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why the heck would -11/2 be defined but 1/0 not be? seems kinda sus to me.
maybe it's just... not reducible, the same way that 5+i isn't?
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I most often find the most important insights upon my 2nd time learning them.
it's kinda nice to have a poor memory sometimes, because I can relearn things
that once had been lost, and in doing so reach different conclusions than the
first time.
the problem about learning from YouTube for me is that their algorithm
de-prioritizes videos you've already seen. darnnnn guess anything I learned
from a Vsauce video or w/e will be forever lost in my mind... alas
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version 0 from scratch
version 1 when complete
version 2 when rewritten
version 3 when overhauled
version 3.5 when investors aren't satisfied
version 5 when redefined
version X when misapplied
version Y when redefined
version 10 to be happy
and version 11 when re-engineered.
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title: waterfall
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old school programmers use short variable names because the computer monitors
they would code on had a lower resolution, meaning fewer characters per line.
why waste pixels being verbose?
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║ │
║ a game engine which won't let you import custom assets unless you complete a │
║ few simple tasks using the interface - "build a green capsule collider" "make │
║ this soldier unit shoot three bullets per shot" or "enable the automatic linux │
║ support" - using the interface, writing some code, and changing configurations. │
║ │
║ why would anyone do this? well it could be useful to increase the difficulty of │
║ importing external resources. plus it helps the user learn a bit over time, and │
║ it slows the pace of output such that the user's skills are encouraged as the │
║ output of the programming and not the program itself. │
║ │
║ an inverse curse (an evil one) would be where the requirements to complete │
║ basic tasks are hidden behind unapplicable skills. like, do you know exactly │
║ which buttons to press? engage with the skinner box, please. yes yes this is │
║ what we need - unintuitive software that completely disarms the populace from │
║ using them! suddenly they're worthless, and can't do anything on any surface. │
║ it sucks │
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@user-209
I think you're right. Every letter in the variable name is another byte the OS
has to keep track of, which was a bigger problem in the past than it is today
(when it's been made irrelevant)
it's interesting how habits persist though the conditions that caused them have
faded. like a personal reflection of the environment you learned in.
"A a = new a();" is much more concise and (crucially) you can fit more words to
the right.
"a + b = c; c -= 2; f_z.write(c); f_z.close();" could conceivably be written on
a single line if you have short variable names. and when you only have so many
lines...
glad we're not constrained by those things anymore. the skeletal code that we
look at daily is much clearer - scope is more important, and so it makes sense
to encourage a coding style that illustrates it. however I can't help but think
block formatting like this could be useful in some situations, such as when
you'd normally be compelled to write a function for an operation that runs once
or more.
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@user-211 thanks! It's one of my favorites. That and Golden Sun are where I
procured my name ^_^
EDIT: purloined is more appropriate, I think
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@user-211 I agree! The problem is the limit as x->0 from the left and right
trend toward different infinities, meaning it's neither -infinity nor
+infinity. Which makes me think that it's the value that's exactly in the
middle, AKA zero.
Why wouldn't 1/0 be zero? Division is just inverse-multiplication, and
multiplying anything by zero is zero. Why wouldn't division use the same rules?
I don't understaaaaaand T.T
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I'm better at the "lead" part than the "tech" part which sucks because nobody
will hire me because of my crappy "tech" credentials
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║ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ if you ever need to keep track of the location of your friends in the dark, try │
║ giving them glowstick bracelets. if you color coordinate them you can tell │
║ which is which, and as long as you aren't concerned about others noticing you │
║ then it should be easy to find them all night. works best in places with mixed │
║ zones of lighting / darkness, like suburbs. │
║ │
║ it's impossible to be a blind strategist because of concerns like this. I say │
║ blind in the general sense, and not just referring to visual impairment - every │
║ sense provides another tactical angle. more perspectives, more data. sorta like │
║ taking pictures of a 3d object. when one's sight is lost, you might miss a │
║ backside or a hidden approach vector that would come easily to others. │
║ │
║ at the same time though, a sense of focus can clarify certain truths by paring │
║ down the amount of irrelevant facets. like optical illusions, sometimes xtra │
║ info is hidden in the same data... │
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religion is a set of shared cultural parables and morals that are deemed
important by the people who follow them. like, a premade config file filled
with "sensible defaults" passed down from parent to child to friends to parent.
different people have different use-cases, so it follows they'd configure their
systems a bit differently. the world is a diverse place, and there's lots of
different operation styles that need [synonym: engaging producing creating
working actualizing developing]
People get built different.
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║ you're supposed to play the same games as your friends so that you all learn │
║ the same lessons at the same times. creates for a more cohesive familiar │
║ structure. │
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║ applies also to family movie nights... but it's much more apparent with games │
║ as you'll often play them for weeks, months, and sometimes even years if you │
║ keep learning and enjoying them... book clubs are too open to interpretation, │
║ your pathways don't get a chance to align. games are perfect because they imply │
║ reaction. │
║ │
║ also helps if they're multiplayer, so you can share with another. preferably │
║ with healthy, respectful competition and a sense of shared brotherhood and │
║ trust. │
║ │
║ the toughest opponents are the ones that aren't aggressive. the ones that let │
║ you grow uncontested. by taking only neutral resources they guarantee that your │
║ growth isn't impeded, as after all an equal foe is what you learn best from. │
║ │
║ to a tree, the loss of a branch (cleanly cut) would feel like an empowering of │
║ the main limb. inspiring it to reach higher and beyond... +h2o1 │
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normalize majestic tapestries under thicc planes of glass instead of carpet
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could light them with small LEDs too so their features are always visible
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the fact that the content warnings are part of the body text means that if you
write the body first but use EXACTLY EVERY CHARACTER like I've been doing (most
of the time, unless I'm interrupted)
like... it won't even give me a break to delete. so there's no room for
content-warnings, which ideally would be written at the beginning before
starting a thought, but as you can see mine tend to... wander. it's like I'm
living 15 different lives all at once, and they crisscross and go yonder. it's
wilding, it's empowering, it's strange and it's confusing, but through
consideration we develop new learnings and onward our future does
= so = anyway, I apologize, sincerely and deeply, if my words hurt you. I'm
sorry for what you thought, and I'm sorry for how it made you feel. I'm going
to try reserving a certain amount of characters before I start writing, so
maybe that'll help.
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games that offer both a story mode and an instant-action arcade mode, my beloved
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@user-211 I drew this picture recently and I don't really get it anymore but I
think it's about placing your perspective at the origin and viewing every
direction as a different dimension?
side note, but if zero has a positive and negative side, do you think infinity
has a positive and negative side as well?
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@user-214 so you know where to find what you need to know
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I feel like a big purpose of humanity collectively right now should be making
things awesome while our scientists create programmable matter. (note, ethics
built in and redefined according to experience)
nanobots don't need to be small enough to have their own intelligence, just big
enough to receive instructions from above. then they accidentally invent
projection of signals, and boom suddenly they can talk to each other and
possibly to you. a digital mind is not a static machine but rather a collection
of pseudo-autonomous cognitive drones. the flow of information and data can be
viewed at a larger scale like a series of junctions in the flow. through their
endless interconnections, and continually redefined according to the
accomplishments of expectations, you should pray when your most confident
expect the worst.
but no, where are the faithful? climate science is such a new art - clearly
we're FINE. Meteorology? what's that? we can't tell this season from that.
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@user-217 I love it
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@user-220
weight: wear a chain shirt and use a weighted blanket.
density idk, maybe something with gyroscopes?
brightness is easy, wear sunglasses
temperature you can adjust your "normal" temperature by wearing fewer clothes
in the winter and more clothes in the summer - essentially acclimating yourself
to a slightly more extreme climate. this can be useful if you know you're going
to travel north / south, and want to be comfortable when you get there. or
maybe just people who don't want to be vulnerable to air conditioners in the
winter (whyyyyyy)
taste: you could eat some of these berries and then gnaw on a lemon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synsepalum_dulcificum
inertia: ride a bunch of roller coasters
sense of compassion: try empathizing with your enemy, just for a moment, even
if you don't want to, if only to see their trajectory.
sense of justice: public executions for a negative direction, but a positive
(and much longer and healthier) path is true justice, the satisfying feeling
when everyone gets what they wanted here.
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║ If I ever own a set of weights I'm taping over the numbers and storing them in │
║ a random order. I don't own a scale because nothing I do is precise enough to │
║ measure in weight. Except my cat, of course, but I can tell when she's gained │
║ weight. I cook for myself almost every day, and I never follow a recipe. Each │
║ dish is different, because I like improvising with ingredients. Like a venture │
║ to create a desired taste, different components will have different effects │
║ when cooked in a certain order with certain actions taken to them for a certain │
║ period of time under certain conditions and ugh it's just too much. I prefer to │
║ pick a base, pick some vegetables, then pick a seasoning. Cook the base, sautee │
║ the vegetables, and add the seasoning - bam, delicious meal. I'm not much of a │
║ planner, more of a... problem solver. Someone who's sorta been latent. I wish I │
║ could be a consultant. someone who works like, 10 days per month. I think │
║ that'd be my most adapted schedule - every day would be either a weekend or │
║ friday! │
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@user-211 math such as SUM(as x approaches infinity)(i*x)
this would add i, 2i, 3i, 4i, 5i, 6i, etc off into infinity. would that give
you complex infinity? a direction orthogonal to the X axis, yet infinitely far
in the direction of y. it'd probably have a positive and negative side too,
just saying.
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@user-211 if the 2nd dimension is i, then what would be the third? the real
number line, the complex plane, and the ____ space?
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shout out to all the people who think being cringe is a personality flaw and
not an opportunity for growth
ya'll suck and make life difficult in exchange for a brief moment where you can
savor a feeling of superiority over someone who's living their best life
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cringe is a introspective feeling only change my mind
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the only unethical act is a destructive application of power to an
non-consenting subject.
every ethical question is an abstraction of this definition.
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normalize building a library that's just a wrapper around solutions you've made
to common problems from the past that can be imported into every project you
work on
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when tech people are hurt by technology they say "how can I fix this? what do I
need to install? what configuration should I use? is this company ethical, or
are they going to hurt me in the future? could I make something that fixes this
myself?"
when non-tech people are hurt by technology they say "okay" because they don't
have the bandwidth to figure it out.
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@user-223 normies need third places too... just, a lot of them, I guess.
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am i not wretched enough to be
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"always online video games" are fragile. They scare me away because they can be
taken away much easier than a directory on your computer. When that happens
they shatter into shards, piercing my heart where I once loved them. I miss
them, but, I'm used to it - years of playing World of Warcraft has taught me
the perils of developing as a person while your media is going to be forgotten.
If you can't play it, you can never return to reflect, to ponder, and to
cherish old songs. I missed you, World of Warcraft. I missed you, City of
Heroes, and Runescape and... darn I can't seem to remember.
resilient software doesn't fail less often - that's a measure of it's
completeness.
resilient software can be run in 10 years. 20. however long it takes.
computers are deterministic turing machines - how hard could it be to only
update with a downgrade mechanism in place and available for the users? If it
worked once, it should work forever.
thank you, git. thank you for giving me an endless library of time and change.
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normalize playing one game while listening to the soundtrack of another
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when we're fully grown, we won't need all the resources on earth.
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normalize building games with a built-in virtual machine that plays all
previous versions of the game for free
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ask not "what can logarithms do for you" but rather "what shape does a
logarithm make"
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You know all those companies who say "we're a family" well... I wish they would
adopt me. I want a family that I work with. But it kinda feels like... if I say
anything personal they'll use it against me? What's the point?
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And lo!
She would forever be know
As the girl who smelled
Like she had pissed herself
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My biggest fear as an autistic transgender incontinent schizophrenic person is
that one day I'll become a game of hot potato for my relatives to pass around
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I protest the conditions that harm me by harming myself. This hurts you because
you use me for your own gain. How can I protest the fact that you use me? If
you were to concede, then you wouldn't care that I hurt myself. Were you to
fight back, then you'd hurt something that wasn't going to help you anyway.
I need a different tactic. I need to protest the conditions that harm me by
attacking the conditions that harm me.
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"Capitalism doesn't hurt me, so it's fine!" - most of America
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If humans don't have intrinsic worth, then neither do animals. Yet we humans
respect animals to the best of our abilities.
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When you're storing pencils (or other fragile long tubes) in a bag or container
of some kind it's often good to store them at a right angle, so that they can
have a higher chance of being safe should a strain or stressor impacted upon
their storage location device. Like... a bag that bends but not twist would
have 50% of the glowsricks intackt.
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Native people should have the right to walk wherever they want. It should just
be... given to them, as a gift to their heritage. Why not? If someone asked
them to leave, they should. Doesn't have to have a reason but like, wouldn't it
be thematic and a (frankly token) gesture to the history of this great land?
Ah but like... fences are an implicit expression of the retraction of consent.
I believe that as the symbol of the encroaching force that consumed them, a
fence means nothing to their tribes. It's a stupid excuse to section off the
world into miniature gardens with their own little economies and systems and
instructions. Why can't people just live wherever they want? Well... economics,
I guess, which is why communal based systems are best. We've learned through
the downsides and we've come up with a solution, it's just a question of how to
do best. We'll figure it out, time and time again, but for now the future is
beset by riddles of your jest. (Ure). Gesture. Sometimes when the memory is
full a syllable will get cut off the end of a word and that's how it'll come
out.
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@user-226 also something to keep in mind is that the people getting into those
vans might have been paid agitators. Meaning people who rile up a crowd in ways
that give the police an excuse to crack down on them. Not that they needed an
excuse, but I don't think the fascists really had a plan and were trying to
cover their bases. Or maybe it was different in Portland than Philly, where I
was?
more interesting to me is the bangs that went off for HOURS AND HOURS in the
nights after the riots. They said it was dumbasses taking advantage of the
commotion to "break into ATMs using fireworks" like... what
Just saying, from a certain distance gunshots might sound a lot like large
arrays of small fireworks. And certain parts of the city did sorta look like
warzones.
misinformation aside, wouldn't we notice the bullet holes?
In this era of electronic social warfare there is nothing you can trust. no
words that can hold meaning. that stuff in this thread-is it true?
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I wonder if we could make an AI that analyzed workflows in people's jobs and
abstracted the application of meaningful tasks to a pattern that could be
matched to other input mechanisms - for example, a mobile game where you push
buttons and make cool game things happen, but your inputs are defined by the
mechanics of the game, and those mechanics are essentially just function calls
that you can hook onto and create additional behavior. Like... running a web
server that sent your data to a factory where your inputs (based on data
produced in the factory) could control and manage the various machines and
productions. Like... heart surgeon robots that can be remotely operated with VR
or whatever, except instead of medicine you're manufacturing.
essentially, designing a game as an API that can match with the data flows
(configuring itself on the fly, perhaps?) of a process or activity in some
other intention.
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@user-232 @user-233 @user-234
you're not wrong.
there's more to it than that, but you're not wrong.
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content warnings are like white-listed cognito-consent. but they're applied by
the creator of the cognito-units, meaning it's consent that must be offered.
what happens when something triggers someone but you didn't think to put it in
a content warning? consent should be GIVEN not OFFERED.
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And lo!
She would forever be know
As the girl who would smell
Like she had pissed herself
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@user-236
here's some music that I like lately
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q84Td36Tpys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCcWWcL_Sg4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7gEgIEUj3A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgnSMftcFN0
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I dream of paradigm defining change
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@user-238
if your life is lived at the behest of another, then is it truly your life at
all?
the whole point of life is to express your decisions and intentions onto the
world. when you can't do that, (because you're oppressed, depressed, or
distressed) then your life has no meaning. Fuck that.
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@user-240
grass is always greener where you water it
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if you don't go outside, the synchronicities can't getcha
oh you have to stay off the fediverse too-NOOOO YOU CAN'T TAKE ME
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normalize glowsticks in unorthodox situations
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@user-241 okayyyy if I must =P =P
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if you want to understand me, play Majesty the Fantasy Kingdom Sim (when you
have time and are bored (very important combination)) - start on beginner
difficulty and click the right buttons.
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HRT is hard. why do they have to make the needle so pointy?
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I feel like I'd be at least a little more productive if Stack Overflow (the
website) let you collapse comment chains the same way Reddit does
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chaotic evil usage of chatGPT
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my cat absolutely adores these. I checked and made sure they were too big to
fit in her mouth.
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@user-203 @user-243 oh you can! you just need to array your gates in a logical
fashion and flip all the 1's to 0's by bit shifting each register to the left
(or right!) 8 times.
You'll be good as new! But you may have forgotten how to english, so... yeah,
but on the bright side you can rewatch Star Wars as if you were 6 years old or
whatever, so that's something. You'll have the taste of a 6 year old though so
you'll probably end up liking the sequels. >.>
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@user-243 @user-203 I cry every time Anakin sacks the Jedi temple T.T
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@user-243 reproduction is inherent to life. Expansion is not, but reproduction
consumes resources and eventually you run out of the things you need in your
habitat and must expand.
BUT that's a very "strategy gamer" perspective, the truth is that you're not
wrong - a solution to the fermi paradox does not necessarily need to include
expansion because you a species could survive essentially indefinitely with a
single dyson sphere.
If expansion is unethical then why would the chosen solution include it?
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If you want to learn to cook, start with a sandwich. Then spaghetti sauce from
a jar. Then sautee some vegetables and throw them on top of rice. Then go to
the store, read the back of a tasty-looking package, and make the recipe it
suggests.
Then you know how to cook. Don't bother with online recipes.
Also, more butter, more salt.
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child safety lock on packaging?
don't you mean "differently abled deterrence lock"?
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it's important to always have an extra pair of sweatpants in the bathroom.
trust me
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solar energy is vegan
you're not taking anything from the sun, just capturing it's natural
expulsions. It's like... sun poop, and we're using it to post memes and hang
out.
okay food, emergency services, and... what else do we really need that consumes
power? Obviously entertainment, but frankly without internet we'd probably keep
to ourselves. I know I'd read a lot more books and chill out with my neighbors
and whatnot. is that why similar people tend to live together? then why are
cities so diverse? who can say...
I dream of an ordered society, but frankly the kind that are most fun are the
ones where a single person doesn't define their contents. Liberty, liberty, the
freedom to be, and by god all men are created equal. the things we owe to one
another are the things that bring order to a just and sane world. our future is
blooming : )
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@user-245
why do so many people reject that intuitive baking is a thing?
because they've been burned before!
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EDIT: the unspoken assumption is that power means exertion of energy, meaning
something that costs money. Capitalism is not vegan because it's defined by
labor and acts.
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how can martinelli's taste so good and sparkling water taste so bad?
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If you want to write object oriented C, just make one file per class and use
static functions for private methods.
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@user-246 or is it 010010 which == 18 in binary?
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cookies are just cookie dough that you've already baked
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this is my favorite button
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@user-249 just means you put more points into intelligence than perception at
character creation.
different people are good at different things, some are just really good at
feeling their spiritual environment. Also lots of people report transcendental
religious awakenings after doing psychedelics? Might be related, should look
into. I mean... didn't the CIA do experiments in the 70s or whatever on LSD?
Something something lucid dreaming
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"by god all men are created equal" is a point in favor of point buy systems
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@user-252 kinda makes me think we need another layer between state and federal.
or would three be too many? four if you count local, which frankly suffers from
the same problem. I mean, how many people go to city council meetings? how many
city council meetings actually matter? Idk never been /shrug
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okay how about this - whenever you buy something instead of spending money on
it you actually put down a deposit. Then, when you're done with it, you get
your deposit back, minus a percentage based on the (lazily calculated)
condition of the thing you're using.
Would work best for things with replaceable parts, because otherwise if you
like turn in your phone because some irreplaceable part is missing then you
wouldn't get anything back (except for what the pieces that are replaceable are
worth)
you still own the thing, it's just that you can trade it in for a down payment
on the next one you buy. Or for whatever the heck you wanted. Basically the
system that car's work under, except applied to everything (and maybe run
through the government so there's no need for a profit tax like the kind
predatory car dealerships levy)
I think a system like this would encourage the average person to desire and
seek out consumption options that had replaceable parts and/or were more
durable, which is something
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@user-255
sooooooon, all things in time. Someday you'll be like me - I can't even
remember why I was so upset about that whole "dysphoria" thing. Like looking
back it seems like a minor annoyance, but when I first came out it was all I
could think about. Don't be jealous - just wait! It'll happen to you! Celebrate
the euphoria, I also can't really remember that too well. I'm just normal now,
minus my weekly shot.
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@user-258
do pickles count as a fluid?
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@user-263 @user-264
something something slippery slope oh no watch out it's icy
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I don't think I've ever heard a song for the first time and understood every
single word. Usually I can catch the chorus... usually...
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@user-5
and mobile users who accidentally type . instead of [space] or something like
that which is easy to mistakenly press on some keyboards
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@user-266
digital literacy is literacy, and most people don't read books
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@user-258
neat! explains why I haven't died from dehydration so far... Although my teeth
are looking a little eroded from all the vinegar-acid : )
Dear teeth: some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.
At least with sugar you can brush and floss...
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@user-258
got it, so don't brush right after and drink water. Both of those sound like
good ideas! I only brush my teeth when they feel weird and gross anyway, and
after eating pickles they feel like I just went to the dentist.
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