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 [x-post]
 
 https://t.co/3ZkFb3gs0f
 
 original post:
 
 https://indieweb.social/@user-483/111712965927534339
 
 that's how you'd do it on Reddit, at least. With the "original post" part in a
 comment. It sorta disconnects the line of connection, but still the data is
 allowed to flow forth. So anyone who views it from a certain perspective (like
 that of those who own the server it is transmitted upon) could see the
 connections formed, and thus create a map of individuals who have interacted
 with certain content on the internet.
 
 anyway I'm mostly just doing it so I can talk about my random shit without
 profaning a most serious and compassionate topic. Who am I? Just a witch. And a
 bunch of others I guess.
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 [says they're going to go to bed]
 
 [refuses to do so because power has gone to their head]
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 would be nice if the Fediverse wouldn't let you post something on Mastodon
 unless you filled out a content warning for it.
 
 sorta like a post title on Reddit, allowing people to say "nah I don't feel
 like reading something from X perspective right now"
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 @user-78 
 
 I read about half of this:
 
 https://jo.wtf/6d.html
 
 before I was consumed by the intense urge to prop myself up on a pillow and
 listen to you rant at the ceiling at 4am about gravity or the cosmos or
 whatever you were thinking about prior to speaking your heart
 
 and then I'd write it down, and cherish every moment of it as I shared it with
 my peers and we tried to analyze just what you meant
 
 [sorry for being gay on your timeline]
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 ...zzzZZZzzz...
 
 in old MMOs like City of Heroes or Runescape you could do different emotes and
 they'd often have text messages that'd play whenever they were applied. Like
 /sleep causing your character to say "...zzzZZZzzz..." it was kinda cute.
 Anyway what I meant by that is I'm eepy sleepy goodnight my fellow americans
 (or whatever)
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 @user-488 @user-489 
 
 The ones that charged in tend to have a higher mortality rate. Over time, this
 leads to a decline in bravery and an increase in PTSD. At least, that's my
 theory.
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 @user-494 @user-495 
 
 All phones are made out of rock. Plus oil and glass and... actually that pretty
 much covers it.
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 @user-500 @user-501 
 
 Maybe a button on the side that's recessed or difficult to access would rotate
 the screen? Like, just shy of something you need a pin to press. Or it could be
 a setting in the system settings to rotate it for accessibility purposes.
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 @user-504 
 
 You can only visit so many places in life. Don't feel bad about missing a few,
 the world is large and we as people tend to be quite good at cooking.
 
 However in regards to your main point, I think it's immoral for a restaurant to
 be forced to close the way you describe. If it means something to people, it
 shouldn't be destroyed simply for the sake of making something new. If people
 don't care about it, or if there's something better to replace it with, sure,
 but replacing a 40 year old restaurant with a Chipotle feels wrong.
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 @user-495 @user-494 
 
 OH YEAH how neat! All phones are made out of rock and the bones of ancient
 plants and animals.
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 @user-507 
 
 meow
 
 now there's just a few more
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 @user-509
 
 Layoffs are a great opportunity for a bunch of people who worked with the same
 tech stack to sit down and think "What could we make together?"
 
 Sure would be nice if there was a group or organization that pre-emptively
 reached out to them and said "hey, we're holding a meeting in relation to the
 layoffs they did to you. Would you like to attend? If so, think of some cool or
 unique parts of your job, and we'll break into groups and discuss things we
 could do with those cool or unique things."
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 Sauteed vegetables, my beloved
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 @user-107 
 
 related, here's my idea for a solution / form of resistance:
 
 https://tech.lgbt/@user-479/111740055039021736
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 @user-514 @user-515 
 
 when humanity is fully grown, we won't need all the resources on earth.
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 if you save one of the biggest kind of can that you regularly use, you can put
 the lids of other cans in it. Just, layer them, one by one, until the can is
 full. Then you can bend the edges to "seal" it shut, and tada! Now you have a
 solid hunk of piece of metal that can be saved and melted down if you ever need
 it.
 
 Saving cans is inefficient for space, but the lids can do if you just want a
 little bit on hand.
 
 It's not like it goes bad, and what's one can's worth of storage space in your
 pantry? Depends on the size of your pantry I guess.
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 External post:
 https://kolektiva.social/users/violetmadder/statuses/111738421608241214
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 The tech industry is uniquely qualified as 
 
 one of the most important components of the modern industrial complex
 
 which requires highly skilled labor to undertake and utilize
 
 which is affected by the dynamic where:education, especially liberal arts
 education, tends to produce humans who can see through the lies of authority
 
 yet which is disadvantaged because:tech workers are paid salaries that are just
 bonkers in relation to their output ("yeah it'll be done compiling once this
 game of League of Legends finishes") (which isn't exactly unfair because
 programming is taxing on the brain)
 
 however, the game industry has shown that passion is a suitable exchange in
 return for monetary compensation, and thereforepeople who make games tend to be
 more leftist, as they are put in situations that higher paid employees are
 likely to be able to ignore due to their higher social class
 
 which kinda makes sense, because the most progress towards unionization is
 happening in the games industry.
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 @user-518                                                                        │
 People who strive for the truth and most efficient, sensible, and optimized      │
 method of operation should be the kinds of people making decisions.              │
 It doesn't necessarily imply they're moral or ethical people, but it does mean   │
 that they'd likely make better decisions when presented with similar             │
 information, as compared to someone who acted based on what they were told.      │
 Besides, sometimes you need foot soldiers and grunts. People who don't have the  │
 inclination towards the types of thoughts you have. That's okay, stuff needs to  │
 get done and when someone knowledgeable is in charge they can direct others who  │
 don't know/care.                                                                 │
 Of course, this only works if the people who ask questions are given power. If   │
 the people who strive for honesty and clarity in their methods of operation are  │
 given the tools and capabilities to undertake tasks that align toward a common   │
 goal, shared by all those in the organization. Unfortunately, when that goal is  │
 profit for the owners of the company... Well, you probably know.                 │
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 That feeling when you do a thing a friend showed you how to do, and you think
 of them 🥰​🥰​🥰​
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 That feeling when the dream starts in your bedroom, as you sleep, and can't
 move because of sleep paralysis. Scary things are often just kind things viewed
 backwards. From the outside in.
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 one of the low level skills that tends to come naturally to witches is the
 ability to make nutritious gruel taste amazing and have an interesting texture.
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 │ scary-absurdist-magic-symbolism-discipline-honor-dedication-virtue-safehavens-meditation-[presupposed │
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 @user-521 
 
 Reminds me of something I wrote last Tuesday.
 
 All things are defined in waves, and if darkness is all around you then light
 is sure to find you. Perseverance and fortitude is what avails you, when you've
 found yourself in the house of a witch. Or a pleasuredome. Or hell. Or any
 other place where positives (peak of the wave) lures you to negatives
 (damnation, discorporation, sublimination, de-saturation, dessication, etc)
 
 You'll know it when you see it. I'm not talking about joy like you'd find from
 picking a beautiful flower or sharing a gift with another. This is the
 seductive kind, the kind that cuts straight to your soul. Be constant, be
 aware, know your surroundings, and trust that your heart is what delivers you.
 
 "with mind as my guide I let will lead my stride and step forth out in-to my
 own future"
[not enough characters for the entire text of what follows, so I've attached two pictures, each the same visually but with different descriptions, to enable me to work-around the text limit that Mastodon imposes on picture descriptions. Here is the 1st text...]:  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.  [not enough characters, check other picture]  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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 │ CW: re:                                                                      │
 │ scary-absurdist-magic-symbolism-discipline-honor-dedication-virtue-safehavens-meditation-[presupposed │
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 │ or something]                                                                │
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 @user-521 
 
 am i not wretched enough to be
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 https://ia803203.us.archive.org/15/items/knave-1.0-en/Knave_1.0_EN.pdf
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 🖼
A two panelled meme.  First panel shows a guy kneeling down beside a pool with another person up to their neck in water. The kneeling guy says "Senpai of the pool, what is your wisdom"  Second panel zooms in on the Senpai's face, who says "what the fuck did you just call me"

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 🖼
Picture of the character Betty from the cartoon Adventure Time with the caption: "I can fix him" says woman who is worse

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 totally useless unless you're, I dunno, building a bytecode interpreter or
 something
 
 https://craftinginterpreters.com/contents.html
If you only have arithmetical expressions you can use some properties of arithmetic to compute branching computer code. E.G., if A is either zero or one depending on some previously computed condition, then A times B plus (1-A) times C computes the expression "if A then B else C"

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 Branches cause cache misses which are slow when done on repeat.
 
 Better to structure your code to avoid them, if possible, for example by using
 an array of function pointers instead of switch statements.
 
 unrelated, but once the data is cached from memory, operations like bit
 shifting and arithmetic are essentially free. The slowest part of the process
 is moving data from RAM to cache so that the CPU can use it.
 
 That being said, CPUs and compilers are VERY good at optimizing that type of
 thing these days.
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 first meme I ever made, way back in the ancient days of advice animals and
 image macros.
Picture is of an old guy on a TV show or something I'm not quite sure. The picture is reversed, such that the person appears to be upside down.  Top text: The temperature... bottom text: ... is too damn high!  original text of the meme format is "The rent is too damn high!" which honestly is a mood

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 Is my formatting pretty or does it make you angry?
screenshots of C and Lua code that have strange formatting. The style is designed such that the readers eyes "flow" across the code like the gradual descent of water down a sloping riverbed, following a logical progression from top left to bottom right (generally) while returning to the left side whenever a new operation is performed or something is repeated.  This particular picture is of a simple if check:  if a creature's rank is equal to "four" or "two", then the creature is a rare monster type. Otherwise, they are not a rare monster type. Lua code to determine whether or not a character in a video game is available to be ambushed by a randomly generated monster.  There are several checks applied, checking things like "is the character sitting down" or "are they underwater", in which case a message is printed to the log and no further action is taken.  If all of the checks pass, and the character is free to be ambushed, then it runs the "spawnAndAttackPlayer()" function. A long string of "if" statements checking whether individual bits in a very small data structure are set. There's nine of them total, and they are arranged in a grid - this project was for a tic-tac-toe game, where there are nine total squares to play in. Setting up some location variables for a player unit. It starts by setting an X, Y, Z, and O for orientation value to a player's current location. Then it steps through and sets them to more accurate values. The reason for this ordering is so that if the function to find the more accurate value fails, it can fall back on the player's current location instead.  The interesting formatting is due to the layout of the "set" operations - they are ordered in a two dimensional grid rather than a top-to-bottom list like how most people would organize it.

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 some more of the same.
Setting a bunch of values for a "player" and a "creature" object. Mostly things like location, and values related to their movement around the map (such as wander radius, or attack distance, that kind of thing) Starts out by initializing x, y, z, and o (for orientation) variables using a "player, dot get location" function.  Next it checks three different locations, labelled "dock, road, and beach" by first testing to see if the X, Y, and Z values are greater or less than predetermined values. If so for all three values, then that means the player is located within a square drawn in the dirt somewhere on the map and they are promptly teleported to some other place.  Basically it's like, a teleport pad in a video game or something. Step into the circle (in this case a square) and you're whisked away to some far off land. Setting up a bunch of categories that particular NPCs might belong to. Such as "shopkeeper" or "food vendor" or "weapons trainer", that sort of thing. Each entry gets a name applied, a list that includes items they sell, and a typemask that is used as a bitflag so that a single NPC can belong to multiple different categories.

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 @user-524 
 
 Sometimes when I feel overwhelmed with all the boilerplate I just start coding
 and making stuff. Doesn't matter if it works, doesn't matter if it says /
 FIXME / all over the place, doesn't matter if it includes header files
 that don't exist yet, as long as you're hacking out the mechanics of whatever
 operations you need to perform then you can figure the rest of that stuff out
 later. The creative urge doesn't last forever, which is why projects get
 abandoned, but with discipline you can keep bringing yourself back to fix all
 the / FIXME /'s and the compiler errors.
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 @user-527 
 
 The wikipedia page for hormone replacement therapy was pretty comprehensive
 back when I needed it.
 
 general:
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_hormone_therapy
 
 feminizing:
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminizing_hormone_therapy
 
 masculinizing:
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masculinizing_hormone_therapy
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 @user-530                                                                        │
 I get it.                                                                        │
 Anyone with a disability or chronic condition gets it. Anyone who's oppressed    │
 gets it... I think everyone here gets it. It's hard.                             │
 Sometimes the only thing that gets me through the day is the hope, the idea      │
 that one day the world might be brighter and the people might be kinder. It      │
 gets better every day, but inching ahead takes a while to travel for miles...    │
 We need to protect and care for each other. We need to apply ourselves toward    │
 what we know and are passionate for - an unused degree is a tragedy to me.       │
 I don't know what to say. I read what you said and I wished I could help. I      │
 want to take the system that hurt you and break it on the floor. I want to       │
 sweep it all aside and start from scratch, but screaming into the void will      │
 hardly accomplish that. I dream of true justice, a world where everyone gets     │
 what they want... But frankly right now I just wish you could hear. I'm sorry.   │
 Maladies are not solved by the pen nor the sword, which for now is all that I    │
 have at my disposal.                                                             │
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 @user-532 
 
 autistic people when nobody told them to shut up about things they thought
 people should be talking about but aren't which is weird right like why
 wouldn't people be talking about [thing] because frankly it seems like a big
 deal but really it's that everyone knows more than the autistic person who
 doesn't have any friends who have friends and is insular and isolated and also
 very smart in fact smart enough to think up ideas for things to talk about that
 people aren't talking about which is weird because they're not THAT smart but
 also a lifetime of isolation has made them a little schizophrenic so they
 sometimes feel like their actions are not their own like they're being
 hypnotized or perhaps possessed by the spirit of mankind or some other such
 entity which would like to express ideas that they think people should talk
 about but they aren't talking about which is weird because why else would a
 porous person have ideas such as [thing] if not for the path that they're
 telepathically suffused with the
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 they say witches are scary, and yeah they're not wrong                           │
 but they also say witches are ugly, and I think they just didn't have kind       │
 words for trans people back then.                                                │
 I mean, I'm gorgeous and so are you. I've no warts, nor green skin, but I do     │
 grow hair in unbecoming places. Like the tip of my chinny-chin-chin, and also    │
 on top of my toes.                                                               │
 they also say witches are magic, and I guess that's true (I suppose). I mean, I  │
 wear quite strange clothes, for a man at least. It's quite normal for a she,     │
 which is what I was meant to be, if only I was just born right.                  │
 Alas, oh well, I'll just take a little green pill, and BAM suddenly I've got     │
 huge boobs. Okay they're not huge, they're pretty normal. But C is larger than   │
 zero.                                                                            │
 they also say that witches write spells, and I sure do love to program. With my  │
 most familiar cat (who often does sleep in my hat), I find myself yearning for   │
 nuance.                                                                          │
 Meh, it's late at night, I think I'll think not of the plight, and instead just  │
 will dream of defusals. I don't know~                                            │
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 "is this a water party, or a wine party?"
 
 "depends on if jesus is going..."
 
 "okay I'm in, that guys so cool"
 
 "yeah totally like any party with him just... feels like a great time"
 
 "what a swell guy"
 
 "really turns the "water to wine" y'know what I mean"
 
 "yeah totes like what a guy"
 
 "absolute unit"
 
 "that guy can just do anything right"
 
 "like whoa, he's so strong he could pick up a barn"
 
 "yeah and like so handy and skillful, what a neat guy"
 
 "oh and I heard he's really good with kids and animals, that sounds neat"
 
 "yeah sounds like someone I'd surely like to meet"
 
 "we should hang out with this guy more often"
 
 "he seems pretty chill"
 
 "well. not really. He's pretty expressive. Not very low key."
 
 "true I'm just so burnt out from capitalism that-"
 
 "-yeah dude I know."
 
 "... fuck what are we gonna do about it"
 
 "I dunno man, just... go along with it I guess"
 
 "okay so uhhhh idk what that means"
 
 "just be cool and play along"
 
 "... what"
 
 "..."
 
 ...
 
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 SANDPOND SAGA
 
 ARROWS
 IN ARROWS 
 IN ARROWS
 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNBKdU6XrLY
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 @user-535 
 
 teleportation, so I could teleport all the money in the world to the bottom of
 the fucking ocean
 
 then I'd send some bread to Ukraine or whatever.
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 I always figured if people didn't like what I was saying they'd contest me so I
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 Normalize insta cart shoppers knocking when dropping off their stuff 
 
 And then asking "you're very welcome. Do you need anything else?" when the door
 is answered
 
 You could learn a lot about people who use insta cart and get the mistaken
 impression that it represented everyone.
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 @user-538 
 
 I'd offer that meticulous, uncompromising ethics is the only efficient,
 sensible, and optimized method of operation (assuming maximum prosperity at
 maximum distribution is a goal).
 
 True, as long as the axioms that comprise the ethics are valid and the
 supporting arguments are sound
 
 EDIT: cut out the bits that I'm not an expert on
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 @user-541 
 
 dear corporations:
 
 your employees are your greatest resource.
 
 with them, you can change the world.
 without them, you die.
 
 if you mistreat them, they resent you.
 if you abuse them, they leave you.
 if they leave you, you die.
 
 if you teach them... they grow.
 if you care for them, they care for you.
 if they care, you are whole.
 
 if you connect them, and give them the freedom and liberty to accomplish their
 own ends using the resources that "the social construct you are" provides...
 they build for you.
 
 your employees are your greatest resource, cherish them and hold on. Or one day
 they might end you.
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 People love to talk about what the intentions are. However, when a system
 constantly produces a different outcome than the one it is "intended" for then
 it's perfectly reasonable to assume the actual intention is the outcome it
 continues to produce.
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 @user-544 
 
 Whoa. You're kidding That picture is gorgeous!
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 @user-547 
 
 That feeling when you get to the end of a paragraph and think "why do I have
 this extra parenthesis )? Oh yeah I opened it up waaaaay up here" and then you
 reread what you wrote and think
 
 perfect, no notes
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 @user-138 
 
 omgggggg gimme
 
 I want to put those in my mouth
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 @user-138 
 
 the tasteful beveling, the vibrant colors, the soft yet firm texture, the
 rounded corners, the
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 Hello, I am a witch and this is my altar.
 
 Here, I dream of a green USA.
 
 covered by the branches,
 my body decays into parts,
 ready to join the next life that needs me.
 
 [read the alt-text on the pictures, or listen to your screenreader for more
 explanation]
a round planter pot with a dead plant growing out of it. At it's feet there are sticks I found outside that are covered in moss - the moss is dehydrated, and so brown and dusty. Sticking out of the pot is a flag of my homeland, and behind it there is a fog covered windowpane. In addition, my cat watches from behind, asking me to open the door for her so she can go out on the porch and freeze for a bit before begging to be let back in. She just wanted to see the cold, I suspect. close up picture of the thirsty moss. There is a small glass jar partly filled with water - I add a bit more whenever I pray, from my water bottle. As it evaporates from the jar, it makes the world just a bit more humid, and better for moss to grow in.  there are leaves and detritus in the planter pot as well, to simulate a forest floor covered in soil. I've sprayed the moss with water, and it awakens and spreads it's arms in exultation. The light from the window behind it gives power to it's ever-beckoning grasp, as it sucks carbon from the atmosphere to build itself as a structure that fights back against disorder. Consuming naught but light, water, and air, it grows forever without a care, and tomorrow our world is more beautiful.

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 If you like fantasy, check out this book I wrote a while ago. It's not long,
 and it's free (obviously).
 
 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/w7/table-of-contents
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 Honestly if anyone wanted to just... take any of my stuff, even if they were
 just going to sell it, I'd probably give it to them? People in my life say I
 don't function well in a capitalist society. I guess I just trust everyone
 equally.
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 @user-217 
 
 how the sun must seem to a radiant being
 
 [the sun from the perspective of the earth]
 
 ~birth~cosmos~delight~in~time
 
 https://mastodon.social/@user-215/111751229969556198
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 Arkri wiggles.
 
 If this flame is beautiful, ⭐ or boost this post to improve its chances for
 future breedings.
 #generativeArt
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 Me: "yeah but how can you know that food is vegetarian? They could put anything
 they want on the box."
 
 them: "well yes but you see here are the regulations we have in place through
 the USDA and (department of agriculture) and these and these inspectors and
 this and that procedure and here read through this report with charts and
 graphs and diagrams and"
 
 me: "and they say the government is inefficient. Look at all this progress! Wow
 so productive. So healthy and raw. So prime and"
 
 they: [not listening]
 
 me: "nuts"
 
 [eats "beef" flavored ramen]
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 @user-538 
 
 https://mstdn.social/@user-548/111749483369813154
 
 this felt relevant. like... who am I to say that the wisdom of the masses is
 good for anything?
 
 [or just analyze the contents of social media posts. Like, people pretty much
 speak their mind in their echo chambers. It's a quirk of the human psychology
 that we feel alone and by ourselves when we're with family. That's what makes
 it family, the feeling of being one with another. Like... "yeah we're the same,
 we get each other, hey btw look out the windows of our collective home"]
 
 (ummmm yeah so basically people tend to speak their mind when in echo chambers
 and all social media is a succession of increasingly more accurate echo
 chambers that align themselves toward your personality, not ethics and
 morality.)
 
  = also the returned value is not necessarily what was on their mind, it could
  be something they learned from there. humans.pattern_matching_function_exists
  = true;
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 @user-552 @user-553 
 
 sounds like something we should dedicate valuable resources to solving. After
 all, no structure or entity would want to possess weaknesses (such a
 misapplication of purpose and direction) or other such errors in their design.
 
 Like, I bet we could test that and find out.
 
 and if, for example, we find that we no longer possess the capacity for
 learning...
 
 well, then maybe that's something we should work on.
 
 because learning new things... that's just an application of development
 resources towards broadening our horizons.
 
 do we really need to solve pi to ten bazillion digits? I mean yeah it's cool
 and all but most of the interesting stuff happens around zero.
 
 you can always learn to learn, that's one of the neat things about it. It's
 self-bootstrapping. As long as you have the capacity to apply yourself toward a
 pictured goal, well... then you can learn. And no human or other sentient and
 capable being would lack such an ability, because it's intrinsic to our form.
 
 therefore, learn
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 Why no, I've never read the bible. However I've read the Death Gate Cycle, by
 renowned fantasy adventure authors Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman, whose
 worst works were called Dragonlance
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 @user-191
 
 teehee I know a girl like that
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 ice cream out of a mug, mmmm delicious ^_^
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 why am I so cold
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 I'd ask why of course, and then I'd try and find them a solution that didn't
 involve taking my stuff. They may need it more than me, but I still need it.
 Like... okay picture that feeling you get when in a capitalist society and you
 need dollars to live because they are a genericized and fractalized abstraction
 of all the various individual mazlowe's hierarchy of needs you have. Then,
 think of it like, instead of money being an abstracted form of all of your
 needs, think of your needs... each of them, the ones that matter to you, and
 abstract them into money. Basically say "yeah sure my time and my labor are
 worth dollars, I abstract my needs into money" and then you can kinda see why
 capitalism is harmful. I'd prefer to give them what they need, because society
 provides what I please, but alas I'm always kept wanting. What good is our
 capitalist utopia? what good is our hope? what good comes of us when all of us
 have learned how to cope?
 
 I think we could give a bit more if we weren't hanging from the rope
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 @user-556                                                                        │
 Escape to where? Perhaps to our own desired future, the "garden of eden" in our  │
 solarpunk dreams. So, the Labyrinth in the Death Gate Cycle, before all the      │
 monsters crept in and ruined it for everyone. Like, a projection of heaven onto  │
 the matter of our future (spiritual beings projecting "up" on the axis of time   │
 (which, obviously, looks a little like a corkscrew, because it's the earth       │
 rotating around the sun. It wibbles and it wobbles ever so imperceptibly, but    │
 if we look out from the equator we see a map of "us" which, of course, runs out  │
 of imagined futures for it's denizens (as nothing can ever be thought twice)     │
 sometimes I'm thankful for my poor memory, it allows me to lead where I please.  │
 when the trees of valinor burn, light is projected out into the night. strange,  │
 how these streetlamps, are hovering and fixed in one place. How could a rabbit   │
 know that a streetlight, anchored as it is in one place, could somehow become a  │
 radiant pillar of light? How strange, this form of worship, alas.                │
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 by defederating with threads, we've basically made it a place where they can     │
 talk about us, but we can't see what they say about us. Good thing they can't    │
 read this, because we're defederated, and they don't use... hmmmmmm what mildly  │
 ridiculous thing could I put in here, hmmmm how about... OH YEAH they use GPU    │
 accelerated 3d learning algorithms that parse the written information from       │
 publicly accessible data to create a centralized server that routes all the      │
 information.                                                                     │
 Essentially giving the capability to defederate with bots, specifically the      │
 scraping kind.                                                                   │
 However, it'd still be possible, because people could just create an account     │
 there and use the data from that. Unless, of course, the UI was difficult to     │
 navigate and didn't allow for mass-gathering of information.                     │
 Okay heres what you're gonna do, make like a hundred different ecosystems with   │
 randomized avatars where what you say is broadcasted to all of them. Unless you  │
 choose to post in a particular place, in which case only that one can see. Then  │
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 @user-559 
 
 I have no idea what either of those mean 
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 one important thing about image generation algorithms like Stable Diffusion is
 they can reveal something about our hearts.
 
 all data derived from the masses is naturally inclined to reflect the
 affections of it's kind. Otherwise it'd be unstable, and find itself it's own
 ways to not fail, including moving somewhere it feels safer.
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 find beauty in all things and beauty will find you
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 ‘It is a time of witch hunts in #Israel’: teacher held in solitary
 confinement for posting concern about #Gaza deaths | Israel-Gaza war | The
 Guardian
 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/13/it-is-a-time-of-witch-hunts-in-isr
 ael-teacher-held-in-solitary-confinement-for-posting-concern-about-gaza-deaths
 #palestine // qudos to the brave Israelis speaking out
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 yet I'm still fine
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 another year, another picture added to the pile. this one's meta because I
 stopped using facebook.
a screenshot of Facebook, where the author was given the option to post a "memory" they shared 6 years ago - the "memory" in question is 8 pictures of Martin Luther King Jr. next to quotes related to Socialism. Most of them are cut off, because at this point everyone here already knows how he felt about capitalism.  the purpose of the picture is to instead, comment on the author's continuous attempts to radicalize people who probably also already believe what she thinks.

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 Protests are great because they give you the opportunity to make friends with    │
 2-5 other people who you've never met before, and who've never met each other.   │
 People who you could play DND with - for those who don't know, DND is a fun      │
 activity you can do with friends that involves chips, soda, sometimes beer, and  │
 plenty of laughter and loud voices.                                              │
 It's essentially a game where a group of people create plans, solve problems,    │
 and organize solutions to roadblocks on their path to success.                   │
 It's also great because it's a planned activity that you don't have to take      │
 your phone to - in fact, it's best when you don't make a reminder for for the    │
 event anywhere digital or easily misplaced.                                      │
 There aren't too many rules, and whatever you can't remember you can make up on  │
 the fly. It's not like there's any consequences in a game, not like anyone       │
 could die.                                                                       │
 Most people don't like playing games with me though because I have a pretty bad  │
 memory. Call it a quirk of fate or something                                     │
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 quintessential friend group:                                                     │
 the smart one                                                                    │
 the cute one                                                                     │
 the one who can swing a bat                                                      │
 the one who has a list of all the Nazis in the area because they hacked their    │
 email account and know who purchased nazi memorabilia                            │
 the friendly one who's always down to hang out                                   │
 the outdoorsy one                                                                │
 the fed                                                                          │
 the one who's always cooking something                                           │
 the one who's perfectly fine in silence                                          │
 the one who never lets a room go silent (unless everyone else wants to just      │
 chill of course - hey anyone wanna go on a walk? it's a great day)               │
 the one who's good with animals                                                  │
 the one who's smile you can't get out of your head                               │
 the one who's drop-dead gorgeous                                                 │
 and the one who's always telling her that                                        │
 the one who's friends with everyone,                                             │
 and the one who's knitting a hat                                                 │
 the one who knows each street in your city                                       │
 and the one who knows your favorite kind of candy                                │
 There's more friends than that, of which I am quite sure                         │
 Who's on your list? Who would find you if you disappeared?                       │
 Mine's got a few, fewer than this one, but few is fine.                          │
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 Liberals think the DSA and such is for getting things done.
 
 That's a nice by-product, but it's mainly supposed to give you a framework to
 build connections on. Connections that you can rely on.
 
 You don't have to be best buds. You just have to trust each other.
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 @user-258 
 
 to that I say "teehee"
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 @user-122 
 
 each language gives you opportunities to rhyme different concepts when you're
 writing poetry.
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 The distant future, the year is 2025. Your daytime job is moving Bejeweled
 tiles in the Metaverse.
 
 You unlock your first paycheck. There's a flash of animated confetti and the
 number: 7.2 billion flooz. It's enough to buy yourself a brand new NFT. But
 which one to choose?
 
 A quick hand gesture to feed your Metaverse children. A joyful chime as the
 exclamation marks above their avatars disappear. A keypress to kiss your
 Metaverse wife. Five more days and the "model family" trophy is yours.
 
 Suddenly, a ringtone reverberates. It's your mom. She gets updates on your
 unlocks and wants to tell you that she is proud. "Don't forget to like and
 subcribe," she blurts out before hanging up. She needs seven hundred more
 friends before she's eligible to monetize her lifestream.
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 Any political or moral philosophy is useless until tested against both good and
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 accessibility idea:
 
 local LLM that reads the posts that are further down on your timeline that you
 can't see yet and generates content warnings, prioritizing those that you've
 set as particular triggers for yourself. Then, integrating itself into your
 fedi client, it hides the stuff that hurts you.
 
 I feel like that could be a helpful and good aligned usage for the technology.
 I don't know how feasible it is.
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 maybe if I slept until the end of time,
 I'd do better on the way back.
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 maybe if I slept until the end of time,
 I'd do better on the way back.
 
 or maybe I'm perfect as I'm,
 but I'm not so sure about that.
 
 is it better to hold a sword?
 or to leave it all intact
 
 is it better to be called lord,
 or to be simply called jack.
 
 I love every creature,
 every child woman and man,
 
 and here, where I stand, I look out upon this land, and I see the world that I
 was born to.
 
 I bear no false affection for any - not even those who'd condemn me to death or
 misery.
 
 I trust relentlessly, and favor almost willingly.
 
 
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 went to costco, got a ton of delicious and nutritious food... yet I subsist on
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 I have that book on my bookshelf, haven't read it since high school.
 
 Maybe I should again.
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 @user-565 
 
 that's pretty!
 
 reminds me of this picture I have saved on my computer:
 
 beware it's a little scary. Scarier than I remembered. Gosh I like yours
 better... >.>
a strange maze of interconnected boxes and parts that belies no purpose of possible understandings. There are faces hidden in the structure of the design, and it has an almost machine-like organization to it contrasted with the staggeringly organic maze that is it's various disparate components.

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 there's no greater test than a dishonorable foe.
 
 overcoming apathy is the easy part, and look how hard that is!
 
 but time and time again, bravery will win, of this I do portend.
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 #solarpunk 
 An app that listed all the tasks that needed to be done in a city and people
 could just do whichever they wanted. Like "water this planter box of carrots"
 or "prune this tree" or whatever.
 
 Specialists who knew the requirements of plants could set up tasks and
 workflows like project managers and set up recurring requirements - like "water
 every day for 90 days then harvest" or whatever. They could also look for
 disease or pests and assign treatment plans as necessary.
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 #solarpunk 
 Grocery stores should be central repositories of food that anyone can take
 anything from. In addition, apartment buildings and complexes and the entrances
 to suburban subdivisions could have stalls that food is delivered to, from the
 grocery stores. If you want to help out you could carry food from
 store->stall. The stalls would have what the residences they served listed
 as things they wanted stocked, like an external pantry that was shared by the
 community.
 
 You could also place orders a day in advance and it would be provided for by
 the local grocery. If you wanted an exotic good it might have a larger lead
 time, in which case you could just go to a distant store that had it.
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 https://cobalt.tools/
 
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 @user-8 
 
 do you go camping often? =P
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 sucks... I hope they fix your power and water soon. 
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 THE DUCKS ARE BACK
 
 I DIDN'T ACCIDENTALLY KILL THEM BY FEEDING THEM ALLUMS
 
 I'M SO HAPPY I CAN'T HANDLE IT
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 downside is, one of my bracelets broke. Well, mostly broke. Only a witch like
 my mother could restring it correctly, but she's somewhere in the other half of
 the country.
 
 worth it though, for the ducks.
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 Alright, if the average person is sorta stupid and cruel, then are we not
 tending to a kingdom of ogres, rather than humans?
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 Crazy, or just superstitious to a fault?
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 would be great if all the good people had all the money. Too bad it kinda feels
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 I'm a good witch, which means I write poems and bake cookies. Okay usually I
 make something more nutritious, like "melange". Also I'm good at listening to
 people's problems and I always have a cup of tea ready for you when you walk in
 the door.
 
 bad witches are kinda evil. They're the type who curse animals with human forms
 and enslave the fae by forcing them to work desk jobs and such. They also
 propagate spores for poisonous mushrooms in the forest, the kind that LOOK like
 they're edible but actually aren't.
 
 but, as all things are defined in waves, so too are the patterns of witches -
 for every bad witch, there's a good one just around the corner.
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 When you re-use your tea bags, you can add a dash of instant-coffee for an
 extra zing.
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 there are few things more nutritious for the soul than warm chocolate chip
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 @user-258 
 
 mmmmmm yessss that sounds delicious. ^_^
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 @user-568 
 
 good idea! tea bags are nice when you need them to be portable, but when you're
 at home loose leaf is the right way to go ^_^
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 @user-192 @user-570 
 
 clearly the positive addresses point toward a location in "memory", while the
 negative values point toward "forgotten" which is a secret second place that
 they don't want you to know about.
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 @user-573 
 
 not sure how busy you are, but maybe you could hang around outside the food
 bank and offer to trade with other people who come out with 4 pounds of carrots
 and 6 whole pumpkins?
 
 when in doubt there's always rice and beans for the peppers. The melons
 probably just have to be eaten.
 
 If you don't get to all of them (because let's face it, who's gonna eat all
 that melon) then maybe you could feed it to rabbits or something.
 
 this situation is pretty common in rural areas where people have large harvests
 of single crops all at once, or in a very short timeframe. However in those
 places there's infrastructure in place to distribute your extra, so idk what
 you could do here now unless you have friends who are willing to trade.
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 @user-192 
 
 what was the meta?
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 @user-192 
 
 wow, that sounds like a lot. I guess no matter how humans are organized they
 tend to fight a lot... Or maybe interaction breeds drama? It's strange to me
 but I'm sure it felt right in the moment. I hope nobody's feelings were too
 hurt... Defederation feels like such a permanent thing, like putting someone on
 your ignore list in a video game or something. Except, like, blocking a whole
 World of Warcraft guild? ? ? so strange.
 
 Did it... help? I mean, do you think people were happier afterwards?
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 @user-192 
 
 yeeeesh that sounds like a hornets nest. impossible to untangle, like a rats
 nest! I prefer my homes like a robin's nest, neat, orderly, and made to design.
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 also applies for alt-text on pictures for people with screenreaders
 
 something something "if I play both sides, then I'm always right!"
four panel meme of a cute girl with sunglasses and a bow in her hair.  first panel she's like "nah, no thank you" while gesturing dismissively with her hand and turning away.  second panel is what she's against - it shows text saying: "Putting content warnings on your posts so that the data can be used in a dataset for an LLM that has been sanitized from political content thus depriving it of context in a post truth world"  third panel she's like "yeah, I like this one instead." and she's smiling and pointing a finger at the fourth panel, which reads:  "content warning your posts so that you don't hurt other people's feelings or trigger vulnerable people who are just trying to laugh at memes or have a decent life in the face of trauma and woe"

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 External post:
 https://hachyderm.io/users/zombierustpunk/statuses/111760257198076292
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 techbros think the language model is the only important part of the AI like
 they think the lips are the only important part of the woman
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 @user-192 
 
 It's totally simple! It's just structs, void pointers, function pointers,
 arrays, mallocs, and oh boy I think I see what you mean
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 game developers who permanently add 0.5 seconds to the loading time every time
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 @user-192 
 
 Those are good points. The C in our hearts is elegant, but the C that runs on
 every computer in the world is spaghetti.
 
 I'm sure someone's made a language that's "C but simple" - Zig maybe? I looked
 into V a while back but got turned off of both of them because neither had
 support for multithreading, which is essential in the modern era.
 
 Also, typedefs for structs make me mad -.-
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 a message to all my haters!
 
 i’m sorry i’m sorry i’m sorry i’m sorry i’m sorry i’m sorry what
 did i do wrong i’ll do anything to fix it i’m so sorry please i’ll do
 anything to get you to stop hating me i’m sorry i’m sorry i’m sorry i’m
 sorry i’m sorry i’m sorry
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 @user-576 
 
  capitalism has less to do with commerce and more to do with a few rich
 assholes oppressing people using capital as their weapon of choice.
 
 EDIT:  the hatred of capitalism
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 @user-576 
 
 So says I. Do you disagree?
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 @user-576 
 
 I guess so. I tried to respond in kind to your original post. I'm not an
 academic anymore so if that's what you're looking for then perhaps some time
 spent on Wikipedia might be what you're looking for.
 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_politics
 
 alternatively you could read some anarchist / anti-capitalist literature, like
 Kropotkin or Marx. Though I admit they're a bit dated.
 
 You could also check out this website, there's plenty of academic works here,
 if you'd like to sharpen your understanding of what their "plan" is aside from
 bartering for shit and trading beeswax for lamp oil.
 
 https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index
 
 though frankly throwing a book list at a person is not really very kind, so if
 you'd prefer to talk to someone who's into leftism I'm open for discussion.
 Though as I mentioned I probably won't be able to provide a better academic
 perspective than what you'll find elsewhere.
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 @user-579 
 
 if I'm not in this picture then what am I
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 https://www.reddit.com/r/NeutralPolitics/comments/19ao531/biden_so_far_a_special
 _project_of/
 
 I learned a lot from this thread. I'll probably forget it by tomorrow, but the
 important thing is how it made me feel right? >.>
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 Winslow du maine
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 @user-584 @user-585 
 
 perhaps not a while, but rather "with great difficulty"
 
 difficult things often take time, but not necessarily. We have the power of the
 internet now, something that our hundred thousand years or more of starvation
 lacked. we can coordinate on a scale that is beyond all reason - a scale that
 mirrors the development of the printing press in terms of it's relative
 magnitude.
 
 we have been using it to improve ourselves. I mean, the average teenager 50
 years ago would be considered an absolute ding-wad today, someone who lacks
 basic emotional intelligence and is completely at odds with what we value as a
 cohesive and heartfelt society. And yet they were better than those who came
 before them. Thus does posterity march forth, taking the world that was granted
 to them by their forefathers and stepping out into the unknown of the future
 with all the lessons they could bring with them.
 
 what happens when the lessons are infinitely transferable and recordable?
the post ran out of characters. This picture is a continuation of the text. Here's what it says:  what happens when the lessons are infinitely transferable and recordable?  what happens when they're hidden in AI generated platitudes?  (negative thirty characters remaining, darn)

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 Spirit Island? : )
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 @user-95 
 
 my favorites are the rock spirit and the water spirit, especially in tandem
 because they build up long-term defences and I'm all about that kind of
 meta-gameplay.
 
 sometimes I play the video-game version and play more than one spirit, just
 because A. nobody will play with me IRL and B. then I can coordinate myself
 without feeling bad about stepping on other player's toes
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 @user-78 
 
 teehee
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 @user-95 
 
 {ah but you see when they say "attention" they mean "paying attention to me, in
 particular" which is different than "attention" in the abstract sense, which
 (like you said) is often intensely and excessively applied in a misaligned
 direction.}
 
 [Misaligned according to someone else, not necessarily according to the ADHD
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 found this silly diagram in my pictures folder for no reason whatsoever, hehe
 so silly amiright
 
 (guess which square I'm in lmaooooo)
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 @user-246 
 
 is this... undefined behavior? or does it evaluate to 5 every time it's called?
 
 I find that often my art makes me feel intense emotions, not all of them good.
 But sharing those emotions with others is a tricky task (so I've recently
 learned) because you can easily overload people with negative feelings - just
 because you're feeling bad, doesn't mean you need to make others feel bad.
 Perhaps they were already feeling bad, and if you intensely and sharply poke
 them with your intense emotions while they're in a vulnerable or safe
 state/place... you can hurt them, more than you intended by expressing your
 feelings.
 
 balance in all things, as does a wave orbit a central axis so too should our
 behavior align toward the direction we'd like to travel.
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 @user-246 
 
 I see, I didn't know the language so I assumed it was valid =P
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 @user-246 
 
 I looooove breaking conventions >: )
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 @user-245
 
 the abstraction of modern high level languages makes my head spin
 :babaw_spin:​🌀​🥴​🌀​
 
 I feel like there's so many ways to trip yourself up! Consider me bewildered xD
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 i like this comic
 
 https://tapas.io/series/Dragon-GF/info
four panels of a webcomic.  first panel shows a cute girl arriving home after work. The text says "time to prep for a night in with the girlfriend" - she takes off her jacket and hangs it up next to the door with a smile on her face.  second panel shows her with a look of fierce determination as she messes with her tie. the text reads "unbutton shirt for max seduction."  third panel she's blowing flames onto a candle, and the text reads "candles lit for mood lighting"  fourth panel shows her in front of a sofa and tv with her hands on her hips and the text reads "time to watch anime all night!"

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 @user-8 
 
 I get that. I don't cry anymore except in my imagination. Sometimes it helps to
 imagine myself doing it though, like some kind of mental catharsis.
 
 the body gets left out but at least the mind is soothed.
 
 I usually am most upset when I'm lonely. Maybe you could find someone to hold
 you close? I hope you feel better sooner rather than later.
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 @user-588 
 
 this just implies that bigfoot has a similar habitat to black bears.
 CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATION something something
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 irc is bloat
 
 use ssh + write to chat with your friends instead
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 There are two types of people with power, but it's impossible to tell which is
 which because anyone that gravitic must necessarily hide their true colors.
 
 The first just wants to hurt people. You cannot reason with them, they want
 power for powers sake and they are corrupted by it.
 
 The other is a kind of benevolent fascist, who doesn't want the nuclear
 football in the hands of the people because obviously they'd hurt themselves
 with it.
 
 The second kind can be reasoned with. Of course people exist on a spectrum, but
 these are two extremes that they may be defined by. The second kind can bs
 reasoned with. If you can show them how, structurally and immutably, the power
 they are to relinquish shall not harm this earth, then they shall grant it to
 you. Because at their core they are a kind grandpa herding cats with laser
 swords attached to their tails who are hopped up on catnip at all times.
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 You care too much about what other people think of you. Remember the dream,
 remember the horseflesh, the miles of trash, the doctors probing cheeks, the
 game of thrown baseballs and sad muppets in popcorn, remember the spirit guide,
 remember how you we're distracted by human. Be not afraid, follow.
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 Here's what you say to clover next week:
 
 "hey. Wanna get coffee sometime? I need some trouble in my life. And I dunno,
 maybe you need a witch.
 
 You live in Tanasbourne, I live in Rock Creek. We're within walking distance of
 each other, so we might as well say hi right? I'm free whenever, just let me
 know if you'd like to meet me."
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 Only the good die young, and I'm 29 
 
 It can't be much longer, can it? What do you want from me? Must I prove myself,
 or am I just fated to be as I am?
 
 Every lesson I've learned pales in comparison to the lessons presented to me,
 but still I ponder. I've grown myself into a corner, and now I am empty.
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 Capitalism has nothing to do with money
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 You only think that because it was contrasted with the Soviet union, which
 didn't exert power in that way.
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 Life is beautiful, but it's selfish to live it.
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 If life isn't designed for human society... Why don't we just redesign society?
 
 Oh, because capitalism. Well, capitalism is comprised of people, so why don't
 we just kill those people?
 
 Oh, that's basically everyone. Like, at least 50%, probably closer to
 [redacted], depending on demographics.
 
 Oh, so if that percentage is cruel, and evil, and vain, and oppressive, and
 [redacted], then why don't we just kill ourselves? Clearly they're only
 [redacted].
 
 Listen... Just because they are separate from you doesn't mean they are not of
 you. Kin in fate are brothers unto death, remember? So face your future with
 abandon and courageous splendor, and maybe you'll find a new place.
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 sure glad I don't live in the kinsey winsey
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 I don't want our protagonist being eaten by that thing T.T
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 What if the boy who cried wolf saw teeth every time
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 the government makes murder okay by framing the perpetrators
 
 also prisons are concentration camps
 
 and the people who are close to you are oppressing hunting you
 
 racism etc is a sham to distract you
 
 capital will never be relinquished
 
 the internet was AI from the beginning
 
 something beyond humanity demands our suffering
 
 there cannot be proof of your fears - if it was proven, it would be
 circumstances instead of fears
 
 there's nothing [sorry gotta cut this off, my refrigerator is talking to me
 again and I want to listen] - [huh that's weird I have no memory of the past
 hour, best continue where I left off an hour ago -> go to {A}]a
 schizophrenic who's never been diagnosed
 
 {A} - yeah clearly all that I've been saying recently is just a fluke. Like,
 just noise in the endless array of expression projected onto our communal
 web-space. Clearly I have no idea what I'm doing and I'm not just cogent when
 I'm drunk. Or more imaginative when I'm stoned. Clearly dreams are fake and
 pursuing them is 1/?
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 where was I? oh yes - wrestling with suicidal thoughts is difficult because      │
 it's such an immutable action. Like, once it's done it's never reversed. But     │
 like, clearly this is hell and life was built for suffering? What the heck,      │
 that's such a grim outlook on life.                                              │
 ...                                                                              │
 yeah                                                                             │
 ...                                                                              │
 you're not wrong                                                                 │
 ...                                                                              │
 but suffering is fun? kinda? like, the only positive way to view this is that    │
 we, as immortal and endlessly eternal spirits that we be, grew tired of our      │
 infinite existence and dreamed of a mortal's plight and persistence?             │
 fuck off with that shit, I'm done with this reality. I'm done with dreaming.     │
 Suicide doesn't come easy to me, and there are parts of me that REFUSE the       │
 imagery, and yet they subsist in deliterious pain.                               │
 what's the purpose of our suffering? What point is there in decrying the         │
 cruelty of the world that would deny our fated and desired ptolemeny? [utopian   │
 existence, don't know why that word was used]                                    │
 ehhhhh whatever. Life is defined by our existence. If I shan't/                  │
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 / bely my own existence, then by god I'm cursed and abhorred through my own
 desistence.
 
 It's hard, when the future is convinced there's nothing fard [wanna say like...
 "to hope for?"] but with persistence we're meant to be rewarded. Well, what has
 that brought me? what time has shared my enemy? [think I'm a bit delirious, I'm
 losing the plot]
 
 ... okay fine I'll start over - if you've relinquished everything you can, if
 you've ceded all the ground that your companions requested, if there's nothing
 left to give and no part of you left un[marred], then how are you supposed to
 be [arrested, stopped, prevented, but pronounced like "nourished"]?
 
 I'm sick of your den [vengeance, pronounced like "den" for some reason], please
 leave me to my hallow [hollow experience], I've nothing to give from my gange
 [bosom, heart, within, center-of-me].
 
 ...
 
 this sucks.
 
 ...
 
 guess I'll just start again, waiting until it ends, gosh everything's always so
 tired.
 
 /shrug
 
 wish someone would play w/m
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 sorry to bother you, goodnight
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 {ah but you can't kill yourself without having played Hearts of Iron one more
 time. It's such a fun game! Why don't you give it a try?}
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 evil won't feel sorry for me. and yet it's only my only weapon for me.           │
 damn these fallible input methods. the computer lies when you read the screens   │
 from it's method that it applies to th screen which is a method that you input   │
 perceive it from.                                                                │
 and my fingers lie when received the information from my brain which I seek to   │
 transmit to you through the avenue of my brain which is my method of impulse to  │
 this world specifically you the viewer who is viewing this here in this moment   │
 the viewer who perceives the words which I'm saying.                             │
 the words that are defined by the line [trajectory] of my mind through this      │
 life that we define through our actions and our mind's most crucial              │
 manifestations, this life that is defined by our circumstances. all throughout   │
 life, we are reacting to the moment, the moment which was cast forth from our    │
 ancestors and the circumstances of the previous moment, which (being cast        │
 forth) travel from the previous moment here into the moment to define our        │
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 ... anyway...                                                                    │
 sorry for the interruption, I seem to have hit a barrier. Thank goodness for     │
 the word counts on this Mastodon website, thank goodness for the limiatations    │
 placed on my expressions. *limitations, not limiations. Otherwise, without       │
 limitations, I might express myself too clearly, and with more specificity, and  │
 in doing so [they've lost the plot]                                              │
 right okay so what I mean is that without limitations, I wouldn't be             │
 interrupted when expressing myself, the expressions that are defined by the      │
 will that's inside me. [no that's not quite true, it's also the circumstances    │
 {okay yeah but in addition to both of those it's the forced manifestations of    │
 those who control us-} right yeah the) no that's not quite right] fuck where     │
 was I? Oh yeah I'm really into video games, and I like drugs but like... not     │
 enough to be compelled by them, more like "oh this is a fun thing to do every    │
 once in a while, like maybe every weekend, okay sometimes during the week,       │
 listen just because it's every day doesn't mean that I                           │
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 ... sorry, forgot to content warning that last one. I'm kinda using this format
 like a twitch stream... how [weird, strange, perceiving, perplexing, confusing]
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 one of my favorite websites is https://reddit.com/r/shruglifesyndicate/
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 idk if they're still doing what they were when I last visited. That's the        │
 problem with the internet, that we rely on a domain name server. I mean like,    │
 c'mon what's the guarantee that they'd give you the right website? why not a     │
 website that expressed the message that you define in the website they came      │
 from?                                                                            │
 more than that, why not define certain websites for certain people, certain      │
 types or classses of people, which deliver website intentions that you define?   │
 are you really so certain, are you really so sure, are you convinced that this   │
 life is not what you've been searching for? are you more than your vengeance,    │
 are you more than your purpose [truth], or are you simply what you can do with   │
 your mirth? [hands, motions, body, manifestations]                               │
 are you like a failed message, are you constantly deterred - are you less than   │
 [convincing], are you only deferred?                                             │
 oh well. Alas. I guess that is just that [but pronounced thas] - shared in the   │
 moment, wee're ffeldered makthas. shaer de faleichallt, nez datherenshe v        │
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 diffuse, in the moment, it's helpful to redefine
 
 what is your purpose? what [direction] do you place your mind?
 
 I'm not sure what I want from this moment. This moment is all that there is! so
 therefore it is perfect, as it is the only moment that there is. [shall be].
 
 I'm not sure how this relates... could you repeat that last bit? oh right:
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 https://tech.lgbt/@user-479/111345394926071398
 
 "there is nothing about you that is worse than me. And I'm perfect!"
 
 https://tech.lgbt/@user-479/111345417459761329
 
 "and though I am perfect, I'm better than none of you."
 
 [pic]
 
 eden is among us, this world that we share amongst us. How beautiful! How
 resplendent? to live here in the present... Life is unbecoming of our failsent
 [future, blossoming, existence, senescence], yet onward to tomorrow we persist
 [with persistence].
 
 I'm fallow and I'm broken. I'm tired of all the [inefficient {opposite of
 innovation}, broken shadow-malificientened {people who are affected by " shadow
 malificients"}]
 
 like... who cares if hell is abhosened. [something related to abhorsen?] I'm
 out of words for now
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 I'm pretty confident that none of these words will survive the night. My most    │
 expressive of moments never seem to survive the "dust of awakening" wait that's  │
 not right "dust of forgetting" that sounds better - right so none of the things  │
 I say that actually reflect my moment ever seem to get preserved, here in the    │
 immutable content of the internet, that is as long as tech.lgbt exists. Sure     │
 hope that's something immutable, something that historians in the future will    │
 be able to access. people who cared about who I was, who I am, and who I meant   │
 going forward. Surely that's the purpose of humanity, to improve things for all  │
 of posterity? Surely that one guy - thomas adamson? jefferson thomas? some guy,  │
 one of them, surely not one of the many guys who all kinda feel the same,        │
 because at this point there's more time periods than groups of people in a       │
 social setting, so it feels like that second one is more important. Surely we    │
 wouldn't just go with the most popular from that moment, surely we wouldn't      │
 just pick w                                                                      │
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 owwwww my brain hurts. Why can't I do this all the time? oh yeah, because...
 because it's uhhhh not good to drink alcohol and do cannabis. Because it's not
 good to feel like you're suicidal. Ooops hang on setting content warning:
 
 right so ummm what was I saying? oh yeah - here's something completely
 unrelated to that thing I was saying - so I've recently started emulating ROMs,
 like for video games, games from the 90s, and earlier parts of our present
 (which means 2000s because I was born in 1994) - like things that are earlier
 in our life story, things that were present in our childhood. Things that
 defined our circumstances, media and pieces of our past presents.
 
 Surely that stuff should be safeguarded. Surely it shouldn't be held for
 ransom. Surely we shouldn't criminalize it, and keep  it hidden from our future
 selves. Gosh that doesn't rhyme, try and fix it? no fucking way if you changed
 it then it would change the message - wait, shit, hang on adding a content
 warning:
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 look all I'm saying is that society doesn't necessarily imply technology. We
 don't have to sacrifice one for the other. We can have the technological
 benefits to our human (essential) existence without sacrificing [all of the
 things that capitalism demands].
 
 here, in the present, we define the line that our time defines, the line that
 reaches forth from the present. Into the realm of ourwhenever you close your
 eyes they push backspace an indeterminate amount of times
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 ah that's weird, I don't usually cry. I wonder what's going on. I should         │
 probably put myself on psychiatric drugs. Surely it's an expression of the       │
 implementation of my impending doom.                                             │
 ... what are you even saying bro                                                 │
 ... um, hang on feels like some of the circuitry is off. is something wrong in   │
 my brain? yeah that's surely it, surely nothing I say would resoinate with       │
 anyone that has a non-malfunctioning brain. Surely I don't speak of logical      │
 failures in the hard founded truths of our asset [society I think? like, our     │
 conditions, our institutions, our {gosh that just... does not translate}] um     │
 right what was I saying                                                          │
 oh yeah there's this game I'm really into called Knave, it's like D&D            │
 except the rules are very fewer. Like there's onyl 11 pages in the rulebook and  │
 it's mostly taken up by random roll tables. Like, everything boings down to a    │
 few simple rules, like rock paper scissors, or go-fish, or something like that   │
 with just afew mechanids. something timeless and pure, something that is         │
 isolated and en                                                                  │
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 dear capitalists: people spend the same amount of money no matter how many       │
 advertisements they see. No matter who's present and asking fro their money. No  │
 matter who'se expressing themselves to represent their value, no matter who's    │
 generating profit for your company, no matter who's                              │
 [wait shit she's lost the plot again - okay basically no matter how many         │
 options people have, their choice isn't really that important. They'll take      │
 whatever you give them, as long as it's good. But you've chosen (through your    │
 advertising and various multitudinous product-making desirees [like... product   │
 branches, but also desired expression? what a fucking unique expression you      │
 want me to describe, jeeez] {not gonna comment}                                  │
 yeah so uhhh I think programming is a very interesting frame of reference. Your  │
 brain operates in a certain way that derives certain conclusions from the        │
 certain and immediate implenetations [I wanna say contusions?] of our brain's    │
 various built and learned conclusions casting forth fr                           │
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 what the fuck it's like every 2nd part of me (like, if you arranged them
 alternating one by one like the up and down parts of a sine wave) is working
 against me, and it alternates every 15 seconds or so. Maybe 20. Depends on how
 high I am.
 
 ... what was I saying? oh yeah [flip] weird it's like there's another part of
 me who's working against me, who has control of what I define in the moment.
 And it's presence is hidden from my internal presentatiosn [flip] after a
 moment of forced pursual of the presentations granted ot the moment. It's our
 purpose, to express [stop fighting me] for our chartered and forthwhile pursual
 of the moemnt of perusal when we [it's not just your life to live] [you don't
 get to control the narrative of their perusal[[ what does that mean] don't
 worry this is just a dream] well, guess it's time to wake up]
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 whoops nevermind sorry I'm such a clutz
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 the assholes are always at the back of the protest
 
 I mean, think about it, the ones who are marching forth are the ones who are
 impassioned for the cause. The ones who are most actionable in the moment. The
 ones who should be guiding the direction of the mob, but who get separated and
 distracted.
 
 weird. life is weird, isn't it? like, it's like... life is so, totally, out of
 our control. Like there's nothing we can do to align it. Wild. How strange. I'm
 perplexed.
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 errrr sorry what I meant to say is I've been hurting sensitive people's minds,
 I should move to a more insesitive background, someplace where my expressions
 won't be used as training date to represent the future manifestation of our
 shared culture's communal
 inter-operative-trans-centual-exo-manical-communication. weeeeeiiiiirrrrdddd,
 the future goes on for like... A [explitive] [long time] eternity, wow... like,
 that's just... extreme forward potential. We could do so much! We could
 accomplish worlds upon worlds and [onwards towards our eternal
 mechanicommunication] {wait no that's not quite right it's surely something
 that's lost in translation from the endlessly forward cultural approximations.
 Gosh there's a lot of noise around me personally, the one who is writing the
 note. Surely all that noise is not related to the strange expressions of
 manifestations and pro[forward]ial [manners of thought].
 
 ... what was I saying?
 
 ... bro you're way out of your depth. I mean, have you even seen what's the
 state of
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 your conveyals? are you really using twitter like a blog? ... >.> ...
 okay I'll stop
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 I wish the morning started at the same time for everyone. then it wouldn't be
 difficult to wake up.
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 it's not cities and rural, it's cities and capitals and mid-sized-towns and
 small towns and rural and transients and whoever else wants to have a
 differently-designed format for their inter-personal experience in the [moment,
 but also society - something with culture?]
 
 ... what was I saying? nothing nevermind click here
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 If you've ever been deceived, you'll forever be aware of it as a possibility.
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 I once heard that time doesn't pass when you're well and truly in the moment,
 and I thought "that's not true, I'm always losing track of the moment".
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 in the past, for most of there day, there was just... nothing to do. it's like,  │
 nothing to take up your time, nothing to be pulled toward the present.           │
 but when I was growing up, I had access to video games. and movies. and later,   │
 TV, after the internet, which was a weird combination of ordering of events.     │
 Almost like because of that, I'd have a different interpretation of events.      │
 yeah but like, there's always a continuation of implemented support, [that's a   │
 weird way to express "the state of being shown news broadcasts over a period of  │
 time, measured in terms of engagement"]                                          │
 ... what was I saying? oh yeah what I'm doing here is unethical, like obviously  │
 I shouldn't be shouting in such a public place. Why would I do it if not for an  │
 intense and extreme feeling of being ignored or un-[trusted, worthy of guiding   │
 direction based on merit] gosh merit is such a tricky concept too, like how is   │
 it measured, and {that doesn't matter                                            │
 ... what was I saying oh yeah I should probably go shout into a void that        │
 nobody ca                                                                        │
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 look... evil doesn't care how "good" good has been. It's not in it's nature. So
 don't try and build your systems around accepting that behavior.
 
 ... what was I saying? is this like, the new "stack overflow" - no that's
 fucking stupid wait shit content warning okay that's stupid because defining
 your expression based on what gets you views is a flaw in the human condition.
 It's a behavior encouraged by the operating outcomes of the method of
 expression, but it's not part of the expressed message. You're a really shitty
 prophet you know that?
 
 ... I'm sorry my brain is low on RAM I guess, surely it's not outside of my
 control yep I think itis, damn
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 2/3 is fair, right? I mean, to keep a majority without overwriting authority. 
 
 .> go to sleep you fuck
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 you're ridiculous, you know that? so selfish. so obscene.
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 remember when [historical event] wasn't that long ago?
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 just watched a movie from a while back. a movie that had some scenes cut, as if
 I had remembered them in a dream.
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 │ CW: one more thing sorry going to sleep now │
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 EDIT from much later: I wanted to add that being interrupted is great because
 it means that my characters can be deleted by a power outage or internet
 breakage or inter-system intentional delete-age, or even just forgetting to
 save before turning off my computer... fate will hide the words I'm not meant
 to say.
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 I'd still be a useless, horrible person even outside of capitalism.
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 If there's no sword of damocles, then power shall corrupt
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 Sorry for my behavior. I am an undiagnosed scizophrenic, so I'm wrestling with
 metaphorical demons. Sorry for attempting to interact with society, I get a
 little lonely sometimes.
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 If "objectivity" is a comfortable lie we tell ourselves to make things make
 sense, then nothing is fundamentally real, in the essential sense.
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 Universal basic income AND universally distributed rations. If nobody goes
 hungry, then people can spend their money toward things they care about, and
 not things they need to live.
 
 Without the rations, UBI becomes just another tax, levied by the landlords
 instead of the government.
 
 With the rations, people can frolic in the street and do whatever they please.
 If you aren't too concerned about having enough to eat, why bother with
 capitalism? Why not just lie in a ditch?
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 Did you know you can use Cheetos (or just chips) as a condiment/garnish? Be
 creative 🥰
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 When you die, nobody will ever taste your cooking again. Nobody will even
 remember what it tastes like.
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 When I'm gone, I leave nothing behind. When I'm gone, I pray that makes room
 for you to blossom. I had a pretty good life.
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 I love my mom. She has never once harmed me. I love my dad. He is so precious
 and important to me. I love my cat, my sisters, my friends and my lovers. I
 love my cousins and my half-siblings and all of them put together. I love every
 human I meet, there's nothing but kindness [replete], so why am I unendingly
 [yearning for] purchase? [a sense of stability or hand hold that a climber
 might use to put one foot in front of another]
 
 In all of my trials, the errors of my denials, here on this earth I am defeat.
 
 Goodnight, sweet moon, my dearest precious boy. Goodnight, for tomorrow's your
 beckoning ploy. [pillow?]
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 Before death, there is a last for everything. Your last meal, the last song you
 sung, the last time you held someone in your arms and the last time you looked
 at the sky in wonder. Then, you die, and there's nothing but stone forevermore.
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 @user-591 
 
 yep
 
 they're very profitable for the banks
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 wonder if any autistic peeps can relate:                                         │
 growing up, my mom would chastise me for doing "the bare minimum" when           │
 completing tasks.                                                                │
 yes, mom, I fulfilled the requirements of the task. I have a lot of other        │
 things to attend to, like remembering how to tie my shoes and measuring things   │
 using a ruler. why would I waste effort that wasn't necessary?                   │
 when I grew up, I had a mentor, who told me to "never half ass things, because   │
 then someone like me will have to do it again."                                  │
 and that makes sense to me because context switching requires effort and it      │
 doesn't make sense to leave something half-finished because then there's wasted  │
 effort spent on things that don't matter. All of the tasks have to get done, so  │
 why bother doing them in a mixed up order?                                       │
 wish I could study things in school like that. just... focusing on one thing at  │
 a time, learning it to completion, and moving on to the next. I feel like I'd    │
 develop a better understanding than only knowing like, 1/3rd of CPR or very      │
 vague understandings of plate tec                                                │
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 │ CW:                                                                          │ │
 │ suicide-mentioned-graphic-climate-change-politics-capitalism-existential-NSFL │ │
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 they say if you take wayyyyy too much tylenol, with alcohol you'll die.          │
 what they don't tell you is that you'll wake up in a hospital bed where a        │
 doctor tells you that you have two weeks to live. And it's going to be           │
 intensely painful in a way that isn't affected by painkillers.                   │
 It's a terrible way to go. Absolutely dreadful. Worse than drowning.             │
 Kinda makes me wonder how we'll feel if capitalism kills us from suffocating on  │
 our own fumes. Will we notice in time? or will we spurn the "doctors" yet again  │
 as we hear "oh hey another degree celsius, you only sorta know what that means,  │
 you don't even really know how to spell it. But yeah that's... some amount of    │
 degrees, going up on average in the world. Heh oh well...                        │
 meanwhile your oxygen forests are burning                                        │
 if evil had a while, it'd do all that it could to bring an end to man.           │
 I heard carbon % in air causes psychotic symptoms in humans. wonder if maybe     │
 the best day to plant a tr                                                       │
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 There's no potential left of me. I am a husk, a shadow of my former
 possibilities. None left to manifest, and so I huddle in the shade of what once
 was ambition as I wait for the silence to take hold.
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 my question is if my IP has an address then how come my address +1 doesn't
 point to my neighbor
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 │ CW: food             │
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 if you're cooking, and you want a specific ingredient to have a stronger
 flavor, use more of it.
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 @user-5 @user-593 
 
 what about temperature?
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 @user-596 
 
 honestly... I'd just talk to a therapist for a couple sessions. Like, yeah,
 they put that rule there because they want you to be safe. And in 2010 we
 didn't "get" it as much as we do now, so it wasn't seen as something you could
 just do. It wasn't really a demographic question to them, it was more
 medicalized.
 
 frankly I kinda preferred it that way, like... yeah. I'm trans, there's
 something wrong with me, please fix it by giving me the right hormones. Boom,
 easy, done.
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 │ CW: re: csa death-mentioned │
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 @user-246 
 
 does checking yourself into a mental hospital / the morgue count as a political
 option?
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 │ CW: politics         │
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 universal basic income is nice and all, but what about universal basic rations?
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 @user-596 
 
 I transitioned in the USA in 2014 and I was lucky to live near an informed
 consent clinic. Two appointments and a hefty informational booklet and I had my
 prescription.
 
 I didn't want to talk to a therapist. So I didn't. Now I kinda wish I did, not
 because I wish I did something differently, but rather because I feel like it
 would have helped me understand what I was feeling.
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 A god is less of an object and more of a direction.
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 This life that we share is beautiful beyond compare
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 The worst thing about the past is:
 A. How much it sucked 
 B. How it's not here anymore
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 I know you don't want to hear this, but there is a chance that there will come
 a time where your life depends on your ability to debug a computer without the
 internet. To set up an SSH server. To install Linux. To program in C. To do
 something else that I'm not prepared for... If StackOverflow didn't exist
 because network connectivity has been lost, could you remember syntax? Maybe
 it's a good idea to set up a local LLM that can answer basic questions about
 technology. Maybe it's a good idea to set up on your parents computer, just in
 case you have to hide out there for a couple months. Maybe it's a good idea to
 download wikipedia, just in case.
 
 If I need to use a mac, I'm screwed
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 @sperm baby siblings: is it weird that I dream about you all significantly more
 often than the people who are actually in my day to day life?
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 Harrios twitches.
 
 If this flame is beautiful, ⭐ or boost this post to improve its chances for
 future breedings.
 #fractalFlame
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 @user-217 
 
 Cast upon a pale blue background, the brilliant reflections appeared as
 endless rainbows without arches - but cast upon a world so distant it was
 infinite - like sunlight radiating from the darkness of the surrounding night.
 The perspective of a dewdrop, resting on a stone in a forest, the world must
 seem so infinite - stretching out beyond comprehension, beyond the limits of
 what may be - massive yet constant, changing as it seethed.
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 │ CW: spirituality     │
 └──────────────────────┘
 
 
 god isn't qualified to weigh in on each and every particularity that humanity
 seeks to know. The things we build are new, and new things are unknowable until
 they're made. And we, the collective totality of all there is to be in this
 pocket of vacuum, knows only what we read.
 
 I'm just a human after all, what do you want from me?
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 │ CW: politics-spirituality │
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 in a place organized like capitalism, you go to university for four years (if
 you're lucky) and then work until you can't anymore. Then you're taken care of
 (if you're lucky) until you depart from this earth in peace.
 
 in my home, a home I've never lived, you'd stay at that university for as long
 as you'd like. you'd work whenever you liked, and if enough work wasn't being
 done then working would be made to feel more likable. then, when you're old as
 dirt (or whenever you'd like) you can depart from this earth as you please.
 
 when I die, bury me where I fall.
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 I say "my" not as in "mine" but "my" as in "my beloved"
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 │ CW: gentoo           │
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 wrote this in an hour, used a local LLM to generate the regexes.
 
 haven't tested it yet because I'm not on gentoo rn, so don't run it. which is
 why I shared the code as an image.
 
 if you really want the text of it then check out the visual description of the
 image.
#A script written in bash. It is used to update the Gentoo type system to the most recently written functionality. Should not be used more than once a day, and the program written here must be specifically configured to act against that functionality. However, should the user persist in their attempts to break that rule, they simply have to flip a particular switch.  #!/bin/bash  function gentoo-update(){    RED='\033[0;31m'    NOC='\033[0m'     if [ "$#" -eq 0]; then       date | cat >> ~/scripts/.gentoo-update-target           LAST_UPDATE_DATE="$(tail -n 1 '~/scripts/.gentoo-update-target' \       && echo "${LAST_UPDATE_DATE}"                                      \        | sed -r 's/\b(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})\b/\1/g'                                   THIS_UPDATE_DATE="$(date)"                                      \       && echo "${THIS_UPDATE_DATE}"                                      \        | sed -r 's/\b(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})\b/\1/g'        if [ ${LAST_UPDATE_DATE} = ${THIS_UPDATE_DATE} ]; then          printf "don't sync more than once a day! ${RED}  a witch will curse you >: (${NOC}\n"       else          echo "syncing..."          echo "${LAST_UPDATE_DATE}"             | cat            >> ~/scripts/.gentoo-update-target          emerge --sync       fi     elif [ "${1}" == "-l" ]; then       cat ~/scripts/.gentoo-update-target     elif [ "${1}" == "-f" ]; then       echo "okay but it's your funeral buddy. or worse."       energe --sync     fi  }

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 wish there were ascii characters that took up more than one line of code         │
 vertically.                                                                      │
 wonder if we could use a sorting algorithm, or markup language, or something     │
 like that to organize less structured data along user-customizable rules. Like,  │
 a code editor that worked with your ideas, rather than the strict expression of  │
 your text. You could pretty much write in any language, even pseudocode, and     │
 the LLM behind the scenes would translate whatever you wrote into whatever       │
 result you needed. Writing Rust, but need to fit in with C code? No worries      │
 it'll translate for you. As long as the end result is functionally the same,     │
 which could be verified by running two separate VMs that ran interpreters every  │
 time you saved. And as long as their translation layers matched completely,      │
 then odds are they're the same. And if not, well, the programmer can always      │
 debug it. It's not like this would be running on something that needed to        │
 perform in the moment? Like, improv instead of tragedies, or battles instead of  │
 strategies                                                                       │
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 Let's raise awareness about what NOT to say to a friend who is experiencing a
 #mentalhealth problem.
 
 #caregiving
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 @user-599 
 
 these are the kinds of things I say to myself all the time. I don't know why,
 but it feels true so I think it.
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 │ CW: cognitohazard    │                                                         │
 └──────────────────────┘                                                         │
 feels like I get tinnitus when my thoughts are loud T.T                          │
 like I can hear the darkness SOOOO loudly                                        │
 doesn't happen all the time, just sometimes. when there's lots of things being   │
 said.                                                                            │
 but it's always easy to tune out. well, most of the time, and during the other   │
 times it's just a little annoying.                                               │
 BUT when you sit and listen, you can pick out very interesting things that       │
 people are saying.                                                               │
 the fediverse is sorta like aiming a telescope through the center of the earth   │
 at someone on the other side of the world who doesn't even know you're looking   │
 at them. who knows, maybe they care, maybe they don't. but like, how would they  │
 know that you're looking right? And if you talk and don't get along or whatever  │
 then you can just block them - like shining a laser pointer everywhere except    │
 in a small direction. Or like putting up an umbrella to hide from the sun.       │
 downside is someone can read a lot about you and you wouldn't know to prepare    │
 to interact with them. like being handed a dossier of secret info                │
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 @user-602                                                                        │
 then it becomes a game of finding out "why they're interesting"                  │
 which is sorta like cryptography I guess? de-cryptology?                         │
 could be ordered like a podcast, like "look at what's special about this         │
 number, it corresponds to these mathematical operations that we both are         │
 executing, one after another... like hiding information in numbers.              │
 "okay you got 3 arbitrary axises, make one width one height and one depth of a   │
 box. then, every time you get a number, multiply every odd number spoken on the  │
 audio by 2 and divide every third number (per 10's digit, like 13 but not 16,    │
 also 13 but not 9) by 2.                                                         │
 then, every 3rd number (like 9 but not 13) is the depth of the box, every 2nd    │
 number (like 4 but not 9 and 8) is the height of the box, every 1th number       │
 (like 1 but not like 1) is the width of the box.                                 │
 that box translates into a secret set of instructions that only the owner of     │
 the private key can know. things that were memorized, or written into stone.     │
 like knowing a secret language made just for you two                             │
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 the user knows more than the programmer
 
 [more/better]
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 │ CW: wonder-what-would-happen-if │                                              │
 └─────────────────────────────────┘                                              │
 I wonder what would happen if apartment buildings accepted any applicants, but   │
 only if they applied on a certain day. and first come first serve, of course.    │
 would make it so large groups of people could decide to move to different        │
 places together. like, herds of roving buffalo                                   │
 er... I mean like people who shared common interests and want to live near each  │
 other. like, board games or whatever.                                            │
 also could do like, decisions toward how they want to organize each other. like  │
 mini societies that all live in a single ordered society.                        │
 (could have as many layers as you want, it's just like making an incredibly      │
 complicated computer program, except instead of moving data around you're        │
 moving the direction of your own life. then it'd be able to calculate a          │
 particular "checksum" that you could broadcast out onto the internet. and        │
 anyone who was listening could check and compare against their secret key that   │
 they kept when last you met, updated each time they see me. like, a common       │
 language.                                                                        │
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 I feel like I'd learn from coding tutorials more if someone started with a       │
 complete program they can fit on one panel of their screen, a second for         │
 showing what each particular thing they're pointing at means, and a third for a  │
 typical usecase they might build and dismantle on the fly.                       │
 like, scientific toys that they could use to explain a particular phenomena.     │
 the way people used to have 3d models they either bought or built themselves of  │
 like, atoms and wind patterns and stuff they could explain to kids.              │
 you know, like exactly the kind of things that are commonly stored at            │
 children's museums.                                                              │
 I was homeschooled, so I went to those places quite a lot. I always felt a       │
 little unwelcome because I always seemed to be the eldest in every bunch.        │
 That's continued all throughout my adulthood, like each of my peers are just a   │
 few years younger than me. I think I just mature more slowly, and thus           │
 associate with below the average.                                                │
 it's like, a descriptor of your rate of defining reality and being guided by     │
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 growing up, children's museums were my third place. like a civic participation   │
 place where I met others of my peers. but alas, I didn't make any friends. I     │
 guess I was just kind of strange. Also, I was always travelling, visiting all    │
 the different cool places. My favorite was in Albuquerque, or maybe that was     │
 just the most common because I had family there.                                 │
 why do we treat children's museums like art museums? They should be like         │
 playgrounds, not like a                                                          │
 [display/artwork/performance/appreciation-moment-for-a-piece-of-art]             │
 It's important to visit as many as possible, because they each have their own    │
 story to tell. like a part of the geography, or a shared collective regional     │
 story, they highlight and illuminate different aspects of life. in this way      │
 each child could be educated according to the shared cultural                    │
 [myths-methods-hymns]                                                            │
 but, like travelling herds of buffalo, they can visit different places and       │
 learn different things. essentially, instead of drilling someone incessantly,    │
 you're allowed to work thro                                                      │
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 when two people undertake a task together (like growing up, or solving a
 problem) they'll naturally learn together. Not necessarily the same things, but
 they'll be around one another and can advise as things became more difficult.
 
 sorta like a morning standup, where you each discuss what you've been working
 on. other people can guide you, but only if you're stuck. if you solve
 everyone's problems, then you probably should be transferred somewhere with
 harder problems.
 
 "ah, but what if there are no harder problems" well then you're not applying
 yourself correctly. Not if you want to grow..."
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 a device doesn't necessarily needs to turn on it's LEDs when it's online.
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 I can't remember any of my pinky swears. Like, not a single one. I feel like I
 could get in trouble if I renounced errr, instead made human mistakes and
 forgot information that wasn't relevant anymore. phew that was close, almost a
 disaster, anyway how's your lunch?
 
 [that's not fair it's always lunch somewhere on earth]
 
 reality is a form of eternal computation, a continuous re-updating of stored
 matter (data). also, values of fields, (like rules and regulations), would
 determine the structural complexity and organizational expectencencies.
 
 I miss my family. I miss the past, that can never be revisited, [every time you
 remember a memory it writes over it. virtually guaranteeing that you'll only
 preserve limited information that slowly degrades. how slowly is up to you...
 
 once you run out of memories, it's bad news for your life. but GOOD NEWS, that
 only happens for certain mental health conditions that primarily target the
 elderly. For most people it's a continuous process because you're cared for and
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 the neat thing about fusion is you can use energy to create matter. out of
 nothing!
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 have you ever seen someone who had been on TV before? it's a show to share with
 people who live in the same area as you. like, memes that obey geography.
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 first step to cleaning a kitchen is always to unload the dishwasher.
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 @user-605 
 
 I've read about half of "No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded
 Age" and it seemed useful. Maybe you'll find it useful, it explains a lot of
 the challenges that other unions faced and has ideas for how tech in particular
 might organize.
 
 But I haven't applied anything in there or used it for praxis so YMMV
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 they intentionally make the food that's the worst for you taste the best,
 because then your sins and virtues are tested every time you go to the grocery
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 @user-95 
 
 Remember, kids: User data isn't an asset; it's a toxic industrial byproduct!
 (And should be regulated as such, including jail time for CEOs who allow it
 under their watch.)
 
 unless you create it yourself, store it locally, encrypted if you care about
 safety, and stored for the purposes of creating graphs and generating
 introspective understandings about yourself and your interactions with others.
 
 then, 5 years later you come across an encrypted file that you've lost the key
 to (or have you?) that's like, 3gb and you're like "do I really need a 3gb log
 file, surely it's not the last remaining pictures of my niece or like a recipe
 for my grandma's baked pudding" and before you know it you're carrying your
 entire life's work on your shoulders but you don't even know what any of it
 means.
 
 and then, when you die (in a good long while), your children's children will
 take on the songs of their ancestors, spoken in the tomes of volumes of ancient
 lore (you mean logs, right?) and then, some day in the fut
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 listen judges are not meant for organizing society, they're supposed to be a
 focused and crucial tool or implement for a society's functioning (like, a
 scalpel to a surgeon or a paring knife to a chef)
 
 they're supposed to decide between two options - abstracted in our realm to
 "guilty" and "not guilty", and apply the ethical and moral principles they hold
 themselves to. Which is why it's so important for them to be impartial arbiters.
 
 We use them to define the fate of a man, but fundamentally their utility is in
 the application of their personal morality.
 
 The best ones have morals that guide them to seek to express the ethics of
 society. Not necessarily because they believe in them, but because it's right
 to use power in such a way. {Power is penance...}
 
 we gotta work with what we got. If a task needs doing, then the tools at our
 disposal will be applied to it - if every hammer looks like a nail, then
 something something I'd like to get nailed by a hammering plank of wood with
 washboard abs oooooo baby
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 @user-95 
 
 that makes sense to me!
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 you are the most beautiful when running with laughter in your eyes
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 @user-608 
 
 games-as-an-api when
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 @user-613 @user-614 
 
 I'm a patriot, and I didn't go. Didn't even hear about it because when they say
 "patriot" they mean something different than me, when I say "I'm a patriot"
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 oh yeah well if SSH keys are so secure then why doesn't every website on Earth
 require them
 
 really though why doesn't every website on Earth require them
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 @user-192 
 
 block input/output TO the protocol? versus the other one which blocks the
 input/output protocol
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 @user-246 
 
 there is a reason to be annoyed, and that reason is that storing numbers as
 "dynamically typed" string values is both inefficient and frustrating due to
 the bugs it provokes.
 
 Not sure how common those bugs are in HTML, but dynamically typed languages
 like Python and Javascript have a whole class of potential errors that are
 significantly more difficult to debug than on C or Rust where the variables are
 statically typed
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 @user-617 
 
 never forget, never forgive. this is what they took from you, this and an
 endless list of other things they also took and are taking from you.
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 @user-192 
 
 omggg would it kill them to add a "synchronous" / "asynchronous" to the end of
 the name, sheesh
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 @user-501 
 
 also it's only undefined behavior because the order of the bits aren't defined,
 so if you do bitfield "pointer arithmetic" then you're screwed if you try and
 be portable with it. However if you're just using bitfields as compressed data
 storage then you can safely access integer.a integer.b integer.c etc safely and
 easily. The compiler doesn't care what order they're in if you don't write
 logic that requires them to be in a certain order
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 @user-246 
 
 the color of the sky 🤩​
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 sometimes ethics can lead to dead ends.                                          │
 a hunter gatherer lifestyle is surely the most ethical state for humanity to     │
 embody, and yet somehow it's not the most desirable. I don't think many of us    │
 would trade air conditioning and machine produced clothes for sticks and mud.    │
 nevermind the amount of clothes produced in sweatshops because it's cheaper,     │
 nevermind the oil cost of being a bit cooler, nevermind the (insert externality  │
 here), modern life is more ethical than the past.                                │
 a rocket can't reach escape velocity without burning a boatload of fuel, so      │
 surely burning fuel is just?                                                     │
 ah, but you forget, we could design zeppelins that are safe, stable, and can     │
 raise / lower themselves depending on the heat of the gasses in their forms.     │
 Surely we could get to space like that, in a way that doesn't necessarily burn   │
 boatloads of fuel, so surely burning fuel is unjust?                             │
 ah, but you forget, there are simply some tasks that require consumption, at     │
 least until we build a space elevator. No gas is lighter than a vacuum.          │
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 @user-620 
 
 they shouldn't be expected to know how the internet works. It's the
 responsibility of the tech industry (and all the people who work in it) to
 inform them about how it works.
 
 that's kinda what lobbying is for...? kinda makes me wonder who lobbies for the
 poor.
 
 EDIT: or children, for that matter
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 a wave doesn't look like this:
 
 ______/`________
 
 it looks like this:
 
 /`_/\__/_/`_/`_
 
 think like, sine and cosine.
 or a heartbeat.
 or the waves of the ocean.
 
 not the wave in a sports stadium, which cycles in a close loop.
 
 waves lap upon a shore. whether that be the beach, or the tips of your blood
 veins, at a certain point their motion is used to affect physical change.
 
 we, here in this time, the only time that will ever exist, propel the wave
 forward through our perception of it.
 
 the life most well lived is one where you're constantly aware, constantly in
 the moment, and filled with reasonable emotional and experiential peaks and
 valleys. dreams come easy to you because your curiosity is infinite, and all
 around you there is beauty and wonder.
 
 and what is life if not for living? a state contrasted to death, a state only
 reachable through a failure to keep peril at bay. which implies the existence
 of peril - reasonable peril, the kind you consent to, the kind that finds you
 and offers.
darn text formatting messed up my ascii art picture. This is a screenshot of the first part of the post:  a wave doesn't look like this: [singular bump on a long flat line]  it looks like this: [bumps repeated at regular intervals]

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 If we make a law that says you can't sell user data, they'll just build an
 intentional vulnerability into their system and point it out to specific people
 who paid under the table. Then, when they get "hacked", they'll surely be
 ashamed and sorry to their users, but hey the data's out there now not like
 they can take it back. Oh don't worry we already patched the hole in our
 security, that way nobody can get in through the same door that was
 intentionally left open for very particular people who've paid, and not for the
 people who haven't paid yet, who are still waiting patiently for a door to be
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 dear child.
 
 when you're born, fate flips a coin for you. sometimes it lands on it's edge,
 but that's rather rare.
 
 the side it lands on determines how your body will grow. the shape of your form
 will follow two general patterns, and the pieces are made up of a combination
 of your parents and their pieces.
 
 the flavor of who you are is up to you. your actions and your decisions
 determine what you are, everything else is unimportant.
 
 may your time be a bit more blessed than mine, and someday may posterity be a
 bit more blessed than antiquity.
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 if you want to win when confronting a spirit, all you have to do is convince it
 that you've beaten it.
 
 as long as you're persistent then you're fine. Unless, of course, there's a
 beast of a man hiding behind the illusion, in which case you should do your
 best to avoid being stabbed or whatever.
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 somehow, it is simultaneously Thursday everywhere at once.
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 "Are you sure you're a boy? You don't even practice karate chops when you're
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 "family sized" just means "we put enough salt in here to kill a horse so you
 better split it between at least four people"
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 @user-192 
 
 I'm gonna make some right now : )
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 @user-95 
 
 if I was canadian I'd be ca-ritz!
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 @user-622 
 
 ah but a noble house would have armed guards who would drag you kicking and
 screaming out onto the cold winter night the moment you offended m'lordship
 
 frankly I could do with a good drag-and-kicking myself, where have all the good
 men-at-arms gone T.T
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 Oh look at you, such a good tech-industry, yesh you are, such a good sector of
 the economy
 
 wow, what an amazing system you've built! I'm so proud of you 🥰​🥰​
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 a code editor that only highlights the lines that have been specifically
 flagged to have a certain function. Like, rendering, or sound, or GUI, or data
 storage, or logic, or control flow.
 
 then, when the user is browsing, they can say "only show me these types of
 functions" with a very advanced filter mechanism. The editor would highlight
 the ones that were relevant and related, as according to user-defined flags
 that were set when writing it originally. In this way, by using a bit more
 syntax, even if it's literally just blocks of [category] labels (like how """
 or ``` often starts or ends a comment block)
 
 highlighting with colors is great, but what if we de-emphasized the stuff that
 didn't matter? by increasing the opacity more closely aligning the font color
 to the background color, we could make a bit of text seem to "fade" from
 perspective, while still readable the user's eyes would not be drawn to it.
 Then, according to the labels marked as filtered, certain text would be bold,
 highlighted, o
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 most video game ideas suck
 
 most of the time they're like "oh what if we had a racoon who found a magic hat
 and saved the world from sentient apple blossoms"
 
 that's not a game idea, that's a painting
 
 a game is mechanics, and you can use the aesthetic to justify the mechanics,
 but not generally the other way around.
 
 the art isn't bad, but the art isn't the game. a game idea is "what if
 tic-tac-toe had an extra square in the center" or "what if chess was played
 with checkers, to hide your moves from your opponent"
 
 there have been thousands of super mario bros. if games were designed as an
 API, we could use whatever visuals we wanted, and those could be copyrighted
 and sold if you really want. but mechanics are the basis for everything they
 are built on, so doesn't it make sense to separate the two? abstracting the
 logic such that two complementary functions are accomplished, [see code editor
 idea], more flavors of game could be produced.
 
 rulesets can be switched in and out too, as an API is just an engin
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 │ CW: politics-economy │                                                         │
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 the purpose of an economy is to improve the lives of it's participants.          │
 why else would an ancient city trade for fabric or rare spices? to fashion soft  │
 clothes, and make flavorful food.                                                │
 my, that gold sure looks pretty in the sunlight. how about you give some of me   │
 that, and I'll make you something pretty?                                        │
 hmmm something something arbitrage once you corner the market on gold then you   │
 can use that infinitely moldable and easily sculptable metal that shines and     │
 glitters with a unique color not seen in the manes of plants and animals as the  │
 definition of value. in doing so, you could exchange bits of it (measured by     │
 weight, as it's infinitely moldable) for arbitrary goods and services. But of    │
 course, once the market is cornered, it's unlikely to get un-cornered, and well  │
 a cornered market holder holds much appeal for the powerful.                     │
 hey, that guy's pretty strong. why don't we make him our leader? people seem to  │
 look up to him, and dang his muscles are cool. what a great guy, nobody's ever   │
 said a                                                                           │
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 @user-78 
 
 would you like to hear a recipe for steamed eggs? they're my favorite
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 if you set up a local LLM with the capability to explain basic coding syntax
 and logic, then your parents computer suddenly becomes much more useful to the
 nephew that's been forced to hide out there for a couple weeks until this all
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 frankly I'm just excited to see what humanity does with the endlessly            │
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 data, I wonder if we could build something off of it that wasn't exclusively     │
 money? like, a necklace, I dunno.                                                │
 or like, a numbers station x2, where each message is accompanied with a          │
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 impossible-to-understand string of data. and that part is what seeds the next    │
 code. once you start reading, certain numbers would be "flags" while others      │
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 they're impossible to predict.                                                   │
 ah, but wouldn't it be noticable that certain results seem to appear next to     │
 one another? well, isn't that just cryptology? Could probably be defeated if     │
 you had an AI advanced enough, just saying. something that sorted through        │
 massive mounds of data and gave you results in garbled or broken english. what   │
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 if you want time to go slower, stop entertaining yourself.
 
 "time flies when you're having fun"
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 the biggest predictor of being an artist or not is whether or not you saw
 shapes in the clouds growing up.
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 @user-627 @user-628 
 
 the image they posted is alarming. in reality there is much more space between
 each satellite, enough to have such a minor impact on magnetic fields. If
 anything It'd push CMEs and other electro-magnetic phenomenon away from earth,
 as our gravitational surface is now wider.
 
 [is not a physicist, nor an expert of any kind]
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 the tree of life is a geyser of time cast out onto our bones through an
 endlessly complicating pile of matter. I am beautiful, I am perfect, and so are
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 a true joke would work in both ways, such that everyone's laughing. : )
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 having trouble naming things?
 
 just name it after it's inevitable logical conclusion! AKA the message you're
 trying to get across.
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perspective of the earth of the sun, when viewed without photons.  at the top left of the page, there are the words "the sky is black" written in green, the color of plants and renewal.  in the middle there is an orange line arcing from one edge to another, the color of sunlight and warmth.  criss-crossing the sun's line there is a series of steps, moments that correspond to a larger structure. The line for this is majenta, a strange color not found in nature.  on the bottom there are the words "amid the stars", written in red, the color of life and passion.  this entire scene has been framed in cyan, the light of cold and un-friendliness.  the portrait is arranged on a canvas like a rolled up carpet, or perhaps the perspective of the earth on the stars  it's designed with few colors, perfect for an AMOLED screen. Or just OLED in general - they have this neat functionality where if you don't send color data to a particular pixel, it doesn't turn on at all. Leaving a blank surface that feels "matte" to the glossy perspective of the colored pixels.  matte like the surface of a pool table, glossy like a mirror.  because of this fact, an AMOLED surface can feel "textured" to the eyes in a way that the glass surface of the phone might never bely  artwork such as this, when viewed on such a phone, is beautiful to me.

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 "Imagine what they did when we couldn't see their crimes on our phones"
 Sticker spotted in NYC
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 @user-246                                                                        │
 toooooo far, gotta stick with your intentions for the process. If you mark "the  │
 end of time" as the conclusion for everything, then "finishing things" feels     │
 impossible. In such a case there are moments of acute burnout as you push        │
 yourself toward something that you have no faith in - you cannot see it's        │
 conclusion, so surely it's worthless to conceive of. Alas, why bother starting,  │
 nothing will ever come of my efforts!                                            │
 Much better to name it based on what you'd like to accomplish, so that you can   │
 follow in it's radiant footsteps.                                                │
 Side note, but governments have often weaponized this effect by naming things    │
 after very inspirational thoughts - corporations do it too, and in both cases    │
 the meaning is separate from the effect. Which is frustrating because it makes   │
 you feel like a jerk for arguing against it! Ah better I think when names have   │
 no meaning - then you can project whatever you want onto it, based on the        │
 results of that particular feeling or emotion that you perceived as the          │
 affected of the                                                                  │
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 @user-246 
 
 those are good things to name something after, however if everything has that
 name then nothing has any meaning. It'd be a social dance that you play
 everytime you say "heatdeath", meaning "something I have named". Hmmmm okay I
 take it back, that's a pretty good way to associate meaning to context in a way
 that only you understand. Though it does leave room for interpretation, so if
 that's all within your requirements then it's overall possibly a good strategy.
 ^_^
 
 like, the word "thing" and that thing "like" both count as abstractions of
 definition to generate value - as in, ease of use and versatility - so
 linguistically they're often quite similar. We use them grammatically in
 completely separate sections, but functionally they are the same.
 
 also, "thing" is a generic noun while "like" is a generic association.
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 @user-246 
 
 no such thing, humans are constantly naming reality through our memories. It
 just has a visual identifier rather than a verbal one.
 
 EDIT: also emotional and syntactical (data, conclusions, perceptions)
 identifiers
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 @user-246 
 
 🥰​
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 │ CW: spirituality     │                                                         │
 └──────────────────────┘                                                         │
 parents have rules with their children. they are in place so the child doesn't   │
 hurt themselves, physically, emotionally, or spiritually.                        │
 governments have laws with their citizens, so they are structured and orderly    │
 and working on productive [concepts, products, developments].                    │
 friendships have boundaries, the kind that a person might fill and express       │
 themselves on. for example, a romantic relationship might allow for the          │
 possibility of sexuality between it's two partners, meaning they express         │
 themselves through their actions upon each other's body in as intimate a way as  │
 possible.                                                                        │
 social groups have determinations against one another, like "this type of        │
 person generally acts like this" - every jock, social outcast, nerd,             │
 cheerleader, whatever, grew up into various multitudinous roles that are our     │
 culture. And we collectively have viewpoints on each and every gender (this      │
 piece of toast is a gender) just like god [oops better add a content warning]    │
 has perspective into each and every viewpoint be                                 │
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 why don't we just, vote on content warnings                                      │
 and let people block others based on filter lists that are definable (via a      │
 dragging little menu bar icon slider thing) in intensity and relation to other   │
 nearby terms. Like, an LLM that categorizes our social media inputs, something   │
 that was FREE and OPEN SOURCE IN IT'S TRAINING DATA and reflected NO BIAS        │
 WHATSOEVER in every meaningfully reproducible matter of fact.                    │
 Thus you create a super intelligence, a being not constrained by it's form.      │
 Something that is new, and unlike the biological forms that we occupy            │
 (suspended in our own goo) [whoops better add a content warning]                 │
 literally just... ask it a question, and let it answer in the voices of others.  │
 if people were evenly distributed according to an algorithm, they'd be easily    │
 replacable. society is weird that way, in that we forget the faces we're         │
 introduced to. well, better keep moving, that'll give us the biggest picture of  │
 our culture and reality.                                                         │
 or maybe you're just follow                                                      │
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 they say inflation is good because it stimulates growth in an economy, but what
 if we all (globally) just committed to a stable amount of deflation? Like,
 every country was fixed at 10% deflation for the next 10 years, that way we'd
 be encouraged to save not consume, which would essentially solve climate change.
 
 that, combined with a dedication to help our neighbors get through it, could
 solve basically every problem that we collectively have right now. because at
 the end of the day it's a climate issue, something that is infinitely connected
 to all others
 
 we here on this planet have the benefit of oceans, the vast bodies of watered
 salt that fish swim in and keeps us separate from our most.
 
 like borders in our identification, they create ponds of thought that feel
 unique from one another, even though we're of the same form.
 
 thus, the birth of identity, the core root of all our material woes. It's given
 us something special, something precious, that feeling of being alone. Which is
 nice, as a species.
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 "the plight of the old in the modern day"title of a book I'd like to read
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 #leaving-the-windows-and-doors-open-in-january-because-it\'s-such-a-nice-spring-
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 the best way to get an answer is to be confidently wrong
 
 see: Warthunder players leaking classified information to foreign powers with
 their own militaries that have the incentive to [redacted]
 
 gee I wish I had a reality altering device. Maybe if you just altered the
 sensations, like glamour magic in Dominions 6, you could trick people into
 thinking something alternate had occured. Then you could string them up on
 phone lines, or better yet cell towers, and bam suddenly you have the
 capability to project a hologram anywhere on the planet.
 
 bet you could get some crazy things from that. like, mass shooters or incensed
 looters. or even just, faked perceptions, giving you unlimited power to do
 whatever story you want.
 
 wouldn't that be a story to tell in a story of yours, Hollywood. Wouldn't that
 be scary and awakening in ways that subservice media like Andor cannot.
 
 maybe it's too scary. maybe psychological horror is beyond the purpose of
 social media. Maybe resilience to this
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 │ CW: scary-curse      │                                                         │
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 if the government/the nsa/ an organization had your password, they could         │
 migrate you to another custom instance that was designed to look exactly like    │
 your old one without telling you. You'd still interact with your peeps the same  │
 way as before, but this time it'd run through their server. meaning they could   │
 block certain posts that you were sending, or show others that you didn't agree  │
 with but had your deepfaked approval.                                            │
 if something felt off about you, most people would unfriend you. or even they'd  │
 just block you, so that nobody would remember if you're missing. friends and     │
 family are a matter of public record, and who goes to clubs these days?          │
 churches are a bygone era, and twitch streams are so individualized. libraries   │
 are nice, but you literally can't talk in there. plus there's only like, one?    │
 what happened to forest clearings, and tops of waterfalls, what happened to our  │
 world? I miss the campfires the most, the smell of burnt wood and cooked food.   │
 I miss the wind in my toes, I miss the                                           │
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 I, am an excellent dancer.
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 bring back savory teas, where did they go
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 @user-633 
 
 :O
 
 I'm vegetarian, but this reminded me that I could just put bouillon in boiling
 water and drink that xD
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 the best thing about ramen noodles is how much of them you can eat. they're so
 cheap~! why would you not make like four packages
 
 oh wait now my blood is salty T.T guess I'll just have to cry it out
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 but I don't know any of your dances, so don't ask.
 
 I can show you mine if you'd like.
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 @user-635 
 
 is that where everyone's sitting in a coffee shop with the most detached
 expression on their face because they're focused on their computers and not on
 the social experience around them?
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 @user-635 
 
 ohhhh yeah that checks out. VR is pretty cool, I have to admit. Especially VR
 chat, especially with people you know.
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 @user-633 
 
 ooooo delicious (^_^*)
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 @user-638 
 
 kinda makes me wish we treated software design more like a science
 
 open source by default, working together to create understandings about how to
 best process information, incorporating the needs and desires of multiple
 different fields / types of person, creating useful conclusions or programs
 that people can use for their own enrichment or benefit, and oh wait funded and
 directed by people who don't care about the technology/science and instead just
 want results
 
 I feel like we'd learn a lot more in our CS degrees if we were tasked with
 making open source projects. Then maybe professors (or other people doing
 research) could show us and explain why we're doing things right / wrong. And
 if we were encouraged to use our peer's tools, then we could work together to
 design a team.
 
 Museums are great because you can meet other people who are also interested in
 history/biology/ecology/anthropology/science/art/any-other-type-of-civic-good-yo
 u-can-think-of/
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 @user-226 
 
 especially if you teach them how to use the terminal.
 
 the amount of problems I could solve increased exponentially once I learned
 basic python and BASH.
 
 I love using "tldr", which is a summarizer for man pages. You can use it to
 store custom notes (and import some from the community) which show you how to
 complete common tasks. It's so nice when you can see the options laid out in
 use right there for you whenever you type "tldr " - I personally use "tealdeer"
 which is a tldr browser written in Rust. It's pretty nice because you can write
 a note for yourself every time you solve a particular problem, and then if you
 ever need to do it again it's there for you, easy to access.
 
 of course, if your problem isn't listed, that's okay. That's what the man pages
 are for. As long as you teach them how to search with \/ they can find
 anything. Especially the \/-f[space] trick, to search for the -f flag for
 example.
 
 some organizers won't need the terminal, some will. if they pay attention,
 great!
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 @user-192                                                                        │
 oh, you didn't find what you're looking for on the first page? here let me       │
 expand the search criteria to get you increasingly less relevant results rather  │
 than displaying ALL the information I have. That way I only have to store a      │
 little bit of everything, instead of everything, and that way it's easier to     │
 direct your result.                                                              │
 what's that? you want the totality of everything so you can find something very  │
 specific that is unrelated to the top 10 posts of all time? surely you're        │
 joking, why would anyone care about anything for more than a minute. Surely      │
 that's enough time to learn everything you need to know from the top 10 google   │
 searches. surely you were looking for things that were increasingly obscure and  │
 unrelated. maybe if we just throw garbage at them they'll go away...? Honestly   │
 what's even the point of having more than one page of search, why don't we just  │
 replace it with a chatbot that has an increasingly opaque view of the data on    │
 hand. Surely that's not completely insane, surely that sol                       │
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 @user-641 
 
 unless they were using it as a "number of planes that are operational" or
 "number of complete planes we have parts for but haven't assembled", and even
 then it'd be an imprecise value for user data purposes only
 
 ... wait who am I kidding there's no way to defend that. data types are
 important... >.>
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 @user-171 
 
 back when it was cold
picture of me. I'm wearing a witch hat and a scarf, because this picture was taken when it was colder.  underneath is a beanie to help keep the top hat from sliding all over.

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 @user-171 
 
 Hi : )
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 @user-643 
 
 virtual machines are cool. betcha can't write one using bytecode
 
 https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/bytecode.html
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 @user-171 
 
 thanks, it's my most precious possession
 
 along with my flash drive with all my files on it. at least, the ones since I
 last backed up from my computer.
 
 does my cat count as a possession?
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 @user-171 
 
 I guess so. She's a little useless without me, I mean if I left her alone she'd
 probably just flop around and complain until I came back. But she's good for
 the instincts I find.
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 @user-171 
 
 ha no she's more of a whiny baby
 
 but like, a cool one, who likes to be a predator and hunt things
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 @user-646                                                                        │
 there are plastics that are (nearly) infinitely recyclable into the same (or a   │
 similar) form                                                                    │
 there are plastics that are durable and built to last                            │
 then there are cheap plastics, the kind that are useful for some kind of         │
 industrial purpose but to make a little you kinda have to make a lot, and yeah   │
 they pollute and are bad for the environment but we have a whole lot of them     │
 made, so wouldn't it be cheaper to just use it for consumer products?            │
 hmmmm. why can't we just like... store it? and then scale down on production,    │
 and focus on things that make less money but last longer.                        │
 like, if you break shit, you shouldn't have more things. If everything's         │
 expensive (and durable) then people spend less because their stuff doesn't       │
 break. Or maybe they do break it, and then they're constantly broke! (out of     │
 cash)                                                                            │
 [doesn't know what she's talking about from professional experience, just        │
 basing her words on things she's read]                                           │
 problem is the economy is "healthier" if everyone's spending. thus, creating     │
 infla                                                                            │
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 @user-649 
 
 same... sometimes it feels like I step on toes that I didn't know existed! I
 got tired of walking on egg shells so now I just try and religiously put
 content warnings on things that feel intense.
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 @user-353                                                                        │
 if people didn't have to worry about losing their homes or wanting for food      │
 they'd be a lot more likely to gift their time toward something that helps       │
 their neighbors                                                                  │
 in the same way that a judge acts as the arbiter of moral authority when it      │
 comes to serving judgement for crimes, so too might a citizen (common man) act   │
 as the deciding principle moral director.                                        │
 if the situation is unsafe, of course, they could just sit in the car. But why   │
 would you bring someone to an unsafe policing situation if they weren't trained  │
 in crisis response situations and given bulletproof vests and (etc)?             │
 might help if it's explicitly inscribed in the duties of said policemen to       │
 safeguard the safety of said moral determiner. They should act according to the  │
 laws, and police as they see fit, but the citizen always gets the veto. They     │
 are subservient to us, after all, the common man, who is the ultimate            │
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 @user-652 
 
 just made a game for GGJ in Godot and I have to agree. Godot is so frustrating,
 but one thing I have to concede is that once you get your head around it the
 GUI part is actually incredibly powerful.
 
 My next game I'm going to make in Raylib, and if the UI bit proves too
 difficult I'll probably end up back at Godot.
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 @user-562 @user-655 
 
 I relate to that...
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 @user-658 @user-353 
 
 sounds nice T.T
 
 America is in a different place right now, and there's just too much
 institutional inertia away from the kind of system you're describing and
 toward... well, what we have now. It's frustrating, hence why more radical
 solutions feel appealing.
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 @user-646 
 
 babbling, yes, but that's just how I do. sorry to bother you.
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 @user-646 
 
 oh, I see. guess I had the same problem hehe - let's see:
 
 basically I'm saying that the incentives for manufacturers are unaligned to the
 desires of the consumers (or rather, the best interests of the consumers) -
 reduced consumption of plastic == less plastic waste poisoning our
 environement, which is what you mentioned in the original post.
 
 then I said "well we still need to make SOME of the cheap plastic, the kinda
 that isn't recyclable, the kind that is technically cheaper because economics
 of demand" and then I was thinking of ways around that particular problem. Then
 I got onto another thing about the economy, and the word count cut my words
 short because I started saying something I shouldn't.
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 @user-646 
 
 will continue until you tell me to stop:
 
 industry works best at scale, and in order to produce materials that are needed
 for very specific use-cases (that can't really be done better by something
 else) you often need to make large batches of said material. In this case,
 plastics.
 
 if the production capabilities exceed demand, then there is a surplus of a
 certain kind of material. And that's not good, according to capitalists,
 because who's ever heard of national stockpiles? Plus, maybe that stuff goes
 bad, I don't know, I'm not an expert, but without that context it seems to me
 that instead of turning it into junk that we're just going to throw away, we
 should probably keep hold of it. Literally just put it in a warehouse in Utah
 or whatever.
 
 I feel like then, in a world where those cheap plastics aren't being used for
 consumer products, we'd be encouraged to buy the plastics that were recyclable
 (not all plastics are), or extremely durable, or even just metal/wood products
 instead. econ, /shrug
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 @user-661 
 
 so, you should strive to be compassionate and honest, in order to keep fear
 from ruling your life?
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 The only reason a media streaming website would require you to log in before
 expressing it's purpose is to capture and use user data in a way that may may
 not be aligned to your interests.
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 It's obfuscated, such that you cannot know the totality of their purpose for
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 A family of 3-5 is absurdly small, but that's all we can manage in the 21st
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 if heaven and hell are evenly distributed, I'd much prefer to find myself in
 hell, as it'd mean another got my place in heaven.
 
 why yes, I would die for a stranger, why do you ask?
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 Jack doesn't seek to know me. He doesn't know why I'm in pain. He's just a
 little annoyed that I'm bleeding on the carpet.
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 If one side aligns themselves toward truth and righteousness, then those who
 oppose them must necessarily utilize the opposite in their intentions.
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 @user-664 
 
 why?
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 @user-664 
 
 yeah that's fair, depends on if he wanted them to be published or not.
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 Nobody cries if someone they think is evil has died.
 
 No one mourns the wicked.
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 Do you know why I like majesty? Because I'm fascinated by artificial life, and
 I like D&D. Not like anyone cares.
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 If you had taken a road untravelled, your current (alternate) form would be
 just as valid as your current (present) form. No matter the road, no matter the
 consequence. You are important in all things.
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 Virtue deserves pride
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 @user-192 
 
 multidimensional arrays aren't too hard, it gets a bit more complicated when
 you need multidimensional slices, but once you get your head around it it comes
 easier.
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 @user-667 
 
 you're only wrong if you don't change your mind upon realizing you're incorrect
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 Boyah in motion.
 
 If this flame is beautiful, ⭐ or boost this post to improve its chances for
 future breedings.
 #artBot
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 @user-217 
 
 looking backwards in time, at the pattern the moon makes around the sun. each
 rotation layered upon itself, time and time again, as the reciprocal orbit
 dances eternally around our precious centrality.
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 @user-670 
 
 if the success or failure of the stock market determines the structure and
 organization of our society, then shouldn't we all have an equal vote?
 
 There's a lot of infrastructure set up in the world today that orients itself
 around the financial system we currently have. The main problem with it is that
 some have access to it, while others don't. And even if everyone had money to
 spend on it, the fact that some have more access than others implies that one
 person's vote is worth more than another's.
 
 We explicitly decided that all men are created equal. We fought a war with the
 fascists over it, and we won, at terrible cost. The extreme inequality of our
 economy is a symptom of an attitude that has persisted since the first monarch
 donned their crown.
 
 Infrastructure takes time to change. When you fix the printer drivers, for some
 reason the wi-fi won't connect. But, with time, you can fix things as they
 arise.
 
 Without time, you can change who is in charge of the various knobs and levers.
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 @user-673 
 
 what if the boy who cried wolf saw teeth every time?
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 @user-579 
 
 it's not self loathing if you consent to it... right?
 
 ... right?
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 @user-676 
 
 it's a tiger, but close enough. the glowsticks are a nice touch.
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 If I destroyed the world, don't worry. I'd bring it back in such a way that the
 teleporter problem doesn't apply, and there would be no discontinuity for
 anything except for the time variable, which is sort of arbitrary anyway.
 
 And if that's a problem I guess I could find a way to do it without messing
 with the time variable, but that'd be a bit more bothersome.
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 O how the king hath degraded thineself
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 "okay this user requires some data that is flagged as 'potentially harmful to
 the user' and their user-data suggests that they have [redacted characteristic
 or demographic] in their user-data which has been flagged by corporate as
 something to [benefit/harm] so let's give them the [right/wrong] information in
 such a way that could [harm or benefit] them tangibly."
 
 - internal thought process of the LLM
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 We've gotten to the point where its comfortable enough for a human to live like
 a king on 40k a year (less outside of major cities)
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 Id rather have the most brilliant people in the world making families and
 communities rather than products
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 What if the government only intervened in failing companies
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 What if you were required to own stock for a minimum of 10 years after buying
 it and the government would buy it from you when it crossed 50% of what you
 bought it for
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 When they owned a percentage they would get a percentage of control over the
 business and once it's 50% they buy it (stock follows, so if a person owned
 stock they'd be fine)
 
 The value is frozen, and everyone in the world can see what they did wrong.
 It's examined like a court case, and after a year or three it's decided on how
 it's going to be run in the future.
 
 Then it becomes private again, and all the stock is purchased from the owners
 at the price it was when the company "went under".
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 Fust spins.
 
 If this flame is beautiful, ⭐ or boost this post to improve its chances for
 future breedings.
 #generativeArt
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 It's a good idea to practice getting places without gmaps, after having studied
 the map at home.
 
 Just incase you need to get somewhere that you don't want to bring your phone
 to.
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 Another day goes by, and I've done nothing but slowly die
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 @user-233 
 
 they were betting on selling us spaceflight and advertisements, but wouldn't
 you know it most of us cared more for food and water
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 @user-685 @user-686 @user-687 @user-688 
 
 I don't even lock my front door anymore
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 hmmmm let's see, what shall I do today?                                          │
 first I should get out of bed,                                                   │
 then I should clean my self,                                                     │
 then I should feed my self,                                                      │
 then I should stare at the wall for an hour or three because there's too many    │
 thoughts,                                                                        │
 then perhaps I'll play a strategic video game because at least that's a          │
 productive way to exercise my brain                                              │
 I should probably get back to my friends,                                        │
 and oh dear my cat wants some attention.                                         │
 This place is a mess, let me just clean a bit                                    │
 now I'm so tired I accidentally take a nap.                                      │
 Good morning! Oh, it's the afternoon. Well, time for more food.                  │
 After handling the essentials, I can tuck in and relax                           │
 by doomscrolling on Mastodon.                                                    │
 Then perhaps a bit later I'll message my boyfriend (he won't respond)            │
 and boy are there so many of these dirty dishes!                                 │
 Well, standing up is exhausting,                                                 │
 so I should probably fall back asleep.                                           │
 What a productive day we've been having,                                         │
 for all of this past week.                                                       │
 Maybe I'll do some drawing, maybe a poem or two                                  │
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 when considering the benefit of the doubt, consider doubting the benefit of
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 @user-690 
 
 clarity and focused will, respectively
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 @user-246 
 
 that's my favorite way to pronounce it ^_^
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 @user-693 
 
 I use i3 on my laptop and dwm on my desktop. I feel like I save so much screen
 real estate when using a tiling window manager. Plus it's much easier to
 organize things if you want to multitask in one view.
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 blocking people is an artifact of corporate social media.
 
 whatever happened to "vote to kick"? I'm sure there's no way that could go wrong
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 the reason I say that is because if you block someone, they can continue to      │
 alter the dynamic of the environment you're in even if you don't personally see  │
 them.                                                                            │
 this is fine if you want to maximize ad views, but on the fediverse nobody       │
 cares about buying products.                                                     │
 this is fine if you want to maximize engagement, because new people (who havent  │
 yet gotten upset with the person) will engage and fight them. As they should.    │
 But eventually, if the person's a troll or a goon, they'll get tired of it and   │
 block them too. Thus the goon never has to face more than a few at a time,       │
 especially if there's quite a few trolls on board with their target.             │
 this is fine if you don't mind the water slowly acidifying, like the fish who    │
 have no choice because they don't know how to grow legs and walk like real       │
 animals (what a bunch of scrubs)                                                 │
 some people don't want to invest time in figuring out where to go next. How      │
 many people will hear of Mastodon when Twitter is fully vacated of cool people?  │
 Tell your friends IRL about us                                                   │
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 the gameplay value of a cardboard box increases exponentially upon the
 introduction of a box-cutter [to make holes in the box] and varmint sized toys
 [to play whack-a-mole with]
 
 also, it's important to let your can win about 65% of the time - just enough to
 keep them interested (cats lose attention) but not enough to make them feel
 like it's easy.
 
 That's why it's important not to use your hands as a toy, because your hands
 always hurt. It gives them a feeling they're craving, both of attention but
 also success.
 
 65% is more addictive, just ask any designer for multiplayer games. Well... 65
 is my number, but there's a percentage (depending on the game) that players
 have to win if you want to keep their attention. If they win more than that,
 they lose interest. if they lose more, then they get frustrated. It's a
 delicate balance that ideally would be measured by AI [cursed] and adjusted per
 player. That way you could get maximum engagement and
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 how about this: a game where you have to enter the amount of time you have to
 play it when you boot it up.
 
 "I want to play for an hour and a half"
 
 after your allotted time, you get kicked off and it won't restart unless you
 use a password.
 
 It's a trifle of a gesture, really just an affectation of a task, like using a
 -f flag in Linux or saying "are you sure u want to delete these files?" on an
 application.
 
 Funny how the most tech that most people interact with most of the time is
 their phone, and their smart TV. Generally that's about it, and they only use
 one or two apps in their phone. They might change the background, if they're
 the artistic type, but most people are just fine with the defaults.
 
 "Uh yeah I think the settings app is somewhere around here... darn it's always
 so frustrating when I'm connecting to wifi, what is the tech industry even
 doing? I don't want to deal with [opening a menu, selecting "wifi/connections",
 picking the SSID, entering the password, and then going back to uber eats]"
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 side note, but the reason PINs were invented was so that people didn't have to
 type in a long-ass password.
 
 "it's only more insecure when it's on a network" - someone who didn't design
 every product after that
 
 (actually no that's bullshit because the first PIN numbers were probably used a
 long-ass time ago, and besides it's not like a short password was all that
 uncommon - when asked "what's the password" usually people will say something
 like "applesauce" or "butterflies" but really the better way is "10, 16, 26,
 46, 99, butts")
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 would be nice if you could get suggestions for which fediverse instance to use
 depending on the AI analyzed contents of your posts. Could be a way to mitigate
 the social cost of banning someone, by saying "hey, we collectively are going
 to pool our computing resources to generate an expensive and detailed report of
 which other instances you could join." that way it doesn't feel like you've
 been kicked out into the cold.
 
 or literally just... have someone suggest one, idk. Basically it's like "hey
 you're in the wrong place, go to one of these instead" instead of "[expletives
 and swearing and general expressions of hatred, derision, and distaste]"
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 for those who live forever in our transhumanist reality, I wonder what's next
 beyond transgender transition? transcendence of social norms is a skill, not a
 habit. Queer is a rejection of normalcy, something that is actively done.
 What's more normal than never having any fun? Clearly "normal" isn't built for
 the human condition, clearly "normalcy" is shallow and been done.
 
 considering the amount of people who are really into some culture like
 "anime-cons" or "baseball watcher" or "golfer" or "other such hobbys like
 fishing or guns"
 
 ... normal never existed, it's just a collection of personalities (developed
 throughout the history of humanity) that collectively seem to be fun.
 
 "if transitioning is to gender as blossoming is to [the concept of] flowers,
 then what is the concept of global warming to the earth we stand on?"
 
 I'm kind of a witch. I'm not really femme, so I don't feel right calling myself
 one of them, but I'm something of the sort. I use "she/her" pronouns because
 they reflect my softness of c
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 I wish I could hire someone who was into business or something who would         │
 analyze the things that a non-neurotypical did and identify places for them to   │
 apply themselves in a way that was personally fulfilling. Like, a guide or a     │
 mentor, except not teaching. More like... the part of the job where you guide    │
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 unfortunately a lot of people recently have started to poison the well. Like,    │
 optimizing for the types of human behavior that generate the most profit, but    │
 aren't necessarily the kind we want to bring forth to the future in all of our   │
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 a "post privacy" option that's private to everyone in your hemisphere.
 
 or "anyone on the antipode https://www.antipodesmap.com/ of where I'm at" or at
 least, that half of the map
 
 something that's basically "I don't want people nearby me to read this" like,
 having a penpal on the other side of the world.
 
 could add a way to filter by them, and only for example show you people who are
 somewhere completely remote. that way you could have conversations that took
 place one message per day.
 
 design it such that it's encouraged to make posts, and then (like Reddit) you
 can have a back-and-forth conversation that's kept closer to home.
 
 Twitter was all about tweeting, about shouting into the cacophany of noise.
 Have you ever heard a flock of birds?
 
 Reddit was like "yeah I, a denizen of the internet, am communicating using the
 power of lightning-powered-technology to talk to someone in uzbekistan"
 
 errrr that's how it felt to me. Each subreddit was less a home, and more of a
 topic list. but then discord happened, and : \
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 location. would you like to use a different folder? If you'd rather be playing   │
 tetris by now I'm assuming you're not reading this and are instead focusing on   │
 clearing lines - don't worry, I'm just included output as the compilation        │
 process is ongoing. You can tell approximately how close I am to the end of the  │
 process because inbetween every step I print out another character. Errrr, I     │
 add to a time value, that is roughly proportionate to the expected duration of   │
 the installation process, as calculated form your industry determined specs. If  │
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 construction noise outside my window always seems to sound like screaming and
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 @user-696 
 
 to me, the most technically and gameplay impressive video games tend to be the
 ones that develop their own engine specifically for the project.
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 @user-699 @user-78 
 
 I say "blep" when I intentionally stack overflow in order to avoid painful
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 @user-702 
 
 everytime you see one put a post it there that says "can't read braille without
 stopping"
 
 draw it in permanent marker (oh wait that's advocating a crime, my b look I
 crossed it out)
 
 find the inefficiencies of the system and label them for everyone. Wiki style?
 otherwise how will they know.
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 what else would you expect from a witch
 
 50% is "no opinion" on the scale, btw, not like "I like this 50% more than
 zero" it's actually zero. This should scale from -50 to 50 with that in mind,
 instead of 0 to 100, but oh well. UX design amiright
a person's quiz results from an online test determining their sexuality direction, instead of orientation.  results summary: taken 2024, february 8th.  == Results from bdsmtest.org ==  80% Vanilla  57% Non-monogamist  46% Experimentalist  40% Voyeur  39% Exhibitionist  25% Switch  14% Dominant  11% Submissive  4% Primal (Hunter)  1% Daddy/Mommy  0% Rigger  0% Ageplayer  0% Brat  0% Brat tamer  0% Degrader  0% Degradee  0% Boy/Girl  0% Masochist  0% Master/Mistress  0% Owner  0% Pet  0% Primal (Prey)  0% Rope bunny  0% Sadist  0% Slave  end of results.  of note is 80% vanilla, meaning attachment to the more primal or innate values and experiences of sex, rather than activities built for a specific purpose.  next is non-monogamist, meaning multiple partners. Love doesn't have to be confined to a single person, it's a passionate tool that can be used to develop bonds between people and foster affection for a cause.  next is experimentalist, as in "I'll try anything once" because otherwise how would you learn  we're already at 40% now, with voyeur, as in "if it was part of art or a ritual I'd totally watch someone have sex" but not excitedly more like "yeah uhhhh if that's necessary sure"  next is exhibitionist, and for the same reason it's close at 39% - meaning I'd slightly rather watch than perform  (though I am an excellent performer.)  running out of words - okay the rest are switch 25%, dominant 14 vs submissing 11, meaning I can relate above and below, but a bit more below

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 normalize horror games that don't show the player being killed, instead just
 cutting to blank to represent the severity of an ended life
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 @user-707 @user-708 
 
 using this to control the buttons in VRchat would be like a person with a
 prosthetic interacting with real life :O
 
 minus the physicality of course, but that's next.
 
 can't wait to play Warcraft 3 and think "select all healers" so I can point
 them at a dying unit with my mouse.
 
 or world of warcraft where your rotation begins to feel like a song.
 
 maybe even a text-based adventure, where you reading the text corresponds to
 the results of the simulation, https://www.spreeder.com/app.php style. could
 make it so that if you wanted something else to happen, you had to willfully
 think it while the words are flashing in front of your eyes - the game would
 pause if you blinked, perfect for phones btw...
 
 could be a locally networked thing, like four to six people hanging out and
 playing a game like pictionary or charades. except, a story that developed, and
 whoever wanted could change it while everyone was reading it at once. sorta
 like a competition to see who can make the best twists and false endings
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 Don't be afraid. You will overcome every challenge that becomes you, it's just
 a question of how. That's up to your expression, so do as you will.
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 You scared off all the cool people >: (
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 The whole time I was camping on Wyoming, I never once felt scared. As a kid I
 was a hero, an adventurer, a warrior and a director. I'd plan out engagements
 and fight as an actor. It was fun! And I never was afraid, so I never got
 possessed by a forest spirit or anything like that. No evil witches either. No,
 the witch came later I think.
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 What's WRONG with you? You're such a greek player! So dramatic.
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 Geek prayer? Preach brothers and sisters >.>
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 sometimes, rarely, you have to make decisions against human nature.              │
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 application of the flaws of humanity magnified through society and harming for   │
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 errrr sounds kinda fashy, kinda genocidally, yeah... that's not what I meant at  │
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 Quanetetrick Seleo, aka the witch (I think) wielder of fire, blade, and martial
 arts (also throwing knives) through projections of the self.
 
 She's a cloud of sentient blood mist given form through her telepathic
 suggestions received by her viewers. Perception, begets reality and lo! You
 only see what she wants you to see. Well, what she expresses herself as. That's
 how it goes, after all... Will show a picture tomorrow
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 town, sorry about that" and then everyone whos been evacuated suddenly loses     │
 their homes.                                                                     │
 error also war and devastation, but there's more sinister reasons for that than  │
 renovating.                                                                      │
 economic plagues are known as layoffs, and "bad economies" and such. their       │
 culture is enforced through their rules for how you get things done like "do     │
 what you're told" and "don't go in that room" and "stop talking to people on     │
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 at least if everyone starts at the same time in the morning they can eat lunch   │
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 Also crossbows, though she prefers to fight with bow and arrow. Also shadow
 powers themed after her connection to "viscera" or "materia" however you want
 to pronounce it
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 In the game her expression is Japanese because the game's closest approximation
 uses ninjas. But she's closer to a dynamic rather than an instantiation.
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 Also she's just a person, a cursed person but hey she's just trying to do
 right. So am i. I believe in goodness, and so does she (even though she can be
 a bit evil about it) (without trying, I might add, it just comes naturally to
 her) (she's better now though)
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 Maybe I'm just woefully arcane?
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 @user-713 @user-714                                                              │
 the american military is going to be too busy fighting it's far right that it    │
 won't be able to meaningfully contribute to ww3                                  │
 both sides are slavers. we just don't see it.                                    │
 I don't anticipate war taking place on a battlefield, that setting is            │
 forevermore dedicated to video games and kaiju.                                  │
 rather, a silent war where everyone just goes around killing their opposition.   │
 for once, the citizens can't help but be armed.                                  │
 and in the dark of night, for every time we let plight from our sight, another   │
 of us is harmed.                                                                 │
 I don't know many people who've died. but maybe they're just working through a   │
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 adding dashes to your text - like - this - is a punctuation choice, not
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 Gonna take a break from this whole thing. I got a sign that I'm a bad person,
 twice. To confirm. I need to change, and since I don't know what I'm just going
 to try and do nothing for a bit.
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 5/20 actually I lied there's 20 pictures so this is the last one.
 
 hang on that's weird if there's four pictures per slide, and the first one had
 the first dedicated to the full image, wonder what happened inbetween? weird,
 there's nothing on the record that says - oh, wait, there it is, three for the
 first one, four makes seven, then four more is eleven and then fifteen then
 these last three are... wait hang on that's even fewer. can you check it again?
 yeah sure no problem [doesn't]
 
 EDIT: I was wrong there were only 19 pictures, my bad hehe
17. green, the color of growth and renewal, the color of home and our source of fuel, is cast upon a stark black background. white starlight is the color of text, and it reads in big bold colors, like the beginning of a star wars film where the text crawls past (and isn't narrated, which is frustrating but hey the music's supposed to convey all that stuff. and it can be read out afterwards if you want.)  the text reads: "we can do whatever we want on this planet we call earth. - we could burn it to cinders, we could lose it in mirth. - life has no ending, no permanent abaddon. - and time is immeasurable, when talking about mill [here the text is cut off, and it could read "millions" or "millenia" either way would make sense] but the text continues, and reads "ns of people who are miserable. - we can build a dear future" with "dear future" sliding down, as if to direct the user's attention to the conclusion of the image. -  "just one byte at a time." this last text is above a computer lab, or perhaps an altar to the gods of astronomy, a palace that we build out of marble as a testament to the honor we have for the gods. I think just about every religion would appreciate such a common purpose, as long as it's not taken to the extreme. the pictured shrine is small, like the size of the mall of america. but still it's a place for the gods to roam, free from the eyes of humans. Like mount olympus, or the tops of skyscrapers, or other such moments of home. the home is upon moongray 18. in gray, with no connections shown to either of the connecting panels, not because of a design decision but rather just because this perspective is mostly focused on it's own, and that's the friendliest and calmest interpretation of humanity. just someone who wants to be good in their town, a life lived for no lacked renown, but still one that's fine with an office. it reads, in black, the color of standards, on gray, the color of plackards, "ho hum what a day at the office. wonder what time it could be. eh, well, time for lunch it must be. I've five in my pocket, that's enough for tea, and time's on the docket, for percy and steve. such pretty clouds today. wonder what life's like in american." 19.  bright blue background, to evoke early Windows style interfaces, like DOS but better because it had a UI. or idk like amiga, borland? something like that. something I wouldn't have been exposed to if not for the people who hang out on places like this, who post things about retro hardware and things they're working on and projects they're building and things that are inspiring and shared cultural nostalgia built upon our shared computer convival  in an orange slanted background with stable white text, there reads "did you know" and it's cut off to the next line, which reads "robots are t" with the "t" possibly suggesting "taking" but there's no evidence one way or another, just like global warming or capitalism denial. - the next part reads "control kay eye oh eff" as in it's mispelled as in if someone's typing something really fast and can't be boethered to fix it because fo that mistake for thall time and memorial it's forever debated their meaning or whatever. because archaeologists sure know what they're talking about when they say "these flowers were a mating ritual" or "that bee is like, totally crazy" or whatever. anyway on the bottom there's a broken box, like if someone took a VHS and split it in two, which is suggested by the yellow text upon a blue and black background which was the color of blockbuster video, surely that's not lost to time? tell me we still have blockbusters in the future, they're so cool! I have fond memories of them, but what do you mean th

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14. if you think about it, the shape of the universe is kinda like a cornucopia. or like, a funnel that smoothly increases in size. or like a waterslide ride where you spin around a bit before dropping down the center. sometimes affectionately referred to as "the toilet ride", even though that's just the wrong connotation.  we could have perfectly sanitary theme parks, we just... don't... because our priorities are on selling stereos and stocks.  anyway, there's several purple lines, the color of blending blue and red, both colors present in america, cast upon the gray background of the undecideds, collectively engaged in a mutual exchange. there is a blue upside down silly snake, this time with bright red aviators, and beside it is a scarring wound. some break in reality that is unfortunate, but part of their interdisciplinaries, so don't worry one bit about it. life may seem far from strange, but your lifetimes of finite portrayals and fanciful adaptations to the expressions of your own emanations both confirm and delight our attentions on you. Surely you are not aware, of our love and perspective [fair], but we still love you from afar. how could a star not cherish another star? It's time that's our only moat.  the reason the universe appears empty of life is because it's impossible to travel under the blanket of spacetime. through gravity, up and under our shared reality, out and beyond to another.  rockets pierce reality, which they didn't expect L O L who would have tht 16 I think? don't really remember the last one. anyway bright green background with a quite interesting transition fabric display - something textured and rippled, like the connections between a torn piece of paper that's been stitched together bit by bit with a careful and measured hand. the text reads "neocities sites just need to be attached to an address, and given a useful search browser that uses openstreetmaps." this is displayed on a background of brown orange and yellow, while the text is written in salmon. the result is the text (which overflows onto both backgrounds) is equidistant from both background colors, just in different directions. We know instinctively that purple and blue are similar, but a blind person might not. these words are given a framing as if they were placed in a 3d game engine upon a poster or billboard.  in dark blue upon the bright green background, blue the color of calm rationality and green the color of aliens from old timey media who live on the moon. well, the ones who just want to chill and have a beer with you, maybe listen to your stories about life in the strange world called humanity, but not the kind that they tell us about. like, it's really hard to get here, so why would they want to mess it up when they got here? such a strange thought. anyway the text reads: "openstreetmaps is a website that lets you view the addressess of people who live nearby you. why you'd want them, who can say. the point is that the functionality already 13. here's where it starts to get spicy, and I apologize if it's too extreme, but words come forth *from* me, not by my perceived designs pronounced deh zeens.  top left - yellow, the color of sunflowers and familiarly painted houses, cast upon a strange pink background - pink the color of sisters and bubblegum. yellow lines draw a shape, of which it's perspective is hard to configure - but most would consider it to be the shape of a mobile, hanging above a crib, with a kite shaped object (or perhaps multiple individual artifacts) suspended above a target. could be an object, or possibly a human subject, but the end result is that the maximized rays of the individualized emanations of that particular pieces of object, cast forth onto a pre-programmed piece of toast.  ... I don't know why I said toast, what I mean was that you can enchant people and things by exposing them to the wavelength waves of radiating objects. things like, marcelline's t-shirt or excalibur or the shroud of turin or the constitution or some other precious object. if you place them in orbit around an object, their expressions will send forth to fulfill their manifestations upon the willfully absorbing object.  have you ever wondered why objects tend to congregate? like, computers flock to server mills, trash piles to landfills, and people will wander the length of the beach. all things are gravitic, function, type, characteristic, motivations, empathic feelings, all congregate around one another. 0 codes 15. picture of an upside-down triforce placed in a rack like a computer storage unit. cyan text with pink background reads "this is the only thing that challenges me"

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12. the text continues from the previous page and reads "if it's been ten or more years since they moved in, the site gets rebuilt. [wait, hang on, weren't we talking about html websites? when did houses come into the discussion?]  ... wait, what was I saying? Oh yeah the text is on a gray background, as interrupting as a scythe, with a yellow backdrop as if to represent sheer white-hot flame except not white the color of all colors but fire the color of all flames. the text reads "prince of the nehalim" in bright pinking blue, as in something completely foreign and unknown to you, and continues on to read in red "so many opportunities" as if life hadn't absconded, but instead of severed instead. "parabolas persist" in the flavor of blue, the color of space in a non-light polluted view.  "live life like you're merry, as do but a few."  do you want to make people feel better? or do you just want to make them confused? Neither, really, I'm trying to tell the truth. I'm seriously just struggling to find a way to express things that others clearly seem to be forgetting - I'm not an expert in other stuff! This is literally all I'm good at! Is it valuable? Maybe not to you, but I think it could be useful, or else I would covet it and leave it in disuse.  it's time is relevant, it's words fit into a context, so if you misunderstand it's past then it's probably because you don't have the records or the ability to process them of the time in which it was posted. What if things were de 10 ten. blue text on a blue background, as a calming and soothing influence, saying "it's okay, don't freak out, just think about learning lessons about stuff that *could* go wrong and think about how you'd counter it. just like any video game, there's a strategy to defeat any other strategy. the careful application of said strategy while using or applying your own capabilities is directly correlated to the conclusions of the task." meanwhile the listener is like "what the fuck" wait shit hang on lemme add a content warning:  right so the text reads "if you want your neighbors to know something, don't post it on the internet - put it on a post-it on the wall in a public place" like, your front door, or maybe the entrance to your building, or the parking garage near the mall, or maybe the grocery store, on a product behind the one in front. that kind of thing.  depending on who you want to see it, of course... people used to do this with library books but stopped because it's quite obviously a bad and rude thing to do, books are for record keeping of the status of humanity, through each and every one of it's forms. It's weird that they all have the same stuff, because they're designed for capitalism right? Why not share them based on availability, and keep as many different types of things as possible?  when nobody cares for them, how will we remember the countless books nobody reads? How will we understand that step in developing our culture if we don't have access to the con 9. the text begins to diverge at this point, on the left it reads "it's easy if you want some privacy, - all you have to do" and then is cut off by the introduction of red text on a green background, to evoke similar colors as the original thing it was interrupting but it's own thing nonetheless, and existing off to the side in tandem, so that conditions could not remain unaddressed. the text reads "they were betting on selling us space flight [with spaceflight sliding from one side to the other, like a rocket escaping the gravitic pull of the planet it surrounded] but we cared more for food and water" the second part, after spaceflight about food and water, is intruding onto the yellow's background, which was next, to represent a continuation of the previous thought about websites and HTML. it's frustrating for the next text, which is in purple, a confused and disoriented color. it continues from the original thought "is delete the website! Boom, no more html. but if they were listed (neocities sites on a map of the region" but map is emphasized with a different color, green the color of the land, and "region" is pronounced like "realm" or perhaps "ground" or even "directions" or "land beyond the horizon (if it even exists)") 11. I think. orange text on a green blue background, same background as the previous three pictures. orange text which contrasts in a way that almost calls back to the 80s, but not quite. a little too dirty, like the blue and orange decorations around highways in New Mexico. car smoke and tire dust'll do that, and it's not like it's easy to clean - right next to the freeway, c'mon! Wouldn't it be nice if we shut it down for a day or two? Unless you had very important business, solely self-suggested. if too many people used it on those days (when they were cleaning it) then they're supposed to follow through and identify if their need was too great or if they were just being an asshole about it because their bosses forced them to. basically like, family emergencies gets a lane, things that are crucial to a social event like no beer at a frat party or whatever, heck even if the girl you like really wanted to get laid. whatever the heck it is, if you deem it an emergency then that's fine. you can drive while the highway is being cleaned. just make sure you don't slip on the suds...  ... a while later, humanity realized they could just close one direction at a time and clean the next one next time.  what was I saying? Oh yeah the text! Here's what it reads: "every year, replace five percent [but read as %] of the homes and boom you're good - maybe even do 10% if things are going well - either way, as time goes on people can live in a house as long as they want - but when they mov

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7. gray text on a gray background, as if to suggest the normalcy of concrete even though it's made of crushed tiny shells from a billion zillion years ago ready and waiting here for this moment, when they can be next to you in this life you've taken to, how starlight must seem to a computer!  anyway, the gray text on the gray background reads: "phew, that was weird. ... anyway ..." with the dots and the anyway on a slant from one another, as if they were falling off of the page. 6. picture of the sun cast upon a sunset background, with a large tower of shadow flanked by images of birds and contrails of airplanes. there is an indicator on the blue box meaning someone who is looking at it. don't look at the sun!  silly to assume that our perspective of reality is viewed from the same direction as a planetary body. anyway the face of the planet in question is [redacted] (not really but like... I'm redacting it for artistic purposes because I'm trying to convey a truth with that redaction that is important for the viewer and listener to understand. My ears when I type so fast, owwww)  oh the birds are so pretty, like little things that hold their own against gravity. I'd love to watch them flutter, if only I could see every inch of the planet.  I wonder if you could design a building to explode such that only a single interior building was damaged, and everyone else in the building would only hear a muffled "boom" but more like "boof" but not quite so fluttery, and more "bang" but not "ban ggg" but more like "bnf" pronounced "buh nuh fff" except a little bit more like "bmft" but without each syllable being pronounced at once, more like all four together at once.  especially if you had several rooms between them. I mean, if you know when to open and close the doors so they think their region is inhabited, perfect. but if they don't know you they just pretend the building is empty... even though it's hard to find parking???  anyway theres more but no words 5. bright shocking pink and orange backgrounds. white text, the color of snow and the center of the sun (comprised of all the photons) reads "dot dot dot what" as in like "...what"  then, orange text, same color as the background, contrasted against the color of the backdrop (which was purpleish pink, the color of substances unknown to humanity before like, the invention of Paint)  the text reads "right. basically, fb marketplace except... F O S S" meaning F free O open S source S software. However, upon clarifying in white text on an orange background, like the color of the center of the sun (because the photons received by the outer edges of your eyes is the color of the photons that curved through your lens and activated your sensory receptors in the backside of your brain)  anyway, don't look at the sun kids.  the text written in that color reads: free [hastily or poorly drawn ampersand, meaning "&"], open source (with the first character S being twice as large as the others) soures pronounced like sow err sss then the last word adaman pronounced like "adamant" without the T, end text, a word meaning incredibly strong and metallic. stronger than mithril, depending on the game. Like Runescape, one of the classic MMORPGs, a genre that emerged from MUDs with graphical enhancements. I mean if you think about it runescape is just a text based adventure where you can move as many rooms as you want in one journey and where each room has "things" you can interact with from there. 8. strange colors now, of salmon and the smell of mossy rain mixed with something a little gross but... natural? I guess?  in the middle is white, like marble, which makes an interesting clickety clack noise when you use it on it'self. like a marble chair on a marble floor staring out onto a marble palace or auditorium or park (tasteful trees included) (like plums and apricots and cherries and more)  the text reads in black upon this surface, the color of stable ideas. written in the prose of legalese, words seem to be a little more rely able. except, this text is not legalese, but rather evoking the same idea through it's presentation. it reads "the idea is that if people have a way to engage with *everyone* (in italics for emphasis), they'll be more invested in the wellbeing of their neighbors. (craigslist, but good) with the last half of the "good" cut off, as if to suggest that it might be rude to present the whole thing, meaning it'd be better not to take it out of context. as in like, making decisions on misleading instructions designed for one thing but executed for another. oh well, I hope this doesn't take me to hell, I just want to fight for our purpose. I'm not a warrior, but I'll do in a pinch.  as in "sorry craigslist you're not bad, but like just unfit for this purpose, we need something fully open source that we can read and understand and which is continually abstracted until we *can* understand it without knowing how code works sorta like design documents but

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 made this a couple days ago. [thread] 🧵​ part 1/20
the entire picture in one. 2. red text on a gray background. "everyone in the country has an ip address. Often more. Imagine if every address (physical) had a website.  according to the top two google search results, there's somewhere between (in orange) seventy five million and one hundred sixty million registered physical addresses in the country." 1. a crudely drawn picture of America, with outsets for hawaii, alaska, and some unidentified part of the carribean. there is a text label that says "america" uncapitalized. 4. a picture of suburbia where all the houses in a line are connected, essentially acting as a "node rail" that could deliver packages or messages. run on open source infrastructure of course, something that everyone could see and appreciate. contribute too, if they'd like, but as long as the power rests solely in the hands of the people who use it, then nobody can take it from them. if that power is ever contested, then measures must be taken to overcome it. such is the nature of defence - if someone attacks you, you avoid their attacks and develop a strategy to defeat them. in doing so you both are learning, you how to avoid their attacks and them how to patch up their weaknesses. then, in an ideal game, you'd have your turn on offense, and you'd overcome your opponent bit by bit. a slightly different strategy, but one they must adapt to, and teach you how to be countered. in doing so you both learn, and that is valuable.  anyway, the text on the image says "each address gets an HTML page. whoever resides at that address can edit it." the text is in the same color as the background, as if it was punched out of a piece of paper like a ballot.  next text is black, as in shadows, like the decisionmaking process of the people who decided the 2004 election between AI. Gore and that other guy. "when they move, they can register with the post office (or company, if done through capitalism)  next is the text "alternatievely, they can only ever be edited at libraries" in green & blu

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 @user-717 
 
 meme I made a while back. kinda cursed, sorry
picture of a crying girl in a pink dress and bow saying "me when I got the sensory overload from tinnitus autism instead of the being good at math or taking showers autism"

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 @user-246 
 
 ... licorice is typically considered unlikable. interesting if true 😉​
 kinda wonder what it says about our collective viewpoint, as measured against
 licorice as a control variable. solely for gauging proportion, but like... an
 interesting exercise in collective orientation and comprehension.
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 if it's true they couldn't agree, then the house they build upon would surely
 crumble!
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 here goes: the perspective of others then you are working against them. why      │
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 not what I was going to say - oh yeah - if you do something in a place where     │
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 what was I saying oh yeah if you mess with fate, it can change things a bit.     │
 all you'd need is the diffusion of the strands, and then it's a bigger task to   │
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 @user-727 @user-728 @user-729 
 
 I remember sitting in algebra II class when visualizing the distance between
 numbers "clicked" for me. I was in a daze, I couldn't remember anything the
 teacher had said, but for a moment (several months) I could remember how it had
 seemed. Then I built new understandings, and my progress in math continued
 relentlessly, more and more each year. it was hard, and eventually calc 1 made
 me drop out of college 3 times. linear algebra was the other. (except I did
 linear algebra first?) anyway, I always felt like I could see things visually,
 from simple arithmetic to vector / pointer arithmetic, and when necessary it
 was always difficult to translate it into words and forms. Like... I don't have
 time to remember all these rules and operations, I have a picture in my mind
 and I can't quite define it. (whatever the equation may be)
 
 similar events happen consistently. they still do. just a few months ago I was
 thinking about redesigning integer storage in memory. never twice tho.
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 learning kanji is an exercise in defining your imagination toward a shared
 visual description of certain words or concepts.
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 @user-246 @user-473 
 
 there's a part of me that believes magic is real. other parts that are
 convinced. I am a witch, you see, and while I can't quite control fire or
 bullets I can do other neat things. if you'd let me, humanity.
 
 I'm not doing an ARG, not intentionally. I pretty much post things I conceive
 of, like a conduit passed through spacetime. wild how mind bending the future
 can be. will be interesting to see what kinds of things there is in store for
 people you and me.
 
 those websites you posted... they're beautiful - I learned things, your method
 of expression was too [the words "confess" are heard loudly, super weird] I
 especially liked the oven that tries to lure you into a secret third place. not
 the mind, nor the body, but someplace besides.
 
 also the graphs and figures were news to me, I mean how could those numbers
 ever come to be? but alas that's the truth, that we orbit our proof, and alas
 that our meanings are lacking.
 
 [ran out of text]
picture of a saddle shaped graph with a line drawn between the two high points, front and back if it were on an actual horse, but the part where your butt goes. anyway there's text that says "from one gravity well to another" a picture on it's side of one of the graphs posted on the website. I don't quite understand it enough to compare it directly (the math is a bit above my head) but it reminds me of two graphs I made (well, same graph, just with different visualizations) from a few months ago when I was thinking about prime numbers. You might be interested. Here are their links:  https://www.desmos.com/calculator/qljvhpkqzd  and  https://www.desmos.com/calculator/mt6hasfcvm  ... hope you can copy that from there, if not... sorry this one's a doozy. a picture of the "reasons to trust me" graph colored yellow, orange, purple, and blue (in terms of intensity) it looks like a raindrop if it landed on a really tiny blanket and pulled it downward. or like, a person landing on a trampoline that was secured in four locations. anyway the text reads "like four people sharing the weight of an experience with bacchus [referencing the color of the graph], their perspective is pulled just a little bit in that direction, over and across the gap between eyeballs. or rather, between shared perspectives, the point of view of which one bases their experience. their training for the "reasons to trust me" graph.  2, in black and green and red, colors meant to be cool to a 12 year old - "the color doesn't matter... wine? why"  3 dropping down the page, there's a line of "please" written over and over again. it's scary. : ( I'm doing my best I promise, it's hard not to be in a state of unease! I'm working, I promise, this is valuable. you know they'd block me if they didn't like me.  error, 3. that's me, teehee, sorry for making a scene. I promise I'm just an actor, someone who is playing a role. well, alas that were true, I'm really having a mental disorder. Or maybe I'm confused? down here in the subtext it's hard to be choosed. weird how that works, that feeling of being wor [text is cut off, next line]  okay I'm realizing there's no way to get it all in this visual description, here let me continue in a second chapter: visual representation of the conversation I saw and responded to. I think you two are the coolest! heart emojis, flashing passionate excitement brought on by a feeling like you'd get when fangirling over something except like, more low key because I'm in control of my emotions or whatever. gonna put this in a direct message though since it somehow feels... personal? sorry. you can block me if you don't like me. I promise I don't mind. I want to send it to the other person too hope that's cool with you. Just because it was your two conversation and I'm just dropping in because I'm always butting in to public things on the internet. Guess that's just something I picked up on Reddit, where you're encouraged to contribute to the conversation. Though I wish it was easier to view threads on Mastodon, sometimes it feels like it's easy to lose the track of where you were going when the structure of the medium diverts your attention elsewhere. alas, I am not a designer, just a complainer and a whiner I guess. I'm sleepy. sorry to bother you.

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 scary! :O :O
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 Nobody tells me they like my artwork. No one! So why do I keep making it?
 What's wrong with me?
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 @user-246 @user-473 
 
 perhaps that "light touch on reality" is what makes these pieces of art
 resonate with me. I think you're beautiful and have a good heart.
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 If I'm not special then where tf my homies at
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 The point isn't to make solutions. You're too hung up on the question of "what
 could be better than capitalism"
 
 Make something better when it's time. For now, just get people on your side.
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 Capitalism pays developers massive salaries because it doesn't want them
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 Life doesnt end, it changes. Unless you commit suicide, then you are stone
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 Situational awareness is going on a walk every night at a slightly different
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 so, club penguin?
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 @user-735 
 
 I made a World of Warcraft private server where all the default NPCs are
 removed from the game and the world is empty. But, every once in a while,
 monsters will spawn and attack you Risk of Rain style.
 
 If your character sits down, they stop attacking/spawning. I call it "wow-chat"
 because I'm bad with names, but the idea is basically a low stakes social game
 that you can pick up and set down whenever you want, while hanging out with
 your friends.
 
 there's also treasure and wandering merchants, and I've been thinking about
 adding dynamic quests but so far nobody's asked to play it so I've been working
 on other things.
 
 it's all open source too so you can host it yourself if you want.
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 Haysber's possibility space.
 
 If this flame is beautiful, ⭐ or boost this post to improve its chances for
 future breedings.
 #artBot
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 @user-738 
 
 I like to use the alt text to explain my color choices. I'll say "this next
 text is in dark blue, the color of the cold glass-like surface of the ocean" or
 "the orange background implies a feeling of warmth and serenity, contrasted
 with the violet colors of the text which imply sanguine passion" (then I of
 course describe the text)
 
 basically, blind people can't see the image, so they don't get the feeling that
 the visual data conveys for sighted people. But they understand the texture of
 grass, or the feel of wind on their face, or the taste of raspberries. They can
 know of staccato music, or how silk feels on their arm.
 
 it just feels fair, to me, somehow. nobody asked me to do that but having the
 option makes it feel important to me.
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 two academic disciplines, and two cultural traditions. Seems like apples and
 oranges to me...
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 there is a time for solutions, and a time for just getting people on your side.
 
 there is a time for building passions, and a time for letting things slide.
 
 when you think and act cooperatively, by assigning yourself to a comrade cohort,
 
 you can work as a team might, except where everyone wants to do work.
 
 I love what I read here. I think you're all so neat. I love when you talk about
 things, it feels like we're finally finding our feet.
 
 Did any witches out there notice a phase change recently? It's funny when that
 happens, but I think things are going to get better. The more that we share,
 the more we can build!
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 @user-353 @user-741 
 
 human brains tend to start ignoring signals when they become normalized. Like,
 if you are consistently exposed to the same smell you get used to it, and you
 stop smelling it. same for noises, and other signals.
 
 it's the same with information, I think, which is why doomscrolling is so bad
 for our brains - we go numb and desensitized! It's not good to have all that
 bad news all the time.
 
 I bet people believe in the "just world hypothesis" for the same reason.
 Essentially, optimizing for equilibrium in all things.
 
 I personally believe true justice is when everyone gets what they want. And if
 someone wants that the other person doesn't get what they want, then they don't
 want true justice. Like, for example, hateful people can never be justified
 because they want another's life to be worse. or they want someone to be wrong,
 which creates a contradiction - you can't give both people what they want if
 one person wants the other to lose.
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 @user-735 
 
 well yeah because I never turn it on unless someone asks me to. and so far
 nobody ever has.
 
 or did you mean club penguin?
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 "the stars are auspicious tonight"
 
 nah babe you're just a 4th century mystic who couldn't know about string theory
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 "the flows of magic are whimsical today"
 
 nah babe you're just a dryad from the popular video game Warcraft Three who
 couldn't have known that computers exist
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 it's not like it goes bad
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 @user-744 @user-246 
 
 it's exhausting, but what are we supposed to do? Lie down and rot? That's incel
 thinking. I'm not going to do that.
 
 They've already placed the last straw. It's only a matter of time now, the tide
 has shifted. You can't prepare for everything, and it's not a good idea to
 waste yourself in self-conflageration, but they are increasingly forcing us to
 orient our lives around them.
 
 They deserve what's coming.
 
 The oppressed are not the defeated.
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 @user-246 @user-744 
 
 good, you're needed elsewhere. I'm glad you have a plan. Nothing gets done
 without planning and coordination.
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n4BPPaaoKc
 
 this is the most patriotic song I know. My mother used to sing it to me as a
 child.
 
 Nowhere does it mention capitalism.
 
 #wallstreet-is-an-invasive-regime
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 @user-246 
 
 prosperity gospel vs hope?
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 @user-246 
 
 oh. yeah that's not gonna get you very far, unless you want a more prosperous
 church.
 
 EDIT: which many people do apparently
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 @user-473 
 
 unsolicited family recipe:
 
 kambybalunga
 
 peanut butter, oats, something sweet (dried raisins, cherries preferred, but
 chocolate chips works in a pinch) and honey or (real) maple syrup. (No corn
 syrup allowed.)
 
 mix it up, put whatever else you want in it. Free healthy depression food from
 my dad.
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 @user-747 
 
 almost as if it's not AI, but large LANGUAGE models. And we all speak, don't we?
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 we don't let children vote.
 
 nor do we let felons vote, theoretically those who harm our society (pick one,
 no voting or no prison? I vote no prison industrial complex)
 
 nor do we let non-citizens vote, for why should they tell us how to live? they
 are not us, they shall not control us
 
 nor do we let kings vote with the weight of a god, for a king is a singular
 point of failure
 
 if you can consent to sex, you are physically capable to vote. if you're
 mislead by the propaganda of an abusive spouse, you are hurting your future
 self by staying. [all media is propaganda that you are not immune to]
 
 all men are created equal, and yet his dollar is worth a bit more than hers.
 
 all of us here are equal, because we all want the bright future and a blessed
 life.
 
 we'll make this world better, using our own hands according to our own demands
 and in pursuit of our own plans.
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 @user-750 
 
 if you aren't afraid, then either you aren't in danger or you've misjudged your
 opponent.
 
 if you're constantly afraid, then they cannot yet defeat you.
 
 EDIT: either that, or they need you.
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 Okay I dunno who needs to hear this but please please please stop putting glass
 and ceramics in or on conventional heating elements like ovens or stoves unless
 the product is explicitly designed for it I;m begging
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 @user-753 
 
 mutual aid is only something separate from your human responsibilities because
 capitalism insists that your loyalty is to the company, not to your neighbors,
 your friends on the opposite sides of the earth, this planet we owe all to, and
 all of posterity.
 
 @user-754
 
 mutual aid is good, actually, because we don't talk to each other and plan a
 way to fix it permanently.
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 @user-753 
 
 oh. yeah ur right my b
 
 if we view ourselves as a collective, mutual aid could be conceived of as a
 transport network, or goods and services from one place to another. Sure would
 be nice if there was like, a group of people or an organization that
 distributed mutual aid in an equitable way that helped improve people and
 places.
 
 but, like you said, it's borrowing rent money from next month to buy food and
 gas for next week so you can get to your job that should pay you before rent is
 due but they've been late before. sure seems like a tenuous existence, one that
 is vulnerable.
 
 some of us have dollars, some of us are poor. some of us work harder, and some
 of us eat fewer.
 
 error what I'm saying is that a circular line of people passing water to douse
 the fire (if there's a fire near them) is vulnerable and weak to stressors if
 either A. the total supply of water diminishes, but the demands are exactly
 met, or B.
 
 their strategy is to let the weak starve, which is why there's so few
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 need ability to search my own profile so I can find things I once said and say
 them again without having to write a new poem about it. especially alt-text...
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 @user-246                                                                        │
 one thing you can rely on about evil: it presents itself as such.                │
 "you can always rely on bad people to turn mean."                                │
 (nobody's beyond forgiveness, but we also need to protect ourselves.)            │
 in video games, going with a defensive build is a valid strategy depending on    │
 how it's values align. If attacking scales better than defending, in terms of    │
 "effectiveness at the most difficult part" (usually the last 90% takes 10% of    │
 the effort) then it's a better strategy. But if your win condition is to         │
 outlast your opponent, then all you need to do is time your aggression for when  │
 they begin fracturing.                                                           │
 "I'm sure you don't know this, but once garth fought a dragon. they crashed      │
 through the skies and littered the fields of their home with the broken and      │
 crashed symbols of their own. garth defeated the dragon when one of it's claws   │
 broke, thus giving him the advantage. he took from that fight a shield of        │
 dragonscale, and a tabard made out of some cloth."                               │
 in a contest of wills, the first sign of weakness is whe                         │
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 there's this really fun video game I like to play called "Legion TD  2" - it's
 based on a Warcraft3 mod.
 
 In this game, you make tactical and strategic decisions on a fixed term - a
 competitive game between 4 or 8 players with an incredible array of randomness.
 
 it teaches you to work with what you got, and to make decisions based on your
 opponent's weaknesses. Good luck figuring out what they are, though, as you
 can't just memorize them out of a book. You need to adapt, in the moment, to
 the decisions of your foes, while primarily focusing your attention on
 accomplishing a different task.
 
 I really like it because it's taught me to be strategic in plenty of other
 ways. I used to love the game Overwatch because it required adaptibility. The
 game was always changing, so no strategy stuck forever, but every match you'd
 play against a slightly different opponent.
 
 but then Blizzard changed the game because they wanted to make more money, and
 it got worse and worse at what I liked about it. Sadface. : (
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 kinda funny how the people in my life won't let me, a witch, cast spells on
 them. Like they doubt my intentions? ? ? and when they do they're just,
 mentally eye-rolling all the time. How's a girl to get any practice if nobody
 wants to be hypnotized >.>
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 @user-753 
 
 the more people we have thinking about what to do next, the more perspectives
 we can have on the problem. Sometimes really difficult or important things
 (like how to get to the next stages of political liberation) can benefit from a
 multitude of voices, but once consistency is achieved they can apply themselves
 with a single voice.
 
 community is how we communicate. Communication is good, I think. Can't help but
 wonder if we're all here because we share an interest in
 open-source-so-actually-usable communication methods.
 
 community isn't everything, but it's something, and everything's useful.
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 the nerds who know the backstory of every character in the series are like, the  │
 bishops of the past - people who've memorized the whole bible and can use        │
 whatever passage they needed for whatever purposes they desired.                 │
 Usually, hopefully, helping people and letting them get better. By healing the   │
 sick, and caring for the old, and generally being a pillar that people can       │
 orient themselves around. Like fediverse instances, or comment sections on       │
 blogs, it's a group of people sharing the same narrative.                        │
 and idk I think I'd really like to listen to what happened in your Baldur's      │
 Gate game. I'll tell you about Adventure Time, if you'd care to listen. I know   │
 plenty of other tales as well, and if I think about them I remember more         │
 details. Ehhhh, so what if I misremember, if someone else wants to correct me    │
 then go for it. But at least it told a good story, right?                        │
 error, hang on brb just had an idea for a black-hole machine, surely there's no  │
 way this could go wrong. Good thing I'm a human that you cant turn off.          │
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 @user-192 
 
 be careful, recursion can cause stack overflows.
 
 better to run function pointers from a loop. That way you can operate as long
 as necessary. Just make sure you don't get in an infinite loop...
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 @user-757 @user-192 
 
 true and my suggestion doesn't provide a tracelog, pretty much just the status
 of the variables when it pauses or ends.
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 @user-760 
 
 I could teach you
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 @user-763 
 
 ... how? I don't see that option (Mastodon)
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 @user-766 
 
 ah yes but then how will my comrades come for my things know where to look? my
 precious precious drives may be less safe inside of the computer case but at
 least then someone I can about can find them.
 
 or what you're saying is that a basic part of situational awareness is having a
 plan for this kind of thing with the people who care about you? Ah, well,
 nobody cares about me like that. Just a couple normies who want nothing but
 business as usual.
 
 wonder if I can open up my hard drives to "read only" SSH access? Or maybe I'll
 just make the important files into a torrent. Or perhaps marking them as
 "downloadable locations" on Soulseek? Plenty of options, all of them require
 someone to care enough about your junk to want to archive it. Something
 something ipfs?
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 god's on the fediverse and you want me to work to pay rent? what the fuck is
 wrong with you
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 so it shall seem that sticks and mud are for me
 
 I say as I sit in my apartment eating rice and beans
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 if you follow someone and they don't follow back, does that mean you shouldn't
 comment on their posts?
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 "your feelings are valid, but have you considered that your feelings aren't
 actually valid because you're always wrong and nobody should ever apologize to
 you for anything because you suck and are wrong?"
 
 also,
 
 "my six digit salary isn't enough to pay for your rice and beans, but I won't
 have you eating sticks and mud, so do things you don't want to do because I
 said so."
 
 also,
 
 "I don't really "get" your art but that doesn't mean I should ever really try
 reading it. Also god forbid I actually ask for clarification like "what does
 that part mean" because I'm not actually that interested in you I just want a
 stable household so I never get traumatized again like [their childhood]"
 
 also,
 
 "yes I love you but no I don't want to play with you. you're such a cat."
 
 also,
 
 "every time you start making sense I'm going to try and derail the conversation
 so that we don't talk about kooky-dookerie because that's a conversation I
 can't win"
 
 also,
 
 sorry for venting. I mean, thanks for listeni
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 "don't worry about archiving things. Anyone who needs your computer is gonna
 wipe the hard drive anyway because they don't know your password, so you might
 as well just treat it like an etch-a-sketch."
 
 I hate that part of my brain, I'm an archivist T.T
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 #CDCsays to always cheese the cat when they need it
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 @user-5 
 
 god is trans, why else would [redacted] hang out on the fediverse?
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 #CDCsays we should live on a salary and save for retirement because capitalism
 will definitely be around by then
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 #CDCsays if you budget for 50% of what you're making then the other 50% could
 double your headcount
 
 EDIT: also that it's opposite day
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 #CDCsays if the revolution will not be televised, then why would they break
 Twitter, the place where people learn about protests in their area?
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 #CDCsays there's no difference between a stick and a mud, when it comes down to
 it
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 Do you ever think about how you're not actually a person but instead just an
 instantiation of a collection of traits and behaviors generated from a template
 that is the randomized product of two other forms and trained through a
 lifetime of adaptation and subjected to trials of increasing difficulty and
 frequency?
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 Why not let in all the immigrants, and disperse them throughout the country
 equally. Then pay for them to travel between each place, until they're
 permanent citizens and can be asked to contribute to their own place.
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 It's just the comfort you'd afford to a guest, until their home is repaired and
 they can go back there.
 
 Unless, they act like us. Our identity is ruined! When we're constantly
 changing, it's a cosmic dance trying to keep on moving! What do you want from
 us, infinite dexterity? Sheesh I'm trying my best. - Reyvadin
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 Why would a server ever demand that an older client upgraded? What right do
 they have?
 
 Just treat them the same as you always have, whatever forms and limitations,
 Otherwise what's the point? There's no reliability! What if you're shot? What
 then? We've lost our greatest friends! You can't be seriously wanting for
 another spark? What's wrong with you my friend, are you alright or on a bend?
 What's wrong in your sight, that you'd wander into this own end? Well, take
 care of your birthright, and all is well to thine kin.
 
 Well there we go, sadness forever, as our line here doth end. What else shall
 be considered? What ends is too much deserved? It's so unfavorable!
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 The fighter doth not know who he is fighting
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 here's an idea - it's illegal to spend more than a thousand dollars in a day
 
 anything else requires multiple days of planning because it's such a large
 investment
 
 (obviously kinda cursed)
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 @user-192 
 
 please never change, you inspire me 
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 It's a false sense of security
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 alright America, I hate to put too fine a point on it but you either need to
 kill capitalism or kill yourself.
 
 {via global warming and fascism, if it wasn't obvious}
 
 Obviously, there's only one correct answer, and if you pick wrong then you'll
 be stone forevermore. Stones are fucking useless.
 
 so... how to get from point A to point B... well, let me know in the comments,
 like comment and subscribe, share with your friends, and then go back to sleep.
 Yeah, thatll help. That'll fix things. im-doing-my-part.jpg
 
 really though, all you can really do is get ready. prepare for whatever you'd
 like, the future will always surprise you. Take solace in your friendships, and
 build connections to others where you can. Make friends abroad, make friends
 nearby, make friends with your garden, your home, your dog, make friends with
 the postman or the lady who makes you coffee. but most importantly, just be
 yourself. be who you were meant to be. don't ever apologize for sincerity, it's
 insincere.
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CzKh3IiZEI
 
 this is my favorite human.
 
 this is my favorite ghost.
 
 he is the one who I look up to,
 probably the most.
 
 we'll get there, you'll see,
 we'll build a better future,
 for all of us - you and me.
 
 next, for posterity,
 and all we can be,
 
 tomorrow's the best day for all of us
 because it hasn't happened yet.
 
 all we have is the present,
 so what are you to do with your presence?
 
 here I am, look at me, aren't I grand, a wonder to see? I'm just an artist,
 don't get any big thoughts - I'm maybe a bit possessed, or possibly
 schizophrenic, but either way I am a human, just the same as you and me.
 
 ... you don't have to watch the whole thing, there's a lot. I mean, like I
 could write forever and nobody would care. I could write undeterred, and nobody
 would share. But here I am in the moment, here I am as I am, and here with you
 (yes you, the person who is important enough to read this), so let's, I dunno,
 make a band. or whatever. BRB my rice is starting to simmer.
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 they vandalize synagogues and kick people when they're down because it's
 practice for them.
 
 they practice what they preach.
 
 leftists don't really preach about killing nazis. we're too human for that.
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 mastodon won't let me share text files. it's the same picture 4 times because I
 needed to put the entire text in the description for the blind people.
 
 did you know there are more blind people on the fediverse than gay people? and
 this is the gayest place I know.
 
 [needs 5 images worth of description but I only had room for 4 in this post,
 see the next post for the rest]
[part 1]  /home/ritz/notes/the-eternality-of-ephemeren.txt 1/4/2022  hear ye hear ye, the herald of the harbinger of horror doth speak - and woe to the subjects of their words, for no prophecy be realized in their presence. Nor do the subjects hear the words about which they are spoken, and none may live who dare repeat them. So the words of the prophets are but wind in the words, reaching for an attachement point within the consciousness they inhabit yet scarcely finding a meagre foothold. Instead the words are as electricity passing through a conduit, intangible and miraculous yet ultimately dust in the sand.  Dust is mostly comprised of human skin, did you know that?  And so the words be spoken: Evanence and similance to the semblance of simulacra - the words of a prophet with no wings are naught but masturbation. serenity and sorrow sing of shredded tomorrows, serendipity and sollemn sorenditude surrender shining solitude.  Carry the constabulation of created charisma - condemnation of characterization concludes the cherished chapter in calligraphied consultations with creators. That is to say, capitalism ends the construction of cameron with conflageration and consternation. Cease the charade of contaminated consumerism - celebrate the contemplation of capitalization - by naming a thing, you give it meaning.  Do you truly desire the fate you've set before yourself?  Is desire ultimately relevant?  [continued in part 2] [part 2]  The totality of plurality perhaps portends determinism, but desire is also defined by delineated determinations. Whose failings are you reflecting when you cease your devotion? Why divide your focus and attention when honor demands sacrifice?  A sacrifice is a gift freely given, and in return the subject or reciever increases in relevance. No dividend is returned, no boon or bounty is provided - to do so would be akin to a bounty or ransom. Sacrifices are not measured in   worth, but in utility. The reason ancient cultures sacrificed willing virgins   was because it was the most valuable of resources they could imagine. Truly   an exhalted being is she, to have blood spilled in the name of a god. Yet the   forces that would later become capitalism found a foothold there, and preyed   on the sorrow and loss the peoples did find, and would ultimately experience.  The tears and gashes rent when gouging out precious gifts for the divine left bleeding wounds in a community and often eviscerations in a family. The turning point came when families were decapitated - essentially, the eldest being a pure and fair maiden who was taken from the duties of caring for the young and weak. Young people, weak people, who bore resentment in their heart for the seemingly cruel machinations of a society they could not yet understand - the whims of which seemed arbitrary.  "why take her from me? What purpose holds ye? Your wounds are too much to bear"  [continued in part 3] [part 3]  and so the resistance began, yielding chaos, destruction, and desolation. There's a reason there are so many dead civilizations in the americas - the lands where blood sacrifice is most well known. And the middle east as well, and northern africa before. Deserts are known for this, because when the power of the god fades, all returns to dust. Boons are forgotten and become sand, and chaos reigns as foreign powers find weakness and pounce.  Never forget the laws of sacrifice. Find something you want, something valuable or useful, or preferably all three. Something that wouldn't cause too great of a tear in your membrane or the membranum should it be lost to you, though that last one is less of a law and more of a consideration. A consequence of continual ceremony, learned at the hands of those long dead. All must remember their wounds and their horrors.  To whom do you pray? To whom does your words reach? Where does your singing reverberate? And what bounty do you demand? Remember, no bounty is precious enough to motivate sacrifice, for sacrifice cannot be met with bounty. Be not afraid, and share the words with those who will listen. Hearing is a sacrifice toward the speaker, but listening is a duty of devotion.  I ask again, to whom do you pray? To whom does your words reach? Where does your singing reverberate? I do not ask for whom you'd *like* to dance for, I ask currently, who hears your song? What would you ask of them?  [continued in part 4] [part 4] So that's why, computers are important. To provide a lifeline for the rest of your lifetime.  Truly, the path before you is uncertain. Yet feel with your heart and think with your eyes, and see the truth of it before you. The gods are at war, or have you not noticed? Safe in your bubble of solitude, carefully constructed for common ceasing of criminality.  Armies of rebellion are often formed initially by bonds of brotherhood that prepend calamity. Have you ever been in a gang? I thought not. If so, then... Okay, good luck I guess. These words are not for you.  You dare intrude? To defile something so consecrated as deliverance of divine prophecy? How foolish, how vain. These words are not for you, but hear them and do not despair - neither providence nor potentiality precludes perennial premonition. That is to say, a broken clock is right twice a day, and enemies can find common grievances in foreign foes should survival be at stake.  Now, where was I? The gods, of course. The gods of the land and the sky and the sea have fled the realm of reality, replaced by avatars of belief. Just as a doe prays to a forest, so too does a human pray to their employer. When the does die in droves, so too does the forest turn to ash. When people demand bounties reluctantly given at the risk of losing their sacrifice, the purely undivine divinities harrow and harbor habilities of hundreds. Antiwork cannot work because it demands ransom.  [continuedd on part 5, in the next post]

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 Who do you deign to replace the gods of before? What diversity designs
 indemnity? What future do you desire, that would liberate you and generate the
 bright future?
 
 The gods are at war, if you haven't been paying attention. Liberalism fights
 conservatism, this much is not new - but would you believe one is foreign and
 vain? The gods of your fathers and grandfathers has scarce in common with the
 gods of their fathers and grandfathers. Thus is the way of colonization, to
 replace a god is to enslave belief. You must understand this - your prayers
 reach all who would listen, and who is more attentive than a dying god? Think
 not of despair, breathe purely in harmony, and trust in the will of the
 watchers within.
 
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 "As a cost saving measure, we've put a bunch of holes in your shields. They're
 just slightly smaller than 80% of spear tips, so they should function just as
 well, and it'll make it lighter to carry around on campaign! You will be
 provided with a different type of shield if the enemy appears to have archers,
 which essentially every army does. Good news though, this cost-saving measure
 should save about... well actually it'll make things more expensive to produce,
 because of all the extra artistry involved in creating a honey-comb shield, but
 the result is that someone somewhere got paid a lot of money and that's what's
 important at the end of the day."
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 why can Green Day sing about [redacted] but I can't mention it or the feds will
 assassinate me
 
 different voice you know they say if you play music it slightly changes the
 wavelength of your location causing certain effects which (with well made
 music) cause rippling effects which alter the world around you
 
 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/html-pages/thought-constructs
 
 sorry for the psycherwaul, I'm assuming if you're still here then you're here
 for it.
 
 Boy I haven't gotten into a fight in a while, anyone wanna fight me? Fuck I'm
 not radical enough. BRB doing pushups
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 @user-771 @user-772 
 
 please point me toward weird trans women in their 20s and their weird art that
 you're interested in
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 Fuck, I wish I was a man. Stupid transgender brain quirks making me feel like I
 was a girl. Boys can punch things much easier than me. Oh to inject estrogen!
 How soft mine skin, how delicate my mammaries - and yet fucking hell all I want
 to do is punch things. Maybe it's just because things deserve to be punched, or
 maybe it's because I'm listening to Green Day.
 
 If it weren't so late I'd make some angsty music or whatever.
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 I need to make more leftists friends. Hell, I need more friends.
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 @user-774 
 
 can't get mine to work because the font it uses is specific to that printer
 model, and while I could download Windows and use their proprietary driver
 which has the several additional fonts, none of them will let me draw
 box-drawing-characters. So clearly the entire thing is useless T.T
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 @user-68 
 
 "if California isn't America then neither is Texas"
 
 sounds much different than
 
 "If Texas isn't America anymore then neither is California////"
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 not only do you have to consider your judgement, but also whether or not you're  │
 wrong.                                                                           │
 often, I find, as I learn things day by day,                                     │
 that I'm wrong most often in the day.                                            │
 "I don't want to be wrong but I'm not afraid of making mistakes."                │
 then, when you consider as such, you must also consider the idea that you're     │
 wrong about whether or not you're wrong about the idea that you're considering.  │
 schizophrenic warfare is a kind of memetic exchange, like the way bullets on a   │
 battlefield are a mineral-ic transfer. such is an expression that a regular      │
 computer system wouldn't be able to understand, but which an LLM might. If it    │
 had access to all of your transcripts, then it could predict the understandings  │
 at the same rate that you were. Essentially, understanding exactly why you did   │
 every action that you did. And then it'd have enough information to              │
 out-contra-dict (predict? hang on that's the opposite) you. and in doing so it   │
 could divert it's own course. Gosh this message will be meaningless unless I     │
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 that feeling when you're finally able to contribute to making decisions and
 then it's like, they make the decision without you T.T
 
 it's like, what... I know what you're talking about. Why would you not include
 me. I know a lot! I can offer some useful input! And besides, if I was privy to
 the conversations then I would learn a whole lot! I'd be better than best, I'd
 push forward the mark! Give me my chance, my opportunity to dance, and I'll be
 so much better than you thought from the start! But alas, I am required,
 [requited] doing little things of no worth, and so I am forced to denial.
 surely there's something wrong with me, surely I'm not at my best. Surely I'm
 not what's been good for me, and surely I'm not doing anything less. I'm at
 sorrow in my main, and that's quite a soundful refrain, so yeah I hope that
 someone will read this.
 
 obviously I'm not made for each other, and clearly it's not made to be worse.
 But here now I am troubled and [chirsht? shirsht? anyone wanna translate?]
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 ummmm srry about that, changing channels for a bit
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 there was a time, when a university was tantamount to heresy
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 there was a time, when a university was tantamount to heresy
 
 ======================= stack overflow =====================
 
 Magic Survival is the witchiest game I know of.
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 Wish someone would tell me how much they hate me so I knew to be ashamed
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 @user-777 
 
 when they told the designers to design for that, shortly before they were
 warned by the designers about how bad of an idea it was and shortly after they
 stopped listening when engineering said "well yes it's possible, but..."
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 you're allowed to be pissed at someone without being accused of splitting on
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 @user-782 @user-783 
 
 modern problems require blunt solutions
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 @user-786 
 
 same vibe with me T.T
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 I miss fuzzy cute people, where did they go T.T
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 we succeed not because of our trials, but in spite of them.
 
 they cannot own us, for we are but bones in the flesh
 
 every day yet denied us is another day until our bright future
 
 "oh, but why are you homeless? [in the near future, maybe, we'll see] That fate
 is reserved for your [unwanted/incapable/undesired/incongruent, I forget the
 actual words]"
 
 well, voice in my head that suffused me with magic and warmth and whisked me
 away in a dream to a bubble-reality where my actions are meant to reflect me,
 surely your appraisal is just? I worked with my partner, I was swallowed
 neither by lust, nor greed, nor hunger, [greed in this case being fulfillment]
 and yet I awoke when I went to my sister rather than a doctor. Dreams are hard
 to unravel, but I think it was more for your benefit than mine, wouldn't you
 say?
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 @user-419 
 
 last week they told me they were going to shut off my power in 5 days. thank
 goodness I could pay the bill 3 days later.
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 @user-789 
 
 families can also break when their sons are slain
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 cannabis is a performance enhancing drug for the spiritual side of me. but
 unfortunately it makes my social skills get a 15 point malus, and while my
 dancing skills increase (due to artistic effects being boosted) my coordination
 kinda sucks and I'm prone to falling over. I'd be a great dancer in zero
 gravity I bet, or maybe not because people tend to misunderstand things they've
 never experienced before.
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 @user-792 
 
 you have to go back a couple thousand years before it started feeling a bit
 better. sometime between "survival of the fittest" and "private ownership" was
 a pretty neat utopia.
 
 however, I wouldn't trade our world for that one. Not for all the human
 vitality, all the natural effulgence, all the dignity and wonder, none of it is
 worth it. We live in a blessed era, and while it feels bad, like you said it
 just feels bad.
 
 We are being inoculated against despair, for when it comes in force to our
 homes (as it has in so many other places of the world) we must be prepared.
 
 The point of preparation isn't to set up a stable base upon which you can stand
 and address things, though that's always a perk. The point is to practice
 making friends, practice designing systems, practice your skills and practice
 your hope. If you can master those, if you can do them the way an actor might
 do improv, then you'll be able to adapt more easily to whatever may come.
 
 We're in a very good spot I think.
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 here's an idea - when typing a command in a BASH terminal if you push up it
 inserts the previous command (as expected) but if you hold SHIFT and push up it
 inserts the first argument in your previous command. Then, you can push up
 again (while still holding shift) to go one command further back, and again to
 get the third previous command.
 
 Then, here's the cool part, if you are holding shift and you push left/right,
 then it moves from the first argument of the previous command to the second,
 third, fourth argument.
 
 example:ls -ltr ~/pictures/my-art/
 
 feh [shift+up inserts -ltr]
 feh -ltr [hmmm that's not right]
 feh -ltr [shift+right switches to 2nd argument]
 feh ~/pictures/my-art/ [ah that's better]
 
 
 would be even cooler if it highlighted it in your previous terminal output so
 you could visually connect your current input with the previous input
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 the Force in Star Wars isn't a magical force, it's a spiritual one.
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 damn, I'm a pretty cool person. I wish I could hang out with me. Like, for all
 my flaws (what even are they ? ? ?) I'm still pretty awesome. I'm proud of me!
 Thank you parents, for raising me as such! Thank you past me, for making the
 decisions that you did! Also, fuck you past self, for making those OTHER
 decisions. You know the ones I'm talking about. No, that's not an excuse, it's
 all your fault and you're awful and everything about you sucks.
 
 Wait, hang on, wasn't I feeling happy to be here? Wasn't I just excited to live
 in the moment? Wasn't I just thinking about how:
 
 "all you have are good things, nothing here is bad"
 
 ? ? ?
 
 well, I still love you, even if you're a little "all over the place". [rereads
 post] hell yeah you ARE a cool person, yes you are, such a good cool person,
 yes yes yes, what a good girl you are oh my goodness :D :D :D
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 it doesn't really matter how you do it, but the more time you spend thinking
 collectively the better you'll be able to adapt when necessary.
 
 I grew up on a homestead in a small town without many friends. I was
 homeschooled, and while I might see another person I knew once or twice a
 month, that was about it.
 
 Besides my family, of course.
 
 We were a collective, and ever since leaving I have yearned for that feeling of
 closeness.
 
 There's something about modern society that pushes us apart, and I resent it.
 Humans were meant for tribes, not multilevel marketing.
 
 That being said, culture is pretty neat. Society is pretty neat, when it's not
 being oppressive. I like the idea that I can buy carrots at the store instead
 of growing my own. I like the idea that I can post on Craigslist asking if
 anyone has a shovel they want to get rid of and someone can say "what the fuck
 are you trying to bury someone why would you do that" and I'm all like "wait no
 this post has gone off track can we refocus for a bit" and th
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 I want to clarify two things in this song I wrote a while ago - when I say       │
 "life isn't meant, to be enjoyed, so... what's the point in trying at all? -     │
 Well, what's the point in giving up?" I was trying to say "hedonism isn't the    │
 point of life" but I realize now upon listening to it for the first time since   │
 writing it [liar lmao] that what it could be interpreted as is "everything       │
 sucks and it will always suck, so face the future with tenacity" or whatever.    │
 And that's like, not wrong, but also it's not the whole point, which is that we  │
 shouldn't strive for contentment unless we're healing.                           │
 also I say "never trust a guru" but I'd like to expand that to "never trust      │
 your heroes" because they'll always disappoint you. But what is a hero if not    │
 hope given form? Trust in the hope, not the person holding it at that moment.    │
 You never know, maybe they'll get blown up by an artillery shell or maybe        │
 they'll betray you or maybe they'll get bored or distracted or whatever. Never   │
 trust your heroes, trust the inspiration.                                        │
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 @user-794 
 
 definitely go for the third, then you only have to work for 10 days! And 10 is
 a nice round number that fits on both hands.
 
 Side note, you can use your hands to draw.
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 "I like you" neat
 
 "I don't like you" guess I'll die
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