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║ │ CW: re: uspol │ │
║ └──────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ this is a terrible idea btw, if you march along the road then your enemies can │
║ just drive up right next to your soft fleshy humanoid flanks │
║ │
║ if you march cross-country they'll still getcha. they know more than you, and │
║ they're better at it too. │
║ │
║ much better I think to divide yourselves into like, 5-7 groups and drive to │
║ where you're going sometime in the next 5-7 days according to group. ideally │
║ not during rush hours. that way you can bring whatever you want. │
║ │
║ then, when you're there, in a park, you can meet other neat people and talk │
║ THEN. in a place where you don't know which places are miked - spoiler tho it's │
║ all of them teehee, or at least you have to treat them that way if you're │
║ talking about *specifics*. If you're talking about generalities it's │
║ usually okay, but... well, you'll figure it out. │
║ │
║ then, after 5-7 days, you can hold an impromptu pride parade, and walk past all │
║ the houses where gay people used to live. │
║ │
║ plans change. planning remains. │
║ │
║ when plans change, your adaptability is test. │
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"you have disgraced yourself"
"not in my own eyes"
has real "from my point of view the jedi are evil" energy
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this is me on the fediverse:
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║ │ 792703962396514 │ │
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║ │ External post: https://tech.lgbt/users/ShadowJonathan/statuses/112797093 │ │
║ │ 133091700 │ │
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║ │ Your characters realise they have been working for the bad guy all │ │
║ │ along. │ │
║ │ │ │
║ │ #WritingPrompt #AmWriting #writing #ttrpg #dnd #authodons │ │
║ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │
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│ CW: politics │
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every time you see posts of gatherings of neo-nazis there's always like, 20-30
of them max.
meanwhile if you look at the amount of furries at any convention...
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@user-351
I've had more than a few dreams about just... sitting in a room full of
observational equipment and doing nothing except, like, writing in a journal or
staring off into space.
what a weird dream, right ?? ?
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@user-351
yeah it wasn't anything invasive which was nice. like, it's not an
interrogation room from TV it's more like, a therapist's office.
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@user-351
that gives me Danganronpa vibes and, like, yeah my life is also an endless
struggle against zetsubo
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║ │ CW: uspol-mentioned-surveillance-state-the-news │ │
║ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ @user-1201 │
║ │
║ I'm a wood fae! they're around, just gotta find 'em 🥰 │
║ │
║ (not really I'm just a person with no magical powers whatsoever, no siree don't │
║ look at mee tehe) │
║ │
║ people only have the context of their lives, as any historical precedent that │
║ once was passed forth to the present by their ancestors and mentors is now │
║ sharing space with the endless deluge of information from a small glass, │
║ plastic, and metal box that saps both their attention and the magnitude of │
║ anything they learn. │
║ │
║ "so what if the planets on fire? somehow this actor who had an affair with this │
║ other actor feels just as important. so what if there's fascism? I just heard │
║ that whales can't swim in the ocean. oh, the city's burning? that's not my │
║ burden, and plus it's just as important as these memes which don't make me want │
║ to scream." │
║ │
║ in the same way that some forest fae might have security through obscurity, │
║ they wield information density against us as a weapon to hide their sins of │
║ morality. │
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│ CW: pol-tech-industry-100-billionaires-per-year │
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yes, they really would be satisfied with a single lifetime's worth of
technological progress, from the birth of the microchip to now, as long as they
can rule over the ruins of what once were our utopian aspirations.
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*there is no such thing as generative AI*
only statistical filtration models that align their output to whatever input
you provide according to the data they are trained to expect.
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║ │ CW: politics-social-media-spirituality │ │
║ └────────────────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ pretend this is an allegory for social media. │
║ │
║ [it's not an allegory] │
║ │
║ yeah that's why I said pretend. │
║ │
║ okay imagine that you are sitting in a rock in a forest. │
║ │
║ far away, about 100 feet away, there are other people, but you can't see them │
║ because the underbrush is sooooo dense. they are also sitting on rocks. │
║ │
║ you can speak to them, and share your thoughts - but you don't know exactly │
║ where they're coming from because the sound has to bounce around off so many │
║ different plants and such. │
║ │
║ [that's not how that works] shut up │
║ │
║ so, if you want to say anything important, it's important to have the right │
║ tone, because people 2 or 3 clearings away can't really make out your words - │
║ but they might hear your tone if you yell very loud. │
║ │
║ the *energy* of the space you inhabit is the only thing that really │
║ matters. the words that you say are just snickering to a friend, but the │
║ expression on your face, the beating of the drum of your heart that reaches │
║ forth... that's what matters most. │
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@user-1361
truth is, you can absolutely make selfishness justified, both ethically and
morally. you just need the right incentives.
however, the incentives that would lead to such a case are *not* the
kind that accrete power to the powerful. they are the liberatory kind, that
give us all the liberty to be selfishly interested in our own communal good.
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│ CW: politics-leftism-military-death-mentioned │
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the reason leftists cling to institutions is because without them, the military
would just shoot us.
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@user-1209
that's because the military hasn't had to deal with people routinely. they
haven't had the chance to be exposed to all the cultural sabotage attempts.
they do have their own challenges, however.
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│ CW: doomerism-politics-general-strike-motivation │
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I think that most people actually would rather lie down and die than fight
back, to be honest. If they even know that there's a fight ahead.
it's important to scream from the rooftops:
a better world is possible
a better world is within reach
for the children of our children
we refuse to lie down and weep
danger is coming
danger is here
pride is unbecoming
and they need us in fear.
I am not afraid
for I am never alone
I fight against decay
for there's fascism at play
not brother against brother
with sisters screaming online
but brothers against traitors
and sisters in kind.
you've heard what they say.
you know who they are.
our duty is to strike them
right where they are most harmed.
we need to take a moment
just a breath before the leap
for the children of our children
all we need is one week
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this is the world I want to live in and I'm not even kidding
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when you're alone, everything that happens to you is personal.
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your reactions to your context are what define you, and when you're alone you
are free to define yourself as you will.
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│ CW: drugs-mentioned │
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I use cannabis medically
I post on the internet recreationally
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I am *NOT* larping. I am expressing how I feel imaginatively.
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one difference between fantasy and reality is that in fantasy, when you fail,
you try again.
in reality, when you fail, you are promoted so your boss doesn't have to deal
with your shit.
in fantasy, when you succeed, you are tasked with greater trials
in reality, when you do well, you are given more of the same.
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║ │ ⚠️ Confirmed: Live metrics show that social media platform Facebook │ │
║ │ has been restricted on multiple internet providers in #Bangladesh; the │ │
║ │ incident comes as police crack down on student protests over │ │
║ │ government-imposed quotas, with deaths and hundreds of injuries reported │ │
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║ │ External post: https://social.mitexleo.one/objects/c65d9d9f-4828-4127-a6 │ │
║ │ 7a-1f24e742bced │ │
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*race the dark*
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│ CW: politics-violence-mentioned │
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in 10 years, everything that's *killing the planet from energy usage
alone* will be accomplishable trivially with the massive amount of
recyclable solar panels we could build.
oh, unless we blow them all up in a civil war tho. then the world is just...
worse, for no reason.
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║ │ CW: re: politics-violence-mentioned │ │
║ └─────────────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ the neat thing about tech is that it scales *really well*. │
║ │
║ The price of TVs is through the floor, everyone has a smartphone, and raspberry │
║ pi's are less than 100$ │
║ │
║ solar panels will be next. Trust. │
║ │
║ we should still dismantle coal and oil, obviously we should, but at a certain │
║ point it will be inevitable. They're just too expensive for too little gain. │
║ │
║ the neat thing about tech is that it scales in a way that is just impossible │
║ for infrastructural projects like housing and hospitals. │
║ │
║ building a home is hard to do, especially when you make them out of sticks and │
║ glue. think like a dwarf - stone never fades. │
║ │
║ sunlight, moss, underground, endless in the shade │
║ │
║ have I mentioned that the most difficult problem facing mechanical engineers at │
║ the moment is universal recycling? │
║ │
║ I want to work on those kind of problems, not resolving tickets. │
║ │
║ nobody even gave me a *chance* to do them, instead demanding... labor. │
║ great. the one thing I suck at. │
║ │
║ [you suck at a lot of things, actually] │
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║ if you speak in such a way that you can only be interrupted after visiting │
║ like, 12 different topics, then your partner can only respond to the very last │
║ one. │
║ │
║ much better and engaging, I find, to speak one complete idea, to allow for │
║ continual conversation. │
║ │
║ ah, but then if someone *shares* what you said, they can ignore the │
║ context. Hence, why the combination of multiple different ideas, to give a │
║ sorta stabilized view of your [context, but pronounced "considerations"] │
║ │
║ the longer your thoughts, the more comprehensive your argument, but you're │
║ likely to reach the end of your statement and hear nothing back but a "... │
║ yeah, true though" │
║ │
║ that's... not ideal. │
║ │
║ I used to post a lot on conservative subreddits because they used to listen to │
║ what you're saying and respond logically. │
║ │
║ If you very carefully step through the assumptions of their positions, taking │
║ care to *highlight* or EMPHASIZE parts of your arguments that you're │
║ planning on using later, you can often highlight the contradictions in their │
║ thoughts. │
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@user-1364
*lawful good*
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@user-576
the value proposition of a political party is just as you described - we ask
for shit, they tell us who can get it done.
AND YET.
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│ CW: politics │
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ideas for how to better communicate with voters:
when signing up to join a political party, and at any time there-after, you may
choose your top 10 issues (ranked choice voting, of course, so no vote is
wasted)
then, they can see *exactly* what their voters care about.
this is the computer age. We can process *massive* amounts of data and
we're using it to make NFTs and blockchain nonsense. We could learn SO MUCH
ABOUT EACH OTHER.
*enter, google, with a big wad of cash*
hey how about you stay outta our business yeah?
......... okay fine BUT ONLY if you keep bribing us for eternity.
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