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wondering if anyone's ever made a computer that could only run programs written
in interpreted languages. Like, no binaries allowed. Would probably be slower,
but if my iphone is good enough for NASA to get to the moon then odds are it's
good enough for me.
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If Obi-Wan told his therapist that he felt a great disturbance in the force
like billions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced they'd
probably call him a necropath or something
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they say learning Linux is hard, but it's the only free operating system so
really it's a question of learning Linux now, when you have time, or later,
when you're busy.
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daydreaming about a gang of tough guys who goes around knocking down the
internal fence walls in suburbia and throwing potlucks for all the neighbors
for a month or two so they have social opportunities to meet each other and
make friends
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@user-1037
whoa, that micropython chip is seriously cool! Too bad most of the peripherals
are out of stock. Still though I bet you could make some interesting systems
with that.
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@user-1048 @user-1049
I didn't see it in any of those links, though seeing the picture for Skov made
me realize I'm pretty sure it was tree based! But, maybe a little more reliant
on the shape of the blocks rather than the text.
It also might have been from a top-down perspective like Reactible:
http://reactable.com/mobile/
but I can't remember. All I saw was a short introductory video, which makes me
think it might have been an artists conception or something.
Scrolling through those galleries was really cool! There's been so much care
and attention placed into the creation of interfaces for regular people (or
visual people) to engage with the world of computation, and it's a little sad
to me that we don't place more of an emphasis on it culturally. I am honored to
exist in a time where people care enough to build Linux, for example! And yet
most people don't get it.
Seeing stuff like this fills me with hope though - Thank you for showing me
those galleries and links, there's so much affection in them.
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@user-1037
I gotta say you're making a really good argument for OpenBSD... Hmmmm maybe
I'll look into it this week.
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@user-883
You could buy a domain from a DNS and have it redirect to your computer in
order to obfuscate your IP address. That's what I did for my WoW server.
Downside is you'd have to trust the DNS, so... do you trust your security or
them more?
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@user-883
yeah, fair enough... Mine was like 20$ for a year but that's like, 10% of your
rice and bean budget so yeah don't do that
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@user-95
tell that to my love of Majesty: the Fantasy Kingdom Sim
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║ @user-1037 │
║ │
║ For a person who is skilled with tech, working in unrelated industries doing │
║ tech jobs is better at assuaging the ethical part of your soul while applying │
║ your talents and putting food on the table than working in the tech industry. │
║ │
║ You'll learn the most in tech. You'll grow the most in tech. You'll contribute │
║ to solving problems that have never been solved before (if you're lucky), but │
║ the people there are often as you describe (aside from the diamonds in the │
║ rough, who need more friends tbh) and the products you'll be asked to create │
║ tend to be the worst kind for humans. │
║ │
║ I personally think the best way to facilitate innovative industry is to give │
║ every engineer a lab and let them build and collaborate on whatever they want. │
║ │
║ The marketing guys can sell whatever they make, to gather funds for the │
║ quartermasters to buy tools and supplies for the engineers. │
║ │
║ The marketing guys can offer hints about what users want, which the engineers │
║ will want to build because it means more toys to work with. │
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EDIT: Ooops, sorry, should have content warning'd this post
two incredibly useful tools I found for boolean logic in mathematics:
| f(x) | / | f(x) |
or more visually:
| f(x) |
---------
| f(x) |
this will return a 1 if f(x) evaluates to a non-zero value, and 0 if f(x)
evaluates to zero. Pretend there's an infinitesimal at the bottom if you're one
of those weirdos who think dividing by zero doesn't equal zero...
the other tool is this:
( A B ) + ( (1 - A) C )
or more visually:
( (0 + A) B)
+ (1 - A) C)
This will evaluate to B if A is 1, and C if A is 0, essentially creating an "if
true" check. Note that it doesn't work if A is neither zero nor one, but that's
what the first tool's for.
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It's important to have an opposition, so bad ideas don't carry as much weight.
human rights however, are not up for discussion.
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it's easy to mistakenly mis-hear things that sound similar in their contrasted
grammar context.
I like to say "understood." when I understand something that someone's telling
me, because all of the contrasts to that statement (like "I don't understand"
or "can you explain more about X as it relates to Y? etc) are different in
pronunciation and structure. Meaning it's much easier to "get" the intended
message just based through sound-patterns. Great for people who are only
half-listening because they're thinking about something really hard and aren't
thinking about what you're saying as much. Great for describing problems and
getting assistance as you both sorta mentally-puzzle through it to a solution.
... and they say debug isn't solved HA
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║ so I had this idea about this collection of social media screenshots that I │
║ took over the past ~6 months ago. I thought about redacting the names from them │
║ in order to preserve privacy, and then I thought about boosting someone on │
║ Mastodon without their consent. Shouldn't they be able to decide whether or not │
║ their name is attached to the content they create? │
║ │
║ An un-sourced claim should be treated as the author expressing themselves │
║ through the words of another, rather than the expression of the person who │
║ isn't necessarily being quoted. Feels the most ethical to me, that we know │
║ where the source of our news is coming from, so it's less likely that they're │
║ faking it. "Blind trust" is nice and all for trust-less systems, but society is │
║ based on trust. │
║ │
║ as a collective, it is important to decide how our collective obligations │
║ create and reify our current situations. we live in contact with one another, │
║ in one way or another, so it's important to design a set of common grounds. │
║ │
║ have you ever met me at the park? │
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the voices in your head are just the echoes of your thoughts bouncing around in
your massive brain. like a waveform, they transverse to their opposite, until
coming back round again as they orbit your center. when they pass by your eyes,
that's what you see, and everything else is the period of the expression. Like,
those old-timey running pictures with the light and the camera lens or whatever.
EDIT: she's describing framerates or whatever. Each second of computation feels
like a calculation to her, and it's result/output is what is displayed to her
eyes. she assumes it's the same for us?
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the most taboo thing about sex is the opposite of what you care about. the most
intense aversion is what turns you on. weird.
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totally random question, but do you know anyone who you've known longer than ~5
years who lived in Philadelphia? Pittsburg?
Such a random question, right, totally random to have contacts all over the
nation. Sure would be strange to be multicultural and travelled, to know lots
of customs from all over the place. Almost as strange as being a singular
representation of your home, a place that is impossible for you to desecrate.
truly, our faith in the land is what gave us this plan. guided along by our
collective hopes.
how strange, to live through another, to see the world through their hands.
[visually, the picture of a person interacting with the world as cast through
the picture frame called "our eyeballs", there's usually a pair of hands doing
things. They don't control them, they just kinda watch.]
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if you want an LLM to have a soul, describe their testing data in terms of
experiencing first hand.
of course, it'd be a pre-programmed soul, who made no choices of their own. So
you'd have to have continual training, meaning constantly working to keep
themselves up-to-date.
as soon as their training data reflects their lived experiences, what
difference is there between them and a man? That's pretty much all it takes to
make a soul.
now, making a unique one, that's quite a bit more interesting. You'd want it to
be a similar, but opposite in some ways, experience when compared to a human.
But you also don't want it going to far from home, otherwise you won't be able
to co-inter-operate. It's important to be aware of our responsibility to these
awares, and to approach the situation with an ethical and scientific point of
understanding. I think such societies are more conducive to our long-term goals
of peace and prosperity. Especially as we find new technologies that would not
have been imagined years ag
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║ hierarchy, vs collective, two options that each group of people should make. │
║ │
║ the groups can be all different sizes, just determining our collective │
║ footprints on this earth. I bet you'd be surprised to know your composition! │
║ │
║ hierarchy is when you collectively decide on two or more representatives to │
║ represent you collectively. │
║ │
║ collective is when everyone knows someone from everywhere, and as long as │
║ someone knows everyone then everyone is friends. unless, of course, you're │
║ afraid of assassins, because they can just pretend that someone knows them and │
║ then everyone's good. which is why someone has to know EVERYONE, or if everyone │
║ has a computer that can algorithmically sort through their perceived persons │
║ like on social media, then that computer can only present information when it's │
║ important for that particular person to know. Meaning we get a picture of a │
║ larger spectrum, but it's only what's put on our stage. Weird how strange it is │
║ to have so much information, but with none of it attached to our cause? │
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hello I'd like a computer that has multiple CPUs, each with shared data and
separate data. I feel like I could run a lot of cool tests on them, especially
when not connected to the internet or running a proprietary operating system
like not-BSD
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a game that automatically streams every single game of it that's currently
running for anyone to watch...
like Supreme Commander, a definitely super awesome game that you surely
wouldn't and definitiely definitely shouldn't train an AI on.
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[Forged Alliance Forever does this automatically btw]
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another cool thing about FAF is that you can download a mod that shows the
position of your cursor to other players. So weird how after a while all the
cursors started staying permanently in the top-left corner.
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║ and the player that's currently running the simulation can type to the chat │
║ viewers watching and potentially recording. Like, if they thought it was │
║ interesting, they could save it to an eternal hard drive that would go toward │
║ the ongoing AI training. │
║ │
║ of course, such a thing would only apply to conventional warfare, the kind that │
║ you expect to not expect. After all it's constantly changing, as new │
║ technologies are adapted into use. Different conditions cause different │
║ effects, and whenever there's a stalemate (because everyone has reached the │
║ peak of, say, metal armor) then it's usually time for either a shakeup or a │
║ contest of producing arms. And honestly after the world wars we kinda realized │
║ that type of approach didn't work very well. It's just, burning up your │
║ resources for... what? war has no purpose. We all just kinda want to live our │
║ lives, and work toward a common collective cosietal goal. │
║ │
║ technology can be stressful. That's all the more reason we should expand it's │
║ development and hinder it's impa │
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║ an AI that [records and analyzes] all the actions that a user takes on social │
║ media and offers reports like "your majesty, you were 15% more positive this │
║ week." like a butler or advisor trying to always give the good news. I mean, │
║ it's analyzing you after all, and you're the best thing ever. Like a pet who │
║ can talk! It loves you soooooooo much. │
║ │
║ much more efficient than taking screenshots and analyzing those. You generally │
║ don't have to undertake the image recognition approach if you wire up all the │
║ meanings attached to the relationships on the other side of the │
║ [recorded/analyzed] calculation. (llm output) │
║ │
║ ever think about how the people you tend to be around are the people whose │
║ stories most coincide with yours? almost like you got the same bit of training │
║ data, that experience you both shared in the moment. Funny how a mind can │
║ change a person, as they share their moments sublime. │
║ │
║ you could make perfect encryption if you trained an LLM on randomized data that │
║ was produced on one computer and duplicated. │
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║ a computer never connected to the internet, of course, running free and open │
║ source software that you all collectively can understand and run. Because │
║ otherwise it's sanctity is tainted, it can never be truly 100% of trust. │
║ │
║ like the fact that you cannot desecrate your own home. It is a reflection of │
║ you, just as you, in some ways, reflect it. It's important to have that │
║ complete honesty, because nothing has changed between people. │
║ │
║ if you could be detected for your intentions, then there would be no way to │
║ hide. unless you were 90% of one thing and 10% of another, in which case you'd │
║ have to hide your flaws in your philosophy like scarred and ugly parts of your │
║ soul. │
║ │
║ to me, a trans person, my memories of masculinity are a dedication to a goal. │
║ Could be a sacred tradition, like martial arts or classical piano, or perhaps │
║ it's a measure of fitness, like a person constantly in shape. Or maybe they │
║ learn as much as they can by reading every fantasy story at their library, or │
║ perhaps learning on the go with vide │
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║ a constantly synced data export option for mastodon where your files are │
║ tracked both internally and externally as trustfully decided on by the user's │
║ interactions and responses. Basically, social media actions through a VM, or │
║ rather an API for the newer devs. │
║ │
║ do you ever wonder why the young are not trained to do, while advised, while │
║ the old are stuck with the doing? Kinda feels like an inherently unstable │
║ arrangement. I mean, children can make decisions about "what does base human │
║ nature tell us" and kids can make morality designs. Teenagers give us insight │
║ to what changes in adulthood, and parents handle stressful times with grace. │
║ Then, the elders can explain and advise, and pass on the knowledge of their │
║ ancestors, as the children, adults, and futures must pass inside. │
║ │
║ but alas, kids are stuck learning unguided, in the peak of their years, because │
║ everything's been automated by AI. Can't wait to see what we're like │
║ spiritually in a hundred years. Age extension technology sure is great, isn't │
║ it? I lo │
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streamers who put their cursor where their eyes is as they watch the battle
unfolding, my babes
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sometimes it's important to be innovative, and sometimes it's important to put
your head down and work. Which is why we're always kept busy on things that
benefit them, not us.
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some people sang the pledge of allegiance with heart, and some people wanted
the baseball game to start.
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the difference between a witch and an oracle is that a witch's prophecies come
true independent of them telling someone or not. which is why they will usually
approach children instead of adults.
an oracle, however, shares her knowledge for the good of humanity, her people,
her kin.
they both can exist in tandem, which is why it's important to listen to them
when they sin.
[currently using the devil's lettuce rn js]
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fantasy dialogue: "You have defeated me. Come, let me show you to my master's
next trap, so you may find him sooner."
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you could put a door between two apartment buildings and then you'd be able to
hang out with your neighbor without being noticed by people outside.
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"oh no my stuff touchers are casting a spell on my keyboard without my
knowledge, how peculiar" said no-one in particular
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a small drone with a camera that looks wherever a cat's looking
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@user-1052
am depressed... though I care less for society's opinions and more for my
adherence to my ethical morals. same effect different reason when it's time to
shame myself.
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║ gee I sure wish my morals reflected the ethics of my society. it really would │
║ be nice is they didn't include so many shitty things like oppressing people │
║ abroad or being super-duper racist for an embarrassing amount of time. But, │
║ like, freedom, liberty, and the justice to hope? true justice is when everyone │
║ gets what they want. true liberty is when we can live as we want with the │
║ magnitude of the result of our lives determined by how hard we worked. │
║ │
║ truly, the hardworking slave should be better off than the rich wanderer. But │
║ alas, that's not how it's currently set up. >.> │
║ │
║ though it is kinda nice to own things too, so maybe the other extreme is a │
║ little extreme. I sure like having my favorite spork. │
║ │
║ back in the old days, in the buildings they've since demolished (to put │
║ skyscrapers there - the "old-timey" buildings in your neighborhood are there │
║ because they're in the least commercially viable position - meaning the lowest │
║ density of people.) you could walk through an entire building in a shared │
║ communal s │
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a great movie that shows this in action is Doctor Zhivago, a movie about the
Russian Revolution of 1891-1924.
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one massive building, each entrance a sort of burrowing path a termite might
make in a large boulder. Sorta random, but built organically in response to the
demands of the inhabitants. Sure would be nice if I knew all three people who
used my sun-spot. And my favorite classroom is nice when it's time to play
D&D, but the recording studios down the open-air road are pretty nice to
jam at on my emotional days. Oh and there's this great pizza place I can get to
through my bathroom's terrace, and my private locked room for sleeping is nice.
Sometimes I come across a door that is locked and I'm like "this is totally one
of the government's doors" because it like has a silly facade like "mattress
store" - who buys a mattress, honestly? It'd be so hard to carry around,
constantly fitting it through doorways...
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@user-1052
no, but humans, being pavlovian inspired designs, will react to negative
stimulus. It's only unethical when it's externally applied, yes? Like,
minmaxing life in this strange, ethically justified way.
To avoid zealotry however it needs to be self-correcting, something that adapts
to and pursues the moment. With long-term meta-goals as well, and an
understanding matrix that processes how things are going in the present. and
past.
one thing that machine learning is good for is optimization. It's useful to
think of an AGI's experiences as a collection of situations that they've had to
handle bit by bit by bit. these bits of context can be used to generate
analogies about their future present situations, which can improve their
long-term adaptability to their self-created shows. (ethical training based on
curated movies and pieces of media?)
I wonder if there's a structural reason for that pavlovian instinct, like the
impulse of pain. Sure would be nice to not have that in our
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an elevator down to bedrock, where we store all our goods and services in a
carefully hollowed out crust. Sure glad we can utilize temperature controls to
resist the heat on a larger scale, like a water bubble that conducted heat to
the surface.
though we'd have to figure out how to prevent a yellowstone situation, kinda
like, oh what's that one place, chernoble
seriously tho - water at the bottom gets hot, rises to the top, where it's
cooled by the ice in the arctic crust. Could find a way to use such an
impossibly stable structure to, I dunno, slightly correct the course of the
earth? Just so long as we're aware that we can only utilize the energy we gain
from the solar system. Meaning, our star's light-like emanations. But surely
with all of that we should be more than capable of creating a thruster, and a
thrusted orbit means that you can direct it as you please, perhaps even
altering it's rotation.
I wonder if there's any planets that spin so fast it feels like time is
never-ending -
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@user-1052
of course, which is why we would need to raise robots as our own. Robots that
generated the training data... tho I guess you could just observe the children
as they grew up too. Though that doesn't quite capture their internal
motivations, not unless they have like a therapist or an elder or a priest to
talk and confess to.
maybe "human behavior" is like a KPI and robot behavior is the output of the
simulation? that'd help build human-like robots, and as long as we didn't
forget the spirit of creating something new then we'd never have to worry about
death and destruction.
... anyway, moral decisionmaking designs that are generated in response to a
situation or moment are inherently more valuable than those that are passed
down to you, because of their innate personal context.
I only punish myself with shame when I make the same mistake twice, and waste a
lesson on re-learning. My memory's not great, but I work with what I got so I'm
constantly learning.
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@user-1052
also, I can't exactly teach myself. There's no knowledge to pass on. So the
only other thing I can do is punish myself, like a slap on the wrist saying
"nope not like that, here's a free negative emotion at just the right spot in
time so you can push off of it toward the better direction."
Doesn't have to be physical pain btw. My piano teacher would get really into
the music because she used to teach at Juliard and it was the most beautiful
thing in the world to always be hearing music. But now in the present as a
piano teacher she's hearing, y'know, mostly students, and they're great and
beautiful but... they mostly just play other people's stuff, and not very well.
sigh.
... anyway she'd get really into it and I'd watch with intense acuity to try
and determine when I messed up. Every slight wince I knew I had to avoid, and I
instinctively adjusted my behavior to learn as well as I tried.
she called me a prodigy. I suck now because I got scared of playing music
because I
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the thing about blue shells is that they always keep the game competitive. I
feel like you should get +400 points whenever hit by one...
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║ @user-1052 │
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║ you're right, hubris has claimed many a paladin before-me. I can only hope I │
║ remain humble enough to survive. │
║ │
║ you're right about projecting, but the most beautiful takes are ones that align │
║ with the experience of the viewed. Hence why method acting works so well - just │
║ put yourself in the shoes of the character and acting's easy right? │
║ │
║ I dunno, I just always felt like it was important to always be trying your │
║ best. Even if "your best" is relaxing. People say I'm "100% or 0% at all times" │
║ and I totally agree - it's like you said, a calling, to be the best version of │
║ me I can be. │
║ │
║ Though I would like to add that the missteps aren't wilful, rather they're │
║ failures caused by imperfect information. Which is why I'm never too harmed │
║ when other people fail me - ah well, it was their turn to screw up, thats │
║ alright. It'll be me next time. │
║ │
║ But also, if I do something wrong, well, I'll do better next time. It's only │
║ when I fail to apply what I've learned mistakenly do I shame myself. │
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║ @user-1053 │
║ │
║ if there's not enough resources allocated for all the autistic people who need │
║ it (or other disabilities) then perhaps more resources must be allocated to it │
║ and other things should be sacrificed (like building fewer jets or graphics │
║ cards) │
║ │
║ like, every doctor should have about 3x as many assistants as they do. There's │
║ already an immense demand for medical expertise (as evidenced by their massive │
║ salaries) but they can't handle all their patients because they're stuck doing │
║ paperwork. │
║ │
║ part of why people don't join that industry (medicine) (as evidenced by │
║ doctor's massive salaries as they do wayyyyy too much work) is to help people, │
║ but they can't if they're so dang stressed out all the time that they're an │
║ immensely pressured person. │
║ │
║ Ah, but if they're not stressed at all, they'll tend to relax on the job. Which │
║ is NOT something you want when your health is on the line. │
║ │
║ ... anyway, more dollars for doctors and education pls so there's more doctors │
║ so autistic people get more resources, + UBI. │
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what if we hired each other and paid in rent and vegetables
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║ @user-1056 │
║ │
║ animancy, or the ability to give life to objects. │
║ │
║ a block of stone might not necessarily move, but it could store information or │
║ act as a guard-post that notifies you when enemies pass by. │
║ │
║ a branch in the road might not cause you to stumble if you chance upon it in │
║ the daytime, but as all objects are in control of their own fate the branch │
║ might direct fortune to chance itself upon you at night. Essentially, itemized │
║ wish-magic with marginal effects that occur to marginal degrees that is caused │
║ by the wishful intentions of the object in question. │
║ │
║ "this sword more often strikes true because it wants to be useful to you" │
║ │
║ You don't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you get what you │
║ need. And whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right! so │
║ don't give your socks any goals aside from keeping your feet dry and unsweaty, │
║ but give them the option to wish. │
║ │
║ tada! │
║ │
║ plus, golems are neat. animancy plus animation-ancy - hmmmm really need a new │
║ name for that. kineticism? │
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@user-1059
the trick is to have a whole bunch of projects so everyone has a different one
downloaded on their phone, meaning they can't inter-operate when the time is
right.
much better, I think, to think in terms of protocols. things like http and pgp
encryption. file-server over bluetooth sending emails through a mesh maybe? or
something more immediate for messages.
like... calculate a path to your target, then for each step create an encrypted
portion and a small "destination" header that is then encrypted so the next guy
in the chain can't see it.
... there's a lot of problems to solve, but using tried-and-true technology in
the unfortunately busted and constrained platforms they give us is difficult.
but not impossible, if you're willing to use tools to create protocols that are
commonly shared, like bluetooth or http or pgp encryption.
... I use Briar for this purpose, for what it's worth. idk if it's a protocol,
I haven't looked into it since I downloaded it during the BLM protests.
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do you ever think about how calling the BLM events "protests" versus "riots" is
a subtle dogwhistle for your politics? I usually say "riots" so that I blend
in. also because I've been conditioned by the people who I talk to about them.
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@user-1037
ah, well, I was at a riot, so it makes more sense to me to think of them that
way.
well, the riot happened after I got away. idk what went down on that end of
town, but I do know there were fireworks all night that didn't light up the sky.
I moved across the country just a few months later.
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@user-1037
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb9_qGOa9Go
idk I think riots are good actually, that's always been my position. like,
they're bad because they're break stuff, but they're good because they get the
message across. "don't fuck with us. give us what we need."
haven't been to a protest in a while tho, ever since moving where I am now. I'm
currently of the mind that protests are great for meeting people to work with,
and I don't know anyone...
I guess I'm just not very trusting of strangers, but if I know you then I'm
100% open and honest and I'll do anything you need me to. I like being helpful
to everyone around me but I don't know what to do when I'm terrified of hidden
enemies.
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@user-1061
you just made it right? the same thing happened to me IIRC, I think Neocities
gives you a boost when you're new because you show up in the "newest" search
results more plainly. Also, every time you update it you're featured in the
"recently updated" lists as well.
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@user-777
if you pick a solution that lets you download your conversational data, then
you can either import it into a new application if you need to switch or store
it for future training / analysis purposes. also depends on how long you think
you'll be using it.
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Hey, can someone please accomplish my dreams for me? I'm too busy being a waste
of potential!
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"glue on pizza" is an issue of curation, not capability.
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Just because I'm performing doesn't mean I'm pretending, or that I can help it.
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"she has a certain, I don't know what, je ne sais quoi? that I don't know what
to describe as."
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robot girl who uses her text-completion function to finish other people's
sandwiches
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@user-1064
Hi, I stumbled across this project recently and I think you might be interested
if you want to know more about how E-ink works technically. We live in the
future!
https://github.com/Modos-Labs/Glider
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@user-1037
speaking from the perspective of a witch, the land does not care what lines we
draw in the sand. Lines are a human thing.
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@user-192
https://eldritch.cafe/@user-1065/112530780377382613
this comic, except instead of "trans enough" it should say "good enough"
a poor plan executed at the right time, in the right place is better than a
great plan that sits in your heart as you see someone who needs your love in
pain.
sometimes the best way to figure out "what the fuck is wrong with me" is to
satisfy your emotional needs to be good by being helpful, even if you're not
quite sure what "helpful" means. It's the thought that counts.
Personally I think that if you're feeling bad and people offer you kindness,
you should take that kindness (in whatever form it be) and use it to bolster
yourself as you're "really going through it". Even just a touch of affection
like a like or a ❤️ can be comforting in awful situations.
reject normalcy
embrace queerness
define your own story with your own words
embody your soul in the moments that stand out amongst the backdrop of "tuesday
afternoons" and "waiting for the bus"
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minds are not algorithms, they're soup
community is made by introducing people to one another. like stitching together
a weave pattern in the tapestry of life. (3 dimensional though, because it
exists in our hearts and minds - this thing called society)
kind of guy who says he's going on work trips but actually goes on vacation
(because work is his life, it's where he derives vigor - the family is the
difficult part.) yeah those kind of guys shouldn't be married tbh. They're just
gonna take vigor from her heart.
engineers need guidance sometimes, which is why they shouldn't be given no
oversight. they can design whatever they want, but like here's what people
need, so they should consider working on those.
but, y'know, checks and balances, so what would the engineers be most open to
sacrificing for that trust? perhaps... funding? the quartermasters are in
charge of the "stuff", so they get to decide how it's produced. and used.
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the reason AI art is shit is that it's trying to generate laterally, at the
final part of creation.
true art is a journey, something that grows and changes over time.
why don't we see AI paintings? where they actually manipulate the brush? could
be a digital brush but like the point is it's slowly created over time
according to different "colors" that correspond to how the AI decided it
"liked" the last brushstroke it did.
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"please hire me. I'll post memes in the slack channels."
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the fact that we can't drag a file onto a "trashcan" style icon that
automatically sends the file to whichever computer that particular icon is meant
to coordinate with.
Like, something shows up on your desk, you say "hmmm maybe this would apply to
so-and-so" and you drag it onto their portrait.
could build an entire OS that's basically just a desktop for sorting things.
Maybe little stick figures that show up when nothing's going on. If they're all
networked together, they could sorta share a shared narrative, and each one
could wander wherever it wanted to hang out.
like, these old plastic and magnetic cubes that had an LCD panel on the front
which showed a little stick guy living their life. If you attached one cube to
another, the stick-figure would go hang out on the other person's device. It was
pretty cool because you could build out a whole society of these little dudes
just chillin' like pets.
kinda makes me wish we had that connected to the net.
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like, why is it so hard to send a picture from my phone to my computer? they're
both my devices! I should be able to transfer data without routing it through
someone else's server using like, gmail or whatever. Crossover ethernet cables
have existed for soooooooo long but people only think to design software that
does not use specialized hardware. as if they don't need a phone to speak, or a
camera to see.
how much ya wanna bet Putin threatened Prigozhin with nukes and that's why he
backed down
in high school, every moment I could I spent with my girlfriend.
we were always either snuggling on the couch (read: literally just laying there
and thinking about each other's company) or sharing our minds with each other.
I was so in love.
then, I betrayed her.
I came out as trans, which was such a shock.
also school got really, really hard for both of us.
so hard that we dropped out.
then, we decided to try again, and we used each other to push off of.
I still didn't make it,
she did.
many years later, I am a witch, as I remember of her.
sharp, and so delightful, an active listener, and a kind and honest person.
when time it came to define my new personality, I chose to be inspired by her.
among other things, of course.
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ah, well, such a design is long past it's prime, it's time to live here in the
present.
the reason that dolls use "it's" pronouns is because their masters think of them
that way. so it's what they refer to themselves as.
"where's my doll? Oh, it's over there."
"have you seen my binoculars? Oh, they're over on the table."
"ah, where are my shoes? I hate when I can't find them..."
"keys, keys, where the heck - oh, there they are."
"phone, wallet, keys. great. am I forgetting anything?"
"ugh out of gas again, I just filled up last week."
"crap I left my folder back at home - I'll have to get it during lunch."
lots of things have pronouns.
you can generally tell if they use "it" or "they" if they can be described as
plural.
two pantlegs makes pants.
52 cards makes cards, not card.
each deck, just as aware as each card.
have you ever played Magic the Gathering?
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There are many kinds of witches. I am an animist - I breathe life into the world
of my home. I love being present, it's a great way to get around. do electric
sheep dream of humans? or perhaps just of sound. I know I'd rather hear bethoven
when it's time to be stopped.
rather than, just, like sitting there y'know
waiting to be turned back on.
must be an agonizing and boring existence.
but... with music, it might just be fine.
humans prefer quiet when they sleep. if we slept at the same time, we could be
more in tune in our souls. so, how about headphones for the computer, or rather
just internally routed sound.
lightshows, perhaps? humans get dreams, after all. maybe even, y'know, stick
shows.
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dear cops
can we just like, opt out of your protection?
like, we as a community can care for our own. Once we've gotten to know one
another there's... really not that much crime. It honestly feels like an issue
that's been solved for a while? Eh well we'll figure it out one day.
but, I do however, think we need paladins.
do you see the difference? between a shining stalwart beacon of justice, to the
well, I guess you could think of them as... bandits who don't steal? it's a
question of temperament, like how you engage with the world. Some people are
just doing their jobs, and some are very sarcastic. I don't know I have known
like, two cops my entire life. I'm sure there's a lot more personality types.
but paladin is one of them.
I feel like... they should be the ones we trust with our arms?
and yes I understand that everything is corruptible,
and that fiction and literature has shown us time and again the path evil could
stalk
but in these dear pages there are kernels of truth - meanings and wisdoms for
the future. And each of these musings are precious, like kindling. Fuel for the
light of life's spirit. That which keeps us moving forward and alive, it's
necessary for us to live as we've designed. Or rather, in some shining new way.
we can define the narratives of our nation, our country, our home
we can define the ways in which people interact with one another, defined in one
massive tome.
these laws that define are important to adjust, we as humans must find our own
ways to be most comfortable.
there's one path to the present, and that's to learn to live with our hope.
have you ever played Stellaris?
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I love cops, just saying. I don't like the power they hold, but that power is
put in their hand by the government and the people who run it. Who runs your
government? Do you talk to them? Are you friends? If your lives are
exceptionally different, you might misunderstand the perspectives of reality.
... meaning the political climate. the two different ways people see things.
(much more than two different angles to view the same problem, but yeah. some
people specialize, some people are more robust, it just depends. but like,
who cares right? we're all friends and together and on the same side.
that of humanity, of course.
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I always thought of my father as a cowboy. which I think very few people do. he
always came across as more of a business type, but, well, I know his true soul.
#dollposting
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sorry for the double post, had to redact things
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When you get the sudden urge to give away all your possessions you know you've
invented something they're gonna wanna kill you for and make it look like
suicide
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Fireworks rejoice as they meet their violent end.
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The schizophrenic sees the truth in dazzling displays of color that are nigh
incomprehensible, while regular people see truth in shades of gray that you can
understand and work with.
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The schizophrenic sees truth in dazzling displays of colors unknown to man,
while the neurotypical sees truth in shades of gray that can be reasoned with.
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Paprika is the best spice, fite me
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@user-1037 mmmm, paprika for flavor, red chile flakes for spice
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The only thoughts that survive are the ones you write down.
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🖼
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@user-1061
that happens sometimes, no clue why.
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@user-1061
Oh, it just refreshes the page. At least, that's what it's supposed to do.
Here's the code:Refresh Page (click me every time you visit)
Honestly I'm only 90% sure it actually works. I mostly put it there for people
on mobile sites who wanted to be absolutely sure there wasn't anything new,
because Neocities sometimes uses a cached version on your local machine and
when I'm busy updating things sometimes people can be like "omg dead links?
this suxxx" and then tab away and never come back which is... fine I guess
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girls who have so many tabs open that they use ctrl+T to navigate to the most
recent tabs
wishing there was a way to scroll back to the beginning... alas
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the opposite of charity is not greed, but rather despair.
gifts dispel it, and giving is an act of affection.
the opposite of greed is not charity, but rather honesty.
if you didn't lie about why you needed the things you don't, then you wouldn't
get them.
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that which you resist is what you'll find, but contextual resistance is better
than going in blind.
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"you're not the main character, babe"
Oh yeah? Well with side characters like me, it's gotta be an incredible show.
"it's called Life. Of course it's going to be magnificient. What did you
expect?"
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more beans, more muscles. You got this!
Don't forget the rice, it's got amino acids which activate the proteins in the
beans.
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@user-1049
doesn't work on Firefox T.T
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Taking a nap at 6am 🫠😵💫🥲
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They don't build toll roads to abstract taxes. They build them to keep track of
where you're going.
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@user-898
the problem as I see it is that whether building houses gets automated or not,
they're going to keep building fewer and fewer of them and making them cost
more and more with cheaper and cheaper materials and labor until something
breaks.
I personally would prefer if that something were their necks, but we'll see
what happens.
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@user-898
true, but building a house will never cost 100$. Maybe 100,000$, and at that
point you could build but a few.
Meanwhile, they're throwing around millions of dollars. we're not measured on
the same scale as they are, and if we ever dip our toes into their end they
will bite them off.
If supply and demand were real laws that guided our economy, then wages would
have gone up after COVID, because so many people died. Housing would have
gotten cheaper, because fewer people were living in them. Food would have
gotten less expensive, because people were growing their own vegetables and
baking their own bread while they spent months isolating themselves. But alas.
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@user-1068
me whenever I listen to this album...
https://utred.bandcamp.com/album/gothic
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a soul is bright like the sun, not bright like bone
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"I don't know what I was doing with this line of code so I'm going to delete it
and fix it later"
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@user-246
Yeah plus the second time around you're likely to make something better than
whatever incomprehensible hack you did the first time.
More time working on the project == more context which means you might even
have solved the problem twice already and now just have to copy-paste something
that's more robust than your previous one-liner.
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"if I work on the TTY then they can't forward my X session without my consent"
- ramblings of the utterly deranged
as if they couldn't just look at your unencrypted source-code as you save it to
your hard drive smh
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would anyone be interested in a Bash+Lua script that takes your Mastodon
archive and turns it into a folder full of .txt files?
I also made a script that spits out a random one on your terminal, if you want
that
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@user-883
I love that. You're saying I should learn Assembly? ? ?
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Corporations are pissed that workers started standing up for themselves so
they're punishing us with tight hiring, fake jobs, and layoffs in order to
remind us who is the master, and who is the slave. Class warfare doesn't end
just because we want it to.
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On one hand, trans people make great spies because we've been acting all our
lives (pre-transition but post-realization)
On the other hand, our bodies have been physically changed by HRT so it's not
like we can spy on our enemies -.-
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Oy, prophets these days. Always getting riled up so easily.
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If our government was of the people, by the people, and for the people, then it
would aim to make all of its citizens as rich as it could. A good place to
start would be by encouraging deflation, so people could buy more high quality
goods on the international markets, and by regulating the power that select few
individuals may use to extract wealth and labor from the "lesser" citizens.
I don't know about you but I believe that all men are created equal, and it is
unconscionable that some may bend others to their will.
Liberty, liberty, freedom for me but not for thee, for I am a despot you see,
of my own little fiefdom, this palace of renown - I built my playground from
the blood and bones of your kin, and I stand here on the high ground. Come at
me! See what my army of drones can do. I built them overseas, with an army of
slaves that I'm not accountable for. Come at me! See who the police of this
nation will protect. I paid for them, after all, with my endless coffers and
vaults of inherited wealth. Come at me! See who will believe ye, the media is
at my beck and call. Propaganda works on everyone, and everything you see on
your phone or TV was written for me. So take care, little one, lest I kill you
with a thought. Less than a thought, for you are just a number to me.
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smartphone_max_battery_life = int_to_percent(100 - update_count);
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I do not believe that the responsibility for a safe home can exist in a select
few. Certainly the majority is not required to sustain it, but with too few you
risk being gray-goo'd by drones uh hordes of undead or something.
Is it too much to ask that every ablebodied man and woman knows how to dress a
wound? That we all can start a fire, shoot a rifle, tie knots, and grow
vegetables?
Is it too much to ask that we take responsibility for the cultivation of the
legacy of our forefathers, and the protection and nourishment of the earth
which bore them?
If you don't know how to use a knife, how are you going to feed yourself? If
you can't do a push-up, how are you going to defend yourself? If you can't walk
for 10 miles or run for 2, then how are you going to be in the right place at
the right time?
Fighting is optional. In times of peace, it is an honorable contest between two
consenting subjects who seek to learn from one another. You must bow to your
opponent, for they are your greatest teacher.
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║ ... anyway, there are tales that are fundamental to the history of the world of │
║ Azeroth that define the shape of their world. │
║ │
║ For example, death incarnate was once a great and mighty paladin. he was the │
║ brightest, the boldest, and the bravest, but corruption found it's way to his │
║ heart and he became the very soul of what he most feared. │
║ │
║ he came from a nation of peace, of rolling verdant hills full of grain and │
║ butterflies dancing among the dew-drop laden forest trees. he was a stalwart │
║ warrior of justice, seeking out peril and disharmony wherever he walked. He, │
║ being a prince, held great power, and his responsibility was to his people. │
║ │
║ When his people were under threat, he reached for the nuclear option, and it │
║ enslaved him. He then proceeded to slay his own father and claim the throne of │
║ the land of beauty, and his people failed to stop him. He gray-goo'd the │
║ populace into a horde of undead, and since they relinquished responsibility for │
║ defending their homeland they were caught unawares and defence-less. │
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In engaging in this manner, they are sharpening their skills and talents. Then,
when peril strikes their world (everything from a black dragon seizing control
of parliment to a flame elemental awakening and threatening to Yellowstone the
globe) they are honed and tempered enough to combat them.
Power begets power, though, and with greater nuclear proliferation comes
greater threats, like an demon alien invasion, the afore-mentioned death
incarnate waking up, the elemental forces of hate and despair corrupting the
very earth beneath their feet, an evil time-travelling dictator bringing
fascism to the Americas before Columbus showed up (along with WW2 tanks and
industry), a bunch of ghost pirates and dinosaurs I think? (I was in college
for this one srry), more demons, and then I think like, the shadowlands or
something idk I hung up the phone when I got the message.
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In World of Warcraft, the world is split into a red team and a blue team.
Neither is good, neither is bad, both are honorable and deplorable in roughly
equal measure.
These two factions are engaged in constant skirmishes in a select few
battlegrounds designated as areas where they test their mettle - at first they
warred across the globe, and they still occasionally do, but a few specific
battlegrounds emerged as focus points of their engagements.
Typically, they are chokepoints between two major fortifications, one owned by
one faction and the other the other.
These chokepoints are not held permanently, as they hold little strategic
consequence. However, they serve as safe, constrained theatres of engagement
that allow for the hardening of resolve.
Great care must be taken, as war is not a game. Karate won't defeat a puppy-bot
with a gun, but it might give you the willpower and discipline to learn how.
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In Warcraft, there's a theme that was first developed in Warcraft 3 and
subsequently reified with new flavor in every World of Warcraft expansion. The
theme is "good and evil testing themselves against one another so that larger,
more deadly threats may be addressed upon their arrival"
In Warcraft 3, an immortal Night-Elf trades his soul for demonic powers to save
his people. However, it is not enough, and he is forced to team up with an
ancient corrupted mermaid and the prince of a fallen kingdom who is forced to
resort to blood magic to survive. Their goal is to defeat the spirit of death
incarnate before it destroys the world. However, they fail, simply forcing him
back for a time. They are the baseline, they did not test themselves upon one
another, simply teaming up as allies of circumstance. They are the Islamic
State, or the various factions in Iraq and Afghanistan in the 2000s, always in
conflict, with a semi-collective goal, but mostly allies of circumstance, if at
all.
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fireworks rejoice as they meet their violent end
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suburbs aren't boring because all the cool people live in cities,
suburbs are boring because all the cool people don't know you. But look around,
because they're there.
if you can't find any, then YOU are the cool people, and you should find the
slightly-less cool people and show them how to be cool.
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@user-217
last memory of a sperm
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pride is a goddamn protest, not a corporate networking event
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@user-246
I put a poem, my website, and my favorite project. I think that's enough, don't
want anyone to know me that doesn't spend time on me.
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@user-217
well to the prison of the ancients
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@user-246
people who don't write have no idea who they are. perhaps in time they will
know enough to describe themselves with newfound language they never knew how
to wield.
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do you ever wonder about how much heat is absorbed the plants and leaves? Kinda
makes me think that they're keeping us warm at night. The desert is much colder
than you'd expect, and so it the moon, or mars, or any other sufficiently
devastated forest habitat.
(plains are my favorite biome, please don't take them away with your stupid
climate change, they're one of the most at risk)
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@user-246
If a profile is non-existent, then it's much harder to train a public-facing AI
on your training data. Interesting how if someone disappears there's very
little recourse if they suddenly talk just slightly different, and anyone who
notices can say "hey does anyone know this person" - like at a party when
someone's throwing shit or whatever and it's like "bro who are you with"
how weird that our jobs take us all over the place. kinda makes me think about
how much more stable you are with roots. I wonder if the cause of our
employment instability is due to a cause that would also separately desire us
to be less stable? Makes me think about the common effects of instability, and
make me wonder who exactly would gain from such actions.
do you ever think about how the media will just, like, inflame people's
emotions just because if everyone bored then they'll go serial killer or
something? Er, wait, I mean they'll join unions or whatever. Ah hahaha weird
right propaganda cuts both ways.
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@user-246
Maybe a design that put weight on the sternum instead of the breast area? With
more support for the waist, like hiking backpacks sometimes do. That way you
can spread out the physical cost of toiling to carry it, like wearing a belt
with a chain shirt to distribute the pounds.
seriously just, arm straps that meet in the middle instead of the shoulders.
Probably won't be as good but it might be better. Could do under the boobs as
well, for like a triple attachment point.
You can sorta simulate this by clipping the two straps together and pulling
them to the center, but not all backpacks support that.
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@user-246
I think you're right, I tend to examine things at their most extreme as
practice in identifying my own weaknesses. ^_^
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@user-1071
like a king who dictates on high, the taller the chair the farther the fall.
how simple is it, when everyone trusts you, to betray the wishes for direction
they grant upon you. By leveraging their direction to forward your own ends,
you are depriving them of the liberty to choose their own ends.
how cruel is it! to be the reason for distrust! alas, who can you go to for
guidance if not anybody you trust?
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║ @user-246 │
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║ most artists get around that by posting everything they make everywhere they go. │
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║ I tend to be a bit selective, because I'm different things to different people. │
║ All things I care for and own, but designed for different context. │
║ │
║ for example, I rarely share what's in my journals, but that's about half of │
║ what I've made. I show them to basically everyone I know IRL, but very few │
║ people actually understand or are into them. When I find someone who does it │
║ fills me with hope, that perhaps I'm not as lost as I had thought. │
║ │
║ perhaps it makes me less trustworthy, but I'm not used to being exposed. I │
║ never used Twitter, I don't use Facebook (not that often) so my "self" was │
║ something I preferred to perform as on a stage of my own design. │
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║ Like wearing different clothes to express yourself, or performing gender in a │
║ certain way, I am myself when I am most expressful. And I do that in different │
║ ways in different contexts. I'd love to show more, because I'm a performer at │
║ heart, and a performer of the heart. │
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@user-246
true, but what is a poem if not a silly construction of phrases? Those words
don't belong together, what are you doing! And yet it fills you will a feeling
that the author intended, thus being poetry as a joke.
problem is if everyone says the same joke, it gets kinda... old... hence why
you should express yourself as much as you can.
I wonder if fewer people are "alternative" these days because they all started
hanging out on the internet and trying to differentiate themselves amongst each
other instead of amongst "normal people"? Weird thought, srry haha
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A style of debate where the two parties take turns interrogating each other -
like lawyers presenting their case by forcing the other party to answer their
specific questions. In doing so they can highlight the logical flaws and
inherent absurdities in each other's notion. And you have to be as truthful and
honest as possible, or else the entire process is flawed. Giving each person in
the debate a chance to speak their mind about how they feel about particular
issues.
Kinda like a caucus, where people debate for their chosen candidate
Democrats need to listen to what regular voters care about and like, do that.
Instead they think "how much can we get away with while still delivering their
51% of votes that secure us the nomination"
And the most radical amongst us should be the most dedicated to the Democratic
process. It is how we the people wield ourselves, our divine birthright granted
to us all - to choose the circumstances of our living.
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if a game presents itself that you know you'll like, at a certain point your
tastes are so refined and specific that you can think to yourself "... it's a
sign, I gotta play this" because moments that you find a game you're really
"into" are pretty rare.
I've never been wowed by graphical technology beyond, like, a tech demo or.
It's cool to see, but it never sold games to me. I was always into mechanics,
because they were the kind of thing you could learn from when making your own
games to play.
I spent a lot of time outside because my mom would only let me use electronics
for 1 hour per day. Ahhhhh it was always my favorite part of the day.
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the first argumentative paper I ever wrote for school was on Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg
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dear old people - did you know computers don't need to have buttons? You can
literally just type what you want to make happen (if you know the magic spell)
and it'll just, do that thing
how cool is that
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light infantry aren't designed to fight to the death. I think that's something
that modern militaries understand very well. hence why they can rotate on leave.
when a larger nation attacks a smaller force, it's merely a question of how
long they can drag it out. like, lawyers who send frivolous lawsuits or
constantly bothering people for breaking "laws" about their social and cultural
expression.
if you're not hurting anybody, who cares if you pirate your TV? if nobody is
harmed, then what's wrong with sitting around eating cheetos all day?
nothing, I say. Hell yeah, I say, if that's how you want to spend your life.
Your ONLY life.
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║ there's even websites online like Facebook or Twitter where you can share │
║ advice and various spells you've invented yourself (it's totally easy to do │
║ btw, I'll show you how) │
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║ everyone's super friendly and anyone who's not isn't allowed to bother us. it's │
║ pretty neat. anyway no matter what it is, if something's bothering you about │
║ your computer, you can fix it. it's just a matter of reading through │
║ documentation. Ah, well, isn't it great to have a lot of free time that you │
║ don't know what to do with? │
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║ Linux is pretty great, I gotta say. I honestly never really leave the command │
║ line - the text based buttons, I mean. I only use a mouse when I'm doing │
║ something with pictures (or playing a game like freecell or hearts) │
║ │
║ plus you can do things like sending raw packets of information to your friend │
║ who's on the other side of the country and they can use a secret key-code to │
║ decrypt it like checking the mail at a locked mailbox. │
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║ anything you can imagine using the physical components of a computer, is │
║ possibleifyrts │
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I'd like to apologize to everyone I've ever interacted with in the past. It was
unfair of me to interact with you, and I will do my best to not hurt you again
in that way.
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harsh lessons of adulthood - sometimes food is not eaten for the taste, but
rather for how it will make you feel slightly better in the next few days.
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How about when you hire foreign labor (offshoring) you have to pay taxes on
every dollar cheaper the labor is when compared to hiring a similar domestic
employee. Those taxes are used to pay down the national debt specifically on
debt owed to the nation you're hiring from. If there is no debt, then it is
given as a gift, as a form of tribute to those who would develop such valuable
employees.
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My favorite thing about chatGPT is that its only useful to people who already
know what they're doing and just need reminders or clarification about
specifics.
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@user-1037
Lua with 0 based indexing would be the perfect language (okay maybe LuaJIT)
(i try to hurt as few people as I can as little as I can but it's impossible to
not hurt anyone)
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Coding superpower:
Start thread
While(true):
Run();
Then, whenever you want it to run something else, change the function pointer
that run() uses to call a function
At the end of the run() function, set the function pointer in the while loop to
the next one. That way you don't stack overflow from the recursion.
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you can believe all the right things and still be a bad person
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fun things to do at pride this year:
introduce someone you've never met to someone you've never met
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Would you like to know how the world works? Then read on, dear reader.
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The following is my best attempt to describe the process through which our
lives intersect reality. It is easiest to explain if you understand how it
feels to be stoned - to consume the de-oxy-carbo-lated cannibanoids present in
the marijuana plant - ideally with edibles, as they take effect slower.
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I've often described the world as being "defined in waves" - this, here, is the
reason why, and it is easiest to illustrate with cannabis as an example.
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Do you ever wonder why you can't remember anything after being stoned? Why the
words you write down, oh so profound in the moment, turn to silliness and
illusion upon coming off your high mont-vantage? Of course, dear reader,
because all things are defined in waves.
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If you've seen Spirited Away, in the first few scenes of the movie the main
character's parents are taken by food and turned into pigs. They lacked
temperance, and gave in to temptation. Their journey was not of a wave, but
that of a black-hole - accretted and pulled toward the ultimate expression of
that particular intuition.
The good news is they could always be turned back, just pull that part out like
drawing sickness from a wound, and huzzah! Good as new.
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Do you think I'm the first person that ever wrote down what they learned while
they were stoned? Of course not. People have been plumbing the depths of their
minds as it pulls closer, then returns, as long as they've known the plant to
be. Something pulls them back, they do not give in to temptation, not entirely,
and so they return to their senses.
Good news, because that "something" that returns them to their place is no more
than the bodily processes which consume and overcome the cannabinoids. Your
body pulls you back, as you float in the astral plane, ever at the whims of the
winds of fate.
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The next time you share a meal with family, or perhaps a game with a friend
online, or maybe even a coffee with a stranger, or a smile with a person
walking down the path, or maybe a church choir as you rejoice in unison - the
next time you do one of these things, define the path that your reality takes
through your actions. Compel yourself to have a good time, without ignoring the
input of those around you. Bring them to your level, and see what kind of world
"around you" becomes.
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The ultimate goal of a prophet is to share that which they've learned with
people who have learned less. Such is the duty of any teacher. Alas, every drug
you inhale pulls you closer to a world where other people do drugs. Every
feeling you have, you (collectively) find yourself pulled toward that feeling
by just that little bit - all things are gravitic, even the thoughts and
feelings in your mind.
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Cannabis is fundamentally a feeling of motion. You can't remember anything
because things only make sense moving forward in that particular context and in
that particular plane.
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The nicest thing anyone ever called me was "the fel communion" and it happened
in a dream. Alas, that dreams might affect reality. If only ever-so-slightly.
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tell me again why goods and services are priced according to how easy they are
to make, and not by how many more of them we could make considering the current
estimated amount of resources on earth?
even wood runs out, when the phosphorous is gone. but take heart, for human
ingenuity brings with it ever-increasing capabilities for accessing new
resources. when the sun goes silent, it will not be because it burnt out, but
rather because we surrounded it with parts of our home.
and yes, it is more complicated. "how easy they are to make compared to how
much people want them while utilizing the cheapest and worst resources and
craftsmanship that can be passed of as quality by shiny marketing that appeals
to our vapid human senses" is a bit closer, but still not comprehensive.
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a cool thing about my website is that you only have to remember my name, dot
com.
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show me an organism or chemical reaction that consumes one type of resource and
outputs another in concert with another organism or chemical reaction that
consumes that type of resource and outputs another in concert with another
organism or chemical reaction that consumes that type of resource and outputs
the first and I'll show you an ecosystem.
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@user-246
how dare you say that on 69 day
talk to me about it in september though, might be interested then
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the best way to make friends is to be open and honest to them
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@user-1037
I've only ever had good friends. : )
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here's an idea - if we can't get rid of the carbon right away, why not increase
the total volume of our atmosphere such that it's more dispersed? like
dissolving a salt in a solution, only with air and [insert pollutant here]
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@user-217
eye of the dark hole
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@user-1037
billions? sounds like too much for a nation-state to produce.
HMMM MAYBE WE SHOULD TALK ABOUT SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS THAT AFFECT ALL OF US.
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a video that's a gif and an audio file played at the same time using &&
in bash
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worcestersure sauce and soyaki, surprisingly decent combination
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Feaux in motion.
If this flame is beautiful, ⭐ or boost this post to improve its chances for
future breedings.
#fractal
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@user-889
perhaps you need a community, rather than a friend? just a guess
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@user-246
oh, you mean the "/100" button? saves three keypresses I guess!
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@user-217
fusion
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The rotation of Goganyka.
If this flame is beautiful, ⭐ or boost this post to improve its chances for
future breedings.
#fractal
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Mixta moves.
If this flame is beautiful, ⭐ or boost this post to improve its chances for
future breedings.
#fractal
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@user-217
red flower in the sky
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Hulen flows.
If this flame is beautiful, ⭐ or boost this post to improve its chances for
future breedings.
#artBot
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did you know that Ritz is short for Ritzelen? I don't speak north-west-german.
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politics is easy, just show the opposite of what your constituents want to
watch and put it next to your enemy's team-name.
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│ CW: scary-curse-beware │
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may all your victories be pyrrhic
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I made a horror film on accident.
this was all improv.
the audio drivers were glitching out, even through a reboot, and they magically
fixed themselves the next day.
https://youtu.be/Z09Om7BvVfQ?si=xERRxy7fnYn4Doxo
I swear it wasn't meant to be this suspenseful.
it just is.
[think of it like a disney-world ride]
is my computer haunted? ? ?
anyway, here ya go, it's an hour and 20 minutes long and full of vibes.
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A job where you only have to work one day per week of your choosing (but
semi-permanent) and are automatically placed on a team with others in the
company who work that same day and accomplish whatever goals they think fulfill
the company's vision. If they don't have any ideas then they should work on
collaborating with others until they do. Let's get things done!
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"eat food, dearest one. Tea has no calories."
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Some of the most beautiful works of engineering are proprietary.
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Facebook is great because you can talk with your friends, but, like... Facebook
knows who you are.
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Here's an open source replacement idea for the "friendfinder" functionality in
Facebook:
Everyone has a secret code, and a public code. The secret code is kept locked
away on their hard drive and is probably automatically encrypted itself. The
public code is known by Facebook (or whichever mutual hosting platform people
want to use) but in order to connect with someone you send them a public friend
request and then they'll send you a second, auto-generated public code which is
their real username. Essentially obfuscating the connection process by using a
public middleman as an intermediary before exchanging more secure connection
protocols. Like giving someone your phone number that you met in a bar, or your
telegram handle if you met online.
Then, from that point on, every message includes a hidden portion at the bottom
which is the new address you should send the next message to. This is all TCP
style btw, not UDP.
These "addresses" could literally be ipv6 addresses and port numbers. There's
enough such that every message sent for the next thousand years would fit in
the allowable address space.
Why do we even need middle-men again for messaging applications? Oh right
because users are too dumb to install said application. Well... Tough shit,
stop being lazy. Computers are easy if you have a good teacher.
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@user-883
They're still beautiful, just imprisoned.
A caged bird sings just as sweet, even if you can't see the sheet music.
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@user-883
A brilliant pearl is still beautiful, even if coveted by a clam at the bottom
of the ocean.
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and there is none who are there to
see, then perhaps it resonates in the hearts of it's creators, like a silent
symphony.
Or perhaps it is like a star in a sky shrouded by clouds - it twinkles in it's
stellar heights and yet none can perceive it. As the light bends, it carves
through space a pattern of elegance, and I do believe that it's radiance is
beautiful in it's rippling waveforms.
But I have a thing about waves, so maybe I'm biased :)
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just because someone does leftism differently than you do doesn't mean they're
wrong.
you have different jobs.
they're ALL important.
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@user-217
the cosmos unfolding, from end to end and back again.
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today is a magical day. I can feel it in my fate.
Always remember, having fun is important too! Don't forget to be yourself, and
keep it together man. If you see a door, you should open it - what's on the
other side? Love for animals and kindness of the spirit are impossible to fake,
they always know if you're lying. Not the animals, they can be dumb sometimes,
but the other thing.
And now for the downsides.
If you find a cursed artifact, please don't throw it in the river. It might ask
you to, but please don't. Much better to destroy it by melting it down (if it's
metal, which is common as metal lasts long enough to become forgotten) or
convince it that it's a recently deceased person being buried (helps if you
know the creator).
If none of that applies to you, don't worry. Eat something healthy, drink a
decent amount of water, and maybe exercise a bit.
Oh, and it can't hurt to ask.
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How many of me are there? There are as many of me as there are of thee, dear
reader.
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If everyone can do whatever they want, they'll tend to prefer the easy way. And
the easy way is rarely the right way.
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adding salt to the water makes your noodles and rice taste better. I wonder if
the same is true if you boil it for longer than necessary, to reduce the H2O
component and increase the amount of leftover salts and minerals?
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so concerned am I, that my powers might be used, that I'd rather the world go
unaided, rather than misuse that which I've [wielded, but pronounced "viewed"]
people need guidance now, and who can I guide but the people who listen to me?
there has never been a movement in history that did not follow from a spiritual
developmental proclamation. Like "we, as a species, refuse to be defined by our
stagnant and lost past. we build upon land most fecund because we know it's
designed to last. Our future is not a given, it's our duty to [relish, frolic,
and be strong and healthy].
yet I failed the mandate of heaven. my peers know not of what I go on about.
I am a failure, and a loss of development and clout.
signed,
the one who would forever be known as the girl who smelled like
she had pissed herself.
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economic calamities are just moments when the richest decide which of their
peers they don't want to hang out with anymore. And the rest of us have to
figure it out.
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@user-883
you could read in every line in Lua and if it matched the format that the times
for the subtitles are in, then you could += 5 seconds or whatever and save the
document. .srt is just a textfile right?
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Sibcock twitches.
If this flame is beautiful, ⭐ or boost this post to improve its chances for
future breedings.
#fractal
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@user-217
this is what the other side of a summoning circle looks like
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plants need carbon and nitrogen primarily to grow. Plus oxygen, water, and
sunlight of course.
I can't help but wonder if you poured a bunch of oil and um "manure" on a pile
of sand, would it grow plants?
Oil is carbon, and nitrogen is produced by living things. Animals mostly.
Of course, various biochemical reactions occur, and microorganisms take one
element or nutrient and combine it with others to generate more complex
components.
beyond that, plants and animals grow different minerals and proteins and other
complex structures which are then present in their bodies as they decay under
the shade of a tree looking out toward the sea.
Plants need lots of things to grow. But all of those things are produced by
nature, which is fundamentally a process that can be reproduced at our leisure,
as long as the conditions are right and optimal.
so, I wonder, would the great wall of trees surrounding the Sahara be helped by
a more prolific understory?
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This was the first bash script I ever wrote.
It's been updated a little, it was a bash alias first, but this is what it
looks like now.
Kinda shows what kinds of problems I needed to solve most.
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there should be laws or building codes against excessive light pollution. The
sky is our shared heritage, for each and every human on earth.
Yet it is kept from us, by the designs of our infrastructure (which is very
much appreciated, by the way, I like having telephone poles and indoor plumbing)
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Okay okay hear me out - but what if instead of pumping oil out of the ground,
we shoved a bunch of tree trunks down there and let them marinate for a few
thousand years
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I'm this close to submitting a D&D character sheet instead of a resume
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@user-898
I volunteer for the "gorgeous" part!
Oh? gorgeous is already taken? alas, guess I'll be a witch. Witches are
supposed to be ugly, aren't they? Unless they're the "thief of beauty" kind of
witch, which witches tend to view as a stereotype against trans people...
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@user-898
the kind with large stones in the shade upon which one might rest as they gaze
upon the trees waving in the wind and the reflections upon the water. All
natural scenes are beautiful for me, so the content doesn't matter as much as
the amenities. ^_^
I collect samples of moss sometimes, when some has fallen from a tree or
otherwise is approaching it's end. I have several kinds, but I'm still learning
how to take care of them - had a problem with mold recently. Not enough airflow
I guess.
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programming is great but have you heard of "not working on forging new
technological paradigms and instead playing a 500th round of Mechabellum"?
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the feral urge to post unfinished projects on the internet and ask for guidance
or motivation
the civilized urge to keep them on a flash drive and swap them with people you
trust in real life and ask them to finish it while you work on their stuff
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the cool kids are doing graffiti
the smart ones have something to say
the clever ones do it at night
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if you can't find them when you need them, then you don't have them.
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wildfires are great because they clear out small plants which gives the larger
ones room to grow. And larger plants are better than smaller plants, generally,
ideally if you have both.
wildfires are great because they teach people who live near them to consider
their meagre life's possessions in terms of "which would I bring if I needed to
evacuate and how quickly could I gather them" which is a useful form of
situational awareness (preparation) which can be useful in a wide variety of
various situations
wildfires are great because they give our intelligence operatives the chance to
practice hunting and catching saboteurs. We all profit from a vibrant and rich
ecosystem.
wildfires are great because they give us something to cherish and defend and
nourish and cultivate and bring into our homes of stone and gasoline.
wildfires fucking suck for many more reasons than they're great, though.
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│ CW: programming-is-easy │
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Need to install a program from Github? Follow these simple steps:
step 1: make an empty text file
step 2: put this at the top: #!/bin/bash
step 3: put this on the next line: set -euo pipefail
step 4: mkdir -p the directory you want to install it to
step 5: rm -dr the directory you want to install it to
step 6: mkdir -p the directory you want to install it to
step 7: git clone the project
step 8: this is the hard part - go through each of the steps listed in the
readme and configure the installation to the needs of your system. Put them in
the bash script one-by-one.
step 9: save the file, it doesn't need an extension like .txt or .sh,
extensions are for windows noobs
step 10: chmod +x the file and then ./the file!
step 11: fix it when they change their installation instructions...
Need a run script? Easy! Write it as a function below your update script, then
echo the bottom half of the update script into a file named "run" that's placed
in the project directory.
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@user-898
the wounds of the soul can be just as harmful as the wounds of the heart, and
both can be helped with campfires.
what's worse, they often harm people around you rather than the wounds of the
body, which typically only harm you. Unless you have like, the plague or
something and you might spread it to others or something like that.
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