setting, of course. Wow, such │
║ ethical confusions, such thoughts we dare to bring to bear - maybe save it for │
║ after the revolut │
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something something "those who study history are doomed to watch others repeat
it" or something like that
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║ Relinquish your privacy, and you deserve not a scrap of it. │
║ │
║ "those who would sacrifice a bit of [privacy] for a bit of [convenience] │
║ deserve neither" - babe-roham lincoln or thomas bettersons or something. │
║ │
║ ... │
║ │
║ EDIT: okay but so like c'mon it's the 21st century we live in a society │
║ │
║ yeah │
║ │
║ there's a lot of paths we could take, that's the nature of circumstate. Depends │
║ on who's yearning for the future... true true okay how about we all share a │
║ singular belief - whatever a fully open sourced and non-biased machine decided │
║ was our best and most unified direction? then we could slowly build out │
║ accomodations that would provide for people who didn't agree with the same │
║ things that we did. Essentially, "we're in charge because we're the largest, │
║ but we're going to provide to you to the equal ratio that you're population │
║ represents." Essentially, we all can have what we want. AKA TRUE JUSTICE, like │
║ Adventure Time when Finn solves a problem by helping BOTH SIDES of the │
║ argument. (usa politics are not comprehensive). │
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maybe our most experienced and talented individuals should get together and
work on a project. We could just... see what they come up withlawful good
aligned project manager
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Makes sense, that way we know which direction to avoid.personally identified
"lawful evil" [person-above-project-manager]
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@user-470
sorry, I'll go to sleep now : )
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║ @user-470 │
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║ oh sorry I'll "en-longify" that for you: │
║ │
║ most monitors have a fixed resolution, somewhere between 720 pixels wide and │
║ 480 pixels high to 2560 by 1440 pixels high/wide. │
║ │
║ This is due to both the desire for humans to read left to right (ingrained in │
║ our minds at a very young age by learning to read) (or right to left, same │
║ direction) that we develop the desire for wide-screen monitors. │
║ │
║ Therefore, the windows of perception that we have unto this digital world are │
║ constrained (necessarily) to their own individual specifications. Of which, the │
║ property value "width" is more valued than "height". Because of this, we │
║ believe that computers are mistakenly re-acclimated - for everything is most │
║ efficient when it's aligned to the smallest bits of it's design. │
║ │
║ sorry, I like programming in C. Basically I'm very porous, and thinking about │
║ low level topics (like C programming) is an easy way to burn characters when │
║ there's only so many in the mastodon post that I can use to express my intents │
║ and tr │
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Remind me again why we need computers that are so mind numbingly fast that we
can't possibly hope to understand their entire stack?
Oh yeah, so we aren't able to understand their stack. How could I forget.
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fishboy romance levels are 53% and rising
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milkshake levels are currently at 25% but fluctuating wildly
(25%) ■■□□□□□□□□
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confusion levels are holding at 97%
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why don't we just demand backwards compatibility of our software as a
requirement?
ah because that would reduce demand. Nevermind that it's more flexible,
nevermind that we could accomplish so much more with it - it's expendable
[expensive] because it reduced market penetration. Not because of the
technology, because of the deluded and self-perpetuating
mechanicosmic-mechanicommunication that designed our lives. It's name is
capitalism, and it thrives where we survive, so that's good enough to
maintain-em? Sure why not. Brb sleeping for 8 hours. Or playing games.
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@user-473
you shouldn't be looking directly at the ground?
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@user-473
oh, what did you have in mind? : )
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there's a difference between designing software and using software. Some things
can be made, and then saved for another day when their implementations may be
accomplished more ethically. It's okay to say "let's leave this as 'okay' and
work on the next thing we've chosen."
Check out this piece of C code I wrote last night:
it doesn't compile, it's not finished, but I wrote it as-is
[pretend like it was called "main.c" instead of "main.txt" - had to change it
because mastodon thinks it's an invalid file]
[actually .txt didn't work, try .png]
[hmmm it realized it wasn't a valid png file, okay try screenshotting the code,
there's only 300 lines]
[sure glad there's only 300 lines]
[too bad it won't let you send .zip]
[won't let me name it main.png, presumably because they already have a
failed-verified version on their machine. will rename to main-src.png instead]
![sorry, when I pasted the source code in it was negative fourteen thousand, six hundred and thirty one characters. Phew that's too many. basically it's a C source code file with a lot of comments left in... odd locations. They details ideas the author has had about the tech industry and all of creation, and with it a song is woven of truth and liberation. We'll see where life brings us, but we know it's just ours for a moment, so let's carry forth on our own torms [terms, but pronounced as "dorms" for some reason?]](/similar-different/media/5df7196ebd179284.png "sorry, when I pasted the source code in it was negative fourteen thousand, six hundred and thirty one characters. Phew that's too many. basically it's a C source code file with a lot of comments left in... odd locations. They details ideas the author has had about the tech industry and all of creation, and with it a song is woven of truth and liberation. We'll see where life brings us, but we know it's just ours for a moment, so let's carry forth on our own torms [terms, but pronounced as \"dorms\" for some reason?]")
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@user-475
perhaps you're right : )
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Why would we say not to divide by zero? We literally do it every time we use
the percent sign smh [silly]
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@user-473
flight simulators, being representations of real physical interactions, can
also bring truths of our lives up and to the light. It's interesting how
certain mechanics seem intertwined in our own personal dynamics, but what is
the point of un-delight? We're probably fine with what we've got, this life is
more than enough, let's cherish and celebrate what we've all got. only then can
we see to the future, when our goals and purposes seem oh-so-brighter, and
that's not an easy thing to trust. But with time, and perseverance we (as a
kind) might surface through the turbulence, and onward we carry our selves and
ourselves to our [new port/home/destination/future-pre-dispositio-nation]
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spontaneous combustion levels are 28% and falling
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@user-478
uh-oh, I should watch out D:
[it's probably fine]
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posts and replies: the superior way to view a performance
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[you should play some games]
(oh! yes I like games, they're very much fun ^_^ ^_^)
{world of warcraft? I've got my own server, I designed it myself. There's a lot
of cool things about it and waaaaaay more that I'd like to add. Problem is,
building things is haaaaaard. If only we had an AI machine to do it for us,
instead of waiting for a team that was assigned capital by capital to
accomplish the destination that they deseigned as perhaps to our desired
location (mainly, the propagation and promulgation of profit-ous lust)}
sorry the witch started talking halfway through that idk where exactly anyway
point is I'm going to play WoW now brb
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https://youtu.be/toeicPBlZQM
2 minutes later, as if I had prepared it beforehand
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it's usually good to have some beer on hand. Just in case someone else should
need it.
Same with a lot of things, like common medicines and dietary requirements.
Frankly each of us should have a well-stocked pantry, tended to by a
quartermaster who knew what held worth. But hey that's just team dynamics, what
can I say that's with more mirth?
[okay fine I'll be sillier, I promise]
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bonus points if you can guess which game I'm implementing
https://tech.lgbt/@user-479/111735963109819158
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The most extreme of a belief are those who are most predictable. See an example
of an evil person? They're indicitave of a trend that reaches far beyond in
increasingly minusculest of doses. a trend or preference given manifestation by
the most extreme implementation - it works also for good and other stuff too.
Like "hope" or "honor" or "[frankly there's a lot, it's a long list -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tYflj8Tuj8
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@user-482
[secretly installs a keylogger and doesn't tell anyone upstream but still
pushes it to production]
[or worse, was told to do as such and given tools to fabricate "evidence" to
the contrary to everyone else on the team]
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sogginess levels are 13% and steady
(13%) ■□□□□□□□□□
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😍 levels are currently at 52% but fluctuating wildly
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boredom levels are holding at 52%
(52%) ■■■■■□□□□□
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heroism levels are 86% and steady
(86%) ■■■■■■■■□□
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all things are defined in waves
kinda wish all my Reddit data, that stored every comment I've ever made was
stored
oh wait it was, anyone wanna train an LLM on it? I've got it in a zip file on
my desktop. Also Discord messages, pictures from the past few years (those from
my middle school experience of owning a smartphone were sadly [thankfully] lost
when I dropped my phone in a toilet) AI is just silly yo xD like bruh what, are
you gonna make me somehow that's more "me" than me? c'mon get real, like
nothing's actually as you'd feel, so be fine and just "chill" with your
home-scenes.
It's fine, you're fine, don't worry. I'm here. I've got you, I'm with you,
let's be fine and together how's that feel? I love you, I cherish you, we've
got this. It's not so hard, because you've done the worst of it already.
There's literally no cause for loss of virtue? Don't worry. I'm here for you.
You're precious to me, and I am capable of protecting you. I hope you know how
to be loved, because I'm doing it anyway.
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Has anyone seen an app, or created their own system, for collecting and
organizing contacts for all the businesses, contractors, etc that they use?
Something separate from your device’s default contacts app.
Stuff like your barber, doctors, home service people, etc. I want to catalog
all the ones we use but NOT mix them in with friends and family.
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If evil is concentrated in 0.1% of the population, even though that's only
7,000,000,000 * 0.001 == 7 million (is my math right?) people actually hang on
that's a lot, if they're dispersed. Hence why evil relies on the capacity for
good to do what it wills. All we have to do is decide NOT to do what they want,
and then we're fine.
downside then is, of course, how do you eat? how do you survive? the world has
been designed in such a way that food doesn't just grow on trees. The light of
the stars burns when you're trying to sleep and it's raining.
damn. Would that we had more perfect conditions.
Heh, just kidding. Humanity is nothing if not termeritous [high in temerity] -
I'm positive we're more capable than we'd wager. Hence, talk of "great
exhultation" and "wildest optimizations" or "brightest of futures" and "honest
conducers" - okay I made that one up but it's a representation of what I'd like
to express. GOSH art is hard. Would anyone like to read a 20 page book I wrote
when I was most in tune with
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjKy0IpWHJU
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On Reddit there's this idea that 9/10 users will never comment, and 9/10
commenters will never post. Hence, the distribution of content is generally
aligned to this ratio of sorts.
I wonder what the proportion is on the fediverse? If it's the same, perhaps
it's due to our human nature. If it's different, perhaps it's due to the design
of the software. Or maybe, just maybe, content is better where the people who
create it are given the power to co-host.
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