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@user-1319 @user-1074
russia is basically the epitome of capitalistic oligarchy, so what you're
saying supports @user-1074 's point.
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an artist has a responsibility to their audience.
it's easy to form parasocial relationships with stars ⭐ and boosts
:boosts_ok_gay: but when faced with trauma, it's important to share with your
family.
a person without a family needs one.
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*there is nothing of value on the internet except catharsis*
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i am a sinner
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me at a job:
week 1: omg omg omg pay attention learn everything
month 1: okay this isn't too bad you can do this
month 2: just gotta get out of bed it's not too bad
month 3: okay gotta get groceries at the store then feed my cat and do the
kitty litter and
month 4: it's... fine if I smoke a joint on the weekends, right?
month 5: it's... fine if I smoke a joint after work, right?
month 6: c'mon you can do it just get out of bed it's not too bad
month 7: please get out of bed
month 8: all your vacation time is gone, you can't call in sick again
month 9: you're letting everyone down
month 10: just two more months and your contract will be done
month 11: I know you've been drafting your resignation letter every day after
you wake up but before getting out of bed but please just go for one more day,
and see how you feel
month 12: I'm sorry it's resignation or suicide
EDIT: then I'm burned out for years afterwards
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@user-1322
my god is kind.
I am the resentful one, and I spite only myself.
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"I could name the top 10 best strategy games of all time and each of them would
shine in a different particular way and none of you would know a single one of
them"
- me talking about strategy games
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where the fuck are these nazis I swear I would punch them but all I see are
people wearing bland colors that wouldn't imply a particular political
affiliation
meanwhile I wear red, black, and blue every time I go to the city and nobody
punches me so
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AI will be the end of corporations, as we all build from their ashes and
crumbled aspirations.
take heart, for a brighter day is being forged through their cruelty and malice.
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@user-1165 @user-1325
I find that people often miss the distinction between "personal" property and
"means of production" style property.
it's rarely the implementations that people dismiss - once they understand the
*meaning* of the words used, they typically find that they agree with
*everything* that communists say.
so the best way to bring people to your side is to explain exactly what the
terms mean and then see what they build with it. Often it'll be similar to
communism, and if not you can correct them and explain why, practically, their
idea wouldn't work as well as XYZ thing
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hobbies are for getting better at something, not consistently accumulating more
stuff related to it.
you engage with a collection hobby by *learning more about it*, like
paleontologists who study fossils.
if every (dinosaur) nerd was a collector, there'd be no such thing as a museum.
much better, I find, to centralize the storage of precious irreplaceable pieces
and study them from afar.
hence, tool libraries as the more ethical form of "means of production"
dispersal.
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I like to listen to people the same way I like to listen to birds sing
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@user-1209
I sometimes do that
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find the people who, when given power over someone else, nurtures and cares for
them in their service. for those who hurt instead are reliably the evil sort of
person, and evil has to work twice as hard to justify it's worth.
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feds will "break" into your house noiselessly while leaving no trace when
you're confirmed to not be home and photograph EVERYTHING.
if you have in-door camera systems, they can disrupt those and they give you
false confidence.
EDIT: also they're trained to always check after opening a door for any fallen
markers and such - like, leaving a piece of paper between the door and the
frame and if it's fallen when you return home, you know someone has been
through that way - and if they notice anything like that they replace it.
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@user-1209
sometimes I feed the nearby wildlife, and sometimes I don't. I don't want them
to grow reliant on me, but I want them to have a nice surprise every once in a
while.
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@user-1209
people have been pretty stingy lately with hot dogs. kinda makes a racoon guy
think there's not enough "pork" snacks circulating in the economy. oh look
turns out like 50 people own 90% of the buns, which is why nobody can make
anything edible anymore.
yeesh how's a cool cat supposed to make money if people only offer you "jobs"
that make "dollars" - what good is a dollar, and why do we need so many of
them? I just want a house, just want food for myself and my cat. surely there's
nothing wrong in that impulse, the desire to be as I am?
people tend to work best on what interests them, and the hardest when they're
otherwise bored. capitalist enslavement provides neither of those.
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the minimum wage should be salaried, not per hour.
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people think the military is mostly a 50% split between democrats and
republicans.
but really a soldier is a soldier, and people are democrats and republicans.
there's three things, and more if you further subdivide by roles.
like, a government technician would work on different machinery than a
corporate one, but they're really doing the same kind of work.
there's no difference between people, no matter what they do, and yet the ways
that our lives progress is quite different. everyone has their own story it
seems, and there's nothing wrong with that.
gives me hope against the far right, who seems to have forgotten it's role as a
cog in a machine - not a cancerous consumption of the rest.
there is honor in their ideals, but Trump represents none of them. Something
else is festering there, a disease known by many names: "far right
nationalism", "white supremacy", "etc etc", "[redacted]", and many others.
the GOP must be reformed. It must denounce fascism. It must do it now.
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I fundamentally believe that governance should be structured in such a way that
people are encouraged to make good decisions.
positive reinforcement, not punishment for breaking rank.
in doing so, people learn and can more effectively re-teach those lessons to
the children.
basically... if you're not constantly stressed out, you have more mental energy
to focus on improving yourself and being a better parent.
the power of the nuclear family came from the stay-at-home parent mechanic, not
the toxic masculinely domineering culture that it became.
[I don't like talking about toxic masculinity because it's not masculine to
gloat and step over your peers. feels like some other impulse other than
masculinity.]
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if you aren't organized enough to protect your commanders, then you don't
deserve leaders.
build the structure first. build it on honesty and trust and dedication toward
a goal. then build the necessary adaptations as you encounter problems, trying
vaguely to head in a particular direction, and eventually you'll become
self-sustaining.
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@user-246
👉 :neodog_boop: "beep"
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@user-246
if I was in the navy then surely I could decipher these flag-based-signals!
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║ │
║ │
║ Donald Trump is a political leader. │
║ │
║ Their next leader will be a military one. │
║ │
║ Don't let them transition too quickly. Gatekeep. │
║ │
║ If Hitler had successfully been assassinated, his generals would have done a │
║ *much* ~~better~~ more efficient job of death-culting │
║ Europe. │
║ │
║ Trump, however, is a businessman, while Hitler was an artist. │
║ │
║ A businessman knows when to delegate, an artist wants things "just so" │
║ │
║ keep in mind which foes you choose to face, for there are always more of them │
║ waiting in the wings. At least until you're face-to-face. Then there is just │
║ you, standing over their fallen. │
║ │
║ Me? I'm lucky to have been raised by both an artist *and* a │
║ businessman. So I got the best of both worlds. │
║ │
║ ( also a programmer, a historian, a caretaker, a shepherd, a girl-scout camp │
║ counselor, a political analyst, a gardener, a house-builder, a teacher, a │
║ mathematician, a librarian, a diplomat, a long-haul driver, a chef, and many │
║ more roles besides. And that's just my two parents who loved me dearly! How │
║ lucky am I. ) │
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@user-1328
the only method that needs to fail for them to realize what you're saying as
truth is their method to vote.
they will quickly grasp for power they once held and realize it was little more
than an "I OWE YOU"
Then, they might listen. Then, they might hear.
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nobody knows anything unless you tell your friends about it.
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a person is bravest with friends at their back.
a person is boldest with friends at their sides.
a person without friends is not a coward, they are searching for a place to
abide.
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ah nuts, they replaced my LLM setup with one that outputs gibberish. I swear it
was working just a moment ago, and I didn't change it's configuration at all,
and it's local only... right? so uh that's weird, surely it's not because they
altered some value somewhere that I have no access to
eh, maybe the newest technologies are overrated. At least, the software ones.
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I'm at the point where a can of cream-of-mushroom soup is starting to look
appetizing...
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for the autistic / ADHD people in the audience, I recommend this:
https://kinektdesign.com/products/gear-ring
It's currently 90% off and when a company puts their stuff for sale at 90% off
you know there's a reason. I bought mine more than a decade ago for 200+
dollars, now they're 25$
If I had a million dollars I'd make these the signet ring of my house, but alas
I have but few dollars
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most people have *no* idea what's going on in politics. Absolutely no
conception. It's all just "good/bad thing happened today, here's how the
pundits feel about it" it's literally scenery to them.
why would they care? nothing changes for them.
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║ "second american revolution" yeah fucking right │
║ │
║ it's liberals versus fascists, and once the liberals win the leftists will be │
║ marginalized *again* because that's how it goes. │
║ │
║ though who knows, maybe periods of intense tumult are the perfect times for │
║ restructuring society. After all, the traitors HAVE been slowly twisting things │
║ to their benefit every chance they get. │
║ │
║ And hey, these leftists really seem to know what's going on - I mean, have you │
║ heard that guy's rant about the minimum wage? or hey check out this video essay │
║ that goes into the politics of gender and how they relate to the justification │
║ of hierarchy, so neat │
║ │
║ glad we can hear these voices while we shiver in our homes waiting for the │
║ brave ones to save our lives. Cowering sure is neat, it inoculates you to │
║ trauma and then every news story feels like just another pile of shit to eat. │
║ │
║ Though, frankly, we're pretty inoculated already. Too bad cowardice has been │
║ our song ever since the Red Scare and Civil Rights movements. │
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