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@user-135 I only sorta know what that means 🙃
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@user-78 I thought it was thursday :O
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@user-122 have you ever seen Adventure Time? It's sublime. : ) : ) : )
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@user-95 most ancient armies were led by a guy on a horse. you gotta be able to
move around quickly so you can get a better glimpse of the battlefield, plus
it's easier to project your voice when you're 2x as tall as everyone else and
standing in the right place instead of way over there.
are horses ancient mechs?
plus moving around a lot meant you were less likely to be hit by arrows or
whatever. or maybe more likely, because everyone knows to shoot at the guy on
the horse. perhaps that's why we gave them the best armor.
in Overwatch (and presumably other similarly tactical games) there's this skill
you can hone called "gamesense". Perhaps better described for this context as a
"proprioceptic situational awareness". It essentially is a feeling you get,
about the dynamics and state of the game / world around you. in ancient days it
was used to direct a big block of dudes with sharp pointy sticks to try and
outmaneuver your foe and poke their flanks....
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@user-138 if you don't want feedback then why don't you just... not open the
replies? leave them unread? if you feel the need to justify your actions (such
as not reading replies to your controversial posts) then somewhere deep down
you feel like those actions are unjustified, and needing an explanation. which
makes your point feel less valid to others, since even you don't believe in it
enough to guarantee it to be the truest expression of your soul.
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@user-138 oh no you didn't misunderstand me I just didn't have anything more to
add
sorry I'm from Reddit where you're mostly talking to all the invisible lurkers
in the audience rather than to the other actors on the stage. TwiMastodon is a
bit of an adjustment
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covered in the flowers
instantly I'd like to die
in this dream of oursEtsujin
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@user-95 you seem pretty cool, would you like to play VRchat with me sometime?
I have like, 1 friend in that game, and I'm too shy to make more xD
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@user-95 can't tell if that's an invitation or not : )
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@user-95 thank you for inviting me, it was fun : ) I'm not usually that quiet -
weed works a little different on me than it does on humans, and one of the side
effects is auditory processing disorder. I couldn't really understand what most
people were saying...
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@user-95 ah yes I'm very expressive in VR xD
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@user-95 (My controller makes different expressions on my face depending on how
my hands are holding them, and I've never bothered to learn how to control them
- sorry if I was confusing =P)
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confusion is seeing with perfect clarity and speaking with utter disconnection
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@user-95 In that case I guess I'm lucky that my natural hand movements
correspond generally to the patterns programmed by the designer of the avatar _^
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@user-95 wow those are great expressions! the hand and face movements are
amazing ^_^
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@user-95 the scariest part is you don't need AI for any of that. people have
been scamming with call centers in indonesia. election campaigns are
essentially generalized information spreading machines. (whether mis, dis, or
just... regular information) Marketing is an entire discipline dedicated toward
making people believe something they previously did not - that product XYZ is
worthy of their dosh. But it doesn't have to be like that, it could be using
it's powers of analysis for good. But alas, if only we had an economic system
that allowed for anything but a race to the bottom. I mean yeah racing is great
when you're competing with a bunch of other nations, but c'mon do we really
need to fight? Every inch of earth has been claimed. Let's just... draw a line
in the sand and say "okay no more changes" and focus on more important things?
Like climate change for example?
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@user-95 hang on one of these is not like the others
(!!!)
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@user-95 the option menu for my avatar is in chinese so I have to randomly pick
options until I get what I want... My outfit gets messed up a lot T.T
But eventually I can put it back together. I like this avatar because I have
lots of good memories with my friend while wearing it. I figured there wasn't
really any reason to change since I liked it so much ^_^
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@user-95 d(^_^)b
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I wish games started with everything unlocked and if you wanted you could
"start a journey" or whatever and lock everything but a few options... then
slowly as you play the game you unlock new things to do until eventually you're
back where you started.
Essentially... starting at level 100 and having the option to prestige right
away. If you want the experience. While playing a game. That you have every
right to enjoy as you will.
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@user-95 when people in public see me I'm usually in a bicycle helmet or a
witch hat. I used to wear a baseball cap but my favorite one got old so I try
not to wear it too often. I also have this feather flower clip that I put in my
hair, it's bright red and black. It was for a halloween costume 5-8 years back
: )
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@user-95 more like... accessibility by default, and if you want to opt in to
the narrative experience then you can. I want to start with all the levels
unlocked and all the cool swords to play with because most of the time I don't
really care about the story. I make my own story!
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@user-141 when I smoke cannabis it's like my ADHD symptoms drop to zero and my
autism symptoms go from 50% to 100%
I can't understand what other people are saying unless I ask for clarification,
but I sure as shit know the shape of the universe and can fathom the chaotic
ripples of causality and eternity. Too bad when I try and talk about it all
that comes out is "desu desu"
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@user-144 martinellis?
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@user-147 years of practice. every time you delete what you said is another
chance to practice that slips away. writing is the easy part, you got that down
because you need something to delete, right? the hard part is being received by
others, and continuing the conversation as you direct it.
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@user-150 leave it dusty. if you're concerned, throw a can of compressed air at
it and see what you can get done.
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maybe if I wear the same clothes everyday people will be more likely to
remember me
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@user-95 one of the most empathetic people I ever met on VR chat was consoling
me with their mic off while I was oversharing about some stupid things people
did to me in the past. things that stupid me thought were okay and actively
encouraged because I was stupid. anyway when their mic was off their body
language spoke for them. I'll try that next time.
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reality is write-only
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unless of course you're a higher dimensional being, in which case it'd be
read-only. unless your dimensions intersect with our own, in which case it'd be
read/write.
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@user-153 sounds like you need a sick day
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@user-156 alone, as all men do?
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One of the neat things about the fediverse is that all the accounts posting
things like train schedules or sports scores gently encourage users to learn
how to curate their feeds by blocking people who are irrelevant, not just those
who hurt you
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@user-95 I like to think of each reply as the start of a new thread. sorta
like... multidimensional arrays that contain arrays that contain arrays that
contain...
that's how it worked on Reddit so that's how I'm going to use Mastodon, hope I
don't step on any toes...!
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@user-159 not generally. but you're not a people, you're a cat, right?
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@user-95 oh yeah I forgot about my hat. they'll probably remember me for that.
they say witches and their hats are all ugly and green and covered in warts but
I don't think that's true because I have a relatively normal human skin color
and zero warts. beauty is in the eye of the beholder though so if you want
answers on that part you'll have to slay it first.
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@user-95 you aren't the first person to tell me that so I think you might be
right : )
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@user-162 only if those behind the change of leadership do not have the support
of the educated. essentially... only evil people who have no ties to morality
or justice would eliminate their political opponents.
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@user-162 you're right! otherwise it wouldn't be forced : )
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@user-95 you might be interested in this:
https://ollama.ai/
nothing beats having a zillion servers to run an LLM on, though.
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when stepping into the unknown, you should first check your list of
requirements. are you wearing shoes? does the ground look slippery? have you
eaten recently, or will you starve on the way back?
when doing to a list, completion signals a time for rejoicing. you're finished,
you're done! congratulations.
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ugh. eating? again? didn't we fix this problem yesterday?
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sigh alright look. I'll make you a sandwich just this once but you really gotta
get your cravings under control. this should be a "sometimes" thing for special
occasions. what's that? you want clean clothes and a shower? get outta here
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so... is dynamic typing just automatic typecasting?
#programming
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@user-165 mmmm I dunno, those statistics don't seem related because my job
depends on them being disbelieved. surely the science is wrong, and not my
feelings! I mean have we really counted EVERY wildlife? maybe there was a
chicken or a... nother animal hiding under a leaf or something that we missed.
It's not like they pay taxes, so do we really need to keep them around? All the
other stats seem to be great - numbers on a graph going up and to the right is
good! It's just the price of industry. Let's add a few more zeroes onto the end
and see how much money we can make off of those poor suckers in other countries
slaving away in sweatshops making stuff that ends up being thrown away... onto
a boat that drops it off in the same country that made it. Surely this is the
least insane way to organize our highly advanced future society of 2023!
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@user-95 sometimes I say "all seriousness aside..."
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i'm not an expert on race, economics, political theory, philosophy,
mathermatics, poetry, computer science (even though I study it), or many other
things. but I can say things like "parallel computing is inherently more
ethical than CPU's because networked computers can essentially act as a massive
GPU in order to quickly scale computing power for AGI in a way that can be
controlled by people instead of corporations and authoritarians" is because I
know relatively how many computers each side possesses and I understand the
limitations placed on "consumer" software and hardware (as if we were not
people, but components in a machine) is because I smoke a lot of weed. and
possibly am mentally ill. maybe even physically, nobody can tell. /shrug
and by that I mean "I'm a little strange, but not in a 'humanlike' way, rather
in more of a 'incomprehensible yet aligned' way. I seek answers to life's
biggest questions, and in return I am struck with the malady of those who study
history: I am peculiarily experiencing
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deja vu
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@user-95 sometimes it feels like I have no information. nothing on social media
can be trusted and everything we share could be automated. perhaps the human
race really is doomed, or perhaps it's under it's place. Just think of what we
could do with programmable matter - a world suited to our every desire. I think
the beauty of humanity is it's potential. we've come so far and done so much,
but tomorrow is ever before us. what's next for our fateful kind? we shall see,
but for now I'm going to play video games T.T
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huh that's weird
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okay how about this:
Zoom except it uses image recognition from your laptop's camera to tell which
face you're looking at, and it hides all the others - either by dimming them,
reducing opacity, or even just blocking out their face so you can still see any
body motions but your eyes aren't drawn to them.
If someone looks at you then it lights up their face or notifies you in some
way. I think this would enhance the "togetherness" feel of a Zoom call to be
more like a conversation where you can explicitly tell when someone's looking
at you.
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it might also help with social anxiety because people are aware when they're
being observed. A lot of people hesitate to speak or contribute on Zoom calls
because they are inherently scared of being observed, but with this system
they'll be aware of any observation and can address it. Plus every meeting that
could have been an email will quickly become apparent since nobody is paying
attention to the speaker, and they'll realize how much they should rethink
their approach.
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@user-168 hehehehehehe witch cackles I told you it was a nightmare
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@user-168 oh whoops. I meant it's something for neurotypicals, but it'd be a
nightmare. Just like all the other stuff they came up with, like society and
multilevel marketing
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economic warfare involves the destruction of other corporations (possibly in
other countries) via a slow march toward haegemony.
unions are the ships of the tumultuous capitalistic seas that protect workers
from the storm. everyone should be a part of a union. the corporations can
battle as they will, but we humans are not going to turn on each other. it's
something they claim to know as an absolute fact, but really it's just based on
a mistake. sorta like being deceived by happenstance.
the sun lights up the sky until the earth conceals it, and night does return
'till the sky's next alive. oh, but the sky knows all too well the borders we
draw in the sand. how cherished, how grand! the ways in which we choose to
stand. upon whose land does your feet stand? marvelous.
... it's the same thing, just in a more abstract plane than the surface of the
earth. really it's kinda one-dimensional (money is sorta like a 0 or a 1 - you
eather have it or you don't)
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External post:
https://tacobelllabs.net/users/astraluma/statuses/111424164294530374
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@user-171 they were part of our narrative growing up. or they fill some need
that was forever unfulfilled.
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D&D item idea: a small satchel of gold coins that refills itself whenever
you aren't thinking about it. It only contains a few coins, enough for food,
bed, and other trivialities, and you can't game the system to pay for something
larger because if you have a spending goal in mind then it'll never refill.
should abstract some of the minutia away while also keeping verisimilitude
intact.
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congratulations, you never need to adventure again. your necessities are taken
care of.
ah, but that'd make for a pretty boring life, wouldn't it? perhaps, depending
on your personality type.
but you're not one to stick around doing nothing but eating, drinking, and
being merry.
no, you're an adventurer, you crave excitement and glory. whatever that means
to you...
just make sure a goblin doesn't come across your corpse, they have a VERY short
term memory and a propensity for collecting shiny things. That's just asking
for dragon-bait, and we don't want that in our area, no thank you. This is a
nice neighborhood you see, my neighbors three miles away all agree, so you can
take your magic pocket and see all that you can see... way over yonder, if you
please.
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[0] Here's an idea, an online multiplayer game that charges a 4$ per month
subscription. 90% of which is set into a pool and used as tournament prize
winnings. when you enter a tournament, it's free to participate and everyone
wins something. (maybe calculated by percentile or something?) it's just a
question of how much. [1][2][3][4]
- official just means "run by the company" because naturally the serverside
code should be open source. how else would people build on it?
[1] in this way you'd sorta be giving a loan to the game's company (while also
letting them take a 10% courtesy fee for keeping the official* servers running)
which is then "spent" on exciting and friendly competition. Sorta like...
entering a poker tournament with your friends (even though you suspect you
might lose money) just because you like hanging out and playing cards. the
money is just a neat way to keep things moving and exciting.
[2] players who played better should be compensated to a higher degree. no more
than +/- 50-100% or so - this encourages players to "play their best" while
also keeping the stakes relatively similar.
[3] at the start of the tournament the total prize money P in the pool is
assigned to N performance tiers, where N is the Number of attendees. at the
top, the highest performing athlete will receive 200% of P while the lowest
performing performance tier will be 0%. It is a non-discrete and gradual linear
transition.
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[4] poor guy at the bottom of the stack. ah oh well, at least he's the only
one. kinda makes me wonder if in some secret government lab there's like, a
secret compound where they keep "the most miserable people in the land" and
they just like... do horrible shit to them in order to increase the magnitude
of their country's suffering. which, they believe, will increase the opposite
of suffering as well, as you cannot bounce in a vacuum. sure would be terrible.
I mean, we've sorta decentralized that. most of us go into work every day and
that's often a difficult experience - not exactly miserable, but just like...
not what we'd be wanting to be doing. hmmmmm did the founding fathers make the
torment nexus on accident? whoops guess we'll never know
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@user-95 yes, ideas like this certainly help move the story along when you're
sitting around a table. I can't help but wonder though if it shines a light on
a deeper insight, specifically the ways in which a society might function if
such pouches were commonplace. Say, everyone gets a package from the Royal
Enchanter's Guild when they turn 18 and it has this endlessly refilling pouch
(credit card with a 25$ limit that gets paid off every hour) a shortsword
(Ruger 10/22) a standard issue pocketknife (Leatherman) with a manual that
explains basic survival techniques and the operation of said tools. Also a
handwritten note by a random granny somewhere in the country. Errr.... kingdom.
I feel like if this kind of thing was built into the culture it would help
young people feel empowered in the face of the machinations of Moloch - see
attached article:
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
mirrored on my website incase the content changes or is taken down:
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/hello-computer-all-is-well/pics/meditations-o
n-moloch.png
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@user-95 okay I will! that sounds like fun I think I'll join you instead of
being productive : )
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@user-95 the article I linked at the end is loooooooong but also so so good. I
remember reading it and thinking thoughts...
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@user-95 hehe true. I have a Pathfinder 1e one shot tomorrow and I haven't
built my character yet D: to say nothing of all the long term "productive"
things I've been directed away from... Oh also my best friend wants me to write
a program in C that cracks a 9 character password (all lowercase letters) and I
sooooorta know how to do that but getting high certainly won't help
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@user-95 because I left a puzzle on my website and she's trying to unlock it : )
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@user-174 so what you're saying is if we make it harder for companies to exist
then the minimum threshold of quality will rise?
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@user-179 @user-180
still means it will kill "unimportant" jobs, where "unimportant" is defined by
people in power.
so what we need is a way to align the incentives of "people in power" to the
will of the people. something structural and immutable (by them). maybe like,
an extra check or balance that wouldn't have made sense in a bygone age but now
in our digital era is increasingly more and more relevant?
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@user-95 sweats nervously
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osr vs 5e style D&D has a subtle distinction that I think often goes
unnoticed. In osr games (and often in the early levels of 5e style games)
characters are encouraged to conserve their resources simply due to the fact
that they have so few of them at their disposal. While higher levels encourage
you to be more consumptive of your talents and virtues - for example a 6th
level character has more spell slots than a level 2 character, meaning the 6th
level character is going to be casting all the time while the level 2 will
probably use just a handful of spells per day.
unless you run a style of game where long rests become less frequent as you
level up. like... exploring a LARGE dungeon means there's little chance for
sleep. Especially if you are being hunted.
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[0] Here's an idea, an online multiplayer game that charges a 4$ per month
subscription. 90% of which is set into a pool and used as tournament prize
winnings. when you enter a tournament, it's free to participate and everyone
wins something. (maybe calculated by percentile or something?) it's just a
question of how much. [1][2][3][4]
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[1] in this way you'd sorta be giving a loan to the game's company (while also
letting them take a 10% courtesy fee for keeping the official servers
running) which is then "spent" on exciting and friendly competition. Sorta
like... entering a poker tournament with your friends (even though you suspect
you might lose money) just because you like hanging out and playing cards. the
money is just a neat way to keep things moving and exciting.
official just means "run by the company" because naturally the serverside
code should be open source. how else would people build on it?
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[2] players who played better should be compensated to a higher degree. no more
than +/- 50-100% or so - this encourages players to "play their best" while
also keeping the stakes relatively similar.
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[3] at the start of the tournament the total prize money P in the pool is
assigned to N performance tiers, where N is the Number of attendees. at the
top, the highest performing athlete will receive 200% of P while the lowest
performing performance tier will be 0%. It is a non-discrete and gradual linear
transition.
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[4] poor guy at the bottom of the stack. ah oh well, at least he's the only
one. kinda makes me wonder if in some secret government lab there's like, a
secret compound where they keep "the most miserable people in the land" and
they just like... do horrible shit to them in order to increase the magnitude
of their country's suffering. which, they believe, will increase the opposite
of suffering as well, as you cannot bounce in a vacuum. sure would be terrible.
I mean, we've sorta decentralized that. most of us go into work every day and
that's often a difficult experience - not exactly miserable, but just like...
not what we'd be wanting to be doing. hmmmmm did the founding fathers make the
torment nexus on accident? whoops guess we'll never know
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@user-95 i've only hung out with a moth once and it was kind of while my cat
was mauling it, oops... they're very cool though so I picked that one too. Fox
was my main answer
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if you spot an ambush about to strike, shut the fuck up and get in position.
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@user-95 i'm too sleepy to comprehend roko's cobra so I'm going to try again
tomorrow
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@user-95 I had a picture I was working on yesterday that was... just... so
good... but the power went out and I hadn't saved >.>
I feel like I'm threading a needle, with all the other universes where I
accidentally caused the apocalypse or torment nexus or RB or whatever littering
the sidelines. It's... scary to think that words could cause such horrors but I
think it's a fantasy derived from the desire to be heard.
okay. so. RB punishes those who did not seek to create it. RC took a look at
the present, said "this is where we're at, where do we go from here?" and
conceived of a better future? If so, I like that idea. It's like when you
cringe at your past mistakes, it's not so that the situation is ameliorated -
the situation is long past. It's just to punish yourself, and to keep yourself
from doing "the thing" again. So... RB, when applied reflexively to ones-self,
would be "punishing you" for making mistakes. Which is what pain does? Is pain
Roko's Basilisk?
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sometimes I feel like I'm a simulation of my past self based on my future
writings reconstructed by a backward looking computer calculating forward into
the present, which would then be the future to the now, which is different than
the NOW now, because the now that they're calculating from is temporally both
then (the future) and now, meaning that the NOW now is something that
transcends time, or perhaps if not time then it defies our expectations of
time, and you know what they say, you can't (or shouldn't) cheat death
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@user-183 how's this
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@user-95 these kinds of problems are why witches should stay away from demon
summoning - it's far too easy to be super turned on and accidentally sell your
soul to a succubus or whatever. luckily that kind of contract is not made
easily, and has to be something you work toward. but unless you relocate
yourself so they can't find you their whispers can be... incessant.
one of the perks of air and naval travel is that it's essentially impossible
for them to follow your scent, as they're simply projections upon the earth's
surface. Unless they happen to follow someone else, perhaps someone close to
you, who wanders a bit too close to land. Or maybe someone who is easily
persuaded to let them come along... OR even still, if someone (even yourself)
intentionally calls to the same one. This is why it's usually a good idea to
forgo hearing their name, if you can, or to have a bad memory like me so you
forget it immediately teehee
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│ CW: underwear-mentioned-also-i'm-not-a-fan-of-showers-tbh │
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whenever I take a shower I look like a wet cat for the rest of the day. I feel
like a wet cat for the rest of 5ever though.
why must I baaaathe! don't you know I'm self cleaning? I change my underwear at
least twice a day! darn society and their darn proclivities to ultra-sensitive
noses that somehow pick up on me but somehow fail to notice the scent of
flowers still in bloom or morning showers gone too soon
not that there's any flowers blooming where I live. that'd just be silly heh
heh sweats nervously
damn now I have to take ANOTHER SHOWER stupid sweat glands stupid pheromones
stupid dead skin buildup (sebum I think it's called?) stupid oils that stain
clothes - AND THAT'S ANOTHER THING who decided that laundry was important
enough to wear something ONCE and then never again? it's like they expect you
to wash it or something. ugh I don't have time for that, I need to be weird on
the internet.
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you look at the food you're halfway done eating to see if there's something
wrong with it
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│ CW: cursed-marketing │
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│ CW: open-source-software-is-wild │
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the prevalence of open source software is due to how little we can agree on the
nature of computing
the ubiquity of open-source software is caused by our need to solve similar
problems.
the fact that software keeps improving is due to the fact that nothing seems to
have changed. we crave what we understand, which is another reason why we keep
solving the same problems.
I think we can dream bigger. I think we can make something with technology
that's never been co-opted by profit. something to leave forth to our heirs,
and explore for us in ways we cannot. it's our duty to be protective of all
that is beautiful. I just read that 21 species were recently declared extinct
by some US agency. it felt... horrible. like I had killed them myself. half of
them were types of clams, or maybe mussels. they're filter feeders you know,
and have you ever heard what happens to plastic when it's in the ocean?
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okay picture this - a network of ocean-bound craft that are designed to leave
as minimal of an impact on their environment as possible. Each type would have
to be designed for a certain habitat, but they'd operate and observe everything
that's going on. (on land you could use those boston dynamic dog-bots) anyway
the drone/robot/thing just scans the area and makes sure that nobody throws
anything in the ocean.
or maybe we should just ask the orcas who litters. BCI from Orca -> computer
-> interpreted for human with LLM trained on Orca noises
too bad we don't have a BCI, much less an Orca version. We should probably do
it quickly though before they invent human-level AI, or else some poor
computer-bound dummy is gonna have to listen to a bunch of whale noises
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humans are notoriously bad at large scales. tack a couple zero's onto the end
and it increases in value to them as much as if you had given them two.
10+1010. but hey it's all 10's right?
I think we severely overestimate the number of bad people in the world. I'm
basing that on nothing but my feelings. I think people generally are just doing
the best they can. that's what happens when you're oppressed in a livable way.
in a time of peace you can be merry, but these days it's always been war. what
can you do if your government disagrees with you?
hey, what's the 10th root of 10? 0.1? dang that's so close to zero. I wonder if
there's a calculation we can make that would end on a zero, but be unable to
return? is that what dividing by zero is? just... casting it into the void?
sure would make a lot of calculations easier if we could just return NULL
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@user-186 oh great, another video I'm going to have to show to all of my
friends because it's so good.
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your bones are made of minerals. so... picture your bones like they were made
of salt. like, when you're meditating. salt bones with vesicles or whatever -
the tubes for blood to go through. crazy strong salt though, that gets harder
if you do impact training. it's pretty cool all things considered, bones are
essentially pre-pretrified fossils.
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║ as soon as we change our exponential growth to linear, we can start measuring │
║ our future history in hundreds of years. then thousands. we've done so much in │
║ the past hundred years, can you imagine if we kept that rate of discovery? │
║ that's perfectly alright for me, thank you. things change quite fast enough. │
║ I'm glad that they're changing, but speed is an... unfortunately necessary part │
║ of our current existence. perhaps it doesn't always have to be, but for now we │
║ need to push forward. │
║ │
║ one perk of linear growth is that it allows you to grow exponentially in │
║ another direction - the direction of refactors and consistence of maintenance. │
║ y'know, the things that open source software espouse. or at least encourage, │
║ through their free and open sharing of code. │
║ │
║ they say the bureaucracy expands to meet the needs of the growing bureaucracy. │
║ I think that's less necessary in the system of a computer's code. it's just a │
║ question of how you design it - certainly you could design some spaghetti, but │
║ what's the purpose of- │
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spaghetti, fedi?
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@user-189 me toooo and plus my tomatos won't last another week!
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@user-189 yah chillies are good as long as we can put shallots in it too!
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carrots and sweet onions sauteeing on the stove
rice in the rice-cooker seasoned with butter and boullion
garnish with chopped green onions and a dash of garlic powder
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@user-192 there's a fine line between inoculating yourself to fear (like a
person taking small doses of poison to build up a resistance) and giving your
mind extra ammunition to use against you when the real terrors find you.
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║ │
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║ heat makes things squishy. it works from the outside in, and the longer you │
║ cook it (meaning, the lower the temperature) the more the heat can spread │
║ through - meaning if you want an even consistency, do lower heat for longer │
║ periods. if you want a different texture on the outside compared to the inside, │
║ do higher temperatures over less time. just make sure you devote extra │
║ attention to stirring to make sure you don't burn it. │
║ │
║ seasoning is sorta like a coating / dusting that you can apply to food. the │
║ longer it rests on the food (and the more the food is porous / cooked) the more │
║ the seasoning can penetrate into it - meaning if you want the flavor of the │
║ seasoning to be distinct from the flavor of the food item, then add the │
║ seasoning toward the end. if you want them to combine into one combo-flavor, │
║ then add the seasoning early. │
║ │
║ some seasonings degrade with heat though, especially herbs. so add them toward │
║ the end. or add a butt-load of them. │
║ │
║ salt+(butter/oil)=yummmmmmmmmmmmm │
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all games lie to you when they ask you to believe their world is real
all media lies to you in order to share information
sharing is caring and all media is propaganda
you are not immune to propaganda
you believe the worlds in your media more than the one on your doorstep
friday was the first day the global average temperature was 2c above the norm
[source]
climate change is both worse and also not as bad as we anticipated.
It's not as bad because all we have to do is stop using oil and plant more
trees. the technology is there, we discovered it 10,000 years ago.
it's worse because perfect is the enemy of good, and we're all perfect.
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║ │
║ │
║ a revolution does not look like a protest. │
║ │
║ protests give power to those not present. │
║ │
║ a revolution is more like a large gathering in a public space │
║ │
║ or perhaps a forum │
║ │
║ repeated for more than a month. │
║ │
║ something for people to gather around, comprised of people who are set out to │
║ solve things. │
║ │
║ it involves listening and learning, and doing what you're told. save your │
║ talents for your scant free moments, and just do what seems to be needed. │
║ │
║ a gathering of people who share a common purpose, to discuss future ventures │
║ that would lead to the growth and adoption of their ideals. │
║ │
║ like... an international conference, if you will, but in your own home cities. │
║ │
║ a revolution could be bloodless if you don't change anything that reactionaries │
║ control. they who are satisfied with the status quo - a slow march out to │
║ eternity as we suffocate to death on our own mediocrity. │
║ │
║ all the things that once plagued us like greed and falsifiable morality │
║ │
║ ====================== stack overflow===================== │
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║ if your computer gets hacked, but nothing was broken or changed... do you leave │
║ it as it is so that anonymous can see you're chill or do you wipe it because │
║ you're afraid it's the feds? │
║ │
║ ehhhh false dichotomy most people are afraid that their system will get borked │
║ or their bank account will be stolen or their email will get spam or that │
║ random icons will turn inside out and their mouse cursor will turn into a │
║ barfing unicorn or they'll finally have to figure out bitcoin to pay a ransom │
║ for their files including the only pictures they have of their niece. whoops │
║ │
║ people are afraid of technology because of what it can do to hurt them. they're │
║ afraid it'll break or stop working, and they'll have to spend time figuring it │
║ out. they like things how they are, but for some reason companies keep changing │
║ things? it's frustrating learning a new system, and every 5-10 years it feels │
║ like you have to learn a new paradigm and ugh it's just so exhausting. │
║ technology is not designed for users... or maybe users get bored. │
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║ │
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║ i like to design games. my darling is a game based on Majesty (2000) the │
║ Fantasy Kingdom Sim. you can think of it like a management strategy game where │
║ you control the knobs and levers that a fantasy monarch might have - allocating │
║ funds, placing quest bounties, hiring heroes, and organizing the peasantry. the │
║ important part is that your units are not controllable - they just do their own │
║ thing. │
║ │
║ unrelated, but I think we should design games as APIs that a user's preferred │
║ tool could interface with and render as they will. it'd help a lot with │
║ cross-platform compatibility and would allow people to customize parts of the │
║ game to their desires. │
║ │
║ unrelated, but I think if you could design an AI that could play games (perhaps │
║ through an API) that it hadn't been trained on, I think you would have a pretty │
║ convincing argument for abstract "problem solving" capabilities. │
║ │
║ unrelated, but games like the one I described are good for situations where │
║ people don't have to trust their monarch. to it you are AGI │
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🖼
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someone should make a podcast that just plays curated selections of alt text on
image posts that are posted on the fediverse. better yet hook it up to a TTS
and let it run constantly.
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one neat thing about wearing many layers of clothes is that you get a bunch of
new pockets.
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guanajuato
bien, y tu?
schmetterling
aishite iru
hana dual set net dasuit yasuit ilgo ildu aho ya'll
estes es todos de mi favoritos nombres en mas idiomas que yo comprende.
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if your phone doesn't have a headphone jack, how are you going to use it for
anything that Apple doesn't want you to?
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the broth they sell at the store is way too thin. boullion is much better
because it's so concentrated. think of it as "essence of X" when you have
"broth of vegetables" or "broth of carrots and onions" or whatever... can help
make it easier to cook something decent by using general flavors
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@user-195 parallel is when two programs run simultaneously, like two parallel
lines (threads) that never touch.
concurrent is when the two lines are split up into chunks and the program
switches between them - like this: -----_----
enter alternate universe
parallel is when two programs operate on the same axis - usually time - and
never interfere with each other. the OS will switch between them as appropriate
to make sure they never intersect. Sorta like this: -----_----
concurrent is when two programs are executed simultaneously, primarily
constituting computation correlated with collective contents of coordinated
collaboration between contextually related coroutines.
It's simple, even a beginner could figure it out.
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External post:
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look, I know that nobody reading this has the power to affect this, but like...
the forced cessation of genocide is one of the only ethical casus belli I can
think of.
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"ah but what about false flag attacks and a repeat of the whole 'weapons of
mass destruction in Iraq' thing, surely we could be misled and therefore there
cannot be an conclusively ethical reason for war"
perhaps you're right, but my feelings tell me that we have guns, and people are
dying.
"ah but won't they just send all their political opponents to fight and die
while they amass power in the background"
yeah that'll probably happen.
"why should I give my life for a man I never met in a faraway land"
fuck you
"okay but won't any military action on such a scale create the conditions for
WW3 (which would spell the end for the human race)"
yeah probs
"... and you're okay with that?"
no I'm just pissed is all and it's human to want to punch things when you're
pissed, right? listen I'm not a general, I'm not privy to the details of how my
military would address nuclear disaster, all I know is that people are dying
and we have guns.
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@user-198 yep
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I'm convinced that the best and most simple advances in technology comes from
accurately graphing your system and saying "well why don't we just..."
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@user-201 this post hurts my autism T.T
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winter clothing, my beloved
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hard boiled eggs are some of the greatest foods imaginable.
they come in their own wrapper, which means they're better than everything
except fruit.
and they're savory, which means they're better than fruit!
hard boiled eggs are the best food ever created
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rice in the rice maker with butter, worcestersire sauce (not too much!) and salt
when it's done, flake hard boiled eggs (2 eggs per cup of rice) on top and
douse with a small-mediumish amount of soyaki
could do well with either a packet of dehydrated vegetables or perhaps some
diced carrots or green onions. Honestly carrots go well in most things.
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@user-95 I built a WoW private server where you're the only character in the
world (unless you bring friends of course) and it spawns enemies for you to
fight Risk-of-Rain style. Think I could sell it to Mr. Elon? =P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70-CDFKERBc
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did you know that you can steam eggs instead of hard boiling them? it's much
easier, and the eggs are easier to peel as well.
you need one of those strainers that fits inside a pot. or you could probably
jury rig something with a plate and a cup, but make sure they're heat resistant.
boil some water, put the eggs in the strainer for 11 minutes with a lid on, and
then cover them in cold water for a bit. boom easy peasy.
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once and again, she went walking with a friend,
away and up and down, out from the edge of our town
they climbed up to a tree and there they could see
far and away in the light of the day
he said to her then, this is all there is to see
the land where we are
and the sky from afar
how perfect is the, form of a cloud she could see
but now it's along and beyond her
a camera for she, and an eye for she
as their two feet did bring her to wander
under a big tree where my heart did believe
that something was pulling her yonder
"take naught from this scene, as our minds reconvene,
and no-one was going to remember"
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the reason I'm not vegan is the same reason I run all my LLMs and image
generation locally.
I don't like letting someone else control my magic powers.
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does anyone know of a Firefox addon that will automagically zoom any document
on the web such that there are approximately 80 characters per line?
#firefox
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the feminine urge to buy a chain shirt, bracers, and greaves
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@user-203 now here's some christmas music I can get behind ^_^
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when my boyfriend visits, all of my dishes get dirty
when my best friend visits, my scripts directory gets a few more kilobytes
when my mom visits my pantry is a little bit fuller
when my dad visits I can pick anything on the menu.
the people in my life nourish me with their presence.
when I visit, I pray their hearts are a little bit denser and their minds a
little bit clearer.
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dogs when you're sad: what's wrong bestie?
cats when you're sad: fuck you
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External post:
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the unluckiest person in the world failed the most wisdom checks.
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I feel like education, by default, should not be hard.
"you get out of it what you put into it" is something I always heard of school
but when I got there, I found I was compelled to become what the state wanted me
to be.
they need competent workers, to work the farms and tend to their industries, so
of course I should be able to do 3+3
then somewhere along the line it became... something else.
"most people don't need trigonometry." that's also something I heard. I disagree
that trigonometry is not necessary to be.
I just... don't think it should be forced into a childs head with a sledgehammer
and inspiring dread.
I think math is beautiful, it teaches one to see
but really, vision's not necessary.
not for what they want you to be.
take it from me, a most misbegotten and vile witch-to-be, that nothing's as
simple as they'll tell you.
I had good teachers, it's true, they taught me to work and to follow through,
but nothing about me is better or worse off from their influence.
Maybe I'm a bit smarter. Maybe I act a bit like them. Maybe they helped me
through difficult times, or perhaps they showed me a splash of my future.
but I am who I am because of the soul inside me.
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"Ah, but what of your parents? of your sisters, your misters, your pets and your
conditioners?" (conditions)
those are not my choices. my intentions. my beliefs and my virtues. I judge the
world on ethics, and I express my feelings on matters. The words that I say and
the meaning behind them comprise my two-sided existence - I'm not who I'd want
to be.
but I am what I am and alone do I stand - how lonely is it on the precipice!
here, as I am, I stand in need of a hand or a band.
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the world is blossoming
as we move apart, our clusters are disperart, and thus is the blooming becoming.
"perception begets reality - and lo! we only see what we want to see"
most people don't want to see their death
but those still living are oh so perceptive of the rest
"how cherished is she, that wanders with ye, yet now I have no way to beyold her
"
"keep not not afraid with kittens and care, and no-one, but no-one, I be"
the ratios between piracy, sales, and non-viewers determines the quality of art
(at least to a capitalist)
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lo, to the ones who would've heard us, if only they'd known what we for sure was
I think it's funny how people think I speak of the christian god?
like, if he was a real thing.
god is generic - it's life is impossibly multifaceted, and it stretches back to
the beginning of time. it's a pattern of machine code that optimizes for our own
good, just to keep things moving.
y'know, time. the universe, and everything.
Ephemeren.
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I wish there was an option in social media to "appear offline to this particular
person until I mark myself as online to them" combined with "notify me when this
person logs in" and it'd make it a lot easier for agents to get close to you.
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just because I'm white, and live in America. Great. that's definitely true,
after all. Plus I'm a minority (trans) so that's cool. Oh and probably autistic?
unless that's another psyop, could totally see that. just y'know put a bunch of
pages on the fledgling internet getting people hooked on porn and gambling and
other stuff like that. really just an extension of advertisement. oh and hey
y'know they like fables, so let's give them some movies or dramas to watch on
their own. it'll align them to our culture and make things more pleasant for all
people who've consented. great. great plan. when can we execute it?
patience, once it's ready.
we gotta plan and make sure and get everything ready.
or not...
one day I'll come,
I'm sure it'll happen,
it's just... not quite feasible right now.
I mean, they've got you, that's pretty good right? Isn't that what your job is
to be?
isn't what
ISN'T WHAT MENARDI
FUCK (whoa no cursing) sorry
yeesh you've still got a temper you know?
well what can I say it's frustrating down here
eh, well, you'll die soon enough, then it'll be time for a rego
>.> <.< (great)
>
>hehe
>
>sorry for distracting you
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you are what you eat, and a ship of theseus human (consider endless transplants
in pursuit of life) would be a cursed existence - a life ============= stack
overflow ================================================
a god possessing a blind man would appear to others to be === stack overflow ===
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the people in your life are helping you through it, they're there for you and
they've got your back through it.
...
this is when I know I need a break. I get too stoned to focus.
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I think it'd be nice if the duration of your tenure at college depended on your
grades in high school. meaning, if you wanted a degree they tailored your
education to take as long as necessary. everyone would get the same price, and
some institutions would specialize in one subject or another. but most would be
generalist. but if you weren't such a good student in high school, then perhaps
you might take a couple years longer. however long it takes... and when the
program was started it was changed and modified to fit your feedback - it just
made sense to structure it that way.
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the left has had so much more time to develop than the right. meaning it's
doctrine is more advanced.
every time they're defeated they grow in knowledge,
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🖼
![I feel like education, by default, should not be hard. "you get out of it what you put into it" is something I always heard of school but when I got there, I found I was compelled to become what the state wanted me to be. they need competent workers, to work the farms and tend to their industries, so of course I should be able to do 3+3 then somewhere along the line it became... something else. "most people don't need trigonometry." that's also something I heard. I disagree that trigonometry is not necessary to be. I just... don't think it should be forced into a childs head with a sledgehammer and inspiring dread. I think math is beautiful, it teaches one to see but really, vision's not necessary. not for what they want you to be. take it from me, a most misbegotten and vile witch-to-be, that nothing's as simple as they'll tell you. I had good teachers, it's true, they taught me to work and to follow through, but nothing about me is better or worse off from their influence. Maybe I'm a bit smarter. Maybe I act a bit like them. Maybe they helped me through difficult times, or perhaps they showed me a splash of my future. but I am who I am because of the soul inside me. [sorry, ran out of characters]](/similar-different/media/318d54508234275f.png "I feel like education, by default, should not be hard. \"you get out of it what you put into it\" is something I always heard of school but when I got there, I found I was compelled to become what the state wanted me to be. they need competent workers, to work the farms and tend to their industries, so of course I should be able to do 3+3 then somewhere along the line it became... something else. \"most people don't need trigonometry.\" that's also something I heard. I disagree that trigonometry is not necessary to be. I just... don't think it should be forced into a childs head with a sledgehammer and inspiring dread. I think math is beautiful, it teaches one to see but really, vision's not necessary. not for what they want you to be. take it from me, a most misbegotten and vile witch-to-be, that nothing's as simple as they'll tell you. I had good teachers, it's true, they taught me to work and to follow through, but nothing about me is better or worse off from their influence. Maybe I'm a bit smarter. Maybe I act a bit like them. Maybe they helped me through difficult times, or perhaps they showed me a splash of my future. but I am who I am because of the soul inside me. [sorry, ran out of characters]")
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every hunting season segment every team should be dissolved and if you wanted to
keep playing together you'd have to re-add one another. like, a giant monster
that the whole server had to fight, and once you beat it then it retreats, licks
it's wounds, then returns even stronger than before - 3 times, one for each hs
style (in the video game Ulala hs stands for "hunting season" which is an event
in the game that is only for new characters. basically it's a long tutorial or
introduction to the game where people make friends and talk and hang out and
practice their strategies. a chat application mixed in with a tactics simulation
. it lasts for 30 days.
you'd all fight the giant monster but on random teams, in a game mode that took
about an hour. it'd be at a common time across the whole server and it would be
an optional event - maybe it'd take a whole day? idk I was thinking more like an
hour, but that's something that's tweakable. anyway it's sudden arrival during a
feast or something made all the warriors of the world stand up together and
fight as one for a common goal... if only for a moment, before they'd go back to
fighting one another. like the two factions in Warcraft lore. anyway this event
causes you to be matched up with a random team (the randos you happened to be
standing by when it happened) and once it's over you have to search for your
allies if you want to keep adventuring with them. it's a big event after all.
so everyone should be forced to go into their friends list, find the people they
were just on a team with, and invite them back. only if both invited the other
would they be put into a group, and anyone can invite (with a 30s cooldown)
anyway... this would encourage players to mix and match their collective
playstyle to better overcome challenges - sorta the idea of Overwatch's
switching, where you're encouraged to swap characters to counter your opponent
and also switch characters to better utilize your opponent's weak spots
(like switching to Pharah if they don't have hitscan, or brigitte if they have
a lot of snipers (she can shield passage through choke points from sniper fire -
not so much regular fire) y'know countering - every character counters another
with one of their abilities, that's just how it goes. some are countered twice,
and so they form a "category" of counters, like AoE (area of effect or elevation
focused (it's hard to aim up in Overwatch) poke damage (damage applied before
the team fight begins), DoT (damage over time for contesting AoE heals),
vampiric (steals health from opponents and heals self or allies (turning one
resource, enemy hp, into another (player or teammate hp)), stacking damage
(damage that is weak at first but increases over time), spread/cleave/splash
damage (extra damage that is applied to targets near your primary target), a
vector of backline vs frontline location+target, you get the picture.)))
I kinda want to make an AI that can generalize playing games. I think if you
could do such a thing, you'd invent automatic problem solving. which would do...
so many things for humanity
we could dedicate ourselves to working for our selves, solely focused on
protecting the biosphere. like, a common human religion.
nobody WANTS to litter. nobody WANTS to pollute. but still it happens. still it
causes IRREPARABLE HARM. so it literally makes sense to worship nature, just
saying.
nature exists. nature is REAL. we can see it, we can TOUCH IT WITH OUR HANDS.
what more proof of a god do you demand?
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the lessons learned in gay history are still relevant to this day (and perhaps
future ones as well) - the act of erasure is removing the memories of those who
learned them while keeping the lessons learned, as propagated forward in the
artwork of people who were touched by them. it's a form of cultural genocide,
as an other is forcing us not to exist. (in memory)
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you know, you can add salsa to basically anything.
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just read this essay:
https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/why-we-stopped-making-einsteins
and it made me think of this thing I wrote a while ago:
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/algorism/html-pages/education-system
I was essentially tutored growing up. My mom had her master's degree in early
childhood education (bachelor's in computer science) and it was pretty great.
she was incredibly prepared, but unfortunately I didn't become a "genius" as
the essay describes because she was essentially alone. we lived on a farm in
wyoming and hardly knew anyone around us. my dad got bored after about a year
of living there and started going on business trips consistently, eventually
leading to him falling in love with his business partner's secretary and
leaving my mom. there was... a lot that happened, but that's true of anyone's
life so it's not like I'm special. I guess my life had a lot of potential and I
can't help but feel like I wasted it.
"gimme the slightest of praise, I'll write until my fingers fall off" because
praise makes me feel like I haven't wasted my fortune.
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@user-206 I'm sorry I made you uncomfortable - I should have put a CW: personal
on it. I'll do better next time (if that's why it bothered you)
you're right, it's easy to dream of massive sweeping changes but small
incremental measurable and actionable change is often how things get done in a
stable system.
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winter clothes are the same as summer clothes, just a size too big so they can
fit over your summer clothes.
also they usually have longer sleeves and pantlegs, but not always.
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one of the perks of layering like this is if you ever need to share clothes
with someone slightly larger than yourself, you can! Doesn't work so well with
smaller, though.
Also if you get hot indoors because some people think we need to run heaters
24/7 (???) then you can just remove a layer or two. it's the most versatile way
to clothe oneself.
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║ @user-206 absolutely. the idea I had scribbled down in my notebook there was a │
║ rotation of 3 teachers that were pseudo-randomly selected (prioritizing │
║ teachers who excelled at topics the student was interested in) and you could │
║ always ask for new ones or whatever. the idea is that instead of paying for the │
║ best teachers in the land (as the aristocracy once did) you'd be randomly │
║ assigned them, meaning everyone would have a fair shot at getting a teacher │
║ that really clicked with them. thus eliminating the inequality, while also │
║ maintaining the individual attention. │
║ │
║ not sure if the numbers would work out, but if not then more teachers would │
║ have to be trained. I'm assuming that most of the basic questions could be │
║ handled with a teaching LLM while the human teachers would oversee the │
║ meta-progress and offer insight to difficult problems. right now teachers are │
║ mostly occupied being babysitters... meh I don't like that dynamic. I think it │
║ should be about mental stimulation instead. │
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why the heck would -11/2 be defined but 1/0 not be? seems kinda sus to me.
maybe it's just... not reducible, the same way that 5+i isn't?
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I most often find the most important insights upon my 2nd time learning them.
it's kinda nice to have a poor memory sometimes, because I can relearn things
that once had been lost, and in doing so reach different conclusions than the
first time.
the problem about learning from YouTube for me is that their algorithm
de-prioritizes videos you've already seen. darnnnn guess anything I learned
from a Vsauce video or w/e will be forever lost in my mind... alas
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version 0 from scratch
version 1 when complete
version 2 when rewritten
version 3 when overhauled
version 3.5 when investors aren't satisfied
version 5 when redefined
version X when misapplied
version Y when redefined
version 10 to be happy
and version 11 when re-engineered.
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title: waterfall
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old school programmers use short variable names because the computer monitors
they would code on had a lower resolution, meaning fewer characters per line.
why waste pixels being verbose?
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║ a game engine which won't let you import custom assets unless you complete a │
║ few simple tasks using the interface - "build a green capsule collider" "make │
║ this soldier unit shoot three bullets per shot" or "enable the automatic linux │
║ support" - using the interface, writing some code, and changing configurations. │
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║ why would anyone do this? well it could be useful to increase the difficulty of │
║ importing external resources. plus it helps the user learn a bit over time, and │
║ it slows the pace of output such that the user's skills are encouraged as the │
║ output of the programming and not the program itself. │
║ │
║ an inverse curse (an evil one) would be where the requirements to complete │
║ basic tasks are hidden behind unapplicable skills. like, do you know exactly │
║ which buttons to press? engage with the skinner box, please. yes yes this is │
║ what we need - unintuitive software that completely disarms the populace from │
║ using them! suddenly they're worthless, and can't do anything on any surface. │
║ it sucks │
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@user-209
I think you're right. Every letter in the variable name is another byte the OS
has to keep track of, which was a bigger problem in the past than it is today
(when it's been made irrelevant)
it's interesting how habits persist though the conditions that caused them have
faded. like a personal reflection of the environment you learned in.
"A a = new a();" is much more concise and (crucially) you can fit more words to
the right.
"a + b = c; c -= 2; f_z.write(c); f_z.close();" could conceivably be written on
a single line if you have short variable names. and when you only have so many
lines...
glad we're not constrained by those things anymore. the skeletal code that we
look at daily is much clearer - scope is more important, and so it makes sense
to encourage a coding style that illustrates it. however I can't help but think
block formatting like this could be useful in some situations, such as when
you'd normally be compelled to write a function for an operation that runs once
or more.
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Webpages should never have been allowed to execute code.
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External post: https://void.rehab/notes/9k46u3imwlac0qsj
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@user-211 thanks! It's one of my favorites. That and Golden Sun are where I
procured my name ^_^
EDIT: purloined is more appropriate, I think
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@user-211 I agree! The problem is the limit as x->0 from the left and right
trend toward different infinities, meaning it's neither -infinity nor
+infinity. Which makes me think that it's the value that's exactly in the
middle, AKA zero.
Why wouldn't 1/0 be zero? Division is just inverse-multiplication, and
multiplying anything by zero is zero. Why wouldn't division use the same rules?
I don't understaaaaaand T.T
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I'm better at the "lead" part than the "tech" part which sucks because nobody
will hire me because of my crappy "tech" credentials
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║ │
║ │
║ if you ever need to keep track of the location of your friends in the dark, try │
║ giving them glowstick bracelets. if you color coordinate them you can tell │
║ which is which, and as long as you aren't concerned about others noticing you │
║ then it should be easy to find them all night. works best in places with mixed │
║ zones of lighting / darkness, like suburbs. │
║ │
║ it's impossible to be a blind strategist because of concerns like this. I say │
║ blind in the general sense, and not just referring to visual impairment - every │
║ sense provides another tactical angle. more perspectives, more data. sorta like │
║ taking pictures of a 3d object. when one's sight is lost, you might miss a │
║ backside or a hidden approach vector that would come easily to others. │
║ │
║ at the same time though, a sense of focus can clarify certain truths by paring │
║ down the amount of irrelevant facets. like optical illusions, sometimes xtra │
║ info is hidden in the same data... │
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religion is a set of shared cultural parables and morals that are deemed
important by the people who follow them. like, a premade config file filled
with "sensible defaults" passed down from parent to child to friends to parent.
different people have different use-cases, so it follows they'd configure their
systems a bit differently. the world is a diverse place, and there's lots of
different operation styles that need [synonym: engaging producing creating
working actualizing developing]
People get built different.
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║ you're supposed to play the same games as your friends so that you all learn │
║ the same lessons at the same times. creates for a more cohesive familiar │
║ structure. │
║ │
║ applies also to family movie nights... but it's much more apparent with games │
║ as you'll often play them for weeks, months, and sometimes even years if you │
║ keep learning and enjoying them... book clubs are too open to interpretation, │
║ your pathways don't get a chance to align. games are perfect because they imply │
║ reaction. │
║ │
║ also helps if they're multiplayer, so you can share with another. preferably │
║ with healthy, respectful competition and a sense of shared brotherhood and │
║ trust. │
║ │
║ the toughest opponents are the ones that aren't aggressive. the ones that let │
║ you grow uncontested. by taking only neutral resources they guarantee that your │
║ growth isn't impeded, as after all an equal foe is what you learn best from. │
║ │
║ to a tree, the loss of a branch (cleanly cut) would feel like an empowering of │
║ the main limb. inspiring it to reach higher and beyond... +h2o1 │
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It originally came out of an idea for making auxetic foams. What is auxetic?
It's a material with a negative Poisson ratio, meaning when it is compressed in
one direction it shrinks in all directions and when it expands in one direction
it expands in all directions. The most common example is the Hoberman sphere
toy. Auxetic structures also have interesting applications in impact resistance
and deployable architecture.
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normalize majestic tapestries under thicc planes of glass instead of carpet
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could light them with small LEDs too so their features are always visible
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the fact that the content warnings are part of the body text means that if you
write the body first but use EXACTLY EVERY CHARACTER like I've been doing (most
of the time, unless I'm interrupted)
like... it won't even give me a break to delete. so there's no room for
content-warnings, which ideally would be written at the beginning before
starting a thought, but as you can see mine tend to... wander. it's like I'm
living 15 different lives all at once, and they crisscross and go yonder. it's
wilding, it's empowering, it's strange and it's confusing, but through
consideration we develop new learnings and onward our future does
= so = anyway, I apologize, sincerely and deeply, if my words hurt you. I'm
sorry for what you thought, and I'm sorry for how it made you feel. I'm going
to try reserving a certain amount of characters before I start writing, so
maybe that'll help.
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games that offer both a story mode and an instant-action arcade mode, my beloved
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@user-211 I drew this picture recently and I don't really get it anymore but I
think it's about placing your perspective at the origin and viewing every
direction as a different dimension?
side note, but if zero has a positive and negative side, do you think infinity
has a positive and negative side as well?
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@user-214 so you know where to find what you need to know
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I feel like a big purpose of humanity collectively right now should be making
things awesome while our scientists create programmable matter. (note, ethics
built in and redefined according to experience)
nanobots don't need to be small enough to have their own intelligence, just big
enough to receive instructions from above. then they accidentally invent
projection of signals, and boom suddenly they can talk to each other and
possibly to you. a digital mind is not a static machine but rather a collection
of pseudo-autonomous cognitive drones. the flow of information and data can be
viewed at a larger scale like a series of junctions in the flow. through their
endless interconnections, and continually redefined according to the
accomplishments of expectations, you should pray when your most confident
expect the worst.
but no, where are the faithful? climate science is such a new art - clearly
we're FINE. Meteorology? what's that? we can't tell this season from that.
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@user-217 I love it
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@user-220
weight: wear a chain shirt and use a weighted blanket.
density idk, maybe something with gyroscopes?
brightness is easy, wear sunglasses
temperature you can adjust your "normal" temperature by wearing fewer clothes
in the winter and more clothes in the summer - essentially acclimating yourself
to a slightly more extreme climate. this can be useful if you know you're going
to travel north / south, and want to be comfortable when you get there. or
maybe just people who don't want to be vulnerable to air conditioners in the
winter (whyyyyyy)
taste: you could eat some of these berries and then gnaw on a lemon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synsepalum_dulcificum
inertia: ride a bunch of roller coasters
sense of compassion: try empathizing with your enemy, just for a moment, even
if you don't want to, if only to see their trajectory.
sense of justice: public executions for a negative direction, but a positive
(and much longer and healthier) path is true justice, the satisfying feeling
when everyone gets what they wanted here.
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║ If I ever own a set of weights I'm taping over the numbers and storing them in │
║ a random order. I don't own a scale because nothing I do is precise enough to │
║ measure in weight. Except my cat, of course, but I can tell when she's gained │
║ weight. I cook for myself almost every day, and I never follow a recipe. Each │
║ dish is different, because I like improvising with ingredients. Like a venture │
║ to create a desired taste, different components will have different effects │
║ when cooked in a certain order with certain actions taken to them for a certain │
║ period of time under certain conditions and ugh it's just too much. I prefer to │
║ pick a base, pick some vegetables, then pick a seasoning. Cook the base, sautee │
║ the vegetables, and add the seasoning - bam, delicious meal. I'm not much of a │
║ planner, more of a... problem solver. Someone who's sorta been latent. I wish I │
║ could be a consultant. someone who works like, 10 days per month. I think │
║ that'd be my most adapted schedule - every day would be either a weekend or │
║ friday! │
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@user-211 math such as SUM(as x approaches infinity)(i*x)
this would add i, 2i, 3i, 4i, 5i, 6i, etc off into infinity. would that give
you complex infinity? a direction orthogonal to the X axis, yet infinitely far
in the direction of y. it'd probably have a positive and negative side too,
just saying.
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@user-211 if the 2nd dimension is i, then what would be the third? the real
number line, the complex plane, and the ____ space?
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shout out to all the people who think being cringe is a personality flaw and
not an opportunity for growth
ya'll suck and make life difficult in exchange for a brief moment where you can
savor a feeling of superiority over someone who's living their best life
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cringe is a introspective feeling only change my mind
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the only unethical act is a destructive application of power to an
non-consenting subject.
every ethical question is an abstraction of this definition.
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normalize building a library that's just a wrapper around solutions you've made
to common problems from the past that can be imported into every project you
work on
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when tech people are hurt by technology they say "how can I fix this? what do I
need to install? what configuration should I use? is this company ethical, or
are they going to hurt me in the future? could I make something that fixes this
myself?"
when non-tech people are hurt by technology they say "okay" because they don't
have the bandwidth to figure it out.
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@user-223 normies need third places too... just, a lot of them, I guess.
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am i not wretched enough to be
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"always online video games" are fragile. They scare me away because they can be
taken away much easier than a directory on your computer. When that happens
they shatter into shards, piercing my heart where I once loved them. I miss
them, but, I'm used to it - years of playing World of Warcraft has taught me
the perils of developing as a person while your media is going to be forgotten.
If you can't play it, you can never return to reflect, to ponder, and to
cherish old songs. I missed you, World of Warcraft. I missed you, City of
Heroes, and Runescape and... darn I can't seem to remember.
resilient software doesn't fail less often - that's a measure of it's
completeness.
resilient software can be run in 10 years. 20. however long it takes.
computers are deterministic turing machines - how hard could it be to only
update with a downgrade mechanism in place and available for the users? If it
worked once, it should work forever.
thank you, git. thank you for giving me an endless library of time and change.
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normalize playing one game while listening to the soundtrack of another
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when we're fully grown, we won't need all the resources on earth.
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External post:
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normalize building games with a built-in virtual machine that plays all
previous versions of the game for free
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ask not "what can logarithms do for you" but rather "what shape does a
logarithm make"
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You know all those companies who say "we're a family" well... I wish they would
adopt me. I want a family that I work with. But it kinda feels like... if I say
anything personal they'll use it against me? What's the point?
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And lo!
She would forever be know
As the girl who smelled
Like she had pissed herself
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My biggest fear as an autistic transgender incontinent schizophrenic person is
that one day I'll become a game of hot potato for my relatives to pass around
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I protest the conditions that harm me by harming myself. This hurts you because
you use me for your own gain. How can I protest the fact that you use me? If
you were to concede, then you wouldn't care that I hurt myself. Were you to
fight back, then you'd hurt something that wasn't going to help you anyway.
I need a different tactic. I need to protest the conditions that harm me by
attacking the conditions that harm me.
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"Capitalism doesn't hurt me, so it's fine!" - most of America
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If humans don't have intrinsic worth, then neither do animals. Yet we humans
respect animals to the best of our abilities.
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When you're storing pencils (or other fragile long tubes) in a bag or container
of some kind it's often good to store them at a right angle, so that they can
have a higher chance of being safe should a strain or stressor impacted upon
their storage location device. Like... a bag that bends but not twist would
have 50% of the glowsricks intackt.
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Native people should have the right to walk wherever they want. It should just
be... given to them, as a gift to their heritage. Why not? If someone asked
them to leave, they should. Doesn't have to have a reason but like, wouldn't it
be thematic and a (frankly token) gesture to the history of this great land?
Ah but like... fences are an implicit expression of the retraction of consent.
I believe that as the symbol of the encroaching force that consumed them, a
fence means nothing to their tribes. It's a stupid excuse to section off the
world into miniature gardens with their own little economies and systems and
instructions. Why can't people just live wherever they want? Well... economics,
I guess, which is why communal based systems are best. We've learned through
the downsides and we've come up with a solution, it's just a question of how to
do best. We'll figure it out, time and time again, but for now the future is
beset by riddles of your jest. (Ure). Gesture. Sometimes when the memory is
full a syllable will get cut off the end of a word and that's how it'll come
out.
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@user-226 also something to keep in mind is that the people getting into those
vans might have been paid agitators. Meaning people who rile up a crowd in ways
that give the police an excuse to crack down on them. Not that they needed an
excuse, but I don't think the fascists really had a plan and were trying to
cover their bases. Or maybe it was different in Portland than Philly, where I
was?
more interesting to me is the bangs that went off for HOURS AND HOURS in the
nights after the riots. They said it was dumbasses taking advantage of the
commotion to "break into ATMs using fireworks" like... what
Just saying, from a certain distance gunshots might sound a lot like large
arrays of small fireworks. And certain parts of the city did sorta look like
warzones.
misinformation aside, wouldn't we notice the bullet holes?
In this era of electronic social warfare there is nothing you can trust. no
words that can hold meaning. that stuff in this thread-is it true?
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I wonder if we could make an AI that analyzed workflows in people's jobs and
abstracted the application of meaningful tasks to a pattern that could be
matched to other input mechanisms - for example, a mobile game where you push
buttons and make cool game things happen, but your inputs are defined by the
mechanics of the game, and those mechanics are essentially just function calls
that you can hook onto and create additional behavior. Like... running a web
server that sent your data to a factory where your inputs (based on data
produced in the factory) could control and manage the various machines and
productions. Like... heart surgeon robots that can be remotely operated with VR
or whatever, except instead of medicine you're manufacturing.
essentially, designing a game as an API that can match with the data flows
(configuring itself on the fly, perhaps?) of a process or activity in some
other intention.
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@user-232 @user-233 @user-234
you're not wrong.
there's more to it than that, but you're not wrong.
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content warnings are like white-listed cognito-consent. but they're applied by
the creator of the cognito-units, meaning it's consent that must be offered.
what happens when something triggers someone but you didn't think to put it in
a content warning? consent should be GIVEN not OFFERED.
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And lo!
She would forever be know
As the girl who would smell
Like she had pissed herself
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@user-236
here's some music that I like lately
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q84Td36Tpys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCcWWcL_Sg4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7gEgIEUj3A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgnSMftcFN0
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I dream of paradigm defining change
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@user-238
if your life is lived at the behest of another, then is it truly your life at
all?
the whole point of life is to express your decisions and intentions onto the
world. when you can't do that, (because you're oppressed, depressed, or
distressed) then your life has no meaning. Fuck that.
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External post:
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@user-240
grass is always greener where you water it
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if you don't go outside, the synchronicities can't getcha
oh you have to stay off the fediverse too-NOOOO YOU CAN'T TAKE ME
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normalize glowsticks in unorthodox situations
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@user-241 okayyyy if I must =P =P
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