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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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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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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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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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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 [ "${1}" == "-f" ]; then echo "okay but it's your funeral buddy. or worse." energe --sync fi }](/similar-different/media/a1640a320af86532.png "#A script written in bash. It is used to update the Gentoo type system to the most recently written functionality. Should not be used more than once a day, and the program written here must be specifically configured to act against that functionality. However, should the user persist in their attempts to break that rule, they simply have to flip a particular switch. #!/bin/bash function gentoo-update(){ RED='\033[0;31m' NOC='\033[0m' if [ \"$#\" -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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the more unique a person is, the more they can help define reality
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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 │
║ it. when │
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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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External post: https://toot.cat/users/devopscats/statuses/111793291229617007
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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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│ CW: food-scary │
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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
store
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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]](/similar-different/media/8595ab213f21751d.png "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
built for them.
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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
alone"
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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
blows over.
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║ frankly I'm just excited to see what humanity does with the endlessly │
║ calculated and stored blockchains. Like, that's a good set of pseudo-random │
║ 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 │
║ pre-calculated destination somewhere on this endless and │
║ 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 │
║ would be "data" and they'd each have the same size on the hardware. that way, │
║ 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 │
║ a wonderful tool, that's wonderfully mis-abused, perhaps in the fu │
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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
you.
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@user-631
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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"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 │ │
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║ │
║ │
║ 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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║ │ CW: scary-also-body-horror-I-guess? │ │
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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-
day
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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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║ │
║ │
║ 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
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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 │
║ beneficiary of any policing that might occur. And if something should happen to │
║ that citizen, they should return │
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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
you (via your data)
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A family of 3-5 is absurdly small, but that's all we can manage in the 21st
century
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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, │
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║ 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 │
║ │
║ maybe I'll run out of characters in this toot, or m │
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![A screenshot based continuation of the end of the post, which went over the character limit by 36 characters. Of note is that this wasn't included in the original post, it was added later in an edit to be silly. The text reads: "maybe I'll run out of characters in this toot, or maybe I'll finish it just for you. [smiley face]"](/similar-different/media/67d820708ae5dc6a.png "A screenshot based continuation of the end of the post, which went over the character limit by 36 characters. Of note is that this wasn't included in the original post, it was added later in an edit to be silly. The text reads: \"maybe I'll run out of characters in this toot, or maybe I'll finish it just for you. [smiley face]\"")
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when considering the benefit of the doubt, consider doubting the benefit of
consideration.
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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. │
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║ 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 │
║ someone because you care about them, and you want to do well. Now, how to │
║ translate that into an economic reward? Well, that's the hard part isn't it. │
║ Any kind of social impact you want to have must be carefully considered, and │
║ 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 │
║ kind. Like, lowered attention span, quickness to anger, that kind of thing. │
║ Those are symptoms of the internet. │
║ │
║ there's quite a few good things about it, like wikipedia and BASH scripting and │
║ local communications (local to the planet 99% of the time) (: │
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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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║ normalize compiling the game from unencrypted text the first time you run it │
║ using the included compiler and the provided source-code │
║ │
║ "please wait while we are building the game. Estimated time remaining: who can │
║ say, but would you like to play tetris while you wait? I have every ROM │
║ included, and it seems your savegames are stored in the standards suggested │
║ 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 │
║ you had a better system then odds are you already knew to change the included │
║ config file to reflect the greater s │
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construction noise outside my window always seems to sound like screaming and
gunshots.
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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
thoughts
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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
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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. │
║ │
║ to do otherwise would be to invite destruction through the slow and measured │
║ application of the flaws of humanity magnified through society and harming for │
║ all time all of posterity. │
║ │
║ errrr sounds kinda fashy, kinda genocidally, yeah... that's not what I meant at │
║ all. │
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║ I meant like hatred and bigotry, the kinds of things that cause the kind of │
║ things you might see in this, if you take the least charitable interpretation │
║ of what I say. │
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║ and what is the far right if not for "least charitable"? │
║ │
║ every time I see a mutual aid post I can't help but think "there's no way to │
║ know if this is real or if it's just some guy siphoning away our money" │
║ │
║ I usually trust the people I've followed, so if one of them boost it then I go │
║ for it. │
║ │
║ but still, charity is not an efficient means bywhich to organize society. │
║ │
║ back on point - decisions against human natures like hatred and bigotry. │
║ the kind that cause oppression. the things that disrupt our functioni │
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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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║ │
║ │
║ the reason they warn you about zombie viruses is it's a plague that's confined │
║ to a specific location. they can say "oh it's moving, oh no now it's over your │
║ 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 │
║ other teams" and "you're wasting time" and "this isn't good enough (unless it's │
║ literally not)" that kind of thing │
║ │
║ see you at 8am or worse, clock out by 6:30 │
║ │
║ at least if everyone starts at the same time in the morning they can eat lunch │
║ together and work together when they're at similar parts of their days work. │
║ but when they're done, why keep them around? it's much safer to bet your │
║ economic simulation on predictable bhavyr │
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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 │
║ different part of the social network. It's not like any of their technology │
║ needs to perform as it's been advertised? well, open source does, but open │
║ source means insecure (as long as you don't get caught, then you need to adjust) │
║ │
║ of course, sometimes corporate software... kinda sucks. so it's not like theyre │
║ very configurable away from what capital wanted. │
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adding dashes to your text - like - this - is a punctuation choice, not
formatting or grammar.
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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](/similar-different/media/66c0f5bdf6d5f738.png "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")
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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](/similar-different/media/b15e05db06b60e93.png "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")
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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](/similar-different/media/452a7136bcb2e8df.png "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")
![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)")](/similar-different/media/d44f1147f387b1ea.png "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](/similar-different/media/a56d512ea977d601.png "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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![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](/similar-different/media/916d1871c2cf955c.png "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.](/similar-different/media/c27b1f5fae4e6233.png "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.")
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made this a couple days ago. [thread] 🧵 part 1/20
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@user-717
meme I made a while back. kinda cursed, sorry
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@user-95 so cool! 🤩
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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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@user-720
if it's true they couldn't agree, then the house they build upon would surely
crumble!
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║ if you don't respect - wait hang on thats not what I was going to say - okay │
║ here goes: the perspective of others then you are working against them. why │
║ bother contestation when cooperation could work best? problem is, of course, │
║ the other side can't be trusted. that's just how it goes, a prisoner's │
║ dillemna, or rather "dilemma" as they spell it over there. wait hang on that's │
║ not what I was going to say - oh yeah - if you do something in a place where │
║ it's not expected then it stands out as a statistical anomaly that can be │
║ viewed and detected. which is why it's imporant to always be true to yourself │
║ and virtuous. because your "self" is aligned to the future, a place of warmth │
║ and compassion, honesty and deliberation. [direct action on a larger than │
║ personal scale] │
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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 │
║ undo them. like... dancing, when you're really into it. or like swimming with │
║ ripples, exc │
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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.
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![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:](/similar-different/media/ed0f1d89739fe8c6.png "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:")
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@user-732
scary! :O :O
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