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@user-488 @user-489
The ones that charged in tend to have a higher mortality rate. Over time, this
leads to a decline in bravery and an increase in PTSD. At least, that's my
theory.
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@user-494 @user-495
All phones are made out of rock. Plus oil and glass and... actually that pretty
much covers it.
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@user-500 @user-501
Maybe a button on the side that's recessed or difficult to access would rotate
the screen? Like, just shy of something you need a pin to press. Or it could be
a setting in the system settings to rotate it for accessibility purposes.
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@user-504
You can only visit so many places in life. Don't feel bad about missing a few,
the world is large and we as people tend to be quite good at cooking.
However in regards to your main point, I think it's immoral for a restaurant to
be forced to close the way you describe. If it means something to people, it
shouldn't be destroyed simply for the sake of making something new. If people
don't care about it, or if there's something better to replace it with, sure,
but replacing a 40 year old restaurant with a Chipotle feels wrong.
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@user-495 @user-494
OH YEAH how neat! All phones are made out of rock and the bones of ancient
plants and animals.
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@user-507
meow
now there's just a few more
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@user-509
Layoffs are a great opportunity for a bunch of people who worked with the same
tech stack to sit down and think "What could we make together?"
Sure would be nice if there was a group or organization that pre-emptively
reached out to them and said "hey, we're holding a meeting in relation to the
layoffs they did to you. Would you like to attend? If so, think of some cool or
unique parts of your job, and we'll break into groups and discuss things we
could do with those cool or unique things."
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Sauteed vegetables, my beloved
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@user-107
related, here's my idea for a solution / form of resistance:
https://tech.lgbt/@user-479/111740055039021736
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@user-514 @user-515
when humanity is fully grown, we won't need all the resources on earth.
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if you save one of the biggest kind of can that you regularly use, you can put
the lids of other cans in it. Just, layer them, one by one, until the can is
full. Then you can bend the edges to "seal" it shut, and tada! Now you have a
solid hunk of piece of metal that can be saved and melted down if you ever need
it.
Saving cans is inefficient for space, but the lids can do if you just want a
little bit on hand.
It's not like it goes bad, and what's one can's worth of storage space in your
pantry? Depends on the size of your pantry I guess.
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The tech industry is uniquely qualified as
one of the most important components of the modern industrial complex
which requires highly skilled labor to undertake and utilize
which is affected by the dynamic where:education, especially liberal arts
education, tends to produce humans who can see through the lies of authority
yet which is disadvantaged because:tech workers are paid salaries that are just
bonkers in relation to their output ("yeah it'll be done compiling once this
game of League of Legends finishes") (which isn't exactly unfair because
programming is taxing on the brain)
however, the game industry has shown that passion is a suitable exchange in
return for monetary compensation, and thereforepeople who make games tend to be
more leftist, as they are put in situations that higher paid employees are
likely to be able to ignore due to their higher social class
which kinda makes sense, because the most progress towards unionization is
happening in the games industry.
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║ @user-518 │
║ │
║ People who strive for the truth and most efficient, sensible, and optimized │
║ method of operation should be the kinds of people making decisions. │
║ │
║ It doesn't necessarily imply they're moral or ethical people, but it does mean │
║ that they'd likely make better decisions when presented with similar │
║ information, as compared to someone who acted based on what they were told. │
║ │
║ Besides, sometimes you need foot soldiers and grunts. People who don't have the │
║ inclination towards the types of thoughts you have. That's okay, stuff needs to │
║ get done and when someone knowledgeable is in charge they can direct others who │
║ don't know/care. │
║ │
║ Of course, this only works if the people who ask questions are given power. If │
║ the people who strive for honesty and clarity in their methods of operation are │
║ given the tools and capabilities to undertake tasks that align toward a common │
║ goal, shared by all those in the organization. Unfortunately, when that goal is │
║ profit for the owners of the company... Well, you probably know. │
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That feeling when you do a thing a friend showed you how to do, and you think
of them 🥰🥰🥰
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That feeling when the dream starts in your bedroom, as you sleep, and can't
move because of sleep paralysis. Scary things are often just kind things viewed
backwards. From the outside in.
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one of the low level skills that tends to come naturally to witches is the
ability to make nutritious gruel taste amazing and have an interesting texture.
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│ scary-absurdist-magic-symbolism-discipline-honor-dedication-virtue-safehavens-meditation-[presupposed │
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@user-521
Reminds me of something I wrote last Tuesday.
All things are defined in waves, and if darkness is all around you then light
is sure to find you. Perseverance and fortitude is what avails you, when you've
found yourself in the house of a witch. Or a pleasuredome. Or hell. Or any
other place where positives (peak of the wave) lures you to negatives
(damnation, discorporation, sublimination, de-saturation, dessication, etc)
You'll know it when you see it. I'm not talking about joy like you'd find from
picking a beautiful flower or sharing a gift with another. This is the
seductive kind, the kind that cuts straight to your soul. Be constant, be
aware, know your surroundings, and trust that your heart is what delivers you.
"with mind as my guide I let will lead my stride and step forth out in-to my
own future"
![[not enough characters for the entire text of what follows, so I've attached two pictures, each the same visually but with different descriptions, to enable me to work-around the text limit that Mastodon imposes on picture descriptions. Here is the 1st text...]: Hello, I am a witch. There's more than one kind of witch, but I promise that I'm the kind you'd like to have around. There's another kind, however, that is unlike me in kind but I think you'll find is just as rare, and just as tempestuous. I like to think I am good aligned, perhaps not "good" as in "capable" but "good" as in "benevolent" and "perhaps" as in "unknowable" and "but" as in "desired" and "desired" as in "what I work toward because it's the right thing to do" and "work toward" as in "realized according to the effects of my actions not just by my intentions" The other kind of witch is the kind that hurts people. There are many reasons why you might find yourself in the house of such a witch, but all of them are caused by your desire. Take care in the house of a witch such as this, and stay no longer than your time allows. If you find what you're looking for, get out. If you're almost out of time, get out. If you lost something, find it, and then get out. If you run out of time, and things start to "smear", yell out loud your social security number. If someone's trying to save you, it'll help them know where to put you when you are returned to your body. [not enough characters, check other picture]](../media/fb91427929fb8482.png "[not enough characters for the entire text of what follows, so I've attached two pictures, each the same visually but with different descriptions, to enable me to work-around the text limit that Mastodon imposes on picture descriptions. Here is the 1st text...]: Hello, I am a witch. There's more than one kind of witch, but I promise that I'm the kind you'd like to have around. There's another kind, however, that is unlike me in kind but I think you'll find is just as rare, and just as tempestuous. I like to think I am good aligned, perhaps not \"good\" as in \"capable\" but \"good\" as in \"benevolent\" and \"perhaps\" as in \"unknowable\" and \"but\" as in \"desired\" and \"desired\" as in \"what I work toward because it's the right thing to do\" and \"work toward\" as in \"realized according to the effects of my actions not just by my intentions\" The other kind of witch is the kind that hurts people. There are many reasons why you might find yourself in the house of such a witch, but all of them are caused by your desire. Take care in the house of a witch such as this, and stay no longer than your time allows. If you find what you're looking for, get out. If you're almost out of time, get out. If you lost something, find it, and then get out. If you run out of time, and things start to \"smear\", yell out loud your social security number. If someone's trying to save you, it'll help them know where to put you when you are returned to your body. [not enough characters, check other picture]")
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@user-521
am i not wretched enough to be
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https://ia803203.us.archive.org/15/items/knave-1.0-en/Knave_1.0_EN.pdf
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🖼
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🖼
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totally useless unless you're, I dunno, building a bytecode interpreter or
something
https://craftinginterpreters.com/contents.html
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Branches cause cache misses which are slow when done on repeat.
Better to structure your code to avoid them, if possible, for example by using
an array of function pointers instead of switch statements.
unrelated, but once the data is cached from memory, operations like bit
shifting and arithmetic are essentially free. The slowest part of the process
is moving data from RAM to cache so that the CPU can use it.
That being said, CPUs and compilers are VERY good at optimizing that type of
thing these days.
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first meme I ever made, way back in the ancient days of advice animals and
image macros.
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Is my formatting pretty or does it make you angry?
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some more of the same.
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@user-524
Sometimes when I feel overwhelmed with all the boilerplate I just start coding
and making stuff. Doesn't matter if it works, doesn't matter if it says /
FIXME / all over the place, doesn't matter if it includes header files
that don't exist yet, as long as you're hacking out the mechanics of whatever
operations you need to perform then you can figure the rest of that stuff out
later. The creative urge doesn't last forever, which is why projects get
abandoned, but with discipline you can keep bringing yourself back to fix all
the / FIXME /'s and the compiler errors.
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@user-527
The wikipedia page for hormone replacement therapy was pretty comprehensive
back when I needed it.
general:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_hormone_therapy
feminizing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminizing_hormone_therapy
masculinizing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masculinizing_hormone_therapy
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║ @user-530 │
║ │
║ I get it. │
║ │
║ Anyone with a disability or chronic condition gets it. Anyone who's oppressed │
║ gets it... I think everyone here gets it. It's hard. │
║ │
║ Sometimes the only thing that gets me through the day is the hope, the idea │
║ that one day the world might be brighter and the people might be kinder. It │
║ gets better every day, but inching ahead takes a while to travel for miles... │
║ We need to protect and care for each other. We need to apply ourselves toward │
║ what we know and are passionate for - an unused degree is a tragedy to me. │
║ │
║ I don't know what to say. I read what you said and I wished I could help. I │
║ want to take the system that hurt you and break it on the floor. I want to │
║ sweep it all aside and start from scratch, but screaming into the void will │
║ hardly accomplish that. I dream of true justice, a world where everyone gets │
║ what they want... But frankly right now I just wish you could hear. I'm sorry. │
║ Maladies are not solved by the pen nor the sword, which for now is all that I │
║ have at my disposal. │
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@user-532
autistic people when nobody told them to shut up about things they thought
people should be talking about but aren't which is weird right like why
wouldn't people be talking about [thing] because frankly it seems like a big
deal but really it's that everyone knows more than the autistic person who
doesn't have any friends who have friends and is insular and isolated and also
very smart in fact smart enough to think up ideas for things to talk about that
people aren't talking about which is weird because they're not THAT smart but
also a lifetime of isolation has made them a little schizophrenic so they
sometimes feel like their actions are not their own like they're being
hypnotized or perhaps possessed by the spirit of mankind or some other such
entity which would like to express ideas that they think people should talk
about but they aren't talking about which is weird because why else would a
porous person have ideas such as [thing] if not for the path that they're
telepathically suffused with the
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║ │
║ │
║ they say witches are scary, and yeah they're not wrong │
║ │
║ but they also say witches are ugly, and I think they just didn't have kind │
║ words for trans people back then. │
║ │
║ I mean, I'm gorgeous and so are you. I've no warts, nor green skin, but I do │
║ grow hair in unbecoming places. Like the tip of my chinny-chin-chin, and also │
║ on top of my toes. │
║ │
║ they also say witches are magic, and I guess that's true (I suppose). I mean, I │
║ wear quite strange clothes, for a man at least. It's quite normal for a she, │
║ which is what I was meant to be, if only I was just born right. │
║ │
║ Alas, oh well, I'll just take a little green pill, and BAM suddenly I've got │
║ huge boobs. Okay they're not huge, they're pretty normal. But C is larger than │
║ zero. │
║ │
║ they also say that witches write spells, and I sure do love to program. With my │
║ most familiar cat (who often does sleep in my hat), I find myself yearning for │
║ nuance. │
║ │
║ Meh, it's late at night, I think I'll think not of the plight, and instead just │
║ will dream of defusals. I don't know~ │
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"is this a water party, or a wine party?"
"depends on if jesus is going..."
"okay I'm in, that guys so cool"
"yeah totally like any party with him just... feels like a great time"
"what a swell guy"
"really turns the "water to wine" y'know what I mean"
"yeah totes like what a guy"
"absolute unit"
"that guy can just do anything right"
"like whoa, he's so strong he could pick up a barn"
"yeah and like so handy and skillful, what a neat guy"
"oh and I heard he's really good with kids and animals, that sounds neat"
"yeah sounds like someone I'd surely like to meet"
"we should hang out with this guy more often"
"he seems pretty chill"
"well. not really. He's pretty expressive. Not very low key."
"true I'm just so burnt out from capitalism that-"
"-yeah dude I know."
"... fuck what are we gonna do about it"
"I dunno man, just... go along with it I guess"
"okay so uhhhh idk what that means"
"just be cool and play along"
"... what"
"..."
...
.
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@user-535
teleportation, so I could teleport all the money in the world to the bottom of
the fucking ocean
then I'd send some bread to Ukraine or whatever.
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I always figured if people didn't like what I was saying they'd contest me so I
could change it.
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Normalize insta cart shoppers knocking when dropping off their stuff
And then asking "you're very welcome. Do you need anything else?" when the door
is answered
You could learn a lot about people who use insta cart and get the mistaken
impression that it represented everyone.
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@user-538
I'd offer that meticulous, uncompromising ethics is the only efficient,
sensible, and optimized method of operation (assuming maximum prosperity at
maximum distribution is a goal).
True, as long as the axioms that comprise the ethics are valid and the
supporting arguments are sound
EDIT: cut out the bits that I'm not an expert on
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@user-541
dear corporations:
your employees are your greatest resource.
with them, you can change the world.
without them, you die.
if you mistreat them, they resent you.
if you abuse them, they leave you.
if they leave you, you die.
if you teach them... they grow.
if you care for them, they care for you.
if they care, you are whole.
if you connect them, and give them the freedom and liberty to accomplish their
own ends using the resources that "the social construct you are" provides...
they build for you.
your employees are your greatest resource, cherish them and hold on. Or one day
they might end you.
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@user-544
Whoa. You're kidding That picture is gorgeous!
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@user-547
That feeling when you get to the end of a paragraph and think "why do I have
this extra parenthesis )? Oh yeah I opened it up waaaaay up here" and then you
reread what you wrote and think
perfect, no notes
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@user-138
omgggggg gimme
I want to put those in my mouth
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@user-138
the tasteful beveling, the vibrant colors, the soft yet firm texture, the
rounded corners, the
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Hello, I am a witch and this is my altar.
Here, I dream of a green USA.
covered by the branches,
my body decays into parts,
ready to join the next life that needs me.
[read the alt-text on the pictures, or listen to your screenreader for more
explanation]
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If you like fantasy, check out this book I wrote a while ago. It's not long,
and it's free (obviously).
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/w7/table-of-contents
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Honestly if anyone wanted to just... take any of my stuff, even if they were
just going to sell it, I'd probably give it to them? People in my life say I
don't function well in a capitalist society. I guess I just trust everyone
equally.
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@user-217
how the sun must seem to a radiant being
[the sun from the perspective of the earth]
~birth~cosmos~delight~in~time
https://mastodon.social/@user-215/111751229969556198
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Me: "yeah but how can you know that food is vegetarian? They could put anything
they want on the box."
them: "well yes but you see here are the regulations we have in place through
the USDA and (department of agriculture) and these and these inspectors and
this and that procedure and here read through this report with charts and
graphs and diagrams and"
me: "and they say the government is inefficient. Look at all this progress! Wow
so productive. So healthy and raw. So prime and"
they: [not listening]
me: "nuts"
[eats "beef" flavored ramen]
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@user-538
https://mstdn.social/@user-548/111749483369813154
this felt relevant. like... who am I to say that the wisdom of the masses is
good for anything?
[or just analyze the contents of social media posts. Like, people pretty much
speak their mind in their echo chambers. It's a quirk of the human psychology
that we feel alone and by ourselves when we're with family. That's what makes
it family, the feeling of being one with another. Like... "yeah we're the same,
we get each other, hey btw look out the windows of our collective home"]
(ummmm yeah so basically people tend to speak their mind when in echo chambers
and all social media is a succession of increasingly more accurate echo
chambers that align themselves toward your personality, not ethics and
morality.)
= also the returned value is not necessarily what was on their mind, it could
be something they learned from there. humans.pattern_matching_function_exists
= true;
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@user-552 @user-553
sounds like something we should dedicate valuable resources to solving. After
all, no structure or entity would want to possess weaknesses (such a
misapplication of purpose and direction) or other such errors in their design.
Like, I bet we could test that and find out.
and if, for example, we find that we no longer possess the capacity for
learning...
well, then maybe that's something we should work on.
because learning new things... that's just an application of development
resources towards broadening our horizons.
do we really need to solve pi to ten bazillion digits? I mean yeah it's cool
and all but most of the interesting stuff happens around zero.
you can always learn to learn, that's one of the neat things about it. It's
self-bootstrapping. As long as you have the capacity to apply yourself toward a
pictured goal, well... then you can learn. And no human or other sentient and
capable being would lack such an ability, because it's intrinsic to our form.
therefore, learn
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Why no, I've never read the bible. However I've read the Death Gate Cycle, by
renowned fantasy adventure authors Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman, whose
worst works were called Dragonlance
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@user-191
teehee I know a girl like that
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ice cream out of a mug, mmmm delicious ^_^
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why am I so cold
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I'd ask why of course, and then I'd try and find them a solution that didn't
involve taking my stuff. They may need it more than me, but I still need it.
Like... okay picture that feeling you get when in a capitalist society and you
need dollars to live because they are a genericized and fractalized abstraction
of all the various individual mazlowe's hierarchy of needs you have. Then,
think of it like, instead of money being an abstracted form of all of your
needs, think of your needs... each of them, the ones that matter to you, and
abstract them into money. Basically say "yeah sure my time and my labor are
worth dollars, I abstract my needs into money" and then you can kinda see why
capitalism is harmful. I'd prefer to give them what they need, because society
provides what I please, but alas I'm always kept wanting. What good is our
capitalist utopia? what good is our hope? what good comes of us when all of us
have learned how to cope?
I think we could give a bit more if we weren't hanging from the rope
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║ @user-556 │
║ │
║ Escape to where? Perhaps to our own desired future, the "garden of eden" in our │
║ solarpunk dreams. So, the Labyrinth in the Death Gate Cycle, before all the │
║ monsters crept in and ruined it for everyone. Like, a projection of heaven onto │
║ the matter of our future (spiritual beings projecting "up" on the axis of time │
║ (which, obviously, looks a little like a corkscrew, because it's the earth │
║ rotating around the sun. It wibbles and it wobbles ever so imperceptibly, but │
║ if we look out from the equator we see a map of "us" which, of course, runs out │
║ of imagined futures for it's denizens (as nothing can ever be thought twice) │
║ │
║ sometimes I'm thankful for my poor memory, it allows me to lead where I please. │
║ │
║ when the trees of valinor burn, light is projected out into the night. strange, │
║ how these streetlamps, are hovering and fixed in one place. How could a rabbit │
║ know that a streetlight, anchored as it is in one place, could somehow become a │
║ radiant pillar of light? How strange, this form of worship, alas. │
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║ by defederating with threads, we've basically made it a place where they can │
║ talk about us, but we can't see what they say about us. Good thing they can't │
║ read this, because we're defederated, and they don't use... hmmmmmm what mildly │
║ ridiculous thing could I put in here, hmmmm how about... OH YEAH they use GPU │
║ accelerated 3d learning algorithms that parse the written information from │
║ publicly accessible data to create a centralized server that routes all the │
║ information. │
║ │
║ Essentially giving the capability to defederate with bots, specifically the │
║ scraping kind. │
║ │
║ However, it'd still be possible, because people could just create an account │
║ there and use the data from that. Unless, of course, the UI was difficult to │
║ navigate and didn't allow for mass-gathering of information. │
║ │
║ Okay heres what you're gonna do, make like a hundred different ecosystems with │
║ randomized avatars where what you say is broadcasted to all of them. Unless you │
║ choose to post in a particular place, in which case only that one can see. Then │
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@user-559
I have no idea what either of those mean
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one important thing about image generation algorithms like Stable Diffusion is
they can reveal something about our hearts.
all data derived from the masses is naturally inclined to reflect the
affections of it's kind. Otherwise it'd be unstable, and find itself it's own
ways to not fail, including moving somewhere it feels safer.
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find beauty in all things and beauty will find you
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yet I'm still fine
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another year, another picture added to the pile. this one's meta because I
stopped using facebook.
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║ │ CW: alcohol-mentioned-protests-games-laughter │ │
║ └───────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ Protests are great because they give you the opportunity to make friends with │
║ 2-5 other people who you've never met before, and who've never met each other. │
║ │
║ People who you could play DND with - for those who don't know, DND is a fun │
║ activity you can do with friends that involves chips, soda, sometimes beer, and │
║ plenty of laughter and loud voices. │
║ │
║ It's essentially a game where a group of people create plans, solve problems, │
║ and organize solutions to roadblocks on their path to success. │
║ │
║ It's also great because it's a planned activity that you don't have to take │
║ your phone to - in fact, it's best when you don't make a reminder for for the │
║ event anywhere digital or easily misplaced. │
║ │
║ There aren't too many rules, and whatever you can't remember you can make up on │
║ the fly. It's not like there's any consequences in a game, not like anyone │
║ could die. │
║ │
║ Most people don't like playing games with me though because I have a pretty bad │
║ memory. Call it a quirk of fate or something │
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║ quintessential friend group: │
║ │
║ the smart one │
║ │
║ the cute one │
║ │
║ the one who can swing a bat │
║ │
║ the one who has a list of all the Nazis in the area because they hacked their │
║ email account and know who purchased nazi memorabilia │
║ │
║ the friendly one who's always down to hang out │
║ │
║ the outdoorsy one │
║ │
║ the fed │
║ │
║ the one who's always cooking something │
║ │
║ the one who's perfectly fine in silence │
║ │
║ the one who never lets a room go silent (unless everyone else wants to just │
║ chill of course - hey anyone wanna go on a walk? it's a great day) │
║ │
║ the one who's good with animals │
║ │
║ the one who's smile you can't get out of your head │
║ │
║ the one who's drop-dead gorgeous │
║ │
║ and the one who's always telling her that │
║ │
║ the one who's friends with everyone, │
║ │
║ and the one who's knitting a hat │
║ │
║ the one who knows each street in your city │
║ │
║ and the one who knows your favorite kind of candy │
║ │
║ There's more friends than that, of which I am quite sure │
║ │
║ Who's on your list? Who would find you if you disappeared? │
║ │
║ Mine's got a few, fewer than this one, but few is fine. │
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Liberals think the DSA and such is for getting things done.
That's a nice by-product, but it's mainly supposed to give you a framework to
build connections on. Connections that you can rely on.
You don't have to be best buds. You just have to trust each other.
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@user-258
to that I say "teehee"
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@user-122
each language gives you opportunities to rhyme different concepts when you're
writing poetry.
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Any political or moral philosophy is useless until tested against both good and
evil
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accessibility idea:
local LLM that reads the posts that are further down on your timeline that you
can't see yet and generates content warnings, prioritizing those that you've
set as particular triggers for yourself. Then, integrating itself into your
fedi client, it hides the stuff that hurts you.
I feel like that could be a helpful and good aligned usage for the technology.
I don't know how feasible it is.
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maybe if I slept until the end of time,
I'd do better on the way back.
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maybe if I slept until the end of time,
I'd do better on the way back.
or maybe I'm perfect as I'm,
but I'm not so sure about that.
is it better to hold a sword?
or to leave it all intact
is it better to be called lord,
or to be simply called jack.
I love every creature,
every child woman and man,
and here, where I stand, I look out upon this land, and I see the world that I
was born to.
I bear no false affection for any - not even those who'd condemn me to death or
misery.
I trust relentlessly, and favor almost willingly.
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Shadows be silent in the dark.
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went to costco, got a ton of delicious and nutritious food... yet I subsist on
pickles >.>
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felt cute, might crumble to dust later
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@user-562
I have that book on my bookshelf, haven't read it since high school.
Maybe I should again.
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@user-565
that's pretty!
reminds me of this picture I have saved on my computer:
beware it's a little scary. Scarier than I remembered. Gosh I like yours
better... >.>
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there's no greater test than a dishonorable foe.
overcoming apathy is the easy part, and look how hard that is!
but time and time again, bravery will win, of this I do portend.
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#solarpunk
An app that listed all the tasks that needed to be done in a city and people
could just do whichever they wanted. Like "water this planter box of carrots"
or "prune this tree" or whatever.
Specialists who knew the requirements of plants could set up tasks and
workflows like project managers and set up recurring requirements - like "water
every day for 90 days then harvest" or whatever. They could also look for
disease or pests and assign treatment plans as necessary.
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#solarpunk
Grocery stores should be central repositories of food that anyone can take
anything from. In addition, apartment buildings and complexes and the entrances
to suburban subdivisions could have stalls that food is delivered to, from the
grocery stores. If you want to help out you could carry food from
store->stall. The stalls would have what the residences they served listed
as things they wanted stocked, like an external pantry that was shared by the
community.
You could also place orders a day in advance and it would be provided for by
the local grocery. If you wanted an exotic good it might have a larger lead
time, in which case you could just go to a distant store that had it.
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@user-419
https://cobalt.tools/
right?
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@user-8
do you go camping often? =P
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@user-8
sucks... I hope they fix your power and water soon.
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THE DUCKS ARE BACK
I DIDN'T ACCIDENTALLY KILL THEM BY FEEDING THEM ALLUMS
I'M SO HAPPY I CAN'T HANDLE IT
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downside is, one of my bracelets broke. Well, mostly broke. Only a witch like
my mother could restring it correctly, but she's somewhere in the other half of
the country.
worth it though, for the ducks.
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Alright, if the average person is sorta stupid and cruel, then are we not
tending to a kingdom of ogres, rather than humans?
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Crazy, or just superstitious to a fault?
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would be great if all the good people had all the money. Too bad it kinda feels
like the opposite. Huh wonder why that is . . . ?
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I'm a good witch, which means I write poems and bake cookies. Okay usually I
make something more nutritious, like "melange". Also I'm good at listening to
people's problems and I always have a cup of tea ready for you when you walk in
the door.
bad witches are kinda evil. They're the type who curse animals with human forms
and enslave the fae by forcing them to work desk jobs and such. They also
propagate spores for poisonous mushrooms in the forest, the kind that LOOK like
they're edible but actually aren't.
but, as all things are defined in waves, so too are the patterns of witches -
for every bad witch, there's a good one just around the corner.
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When you re-use your tea bags, you can add a dash of instant-coffee for an
extra zing.
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there are few things more nutritious for the soul than warm chocolate chip
cookies.
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