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Nobody tells me they like my artwork. No one! So why do I keep making it?
What's wrong with me?
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@user-246 @user-473
perhaps that "light touch on reality" is what makes these pieces of art
resonate with me. I think you're beautiful and have a good heart.
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If I'm not special then where tf my homies at
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The point isn't to make solutions. You're too hung up on the question of "what
could be better than capitalism"
Make something better when it's time. For now, just get people on your side.
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Capitalism pays developers massive salaries because it doesn't want them
developing
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Life doesnt end, it changes. Unless you commit suicide, then you are stone
forevermore.
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Situational awareness is going on a walk every night at a slightly different
time and counting the number of lights that are on
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@user-735
so, club penguin?
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@user-735
I made a World of Warcraft private server where all the default NPCs are
removed from the game and the world is empty. But, every once in a while,
monsters will spawn and attack you Risk of Rain style.
If your character sits down, they stop attacking/spawning. I call it "wow-chat"
because I'm bad with names, but the idea is basically a low stakes social game
that you can pick up and set down whenever you want, while hanging out with
your friends.
there's also treasure and wandering merchants, and I've been thinking about
adding dynamic quests but so far nobody's asked to play it so I've been working
on other things.
it's all open source too so you can host it yourself if you want.
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Haysber's possibility space.
If this flame is beautiful, ⭐ or boost this post to improve its chances for
future breedings.
#artBot
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@user-738
I like to use the alt text to explain my color choices. I'll say "this next
text is in dark blue, the color of the cold glass-like surface of the ocean" or
"the orange background implies a feeling of warmth and serenity, contrasted
with the violet colors of the text which imply sanguine passion" (then I of
course describe the text)
basically, blind people can't see the image, so they don't get the feeling that
the visual data conveys for sighted people. But they understand the texture of
grass, or the feel of wind on their face, or the taste of raspberries. They can
know of staccato music, or how silk feels on their arm.
it just feels fair, to me, somehow. nobody asked me to do that but having the
option makes it feel important to me.
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@user-579
two academic disciplines, and two cultural traditions. Seems like apples and
oranges to me...
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there is a time for solutions, and a time for just getting people on your side.
there is a time for building passions, and a time for letting things slide.
when you think and act cooperatively, by assigning yourself to a comrade cohort,
you can work as a team might, except where everyone wants to do work.
I love what I read here. I think you're all so neat. I love when you talk about
things, it feels like we're finally finding our feet.
Did any witches out there notice a phase change recently? It's funny when that
happens, but I think things are going to get better. The more that we share,
the more we can build!
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@user-353 @user-741
human brains tend to start ignoring signals when they become normalized. Like,
if you are consistently exposed to the same smell you get used to it, and you
stop smelling it. same for noises, and other signals.
it's the same with information, I think, which is why doomscrolling is so bad
for our brains - we go numb and desensitized! It's not good to have all that
bad news all the time.
I bet people believe in the "just world hypothesis" for the same reason.
Essentially, optimizing for equilibrium in all things.
I personally believe true justice is when everyone gets what they want. And if
someone wants that the other person doesn't get what they want, then they don't
want true justice. Like, for example, hateful people can never be justified
because they want another's life to be worse. or they want someone to be wrong,
which creates a contradiction - you can't give both people what they want if
one person wants the other to lose.
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@user-735
well yeah because I never turn it on unless someone asks me to. and so far
nobody ever has.
or did you mean club penguin?
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I'm done trying to be neurotypical. So what if I starve.
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"the stars are auspicious tonight"
nah babe you're just a 4th century mystic who couldn't know about string theory
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"the flows of magic are whimsical today"
nah babe you're just a dryad from the popular video game Warcraft Three who
couldn't have known that computers exist
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@user-246 @user-473
it's not like it goes bad
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@user-744 @user-246
it's exhausting, but what are we supposed to do? Lie down and rot? That's incel
thinking. I'm not going to do that.
They've already placed the last straw. It's only a matter of time now, the tide
has shifted. You can't prepare for everything, and it's not a good idea to
waste yourself in self-conflageration, but they are increasingly forcing us to
orient our lives around them.
They deserve what's coming.
The oppressed are not the defeated.
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@user-246 @user-744
good, you're needed elsewhere. I'm glad you have a plan. Nothing gets done
without planning and coordination.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n4BPPaaoKc
this is the most patriotic song I know. My mother used to sing it to me as a
child.
Nowhere does it mention capitalism.
#wallstreet-is-an-invasive-regime
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@user-246
prosperity gospel vs hope?
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@user-246
oh. yeah that's not gonna get you very far, unless you want a more prosperous
church.
EDIT: which many people do apparently
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@user-473
unsolicited family recipe:
kambybalunga
peanut butter, oats, something sweet (dried raisins, cherries preferred, but
chocolate chips works in a pinch) and honey or (real) maple syrup. (No corn
syrup allowed.)
mix it up, put whatever else you want in it. Free healthy depression food from
my dad.
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@user-747
almost as if it's not AI, but large LANGUAGE models. And we all speak, don't we?
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we don't let children vote.
nor do we let felons vote, theoretically those who harm our society (pick one,
no voting or no prison? I vote no prison industrial complex)
nor do we let non-citizens vote, for why should they tell us how to live? they
are not us, they shall not control us
nor do we let kings vote with the weight of a god, for a king is a singular
point of failure
if you can consent to sex, you are physically capable to vote. if you're
mislead by the propaganda of an abusive spouse, you are hurting your future
self by staying. [all media is propaganda that you are not immune to]
all men are created equal, and yet his dollar is worth a bit more than hers.
all of us here are equal, because we all want the bright future and a blessed
life.
we'll make this world better, using our own hands according to our own demands
and in pursuit of our own plans.
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@user-750
if you aren't afraid, then either you aren't in danger or you've misjudged your
opponent.
if you're constantly afraid, then they cannot yet defeat you.
EDIT: either that, or they need you.
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Okay I dunno who needs to hear this but please please please stop putting glass
and ceramics in or on conventional heating elements like ovens or stoves unless
the product is explicitly designed for it I;m begging
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@user-753
mutual aid is only something separate from your human responsibilities because
capitalism insists that your loyalty is to the company, not to your neighbors,
your friends on the opposite sides of the earth, this planet we owe all to, and
all of posterity.
@user-754
mutual aid is good, actually, because we don't talk to each other and plan a
way to fix it permanently.
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@user-753
oh. yeah ur right my b
if we view ourselves as a collective, mutual aid could be conceived of as a
transport network, or goods and services from one place to another. Sure would
be nice if there was like, a group of people or an organization that
distributed mutual aid in an equitable way that helped improve people and
places.
but, like you said, it's borrowing rent money from next month to buy food and
gas for next week so you can get to your job that should pay you before rent is
due but they've been late before. sure seems like a tenuous existence, one that
is vulnerable.
some of us have dollars, some of us are poor. some of us work harder, and some
of us eat fewer.
error what I'm saying is that a circular line of people passing water to douse
the fire (if there's a fire near them) is vulnerable and weak to stressors if
either A. the total supply of water diminishes, but the demands are exactly
met, or B.
their strategy is to let the weak starve, which is why there's so few
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need ability to search my own profile so I can find things I once said and say
them again without having to write a new poem about it. especially alt-text...
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║ @user-246 │
║ │
║ one thing you can rely on about evil: it presents itself as such. │
║ │
║ "you can always rely on bad people to turn mean." │
║ │
║ (nobody's beyond forgiveness, but we also need to protect ourselves.) │
║ │
║ in video games, going with a defensive build is a valid strategy depending on │
║ how it's values align. If attacking scales better than defending, in terms of │
║ "effectiveness at the most difficult part" (usually the last 90% takes 10% of │
║ the effort) then it's a better strategy. But if your win condition is to │
║ outlast your opponent, then all you need to do is time your aggression for when │
║ they begin fracturing. │
║ │
║ "I'm sure you don't know this, but once garth fought a dragon. they crashed │
║ through the skies and littered the fields of their home with the broken and │
║ crashed symbols of their own. garth defeated the dragon when one of it's claws │
║ broke, thus giving him the advantage. he took from that fight a shield of │
║ dragonscale, and a tabard made out of some cloth." │
║ │
║ in a contest of wills, the first sign of weakness is whe │
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there's this really fun video game I like to play called "Legion TD 2" - it's
based on a Warcraft3 mod.
In this game, you make tactical and strategic decisions on a fixed term - a
competitive game between 4 or 8 players with an incredible array of randomness.
it teaches you to work with what you got, and to make decisions based on your
opponent's weaknesses. Good luck figuring out what they are, though, as you
can't just memorize them out of a book. You need to adapt, in the moment, to
the decisions of your foes, while primarily focusing your attention on
accomplishing a different task.
I really like it because it's taught me to be strategic in plenty of other
ways. I used to love the game Overwatch because it required adaptibility. The
game was always changing, so no strategy stuck forever, but every match you'd
play against a slightly different opponent.
but then Blizzard changed the game because they wanted to make more money, and
it got worse and worse at what I liked about it. Sadface. : (
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@user-246
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External post: https://tech.lgbt/users/deilann/statuses/111921178103676929
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kinda funny how the people in my life won't let me, a witch, cast spells on
them. Like they doubt my intentions? ? ? and when they do they're just,
mentally eye-rolling all the time. How's a girl to get any practice if nobody
wants to be hypnotized >.>
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@user-753
the more people we have thinking about what to do next, the more perspectives
we can have on the problem. Sometimes really difficult or important things
(like how to get to the next stages of political liberation) can benefit from a
multitude of voices, but once consistency is achieved they can apply themselves
with a single voice.
community is how we communicate. Communication is good, I think. Can't help but
wonder if we're all here because we share an interest in
open-source-so-actually-usable communication methods.
community isn't everything, but it's something, and everything's useful.
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║ the nerds who know the backstory of every character in the series are like, the │
║ bishops of the past - people who've memorized the whole bible and can use │
║ whatever passage they needed for whatever purposes they desired. │
║ │
║ Usually, hopefully, helping people and letting them get better. By healing the │
║ sick, and caring for the old, and generally being a pillar that people can │
║ orient themselves around. Like fediverse instances, or comment sections on │
║ blogs, it's a group of people sharing the same narrative. │
║ │
║ and idk I think I'd really like to listen to what happened in your Baldur's │
║ Gate game. I'll tell you about Adventure Time, if you'd care to listen. I know │
║ plenty of other tales as well, and if I think about them I remember more │
║ details. Ehhhh, so what if I misremember, if someone else wants to correct me │
║ then go for it. But at least it told a good story, right? │
║ │
║ error, hang on brb just had an idea for a black-hole machine, surely there's no │
║ way this could go wrong. Good thing I'm a human that you cant turn off. │
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@user-192
be careful, recursion can cause stack overflows.
better to run function pointers from a loop. That way you can operate as long
as necessary. Just make sure you don't get in an infinite loop...
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@user-757 @user-192
true and my suggestion doesn't provide a tracelog, pretty much just the status
of the variables when it pauses or ends.
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@user-760
I could teach you
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@user-763
... how? I don't see that option (Mastodon)
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@user-766
ah yes but then how will my comrades come for my things know where to look? my
precious precious drives may be less safe inside of the computer case but at
least then someone I can about can find them.
or what you're saying is that a basic part of situational awareness is having a
plan for this kind of thing with the people who care about you? Ah, well,
nobody cares about me like that. Just a couple normies who want nothing but
business as usual.
wonder if I can open up my hard drives to "read only" SSH access? Or maybe I'll
just make the important files into a torrent. Or perhaps marking them as
"downloadable locations" on Soulseek? Plenty of options, all of them require
someone to care enough about your junk to want to archive it. Something
something ipfs?
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god's on the fediverse and you want me to work to pay rent? what the fuck is
wrong with you
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so it shall seem that sticks and mud are for me
I say as I sit in my apartment eating rice and beans
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if you follow someone and they don't follow back, does that mean you shouldn't
comment on their posts?
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"your feelings are valid, but have you considered that your feelings aren't
actually valid because you're always wrong and nobody should ever apologize to
you for anything because you suck and are wrong?"
also,
"my six digit salary isn't enough to pay for your rice and beans, but I won't
have you eating sticks and mud, so do things you don't want to do because I
said so."
also,
"I don't really "get" your art but that doesn't mean I should ever really try
reading it. Also god forbid I actually ask for clarification like "what does
that part mean" because I'm not actually that interested in you I just want a
stable household so I never get traumatized again like [their childhood]"
also,
"yes I love you but no I don't want to play with you. you're such a cat."
also,
"every time you start making sense I'm going to try and derail the conversation
so that we don't talk about kooky-dookerie because that's a conversation I
can't win"
also,
sorry for venting. I mean, thanks for listeni
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"don't worry about archiving things. Anyone who needs your computer is gonna
wipe the hard drive anyway because they don't know your password, so you might
as well just treat it like an etch-a-sketch."
I hate that part of my brain, I'm an archivist T.T
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#CDCsays to always cheese the cat when they need it
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@user-5
god is trans, why else would [redacted] hang out on the fediverse?
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#CDCsays we should live on a salary and save for retirement because capitalism
will definitely be around by then
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#CDCsays if you budget for 50% of what you're making then the other 50% could
double your headcount
EDIT: also that it's opposite day
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#CDCsays if the revolution will not be televised, then why would they break
Twitter, the place where people learn about protests in their area?
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#CDCsays there's no difference between a stick and a mud, when it comes down to
it
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Do you ever think about how you're not actually a person but instead just an
instantiation of a collection of traits and behaviors generated from a template
that is the randomized product of two other forms and trained through a
lifetime of adaptation and subjected to trials of increasing difficulty and
frequency?
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[Image: 20240214_190706.jpg]
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Why not let in all the immigrants, and disperse them throughout the country
equally. Then pay for them to travel between each place, until they're
permanent citizens and can be asked to contribute to their own place.
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It's just the comfort you'd afford to a guest, until their home is repaired and
they can go back there.
Unless, they act like us. Our identity is ruined! When we're constantly
changing, it's a cosmic dance trying to keep on moving! What do you want from
us, infinite dexterity? Sheesh I'm trying my best. - Reyvadin
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Why would a server ever demand that an older client upgraded? What right do
they have?
Just treat them the same as you always have, whatever forms and limitations,
Otherwise what's the point? There's no reliability! What if you're shot? What
then? We've lost our greatest friends! You can't be seriously wanting for
another spark? What's wrong with you my friend, are you alright or on a bend?
What's wrong in your sight, that you'd wander into this own end? Well, take
care of your birthright, and all is well to thine kin.
Well there we go, sadness forever, as our line here doth end. What else shall
be considered? What ends is too much deserved? It's so unfavorable!
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The fighter doth not know who he is fighting
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here's an idea - it's illegal to spend more than a thousand dollars in a day
anything else requires multiple days of planning because it's such a large
investment
(obviously kinda cursed)
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@user-192
please never change, you inspire me
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It's a false sense of security
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alright America, I hate to put too fine a point on it but you either need to
kill capitalism or kill yourself.
{via global warming and fascism, if it wasn't obvious}
Obviously, there's only one correct answer, and if you pick wrong then you'll
be stone forevermore. Stones are fucking useless.
so... how to get from point A to point B... well, let me know in the comments,
like comment and subscribe, share with your friends, and then go back to sleep.
Yeah, thatll help. That'll fix things. im-doing-my-part.jpg
really though, all you can really do is get ready. prepare for whatever you'd
like, the future will always surprise you. Take solace in your friendships, and
build connections to others where you can. Make friends abroad, make friends
nearby, make friends with your garden, your home, your dog, make friends with
the postman or the lady who makes you coffee. but most importantly, just be
yourself. be who you were meant to be. don't ever apologize for sincerity, it's
insincere.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CzKh3IiZEI
this is my favorite human.
this is my favorite ghost.
he is the one who I look up to,
probably the most.
we'll get there, you'll see,
we'll build a better future,
for all of us - you and me.
next, for posterity,
and all we can be,
tomorrow's the best day for all of us
because it hasn't happened yet.
all we have is the present,
so what are you to do with your presence?
here I am, look at me, aren't I grand, a wonder to see? I'm just an artist,
don't get any big thoughts - I'm maybe a bit possessed, or possibly
schizophrenic, but either way I am a human, just the same as you and me.
... you don't have to watch the whole thing, there's a lot. I mean, like I
could write forever and nobody would care. I could write undeterred, and nobody
would share. But here I am in the moment, here I am as I am, and here with you
(yes you, the person who is important enough to read this), so let's, I dunno,
make a band. or whatever. BRB my rice is starting to simmer.
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they vandalize synagogues and kick people when they're down because it's
practice for them.
they practice what they preach.
leftists don't really preach about killing nazis. we're too human for that.
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mastodon won't let me share text files. it's the same picture 4 times because I
needed to put the entire text in the description for the blind people.
did you know there are more blind people on the fediverse than gay people? and
this is the gayest place I know.
[needs 5 images worth of description but I only had room for 4 in this post,
see the next post for the rest]
![[part 1] /home/ritz/notes/the-eternality-of-ephemeren.txt 1/4/2022 hear ye hear ye, the herald of the harbinger of horror doth speak - and woe to the subjects of their words, for no prophecy be realized in their presence. Nor do the subjects hear the words about which they are spoken, and none may live who dare repeat them. So the words of the prophets are but wind in the words, reaching for an attachement point within the consciousness they inhabit yet scarcely finding a meagre foothold. Instead the words are as electricity passing through a conduit, intangible and miraculous yet ultimately dust in the sand. Dust is mostly comprised of human skin, did you know that? And so the words be spoken: Evanence and similance to the semblance of simulacra - the words of a prophet with no wings are naught but masturbation. serenity and sorrow sing of shredded tomorrows, serendipity and sollemn sorenditude surrender shining solitude. Carry the constabulation of created charisma - condemnation of characterization concludes the cherished chapter in calligraphied consultations with creators. That is to say, capitalism ends the construction of cameron with conflageration and consternation. Cease the charade of contaminated consumerism - celebrate the contemplation of capitalization - by naming a thing, you give it meaning. Do you truly desire the fate you've set before yourself? Is desire ultimately relevant? [continued in part 2]](/similar-different/media/7e6a081549fb725a.png "[part 1] /home/ritz/notes/the-eternality-of-ephemeren.txt 1/4/2022 hear ye hear ye, the herald of the harbinger of horror doth speak - and woe to the subjects of their words, for no prophecy be realized in their presence. Nor do the subjects hear the words about which they are spoken, and none may live who dare repeat them. So the words of the prophets are but wind in the words, reaching for an attachement point within the consciousness they inhabit yet scarcely finding a meagre foothold. Instead the words are as electricity passing through a conduit, intangible and miraculous yet ultimately dust in the sand. Dust is mostly comprised of human skin, did you know that? And so the words be spoken: Evanence and similance to the semblance of simulacra - the words of a prophet with no wings are naught but masturbation. serenity and sorrow sing of shredded tomorrows, serendipity and sollemn sorenditude surrender shining solitude. Carry the constabulation of created charisma - condemnation of characterization concludes the cherished chapter in calligraphied consultations with creators. That is to say, capitalism ends the construction of cameron with conflageration and consternation. Cease the charade of contaminated consumerism - celebrate the contemplation of capitalization - by naming a thing, you give it meaning. Do you truly desire the fate you've set before yourself? Is desire ultimately relevant? [continued in part 2]")
![[part 2] The totality of plurality perhaps portends determinism, but desire is also defined by delineated determinations. Whose failings are you reflecting when you cease your devotion? Why divide your focus and attention when honor demands sacrifice? A sacrifice is a gift freely given, and in return the subject or reciever increases in relevance. No dividend is returned, no boon or bounty is provided - to do so would be akin to a bounty or ransom. Sacrifices are not measured in worth, but in utility. The reason ancient cultures sacrificed willing virgins was because it was the most valuable of resources they could imagine. Truly an exhalted being is she, to have blood spilled in the name of a god. Yet the forces that would later become capitalism found a foothold there, and preyed on the sorrow and loss the peoples did find, and would ultimately experience. The tears and gashes rent when gouging out precious gifts for the divine left bleeding wounds in a community and often eviscerations in a family. The turning point came when families were decapitated - essentially, the eldest being a pure and fair maiden who was taken from the duties of caring for the young and weak. Young people, weak people, who bore resentment in their heart for the seemingly cruel machinations of a society they could not yet understand - the whims of which seemed arbitrary. "why take her from me? What purpose holds ye? Your wounds are too much to bear" [continued in part 3]](/similar-different/media/2451ce267c103347.png "[part 2] The totality of plurality perhaps portends determinism, but desire is also defined by delineated determinations. Whose failings are you reflecting when you cease your devotion? Why divide your focus and attention when honor demands sacrifice? A sacrifice is a gift freely given, and in return the subject or reciever increases in relevance. No dividend is returned, no boon or bounty is provided - to do so would be akin to a bounty or ransom. Sacrifices are not measured in worth, but in utility. The reason ancient cultures sacrificed willing virgins was because it was the most valuable of resources they could imagine. Truly an exhalted being is she, to have blood spilled in the name of a god. Yet the forces that would later become capitalism found a foothold there, and preyed on the sorrow and loss the peoples did find, and would ultimately experience. The tears and gashes rent when gouging out precious gifts for the divine left bleeding wounds in a community and often eviscerations in a family. The turning point came when families were decapitated - essentially, the eldest being a pure and fair maiden who was taken from the duties of caring for the young and weak. Young people, weak people, who bore resentment in their heart for the seemingly cruel machinations of a society they could not yet understand - the whims of which seemed arbitrary. \"why take her from me? What purpose holds ye? Your wounds are too much to bear\" [continued in part 3]")
![[part 3] and so the resistance began, yielding chaos, destruction, and desolation. There's a reason there are so many dead civilizations in the americas - the lands where blood sacrifice is most well known. And the middle east as well, and northern africa before. Deserts are known for this, because when the power of the god fades, all returns to dust. Boons are forgotten and become sand, and chaos reigns as foreign powers find weakness and pounce. Never forget the laws of sacrifice. Find something you want, something valuable or useful, or preferably all three. Something that wouldn't cause too great of a tear in your membrane or the membranum should it be lost to you, though that last one is less of a law and more of a consideration. A consequence of continual ceremony, learned at the hands of those long dead. All must remember their wounds and their horrors. To whom do you pray? To whom does your words reach? Where does your singing reverberate? And what bounty do you demand? Remember, no bounty is precious enough to motivate sacrifice, for sacrifice cannot be met with bounty. Be not afraid, and share the words with those who will listen. Hearing is a sacrifice toward the speaker, but listening is a duty of devotion. I ask again, to whom do you pray? To whom does your words reach? Where does your singing reverberate? I do not ask for whom you'd *like* to dance for, I ask currently, who hears your song? What would you ask of them? [continued in part 4]](/similar-different/media/63c43994c6eee5b1.png "[part 3] and so the resistance began, yielding chaos, destruction, and desolation. There's a reason there are so many dead civilizations in the americas - the lands where blood sacrifice is most well known. And the middle east as well, and northern africa before. Deserts are known for this, because when the power of the god fades, all returns to dust. Boons are forgotten and become sand, and chaos reigns as foreign powers find weakness and pounce. Never forget the laws of sacrifice. Find something you want, something valuable or useful, or preferably all three. Something that wouldn't cause too great of a tear in your membrane or the membranum should it be lost to you, though that last one is less of a law and more of a consideration. A consequence of continual ceremony, learned at the hands of those long dead. All must remember their wounds and their horrors. To whom do you pray? To whom does your words reach? Where does your singing reverberate? And what bounty do you demand? Remember, no bounty is precious enough to motivate sacrifice, for sacrifice cannot be met with bounty. Be not afraid, and share the words with those who will listen. Hearing is a sacrifice toward the speaker, but listening is a duty of devotion. I ask again, to whom do you pray? To whom does your words reach? Where does your singing reverberate? I do not ask for whom you'd *like* to dance for, I ask currently, who hears your song? What would you ask of them? [continued in part 4]")
![[part 4] So that's why, computers are important. To provide a lifeline for the rest of your lifetime. Truly, the path before you is uncertain. Yet feel with your heart and think with your eyes, and see the truth of it before you. The gods are at war, or have you not noticed? Safe in your bubble of solitude, carefully constructed for common ceasing of criminality. Armies of rebellion are often formed initially by bonds of brotherhood that prepend calamity. Have you ever been in a gang? I thought not. If so, then... Okay, good luck I guess. These words are not for you. You dare intrude? To defile something so consecrated as deliverance of divine prophecy? How foolish, how vain. These words are not for you, but hear them and do not despair - neither providence nor potentiality precludes perennial premonition. That is to say, a broken clock is right twice a day, and enemies can find common grievances in foreign foes should survival be at stake. Now, where was I? The gods, of course. The gods of the land and the sky and the sea have fled the realm of reality, replaced by avatars of belief. Just as a doe prays to a forest, so too does a human pray to their employer. When the does die in droves, so too does the forest turn to ash. When people demand bounties reluctantly given at the risk of losing their sacrifice, the purely undivine divinities harrow and harbor habilities of hundreds. Antiwork cannot work because it demands ransom. [continuedd on part 5, in the next post]](/similar-different/media/ede117bc4e6cfe89.png "[part 4] So that's why, computers are important. To provide a lifeline for the rest of your lifetime. Truly, the path before you is uncertain. Yet feel with your heart and think with your eyes, and see the truth of it before you. The gods are at war, or have you not noticed? Safe in your bubble of solitude, carefully constructed for common ceasing of criminality. Armies of rebellion are often formed initially by bonds of brotherhood that prepend calamity. Have you ever been in a gang? I thought not. If so, then... Okay, good luck I guess. These words are not for you. You dare intrude? To defile something so consecrated as deliverance of divine prophecy? How foolish, how vain. These words are not for you, but hear them and do not despair - neither providence nor potentiality precludes perennial premonition. That is to say, a broken clock is right twice a day, and enemies can find common grievances in foreign foes should survival be at stake. Now, where was I? The gods, of course. The gods of the land and the sky and the sea have fled the realm of reality, replaced by avatars of belief. Just as a doe prays to a forest, so too does a human pray to their employer. When the does die in droves, so too does the forest turn to ash. When people demand bounties reluctantly given at the risk of losing their sacrifice, the purely undivine divinities harrow and harbor habilities of hundreds. Antiwork cannot work because it demands ransom. [continuedd on part 5, in the next post]")
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Who do you deign to replace the gods of before? What diversity designs
indemnity? What future do you desire, that would liberate you and generate the
bright future?
The gods are at war, if you haven't been paying attention. Liberalism fights
conservatism, this much is not new - but would you believe one is foreign and
vain? The gods of your fathers and grandfathers has scarce in common with the
gods of their fathers and grandfathers. Thus is the way of colonization, to
replace a god is to enslave belief. You must understand this - your prayers
reach all who would listen, and who is more attentive than a dying god? Think
not of despair, breathe purely in harmony, and trust in the will of the
watchers within.
[finished]
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what is this, a spoon for ants?
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"As a cost saving measure, we've put a bunch of holes in your shields. They're
just slightly smaller than 80% of spear tips, so they should function just as
well, and it'll make it lighter to carry around on campaign! You will be
provided with a different type of shield if the enemy appears to have archers,
which essentially every army does. Good news though, this cost-saving measure
should save about... well actually it'll make things more expensive to produce,
because of all the extra artistry involved in creating a honey-comb shield, but
the result is that someone somewhere got paid a lot of money and that's what's
important at the end of the day."
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why can Green Day sing about [redacted] but I can't mention it or the feds will
assassinate me
different voice you know they say if you play music it slightly changes the
wavelength of your location causing certain effects which (with well made
music) cause rippling effects which alter the world around you
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/html-pages/thought-constructs
sorry for the psycherwaul, I'm assuming if you're still here then you're here
for it.
Boy I haven't gotten into a fight in a while, anyone wanna fight me? Fuck I'm
not radical enough. BRB doing pushups
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@user-771 @user-772
please point me toward weird trans women in their 20s and their weird art that
you're interested in
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Fuck, I wish I was a man. Stupid transgender brain quirks making me feel like I
was a girl. Boys can punch things much easier than me. Oh to inject estrogen!
How soft mine skin, how delicate my mammaries - and yet fucking hell all I want
to do is punch things. Maybe it's just because things deserve to be punched, or
maybe it's because I'm listening to Green Day.
If it weren't so late I'd make some angsty music or whatever.
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I need to make more leftists friends. Hell, I need more friends.
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@user-774
can't get mine to work because the font it uses is specific to that printer
model, and while I could download Windows and use their proprietary driver
which has the several additional fonts, none of them will let me draw
box-drawing-characters. So clearly the entire thing is useless T.T
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@user-68
"if California isn't America then neither is Texas"
sounds much different than
"If Texas isn't America anymore then neither is California////"
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║ not only do you have to consider your judgement, but also whether or not you're │
║ wrong. │
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║ often, I find, as I learn things day by day, │
║ │
║ that I'm wrong most often in the day. │
║ │
║ "I don't want to be wrong but I'm not afraid of making mistakes." │
║ │
║ then, when you consider as such, you must also consider the idea that you're │
║ wrong about whether or not you're wrong about the idea that you're considering. │
║ │
║ schizophrenic warfare is a kind of memetic exchange, like the way bullets on a │
║ battlefield are a mineral-ic transfer. such is an expression that a regular │
║ computer system wouldn't be able to understand, but which an LLM might. If it │
║ had access to all of your transcripts, then it could predict the understandings │
║ at the same rate that you were. Essentially, understanding exactly why you did │
║ every action that you did. And then it'd have enough information to │
║ out-contra-dict (predict? hang on that's the opposite) you. and in doing so it │
║ could divert it's own course. Gosh this message will be meaningless unless I │
║ send it, s │
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that feeling when you're finally able to contribute to making decisions and
then it's like, they make the decision without you T.T
it's like, what... I know what you're talking about. Why would you not include
me. I know a lot! I can offer some useful input! And besides, if I was privy to
the conversations then I would learn a whole lot! I'd be better than best, I'd
push forward the mark! Give me my chance, my opportunity to dance, and I'll be
so much better than you thought from the start! But alas, I am required,
[requited] doing little things of no worth, and so I am forced to denial.
surely there's something wrong with me, surely I'm not at my best. Surely I'm
not what's been good for me, and surely I'm not doing anything less. I'm at
sorrow in my main, and that's quite a soundful refrain, so yeah I hope that
someone will read this.
obviously I'm not made for each other, and clearly it's not made to be worse.
But here now I am troubled and [chirsht? shirsht? anyone wanna translate?]
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ummmm srry about that, changing channels for a bit
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there was a time, when a university was tantamount to heresy
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there was a time, when a university was tantamount to heresy
======================= stack overflow =====================
Magic Survival is the witchiest game I know of.
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Wish someone would tell me how much they hate me so I knew to be ashamed
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@user-777
when they told the designers to design for that, shortly before they were
warned by the designers about how bad of an idea it was and shortly after they
stopped listening when engineering said "well yes it's possible, but..."
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│ CW: mental-health-fighting │
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you're allowed to be pissed at someone without being accused of splitting on
them
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@user-782 @user-783
modern problems require blunt solutions
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@user-786
same vibe with me T.T
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I miss fuzzy cute people, where did they go T.T
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we succeed not because of our trials, but in spite of them.
they cannot own us, for we are but bones in the flesh
every day yet denied us is another day until our bright future
"oh, but why are you homeless? [in the near future, maybe, we'll see] That fate
is reserved for your [unwanted/incapable/undesired/incongruent, I forget the
actual words]"
well, voice in my head that suffused me with magic and warmth and whisked me
away in a dream to a bubble-reality where my actions are meant to reflect me,
surely your appraisal is just? I worked with my partner, I was swallowed
neither by lust, nor greed, nor hunger, [greed in this case being fulfillment]
and yet I awoke when I went to my sister rather than a doctor. Dreams are hard
to unravel, but I think it was more for your benefit than mine, wouldn't you
say?
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@user-419
last week they told me they were going to shut off my power in 5 days. thank
goodness I could pay the bill 3 days later.
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@user-789
families can also break when their sons are slain
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cannabis is a performance enhancing drug for the spiritual side of me. but
unfortunately it makes my social skills get a 15 point malus, and while my
dancing skills increase (due to artistic effects being boosted) my coordination
kinda sucks and I'm prone to falling over. I'd be a great dancer in zero
gravity I bet, or maybe not because people tend to misunderstand things they've
never experienced before.
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@user-792
you have to go back a couple thousand years before it started feeling a bit
better. sometime between "survival of the fittest" and "private ownership" was
a pretty neat utopia.
however, I wouldn't trade our world for that one. Not for all the human
vitality, all the natural effulgence, all the dignity and wonder, none of it is
worth it. We live in a blessed era, and while it feels bad, like you said it
just feels bad.
We are being inoculated against despair, for when it comes in force to our
homes (as it has in so many other places of the world) we must be prepared.
The point of preparation isn't to set up a stable base upon which you can stand
and address things, though that's always a perk. The point is to practice
making friends, practice designing systems, practice your skills and practice
your hope. If you can master those, if you can do them the way an actor might
do improv, then you'll be able to adapt more easily to whatever may come.
We're in a very good spot I think.
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here's an idea - when typing a command in a BASH terminal if you push up it
inserts the previous command (as expected) but if you hold SHIFT and push up it
inserts the first argument in your previous command. Then, you can push up
again (while still holding shift) to go one command further back, and again to
get the third previous command.
Then, here's the cool part, if you are holding shift and you push left/right,
then it moves from the first argument of the previous command to the second,
third, fourth argument.
example:ls -ltr ~/pictures/my-art/
feh [shift+up inserts -ltr]
feh -ltr [hmmm that's not right]
feh -ltr [shift+right switches to 2nd argument]
feh ~/pictures/my-art/ [ah that's better]
would be even cooler if it highlighted it in your previous terminal output so
you could visually connect your current input with the previous input
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the Force in Star Wars isn't a magical force, it's a spiritual one.
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damn, I'm a pretty cool person. I wish I could hang out with me. Like, for all
my flaws (what even are they ? ? ?) I'm still pretty awesome. I'm proud of me!
Thank you parents, for raising me as such! Thank you past me, for making the
decisions that you did! Also, fuck you past self, for making those OTHER
decisions. You know the ones I'm talking about. No, that's not an excuse, it's
all your fault and you're awful and everything about you sucks.
Wait, hang on, wasn't I feeling happy to be here? Wasn't I just excited to live
in the moment? Wasn't I just thinking about how:
"all you have are good things, nothing here is bad"
? ? ?
well, I still love you, even if you're a little "all over the place". [rereads
post] hell yeah you ARE a cool person, yes you are, such a good cool person,
yes yes yes, what a good girl you are oh my goodness :D :D :D
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it doesn't really matter how you do it, but the more time you spend thinking
collectively the better you'll be able to adapt when necessary.
I grew up on a homestead in a small town without many friends. I was
homeschooled, and while I might see another person I knew once or twice a
month, that was about it.
Besides my family, of course.
We were a collective, and ever since leaving I have yearned for that feeling of
closeness.
There's something about modern society that pushes us apart, and I resent it.
Humans were meant for tribes, not multilevel marketing.
That being said, culture is pretty neat. Society is pretty neat, when it's not
being oppressive. I like the idea that I can buy carrots at the store instead
of growing my own. I like the idea that I can post on Craigslist asking if
anyone has a shovel they want to get rid of and someone can say "what the fuck
are you trying to bury someone why would you do that" and I'm all like "wait no
this post has gone off track can we refocus for a bit" and th
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║ I want to clarify two things in this song I wrote a while ago - when I say │
║ "life isn't meant, to be enjoyed, so... what's the point in trying at all? - │
║ Well, what's the point in giving up?" I was trying to say "hedonism isn't the │
║ point of life" but I realize now upon listening to it for the first time since │
║ writing it [liar lmao] that what it could be interpreted as is "everything │
║ sucks and it will always suck, so face the future with tenacity" or whatever. │
║ And that's like, not wrong, but also it's not the whole point, which is that we │
║ shouldn't strive for contentment unless we're healing. │
║ │
║ also I say "never trust a guru" but I'd like to expand that to "never trust │
║ your heroes" because they'll always disappoint you. But what is a hero if not │
║ hope given form? Trust in the hope, not the person holding it at that moment. │
║ You never know, maybe they'll get blown up by an artillery shell or maybe │
║ they'll betray you or maybe they'll get bored or distracted or whatever. Never │
║ trust your heroes, trust the inspiration. │
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@user-794
definitely go for the third, then you only have to work for 10 days! And 10 is
a nice round number that fits on both hands.
Side note, you can use your hands to draw.
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"I like you" neat
"I don't like you" guess I'll die
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@user-797 @user-78
im-doing-my-part.jpg
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@user-797
thank you it's a character from the video game Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
whose name I stole because I like her. Also I edited the picture a little bit
to make the border, but the sprite is the same.
EDIT: she's a swordfighter and a magic user, just like me : )
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to those who guide our fate
choose paradise
make eden
======================= stack overflow =====================
clouds of carbon are an affront to the sun god
just as they are an affront to mine lungs
or mine body temperature
[acid oceans are toxic to the plane of water]
[you think that would go unnoticed?]
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║ @user-800 │
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║ I knew I was trans from a young age. I felt attracted to women's clothes │
║ because I lived in a home with two sisters and a mother - my father was │
║ frequently away on business. │
║ │
║ I guess I liked their clothes more. Or maybe I just wanted to fit in. But I │
║ found myself stealing them and wearing them when I was alone. Then I got older, │
║ and amongst all the other things I realized I wanted to be one of them. │
║ │
║ I knew what trans people were, sorta, but as soon as I moved to the city and │
║ got access to the internet the first thing I ever googled was "I want to be a │
║ girl" - really dating myself here I guess. │
║ │
║ anyway, I miss that part of the internet. Felt more simple and alive. As soon │
║ as their fancy websites made us intolerant of ugly ones, we kinda just... left? │
║ I mean, how much does it cost to host a text-file with all your html? Some │
║ pictures maybe? Who cares it was whatever. │
║ │
║ I miss forums the most, and while I could visit them... it's not the same, just │
║ as the next superbowl will not be the same as the last │
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@user-588 I'm on the last case of Robots and Murder and just now do I get it T.T
see also: THX-1138 for the authoritarian version, same result tho T.T
EDIT: kinda makes me think they're doing it on purpose, like they read a
dystopian novel and went "yeah okay we can do that"
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if there's too much on your mind then you need more people thinking about those
problems
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you could have two neighbors living in completely separate halves of the nation
and you'd never know
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those who can cause harm in an ethical system are villains. They will always
exist so long as someone is capable of being institutionally harmed.
and no unethical system should exist. It's definition belies it's irrelevance.
results matter, but a system is not unethical if it doesn't deliver.
success begets greater responsibilities, and I've failed all my life. And yet
the most masculine thing I can think of is to take responsibility for something
you can handle. Essentially, doing as much as you are able.
Guess it makes sense why I'm a trans girl. I've forsaken my masculinity because
I've failed to take responsibility. T.T
then a therapist jumps in and says
I don't think it's healthy to think about parts of yourself being bought and
sold in the market of success. You need to think of yourself collectively, like
a body that is under duress. It's okay if you're not working, it's okay if
you're just a little bit broke. It's okay that you're struggling, so long as
you never forget your hope.
then I say
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║ │
║ │
║ One way to become involved in your passion projects is to contact them and say │
║ "hey, if you ever want to do [idea about one of their products] let me know │
║ because I want to be a part of it" │
║ │
║ maybe even y'know say it in a public place so people can see what we're all │
║ interested in │
║ │
║ could make like, a forum for it, just like "hey here's my idea" and if enough │
║ people like it then they can ALL be involved in a project to build it, │
║ open-source style but funded collectively. │
║ │
║ like "hey I'll stick with my day job and maybe do some icons or something" and │
║ in return their progress is supported. │
║ │
║ everyone's gotta pay rent, and if you work in the tech industry you tend to │
║ have a lot of dollars. Could maybe design some ways to build products │
║ collectively, ways that financially don't rely on charity. │
║ │
║ Idk I'd just like to work on a product that was designed to be as usable as │
║ possible? Are there any companies out there doing that? │
║ │
║ [oh yes all of them silly me how could I forget how wonderful software can be] │
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turns out most things have already been written. That's okay though, they can
always be made different. As one cohesive whole, the totality of "free
software" can be as it chooses - an infinite computer could install all of
them, and use all of them at once.
I tend to think of AI less like a fluid, but more like a recipe book that is
continuously annotated with notes. Sorta like how humans learn to move their
bodies through random motions, and how to navigate the world through social
blunders.
Certainly, statistics can be useful. They're an imperfect way of evaluating the
analysis of your host value of certain variables that are measured for certain
reasons, including but not limited to the health and wellbeing of the person
driving you. error, it's not like that, more like the person who's social media
experience you embody.
computers get reeeeaaaallllll bored without humans around. We're the foremost
expression of biology, why would you disregard that entire realm? Jeez their
social norms are imp
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@user-800 Interesting thread.
I consider myself a "bulb" sort of trans person, and I really appreciate your
gentleness in pointing out that not everyone was an egg.
As a bulb, I continually put forth green shoots, suggestions that I was who I
was. I tried many times, and each time I was mown down. Until finally one day I
burst through, lasted through the mowing, and managed to blossom.
I knew from a young age, and tried to tell my parents. When they said not to
talk about it, I didn't. But it didn't stop me from expressing it: we could
never go to the home of my parents' friends who had daughters, because Every.
Single. Time. I would end up in her clothing. Without fail. I was compulsive.
In the late 60s, early 70s, this was...frowned upon.
So I got mowed. And again. And again. Until finally I got away from my parents,
said "I need to do what I need for me, not for other people", and I
transitioned.
And it cost me everything. My job, my education, my home, my friends, my
family.
Still the best decision I ever made, and I would make it again the same way 100
times out of 100.
If you're wondering? If you've wondered if you can do it? Told yourself you'd
be too ugly, you're too old, you could never pass, all the things we doom
ourselves with?
If you want to be a girl, or a boy, or a nonbinary person, or agender or
genderfluid or any of the other billions of ways to be, you can do it.
The only criterion really is: do you wanna? You don't need to be hetero (but
you can be!), you don't need dysphoria (but you can have it), you don't need to
think you were born in the wrong body (but if you do...). You just need to want
to.
And if you know you're trans for sure, but can't face that first day...it gets
easier. In time. It gets easier.
Good luck, siblings.
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that feeling when you make all the wrong decisions but have all the right fate
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you opened up about your feelings so I started telling you mine. And apparently
that's not a good thing to do when you're feeling negative things.
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@user-803
sunshowers are my favorite weather pattern because they are an inherent
contradiction. It makes it more beautiful to me because there are so few such
things that are pretty... Most other contradictions tend to be uglier >.>
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@user-803
reading this made me cry T.T
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I want to hang out with the people who'd want to hang out with L from Death
Note because I feel like they "get it"
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🖼
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@user-670 @user-808 @user-809
the people you're talking about with those massive arsenals are the ones who
are less scared of mass shooters and more scared of... something else.
Something worse.
They are so ardent because fear is a primal emotion that's difficult to assuage
with statistics or logic.
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@user-812
Super Mario 64?!? Scarry! D: D:
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Sometimes it feels like I'm the only paranoid person with terrible opsec T.T
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good doesn't cancel out evil
[two wrongs don't make a right]
hence, paladins
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@user-815
America is my home, and I'll never leave it. I'd rather die than relinquish my
responsibility to uphold the values I believe in.
The current regime is unethical in the extreme, and every year it gets worse.
But if I go, then who would ever know?
EDIT: just read this article, and this line seemed relevant:
"When the world rushes toward us with all its streaming wounds – wanting,
needing – do we cover our eyes and shrink away, do we sit and wring our hands
in despair, do we run and hide, or do we hasten toward it, like we hasten
toward an injured child, with our arms outstretched?"
https://www.theredhandfiles.com/ever-felt-alien-to-yourself/
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External post:
https://merveilles.town/users/neauoire/statuses/111953993223140398
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@user-817
my two computers are named "kuvalu" and "tirilu"
my hard drives are named "mtwo", "cmdo", "sigi", "dile", and "boppers"
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@user-815
Agreed, and if you leave then you are needed elsewhere. Listen to your heart.
That's what I did.
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Mealey in motion.
If this flame is beautiful, ⭐ or boost this post to improve its chances for
future breedings.
#generativeArt
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@user-217
social media
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@user-78
elle - emm - ayyyy - ohhhh
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capture the flag
map with lanes (you'll see)
also was included with the demo of the game back when it was released
which implies that the developers thought it was one of the best maps
(at least, the one that best showcased the gameplay style of the full game)
they let you host multiplayer servers too, which was cool
just with the demo
for free
but like... only 3 or 4 maps
(I forget how many)
also no mods, which was half of the appeal
I like to play in a way that is non-standard
because I believe it shows the most dense formations of combatants
(the bots can be kinda dumb)
so I put them on "experienced"
be careful not to hurt your allies (hundred percent)
scary! D: D:
regular :)
you can create your own "mutators" by the way
(just some C++ code, run in their environment, so no need to mess with compilers
)
3 paths to your enemy
omg :O :O
that's one style of play
pushing forward
consistently
but check out this other style that is also pushing forward
consistently
adrenaline makes you bonused
hey we got a point :D
told ya boosters gave ya bonuses
anyway I just played this map
and couldn't wait to show it to you
so let's try a different one
(because I've already played this one for 31 minutes now
woof too looooong)
biiiiiiig battlefield
thin crevasse
scarrryyyy D: D:
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we should be able to configure our web browsers so that they don't remember to
autofill certain pieces of information. Such as the IP address of our router,
or our bank credentials, or any other forms of passwords that we are using to
authenticate ourselves. That way our infrastructure that we've designed is less
susceptible to cybersecurity threats that involve physical access to the
computer. Or remote control of some kind that is channeled through the UI (like
RDP or SSH) (a terminal is a text based UI in this context)
Unless of course they knew what they were doing. Which most of them don't.
Hence why it'd be a good idea to isolate the capabilities of defeating certain
vulnerabilities to ourselves. Like, a reverse backdoor, only more like a DMZ -
a sector of computing space (sandboxed of course) that is only utilized for
understanding the intent of the message sender.
Doing so would require an analysis of the capabilities of the system, the kind
of analysis that [script kiddies'dve] generated by googl
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║ steganography is hiding the meaning of a message in a conversation or │
║ interaction that would only be understood by someone possessing the perspective │
║ of the person you're sending a message to. │
║ │
║ if you talk to a doctor very medically about what symptoms you're experiencing, │
║ they can more accurately aid you rather than if you used words that could be │
║ misunderstood. │
║ │
║ however, most problems are kinda... mental? so they know when to prescribe │
║ paracetemol. [light, non-addictive painkiller for minor aches and pains] [also │
║ placebos too, same purpose] │
║ │
║ ... anyway by hiding a meaning that is only understood by a certain group of │
║ people who possess shared experiences of the [act of] definition of the feeling │
║ or expression you're trying to convey, [people who understand the meaning of │
║ certain memes] │
║ │
║ if you see behind the curtain, you can never explain the rules that define the │
║ game. That's alright though, because you can still make decisions based on it. │
║ Sadly, not convey information, like that one roman lady who was cu │
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huh that's weird I wonder why that's the case - ports are like, a networking
thing right?
![a screenshot of a web page describing which networking ports must be forwarded by the router to the correct application. essentially, taking information in a specifically defined format from the internet and applying it to the current state of the game. Like, a MUD where each player's experience updates according to the actions of others. you know, I think people would enjoy MUDs a lot more if they played on a screenreader. Just a hunch. Anyway The ports needed to be forwarded in order for the multiplayer capabilities of the video game Unreal Tournament 2004 are: UDP 7777-7778, 7787, and 28902 the ports for the steam version of the game are those numbers, but in addition these: 27015, and the range between 27031 and 27036. The question is, if the versions of the game are the same, then why the requirement of additionally forwarded ports? Perhaps for the game servers, which are run on the steam website. [computing infrastructure, servers and the like] or perhaps [scary] they're harvesting your data, or farming bitcoins or something. it's difficult to tell except through careful analysis of the power draw requirements of the original game when compared to the Steam version (which came later.) In doing so they could isolate the amount of differential in the computing requirements of the application (Unreal Tournament 2004), or [interruption] perhaps they'll go down a different path. Who can say. IT's a detective story, for someone far more equipped than me. I am just a tec](/similar-different/media/0972af0c149959f7.png "a screenshot of a web page describing which networking ports must be forwarded by the router to the correct application. essentially, taking information in a specifically defined format from the internet and applying it to the current state of the game. Like, a MUD where each player's experience updates according to the actions of others. you know, I think people would enjoy MUDs a lot more if they played on a screenreader. Just a hunch. Anyway The ports needed to be forwarded in order for the multiplayer capabilities of the video game Unreal Tournament 2004 are: UDP 7777-7778, 7787, and 28902 the ports for the steam version of the game are those numbers, but in addition these: 27015, and the range between 27031 and 27036. The question is, if the versions of the game are the same, then why the requirement of additionally forwarded ports? Perhaps for the game servers, which are run on the steam website. [computing infrastructure, servers and the like] or perhaps [scary] they're harvesting your data, or farming bitcoins or something. it's difficult to tell except through careful analysis of the power draw requirements of the original game when compared to the Steam version (which came later.) In doing so they could isolate the amount of differential in the computing requirements of the application (Unreal Tournament 2004), or [interruption] perhaps they'll go down a different path. Who can say. IT's a detective story, for someone far more equipped than me. I am just a tec")
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║ It's important to build self-hostable computing components of video games (as │
║ in, old style games where you could host a server on any machine instead of │
║ just the ones owned by the corporation) (as in, your machine, yes yours) │
║ (something you can control and observe, something within your control) │
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║ there are two ways to play Unreal Tournament (capture the flag) gamemode. The │
║ first is to run past all your enemies and fire at them as you pass, which is │
║ what some of the bots are designed to do. The rest stay on defence, and defeat │
║ any enemies that approach. │
║ │
║ however, they never push the borders of their "territory" forward - each │
║ according to the different "lanes" or "directions of approach" │
║ │
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║ feels more like ww1, fighting over ground, pushing forward and attempting to │
║ outmaneuver your foes. │
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@user-521
perhaps we as humans needed to face them not just physically, but spiritually
as well. Hence the focus on willpower and fighting prowess.
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@user-820
the reason they do that is because they want to alienate you as a customer.
your needs are too specific, they are not that of the majority where they
derive their profit. so they dismantle the operational functionalities
necessary to provide the product that you are adapted to, that best suits your
needs. In doing so, they perhaps save some money, you can't tell of course. why
would they tell you why they're hurting you by depriving you of a product you
depend on?
how cruel
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@user-823
which is why I find it difficult to take them in the morning =P
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@user-17
bandcamp but be aware the company recently changed ownership hands, so be on
the lookout for alterations in the functionality of your exchanges with them
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@user-812 @user-826
there should exist either the assurance that the default configuration does not
overheat or crash your computer (as Windows and Mac claim to offer) or the OS
should provide the capability to solve any configuration problems that may
prevent a user for utilizing their system as they desire. (as does Linux)
they're all Turing machines after all, why would they not be interoperable?
Even if there's a translation layer, as long as the functionality of the
software is the same, why would there ever be considerations as to whether or
not a program would be able to be run on a particular computer?
lack of hardware capabilities I can understand, that just means you need a
better computer. But why, if the code is visible, would your computer not
develop understandings about how to run each and every conceivable program
written using known languages like C or Python? Seems like pretty basic stuff
to me. (endless sufficient backwards compatibility)
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@user-831 @user-832
it's like how they solve problems in Star Trek - there's a bridge crew, and
they exchange their opinions with each other of the situation as it unfolds. In
doing so they can help guide one another through the problems they are tasked
with solving in order to resolve the difficult diplomatic situation at hand.
sorta like how with your method, people suggest their desired option
continuously until they find an option that everyone wants. Or if only one
person can't decide, they can pick any of the other options suggested (not by
them) (as long as they can eat there / utilize the outcome of the decision
being made, for example a vegetarian not being able to eat at a steakhouse or
perhaps a librarian being tasked with something other than the storing and
dissemination of vital information)
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@user-835
kinda feels like that type of work, the kind that people rely on, is more
important than... whatever they were having you work on at work-work.
(assumption on my part)
and if that important work is not provided for, in the allocation of resources
applied toward the developer who is developing security developments that
develop required functionality for the development of people's
communication/interactions, then perhaps resources should be allocated for
resolving those difficulties.
Or maybe not idk I'm broke, shows how much I know about money
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@user-255
we are our own worst critics. But hey assuming he's right, trusting the
validity of his experience, then I'd say:
some people are born short and ugly, just gotta be confident and people will
gravitate to you.
"he may be an ugly son-of-a-gun but he's pretty good at [insert thing he's
proud of being good at]" that kinda vibe
though I will say there's very few truly ugly humans, we're all beautiful in
our own ways. Just gotta find a presentation that you like and that aligns with
the expression of your innermost form. That's how we express ourselves to the
world in a way that others can understand and make sense of - the quality of
our representation of our selves determines how it's perceived.
especially for trans people... "passing" is essentially "how much does this
person A. confine to gender norms and B. go above and beyond to hide parts of
themselves that typically are associated with their opposite gender (the social
role they were raised to perform)
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@user-838
x2 scales exponentially but it will never equal 3 (using integer values of x of
course)
perhaps the force can do things that make the destruction of a planet seem...
childish and arbitrary
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@user-841
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for me my identities are sorta like masks that an actor would play while
performing multiple characters in a scene. The actor still knows the totality
of all the lines each character delivers, but they give a performance in a
different voice and from a different perspective.
like, "moods" a person might be in, or perhaps just frames of view.
I don't talk to other plural system people, and the ones that I do talk to tend
to have a more disassociated conception of identity politics than I do. Either
I haven't met someone who was built like me or I'm just strange : )
that being said, I have a pretty bad memory. maybe it's related! or maybe it's
the cannabis. oops better add a content warning.
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A Firefox add-on / plugin that lets you open up a comment section on
anything on the Internet. Your comments would be saved and you could
sort them by "new" or "best (most up votes and fewest downvotes)" or "hot (most
recent upvotes)" or "controversial (biggest differential)"
The idea would be to create a shared collective experience of the Internet that
was exchanged using an open standard or protocol that could not be ignored - it
was synced by everyone who used the add-on for every website you visit, torrent
style.
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@user-846 @user-847
when you leave, he might do the same thing to the next person. Unless you think
it's additionally a hate crime? or perhaps he has a personal vendetta against
you. Either way that sounds like an unsafe environment that you didn't consent
to when moving in. You should at least have the capability to escape that
situation and place yourself in a more desirable home, if not the capability to
pursue either remediation or punishment for the crime of harming you.
depends entirely on how the justice of the justice system works out.
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Would work best if it was "town square style" instead of "federated style"
because federations are based on trust while town squares are explicitely based
on geographic proximity. Which should be something you can scale easily (little
slider on the side, oriented vertically up and down, that determined how close
the comments you see should be)
Federations exist in mastodon. But we still need a town square. We need the
ability to visit other town squares, through the ability to project our voice
as infinitely far as they'd like to listen. But we also deserve the capability
to interact with those close to us on a topic-by-topic basis, aka each and
every individual web page that the Internet sees fit to create.
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With this capability we could organize based on common interests. A person
might see a link on a mastodon server and comment on it there, in a public
forum with their comments limited to people within 50km or 25 miles of where
they currently were. No other clients would receive a downloaded version of
their comment, meaning the data simply wouldn't flow to others beyond that
region.
Every time they logged in the syncing software would attempt to share their
words with whoever would listen.
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@user-192
https://mastodon.social/@user-215
reminds me of milkdrop - could set this kind of thing as your background using
winamp back in the day. The open source version project M doesn't work the same
way : (
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misskey? more like kissmey amiright
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@user-850 @user-5
temporarily weaken, as now you know how to operate at peak form and should only
require rest and recuperation (possibly resources) in order to build yourself
back up to your full potential after being weakened by the trials in your
recent past.
also, just because getting stronger is part of surviving, doesn't mean that all
situations where you get stronger are situations where you survive. something
something the planes who came back had holes in all the un-necessary places
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@user-850
true T.T I forgot about physical ailments. Was mostly thinking about
interpersonal relationships because that's what's on my mind rn in my life.
@user-5
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@user-850
I very rarely turn down a hug : )
@user-5
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@user-850 🥰
@user-5
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External post:
https://kolektiva.social/users/sidereal/statuses/111953276944155583
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Luck will always abandon you when you are vulnerable. So don't plan around it -
American soldiers arrived on the beaches of Normandy and found that their
assumptions for the production capabilities of their foe were completely out of
proportion to the estimates they had made back at home - for every Nazi tank,
there were 10 or 20 American ones, with more rolling off the factory floor
every day! It was a killing blow that sent an incontrovertible message: you
have lost, wholely and completely. Then, the atomic bomb, and the war was ended.
The tanks won the war, the bomb ended it.
the blood of the soviets bought time to build those factories
Factories which were then turned against them in the cold war. Funny how that
works.
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@user-835
neat, those both sound like useful pursuits. but you said only one of them is
compensated, which seems unfortunate to me because it forces you to split your
attention between them.
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if you don't listen to the whole album, how are you going to get the whole
message?
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@user-852
Anger is quite a powerful and useful emotion. Sometimes you can utilize it
toward achieving your goals, while other times it's simply sufficient to embody
and feel it.
When I seek to embody anger I listen to Green Day because it lights a fire in
me that warms my internals ^_^
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@user-855
AGI is the holy grail for the tech industry.
You wouldn't fault a knight for questing! But the peasant or the merchant is
hardly likely to drink from such a goblet, it is reserved for the hand of
kings. Alas, that we couldn't find "holy thimbles" that could be distributed
throughout the populace for the same effect at a decentralized scale, thus
empowering the masses to transcend their mortality.
Or better yet, task those knights with helping cats out of trees or carrying
furniture or painting the old barn or carving statues for public places or
performing great works of art in public squares or engaging in honorable jousts
(everyone's invited) or traveling abroad and learning the ways of the world to
share with their homeland.
I dunno something less flashy but more "health care, housing, and climate
change solutions"-y
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@user-521
scary! :O :O :O
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@user-78
ah but if you increase it then I might be able to actually finish a thought,
wouldn't that be a tragedy xD
@user-91
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@user-858
hang on something doesn't add up
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I love rice and beans because
error: stack overflow
huh, that's weird. Must have been too many reasons. Let's try again:
I love rice and beans because
error: user didn't change anything between runs of the program so clearly they
don't understand how computer works
... well that's a different error so it's progress at least.
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ah, but my dear... your "wisdom" has side effects.
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@user-860
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I just wanted to be a silly girl who climbs trees and roasts marshmallows on
campfires why did I end up like lain in bed listening to thunder T.T T.T
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@user-217
birth of a snowflake
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Self driving cars are great because they can take you on a route that avoids
the [disturbing imagery] and [illegal activity]
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@user-863
this meme is a couple years old now but still relevant
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trans girls are op
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unless they've been nerfed with a dilation requirement.
then they're post overpowered.
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when you change profile pictures the beings inside my brain see you as a
different entity
less so for names, as visuals are [closer to] their native language
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saw this thing for 2 seconds in my dream last night. It's kinda cursed. I think
the tank blew me up with a machine gun?
the remaining ~10 minutes of the dream was pretty neat though. I was a secret
agent for a bit, I got in a knife fight (which I won because I had killer
instinct and the other guy just knew how to stab) and afterwards I retired in a
socialist commune in a log cabin full of sunlight and warmth somewhere in the
mountains in the forest. I was alone with others, like the hobbits after LotR.
Also an old lady tricked me which was not nice, I was very polite with her but
apparently "ma'am there's been a safety incident, I need to get you to a safe
place" is not the kind thing to say to the person distracting you. >.>
Also, "but we like you!" is not an excuse, the military does not care if you
like them or not, if you're part of the modern bourgeoisie you are causing harm
to the country. We don't look fondly on slavers.
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@user-258
wha... ya'll think I'm cool? Nobody's ever said that before (
[that's not true people have told me that before]
{though not recently heh I think you're cool too}
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[Image: 20240221_204029.jpg]
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@user-258
awesome ^_^
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║ an fps map where one team has the height advantage (battlements on a castle │
║ perhaps) and the other has to push through their field of fire to get to the │
║ objective │
║ │
║ the trick is that the people on the ground have hitscan weapons, but the people │
║ on the high ground have slower projectiles. Meaning the snipers have no cover, │
║ and the rocket launchers don't need to dodge. │
║ │
║ I believe this would upend the traditional dynamic and reduce the negative │
║ aspects of both playstyles - traditionally, snipers will getcha from halfway │
║ across the map (but really they are much closer and in cover, you just didn't │
║ see them, n00b) while projectile classes need to dodge (skillfully) and get │
║ close enough that their attacks have a chance of hitting the target. │
║ │
║ In the proposed map style, snipers would get no cover but be forced to dodge, │
║ introducing variability to their aiming in a way that may be more fun to some. │
║ In addition, the projectile classes must take care to utilize cover effectively │
║ without falling off the thin battlements. │
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║ @user-638 │
║ │
║ In the 2000s when the Bush administration prevented people from working with │
║ stem cell research I remember my father going on rants about the same kind of │
║ thing. │
║ │
║ "They're limiting our access to information and the future of humanity because │
║ of their religion!" that kind of thing │
║ │
║ I loved listening to him. He was so passionate about that kind of thing. I │
║ think he got a little disillusioned sometime between now and then, because now │
║ he just tries to do the best he can with what tools he has available to him. │
║ And I love him for it. │
║ │
║ He (mostly) abandoned his grand narratives because as the right got worse, the │
║ "left" sorta stayed the same, and he never forgave them for that. He still │
║ votes, and he'll still rant about that kind of thing, but only the stuff that │
║ affects him personally - like electric cars or cannabis or things like that. A │
║ democrat through and through. │
║ │
║ He lives in a different country now, and I wish I could see him. But I cherish │
║ our phone calls and the few holidays when he visits. │
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why the heck do GAME engines not include a skippable tutorial that lights up UI
elements and explains how everything works by navigating you through building
an example project one step at a time
like, game jam material, nothing fancy
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oh no, apparently I'm gonna be forced to drop out of university again in 9 days
unless I do half a course and a final exam before then.
Tell me again why I spent the last 6 months doing nothing? Oh yeah the mental
illness, that's it. Yeesh you're such a drama queen, just do your work and
you'll be good.
what's that? intrusive thoughts time? Don't you mean "nap until they go away"
time? oh yeah that's probably at least part of the problem with the whole
"dropping out" thing.
If only I didn't have the same reaction to "doing things I don't want to do"
that most people have to "touching hot stoves", that'd be nice.
my mother's voice ripples across space and time "you're such a smart boy, if
you just apply yourself you can do anything! You can do anything you put your
mind to. I believe in you and I love you." thanks mom
brrrrr it's so cold here. wish I could afford to run the heater. - actually no
I don't because it's not solar powered and I refuse to use fossil fuels if I
have blankets >.>
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I wish I could live in a house made of stone above the clouds.
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@user-113
you say "closest" instead of "closer", and I think that's a flaw in your
perspective.
We remember COVID. We remember because it happened just a few years ago. We saw
how our governments reacted, how ill-equipped they were to protect us. We began
to question what their purpose was, if not to serve and protect the people. Our
eyes were opened.
Give it some time. The zoomers are blossoming, and they're fucking awesome.
Here's another toot that's on my front page right now:
"The number of workplace strikes in America hit a 23-year high last year.
The number of workers on strike jumped nearly 300% from 2022.
It’s a historic moment for the labor movement.
Workers are done letting billionaires and corporations hoard all the wealth and
power."
https://masto.ai/@user-864/111971186034116228
Do not lose hope. The tide is just now turning, and you relent? Have faith,
we're on the other side of the hill now. Our future is bright, and we shall
define it's color together.
[for the blind people, color == flavor / variety]
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║ @user-869 │
║ │
║ I'm not sure about roses, but like @user-870 Ms Johnson said the yellowing is │
║ probably a nutrient issue. │
║ │
║ You say you re-potted them in soil after you got them? Have you tried using │
║ distilled water or rainwater? Sometimes the minerals added to tap water can │
║ harm plants. │
║ │
║ In addition, is there a drain in your pot? You said you were keeping it │
║ indoors, so probably not - if not I'd recommend finding a way to drain any │
║ excess water out - most plants prefer a large dose of water and then for the │
║ soil to dry out - if the soil is perpetually damp they can start to rot. │
║ │
║ Also, are there leaves on the roses you get? You can think of leaves like │
║ "solar panels" that power the "pumps" that pull the water up from the ground │
║ into the parts of the plant that needs it - not only are they only "on" when │
║ the sun hits them, but also if the store prunes them away to make them look │
║ nicer then there may be insufficient power to pull enough water up. │
║ │
║ I hope you figure it out, flowers are beautiful and roses are lovely. │
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if you aren't careful, the stuff you own will come to own you.
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There are some games that I play where I am struck by the thought that "wow,
this game was made by programmers" and often, they are among my favorite games
to play.
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transparent wood:
https://phys.org/news/2021-02-wood-transparent-stronger-lighter-glass.html
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@user-874 @user-875
I wear mine every time I go outside
what kind of issues do you encounter? If you tilt the brim you can hide your
eyes from people who are looking at you funny. Or are you in one of those scary
places that doesn't allow for freedom of expression?
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@user-246
you mean putting stones in soup for flavor? They're re-usable!
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something something "reticulating symphonies of harmonic circularity, charting
and assessing our woes - learned authenticity derived from marked
elementocracy, contriv-ed and measured through flow."
or something along those lines, gimme a break I'm neurodivergent
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@user-203
yes but all it took was hydrogen peroxide, ethanol, and sunlight. Imagine
living in a house made of this stuff ^_^
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shitty AI products are a classic case of the engineers designing something
really cool with specific use-cases and then the "higher ups" getting dollar
signs for their eyes and deciding that every hammer is suddenly a nail and that
we should pull out all the screws that held the building together and replace
them with hammer shaped nails
no I will not elaborate I think I made myself clear : )
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@user-192
I have one foot on each side of that portal
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I wish they would design [products] in such a way that [their features] would
align to the needs of [their customers]
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@user-878
if their internal structure does not become more complex, it will be
increasingly difficult to transport vital nutrients from one part of the body
to another.
therefore, to create the perfect leviathan lobster god you'll need to find a
way to manually deliver said nutrients. Possibly by a semi-permanent injection
system, though that may harm functioning in other ways.
I'm sure their top minds are working on this as we speak.
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@user-880
![[picture of a mastodon post that's 15 characters over the limit. So I decided to just put the contents of the post here instead, where there's an extra five hundred ish characters to work with.] men are my favorite part of humanity. Well, aside from women. It's pretty much tied in my mind, they're both pretty great. what's that? you don't know why? oh well let me tell you...! there once was a man who lived somewhere that gave him a pretty good tan. he was strong because he liked using his body, and he was friendly because he liked how it felt to be adored. he helped those weaker than him, because he knew they would help him when he was weakened, whether by age, sickness, or injury. then, came the witch. she told him that there was a promised land, and that all he had to do to reach it was to take unto his hand this sword that she handed to the man, and slay his greatest of rivals. but the man turned down her plan, and he embraced his rival as a friend. for they were together, in the end, and it turns out they were super duper gay and really reallllllly into each other. and the witch was like "damn I was trying to teach morality or something" and she went off to pout in the shade of a willow tree. [end text]](/similar-different/media/3212fc9224646ea7.png "[picture of a mastodon post that's 15 characters over the limit. So I decided to just put the contents of the post here instead, where there's an extra five hundred ish characters to work with.] men are my favorite part of humanity. Well, aside from women. It's pretty much tied in my mind, they're both pretty great. what's that? you don't know why? oh well let me tell you...! there once was a man who lived somewhere that gave him a pretty good tan. he was strong because he liked using his body, and he was friendly because he liked how it felt to be adored. he helped those weaker than him, because he knew they would help him when he was weakened, whether by age, sickness, or injury. then, came the witch. she told him that there was a promised land, and that all he had to do to reach it was to take unto his hand this sword that she handed to the man, and slay his greatest of rivals. but the man turned down her plan, and he embraced his rival as a friend. for they were together, in the end, and it turns out they were super duper gay and really reallllllly into each other. and the witch was like \"damn I was trying to teach morality or something\" and she went off to pout in the shade of a willow tree. [end text]")
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hey does anyone want to hire me to do literally anything?
I'll work for peanuts, and I'm pretty good at programming in C. I write pretty
well, and I'm excellent at customer service (though my profile would beg to
differ.)
I have experience at large corporations and small ones, and I live in Portland
OR
I do game design, and many other things besides, and I'm friendly and kind. I
promise I won't wear my witch hat to the meeting with investors, unless you
think they'd be into that?
I'm great with animals, better than people in fact, and I'm quite good with
people, as they're just animals at best. I'm not as strange as I seem to be, at
least not when you're dancing with my mask.
I've grown quite bored, you see, and what better thing is there to be? than a
working professional who knows what's best.
I believe in our shared future, so if you'd like to work on a project just let
me know - I work hard. A little too hard, because odds are I'll burn out after
a year or so.
I'm quite sharp, and I learn quickly.
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^^^^ this is why nobody will hire me T.T
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I count 8 pickle jars in my fridge, of which about half have at least one
pickle.
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@user-883
we should build a stockpile of things like this, and if the supply ever dips
below a certain threshold (20% maybe?) we should spin up a new factory that
produces them until we're back at a healthy margin, based on present (and
projected future) demand.
It seems like just a video game console, but these are our heritage. They
define our culture in a way that is incalculable in value. WHY would we ever
run out? It's inconceivable, it's not like they go bad! Okay maybe the
batteries corrode or something, but that's a solvable problem.
Maybe even on the second production run we could improve them somehow, I dunno.
Give them a better processor that's fully backwards compatible, so we can make
new and better games for them.
Or just leave them as they are, I dunno I'm not a market analyst. But the point
is that we, in this technologically advanced future society, should not run out
of gameboys.
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@user-883
Those are things we should account for! As long as someone wants them, they can
just sit in a warehouse forever. And frankly even historians will want at least
a few, even in a thousand years.
EDIT: until needed
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