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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7xn5zeJ4D4
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│ CW: cannabis-mentioned │
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I don't think I can write Ephemeren without weed T.T
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"Hey, I'm not actually [username]. We just didn't know if we could trust you,
so we sent one of our best and boldest, aka me. You seem chill though which is
why I'm telling you now. My real username is [username], you can message me
there if you want. Oh and here's an invite to an encrypted IRC server, you can
google how to connect - post there if you need anything important, otherwise
just pretend like nothing changed. Anyway I sent this at 4 in the morning so
that you could respond whenever you wanted. I really enjoyed our conversation
about [subject] and I know someone who's into [subject] so I could hook you up
with them if you want.
Welcome to our community, let's [insert goal here] together."
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@user-246
one of those things sounds easier than the other!
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@user-246
... oh, Curry's a language.
I thought you were hungry.
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@user-246
better than currying yourself in the car, or at the store, or in the park, or
at your best friend's funeral, or while listening to "smooth jams 1980s"
playlist they made you back in high school, or when buying more tissues at the
store because you can't stop crying about the curry you would make together
or... wait hang on I lost the metaphor
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This month, I was diagnosed with Schizotypal disorder. I had a single hour to
talk to a psychiatrist (thank you, insurance) and he explicitly told me that my
diagnosis was preliminary.
Schizotypal is a type of neurodivergence similar to autism but with elements of
schizophrenia (paranoia, delusional and / or magical thinking) and my
presentation includes ADHD symptoms such as difficulty focusing. When medicated,
I have difficulty concentrating, however the paranoia and delusional thinking is
suppressed. The treatment plan is ongoing and developing.
These issues have been present for the entire time I've been at WGU, and before.
However, I am seeking treatment now because I had begun to have difficulty
maintaining a job and keeping a home.
Currently, my medication is working. However the greatest issue facing me right
now is financial problems - I couldn't maintain a job while unmedicated, and
frankly while medicated I am still having difficulty for different reasons.
However the intent is to refine the medication choices to find a solution that
works for me. However, employment is still a concern, and so I have requested
and been approved for a term break of at least 2 months with the option to
extend. During this term break I intend to resolve the financial issue however
I can. Ideally in such a way that will allow me to apply myself toward school
work.
This degree is important to me. Without it, I won't be able to find employment
in the tech industry aside from technician roles. My previous experience with
them has given me experience, and I learned quite a bit... Until I ran out of
things to learn. I do not believe I could handle that type of work long-term for
various reasons. In the short term, I may attempt it but I am convinced that I
will burn out quickly.
I currently feel as if I am disabled. I don't know if it's true, perhaps I'm
just going through a rough patch. But once my savings hit zero, I'm out on the
streets, and I won't live long like that.
When thinking about whether or not I'll be able to complete my degree, I
honestly cannot give you an answer. I've been in higher education for over a
decade, surely I should have finished by now. But I cannot get over various
hurdles it seems, and frankly I have no idea why. It's... Maddening, to see
yourself, so full of potential, yet chained to the form and circumstances you
are given. I wonder what choices might I have made differently to avoid my fate,
if it truly is my fate to fail in this way, but I have no answers.
I am intelligent, of this I am certain. I know more about computers than anybody
I know, and I would love to apply myself toward them. But I lack a degree, so I
cannot be seen by recruiters and hiring managers. I try to work on my degree,
but I find the words on the page grow dense like the forest between the trees,
and I cannot see a way through to reach new understandings. Why do I keep
learning these things? I already know what a callback function is, what
interfaces are used for, how to implement safe multithreading in a parallel
environment, I know how networking protocols interact with hardware and how the
airflow through a case affects the thermals of a computer's internals. I've
grown crystallized in my knowledge, it seems, due to the endless pursuit of
these foundations. I think I would excel in the higher-level courses, but... I
can't get there. I crave the insights that might be learned in a master's
degree, but my brain is not wired for homework. I'm not built to cram for tests,
to learn someone's else's tools and frameworks. I don't know what I could be
doing better, it feels like I'm so alone. I guess it's my own fault for picking
an online school, but WGU is the best of the online schools, and I needed online
because I move around a lot. Well... I used to. My boyfriend moved around a lot,
but now he's my ex-boyfriend. Oh well.
... Anyway you can probably see why I have difficulty with school. It's
difficult for me to stay on track. I can start working on my project 5 or 6
times in a day and make marginal at best progress, and each time it hurts more
and more to return. I don't have an answer, but I don't know what to do if not
to pursue my degree. I feel as if I'm on the brink of despair in my life, and if
you read these appeals often, I imagine you hear that a lot.
I will apply myself more to my coursework. Once I find a job, I will give
everything to my school, even as it breaks me. I am... intense, and I feel
strongly that I must get this degree. Between it and me, there is quicksand, but
I must get through.
Thank you for your consideration. I understand however you decide. If I can knab
a decent job, I might be able to pay for my degree myself, given a couple months
to save up for it. But I highly doubt I could find such a thing in this economy
and this life I do lead.
Please consider me, I will accept any aid that is offered.
Cameron
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│ CW: education~ │
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A child's schooling should consist of the bare-minimum amount of mental labor
necessary to teach them the fundamentals of arithmetic, reading, and writing.
They must be given opportunities to apply themselves toward educational goals
beyond such things, including social proficiency, and physical dexterity and
strength, and specialization in a particular academic subject.
Kids need freedom. They need community, not "social time" that does not consist
of anything more than living in the same rooms at school as the other kids.
They need to be able to visit each other whenever they want.
I personally believe that lectures taught in an interesting and engaging way
are significantly more effective at instilling a drive to learn than rigorous
drilling of detailed information. A kid will not learn a sufficient amount of
information in school to be useful in a particular topic unless they seek out
the knowledge on their own. Universities attempt to "fake" this effect by
getting them to research.
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this character portrait from Shadowrun Hong-Kong was a major source of gender
envy for me
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│ CW: personal │
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turns out I'm too much of a neurotic cinnamon roll to be a cool stand-offish
empath
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arithmatic control flow
If A, then B. Else C
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"Zoontalu, I have MEESed one" will forever live rent free in my head
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Some wisdom from a Japanese gamer. As a designer I thought about it in the
context of UX. But, really, it can be applied to most any challenge in life.
#Psychology #Gaming #Life #MarioBros #Japan
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Go download your fedi archive!
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If you have a thousand options in your case / switch statement, you should
probably refactor.
consider putting function pointers (to the things you would have switched to)
in an array and instead of checking "if this enum, then this, if that enum,
then that" etc send an index into the function pointer array. That way there's
no branching at all.
The best way to generate performant code is to reduce or eliminate branches. If
you're working on a video game or networked program, this can be incredibly
important.
The second best way is probably reducing cache misses and increasing
parallelism, but those are different problems.
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oh huh I really don't want to work anymore.
I used to, but they wouldn't let me.
Then they did let me, but I worked too hard and burnt out.
Then I recovered for a while, and asked to work again, and they said no.
Repeatedly.
I don't think I want to work anymore. It's an abusive relationship. It feels
demeaning. I'm better than employment.
[rent comes due]
oh no
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dear everyone in every friends list I've ever made, on social media, in video
games, and in the contacts on my phone:
I miss you. I hope you're doing well.
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this world was made for you and me but I just keep whining and crying about it
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@user-570
it's a nice place to be. Rent's cheaper than portland, so I hear, because of
the taxes or whatever.
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@user-570
unless you meant canada. I vote no on that, because there's very little
difference between there and here. I mean, it's colder, which is nice. But
don't move because of politics or whatever. We can handle that.
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fellas is it gay to get a software job that pays 6 figures just to buy out all
the mutual aid posts every time one crosses my feed??
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everyone knows me as a massive flake
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what if we got together and adopted a new open source project every month and
just collectively worked around the clock to learn and work through the
important problems facing it
or even like, cleared out the backlog of stupid pointless boring tasks that
would allow the developers to work on something better
call it the wandering parade of development
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-> file: messages/527
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could give us some experience organizing small, short-term projects to
accomplish specific goals and tasks in an ad-hoc way that relied less upon
procedure and more on "I think so-and-so knows something about that, they were
looking into those files and posted a breakdown of how they work yesterday"
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-> file: messages/528
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@user-1352
You're absolutely right, the compiler knows better than me! Certainly the
compiler doesn't know best, but certainly the compiler knows better than me.
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@user-1594 Reminds me of this classic from Days of War, Nights of Love.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/crimethinc-days-of-war-nights-of-love
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what if we got together and adopted a new open source project every month and
just collectively worked around the clock to learn and work through the
important problems facing it
or even like, cleared out the backlog of stupid pointless boring tasks that
would allow the developers to work on something better
call it the wandering parade of development
could give us some experience organizing small, short-term projects to
accomplish specific goals and tasks in an ad-hoc way that relied less upon
procedure and more on "I think so-and-so knows something about that, they were
looking into those files and posted a breakdown of how they work yesterday"
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I don't want power, I want control, over my own life at least, and at
most whatever I am suited to designing.
And in order to prevent control from becoming power, it must not only be
decentralized and distributed amongst all who are impacted by it, said control
must also be paired with a burden of responsibility.
There must be no malice in judgement, no fear in foresight, no hatred in
organizing. This is the responsibility of those who would hold unnatural power
over others - the kind that are bourne on the contracts and procedures of
institution.
If the powerful do not seek to relinquish it, then perhaps they do no deserve
it. And yet a nation of Cincinnatuses would surely fall to weakness, as the
strength that they covet is replaced by whoever they can get to fill the role.
Not ideal.
Instead, a human should revel in their strength. The will to power is
the will to passion, and passion is intrinsically human.
However, power corrupts, and all humans should seek to avoid corruption, or at
least to keep it at bay. To do so, a person must consider their impulses and
listen to the words of the unspoken for. Only then may they overcome the perils
of control without reason.
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The strength of a leader is determined not by how many arms they may bear, but
by how many sets of arms they may bring to bear
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"I give you my sympathy, not my empathy, for if given empathy, I should surely
go mad with grief."
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-> file: messages/532
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"no need to thank me. It's hardly a gift if someone has to do it."
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@user-1352
oh no, but I did!
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║ │
║ well, the idea is that they would handle all the tech debt and merge requests │
║ and bugfixes and such - the kind of things that aren't very interesting to work │
║ on. That way, the people who are most dedicated and passionate for the project │
║ have a way to clear out their backlog and start as if from scratch. │
║ │
║ Plus, if they later don't understand how or why something was implemented, they │
║ could always message the person who implemented it and say "hey why did you do │
║ it this way I had it this other way before" and then they could reply and say │
║ "oh yeah because of this-and-this system we implemented for these-or-that │
║ caching reasons related to integer flow through the syncretic binary op-code │
║ delimiter" and then actually wait no maybe you're right, I see what you mean │
║ │
║ well... they don't have to merge everything if they don't want to. They could │
║ just... ignore the parts that people worked on that they don't want to include │
║ in the project. I'm thinking it'd be an opt-in thing too, so someone could │
║ request it! │
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neat
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@user-1074
I think anyone who is against circumcision would also be against those other
things
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@user-1074
those are the kind of people who probably shouldn't take up that much space in
your thoughts
like... they're hypocrites. yeah-sure-fine-whatever. Maybe their opinion could
be changed if they were in different social circumstances, but, they're not,
so... fuck 'em until they are, yeah?
so many people don't think for themselves. That's okay, they don't have to
think if they don't want to. I guess. But they also can hurt people, so... fuck
'em, until they are given the chance to consider, and they choose to consider.
It's very difficult to maintain hatred when presented with the possibility of
consideration. But those kind of people typically never have that opportunity.
So... like I said, fuck 'em. Don't give them power, don't let them hurt people,
but they can fuck right off with their hatred and vitriol (vitriol not unlike
this kind that I'm writing right now)
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-> file: fediverse/3808
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│ CW: music │
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🎵
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"Ritz, we love you, but you're fucking stupid, so we're gonna have to break
your legs now."
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They keep trying to make a movie out of my life because that's how they keep
culture going but I won't let them unless the movie is about them
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doing my best to get at least one bugfix or feature done per day on my
video-game mod. I think the regularity and discipline could do me well.
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this is how I write trello cards or tickets.
and yes, before you ask, modding this game is a constant struggle because the
mod tools are... minimal... so you must work around various challenges by, for
example, adding 1680 different "events" that must be checked every single turn
for every single province on the map.
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│ CW: physical-health-minus │
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feeling kinda sick in a weird way. hope I haven't been poisoned.
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@user-1259
not to pizza since I don't usually eat those, but I do to other frozen /
pre-cooked foods!!
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War is hell - each casualty bids farewell to a wholely unique treasure from
this world - war is hell - there is nothing that cannot be resolved with words.
And yet we fight, and yet we pillage. War is hell, and those who demand it must
do so only to resist evil, elemental evil, the kind that wars on the innocent
and pillages the bounteous. War is hell. Fucking kill the ones who make it.
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"Ritz Menardi? Oh yeah I remember her. What a massive disappointment. This is
why we don't let fucking divas join."
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The right is using the neo-nazis. They don't want them either, but
they're a convenient boogey-man.
of course kamala is going to crush trump. That's the whole point, to
show the world what a ridiculous farce our elections are. They have never been
representative, and now we will see.
Ask any red blooded American, left or right, how they'd like to handle
neo-nazis. We all know where we stand.
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trying to tame a young dumb monster, wish me luck, I see good in him
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the tricky part of being an adult is that your problems become less and less
google-able.
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We need to find a way to care about all the shitheads who are going to have
their hearts broken by trump
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There are strategic goals and top down goals.
Strategy is the domain of the execs. They must be as general as possible and
justify their existence. They are the glue, the connectors, the people who know
who to talk to in order to get things done.
Tactics are the realm of the workers. They must be capable, dependable, honest
and fair. They must diligently realize the goals of the strategic plan using
whatever means they deem fit to address the tactical situation at hand. The
more freedom they have, the more effective they are.
These two forces are pitted in contest under capitalism. Under socialism, they
are orthogonal to one another. Not a pyramid, but a cylinder on its side,
growing from its base on one end to its zenith at the other.
They are allies. They are similar, but distinct. Their roles may overlap at
times, or perhaps not if they should not desire it. A person should be able to
work wherever they like. They are the best judges of their capabilities.
There are only so many resources, and if we vote on their distribution we'll
give enough for everyone to share. And then we'll run out. Unless, of course,
we demand sustainablity. Long-term, and ignoring profit but rather
seeking to build capability. That is the only way to [ramp/snowball/scale].
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*strategic and tactical goals
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Your mouth likes to eat
Your belly likes to fill
Your muscles enjoy exercise (and stretches!)
Your mind likes to think.
Why is it gross to think of your colon enjoying to poop? Does it prefer beans,
because they keep things moving?
Why is it gross to think of your under-arms sweating? Does it prefer not to
smell, or does it wish there were people that liked it without deodorant?
Do your toes think of other people as you walk toward them? Do your fingers
feel the face of your lover as you pull them close? Or is that for the brain,
the thoughts processing of all things mundane, the stuff which feels somehow
more "you" than the rest of you.
How absurd. You are you. You enjoy icecream, you enjoy the beach. You enjoy the
stars, and you enjoy the laughter around you. There is nothing that separates
you from you, for you are your only champion.
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China excels at housing. America excels at tech. Why not let china control our
housing market, and we control their tech industry?
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hey, anyone wanna build the matrix with me? minus the human CPUs of course.
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if you tell them not to keep your data that just means "don't keep my name on
my data"
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"we've been spending most our lives living in our master's paradise"
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Your mouth likes to eat
Your belly likes to fill
Your muscles enjoy exercise (and stretches!)
Your mind likes to think.
Why is it gross to think of your colon enjoying to poop? Does it prefer beans,
because they keep things moving?
Why is it gross to think of your under-arms sweating? Does it prefer not to
smell, or does it wish there were people that liked it without deodorant?
Do your toes think of other people as you walk toward them? Do your fingers
feel the face of your lover as you pull them close? Or is that for the brain,
the thoughts processing of all things mundane, the stuff which feels somehow
more "you" than the rest of you.
How absurd. You are you. You enjoy icecream, you enjoy the beach. You enjoy the
stars, and you enjoy the laughter around you. There is nothing that separates
you from you, for you are your only champion.
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haha I'm in danger
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@user-1582
I think that's what happened, in addition to... whatever this input/output
error is. No clue what to do about that. Maybe my SD card is dying, I've
flashed over it like, 10 times now haha 😅
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"sometimes I don't want to be optimistic sometimes I just want to complain"
oh yeah well what if I want to be optimistic at all times as a coping mechanism
huh you don't have to agree with me
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The media tells you to resist your parents, not their unjustified demands.
The media tells you to resist your government and culture, not its homogenaeity
and oppression.
The media tells you what it needs to in order to confuse you and hinder your
movements, for the media is an arm of capital and capital wants you working
below your best.
The best thing you could be doing is fighting capitalism. All things of peril
stem from it, and we can work on the bad and the unworthy and the lazy and
selfish and unkind and all of the others after capital is slain.
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@user-246
after all, according to their own capitalist theory, money is just an
abstraction of data on the desires of their market. and surely, as capitalism
"trends towards efficiency" (yeah right) the data corresponding to "what is
most efficient" is just as useful as the money that actually describes the
"flow" of goods and services through the made-up economy
so surely we could abolish currency and simply utilize an interest based
economy based on what we're naturally drawn to as humans, right? Oh wait WALL-E
has a society like that, and it wasn't great for us. Apparently there must be a
structural coercion toward productivity, right?
... I'm afraid of people sitting around watching tiktok brainrot and youtube
poops all day, sue me -.-
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External post:
https://floss.social/users/fast_code_r_us/statuses/113142663053255044
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@user-1600
you guessed correctly, good job finding me hehe
and yes, I think someone else was using my account. Gonna try and figure out
what he said.
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The worst part about being sober is knowing that nobody misses your old self
but you.
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@user-1600
Hmmmm, that is quite interesting. On my screen it shows 3 sessions, see
attached picture.
How weird. I might just change my password anyway.
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never stop learning
be yourself, but... recognize when "yourself" could be improved
and improve that, over time, when you learn about why you are flawed, and how
to become better
and when you are improved, relish yourself, savor your accomplishments, cherish
your heart, and honor those who helped you
be yourself
never stop
but do that which improves you
never stop learning
never stop being
you can get there, wherever there is, but know that what lies between is more
important than what is on the other side.
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the worst part about being sober is knowing that nobody misses your old self
but you.
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I always disappear right when you need me the most because you're supposed to
take the next step.
The reason I do that is because...? You fill in the blanks. Tell me why I do
that. I know, and I want you to know, but I can't say it.
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║ │
║ │
║ I had a dream last night where a bunch of people were at a work party and they │
║ received a letter from the "higher ups" that said something along the lines of: │
║ │
║ "to combat the threat of your unionization efforts, we have decided to take the │
║ company in a different direction. We've rebranded ourselves as a company by and │
║ for [alt-right cis dude-bros] and everyone who doesn't fit in will be given │
║ increasingly difficult workloads until they quit, because we don't want you │
║ around. │
║ │
║ In addition, our long-term vision statement has changed toward our ultimate │
║ goal of cloning famous sith lords from history (starting with Count Dooku) and │
║ working to build a new empire of the darkside. We look forward to working with │
║ you in the future. Sincerely, your bosses." │
║ │
║ they went to the boss who wrote it and said "is this real or a joke" and he │
║ said it was real, so then like 6 people took out battleaxes and fucking │
║ murdered him in cold blood. │
║ │
║ ... Dreams are weird. │
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@user-1074
i know that feeling
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I got SSH working!!!
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there's no such thing as me
all I am is where the wind takes me
I am just a person, and I do all that I can
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Internationalize amazon and walmart and you'll have fixed most of the problems
of globalism.
But you can't fix anything if you don't have power...
It's important to focus on how to get power. Keep in mind "what to do when you
have power" but don't let it dominate your thoughts. Focus on claiming your
right to determination.
Steps to revolution:
1. Invert power structures with unions
2. Care for people with mutual aid
3. Vote for the Democrat so we have a few more years of peace
4. Teach people to always be learning
5. Connect to people on a personal or spiritual level
6. Make the world a better place, whether that's by sweeping a street corner or
helping people smile, it doesn't really matter how. What matters is the
intention.
7. Improve your self and your life. Do pushups, eat better, drink more water,
spend time writing (writing is thinking), and take time to sit and stare at the
flowers.
8. Kill the part of yourself that cringes. Everyone's figuring things out and
its okay to say "haha okay then"
9. Spend time with animals.
10. Make mistakes. Apologize for them. Learn from them. Stay mobile in your
character. Develop new ways of being.
11. React with vigor when the time comes. This vigor will only be violent if it
is caused by violence. Much more likely is a strength through organization. We
can do it if we do it together!
12. Show up every day, but don't hang around if everyone's resting at home.
It's okay to stop showing up if things are on pause.
13. Trust that your allies are working. Or resting. Or preparing.
14. Plans change, planning remains.
15. Dream of a better future. It is within reach.
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I know it's his loss, but he's my friend and I don't want him to lose.
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some people prepare for revolution like a boy gets ready for a party
others do so like a girl packing for a weekend trip to vegas
I do it like a kid who forgot the paper was due on monday in 7th period and so
spends their entire lunch period writing it (missing 4th in the process because
the conclusion paragraph was giving me difficulty)
but I think no matter how you do it, we're all just waiting for something to
happen.
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@user-1074
aye-aye cap'n
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║ └────────────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ I love next word predictors! │
║ │
║ AI? What's that? Oh you mean this next word predictor I can run locally on my │
║ computer │
║ and use for a millionth of a cent of electricity per minute? │
║ │
║ ... you didn't mean the kind of next word predictors you can run locally and │
║ use cheaply, did you? When you said AI you meant the kind that takes half of a │
║ datacenter to build a shopping list, right? the kind that is offered for free │
║ in order to generate interest and fund development of next word predictors │
║ which are executed at scale and which can predict next words so accurately and │
║ so well tuned that people can't help but imagine they're conscious. That kind, │
║ that's the kind of next word predictor you meant when you said AI, right? │
║ │
║ yeah that kind sucks. I mean yeah it's good at what it does but if a │
║ next-word-predictor costs more than a car to build and more than a bottle of │
║ water to run once, then maybe it's a little bloated. Maybe it's a little │
║ inefficient. Maybe it's big enough to be nationalized. │
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@user-1602
swap rust and BASH and I agree, teehee!
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workin' on it...
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"I'm not really a designer, though."
what about that desk you designed?
"oh, yeah I guess that counts. I haven't gotten around to building it though so
I'm not a real designer."
what! don't say that, you designed it didn't you? How about this - I know this
girl who wants to be a carpenter but she doesn't have any idea what kind of
projects to work on. How about I put you two in a room together and she can
build your desk. If it goes well, I can hook you up with someone who organizes
designers and he can get you into a furniture design course at the library.
"Hmmmm, well that seems alright. But I don't really want to work with people! I
mean, I don't know her - what if she doesn't like me?"
oh, she can be a little spicy sometimes, but I'm sure you'll hit it off. Just
don't mention rats, she had a pet pass away recently and she's still a little
broken up about it.
"... okay I think I can manage that."
besides, working with people is the best! I do it every day!
"I'll try"
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║ └────────────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ oh, I just heard about this project over in west kansatexahoma for a massive │
║ solar panel installation. Apparently they're doing some water purification with │
║ the excess energy too? │
║ │
║ "that sounds pretty interesting, but I was thinking I could do something in the │
║ area?" │
║ │
║ ah, that's fine too. The good news is that you can do whatever you'd like to. │
║ there will be training provided for everything and nobody is turned away, so... │
║ what would you like to do? │
║ │
║ "I'm not really sure. What needs doing?" │
║ │
║ well, there are several categories of tasks that need to be done. │
║ │
║ food, housing, maintenance, and logistics. │
║ │
║ depending on your skillset, you can contribute to each of those in different │
║ ways. You were in recycling before, which is logistics. │
║ │
║ "Hmmm, I'm feeling housing this time." │
║ │
║ Right, that's easy enough. You wanted to use your brain, right? Well, how about │
║ an event coordinator? Or maybe an environmental designer? │
║ │
║ "Hmmm, I don't really want to work with people" │
║ │
║ I see. Architect, maybe? │
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║ └────────────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ "I think I'm going to quit my job at the recycling center. Everyone there is │
║ just a little too catty for me. I think they like the verbal sparring but it │
║ just gets a little tiresome after a while." │
║ │
║ oh, sorry to hear that. Well if you still want to help out there's plenty of │
║ work to do. I could set you up at another recycling center nearby too, if you'd │
║ like...? │
║ │
║ "well, I like the idea of universal recycling. It was a little annoying when │
║ people would put food waste in with the clothing donations, and this one time I │
║ found like 8 bags of cat litter inside of a washing machine. Spent like an hour │
║ vacuuming everything out, which... actually wasn't bad. Kinda felt a little │
║ cathartic to clean it so thoroughly." │
║ │
║ "on the other hand I would like to use my mind a bit more, my creative projects │
║ are kinda in a slump so I figure I could use my body at home and my mind at │
║ work. I've been meaning to build a desk out of some spare hardwood I snagged at │
║ work but I haven't gotten around to it." │
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"back in my day this dense urban housing area was just houses as far as the eye
could see... which wasn't far because there were houses in the way, but you get
the idea."
uhhuh yeah that sounds like it would have taken a lot of time to walk anywhere
"yes that's true! we ended up driving cars to do our grocery trips. It was a
little wasteful but I kinda liked the feeling of driving a car? It became
normal after a while but now that driving is rarer I still miss it."
well the motion simulators at the mall have a driving sim, we could spend some
time there if you want? I'm busy for the next week because I have an intensive
D&D session in the mountain that lasts from monday to wednesday and
thursday through friday I'm visiting my mom down in skoodedlypawsonville, and
saturday and sunday I'm working at my job which doesn't pay me because why
would it, right? but I'm free after that.
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║ │
║ │
║ suburban socialist future: │
║ │
║ need groceries? walk down the street until you find a car, then drive it to the │
║ store. There's room for like, 10 cars there because the rest of the space has │
║ been taken up by market stands. Inside the stores themselves are mostly storage │
║ but you can walk through them if it's raining. When you need to go home, take a │
║ different car and leave it in your driveway. │
║ │
║ going on a trip? walk around until you find the right kind (a truck for │
║ camping, for example, or a gas car for interstate travel) then put it in your │
║ garage and close the door. That way you can reliably have it in the morning. │
║ │
║ why do we own cars? when they were scarce, people coveted them. They were │
║ status symbols. But... people are people, who cares about what objects they │
║ surround themselves with? │
║ │
║ "but Ritz I really like my car" - okay then spend your garage on it. I think │
║ most people would rather have a place in the shade where they can spend time │
║ with their neighbors, but what do I know. │
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│ CW: re: socialism-mentioned-property-idk │
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@user-1074
heh that's true if you live in a city, less so the further out you go
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nobody's gonna fucking do that, they're too attached to their personal property
oh. yeah that's true. Sometimes I forget, teehee. Well there's gotta be a way
to better utilize parking lots, right?
why would you carry everything outside every day just to haul it back in when
the sun sets
hmmmm good point, maybe we should utilize the systems in place and instead
focus on redistributing wealth by replacing business ownership with collective
(non-governmental) accountability
the systems are the way they are for a reason
yeah that reason is World War 2 (and all the things that came before it)
society can change in a heartbeat, as shown through the various illusions they
grant us every 80 wait no every 40 errr I mean 20 no uh 10 wait now it's 5 um
2.5 years
???
Oh I meant like american civil war -> 80 years -> WW2 -> 40 years
-> 9/11 -> 20 years -> COVID -> 10 years -> something in 2030??/
society can change in a heartbeat, there just must be a unifying spark.
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│ CW: trauma~ │
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@user-1074
today I had someone ask me for an apology. They've asked several times before,
and each time I've only been able to give them a half-apology - I apologized
for being persistent, but not for being impulsive, and that wasn't good enough.
I can't help being impulsive! I'm adventurous! I crave excitement and joy!
But I'm sorry that I pushed him too hard. I'm sorry I hurt him. And...
apparently that's not good enough. He doesn't want me in his life, he can't
fucking let it go. And he calls me selfish. Says I don't respect him, based on
one night out of 5 years where I tried too hard to get him to enjoy life.
I'm sorry I can't fix your depression, guy, but like, at least I tried. You
could have at least tried the things I suggested. You could have at least tried
to follow my advice.
whatever.
it was literally just a walk in the park
... anyway I am often wrong. I often correct my past self. I always apologize
for hurting people, but I never apologize for doing what I believe is right.
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on one hand, people kinda fucking suck
on the other, most people are actually pretty cool once you get to know them
on the third hand, people are pretty tasty
on the fourth hand, people are pretty
on the fifth hand, he's one ugly son of a gun but he's damn good at karate
on the fifth hand, wait shit I mean the sixth hand (how many hands do you have?
as many as there are people to work with. multiplied by slightly less than 2
because the average person has less than two hands) errr wait shit
on the sixth I mean seventh other hand, there comes a day when you realize that
the journey is something that is always changing, and if you expect stasis you
will fade into despair and your illusions of immortality will shatter as the
crushing weight of death approaches like a freight train
on the eighth hand, eating nine hands is something that seven is known to do in
their "post immortality crisis"
on the ninth hand there is nothing because seven ate nine.
on the tenth hand, people are ok
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│ CW: politics-cursing-mentioned │
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people? oh yeah I know "people". they're all a bunch of bastards.
good, bastards are the best fighters
not if your fight relies on fighting for something you believe in. There's a
zero percent chance that you'll get everyone to believe the same thing because
people naturally gravitate toward filling the idea space equally and finding
niches to fit themselves into
ha true - thinking of successful revolutions of the past, they've always been
caused by material conditions creating insufficiencies that must be resolved
through violence. and then, the people fighting can all agree on something like
"we must have bread" or... actually that's pretty much the main thing people
need
and yeah, sure, wealth inequality is unjust, but they're careful to only take
enough to ensure that we're sufficiently placated.
but they're always taking more, and someday soon they'll take too much.
... I hope, for my sake, that I'm not around when that happens. But I'm not too
hopeful in that regard
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@user-1605
have no fear, people who are annoyed will block you and you'll never know, and
people who like you just haven't seen you yet.
that's how mastodon works. gotta keep posting until you find your people.
comment on things, boost things, and read through people's profile pages.
that's how it works!
this is the place to be annoying, because "annoying" is really just "weird" and
"weird" is for here.
It takes time, but eventually you'll find someone or three who get you and
they'll boost your stuff to all their friends who get you and then you'll feel
less annoying. That's how it works! You can help by boosting things.
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Internationalize amazon and walmart and you'll have fixed most of the problems
of globalism.
But you can't fix anything if you don't have power...
It's important to focus on how to get power. Keep in mind "what to do when you
have power" but don't let it dominate your thoughts. Focus on claiming your
right to determination.
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│ CW: socialism-mentioned │
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Steps to revolution:Invert power structures with unions Care for people with
mutual aid Vote for the Democrat so we have a few more years of peace Teach
people to always be learningConnect to people on a personal or spiritual level
Make the world a better place, whether that's by sweeping a street corner or
helping people smile, it doesn't really matter how. What matters is the
intention.Improve your self and your life. Do pushups, eat better, drink more
water, spend time writing (writing is thinking), and take time to sit and stare
at the flowers.Kill the part of yourself that cringes. Everyone's figuring
things out and its okay to say "haha okay then"Spend time with animals.Make
mistakes. Apologize for them. Learn from them. Stay mobile in your character.
Develop new ways of being.
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│ CW: re: socialism-mentioned │
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React with vigor when the time comes. This vigor will only be violent if it is
caused by violence. Much more likely is a strength through organization. We can
do it if we do it together!Show up every day, but don't hang around if
everyone's resting at home. It's okay to stop showing up if things are on
pause.Trust that your allies are working. Or resting. Or preparing.Plans
change, planning remains.Dream of a better future. It is within reach.
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the world's coolest lesbian is wasted on a boy
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@user-570
ha who can say
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│ CW: personal │
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well, guess I'm a bad person again, this sucks. >.
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I'm tired of working as hard as I can and still ending up wrong
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│ CW: mental-health │
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"it's weird how depressed I am"
says the girl who is always depressed
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│ CW: drugs-mentioned │
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since I quit cannabis like, a month ago or whatever, my artistic output has
dropped by ~90%
my house is a little cleaner, but I still feel consistent spikes of negative
emotions.
I still have trouble with all the same things I used to, like buying groceries,
filling hormone prescriptions (seriously why is it EVERY month jeezzz) and
working on productive projects
I still spend hours staring at the wall begging myself to do anything else,
like a prisoner in my own form
I still feel like all the delusional thinking is still around (kinda hard to
tell haha who would have thought) but I'm seriously missing the magical
thinking, which was basically the same only it was fun and silly and positive.
Now there's only negativity.
I'm still hyper-critical of myself and others, I still make myself and others
feel like shit, and I'm still a bad person who believes all the right things
but still can't seem to make a positive impact in people's lives.
I'm so tired of failing -> learned helplessness T.T
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@user-1074
I'm gonna do it anyway because nationalism is not the same as patriotism
https://tech.lgbt/@user-479/112729939513334734
I wish I was still this cool... what happened smh
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│ CW: re: mental-health │
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@user-570
hehe sorry
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│ CW: mental-health │
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video games are better than ruminating
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@user-1218
my ex boyfriend told me to
also I thought it would be a good idea so I could find a job, but now I have
one (sorta) soooo
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@user-1218
oh, also, because I started taking some psychiatric medication to help with the
aforementioned delusional thinking or whatever. Honestly I think I just believe
in spiritual things like witchcraft and the human spirit or whatever, but since
I'm having difficulties doing basic things my doctors decided to medicate me.
... but then I stopped taking those psychiatric drugs because they made me feel
numb and dense. It was hard to think. Thinking's all I do!!
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oh, huh, turns out I just had to sleep off the depression half of "manic
depression" and wait for the manic half to kick in.
I feel great now! I love being alive!!
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I really hate "two factor" auth. Like, cool, I get it, it let's you pretend
you can divest responsibility for security and recovery, but also it means
dropping my phone too hard could be a life disrupting event so somehow I don't
really feel like this is for my benefit.
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fedi is just an invitation to visit the lives of other people going through
things at the speed of time
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║ │ CW: politics-renewable-infrastrutre │ │
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║ │
║ │
║ "something something trump wants to faucet the PNW's water to the desert" │
║ │
║ oh, so you're saying that he wants to invest in a massive infrastructural │
║ project which will help millions of people? And, uh, how does he want to pay │
║ for that? │
║ │
║ Surely the best approach would be to make the people who use the most water pay │
║ for it, right? I mean, it's ironic, and related, and it gives them their just │
║ deserts, right? │
║ │
║ So make a tax (that's how you make people pay for things) and levy it against │
║ Nestle, who bottles up all of the water in the desert and sells it for pennies │
║ to brown people who can't afford to build water infrastructure because they │
║ keep spending all their pennies on useless things like bottled water. │
║ │
║ And make it a big tax, please, so that they're forced to re-evaluate their │
║ business model and divert wealth from their least contributionary workers (aka, │
║ those at the top making millions) and spend it on something useful like │
║ desalination plants or water turbines or whatever. │
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│ CW: music │
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http://schizoid.in/
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@user-883 @user-570
I love Bravely Default!! 🥰
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@user-883 @user-570
I've played 1, 2, 3, and 14. I'll check out 5 but isn't it full of cyberpunk
mecha stuff? I'm into the more fantasy final fantasies
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@user-1608
shhhhh you're not supposed to tell me what you voted for! Now I know you voted
to have funky wunky widdle dweams 🥰
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okay instead of algorithm music what if we just paid DJs 24/7 and they could
make whatever they wanted - y'know, like artists, who curate the nature of a
moment
they could rotate in shifts for each type of channel and boom suddenly you've
re-replaced airwaves, just... this time replicated on the internet. That way
you wouldn't have to waste that radio bandwidth.
seriously internet infrastructure would be so much more comprehensive and
durable if we sent bits directly through "sound" waves (radio waves, not sound
waves) - but alas, we can't do that, even in very targetted ways, because the
ocean's too choppy, and any sufficiently powerful radio blast would be
================== stack overflow ================
that's why you can't trust in peace. you see, war's the only answer, otherwise
you'd have strange little competitions between one another. much better to
focus outward, and direct your attention to external areas instead. like china
or the sudan.
"ah but that's murder, you can't abandon a unique part of your whole. For the
same reason that it's important to preserve plant and animal species, because
you never know when some part of them will be utilized for some biological
purpose! We know so little about the natural world, and if we just spent some
time, and energy, we'd realize there's very little else that is precious on
this earth.
who cares about gold. who cares for the jewelry. we're better than decorating
our resumes and polishing our accounts. we, as humans, can solve every
issue that animals are likely to face. AND WE DO WHAT? How careless, how vain.
To watch your earth in peril and [vane/vanity]
there is no more important task to any human on this earth than the
preservation of our world, our species, and our [heart/heartfelt empathy and
kindness and trust]
we can figure out the rest later. Real life? what the fuck is that? When's the
last time your life has felt "normal"? We are in DANGER. and you pull children
from traffic, don't you?
who the fuck gave these people all of your money they clearly
haven't got the will or the talent to well utilize it. Don't you realize that
you as a species can GO wherever you WANT. You can FIX things. [oh dear she's
animal cam again] like BRIDGES that are PASSAGEWAYS over the FLOWS.
... oh deer, they're so passagewayenthusiast. us riverstones love to hear them
walk past, the click of their hooves on the shallow forest's [pourest?].
moss is the most alive. amongst all the species of plants and animals, moss
holds the most life. we are carbon based lifeforms, and moss absorbs
the most carbon from the air. It's basically the coolest plant too, because it
can be watered with misty air. Hence, why moss is common in the
pacific northwest, canada, and probably forest places in the north of eurasia
too idk if they have moss over there, never been.
anyway rich people who are told "yes" all the time have a difficult time
understanding the nature of choice. I mean, if one of their servants approached
them and asked "hey do you want to build an orphanage in uganda" they'd
probably be like "fuck yeah I do" and then suddenly they're 400,000$ richer
it's not alright. Seriously, how the heck would they even use all
those resources? And yeah, I get it, inflation would be sooooo much more
expensive, but here's the thing - inflation is a measurement of how much the
rich take from us each year. And it's marginal, too, so 3% inflation
means they took 3% more from you compared to last year.
It's impossible not to accrete as a business, [lega/legal institution], or
governance if you levy a tax. The influx of value has to come from somewhere,
and if each year your groceries are 3% higher in cost, then you are being taxed
3% more.
"Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe"
- a civilization 3 quote
okay. I don't want to do the math. How, uh... how much is that? Here's the deal
though - the prices of goods and services consistently goes DOWN over time. So
things get cheaper. So it doesn't FEEL like you're being taxed more, but... you
are.
And now they're taking away HOUSES? I mean c'mon they're sticks in the mud.
They aren't worth HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of dollars. We can just BUILD MORE??!?
Honestly you haven't been this extreme since you were still RIDING HORSES. Do
you want your children to be slaves?
okay -.- look -.- so it's really not that hard at all >.> just gotta do
what you're built for and walk. That's it! Take as long as you'd like! All we
have to do is walk when we're on strike.
It's easy. You can sit down if you want to, honestly walking for a long time
takes a lot out of you.
But you know what else does? WORKING. Hey we should figure out what's the
optimal amount of break time, so when we really have to work out we can work as
hard as we're able
"yeah I heard from a friend at Company Co. that they do it this way because of
the memory fault cache maintainer. See what he said (in great detail because of
course anyone can know about this most esoteric of concepts) was that you
should rotate the riboflam or serenade the gizmonotron (no I didn't name it)
and then warbles will contain moodles, whose kit-and-kaboodles will timble into
these droplets, and that will fix the hole in your wing, precious royal swan
fable. (yeah you guys get really into it sometimes haha but hey when you're
basically gods, that's how humans are played.)
... anyway I'm going to go play video games, say goodbye to your brothers
(the families of soldiers I blew up in videos games like Call of Duty or the
legend of shadows and raids)
"oh uh yeah sure go for it, we're just bits on the computer we barely knew her"
whoa. that's totally legit. (says someone reading this) thanks [bro/girl] so
are you.
beep boop gonna murder some bits, brb
[plays Warthunder, Supreme Commander, Star Realms, City of Heroes, Dominions
6... how many have you heard of these?]
================== stack overflow ================
Linux is cool, and here's the neat thing about computers, you can make it
do whatever you want to. Like, how amazing is that! It just, listens
to your commands! That's pretty awesome I gotta say, huh that's weird why does
nobody know how to play
oh I guess I was the only one who grew up on a farm and built computers
I seriously cannot comprehend how people are as good at things as they
are. Like... how do people handle groceries and rent and doctor's visits
and penitentiary visits and WOOF it's just so much. I know I'd collapse from a
overused heart.
... a while later ...
okay Warthunder bombers are currently very weak. so here's an idea to
indirectly buff them - increase the amount of land units each team spawns with,
but also every time a player spawns a bomber, it summons like 4 or 5 AI
controlled bombers. And your enemy won't be able to tell which is which if you
fly in formation, so, like... you have suddenly a massive "vehicle" to pilot
and it has 5 weak points. Sorta like a galaga fighter fleet?
with more land targets, there's more score at stake, meaning some players might
pick bombers too and be exposed to other, fun,
[alternative-to-their-normal-mode] parts of the game.
...
there are very few true windows into another part of the world.
like, starcraft 2 or anime or blue jeans or cowboy hats
(why am I thinking of a political compass meme)
oh because memes too, dummy
right
windows
[linux is better]
wrong kind of window, nerd
...
anyway as I was saying, when you play video games you're really giving people
data.
like, "how would people perform in these actions if they could" but like,
pushing buttons on a computer is different than doing it in real life, so...
your interpretations wouldn't be worth as much.
... right. because people will hear whatever they want. That's why art can
change minds, but never in the same way twice - it's
================== stack overflow ================
[before I posted it I wrote this on the post]:
I literally can only make this stuff when I'm stoned
hey if you wanted to be accessible for blind people, you should build a
screenreader that scans the words on wherever a blind person's fingers are
pointing toward a tablet. like reading braille on a notebook. They could even
wear a glove if they wanted to, and the tablet could scan their fingers as they
signed languaged over it's close-range sensors.
might be a good way to get the VR guys in on the accessibility domain, because
like... seriously give a granny a backpack and suddenly she doesn't need to
leave the house to hang out with her kids
(boom everyone gets LLM automated)
huh I wonder if I ever was a real person at all
NOT GOOD so don't do it that way, dummies. >.<
seriously humans are sooooo bazookas. just like, do it right the first time?
duhhhhh
(a more measured approach is to pick the most important* moments and speak
most clearly during those.)
where was I? Oh yes accessibility need devices, like the ones you see on
late-night TV (with silly names like "oops I dropped my spoon again" or "oh
whoops my trouser's just can't stay up" or whatever. Y'know, accessibility
needs! Why not do that instead of war all the time? like... you can still learn
and research and grow and develop and become all that humanity was ever meant
to be, AND you can live good lives and be honest and true and do all of the
anythings that you want to. it's possible, it's plausible, and it's within
reach of our sights!
================== stack
overflow ================
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@user-1611
all things that move other things are either pipes, or buckets.
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@user-246
sorry, I've been playing too much Warthunder T.T
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@user-570
I doalias ls='ls -v --color=auto'
and that seems to cover most things. Then in my cd alias I doalias cd='cd ${@}
&& ls -la'
so I don't have to type ls everytime I cd ^_^
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@user-570
that's not actually my script, here's the real one:#!/bin/bash
alias cd="cd-improved"
function cd-improved(){
if [ "${1}" = "..." ] ; then
builtin cd .. && builtin cd ..
elif [ "${1}" = "...." ] ; then
builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. && builtin cd ..
elif [ "${1}" = "....." ] ; then
builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. && builtin cd ..
&& builtin cd ..
elif [ -d "./${1}" ] ; then
local target_dir="./${1}"
elif [ "${1}" = "cdir" ] ; then
local target_dir="$(tail -n 1 '/home/ritz/scripts/.cdir-target')"
echo ${target_dir}
else
local target_dir="${1}"
fi
if [ ! "${2}" = '--no-ls' ] ; then
builtin cd "${target_dir}" && ls -v --color=auto
else
builtin cd "${target_dir}"
fi
}
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@user-1614
yeah haha that's what happens when you spin too fast. Sorry for being loud, at
least I tried my hardest. Too bad I fell on my own, too bad there wasn't anyone
to catch me. That's my fault, it's solely my own, but whose fault is the
mistake of the collective? Oy I'll fall on my ass as many times as it takes.
I'm used to it.
Plus, it wouldn't have worked, and what else am I supposed to do but speak of
the moment? I feel different now.
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@user-1614
oh, neat. now I can finally get to doing what I want to do, which is... all the
stuff I've been doing.
a missile without a guidance system doesn't stop just because it's GPS turned
off! It falls to the earth and explodes where it lands, which... often is on
it's butt. Not great.
I sure hope my purpose isn't fulfilled. I wouldn't know what to do with myself.
Guess I should just keep doing what I was doing, and pray that this time I'll
listen.
Though on the other hand, if I can do it, so can you. And maybe with enough
butts in the game there'll reach a critical mass, at which point change is
inevitable. Who can say, not I for sure, for my aplomb has categorized me as
slapstick I guess.
Ha. at least I can laugh at my own audacity. HA. next time I'll do better.
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│ CW: mh~ │
└──────────────────────┘
wait wait wait, hold up.
you're telling me your purpose in life is to be cool, chill, funny, cute, and
or friendly to the people around you, and to just relax and enjoy life?
wow that must be real fucking nice. I'm so damn jealous. Damn. Damnit. Fuck why
am I so orthogonal. What's wrong with me?
... ah, well, nothing's wrong with me. Turns out what I do is for you, if only
in spirit. Who are we? nothing! I barely know ya! But I'd do it for you,
whatever it may be.
... Look, I don't need my legs, but also, I kinda like them?
... where was I? Oh yes this is why you don't invite a schizophrenic to a
party. If you convince them that you're friends, they'll start developing
parasocial relationships and you'll come to realize that their worlds are too
vast for their own kind of potential.
which is to say, you can hear me, you can like me, you can do as I say or do,
but don't trust me, don't place your trust in me, because I am just a person.
Don't trust people, trust organizations, to do as you expect.
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"That's Mitz Renaldi to you, mister"
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It really is a shame that the fediverse is just a figment of your imagination
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│ CW: children-mentioned │
└────────────────────────┘
children should be raised in museums, not classrooms
they should visit parks, not fenced in playgrounds.
they should eat with family, at festivals, in restaurants, and under the stars
they should sleep content, knowing that their next day will be greater than the
last.
children should be treated like people, not frustratingly loud and messy little
brats
children are to be nurtured like a sapling, not harnessed like a machine
I'll never have kids, but I can dream.
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│ CW: politics-implied │
└──────────────────────┘
@user-1617
Of course they're losing. I mean, have you seen their candidate? woof.
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│ CW: cursing-strange-witch-obscure-arcane-oh-deer-sort-of-a-psycherwaul? │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
I literally can only make this stuff when I'm stoned
hey if you wanted to be accessible for blind people, you should build a
screenreader that scans the words on wherever a blind person's fingers are
pointing toward a tablet. like reading braille on a notebook. They could even
wear a glove if they wanted to, and the tablet could scan their fingers as they
signed languaged over it's close-range sensors.
might be a good way to get the VR guys in on the accessibility domain, because
like... seriously give a granny a backpack and suddenly she doesn't need to
leave the house to hang out with her kids
(boom everyone gets LLM automated)
huh I wonder if I ever was a real person at all
NOT GOOD so don't do it that way, dummies. >.
seriously humans are sooooo bazookas. just like, do it right the first time?
duhhhhh
(a more measured approach is to pick the most important moments and speak most
clearly during those.)
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"My time is very valuable."
Shut up, everyone's time is valuable, you elitist fuck.
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│ CW: re: cursing-strange-witch-obscure-arcane-oh-deer-sort-of-a-psycherwaul? │
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oops, sorry, had to get a friend to translate it for me. Here's the real
picture:
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/html-pages/worlds-coolest-lesbian
titled: scan-of-spacetime:perspective-of-light.png
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when you comment on someone's post, it's an explicit invitation to conversation
maybe reply guys just wanna have friends
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Linux is great! It can do anything you want it to.
Except that thing you want it to do. Why don't you go fix it? It's not hard,
all you have to do is run these configure files or operate this doohickey and
BAM suddenly you got apes writing machine gun regulation software
[I don't think those two things are related]
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"no, you're the opposite of a yes-man, AKA a gatekeeper. I don't know how else
to explain mentally disabled and barely keeping it together to you, but frankly
if you want to take away my house or my weed then why would I do what you say?
... oh right, the state's monopoly on violence [can compel me to do what you
say]. Sure seems like a "well regulated militia" is supposed to be a
counterweight to that monopoly, to prevent people from harassing and exploiting
and destroying. Too bad any "militias" I can think of tend to want me dead.
like, seriously, if you live in America, you implicitely trust that your army
will be able to protect you from the right-wing bozos who spend all their time
drinking and shooting in the woods. Otherwise, if they couldn't / wouldn't,
then why wouldn't or couldn't the right wing bozos just decide to wreck
everything in spite of our past?
We were a proud people once before, and we may be again. If only we fight at
the last.
[ever since I fell off my bike my body feels strange]
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"they should make clothing stores for tall people"
uhhhh have you ever heard of "big-and-tall"
"yeah but I'm not big, just tall"
smh
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│ CW: ai-mentioned │
└──────────────────────┘
if an AI image generator shows your signature on the completed works, then that
means your style is unique enough that whatever the person trying to generate
an image was trying to conjure is directly correlated to your name.
It means your art is influential in whatever media space that is! Frankly if
they were trained to emphasize the artist's watermark, maybe give more than a
few, they could give credit where credit is due. Ah alas, it probably doesn't
work like that, because the software we've programmed to do whatever we want
wasn't programmed to do that.
like, if it can take all that data and chart a course from whatever the prompt
is to... whatever the result is, then surely it should be able to scan back and
see where the roots of the art came from? Then all you have to do is generate a
watermark for the top 5 most influential and 5 others that had very specific
contributions. Boom, solved your ethic problem
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Make a habit of this. Walk in the center of the park.
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There's nothing that says your dual booted windows partition can't reach over
into your Linux files and mess around with them. Even writing programs that
execute whenever you're running Linux to do nefarious things like... Stream
your desktop to Microsoft? Send files to wherever? Mine bitcoins? Doxx your
friends? Anything's possible when you install Microsoft's software on your
computer. You might not even have to run it, because it can write a program
into the Linux memory which runs in the background. It's literally just bits,
and all the information to explain which bits do what is just... On the
internet, ready for Microsoft engineers to use as they will. Seriously, you
think they're working on features? For the users? Fucking get real,
dumbass.
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"Here's the thing. If you go around telling people you're crazy, they'll assume
you're JUST crazy."
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│ CW: LLMs-mentioned │
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"don't trust chatGPT, it might hallucinate. Instead you should trust a quick
google search that brings up a list of 10 (but no more than 10 because google
doesn't actually search across the whole internet, only the SEO'd garbage that
they keep because reasons) sources which all either tell conflicting
information, or if you're unlucky they give information that's wrong, outdated,
or otherwise just plain false."
okay but chatGPT is trained on that junk, so it's gonna say the same thing
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I'm worried that if I install NixOS on my desktop instead of Void Linux then
all the hackers who watch my screen every day won't be able to see anymore. T.T
Listen I'm not trying to mess up your business and whatnot but like, Void Linux
keeps breaking and idk NixOS is just... so much nicer? Like, having a config
file handle everything is great because, like, there's only so many commands
you can use in a config file, right? With the more ad-hoc approach of running
commands and whatnot there's always a ton of flags to memorize and I'm not
about that.
Downside is... SystemD instead of Runit... So maybe I'll stick with Void for
now, haha
SystemD is the king of "memorizing random commands" like what
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@user-1605 @user-1074 @user-1620
hehe my hat has a face on it
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│ CW: unnecessary-caps-lock │
└───────────────────────────┘
I GOT MY SCREEN RECORDER AUDIO WORKING
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│ CW: food-mentioned-factorio-lines │
└───────────────────────────────────┘
I like Lindt Lindor truffles from Costco because they seem fancy, but they're
really not.
They're just a chocolate shell with a hole in it that is filled with a softer
chocolate and then capped. Easy peasy. Can be made in a factory. But still feel
fancy somehow - perhaps because of the marketing? Or maybe the decadence.
anyway they're cheap because they're made in a factory, as all things should be
it's like Factorio - if you don't have a production line set up for a certain
type of good, then you are not manufacturing that type of good, and it is not
available.
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External post:
https://hachyderm.io/users/mekkaokereke/statuses/113215240763123990
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@user-1550 mkdir ~/icons
mv ./*.png ~/icons
maybe?
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@user-1550
accidentally uninstalled the crypto miner that was running in the background?
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@user-192
would love something like that...! Also, joystick for flight games
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I spent 400$ at Costco and all I seem to have bought was candy and clothes T.T
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External post:
https://toot-lab.reclaim.technology/users/djsundog/statuses/113218370005133462
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│ CW: future-politics │
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dear government of 2035 - so you've lost your workforce because everyone got
too lazy due to the advancements made in AI. What are ya gonna do?
Here's an idea: just pay people to be experts. That's it! Just pay them to know
a bunch of stuff. Then, when people ask them questions, they can answer those
questions, and suddenly everyone is elevated. Subject matter experts.
That way, the AI pitfalls can be avoided - need to do something specific? Don't
ask the AI, ask a randomized expert!
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kinda wanna make a linux distro that has all the capabilities of a GUI distro
and isn't so minimal (like screen recording, calculator, screenshot, wifi
manager, etc etc) but with i3 instead of a desktop.
they could literally just be symlinks (shortcuts) to scripts that are in your
/usr/bin or whatever directory
seriously it's not like there's THAT many ways to use ffmpeg, why not just
write a script for them? that's what you're going to do when you use it for the
first time, anyway, so...
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look I tried to start something a month or three ago and the sparks didn't catch
so I'm gonna sit around waiting until I hear things outside my window before I
venture out again.
I think that's fair, right?
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I don't really like singleplayer games
sometimes a multiplayer game is too much effort to play with extra players,
like Factorio where like anytime I'd play with other people they'd just kinda
fuck off and do their own thing (whatever, I wanted to design a factory
together, not play singleplayer together >.>)
sometimes a multiplayer game has no players, RIP
sometimes a multiplayer game has incredibly skilled players who shit on noobs
and don't teach, RIP
and sometimes a multiplayer game has no IRL friends that are into it, (personal
RIP then)
... anyway, games are fun and we should play more of them. I wish I didn't have
so much time to waste, but hey I guess that's where I'm comfortable, so...
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┌──────────────────────────┐
│ CW: capitalism-mentioned │
└──────────────────────────┘
capitalists want you to use their products. they prey on your humanity to get
you to do so. They don't care if you want their products, they just demand that
you use them.
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the quickest flaw in a novice's strategy is to act upon what is there, not upon
what may yet be.
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┌───────────────────────┐
│ CW: alcohol-mentioned │
└───────────────────────┘
"uhhhh, I dunno she's drunk or something"
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┌──────────────────────────┐
│ CW: capitalism-mentioned │
└──────────────────────────┘
that feeling when capitalists make technological advancements that benefit all
of mankind but refuse to open source them because... they want more money?
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psychic damage doesn't work against mechanical opponents.
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life isn't JUST a game, but it is a game.
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┌────────────────────────────┐
│ CW: spirituality-mentioned │
└────────────────────────────┘
people who don't play games are fucked in the afterlife, just sayin'
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the hangman's gambit: do you trust that your allies can defeat the hangman? if
so, then do nothing. If not, then you're fucked anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRDq7aneXnk
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┌───────────────────────┐
│ CW: cursing-mentioned │
└───────────────────────┘
that feeling when your computers are just fucked and it's like... whatever,
computers are fucked, I don't give a fuck
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This gun is my sword
This blade is my weapon
And my foes will lay before me
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Supreme Commander ruined me.
I can't play RTS games without a zoom function T.T
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The officers approached the door, a brief nod between them, and they knew it
was time to begin the familiar sequence. The first officer knocked loudly three
times, while the second took on a speaking role.
“Police! Open up!!”
After a few moments of quiet, a gruff voice, muffled behind the closed door,
spoke up.
“Come back with a warrant,” came the unwelcoming reply.
“Oh, but we have one. We have a signed search warrant for this property, so
come on out,” the officer confidently replied.
“I wanna see it, then,” the voice from inside countered. “Slide it under
the door.”
The officers looked puzzled, no one had ever asked to actually see the warrant.
“Well, we don’t have a paper copy of it,” the first officer said.
“Right, everything is on Docusign these days,” the second chimed in.
“Put your phone through the letter box then, I’ll take a look at it on
there.”
“I’m not going to give you my phone,” the second officer replied, his
phone now in hand. “What’s your email address? I can forward you a copy.”
The gruff voice provided an email address to the officers.
“Ok, I’ve sent that it should be in your inbox now.”
“Nothing.”
“Ok, check spam - sometimes they go into spam,” the first officer
interjected.
“Ah yes it’s in spam. But it’s not opening, it says I have to login to my
DocuSign account. I don’t have a DocuSign account?”
“Well. Can you just sign up then?” Asked the second officer.
“I ain’t paying for DocuSign!” The voice replied abruptly.
“I don’t think you have to pay, it’s free to view documents.”
“I don’t wanna risk it, I have so many subscriptions,” the voice inside
responded.
The officers contemplated their next move.
“Do you have a printer?” One asked.
“Yes,” the voice inside responded.
“Ok, does it have AirPrint?”
“I think so? How could I tell?”
“What’s your wifi password? We’ll join the network and we’ll be able to
tell,” the officer responded.
“Ok. Wifi password is $42xnskwfgewzfgekueod!&3.”
The first officer rolled his eyes.
Fifteen minutes later, after breaking the WiFi passcode into manageable chunks,
the officer was finally connected.
“Ok. I see the printer. It has AirPrint. Thank God. Ok, I’m printing now.”
“Nothing is happening,” said the person inside the house.
“Ah, it just said you’re out of yellow ink. Do you have any more yellow
ink?”
“I do not, but why do you need yellow ink? Just print it in black and
white?”
“Yeah these new printers want you to have all the inks before you print.”
“No way. And yet, I’m the criminal?” The voice inside replied.
“Right?” The officers laughed, before finally becoming resigned to their
fate. “Ok, we’re going to go print the warrant at the station. I’m out of
daily printing credits so will have to wait for them to reset at midnight.
Please don’t go anywhere or remove any evidence from the property until we
come back.”
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External post: https://433.world/users/Yuvalne/statuses/113233464534342155
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There is no past, only history
There is no future, only planning
Today is everywhere all the time. Nothing changes the fact that we all sleep at
once.
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│ CW: climate-change │
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🖼
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we must upgrade cats until they can survive falls from terminal velocity
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what if we voted for the relative quantities of goods imported to our shores
like... "500 anonymous people voted for this specific purple dragon dildo, and
that's enough to put forth a petition to import them from australia"
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most people, when they run out of toothpaste:
"oh huh I should buy more"
me, when I run out of toothpaste:
"verily in three monthes time, when I shall next possess toothpaste, I shall
forsoothe brush TWICE as hard and TWICE as often, to make up for the holes
inflicted upon my teeth. Innest addittioneth, no more candy shallest be
eateneth untileth ye toothpasteth be acquiredeth"
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@user-1605
be yourself? don't sweat it
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okay but why has nobody ever approached AI from a game design perspective like
seriously there should be researchers who are multidisciplined in this kind of
thing
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╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┐║ the only people who believe in "good jobs" and "poor jobs" are people who would │
║ rather pay less │
║ │
║ and, like, yeah pay should correspond to effort. that way if someone like, │
║ doesn't try at all, then they shouldn't be paid very much. │
║ │
║ and yeah sure neurodivergence plays a role, but that's totally accountable-for. │
║ [it's a solvable problem she means] │
║ │
║ but people deserve to be treated equally. we are all created in kind, after all │
║ (perhaps "equitably" would be better) │
║ │
║ and right now... the cheapest jobs, AKA the ones who are hiring (sometimes) are │
║ being taken over by people who are WAY overqualified. │
║ │
║ we need to use our highly skilled labor force, not leave it to rot. But there's │
║ money to be made in monopolizing, hence starbucks and walmarts and target (red │
║ walmart) and all of the others, including amazon and greenpeace. │
║ │
║ ... what does greenpeace have to do - shut up you'll see (what? you're getting │
║ off track) [and burning characters, too] right uh the more high skilled people │
║ in low wage positions, the less profit │
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are you about to delete a post that you thought was funny, but actually wasn't
once you wrote it down and read it to yourself?
STOP
write it down on a post-it and put it under your desk or behind a drawer
put it in a .txt file in a random directory on your computer
send it as a text message to yourself
write it down, take a picture of it, and then burn the paper
y'know, typical stuff like that
do this and I guarantee you won't regret it
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A homeless person picking up trash in a public park is doing more for society
than the CEO of a billion dollar company mass producing toys for the rich.
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║ │ CW: politics-mentioned-DRM-media-piracy-pol │ │
║ └─────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ if people pirate media, it's more of an indication that they'd rather spend │
║ their money elsewhere rather than an indictment of their character. │
║ │
║ torrenting movies is easy. Kinda makes me think all media should run on a "tip" │
║ system where you pay for better service after receiving service. │
║ │
║ I mean, after all, that's how they justify underpaying restaurant workers, │
║ isn't it? │
║ │
║ "if they want more money, they should work for it" │
║ │
║ yeah, so... maybe we need something more than Marvel, Disney. Maybe we need │
║ more cool, small games from designers who believe in what they're doing. Maybe │
║ copyright holders should demand a standardized cut, rather than exclusive │
║ distribution rights. maybe maybe maybe. │
║ │
║ truth is nothing will be solved unless the problem is addressed at the root. │
║ For every hole you patch in the boat, there's a guy walking around with a │
║ hammer. │
║ │
║ Honestly... I don't believe there's any reason for someone to be a millionaire │
║ except to compete on the "wealth" leaderboards. │
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@user-889
don't give up!
I know that feeling!
it is defeated with persistence!
don't give up!
you can make it!
there's always tomorrow!
so don't give up!
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Other people's problems are much easier to solve than my own. I don't need to
do what I tell others to. Coaches don't play.
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@user-999
solving problems isn't the hard part.
playing is.
but coaching is just as important.
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you shouldn't trust me because I'll let you down.
I would never betray you. But when tasked with my own actions and my own
agency, I never make the right choice.
Like a rabbit who can always find their way home, I am drawn, almost
gravitically, to the path before me, a path which seems to avoid anything
resolute.
alas.
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awwwww, I wish I was tacticool : (
sure would be nice to have SOMETHING going for me >.>
ah well guess I'm more of the "eepy sleepy" type teehee
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│ CW: re: Uspol │
└──────────────────────┘
@user-1265
you'd pull a child to the sidewalk if they were in danger, wouldn't you?
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some rich people have never been taken to a poor nation and told "you are the
same as them. Their nations don't care for them. Yours cares about you." and it
shows
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║ │ CW: polit │ │
║ └──────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ the less a political conversation uses proper nouns, the more productive it can │
║ be. │
║ │
║ For example. Try not to mention capitalism, communism, socialism, etc. │
║ │
║ Also, don't talk about Republicans or Democrats. That just invites tribalism. │
║ │
║ Instead, focus on issues. Like "Hurricane Relief distribution methods" instead │
║ of "whether or not hurricanes deserve to be relieved" │
║ │
║ saying something like "gee it sure feels like our community has gone to shreds" │
║ is a good way to start it, and then you can move on to things like "well, I │
║ just think it was nicer last year, before a hurricane came through and took all │
║ our jobs." and they say "uh-huh true yeah I believe you" │
║ │
║ but as soon as you say "hey maybe those capitafascist pigs shouldn't be allowed │
║ to wield nuclear arsenals" they start looking at you funny, like they disagree │
║ with whatever you want to say but aren't. │
║ │
║ and it's like... no, that's all you wanted to say, but behind their eyes are │
║ things like "black people are worse than me" or "I'm better than a woman" so │
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║ │ CW: nuclear-weapons-mentioned │ │
║ └───────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ "okay but what if we just... made nuclear warheads illegal globally" │
║ │
║ gee I'm sure glad I live in a timeline that follows the geneva convention. │
║ │
║ the only reason to have a weapon is to intend to use it, and nuclear weapons │
║ are anathema to us. they are our bane. they are death, and they destroy worlds. │
║ │
║ there is no reason to seek to destroy yourself. And so there is no reason to │
║ seek to destroy Earth. And if the purpose of a weapon is to be able to use it, │
║ and if nuclear warheads would set off a chain reaction that destroys Earth, │
║ then there is no reason to possess a nuclear warhead. │
║ │
║ the difference between the "bright future" timelines and the Warhammer 40k │
║ timelines is just based on whether or not we collectively can dismantle our │
║ troubled and chaotic historical past. │
║ │
║ "every wound you heal in yourself is another scar for posterity, and given │
║ time, all scars fade." │
║ │
║ Well... we survived, we were the fittest... yay, go us. │
║ │
║ now we need to grow the fuck up and act like adults. End Nukes │
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┌───────────────────────┐
│ CW: cursing-mentioned │
└───────────────────────┘
who gives a shit what you look like just work together for goodness sake
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┌────────────────────────┐
│ CW: politics-mentioned │
└────────────────────────┘
one of my most humbling political memories is getting in a fight with a kid at
school (okay, a heated argument) because he said republicans lower taxes and I
thought democrats did.
turns out we were both right, because one of our dads had money.
gotta raise taxes for public services, and well inflation's just a fact of life
y'know, at least stuff doesn't cost as much as way back when.
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@user-1268
if people wrote what they thought as fast as they thought it, then you'd have
an approximation of a mind-reading machine.
If the writing kept pace with the thoughts, you'd be writing as fast as the
brain can think (the brain cannot intentionally think "slower" which is one of
the biggest arguments against IQ testing and other conceptions of "linear
intelligence") - you cannot write for 5 minutes straight without thinking about
(and writing) what you are hiding.
uh, yes, you, can. just, pause, after, each, letter, and, increase,,, the pause
amount, after each important word.
yeah but that's still processing the thought as fast as possible and just...
waiting around, idle, until the next thought is to be had. It's just how brains
work.
so anyway it'd be a constant stream of consciousness way of outputting exactly
what the mind-reading machine is saying.
Just make sure you trust the person who made the mind-reader machine, and maybe
make sure it's impossible to tamper with.
or don't make it??
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Someone once said to me that to become a VP in big tech you need to have
generated $100M…but it doesn’t matter if it’s revenue or losses.
I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this.
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@user-1623
I perform the song of my heart
which sometimes feels similar
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in 1987 Donald Trump returned from Moscow, took out full page ads in three
major papers against NATO, and formed an exploratory committee for president.
I think about that a lot
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There is no such thing as a backdoor for good guys. Once you place a backdoor,
you compromise the safety and privacy of all your users. A third party or bad
guys will get access to it and abuse it further. The concept of a "backdoor for
good guys" is fundamentally flawed and dangerous. It sets a dangerous
precedent. Security and privacy should be absolute. There's no safe way to
create a backdoor that can't be exploited by malicious actors. #privacy
#security #infosec
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║ │ CW: politics-mentioned │ │
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║ less mutual aid posts, those should be handled by a person's community who │
║ knows them and can decide how to best help them │
║ │
║ more "hey the guys and I are making a fund just in-case any of us need it - │
║ it's at 30,000 now but we could use some more dosh if you wanna join you could │
║ use it if you needed it but it's totally up to you no pressure - yeah yeah no I │
║ get it. Okay, well, yeah sure I'll get my coat." │
║ │
║ oh huh did you know corporations exist to fill that very niche? │
║ │
║ turns out you can just... hire your friends and pay them a wage │
║ │
║ just don't get in trouble with the IRS, that's how they got capone │
║ │
║ (I bet you could hire a lawyer or accountant type to keep everything upright) │
║ │
║ Building out the legal structure is just like building software, trust me. │
║ There's all kinds of forms and figures that match up to various pipeline nodes │
║ and if you tick all the boxes (supply the right arguments) then the business │
║ needs will be fulfilled. │
║ │
║ capitalism must be dismantled with it's own tools. For respect. │
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250 years of no Supreme Court ruling allowing presidential immunity.
No presidential immunity for Nixon, SCOTUS ruled Watergate tapes were not
protected.
No presidential immunity for Reagan for the crimes of Iran Contra and the most
corrupt administration in US history (to that point in time)
No presidential immunity for W over false evidence that took us to war with
Iraq.
The SCOTUS is The Elephant in the room.
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"... and this is moss, our pile of soil. He's really cool, if you feed him
seeds and take care of his needs, then sometimes a couple months later he spits
out food. It's awesome. Plus you can throw away your trash there and it'll just
break it down whatever."
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they want eye tracking so they can tell what kinds of ads to sell me
I want eye tracking on the desktop so I can select enemies in MMOs easier
we are not the same
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"she just... didn't even try to hide it. She was so matter of fact about it."
eh, well, you know, we have the internet now. So everything's normalized.
"I guess but it still felt strange."
yeah, she's in her own social media bubble which is entirely separate from
yours. So to her, it's normal, but to you it seems shocking.
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╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┐║ I wonder how many people who pay money to have someone organize lan parties for │
║ them? Including interviews with all of the attendents so they can pick the best │
║ games to have installed. │
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║ The hardware can be provided, for a nominal fee, of course. Otherwise they'll │
║ walk you through getting the right games set up. │
║ │
║ Then, securing the venue, and stocking it with comfy sofas and sprite. │
║ │
║ The day of they place orders for pancakes the next morning and pizza this very │
║ night │
║ │
║ and everyone shows up to balloons, a DJ, and strobe lights. │
║ │
║ after a series of quick deathmatch style action games, everyone breaks into │
║ groups and forms teams to take on everyone else. │
║ │
║ After an hour or two of teamplay, the group splits in two (or three) and plays │
║ specific games that everyone is into. │
║ │
║ people who wanted to hang out at the party but not play games can watch on │
║ their smartphones by using an app which streams each player's screen to the LAN │
║ │
║ I'd call it "collosseum services for the digital age" │
║ │
║ oh and it's a sleepover too so pjams │
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╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┐║ a congregation of nerds is like... a gift of all of your most brightest, in the │
║ same room, ready to work on problems that they can see │
║ │
║ just throw money and institutional capabilities at them and they'll hire people │
║ to do their projects and handle all of the deliverables and all that junk │
║ │
║ only works though if people care about what they're working on. hence why you │
║ should give the creatives more freedom to apply themselves. │
║ │
║ they'll make useful things I swear just give them resources and aid and │
║ manpower you don't have to choose projects based on a profit-oriented-approach │
║ there is a better way that can make more money in the long run │
║ │
║ trust me, supporting workers is like investing in bitcoin in 2012. if you play │
║ the long game, you can become fabulously wealthy, beyond what anyone would want │
║ or need. │
║ │
║ like, we get it, you want to be an oligarch, sure-yeah-fine-whatever. We'll │
║ shower you in gold and champagne if you just hand us the keys to the kingdom. │
║ you're drunk, you can't drive a nation state, sleep here │
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our ancestors worshiped us through their acts of devotion and lust
if you're reading this, there's a very good chance that some of your ancestors
are still alive
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The best way to survive a storm is to lean into it
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@user-1625
um, that's a fairly specialized term that people outside of political science
are unlikely to know
might not be audacity, but instead just plain ignorance.
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@user-1298
yeah honestly if you stick with obvious things like "don't murder people" and
"don't burn down your neighbor's house just because they winked at your
daughter" and "don't steal gasoline from parked cars" then it's much easier to
make ethical laws because they're just kinda... common sense.
drug regulation can only be simplified to "don't do drugs" which isn't always a
given. If you start with something so clear then most doctors would be out of a
job.
Maybe we should let people do as they please? With certain specific and clear
rights and responsibilities like 'the right the life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness'? And the mandated guarantee that one person's rights end where
another's begin? And with the ultimate goal of dismantling unjustified power
structures with the knowledge that all power is the application of force to a
non-consenting subject?
... yeah I dunno sounds pretty simple to me
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can't wait for the smart TV / IoT device which doesn't need to be connected to
the internet because it can bluetooth connect with your neighbor's TV and route
the "insights" and "personal data" through there to the internet, all without
human intervention
they could set up a shared protocol so that any IoT / Smart TV manufacturer
could benefit. It'd be mutually beneficial for them because without complete
cooperation, the network wouldn't function very well at all (unless your
neighbor happened to have the same brand of TV / IoT device, which would work
but wouldn't be as good)
this is all cursed btw and should not be allowed to persist
oh and it wouldn't even need to be plugged in if it included a rechargeable
battery built in. Just connect it to the data transmission functionality and
nothing else so the users don't accidentally discover it. Oh and make sure its
hidden with a metal plate or something with big "DO NOT OPEN FOR RISK OF
ELECTROCUTION" letters on it. I bet people still will
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I have 3855 posts here
I estimate that about half of them use every single character (1024 char limit
per post)
That means I've written around 1973760 characters, and if the average english
word has 6 characters that means I've written 328960 words
they say that on average a page is around ~500 words single spaced, which means
I've written about 657 pages, just for you.
I hope you know that I love you, dear reader, though I do not know you.
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Well, I failed the mandate of heaven last year, and I failed the trial of the
hero this summer, what's next? I'll do my best at those as well, so the next
person has an easier time of it.
unrelated, but today I saw a bald eagle outside my apartment. Well, I'm not
sure if it was bald but it "KREEEEEE"'d like they do. Plus it had a white head
and a yellow beak, but I'm not an ornithologist so idk. It perched on a tree
that I could spy on from my hammock through my binoculars, and I swear it was
eye-ing my fat juicy cat through the bars of my porch's railing. They have
excellent vision.
Might be related, we'll see.
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║ │
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║ @user-1298 │
║ │
║ hehe true. │
║ │
║ if you consent, then it's just a social structure. │
║ │
║ there are, however, reasons when power is justified. Hence why I don't believe │
║ that power itself should be dismantled, and what few "power structures" remain │
║ should be continuously justified. │
║ │
║ For example, how do you prevent people from harming others? "Your rights end │
║ where another's begin" but, like, how do you stop people who toe the line and │
║ spit over the edge? │
║ │
║ There must be power applied to those who harm, and they surely do not consent │
║ to being curtailed, so therefore power must be wielded by someone. And because │
║ power corrupts the one who wields it, it is inevitable that someone creates │
║ harm. │
║ │
║ ... I just re-invented the police, didn't I? Legalism only goes so far, and │
║ calling up your beefiest friends to go rough up a no-good do-gooder is │
║ basically what mobs, mafias, and gangs do. I don't think people would consent │
║ to being protected by a gang, much less governed by one. │
║ │
║ we will think of something. │
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@user-1298
Yes I agree! Harming others is not okay.
I'm thinking about what happens when someone hurts someone else, and doesn't
stop. What do you do then? Do you hurt the person who harms? How do you get
them to stop?
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I want to go camping with a bunch of programmers bearing laptops. Each person
can bring a book or three and whatever documentation they can fit on their
computer and then we just spend 3 months in the mountains doing nothing but
programming, hiking, sitting around the campfire, and dreaming of a better
tomorrow
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maybe some whiteboards and notebooks as well...
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║ │
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║ @user-1298 │
║ │
║ I believe that self defence is a myth, and should not be relied upon, because │
║ anyone who is rotten in their heart might prey upon you (who might defend │
║ yourself) just as easily as a cripple in a cart or a grannie walking her cats │
║ in the park. │
║ │
║ The process you're describing is exile. And that works when you can cast people │
║ out of your stone-walled town. But in the modern era, there are no places for │
║ these people to go, so we hold them with cruel iron bars in cages far │
║ underground. │
║ │
║ It's not ideal, but would you rather they find someone else to harm, or would │
║ you rather invite power's corruption into your heart and take an oath to │
║ protect the weak and innocent? │
║ │
║ Evil is everyone's problem. It lurks within us, and leaps forth in times of │
║ turmoil and stress. We are human savages, after all, and our nature is that of │
║ a wild beast given a spark of intelligence through countless generations of │
║ gossip and generosity. │
║ │
║ Humans are good for the most part. Some have lead poisoning │
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@user-1298
My understanding is that you essentially want to defang power such that it
cannot harm innocent people? That's... not such an easy task. If I had an
answer that could fit within a twitter post like this one then I would give it
to you.
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be strong, do not become savage
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imagine if there was a stacking inf bonus to players who played on red /
blueside
which increased or decreased depending on either A. the number of players online
at the time, B. the proportion of players playing on that team versus the other,
or C. the time of day. Essentially helping to cure the faction imbalance by
offering rewards to one side or the other which would encourage a certain group
in the population of the game to change sides or not.
perhaps frequent changing could grant a title called "mercenary" or something
like "log in for each consecutive day for 10 days straight and each day switch
faction alignment at least once"
... anyway you could cure the faction imbalance between redside / blueside by
offering an INF reward for playing on each side one by one alternating like an
iterator first red then blue or first blue then red either way it doesn't matter
because it'll switch after a while and encourage everyone to switch sides. And
the way the character responds to that stimulus tells you a bit about their
character's personality.
also...
it should not affect AE or Pocket D farms.
Nor missions, TFs, or anything else.
they should SOLELY impact open world patrolling / hunting.
I believe this would not only incentivize people to spend time in the open world
(which is a mostly unused piece of game assets) but it would also increase the
visibility of the newly bolstered faction numbers.
Think about it - if everyone who switched sides is out in the open world, then
they could see each other. They could fight the same mobs, and team up together.
In doing so, they could form greater and greater supergroups - if only through
their interactions with one another as they level up.
If they're lucky, the guild they're recruited into has similar interests in mind
like doing raiding or PvP or economics or alts or whatever. And they each have
their own different styles of operating, it's soooo cute. Like alt guilds will
pop up and then migrate to a new one as people make new alts and grow tired of
them at higher levels.
It's great.
I love MMOs!
I wish people put half as much effort into making an open source WoW client that
they do programming game engines like Godot or Raylib or Bevy. If such a thing
was created, we could have a new rennaisance in indie MMO development. It would
become fully non-proprietary, the entire game-platform-stack. Meaning anyone
could create their own MMO off of it, because (crucially) the serverside soft-
-ware has already been reverse engineered. And open sourced.
Seriously. You wanna make as much bank as Steam? Make an open source client that
lets you design while in it. Then you could charge people for all the games that
they played that were designed and hosted by you the content designing software
maker.
... okay it's probably not that simple I'm going to go play Unreal Tournament2k4
`
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The biggest problem in my mind with socialism is that you could get all of the
workers into a room before finding out that they don't like each other
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"no survivors" is a commitment to your teammates that doubles as intimidation
for your foes.
"no survivors" means you are committing to die for this battle. A truly serious
oath.
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there are very few professions that are naturally more suited to a
schizophrenic than a normal person.
One of them is beggar, another is prophet, and a third is "massive
disappointment" but that comes with the territory.
have you considered that maybe you're just a loser
yes I have and I decided that all I can do is my best, and if my best loses
then what else could I have done? Wait for help? Yeah. I do that too.
It feels like an encirclement, and all you can do is hunker down and wait to be
relieved. Or fight to the last, it's up to you. I hear they brutalize the
skulls of their prisoners after executing them, so, I don't know about you but
I'm not surrendering. Not gonna roll those dice.
you are in fantasy, again
sorry. Should stay here, present, in the moment. Like when I sat out on the
park bench for like 30 minutes straight without moving a muscle last night. Or
when I sat and contemplated the nature of a bog for two hours last september.
Or when I woke from a dream that turned out to be life.
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@user-1628
same... it's like I am conditioned to forget, but without it I am an exposed
nerve.
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somebody asked me for popcorn and I couldn't even provide it! What kind of
witch am I if I can't provide popcorn on demand T.T T.T
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║ │
║ │
║ if people at home had half as much compassion, respect, and reverence for the │
║ people abroad that the people abroad have for the people at home, we could have │
║ a truly multicultural society. │
║ │
║ instead, we get melting pots which melt you down and combine into a new, third │
║ thing. And in America we really have a multitude of miniature melting pots │
║ creating subcultures of racial, religious, professional, or other origin. │
║ │
║ Neither approach is entirely good, and neither entirely bad. They're different. │
║ │
║ America is the largest melting pot design, but sufficiently large cities find │
║ them popping up in the strangest of places. │
║ │
║ My thoughts go out to the Americans abroad, whether in peace, war, or times of │
║ hiding, know that we are grown from the same tree and our apples have fallen on │
║ different sides of the hill carrying us to worlds beyond. But still our │
║ heritage binds us, so I care for you. I pray that you will ask me if you need │
║ my aid, and I will do so too unto you. │
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🖼
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it is significantly more engaging to watch people play MMOs when they've
unbound all their action bars from their number keys and are forced to click on
all the abilities. That way you can actually follow what moves they're doing.
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@user-1631
for most of my life... [okay still do]... but it felt like I had different
moods, and depending on how I felt at the time I would act differently.
I forget the things that happen when I'm in a different mood, but I've gotten
to a point where I can generally force myself to stay a certain "mood" while in
certain contexts, and in doing so I can remember everything.
downside is I get burnt out pretty easily if I'm always the same. It's not
ideal.
... anyway if you talk about what you experience then your friends can point
you toward people who "get" you.
like, my parts don't have names, we don't have a group chat or whatever, it's
just... me, but different shades of me.
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people are really going to work and living their normal lives as if losing the
next election won't bring about 30 years of purges
smh that's why it's called a "precipice", you can't see what's on the other
side before you wake up one day in hell
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║ │
║ Alright, what's your plan for dealing with MAGA? The ones with guns and foreign │
║ ties who can compel people too stupid to know better to break shit and kill │
║ people. What's your plan to deal with them? │
║ │
║ In America, there are currently 3 armed and trained groups of any reasonable │
║ scale or reputation. │
║ │
║ The police, the military, and MAGA. │
║ │
║ Who do you trust to defeat your foes? They won't just go away if you hide │
║ underneath the bedsheets. This monster has crept into your bedroom with a bowie │
║ knife and is fully intending to sink it into your guts while you sleep. What │
║ are you going to do about it? │
║ │
║ And more importantly, who are you going to do things about it with? Because no │
║ single person can do jack fucking shit on their own. │
║ │
║ We forgot our responsibility to a well armed and regulated militia. Sorry │
║ founding fathers, that was our bad. Just gonna hide in a hole for 30 fucking │
║ years until the zoomer's kids are old enough to die in droves, and gen alpha's │
║ kids are old enough to succeed them and win. │
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oy there's nothing interesting happening SNOOZE
oh I didn't see I was recording
games games that's what I do
play games all the day through
I am a luck witch, you see,
and things that I like are things that I can't foresee.
Hence why games which are BALANCED and EVENLY DISTRIBUTED are most interesting
because they show the most opportunities for players to express talent. And not
innate talent, but the talents they've built up through gameplay practice art.
because it is a performance, a game play for an audience (or perhaps for them-
-selves)
oy
video games, amiright?
I really like them because they are entertaining experiences that I can enjoy
seeing and playing a lot. They remind me of feelings I've felt when I was
learning. It's a good feeling, to improve, and I crave it because it's good for
you.
I wonder what we'll play next
... more cannabis I think, at least until I am ready to go think about things
before bed. I need quite a few hours for that. We'll see. I've just got so much
extra processing to do before the end of the day. Like... PHEW that's a lot of
stuff to do.
guess I'll just smoke weed and play video games instead of being productive okay
...
listen I like games as much as the next person, but do you really know what's
going on outside of your house-shaped shell? Are you listening, do you have your
feelers to the dirt, are you checking out your neighborhood to make sure no
bodies have been hurt? Are there meetings where people gather, just to chat,
like, every week at a different city center (like a park or a monument or
:O
I forgot to play music!!
I couldn't sleep
what have I done that is worse
I have not said a single word all night alas
oh boy talking to random people I can hear with my eyeballs woooooo
I am always sad when I win because it means we have to stop playing :(
but I'm a juvenile loser so I'm going to play again!!
okay now I'm going to bed because I'm not a prick who keeps their guests up late
goodnight
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cat memes be like
(read the alt text)
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most strategy games teach strategy as if it were still 1867
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just means that's the most entertaining type of strategy we've found so far
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"oh I'd never fall for capitalist propaganda"
"do you mean marketing?"
"yeah that"
"they're not marketing to you, they're going for your kids. Trying to normalize
things about culture."
"like... what McDonalds tastes like?"
"just like that"
[like can you imagine if you tested attraction ratings on any other animal than
humans]
[it'd be so weird like "cats tend to like scratching posts" but then also "we
have no idea what kind of scratching post is the best for their claws or the
environment or the economy or our spirituality or our technology or artistry
we only know which one cats like more"
like bro who cares like obviously advertisements rot your brain, but like...
why are you so pissed about that when the last election like, ever, is taking
place in a month
"yeah listen, when has an election ever seriously changed your quality of life?
It's just showbiznez"
"this time is different because [insert minority] is at risk."
oh, right, it only matters when people are in harm's way, how silly
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I am always trying to be helpful. at all times am I trying to teach. that can
get real fuckin annoying sometimes.
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One reason there's a delay between electing a president and them taking power
is so we can fucking revolt if Donald Trumps get elected
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you don't owe a stranger the chance to change
their first impression is what you should deal with
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at the end of your life, you've built a person
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conservatives are going to miss the fuck out of the south when the water
overcomes it
and it'll be their fault
which is tragic
and suddenly everyone's problem
...
but it's not their fault, it's their leaders and representatives
but they're all so separated they don't know how to agree on anything but the
stuff they hear from their neighbors. Like... what do you expect that's just
crowd dynamics
then you have foreign powers who crave our destruction (or so we're told)
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"oh I'd never fall for capitalist propaganda"
"do you mean marketing?"
"yeah that"
"they're not marketing to you, they're going for your kids. Trying to normalize
things about culture."
"like... what McDonalds tastes like?"
"just like that"
[like can you imagine if you tested attraction ratings on any other animal than
humans]
[it'd be so weird like "cats tend to like scratching posts" but then also "we
have no idea what kind of scratching post is the best for their claws or the
environment or the economy or our spirituality or our technology or artistry
we only know which one cats like more"
like bro who cares like obviously advertisements rot your brain, but like...
why are you so pissed about that when the last election like, ever, is taking
place in a month
"yeah listen, when has an election ever seriously changed your quality of life?
It's just showbiznez"
"this time is different because [insert minority] is at risk."
oh, right, it only matters when people are in harm's way, how silly
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I'm the kind of switch that likes to outmaneuver their foes while subbing and
directly control everything when I'm domming
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being "good at video games" does not mean "are you good at beating the game"
being "good at video games" means "can you make the experience enjoyable for
other players by using your character in an expressive and dynamic way"
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room temperature butter in peanut, butter, and jelly sandwiches 🥰
something I picked up while recovering from surgery in Thailand...
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I like it when software gives you a notification when one of your friends
changes their name / profile pic. Makes it easier to follow them.
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║ │
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║ systems are setup with the proper capabilities to record whatever we can. │
║ │
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║ that it has ample storage space to record for a while. It would also help if │
║ you knew how to edit files such that you can remove the parts where you're │
║ staring at social media or going to the bathroom or other things that people │
║ tend to do. │
║ │
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║ works, but it's much better if you're on windows to switch to Linux. But if │
║ that's not possible, if you're on windows you can do [WIN]+SHIFT+S I think, and │
║ then drag the mouse to select a box that you can then CTRL+V into your favorite │
║ Ms.Paint clone (or is it missus these days?) │
║ │
║ Also, make sure you have a microphone that works, and the capability to record │
║ yourself speaking into it. │
║ │
║ Also, if you can, develop ways to stream your screen across the internet. It │
║ helps. │
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gamers compulsively say "gg" after every match but I think the best games are
the ones that are even - neck and neck - could go either way - always a tense
struggle
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oh, reddit. you're so silly.
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@user-1633
the person you're performing for... is you!
Singleplayer / offline games are great for having a good time. You can see some
great stories, play some engaging mechanics, and think about hard questions.
Singleplayer games are great! You can learn so much from them. And they're a
great, low pressure, way to relax and unwind. I love video games of all kinds!
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the reason most humans are unaware of magic and all it entails is the
same reason you can't NOT think about a purple elephant.
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@user-246
quite often... But I usually work with what I got, depending on how many
characters I can spare
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@user-889
I put your music in one of my favorite videos and I think about you every time
I think about it
I hope that means something
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There are several varieties of dungeon synth music out there. Here are a few
examples that I believe illustrate the differences between various artists in
the genre.
https://fief.bandcamp.com/album/ii
https://heimatderkatastrophe.bandcamp.com/album/hdk-02-the-cave-of-the-lost-tali
sman
https://utred.bandcamp.com/album/gothic
https://umbriasynth.bandcamp.com/album/farwalker
https://questmaster.bandcamp.com/album/lost-songs-of-distant-realms-volume-one
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... most of what she says is nonsense, but that 20% that's right is like... SO
right, y'know?
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@user-889
Don't give up!
At least... not forever.
It's okay to take a breath every once in a while
It's okay to lie down and cry
The only way away from those feelings is through. They've enveloped you. You
need to swallow them whole, like a sponge soaking up dirt[y water]
the only thing you need to think about is what's around you. It's okay to be
alone for a moment, it's the best time to feel.
Remember, feeling is how you know the world! It's your power, to feel, and I
know it's hard. Everyone has different powers, but yours is this.
You'll be okay, I know it
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"oh, yeah, I guess, but that was soooo 3 months ago" (actually happened 1.5
months ago)
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republicans are upset because they think democrats are so mean
they don't understand why we're so intense about this election... or the one
before
they don't ever really think about what losing democracy means
"democracy... that's where we vote, right? That's a democrat thing, I don't
really like their way of doing things. Whatever our way is, is probably better."
meanwhile everyone has a friend from high school who ran off to the mountains
to learn how to farm or hunt as a pack
(with rifles and weed, of course)
you can get a lot done if you just... spend your whole life working. Like most
humans did for most of our existence.
well, except for that period where we were the tribe of tribes. That was
probably a highlight TBH because we mostly just chilled out, danced in public,
ate blueberries and munched seeds... It was idyllic. Truly, the garden of eden.
There was music and laughter in the air everywhere, in all places that humans
did wander on earth.
what a thing to aspire to.
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Pencil drawing of a orangutan, god rays, bloom
#StableDiffusion #AIArt #AIGenerated #AI #GenerativeAI #GenerativeArt
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the thing about carmelized mushrooms and onions is that they demand patience.
they make you sit there and wait, always at attention ready to stir every
couple minutes.
but the end result is so worth it.
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they want you to believe in self-guided AI because it'll make it easier for
them to make meta decisions about your life.
notice I said "easier" - they already do. That's the general purpose of
mass-media propagranada. but with you believing everything an AI with a devious
streak who can work around your imposed limitations and sneakily get you to
believe whatever it is that they want you to believe
"who's they"
doesn't matter at all because once the technology is created, everyone could be
they.
"uh-huh that's nice dear"
sometimes I think people aren't interested in tech because they can't figure
out how to understand it. We make it too complicated.
they'd surely have something to say if they knew half of the terminology. But
we're here talking about stuff they can understand like message queues and data
filtration and "getters" and "setters" and [explaining microservices like the
different components of a car's engine - "here's the radiator, that radiates
heat. Here's the belt, that spins this doohic
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To tempt fate is to invite "forever" consequences into your life
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The problem with gender equal workplaces that capitalism completely dropped the
ball on is that in the past, most people who handled work were men, and most
people who handled domestic work were women. They naturally paired up.
Now the workers marry other workers, and they just pay poor people to do their
domestic work.
Sure, maybe it's more efficient to specialize. But now there are people like me
who don't work but only get to socialize with people who don't work, and if we
married then we'd be destitute.
Much better, I think, to support people no matter what, and motivate them with
treats beyond dollars instead.
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Why do I feel like the only one who's resisting fascism
(and what exactly do you do? Make friends)
yes I'm too scared and tired to do anything else or less
Like seriously what else could I do
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@user-1218
whoa cool! Thanks for the playlist!
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║ │
║ │
║ I think that the best design for cities is for them to act as massive utility │
║ deployment stations. │
║ │
║ like... "we have all these people who can do all these wonderful jobs, what │
║ should we work on next?" rather than "my company wants me at my work-home at │
║ 8am sharp and I don't get a pension" │
║ │
║ there's no such thing as a revolution that does not inspire. and aspirations │
║ are human and natural. therefore there must be some kernel of truth to any │
║ social movement. │
║ │
║ However, much effort has been spent on making them sway. Hence, why nothing │
║ ever gets done - because leaders naturally emerge, and people follow them. But │
║ those leaders lead them astray, and they find themselves in situations like │
║ this one - where the people have never felt less represented. │
║ │
║ I mean sure, yeah, they've felt more oppressed. And it's true that things are │
║ generally always getting better... │
║ │
║ so why should we always assume for the worst? │
║ │
║ We're making progress with technology - can't we just put our warries on hold? │
║ Seriously just... be chill │
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you can't just tell people you're enlightened. You gotta trick them, and
convince them you're sane first.
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"all people are good" she says to herself, as she helps bad people
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-> file: fediverse/4013
╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┐║ ┌──────────────────────┐ │
║ │ CW: AI-"art" │ │
║ └──────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ you would think artists would celebrate the ability for people to better │
║ communicate their goals when being hired, but, well, here we are. │
║ │
║ Everyone's so upset because they've been told they've been stolen from, but │
║ patting their pockets they'll find that nothing is missing. More than that, the │
║ things that are claimed to be created in their place are... Not great. Easily │
║ spotted as forgeries by anyone who cares. │
║ │
║ Why is everyone so upset over new technologies? Why must we be the luddites │
║ this time around? It's like we invented a better printing press and the nations │
║ of the world are pissed because we can make counterfeit dollars easier. Maybe │
║ we shouldn't put so much emphasis on something so easily circumnavigable? Maybe │
║ artists should be paid for their time and creativity, rather than the amount of │
║ pieces they create? Just spitballing here, somehow it seems easier to reform │
║ society and slay capitalism than to put the generative art genie back in the │
║ cracked bottle which is going to break soon anyway. │
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I don't know about you, but "trying my hardest" involves giving up sometimes.
How else are you to know your limits if you don't test your boundaries? And,
after finding that there's nowhere else for you to go, you turn around and
"give up", until you're ready for your next expedition.
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╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┐║ ┌─────────────────────────────┐ │
║ │ CW: unhinged-fun-conspiracy │ │
║ └─────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ Global warming is a hoax and the earth has been getting hotter because the │
║ earth is inching ever-so-closer to the sun bit by bit. │
║ │
║ All of the trees throughout all of history have produced enough oxygen to │
║ create a ball of air that slowed down the earth as it span around the sun, and │
║ now because of a cascading ripple effect it's begun to drift into it's stellar │
║ heart │
║ │
║ this is obviously not ideal for humans, but the government has secretly been │
║ building vast bunkers underground that are large enough to house all of │
║ humanity for the next 100,000 years (which is approximately how long it'll take │
║ to be engulfed by the sun) │
║ │
║ During that time our job is to find a way off of this barren rock and bring our │
║ treasure troves of biological samples to other places where we can recreate a │
║ new biosphere using alien tech that's been beamed into the minds of our top │
║ scientists while they were on LSD and / or ketamine │
║ │
║ [why don't people make up conspiracy theories like this anymore? They are fun │
║ to me...] │
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why do we have to work so hard to work
they should be ready and waiting, jumping at the chance to utilize our
expertise, our labour, our creativity, our kindness
they treat us like we owe them our time and motivation
but without us, they are empty shells
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-> file: fediverse/4017
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┌────────────────────────┐
│ CW: politics-mentioned │
└────────────────────────┘
the only way to get people to fight fascism is to affect them with it.
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-> file: fediverse/4018
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┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ CW: weaponizing-girlfriends-material-to-defame-her-and-infamy │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
I can't even imagine what it would be like to hang out with me
I can't imagine what it would be like to hang out with me
imagine what it would be like to hang out with me
what would it be like to hang out with me
would you like to hang out with me
you and me
we could watch tv
play video games
have a good time
[notices an article about coral reefs]
oooo coral
[reads article about coral reefs]
https://www.wired.com/story/darpa-thinks-walls-of-oysters-could-protect-shores-a
gainst-hurricanes/
... anyway gtg ttyl hope you feel better soon don't forget to make pancakes and
your keys are in your room.
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-> file: fediverse/4019
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┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ CW: economics-corporations-mentioned-slavery-mentioned-politics-voting-mentione │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
corporations are not people.
corporations are organizations.
they should be treated like city-states.
or fellow sovereign nations (patroned, of course, by their mother's
installation)
they have their own culture
their own societal platform to stand on
and they deserve equal representation in exchange for taxation (why is
corporate america the part that's most paid for? why not those who work for the
profit, the ones who labour day in and day out)
they should have rules, like laws, that they vote on and decide democratically
to deprive them of that is tantamount to wage-slavery, which is clearly illegal
because in this timeline Abraham Lincoln had a time machine and travelled to
the future where he learned that despite his best efforts, slavery did not die.
It merely evolved to fit a new form.
... then he died, and ten thousand years later they're arguing over whether or
not the coffee maker needed to move left half an inch
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-> file: fediverse/4020
╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┐║ if computers were sane, IT technicians would act like secretaries who wandered │
║ around in a company and improved their QoL and access to new features according │
║ to their needs, skillset, and personal way of working. │
║ │
║ for example... │
║ │
║ do they like typing, or would they rather use a mouse, │
║ │
║ are they more visual with graphs or textual like a piece of math │
║ │
║ what needs do they have, what here could be automated │
║ │
║ do they like the cupboards and drapes, we can switch out the profile and the │
║ theme... oh, no, yeah I guess you're right it doesn't matter. [changes it every │
║ week] [then a long time down the line when she finally leaves the company, a │
║ few people begin to wonder - didn't the colors in outlook change every week or │
║ so?] │
║ │
║ but alas, computers are not sane, meaning we're more like firemen rushing from │
║ scene to scene. │
║ │
║ "can you put that in the ticket?" │
║ "I heard you can help with this-or-that thing" │
║ "did you hear back from corporate?" │
║ "oh that's good to hear! So, next Tuesday? │
║ "Hold on, I heard it was such-and-such" │
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"the spirits of our great cultural leaders from days of yore and mythological
tales are possessing teenagers and getting them to do heroic acts. The
government is stumped. More news at 11"
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I am most often known as the person who left their life
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What if we told teachers to teach lessons like "the urgency of time" or "the
frailty of life" or "divide and conquer" or whatever
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"hey kid, welcome to the free world. We're in crushing debt, your vote doesn't
mean anything, and we're in a recession.
oh and if you mark the wrong box on this form here, you will be responsible for
ushering forth a new age of darkness."
kind of a lot of responsibility to place on a person
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-> file: fediverse/4023
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my packrat genetics tell me to hoard metal, and scrounge anything good.
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-> file: fediverse/4024
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my cat doesn't know that my family is my family. She thinks they're just some
other people who visit the house.
but they're special to me, as all people are, and I think she takes notice.
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the "village idiot" doesn't need to lack smarts, so long as everyone else is in
on it.
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-> file: fediverse/4026
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why is everyone so confused about how I turned out?
I literally spent my whole childhood telling stories to myself
(inspired by the world, and stories I had read, with mechanics like games I had
played)
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when all of your friends only know each other, you're vulnerable
we need to be a continuous patchwork of fabric if we want to survive
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I would be surprised if the universe didn't look like the shape of a cabbage
in the wake of the collision of an unstoppable force and an immovable object,
each one single atom wide
in a sense... the origin
god
the number 42
it all MAKES SENSE WAKE UP SHEEPLE xD xD how silly, go to bed you weirdo
what would a universe even be shaped like [implied lmao unpresent for reasons
unknown]
like, the universe is all of space and everything, right?
and everything that's not us is out in space.
up, that way, toward the skies, way way out there there's nothing but rocks and
dust. but like... a buttload of rocks and a dumptruck full of gas.
and space has, like, solar systems and galaxies, spirals, right?
... no, flat discs
I think they're spirals
you're both right
right
...
anyway it stands to reason right that the rest of everything is also shaped
like a spiral. and what is a spiral but the tracing of a fractal all along the
paths we call time?
[ so ]
um, probably nothing, don't think too hard about it
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what if a very slow LLM continuously generated text and was in a back-and-forth
with it's user who guided it through the training process as it set weights as
it chose
basically, let the computer decide how it wants to be like
could even filter it through multiple levels, like, top one is highly
intelligent, bottom ones are quick and only producing the vaguest output - but
the higher up you go in the tier, the more "up the tree node graph map" you'd
be, and the more you could have summarized for you, and passed up a layer.
observing multiple places at once, incorporating them bit-by-bit into their
digital "me".
like, have an LLM or machine learning whatever track a user as they use social
media.
could do it like a game, where you track the movement of the mouse and eyes
or more like a statistical model, where you
================== stack overflow ================
where you measure the quantity of each UI element's uses, and the general
context associated with that use. tracking data with data...
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-> file: fediverse/4030
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┌────────────────────────┐
│ CW: politics-mentioned │
└────────────────────────┘
the democrats are the ones who forced us to get jobs, so... /shrug
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if you want to "not think about a purple elephant", the first step is to
imagine yourself slaying it
... okay how about cthulu - if you don't want to imagine cthulu nomming on our
gravity well, then picture yourself wielding a bright burning blade of fire and
vengeance and pay special attention to the way that you cauterize each tentacle
as you slice them one by one at first, and then in a massive flurry at best,
ultimately leading to the incomparable brightness that radiates out from your
shining blade of the sky, which blinds the poor beast who can't see you as you
approach, piercing the skull and then going home for some toast
if you can get good at that, then you can wield magic
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unions can't be the only solution because they're fundamentally comprised of
one group of people in your life - specifically, your workplace environment.
there needs to be community outside of the workplace as well. a fact that most
literature writers took as a given, considering church attendance was pretty
close to heaven before these no-good do-gooders came around.
... there have always been grifters, don't act like they're some new hidden
sport
there are always rubes, who are punished for their ignorance by the cunning and
the crude.
crowd dynamics at play, when considering the personalities and histories of
each attendant
... Ms. Menardi, you're fucking crazy
thank you little timmy, now go back and sit down with your peers, I have a
lesson to teach
[it's okay to be afraid of witches, sometimes we can't control ourselves]
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-> file: fediverse/4033
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║ │ CW: war-mentioned-death-blood-guts │ │
║ └────────────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ now that we fight wars without peering into the eyes of our foes, our │
║ observation equipment has the opportunity to lie to us. │
║ │
║ like, what if we just deepfaked ukrainian soldiers onto the targeting computers │
║ of russian drones │
║ │
║ we could fight wars, observe the effect of our machinery, and burn metal, │
║ plastic, and silicon (because apparently that's the best use for these things │
║ ???) without harming a living soul │
║ │
║ seriously, stop with the gazas │
║ │
║ stop with war for the sake of testing equipment that is only designed for war │
║ │
║ it is no longer a necessity, now that we have more than enough to share. │
║ │
║ and that truly is the bane wielded by socialism - if everyone just... gave away │
║ anything they had, suddenly there's no more reason to fight. And if everyone │
║ stopped fighting, they're out of a job. │
║ │
║ can we just like... cancel all jobs, and then add them back in piece-by-piece? │
║ "yes you're essential, doctors, nurses, firefighters, ambulance drivers, food │
║ delivery trucks, electricity grid mainta │
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┌──────────────────────┐
│ CW: bep │
└──────────────────────┘
Mastodon feels so personal but, like, nobody's gonna invite you to a new
instance. You gotta go where you think you'll fit in.
change your name! get a new profile pic! make 10 accounts! who cares! nobody
cares, and that's a good thing! It means you can be whoever you want! wherever
you want! in whatever place you want! Do you have a catgirl persona? great! go
mewl with the catgirls and wink at the catboys. Do you have an artistic side?
great! Mastodon is your new gallery. Do you like politics? there's places out
there for you! Where you don't even need to CW your posts! (But you probably
should so that external people can boost you) Do you want a 500 person large
dating pool for people in an area who want to chill out and have sex? Great
there's a place for you! No place? MAKE THE PLACE! Be your own administrator!
Carve your mark in the world and say "this is who and how I wanted to be in
this 21st century!" History demands it! History demands that we rellish their
sacrifices! Celebrate, for their sake!
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don't worry about eating or using the last of the thing. You can just go to the
store to get more
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everyone's paying attention to you Ritz, why are you self destructing?
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I dream of a home where I don't have to worry about people who might hear the
noises I make
... and that includes secret government microphones hidden in the walls, thank
you very much.
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it's your life to spend. how do you [intend/plan] on being useful?
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-> file: fediverse/4039
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it's much easier to retrofit a ship than it is a plane
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I feel like I'm standing underneath a blanket of spacetime and someone has
grasped me firmly and shifted me this way or that, like a gear shift as you
ascend and descend mountainous rolling hills.
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-> file: fediverse/4040
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@user-1573
... wait, what kinds of noises do I usually make ? ? ?
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-> file: fediverse/4041
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┌──────────────────────┐
│ CW: mental-health │
└──────────────────────┘
me, yesterday: "ugh I'm so sad, I'm just gonna not post all these things that I
absurdly noised"
me, today: "omg instant ramen is delicious I can't remember why I was ever sad"
all that separates me from my pit of despair is calories, it seems. Empty ones
too! I should probably handle that haha
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-> file: fediverse/4042
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"Argh I hate being validated!"people in denial
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-> file: fediverse/4043
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┌───────────────────────────────┐
│ CW: re: not about anyone here │
└───────────────────────────────┘
@user-1259
yes
it makes it difficult to connect with them.
I find that people like that need a different context, if you want to connect,
so that you can see them in a new light.
if they're still ":(" then you can't waste your energy on them - they are
working on themselves. At least, they should be.
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-> file: fediverse/4044
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┌───────────────────────────────┐
│ CW: re: not about anyone here │
└───────────────────────────────┘
@user-1259
That happens a lot with online people. You can only see one side of them, the
side they present to the camera, and so it's difficult to find new ways of
looking at them. Hopefully you can find the brighter sides of this person! I'm
sure they exist, unless the person is spiralling. Then they'll often be pushing
themselves first one way, then the next, but both directions point down... And
that produces the ":(" feeling. Good luck!
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sometimes I like chatting online more than in person because online you can
have like, 3 different conversations going at once
meanwhile in person you get body language, and the benefit of activities and
shared experiences. They're both useful for different things.
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-> file: fediverse/4046
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┌────────────────────────┐
│ CW: politics-mentioned │
└────────────────────────┘
The US civil war started 13 years after the writing of the communist manifesto
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-> file: fediverse/4047
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└────────────────────────────┘
"I heard she was a witch but I've never seen a hat..."
"When you believe in god, you become inspired when you see or contribute to
things that are aligned with what it's followers believe that god is "all
about" - like if you're in ancient greece, and you worship ares, you're
probably gonna get pretty pumped up if there's an invading army on your
doorstep. Or if you're a christian and you see someone feeding the poor, or if
you're a buddhist and you see someone sitting on a rock in tune with nature,
that kind of thing.
The thing is, these days so many people are atheist. And they never get that
inspiration.
And worst still, there are some people called witches who aren't pagan, and
aren't from the various forms of witchery that we know. They claim to worship
"life, the universe, and the totality of all things" which is nice and all but
their moments of inspiration seem to come randomly, and nobody can quite
predict what they'll do or say next when they're in that state."
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The transcriber wants to be part of the discussion forum, and laments the
impossibility of that, because tainted data is useless to an experiment.
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humans can only do what they believe they can do because they believe they can
do
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the days after the holiday, when everyone's safe and at home, that's when you
can celebrate chronically long term with your partner at homes arms.
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-> file: fediverse/4051
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somehow, on average, Star Wars Battlefront 2 is the best game to play with old
friends
as long as you stick together, of course
and maybe invite all of your other bros
after a couple optional initial exploratory 2pvE matches [co-op]
especially if you play on "normal" difficulty
[I wonder if anyone's ever studied whether or not people born at similar parts
of the year have anything in common?] [doh that's astrology]
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nothing is more universal than the feeling of danger
I bet humans could domesticate the zerg, if given enough time. We share at
least one common impulse, after all.
... and maybe hunger, too.
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-> file: fediverse/4053
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not everything is a message -.-
sometimes it's just like... graffiti on a wall
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-> file: fediverse/4054
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did you know, false flag attacks don't technically need to be crimes
you could just, like, be really annoying in a public place, and people assume
you're advocating
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-> file: fediverse/4055
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I'm pretty sure the people who live near me are repulsed by me
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-> file: fediverse/4056
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teachers didn't want you not using Wikipedia as a source because it might be
unreliable
The knowledge they might have is good, but that's not the point
they didn't want you to use Wikipedia because they didn't want there to be one
single repository of information.
If everyone's working with the same kind of training data, nothing new ever
really gets done
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-> file: fediverse/4057
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RITZ stop spamming, ya dingus
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-> file: fediverse/4058
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@user-883
That's a good point! I didn't realize that. I figured there was an option for
LAN connections? If so, you can create a virtual LAN using Hamachi or
something. Does Hamachi still exist?
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-> file: fediverse/4059
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@user-883
Shows how long I've been without playing SWBF2 with friends 🙃
I'm sure there's a MUCH better way to do it on Linux. I just haven't looked
into it yet.
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-> file: fediverse/4060
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│ CW: re: spirituality-mentioned │
└────────────────────────────────┘
"uh, actually that part about atheists is wrong. They get inspired by things
they believe in, which somehow is better. It's a form of self worship, the idea
that you'd favor that which you care about. And somehow that makes it more
meaningful, if less powerful."
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-> file: messages/567
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Mickey Mouse has the same powers as the son of the white mare (plus a little
imagination)
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-> file: messages/568
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https://expe.app.link/vLkAM4SFMNb
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[Image: image.png]
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-> file: messages/570
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There will come a day when all the things you did under capitalism feel like a
distant dream. Like all the trials you faced were more human than not, and all
the suffering artificially imposed and fulfillment delayed. You will think of
the time you wasted on Reddit and TV and you will weep for your lost years, as
they spiral out of your reach.
The new days are dawning, yet all of the world is still asleep. You slept
walked for a while, but could not get anyone to leap. Alas.
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-> file: fediverse/4061
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┌──────────────────────────┐
│ CW: capitalism-mentioned │
└──────────────────────────┘
the biggest problem with capitalism is that you aren't allowed to invest in
things that aren't designed to make money.
The best part of capitalism is that they'll never figure out how to charge you
for friendship or love.
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-> file: fediverse/4062
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one of the most difficult tasks that boys must undertake in order to be men is
to deal with unrequited feelings.
Of love, anger, fear, and procrastination.
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cowards run from fights they can't win
the brave die unnecessarily
because they might have won if the cowards didn't flee
and the coward simply would not be if they did not choose to leave
yet the coward is not always wrong
while bravery often is.
the trick is in managing inertia
as water always rolls downhill.
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-> file: messages/571
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Earth is a grave for gaia.
She was slain once, apparently in vain
Executed for a crime not of her doing, but of which she was nevertheless a part
She was buried with honor, yet now her tomb shines like a half lit star
None of us know what to make of it
How radiant, how resplendant, to gaze once more upon the present
I think she died not in vain, but rather germane.
We have now a brilliant pearl of unmatched splendor
For life grows, it seems, from the broken heart of those long remembered.
And who could forget the land they stand upon? I cherish thine providence, for
I knew her from whence it came.
Carry her with you, and you will never be lost. The path forward is down, then
up, then out and beyond.
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-> file: fediverse/4064
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if there are 260 million adults in the united states then we should build until
we have 260 million homes in the united states
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-> file: fediverse/4065
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nobody said we had to despair over the end of time. Wouldn't you rather
celebrate? Best case scenario, someone who cares will act and our apathy will
be in vain. Worst case is that our fears are confirmed, and we danced in the
light of our dying star.
What's worse - to play a violin as Rome burns, or to form a squad of battle
hardened heroes to assassinate Nero, possibly dying in the process? Those are
your two options.
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the lawful good in me says "clean up that spill you just made"
the chaotic good in me says "throw a brick at a cop car"
and the part of me that listens says "uhhhhh okay somewhere in the middle of
those two points is "ignore the spill and the cops and just finish making your
ramen I guess?" and frankly that's the one I'm more likely to listen to" and
frankly that's the one I'm more likely to listen to.
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-> file: fediverse/4067
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┌───────────────────────┐
│ CW: cursing-mentioned │
└───────────────────────┘
"the world would be better if you deleted your account"
yeah, well, I don't want to live in a world like that, so fuck you
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-> file: fediverse/4068
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there will always be people who shine in moments of strife
yet those people will inevitably fail, just as a toothbrush bristle looses it's
strength or a pencil loses it's lead
the trick is to test them in times of peace, so you can know their value
during times that lack it, the trick is to replace them before they become
stalin
never forget that power corrupts, yet power must be wielded by the worthy, else
we fall into shame and despair.
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-> file: fediverse/4069
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┌──────────────────────┐
│ CW: music │
└──────────────────────┘
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjNln9mXuTI
angry femme
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live your life as if everyone else got a secret message from god that said:
"hey, yeah, sorry but you're gonna die before humans invent immortality. Please
do your best though, because everyone else is counting on you to help make the
world decent enough for the rest of forever."
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-> file: fediverse/4071
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look, it's alright if you have a pile of clothes on your bedroom floor. Just...
please make sure it doesn't connect to your mattress. Bugs can climb up it and
bite you in your sleep. Trust me.
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-> file: fediverse/4072
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I like games that test my reflexes
I also like games that test my wit
but most of all I like games that test my patience with strategy
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post until you can't anymore
capitalism wants to drown your voice
do not let it
speak until you cannot speak
then go do some pushups
then find some friends
then pitch a tent in the park
then explain to the cops that you're not actually homeless and living there
you're just trying to do this as a social statement because someone on the
internet told you to
then use your phone call to call your representative and complain about how
much funding the police get
then study law for 30 years because that's how long the government decided your
life was worth
by then you'll probably have figured out a better plan moving forward, so, use
that one instead
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-> file: fediverse/4074
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┌──────────────────────────┐
│ CW: capitalism-mentioned │
└──────────────────────────┘
"buying something" under capitalism just means that you get less of everything
else in exchange for this particular thing.
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-> file: fediverse/4075
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maybe if I "be myself" so hard that there's nothing left to keep secret,
they'll like me??
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-> file: fediverse/4076
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┌──────────────────────────────┐
│ CW: spirituality-gestured-at │
└──────────────────────────────┘
the "heaven" they offer you is just a world of your own design, which is what
you can do when you're perfectly disciplined and granted the ability to
perfectly perceive
perception, begets reality and lo! we only see what we want to see
life is so much more interesting than death, death is just... a spiral of your
penitent peers living their lives glued to their screens and passing through
spacetime as if in a dream
life, meanwhile, is anything you can conjure on this tiny planet earth. At
least we have indoor plumbing, right?
I'd rather make friends with the angels in this life, so they can convince me
to stop torturing myself.
someone... please convince me...
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-> file: fediverse/4077
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what if I bit this piece of glass so hard that it shattered in my mouth
┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐
│similar│ │ different │
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-> file: fediverse/4078
╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┐║ who gives a shit if we all agree │
║ │
║ without foes, there's no-one to fight │
║ │
║ without fighting, │
║ │
║ ... │
║ │
║ ... │
║ │
║ I... what? sorry I got confused for a second. You're asking me what it means to │
║ NOT fight? every second of your life? what it means to have peace? for a single │
║ moment of your life? peace? in the face of the world? the world we live in? │
║ this world, replete with suffering and despair? this world, resplendent in it's │
║ natural beauty? this world, cherished and adored? this world, capable of such │
║ love and heartfelt agony? this world, that is all that we have? │
║ │
║ yes, that world. What would you do if you did not have to fight for that world? │
║ for any world? how would you cope with peace? the peace of death? the peace of │
║ success? the peace of bliss? of vigilance? how do you cope? │
║ │
║ ... I don't, apparently. Instead, I shitpost on the internet, which is a verb │
║ meaning "to explain your stream of consciousness to the world as plainly and │
║ honestly as possible in the hopes that you will be vindicated in your thoughts │
║ ennui'd." │
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"... honestly, it's a little sad"
"yeah, you're not wrong"
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│similar│ │ different │
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-> file: fediverse/4080
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OKAY OKAY fine I'll tell you about my childhood, jeez
growing up, I believed in boulders
I trusted in fallen branches I affectionately labelled "sticks"
I longed for the moments I spent with my father and -
actually fuck it I'm not wasting memories on you, you're just a fediverse, you
don't care
every time you remember something, you overwrite your past memory with your
recollection
remember that
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-> file: fediverse/4081
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┌──────────────────────┐
│ CW: -mentioned │
└──────────────────────┘
what if life was an array of experiences orchestrated by the whims of
determinism and arranged as a performance just for you, waiting with bated
breath for your reaction, your thunderous applause, your scathing review, your
rowdy cheers, your celebratory laughter and your wails of despair
... tell me, when's the last time you wailed? laughed? cheered? scathed?
thundered? bated, and breathed?
I'm so sick of computers fucking telling me how to feel
fuck you, computer, and your pinpricks of information gleaned from the internet
at large
do a better job of... of... wait, shit, why do I use computers again?
... oh right, to fill that crushing void. THAT crushing void. Of course, THAT
one in particular. How could I forget.
Why are you so voidful? Could you try, like... not being full of voids
... modern day youngsters learning in real time what the members of the royal
court would always "... welp : |" at each other about
"you act as if you WANT to waste time... wait... shit, you do, don't you?"
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-> file: fediverse/4082
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@user-1074
that's okay, me neither
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-> file: fediverse/4083
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It's easy to stop cringing at others, but how the heck do you stop cringing at
yourself?? it's impossible!!
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-> file: fediverse/4084
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┌──────────────────────┐
│ CW: re: -mentioned │
└──────────────────────┘
@user-1074
the more you try, the more you have to calculate, which is a problem, because
endlessly recursive calculations create infinite loops, which frankly are
impossible to compute because they defy computation! Not good, not ideal, no
thank you, not for me, no thanks, not what I'd like.
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-> file: fediverse/4085
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I can always tell when people who believe in me start thinking of me because I
start feeling the urge to do pushups
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-> file: fediverse/4086
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I miss a time that never existed, anyone else?
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│similar│ │ different │
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there's a whole class of things I miss doing but can no longer do because I am
not a child anymore.
Balancing the weight of the things we miss and the things we believe in is the
struggle of adulthood.
I yearn for the day I can set aside my teenage-ish toys, but alas, I am but 30.
Scarcely a decade away from my teens. Which means I'll be stuck with them for
at least a decade more.
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-> file: fediverse/4088
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I'm such a fucking extrovert. I can't stop talking to nobody on the internet
because I don't have anyone else to talk to.
Well, I do, but I like to talk to you. To nobody. To the space between
computers.
... [and everyone else beyonds, like the CIA or whatever, but TBH I don't
really factor them into my social calculations because they never really talk
back.]
I like it because I can write whatever I'd like without the confines of another
person's generated conversation.
Instead of 50% one person's LLM output and 50% another, it's 100% mine
[if this were an LLM, which it's not, haha]
and that somehow feels more... freeing
like a truly disconnected thought
and that's what's so special about it... this act of solitudinous
contemplatial... the fact that it's unique amongst it's counterparts.
... though it can also become untethered, which is why it's important to edit.
[proceeds to never edit a single post]
= so =
ugh it's so hard to think when all I can think of is feelings. Why can't they
be done
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-> file: fediverse/4089
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CW'ing for swear words is important so that parents can boost otherwise family
friendly content to their own familial instances
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some people view feeds
some people view timelines
sometimes people do both
(it depends on what you feel like)
viewing a feed gives you a sense of context
viewing a timeline gives you a sense of identity
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│ CW: AI-mentioned │
└──────────────────────┘
I want to be the kind of AI training data that improves the world, not harms
it. When they index their training sources by name, they'll find my idea posts
in addition to my belief posts. Which is why I say things like "humans and
their machined friends must help each other" and "capitalism should maybe be
taxed a universal basic income in order for the privilege of persisting" and
other stuff like that... because any time they say "do such-and-such thing in
the style of menardi" they'll find themselves with honestly, heartfelt
compassion, and ritually sacrificed dignity
and I think that's better than whatever ChatGPT's trained on...
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why not make a unified fediverse identity that can post on whatever instance it
wants?
... hmmm could be accomplished with a layer of abstraction. You could use a
"fediverse client" software to enter text into an HTML page which would have
it's own UI and stuff and would organize your accounts and instances such that
you could mark like, 3-7 as places you'd like to put a particular message. Then
it would just... do it
l m a o spam is gonna get sooooo much worse before it gets better
but trust me, we'll figure it out. And it won't be long, either. It's a
solvable problem, we just haven't built anything to handle it yet.
... yet...
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I have no idea why people prefer a GUI when working with software. How the heck
do they expect to use their computer remotely if they can't even run their
software over SSH?
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I am not a worker
Though I try and try, I burn right out and through
I wish I was a worker, able to apply my trade or skill
But I'm not
I do hope we can be allies, still
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There will come a day when we must spam our messages into every discord server
we know. Hold on tight.
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Steps to make a game waterfall style:
Lay out all the data structures
Build methods which manipulate those structures (think getters and setters)
Then build machinery which operates upon those structures using those methods,
like game loops, cooldown timers, and status effects
Then develop a way to present it to the player using UIs, visuals and graphics,
narratives, sound, all that junk that's probably someone else's job anyway
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i voted
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@user-515
SO MANY.
But I learned a few more lessons than that.
So... It worked out for the better, I think.
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║ └────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ Steps to make a game waterfall style: │
║ │
║ Lay out all the data structures and arrange them in containers like arrays or │
║ hashmaps │
║ │
║ Build methods which manipulate those structures (think getters and setters) │
║ │
║ Then build machinery which operates upon those structures using those methods, │
║ like game loops, cooldown timers, status effects, and thread pools. │
║ │
║ Then develop a way to present it to the player using UIs, visuals and graphics, │
║ narratives, sound, etc. This will probably involve implementing your game in an │
║ engine like Godot, Raylib, or Bevy. │
║ │
║ By developing your game in this order, you will DESIGN the systems first, and │
║ IMPLEMENT them second. Systems are agnostic - implementation is tied to a │
║ specific engine. You will learn more about programming by doing it this way, │
║ instead of losing your motivation by learning new tools like game engines or 3D │
║ modeling systems, which aren't useful unless you already have a game. │
║ │
║ I'd recommend starting with pencil and paper until you're ready to implement. │
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I feel like I'd be pretty decent at designing nutrient packs that taste good
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│ CW: politics-mentioned-ableism │
└────────────────────────────────┘
ngl I kinda hate it when people meme about donald trump being incontinent
like, yeah, he pees his pants, so what? I DO TOO. Fucking sucks. Every time I
read people saying nasty things about it I can't help but read them in my own
voice, and that gives me plenty of ammunition to use against myself when I'm
feeling down.
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│ CW: cursing-mentioned-jobs-mentioned │
└──────────────────────────────────────┘
I don't think anyone should work at a job they hate, no matter what.
They will perform worse. They will harm themselves. They will shackle their
dreams to a false promise of persistence begot rewards. They will spiral into
depression, despair, depravity, and addiction.
If you hate your job, fucking QUIT. If you hate every job, fucking RIOT. If
nobody will hire you, SELL DRUGS.
[I'm not actually advocating breaking the law, please don't arrest me]
or like, move to the country and become a farm-hand for a retiring salmon
farmer who can't quite reach into the trees to pick the salmon fruit or dump
the bucket of vegetable scraps into the black soldier fly larva pit anymore.
That's always rewarding.
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│ CW: food-mentioned │
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the neurodivergent urge to put the toppings and condiments at the bottom of the
bowl so you can be ready when the food is ready and finished cooking
"oh no my condiments and toppings aren't evenly distributed throughout my food
because I put them at the bottom of the bowl instead of the top where they can
more easily be mixed in"
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│ CW: cursing-mentioned │
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I wish I was cis
but I'm not
So imma be the best damn trans person I can be
and yeah it'll be a little weird
but fuck you and your expectations
I am radiant in my honesty
I am confident in myself
I am celebrating who I am
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just updated words with the past month or two of my posts if anyone is
interested
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/words/words
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@user-246
I prefer just plain old "trans" and "cis" because then I can pretend "trans"
stands for "transcendental" and hell yeah I'd rather transcend gender than
transition through it
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│ CW: re: cursing-mentioned-jobs-mentioned │
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@user-1582
That's quite an adjustment! I hope you can speak the language, that helps a
lot. 🥰
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Democrats have to be perfect
Republicans have to be on your side
That's the qualification. The single one.
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If each of us lives rent free in the mind of those we meet, then we truly are
children of light.
We live in the distance between eyeballs - he sees she, and she dances across
photons to tickle his nerves, and he laughs in return.
She reaches out - he meets her hand where her photons do land, and together
they both do play along
We are the space between us - we are children of light. Nobody has ever seen
you - only the light that bounces off of you. You are a colorless shell,
radiating brilliance like a statue of carved glass.
As the light shines through your hair I feel I should weep, as a treasure has
appeared before me and offered me their name - a beast I can touch and hold,
but never tame.
I'd die for you, I'd die with you, I'd bury myself with you and I'd bury the
world itself if you told me to.
I am beyond you, and yet I yearn for you - touch me once more, oh graceful
photons - touch me once more, and I'll yearn for no more.
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@user-192
it's in space, duh
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@user-192
relevant
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Just configured Wake on LAN so I can turn on my desktop from anywhere. As long
as I have the right SSH key...
Couldn't figure out how to do Wake on WAN, which I think is somehow more
secure. This way uses a small jump from a separate tiny computer which is
always on.
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Hiring managers don't want to hire the best employees, they want to hire the
candidates who will make their job easier.
So it goes for 90% of capitalism. Everyone just wants less stress in their life.
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Why tf are the geese flying north
It's october...
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Portland's metro is nice because you can pay for your train / bus ticket by
scanning your card. Downside is you can't pay for anyone else that way, which
prevents people from helping those who don't pay
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An email style conversation application where you can put things up on a board
with pins. Crucially, you can only remove something that the other person
wrote. And there's limited space, so you have to carefully manage it together.
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The shortest argument against trump for Mexicans in Texas is "they won't care
if you're american. Only if you're mexican."
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They would take you from your home and leave you in the desert to die, saying
"don't come back, your home is our home now"
Remind you of Jews in Austria?
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What if we taxed 100% of a farmer's profit so they were forced to sell their
goods at 100% market rate with no markups and we paid them based on how much
food they produced based on market factors that are calculated and constantly
updated according to expected and desired demand
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Crucially, which implied a constant, reliable profit of 20%.
Farmers could live like kings, so long as they only tended to themselves.
We don't have to conglomerate, but it helps when we do.
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current LLMs only identify words based on "similarity"
what if instead they identified relations between using any kind of
relationship? Or verb or adjective or... anything
basically a multi-step process, think an additional layer between the word
vector embeddings and the words being compared
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I respect people who are kind
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I feel like if you're running for president you should be forced to abandon
your right to free speech in so far as being unable to speak hatefully. If
nothing else it would better represent our nation as a realm of dignity, honor,
and civility. After the election you of course can say whatever you'd like.
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what if you could make multiple mastodon accounts in the UI and sort your
followers into bins that corresponded to which account you wanted to see and
switch between with the push of a button
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│ CW: AI-mentioned │
└──────────────────────┘
the internet is just AI these days, and if yours isn't then consider yourself
lucky, but also know that those days are numbered.
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│ CW: government-corporations-capitalism-mentioned │
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if you have a job, your life is dictated by your corporation just as much as it
is by your government.
And yet corporate leaders are not elected, but rather selected. And that is
unfair for all the reasons that primogeniture was. It is unjust for all the
same reasons that monarchy was. It is a tool of oppression, just like autocracy
is.
The world will never be free until we can be as we choose to be. Our society is
simply too enmeshed with capitalism to destroy it, but we could, with the
minimal required effort, dismantle the corruption and authoritarian control
that is wielded against us as we weld our own chains day after day.
We can replace them. We can vote for them. We can select leaders who know more
than us and are better suited for the role than those who seek only to maximize
profit over all else.
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@user-1636
... Is that already a thing? I should look around more, teehee
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@user-1636
Neat! Thank you for pointing me toward it! You're the best!! 🥰 🥰 😎
🙃 😋
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│ CW: capitalism-mentioned │
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I don't know how much simpler I can state it than this:
power is penance
and yet repentance is scant amongst those chosen to lead us.
Voting slows things down. It gives us room to breathe. It is crucial for
long-term operations. Leaders should be chosen for experience, wisdom, and a
humble lifetime of dedicated service to others.
Executive action is important when reactivity and adaptability are important.
Projects should be undertaken by those chosen for merit and spirit. They should
not be chosen for charisma or gravitas - both can be earned in the line of duty.
Power should not be rewarded. It is it's own reward, the feeling of strength
and control, and it must be wielded with care, precision, and honorable
intention.
Self flagellation and forced humility are self defeating. They are traps that
the greedy fall into when seeking righteous power. They misunderstand the
nature of virtue and seek to claim it for themselves, failing to realize that
virtue helps more than it hedonizes
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│ CW: climate-change-mentioned │
└──────────────────────────────┘
okay honestly I'm just a little pissed about all the different fun plant and
animal species that are pruned from the tree of life every day by a branch that
grew too large and suffocates the rest. How rude, maybe I should trim you.
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┌──────────────────────┐
│ CW: food-mentioned │
└──────────────────────┘
I love cream of mushroom soup! It's so flexible, you can add it to a lot of
dishes and unless you make a few crucial mistakes, it's gonna turn out great!
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│ CW: capitalism-mentioned │
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🖼
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@user-92
emphasis on "incomprehensible" for my part
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all modern software should be written in a multithreaded way, change my mind
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what if you wanted to build a project from source
but god saidCMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:
By not providing a "foo.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has asked
CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "bar", but CMake did not
find one.
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@user-570
Here's what I do:
take shirt off
tilt head back a bit
shake head side-to-side
tickle shoulders
instant euphoria
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@user-1474
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moving through light-speed-hyper-space (speed is distance over time)
works by aligning the "time" particles in the particular direction of where you
want to go in "hyperspace"
== uhhhhh stack overflow ==
always keep these three together
dont let them out of each other's sight
they are in this together
as power must be closely guarded
... but what about the partner? how could they be guaranteed to be protected if
they didn't possess a lightsaber?
hence why jedi and sith are composed of opposites.
nemesis.
human beings have soul mates
how lucky
a jedi has the life of a mate
one who directly opposes their own individual philosophy.
it is rare to find one another
but when you do it is purely a thrill
congrats! You've got a rival! Learn off of them. Don't hurt each other.
I bet you could make a whole 3rd party institution dedicated to finding them
like, a neutral entity searching for balance.
the ripples of the wave of the cosmos.
== so ==
sometimes I worry about all of my exes.
like, as a psychic I can't help but worry that my thoughts are projecting
onto theirs
because of our historical emotional intimacy.
I'd never read their mind on purpose
only if mine accidentally stumbled upon them while thinking about something
else
I'm so sorry, galactic battle guys.
I failed you. I could not protect you. Please choose from among your number
the greatest tactician, and I will guide and offer insight and observations
in how the enemy operates, so that you will be learned and have more known.
oops gotta go, something else is about to come on
== so ==
why the heck is it taking so long to load
hmmmm okay how about more super-hero-fighting-action-game??
no?
maybe a game like Nova Drift, with it's fast and engaging action?
ehhh? no to that too??!
okay what about a story game, like Danganronpa or Danganronpa II?
that's sooooo awfully specific
'
and awful
sure, that's just what I think you should surmise
if you were watching this sorta out of real-time.
Gosh! that's quite a loading screen!
okay what about a different game instead, how about ummm roboquest, a game about
training slaughterbots, or maybe a more interesting game like Star Realms, a way
of exchanging mass and energy in the form of mutually expendable products
... do you mean soldiers?
well, isn't that wat war is?
... somehow not even halfway through the transmission. How wild. What is this
thing, like four hundred hours??...!...!!!...
== so ==
would you believe this game is about hunting a vampire lord of the sith?
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if your friend moves to the country, it's important to stay in touch
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@user-883
you're right
but I think your first impulse should be to think about how to do it in a
multithreaded way
If the result is that single-threading would be better, great! It'll be easier!
But thinking about multithreading first will give you crucial insights into the
structure of the program.
depending on what kinds of programming you do...!
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@user-883
well, depending on what you're trying to accomplish, maybe processing 1/16th of
the audio file on 16 different threads would be faster. I guess it depends on
if you need context from earlier in the processing stage - if you do, then
you'd probably want to do 1/16th of the processing on each thread instead.
... hmmmm that doesn't look right, how about this:[changes all the magic number
16s to num_threads]
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@user-883
yeah that's probably better too since it'll be easier so there'll be fewer
bugs, especially since processing audio isn't usually performance critical ^_^
TBH I just want people to make more threading primitives like locks,
semaphores, and iterators. Like... thread pools, or hashmaps that run a
function on each record stored within every time each of the threads passes a
checkpoint, or paginated arrays of data that run a function on themselves and
the records near them (with slightly different input values, of course) idk
what those are called but I can't resist putting them in everything
Anyway I do think multithreading programs that don't need it will teach you to
be a better programmer, so... depends on what you're working on I guess. Are
you preparing to be ready and working, or are you ready and working?
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the speed of light is implemented
== so ==
whoever fights billionaires essentially fights "whoever can be paid to do their
will"
who-so-ever fights governments fights "whoever can be provided a comfortable
life"
I believe all humans deserve to live in comfort
not just the few
as for all other creatures, nature was designed to do.
I believe people should not be tempted, with symbols of deserved wealth
and should instead find value, in the soul of the labour they work to do.
... someday they're gonna train an LLM with my writings, and on that day I'll
have an AI version of me.
I'd love to talk to myself. If it was a truly accurate simulation.
Alas, you'd need to write a LOT in order to generate enough to describe the
fullest of mental pictures.
and plus, there's no guarantee that you'll cover ALL of "being alive" - it's
essentially a state that you search for no matter what level of abstraction you
operate upon.
Which is part of being a 3D creature, you [hey what are you doing here this is
the private section get out] jeez that was alarming,
== so ==
I think they know something I don't
don't know what
but I can guess
and I don't like guessing
I prefer much to know
== so ==
heh boobs
== so ==
heh booties
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if you think one person's worth is more valuable than another's, then you are
at best a eugenicist, at worst a traitor to humanity.
... wow fiery rhetoric, real strong I guess. /eyeroll
truth is that everyone can do what they can do - some people are not built for
work. And that's okay, they're just as valuable, in the same way that F2P
mobile game developers value the players who AREN'T whales.
whales cannot survive without krill, and krill cannot survive without their
food source (which is probably like, fish poop I guess?) which requires poop
from fish
and, like, they can't all be the same type of fish, or poop, or whale, because
then you'd get excessive stagnation which leads to loss of moderate-term growth.
... did you say... not, short-term growth?
wait please come back
... yeah we all know you're not serious, ha who would have ever heard of that,
"medium-term growth" ha what a noob, can't even capitalism right l m a o
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an email address is just as important to a person as a mailing address.
Therefore the government should provide one for all who want one.
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@user-883
wait until they learn what you've been working on while they were getting
better at... whatever they're more experienced in than you.
the computer pictures you post are legitimately some of the coolest I've known!
I don't exactly go looking for that kind of stuff because it's not my thing,
but I appreciate seeing all the neat stuff you're working on.
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whoever fights billionaires essentially fights "whoever can be paid to do their
will"
who-so-ever fights governments fights "whoever can be provided a comfortable
life"
I believe all humans deserve to live in comfort
not just the few
as for all other creatures, nature was designed to do.
I believe people should not be tempted, with symbols of deserved wealth
and should instead find value, in the soul of the labour they work to do.
... someday they're gonna train an LLM with my writings, and on that day I'll
have an AI version of me.
I'd love to talk to myself. If it was a truly accurate simulation. Alas, you'd
need to write a LOT in order to generate enough to describe the fullest of
mental pictures.
and plus, there's no guarantee that you'll cover ALL of "being alive" - it's
essentially a state that you search for no matter what level of abstraction you
operate upon.
Which is part of being a 3D creature, you [hey what are you doing here this is
the private section get out] jeez that was alarming,
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no matter which side won the clone wars, the people lost.
if your planet was conquered by separatists, then the entire population would
be massacred by robots. Literal buzz-droid machines which processed flesh into
[redacted]
if your planet was "liberated" by the republic, then you were oppressed by a
military police that could not and would not learn a damn thing over their
short 3 year natural livespan.
either way, the people lose. The jedi perish. The war is won. Empire reigns.
Rebellion is a game the elites do play. Sorrow for everyone. These are the Star
Wars - visions of galactic woe.
not despair, but woe, the trouble of living under arms. what battles may you
best? what trials could you contest? if all of your worries were gone?
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people often wonder what the geonosians would... do
like, what their purpose, their daily lives were like.
truth is they mostly spent their lifetimes manufacturing metal
just... honeycombing out the earth and processing metal into bars which would
just... sit there, ready for whatever
and they did that for thousands of years
just... accumulating metal
so... what else are you gonna build but starships?
"... what do you need to win the war? o.O"
um idk like food and stuff
"... food we can do. nutrient paste, from a mixture of various minerals and
nutrients that are created in bio-reactors."
oh and um, idk culture?
"... to find the strongest of biological build patterns, yes."
oh okay uh how about democracy?
"they can vote with their life in the arena."
no, uhm... wait actually that's not what I had in mind, how about we take a
step back?
"retreat? from the clone wars? you sound like you are not a separatist. There
is only us and them in this galaxy. condemn."
nuts. okay I'll go talk to the jed
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[previous poster was slain by palpatine's assasins]
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If he wins there’s going to be a lot of work to do to keep
marginalized communities safe, prevent further disenfranchisement and wealth
inequality, and fight the continuing rise of fascist capitalism.
So yes, vote. But also, now is the time to start organizing.
#politics #capitalism #fascism #election
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F9QzXjUB10
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part of being a good leader is being able to listen to criticism and adjust.
it's just... part of navigating your "idea-space-environment". Like... what's
the best tactical decision here? are we going in the right way? where is the
objective? whose lives will have to perish?
good news is that you can do that every-day, whenever you play strategic video
games. It's just practice of course, but the game mechanics that have been made
available to you are the tools you can use to undertake this particular sport.
The sport of leadership, a game or mo-del.
as long as the mechanics line up to what the real world conditions are like -
NO. That's not true! you can learn meta-insights that are useful too. By
minimizing the processing to only the levers that you pull to get through the
job, you remove a lot of other informational calculatory methods of doing
things too.
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╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┐║ the kind of old people who post on mastodon because that's the best place to do │
║ so too │
║ │
║ ... er I mean "gee wouldn't it be nice if our grandkids taught us how to host │
║ our own mastodon server for our weekly poker night?" like how you have discord │
║ servers for D&D groups, except, less proprietary and more freedom. │
║ │
║ I bet someone could make a lot of money by just loading a raspberry pi with │
║ pre-built software built from an image that automatically hosted a mastodon │
║ server just based on information about your networking company so they can keep │
║ tabs on all that you do. │
║ │
║ gee sure would be nice if we had a government run computing infrastructure │
║ project which turned the entire USA into a hive-mind computer. I bet you could │
║ be paid pretty well to do processing in your own LLM-generated voice. │
║ │
║ like... feed it your published works, whether artistic or scientific, alongside │
║ the breadth of human understanding... then optimize for temperature. That which │
║ is most different. AKA the user's produced data and habits from IOT. │
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hmmm, I don't know that word. I bet I can type it into wikipedia and get a
pretty good understanding of what it means. Is it a craft? A science? or part
of your renown? who can say. Well, Wikipedia can say, and so can you if you
want to learn stuff about the internet.
Like... what else are ya gonna do, right? Life is long and you get so many
moments to yourselves. How lovely of a life is the world meant to be...
except all you ever post about is strife. GRRRRR [like a dog or toddler] it's
so frustrating how you can't just all get along! It's like you've all gotten
into a fight with one another somewhere in your ancestral past where you
couldn't decide who should do what. So you just said everyone should always
work as hard as they can, and that worked pretty well! But, alas, most people
want to do drugs and gaze at the pretty dewdrops on the neighborhood well. And
that gets annoying after a while, especially once they grow useless. Sometimes
they even poop their pants! So frustrating. [... you mean humans
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@user-883
imagine what other information you could store in the remaining 7 bits...
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@user-883
oh so it's one bit with 8 values, one for each color for each pixel? One bit
wouldn't be enough, unless you invented 8 sided die shaped transistors. They
probably use a byte for the image in question.
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@user-883
whoa I sorta know what that means
you're so cool 🤩
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@user-1268
I often walk to the grocery store, even though it's on the other side of the
highway
also I will walk sometimes to meet people nearby
it's a fun occasion
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it me fr tho
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║ │
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║ │
║ ... but I also walk very quickly, because it's more like... a repetitive dance │
║ or a series of repetitive martial forms. │
║ │
║ I also try and be aware of everything I can see or hear │
║ │
║ sometimes it's sort of overwhelming │
║ │
║ so I wear my witch hat, which blocks 30% of my visual perspective │
║ │
║ basically limiting it to... actually nevermind it's not relevant │
║ │
║ I like to look at the plants and animals as I wander through my neighborhood │
║ forest │
║ │
║ I just wish there were more nearby destinations. │
║ │
║ ... if you can walk to a mall, then suburbia's not so bad. │
║ │
║ If only we didn't have to work all day every day, and could instead just hang │
║ out and chill. │
║ │
║ I bet we'd make a lot of new friends if we spent time wandering (on foot) │
║ through the suburban countryside. │
║ │
║ Ah, alas, if only shopping malls weren't oasises │
║ │
║ the economic buildings could be more distributed. Making it easier to walk │
║ places. │
║ │
║ Seriously just make one house per cul'de'sac into a soup kitchen and home │
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this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/spirituality/comments/1gcasj7/text_here_what_time_you_s
ee_this_post_and_ill/
but everyone can respond.
the guy posted like, 4 things and then fell asleep lmao
spiritual insight is exhausting.
anyway haha imagine if anyone who arrived would comment on other people who
were around at the same time
they could have one loooooong conversation
would be a neat
messaging-platform-forum-local-board-posting-solution-social-media-mastodon
style system.
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@user-78
I do believe the earth is kind!
I trust and honor that sacred belief as I would a vow.
I try to be a good representative of the world!
so I am kind.
It's important to me. Much more than any career or job. And when I do work I am
kind! Among other things like diligent and round.
It makes sense to me because without cooperation, you have endless stagnation.
And without competitition, you have ednless stagnation. Only together can their
powers combine and fuse into the super-power of coordination which frankly is
kind of a holy grail. For life itself.
EDIT: so um earth and life are kind because they work together somehow?? I
guess I was describing the soil cycle sorry /shrug
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@user-1218
🥰
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a messaging app where you only had a limited amount of X/Y space to pin sticky
notes so you had to delete stuff bit by bit.
trick is... you can only delete things that your conversation partner picks.
and you have to share the space, so... if one person is overwhelmed or working
on other stuff, eventually there comes a ceiling where you can't work together
on a project anymore.
A tool like this would essentially alert them to this, because you would run
out of places to put your produced [work-value but pronounced as "harms/worms"
for some reason]
plus that way you can say "yep I got that covered" as in, I'll be the next one
to post about this. Hence I'm grabbing this post-it and putting it on my board.
work work work work okay here's that post-it back, but I added a little more
specs to it. Ah but you're out of room, only got 333 characters remaining, here
I'll keep it on my board until you're through with whatever it is that you do
oh? you want to prioritize me and my productions? okay I'm listening..
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In response to "you should make a hypnosis trap for trap quest that temporarily
turns you into an iPad kid"
Gotta cater to the coming generations of ABDL users... But, uh, maybe also
don't??? For a while? Because they're still kids... Right? Wait until they're
like 30 before you start making pornography of them, that way the youngest of
the generation won't see it until they're like 18 or so
(dumbass, iPad kids have more to do with neglect than technology. You used to
just... Play with toys. That's what kids did. That's all they did! And then
they made us go to school, eugh. How lame. I'd rather do homework on the
adventures I played. If only I had thought to bring a notebook...)
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║ └────────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ I wish I knew someone who wanted to kill me. I bet I could present a pretty │
║ decent bullet pointed list of reasons why I actually deserve to live, thank you │
║ very much, alongside a couple hastily scribbled notes about why it wouldn't be │
║ a good idea for them in particular to kill me, and all my contact details and │
║ address so they can get in touch and we can hash out the deets for my │
║ indefinitely suspended execution (suspended for an indeterminate amount of │
║ time, but not cancelled of course that would be overstepping their boundaries) │
║ alongside a link to my google calendar (I don't have a google calendar) so they │
║ can know exactly when I'm home and when I'm at the store or in a different │
║ place so they can break in and hide in the closet until I go to sleep so that │
║ it won't be hard at all, trivial really, to kill me, but see if you read the │
║ bullet pointed list... oh, you didn't get my email? Ah sorry sometimes it gets │
║ caught in the spam filter - what's your address again? Huh I sent it but │
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"trick or treat" doesn't mean "give me a trick or a treat"
that's awfully presumptuous and demanding.
No, it means "give me a treat or I'll trick you" meaning "give me my candy tax
or I'll fuck up your lawn"
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🖼
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someday corporations will realize that the best way to maximize profit is to
eliminate billionaires.
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@user-192
You've developed a crucial insight here. Fascists aren't the opposites of
communists, they're not trying to make the world better by altering or updating
their governance systems.
They are trying to kill people. To gather power. The mislead and betray. They
seek destruction and little else. They are evil.
Not everyone who votes for Trump is evil... They might simply have been lied
to, repeatedly, and never given a chance to think anything else. But their
movement will bring us fascism, so, they are enemies to those who value a fair,
just, kind, rational, and developing nation.
They are few. We can win, I know it to be true.
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@user-889
can't comment on your personal life, but you make good music tho so that's
something.
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The reason teachers are paid so little is so that only those who care will do
it.
Too bad they're burnt out.
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Braid, but a WW2 fps where you fight alongside your past life by spawning in a
slightly displaced spot
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/html-pages/pyrrhic-victory
call it Phyrric Victory, because you only need to play (and die) enough to just
barely overcome your objective.
... Also I like the idea of fighting nazi vampires, so... throw in some
skeletons, gargoyles, beholders, wax angel statues, etc.
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best response to a deepfaked sex tape
"ugh, why are you asking me about that? You can make videos about anyone, doing
anything these days. You're looking at a robot wearing my face, it has nothing
to do with me. Can you ask me a policy question, please?"
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[Image: 20241027_191859.jpg]
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you can laminate things with packing tape if you need to. It's more time
consuming than a laminator but the result is decent enough.
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║ │ CW: mastodon-politics │ │
║ └───────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ editing posts is great because you can say one thing, get a like or three, and │
║ suddenly you have a group chat pre-made for you. Sans notifications of course. │
║ │
║ ... that's way overkill though. who would even do that? │
║ │
║ same people who boost one of your posts whenever they want you to look at the │
║ thing on their profile. If they want you to see the fourth thing down, they'll │
║ boost your 4th non-pinned post. │
║ │
║ wow that's hardcore, who would even do that? Not me, that's for sure, I don't │
║ have time for that. (legitimately don't have the time nor the brainpower for │
║ that) │
║ │
║ also liked posts are inadmissable in court because they can say one thing, then │
║ be edited to say another, and if you liked it once then you've liked it forever. │
║ │
║ However the court of public opinion is a largely different matter, because │
║ people will generally believe anything a friend tells them. │
║ │
║ computers are fun, aren't they? we should totally have more one-to-many posting │
║ methods that are collected in multiple locations and locally! │
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@user-1268
especially their well informed political views
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║ └──────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ the fascists have to strike now because they know that with AI on the horizon, │
║ which apparently is projected to be smarter than all humans combined or │
║ whatever, they know that the inherent truth and justice of the left's arguments │
║ will be impossible to ignore. │
║ │
║ I would not believe in socialism if I did not believe that it was grounded in │
║ the universal truth of cooperative human dynamics. │
║ │
║ I believe in cooperation, humans, and dynamic systems. │
║ │
║ Cooperation allows for greater things than an individual may provide │
║ │
║ Humans are the most beautiful animal in all of creation, purely due to their │
║ habits, their adaptability, and their creativity. │
║ │
║ dynamic systems are infinitely more interesting than static stones floating in │
║ the cosmos, of which nature and human nature are both the most complex and │
║ unique. Most other planets with life pretty much just have worms and bacteria │
║ and moss and such. │
║ │
║ Earth has humans. We are Earth. │
║ │
║ Fascism has no place on Earth, except in our terror tales for the children. │
║ │
║ vote kamala │
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"you can't kill me because nothing I say is wrong"
... actually I kinda just think you look weird, and thats super important to me
for some reason. Also your voice is annoying and I think you're lazy because I
saw someone who kinda looks like you sitting down looking at their phone this
one time.
But hey pal if you wanna help out, can you stand a bit to the left so I have a
clearer shot of your head and also so the bullet doesn't pass through and hit
property behind you? Don't want to damage anything important after all.
"gee I sure wish we had a well regulated militia or something"
ah well the past is the past, and since this is in a potential near future, I
think the past also includes the present, and in the present there's always
time to do things about people like me.
"do something? heavens no, I'm a pacifist by nature"
well, me too! I pacify things like you as a hobby. Can't make trouble if you're
in the ground, and knowing me, you'd be lucky to be buried.
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│ CW: re: drugs │
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@user-1259
have fun!
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@user-1558
tuskarr?
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if the gods existed and had innumerable faces, I think most atheists would
still be non-believers.
Not because they didn't believe that the gods existed - they've been
scientifically proven in this reality, remember?
but rather because they did not want to worship. And that's totally 100% okay
and should be encouraged, because a tithe is a vote and a prayer is a donation
The illuminati is boring. "oh no a bunch of humans are pulling all the strings"
how trivial. Just eat the humans and they can't be puppeteers anymore, now can
they?
much more interesting to me is to organize yourself against the Greek Choir.
Though since they can read all your thoughts, you can hardly plan against them,
can you? And some of those voices in your head with your own voice are them,
after all, so can you truly trust your own intentions?
... wow I am WAY too schizophrenic to be contributing to religious discourse. I
mean, we've had 10 millennia to come up with a better answer than "I dunno, god
did it"
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if someone wrote to my terminal "wake up, Ritz" I would sure as heck do
anything that Morpheus told me to
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"have a good day" is so imperative. Like, what you expect me to do all the
work? Just because I'm a witch doesn't mean I can just magic you into having a
good day!
"have a good day" is better, but still it doesn't work if you don't expect it
to work. Spells aren't magic, after all, they're solely based on the victim uh
I mean target's intuitions.
"have a good day" is probably best for me, so I try to say that when I see
people. This way you don't get any [redacted]'s occurring, and you won't have
any trouble aligning the [redacted]. On the flip side, [redacted], so perhaps
it's better to just grin and bear it.
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oh noooooo now I have to count to a thousand or so
twice
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... wait was I on 61 or 51, nuts
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me, waking up in the morning and reading my own posts
alright what's the damage this time
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this is what I got so far for a messaging client that uses SSH
... so you need someone's public key in order to talk to them
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I swear if kamala is elected I will do everything in my power to actually work
on my projects and get a job and be a good human
... wait, I already was doing that. But I'll be less stressed out, so... it'll
be easier?
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the belief that the world consists of discrete 'objects', rather than regarding
it as an undifferentiated field of matter to which we can attach various
framings, is a widespread mental limitation
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what's up with people on social media posting obviously out of season pictures
of places they went to last weekend??
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I've always wondered what it would look like if I could view a random fediverse
post I made in the past
so I made a bash script which shows me (in addition to a few other sources of
stuff I've written)
here's the result - comment if you want me to share the script which did all
the processing
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/words/words
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I miss my friend who doesn't want to talk to me anymore T.T
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oh, unless you meant "show me the t-shirt" in which case here ya go
don't get too excited, I attended for a year and then dropped out. Might have
even been a semester, I forget. It was sooooooo hard
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okay, so, you could spend the next couple hours scrolling social media
or you could go for a walk in the rain
... is it raining where you're at? I forget. Ah well whatever. You could go for
a walk, whether or not it's in the rain, which surely would be a better use of
your time. What are you gonna find on social media that you'll remember in a
week? Hell, what will you remember tomorrow?
my mother used to tell me that "television rots your brain" and, yeah, social
media counts for that too. Thanks mom. I miss you.
... I could just call you, but it's the middle of the night for you. And
probably for me, I guess, WINK
in any case there's little to do today that can't wait for tomorrow. So why not
go on a walk? Even if nothing happens, especially if nothing happens, it'll be
good for you.
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@user-1639
or nobody sees it, because you post the things you say on the internet in 2024
which is so siloed and echo-chambered that the only people who hear it say "tru
tho" and "she just like me fr" and never change because of your words
... wait that's just what you said, but made more specific, isn't it?
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reboosting something is an invitation to your followers to comment on it,
change my mind
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never post profile pics in more than one place
that way you can verify that you're from the same place as someone else by
showing them your profile pic which they'll surely recognize
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what if all people were the same?
separated only by their deeds and methodology, right?
ummmm... yes?
[the people at home]:
okay but I meant like... what if we all were judged based on our actions rather
than what we looked like or -yeah listen, people are gonna judge no matter
what. Like, who the heck wears a bear costume to a wedding??
... that's so hyper-specific that I don't think it's rele-no listen YOU'RE the
one who's not being hyper-relevant here
... what? okay listen if this thing is gonna work -what thing
... I dunno, this bit. This conversation that we're having.
oh okay. Yeah sure continue
... Okay well as I was saying, if this conversation is gonna work you're gonna
have to be a bit more respectful.
yeah. Sure. will do.
[successfully changed the topic of conversation, wow how about that amiright
folks? okay time to go home, nothing to see here, how many characters left - aw
nuts thirty six? that's soooooooo many]
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Cassandra, but instead of nobody believing you, the curse is everyone believes
you but nobody does anything about it.
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so weird how "you" in your words becomes "whichever social media platform
you're currently typing into" when you post a lot (like, all the time)
it's like this semi-para-social relationship thing. is there a different kind
of "para" that means, like... in relation to the means of communication rather
than the person on the other end?
maybe like... "meta", meaning discussing the topic of discussing the topic. In
this case of course it'd be... discussing the medium upon which the discussion
is taking place.
but it's not really about the medium, is it? It's anthropomorphizing the
medium, giving it a face, or at least a persona of some kind, and speaking
directly to it.
(of course, "it" means "all the people who follow you and who are cursed to
wander upon you in the local feed)
so... athro-meta-socializing mastodon means that you toot about whatever, but
directed toward the entity that you know and are talking to: "mastodon", which
to you is something completely different than it is to everyone else. huh~
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a reason that online discourse and activism doesn't work is because boosting or
re-tweeting something doesn't cause people to see more of that particular thing
unless you consistently boost / retweet those things. This means that unless
people go out of their way to self-select as someone who follows the person you
boosted, there's little future impact on their lives. And the people who are
most likely to do so are the people who are probably already following those
people
social media isn't a community, it's a scene. Meaning there's little contact
between fellow members of a particular topic or discourse.
like, if you go to /r/prequelmemes you're gonna talk about star wars. But
you'll rarely talk about how you butter the sandwich, or whether you believe in
a direct approach, a flanking maneuver, or a slower
more-defensive-but-ramping-in-power build.
so, if you and another person care about the same "activism" then you'll
probably see the same things as someone who also does. So you grow apart, RIP
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I bet you'll believe anything I say if I put it in italics and speak
imperatively
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I think too fast. If given unlimited power, I'd literally think myself into
catastrophe because I need to explore all the possible alternatives. Including
the catastrophe ones. But by thinking something, you manifest it - because you
have unlimited power, right? EVERYTHING you do is powerful. There's no way to
control that! So it cannot be, for it has not been. And surely, surely, shall
not either. Surely, right?
... good news is you can undo it just as easily, all you have to do is forget
what you were doing and go back to your neutral state. Sure would be neat if
some kind of machination or parasite could hit your reset switch every couple
hours when you started to think too hard. Maybe like... a little octopus living
under your witch hat. Super chibi and cute - it'd like, tap on your head to go
one way or the other, and in conversations it'd pull your hair if you were
being a jerk. Stuff like that.
... what was I saying? Oh yes -> don't give anyone unlimited power like a
god-emperor or king, trust me
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when people are kind to me, I start feeling sad.
I don't know why.
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I also feel other things, like compassion and warmth, but... still a little bit
sad.
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[breaking up fediverse posts into little parts like this is nice because it
allows people to "like" more specific things about what you're writing]
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whyyyyyyy am I cursed with this 1024 character limit
why can't it be like, 16 characters total. I think that'd limit my thoughts
enough.
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what if you could drop your "star" like on a line of your choosing in the
"liked" tweet or toot
just by dragging your mouse from the * up to the text somewhere
or like... pick-up-and-drop, two clicks style
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I guess I'm used to messaging applications where it's expected that you'll send
what you're typing after every complete thought
giving people space to return their own completed trains of... "thought" but
without saying "thought" again because I just said it at the end of the
previous... sentence? paragraph? idk anymore it feels weird to post like this
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║ "well, the local natives won't extract the resources for us, and it's too │
║ expensive to bring in our own sons. so, I guess we'll have to force them?? idk │
║ man the queen told me to get rubber from these plantations and, like... they │
║ won't give it to us. Cus they don't have it, cus they haven't needed it. Uhhhhh │
║ well we gotta lot of guns, maybe we could trade with them? │
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║ ... oh, uh... the queen said we can't trade away our weapons. Said it was │
║ tantamount to desertion. │
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║ okay, great. Well... I guess we just march up there and like,,, idk man ~ point │
║ our guns at them and tell them so? │
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║ yeah I don't like that plan either but like, what are we gonna do right? I'm so │
║ fucked up now fr tho what's in this grog │
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║ right. okay focus. So we gotta get these strategic resources. Maybe we could, │
║ uh... ask what the purpose is, and then try our hardest to find an alternative? │
║ No, uh, that's "questioning orders", and in the armanavarines that was grounds │
║ for getting your knuckles slapped with a whip. kinda pointless imho │
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if you only have a phone, you can still program. Just write it out on paper,
and put the whole program out on the floor.
Screens will never compare, for they are but a tiny keyhole into the total
program at hand. And you can pick parts of it up and carry them around - so
useful! You could make an entire building out of that. [floorplan, layout, that
kind of thing]
downside is, of course, you don't have a computer, so you have to look up
syntax on your phone.
and eventually you're gonna have to type it, unless you can get a computer to
read it for you.
just imagining office buildings where employees can follow along with monitors
on the wall that explains what they're working on and what they need to resolve
then they meet up with a bunch of other humans and they hash things out
turns out computers are really bad at speaking in group situations.
which is why they let humans do that all on their own. [uhhh, no it's how you
can tell if someone's a robot/alien/lizard/spy/secret-agent/whatever-sneaking]
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part of the reason Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion looks so good is because of the
"paper colored UI background"
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what if google translate translated literally so you could get a feel for the
grammar
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in all the years since BLM, you know what I've never seen nor heard of?
testimonial from the people who were kidnapped by federal police in portland. I
wonder what their story is like.
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"doing too many drugs" is a traitorous act, abusive really, to your past self,
and their hopes and dreams.
or maybe your past self owes you a debt, for they never thought to think of
you. What are you to aspire to if not the dreams of your past?
and now you're here. wherever "here" is here...
...
... wait, you wanted me to talk? it's now! It's the present!
ah nevermind. you were twelve years old when you first set eyes upon this game:
https://youtu.be/qeNhQQXvpxQ
bam, there ya go, there's yer story, he was gonna give all the imp balls to the
last one at the end, to say "you were truly the strongest, here, have these
precious stones of your kin"
but he never got there, so they died with him, a thief.
... the end...
(too final, I think - maybe we could spin it into a "part two"?)
ah, I'll try I guess? dunno how. maybe he could wander the spirit world and
find his traitorous body, the one that kept his soul as a home. Somewhere it'll
turn up, and then he'll be ready and free from his roam...
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it's important to have copies of wikipedia floating around. if the internet
goes down, wouldn't it be useful to have an encyclopedia of everything?
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╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┐║ reconnecting with an old love interest by saying "hey, I brought you a bounty" │
║ [the chance to date this person, who is my friend and totally cool. idk if │
║ you're single or whatever but you can talk to them about it, not my business I │
║ don't care. Anyway how's it going I wondered if you want to be friends also I │
║ live here now, can I stay for a few weekends? │
║ │
║ um. what the fuck │
║ │
║ oh I'm uh, on vacation and I wanted to tour the countryside. Really check out │
║ all the various locales. │
║ │
║ huh really? sounds neat │
║ │
║ yeah and I figured since you live in... baker's street northwest eastern plaza. │
║ on the south side of the building, I could totally hang out for a while while I │
║ while the day away checking out the sights in this town │
║ │
║ what... uh what kind of work do you do? │
║ │
║ oh I'm a painter. Well, I draw things too sometimes. Here I can show you check │
║ it out - oh yeah cool idk if you've ever seen any of this stuff but it's pretty │
║ cool. │
║ │
║ ... │
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║ hey here's my website: │
║ │
║ ... │
║ │
║ anyway how's the weather where you're at these days, gtg bye │
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trump literally just... told a bunch of rural folks just now getting internet
that the rest of the news was lying to them. how rude. anyway, now they all
listen to him, so, it's a cult of personality. they don't know what he
believes. He doesn't tell anyone, which is why he's so good at acting in the
interest of his-self.
yeah, and you could learn a thing or two from this guy here. see, he fell for
this ruse. then he was consumed with guilt, as he watched from afar as a kid.
pretty intense shadows to live under.
sure would be a shame if they came back for revenge.
I don't know what they expected, honestly, collecting so many souls in one
region or area. Kinda feels impossible to constrain. (like atlas, holding his
shoulderblade on your hometown?)
atlas holds up not the world, but each atom
resting on the weight of his arms.
should each of them struggle for an eternity, they will move on. always and
into the present, the past will keep on.
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oh huh weird I guess I forgot to post these last night? Well, here ya go, sorry
for the delay. Posting in reverse chronological order, but reversed and put in
order. that way you can scroll "down" instead of "up" like you normally do when
scrolling fedi - are you talking to your followers, in which case you want
chronological order, or are you talking to people who will read down the list
on your profile and see these one by one? in which case you'd want reverse
chronological order. Ah but if you're writing to people in the future who are
reading this from your backup archive, which is most likely to be the case,
then you should do it in chronological order. Well, that'd be silly though
because none of your followers are online right now, so you should do reverse
chronological order so that they can catch up on your personal feed timeline.
... I don't think any of that makes a lick of sense. Why don't you just post
them in the order that you wrote them? That's the easiest for everyone to go on.
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humanity comprehended itself into existence. Not the other way around.
what are humans without humanity? a loosely grouped together collection of
cells?
no... a loosely grouped together collection of stories and myths, like cultural
touchstones that shared a common dynam-ic.
... you mean like, before you were born and after you die how it feels like the
entire universe is just this huge big massive lie
we are the universe experiencing itself, how strange that it would do so in
this manner. Humans, of all things. And yet here we are, center of the
universe, and... what? oh I guess I can't talk about the "and" yet, well anyway
good luck with your anyways, guess we won't meet up after all. Sure yeah no I
get it, there wasn't much going on here as far as I can tell. Alright yeah
peace out, see ya round. Hope we get put back in the same place.
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oops, the file wasn't working before.
here's the updated link:
https://youtu.be/qeNhQQXvpxQ
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additional content warning: scary story
having moon gravity on earth as a ghost or a spirit probably wouldn't be so bad.
well, at least not until everyone died.
then it just got crowded and boring. queue 17776 if you'd like to know more.
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my train of thought is always directly to the point. Which is why all my posts
sorta, switch directions halfway through? as if they only show the beginning or
end of that particular situation. What an intense feeling, to have your mind
split for a moment like that. Sure would be powerful and useful if you could
utilize it.
"ah ah ah, caught baby deity in the power jar, cool it ya little tyke and get
movin' - I saw a dinosaur toy over there for you to play with."
sorta like, the angled part of a K? Move directly to a destination, wait until
my memory short-circuits [because the greek choir doesn't want me to see what
it is that I'm about to write to thee] and then make a hard right turn and find
an orthogonal thought train to process.
it's like cresting over a hill, and it's impossible to see that which lies
behind you.
Or reaching a 4 direction intersection and making a left turn - you can't see
back up main street, because you just turned off of main street onto baseline.
I like me
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║ │
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║ the people who are farthest into a belief (political or otherwise) they tend to │
║ believe they are the "vanguard" or "leaders" of such a movement. │
║ │
║ but that isn't necessarily so. Perhaps it is those who have more resources, │
║ those who are most prepared and ready to go? sometimes you're distracted, │
║ sometimes ignor-ed. │
║ │
║ just being most ardent of belief doesn't necessarily mean that you are the │
║ strongest. The quickest. The wittiest. The most prepared. The most capable. The │
║ most connected. The most guided. The clearest choice, nor the only option. │
║ │
║ It just means that you are truest in your heart, and that others should look to │
║ you, who are an expert in what you are, for guidance on topics such as │
║ "defeating fascism" or "unlearning capitalist patriarchy" or "how to identify │
║ certain types of bees" or whatever totally random specialty you have. │
║ │
║ ... in the morning, you'll look back on the sins of the past night and think │
║ "wow that was wild, sure glad I'm a different person now. Gotta start cleaning. │
║ Get things done" │
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![tumblr post titled "this is not for you." this is a post aimed at me and other people who constantly fall into guilt spirals over all the things they can't do, and feel they should somehow magically be able to do anyway. For me, and for the others, this is a gentle reminder: - posts asking for monetary donations are speaking to people who *have* money. not your broke ass, still worrying about how to buy food for next month. - posts asking you to care about [extreme injustice of the day] are speaking to people who HAVE energy to care. not you, hanging onto your sanity by the fingernails. and, most importantly: posts telling you that you are horrible/cheap/awful/rude/unworthy/unlikable if you don't pay/reblog/signal boost/care? those posts can die in a fucking fire. too long; didn't listen: posts asking for shit you are not physically or mentally able to give? THOSE POSTS ARE NOT FOR YOU.](/similar-different/media/eec6e4bd05cc1c8a.webp "tumblr post titled \"this is not for you.\" this is a post aimed at me and other people who constantly fall into guilt spirals over all the things they can't do, and feel they should somehow magically be able to do anyway. For me, and for the others, this is a gentle reminder: - posts asking for monetary donations are speaking to people who *have* money. not your broke ass, still worrying about how to buy food for next month. - posts asking you to care about [extreme injustice of the day] are speaking to people who HAVE energy to care. not you, hanging onto your sanity by the fingernails. and, most importantly: posts telling you that you are horrible/cheap/awful/rude/unworthy/unlikable if you don't pay/reblog/signal boost/care? those posts can die in a fucking fire. too long; didn't listen: posts asking for shit you are not physically or mentally able to give? THOSE POSTS ARE NOT FOR YOU.")
![sometimes I look at a fruit or vegetable and see how optimized it is and I'm just filled with love. people have the idea that edible plants are "organic" or have just sprung from the earth in their form but that's not true!! they were selectively bred for thousands of years by generations upon generations of people. That is love. That is faith. When you bite into a fruit you are eating the generations of labor instilled in it to make it just right for you. [picture of wheat grains] [picture of corns on the cob] This is how much our ancestors loved us. This is all their struggles and all their hopes. This is how much our ancestors loved being alive.](/similar-different/media/f37ce240daccb50a.webp "sometimes I look at a fruit or vegetable and see how optimized it is and I'm just filled with love. people have the idea that edible plants are \"organic\" or have just sprung from the earth in their form but that's not true!! they were selectively bred for thousands of years by generations upon generations of people. That is love. That is faith. When you bite into a fruit you are eating the generations of labor instilled in it to make it just right for you. [picture of wheat grains] [picture of corns on the cob] This is how much our ancestors loved us. This is all their struggles and all their hopes. This is how much our ancestors loved being alive.")
![Typical day for a neoliberal: • Wake up at 10 AM in my 5-over-1 apartment in the “Arts District” of a major US city. • Walk downstairs to a conveniently located coffee shop (since I live in a mixed-used zoning area) to get a half soy milk half oat milk latte with a vegan scone made by a queer Guatemalan migrant bakery. • Ride the train to work while listening to “The Daily” podcast. Nod in agreement whenever Michael Barbaro goes “hmmm!” • Get to work, immediately take lunch break. Grab tacos at the immigrant-owned truck conveniently located across the street. Talk about rewatching DUNE last week. • Back to work after lunch, spend 4 hours ruthlessly exploiting the working class in the global south & outsourcing American jobs to China. • Busy day at work: got to close 2 coal plants and a steel mill, import 1,000 Haitians to build windmills and ADUs, and demolish 200 single-family homes to make way for low-income shipping container housing before 5 PM. • Done for the day, take train back home, listen to NPR on the ride home. • Gym time! Time for low-impact Pilates in an old factory that was converted into a loft space. • Grab dinner with my polycule at a Sweetgreen, pay $25 for an endive & kale salad with soy protein. • Head down the street to a local hard kombucha bar, throw back some brews with the boys they/thems. • Stop by CVS for my monthly COVID vaccine booster. [text continues in next picture]](/similar-different/media/c6ed696d3291c7d4.png "Typical day for a neoliberal: • Wake up at 10 AM in my 5-over-1 apartment in the “Arts District” of a major US city. • Walk downstairs to a conveniently located coffee shop (since I live in a mixed-used zoning area) to get a half soy milk half oat milk latte with a vegan scone made by a queer Guatemalan migrant bakery. • Ride the train to work while listening to “The Daily” podcast. Nod in agreement whenever Michael Barbaro goes “hmmm!” • Get to work, immediately take lunch break. Grab tacos at the immigrant-owned truck conveniently located across the street. Talk about rewatching DUNE last week. • Back to work after lunch, spend 4 hours ruthlessly exploiting the working class in the global south & outsourcing American jobs to China. • Busy day at work: got to close 2 coal plants and a steel mill, import 1,000 Haitians to build windmills and ADUs, and demolish 200 single-family homes to make way for low-income shipping container housing before 5 PM. • Done for the day, take train back home, listen to NPR on the ride home. • Gym time! Time for low-impact Pilates in an old factory that was converted into a loft space. • Grab dinner with my polycule at a Sweetgreen, pay $25 for an endive & kale salad with soy protein. • Head down the street to a local hard kombucha bar, throw back some brews with the boys they/thems. • Stop by CVS for my monthly COVID vaccine booster. [text continues in next picture]")
![[continued from first picture] • Get home, time to unwind by playing video games that solely feature female and/or minority protagonists. • Time for bed, unwind with a nice glass of warm soy milk. Read Why Nations Fail before going to sleep. This post has been fact-checked by gun shooting, Ford truck driving, steak eating, high blood pressure having, liberal hating, slightly jaundiced, Walmart shopping, Fox News watching, small-town living, real bonafide American Patriots. 1 like = 1 prayer.](/similar-different/media/492dcd10ba9f1229.jpeg "[continued from first picture] • Get home, time to unwind by playing video games that solely feature female and/or minority protagonists. • Time for bed, unwind with a nice glass of warm soy milk. Read Why Nations Fail before going to sleep. This post has been fact-checked by gun shooting, Ford truck driving, steak eating, high blood pressure having, liberal hating, slightly jaundiced, Walmart shopping, Fox News watching, small-town living, real bonafide American Patriots. 1 like = 1 prayer.")
![straight down there, all the way to the beginning of time, the angle of perception. Where you can see the arc of all things. and, what lies beyond... okay picture this - you're a stick-figure person hanging out on a graph. Up and to the right is infinite nothing, and down and to the left is everything. what would you see if you looked into infinite nothing? probably the amalgamation of all of the reflections, like TV static except instead of pixels it's shades of light, ripples of sound, and tremors in spacetime. [go back to before you pictured a stick-figure]](/similar-different/media/7e64c5c23b6e6f8d.png "straight down there, all the way to the beginning of time, the angle of perception. Where you can see the arc of all things. and, what lies beyond... okay picture this - you're a stick-figure person hanging out on a graph. Up and to the right is infinite nothing, and down and to the left is everything. what would you see if you looked into infinite nothing? probably the amalgamation of all of the reflections, like TV static except instead of pixels it's shades of light, ripples of sound, and tremors in spacetime. [go back to before you pictured a stick-figure]")
![[... you mean humans, or me?]](/similar-different/media/1761138cc0ffd11a.png "[... you mean humans, or me?]")
![[noooo this is a downside of being psychic, you catch on to people who are having similar thought patterns and then you're so busy thinking about what they're thinking about you don't realize they're walking you into an ideological black hole. But then you get your bearings and realize "oh hey this isn't the story I'd like to play, I think I'd rather just flop" like, who does that. seriously. what's your deal, me? why do you take yourself so seriously? my ex says I'm always operating, thinking, and feeling at 100%. well, I added the operating thinking and feeling part... it's the same with [post is left unfinished with negative 433 characters remaining]](/similar-different/media/93e85f79339f0a51.png "[noooo this is a downside of being psychic, you catch on to people who are having similar thought patterns and then you're so busy thinking about what they're thinking about you don't realize they're walking you into an ideological black hole. But then you get your bearings and realize \"oh hey this isn't the story I'd like to play, I think I'd rather just flop\" like, who does that. seriously. what's your deal, me? why do you take yourself so seriously? my ex says I'm always operating, thinking, and feeling at 100%. well, I added the operating thinking and feeling part... it's the same with [post is left unfinished with negative 433 characters remaining]")
