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@user-897
🥰
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@user-1074
ah yes but didn't you know? orphans produce unobtanium in their bones, and if
we didn't crush them into powder we couldn't make ultra-doxo-floro-tin-omatic
lubrication jelly, which is used to power our weapons of mass destruction like
planes and trains and tanks and suburbs.
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what if we taxed land not by charging money to keep it but rather by taking
some of it and giving it to the bureau of land management
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if you ever need to take a cold shower, you can make it easier by acclimating
yourself slowly. The easiest way to do this is to spread water over successive
parts of your body with your hands - I usually start with my thighs, then legs,
then belly and butt, then chest, neck, then face. After that you should be good
to get in the water.
somehow it's less painful if it's applied by a warm hand, and yet it gets you
comfortable in the cold just the same. curious...
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@user-1077
image generators trained on stolen artwork are unethical
image generators are a disability aid
art is human (and human adjacent) expression
art is more valuable than profit
artists should be supported as they make art
these are all things I believe
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@user-217
the eyes of the queen
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got a thorn in my knuckle.
a small one, and it was difficult to remove.
long, too.
now my finger bones hurt T.T
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@user-883
Honestly I'm kinda surprised they didn't do that already...? Seems like an
obvious move to me.
Adblockers will just need to get better. And they will, have no fear. Even if
that means automatically skipping to the correct part of the video or something.
Downside is tools like youtube-dl might receive the added ad. But they can also
evolve and strip it out if necessary. It's just extra work that could be used
on more productive things >.>
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@user-883
Or we get serious about nationalizing it
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@user-883
It's hardly JUST entertainment. Video is an intrinsic part of the internet. It
is one of the best mediums we have for communicating complex ideas. The
internet is an integral part of our daily lives, it's something we all share -
so perhaps we should nationalize ALL of our networking infrastructure?
Not every website, of course, but rather the most important. Like Google, and
Facebook, and Youtube, and Amazon, and perhaps a few more.
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@user-883
I agree with you when you say writing is the most effective way to express
yourself, but it's not necessarily the easiest to digest for the viewer.
A video can have visual components, and more than that it can have motion and
sound. Text-based expression has fewer approach vectors for reaching common
understanding, but like you said it is the most powerful.
Hence why science papers are written, not filmed. Political speeches, grand
narratives, autobiographies, textbooks... All of these things are written.
But it's much easier to fix a car or learn to surf if you see someone doing it,
rather than just read about it. Perhaps you and I use Youtube for different
things (or don't use it, in your case)
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║ @user-883 │
║ │
║ Yes of course I have : ) │
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║ If you've seen my website, you'll know that I'm fond of writing alongside │
║ visual elements as well. 🥰 │
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║ I think that Youtube is only as you describe (clickbait) if you engage with │
║ their algorithmic features. I primarily use them as a video-hosting service, │
║ where I put my videos and link to from elsewhere. I hardly see the kinds of │
║ things you're concerned about, though if ads became unblockable then I might │
║ begin to resent them a bit more. │
║ │
║ You're right when you say that editing videos is harder than text - text is │
║ probably the easiest medium to work with and refine! I also make silly mistakes │
║ sometimes hehe... But, well, I'm not trying to argue that video is better than │
║ text, but rather that they are used for different purposes. And video is │
║ important for our digital ecosystem. So it makes sense that something we all │
║ share should be shared, if not collectively then at least through │
║ protocol-based-interaction, such that anyone might connect in whatever ways │
║ they wished. │
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@user-883
I believe that every address should have a raspberry pi (or other similar
device) hosting a webpage that is controlled by the person who lives there. At
a minimum.
They should also be able to host videos and share files easily, in a way that
anyone who understands a desktop-and-file-folder style system can work with.
This would require serious reform of our internet service provider
infrastructure. Or perhaps it'd be as simple as flipping a switch, who can say
(engineers working at comcast for example could say, gee sure would be nice if
this was a tech community)
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@user-883
I mean yeah, they're like 50$ what do you expect xD
But for something simple like this they should be sufficient. Perhaps if such a
massive investment in SOCs was implemented on a national scale, we'd develop
more reliable systems? One can hope!
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@user-883
Ah, well, since you've worked with raspberry pi's before I am going to trust
you on that. Perhaps a different system-on-a-chip could be used which has
better network controllers.
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@user-883
The USPS is a model for how our economic system should be run, in my honest
opinion. At least the logistical parts.
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@user-1080
I've been there. Maybe tomorrow you'll be here, but today will be hard.
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If you seek my wisdom, know that it is such - all men (people) should live as
kings, of which I am but one type. Should they not care to their surroundings,
they should degrade, and with care and affection they should flourish. This is
how God learns the most from people.
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@user-1040 @user-1077
... I am disabled people
also, all media is propaganda
also, AI as it's currently presented is not AI
also, AI as it's currently presented is only bad because of the stolen content
and energy usage. Both of those are trivially solvable.
also, capitalism is why AI as it's currently presented can harm you
also, I'm sorry I disagree
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@user-246
a short whistled tune that you both know? it's a classic
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@user-246
if you hike slowly enough to not get out of breath, you'll have plenty of time
to practice :)
could also practice hand whistling:
https://www.wikihow.com/Hand-Whistle
if mouth whistling just doesn't work.
but in the short term, maybe a loud CAW or KACAW like you're a crow?
if you're trying to be subtle, like in a public place where people might hear
you, maybe you could say something people would expect to hear like "wait up!"
followed by "me too!" or even "GOOD MORNING!" or other greeting, said a little
bit louder than necessary - people will assume you're either talking to someone
far away, or they themselves will be far away and will assume the voice is
coming from someone closer than you. Ideally spoken with the same tone and
inflection as normal speech, just louder, which is hard to do so make sure you
practice - a yelling voice sounds different than a speaking voice, but a
whisper can reach across a room if spoken loud enough.
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@user-246
back-track, but leave a leaf in the center of the trail at every turn. Like
breadcrumbs. If you're both backtracking you might miss one another and walk
much further than necessary. But if you're backtracking and you've left enough
leaf signs without meeting your partner, you can safely stop and wait for them
for a bit.
Nature can handle it. A leaf or five isn't that big of a deal when your safety
is on the line.
If it's windy, use a stick or a stone or something heavier
It also depends on how far apart you usually travel.
If you're in an urban area, could use a small brightly colored post-it cut into
small strips placed on a wall high-up as you can reach. Though that requires
preparation. If you can't prepare, you could use other signs that make sense in
the space around you, like a coffee cup taken from a trash-can and placed next
to it, or something. Downside is (is this really a downside?) most people are
good and so will judge you for littering but safety in situations is important.
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I'm just now realizing that my favorite ramen seasoning is essentially salt,
MSG, and a fuckload of smoked paprika. I don't know how to feel about that.
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║ I'd like a job where I can make computer programs, write poetry, play video │
║ games, make food for friends, grow plants and care for animals, walk or ride my │
║ bike for at least an hour every day, and get stoned on the weekends. │
║ │
║ Is that too much to ask? I have plenty of other skills besides, like carpentry │
║ and strategic thinking and wilderness survival and situational awareness and │
║ active listening and unmitigated empathy and a curious and critical mind. │
║ │
║ Am I not good enough for thee? I have many flaws, I lack stamina and memory, │
║ and while I am sharp and can think quickly and adeptly, the sharpest knives are │
║ the first to dull, and the most focused minds are those most easy to mislead. I │
║ trust too easily - if I meet you on the street, I'd offer my soul to you if you │
║ said you needed it. I put the needs of others over myself, often to my own │
║ detriment, causing others to need to assist me in turn - am I not wretched │
║ enough to be? │
║ │
║ Working for 8 hours a day 5 days per week is not part of my design │
║ requirements. Alas │
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║ an AI 3d model generator that takes a satellite picture of the globe and turns │
║ it into a 1:1 representation in the style of World of Warcraft │
║ │
║ (has to be AI becus 2hard) │
║ │
║ then, separately, a private World of Warcraft server that doesn't have any │
║ manually placed entities, only optional dynamic content │
║ │
║ then, separately, a bunch of people who hang out in cool places like Paris or │
║ Rome or whatever, and it's actually all the people who are there (if they took │
║ the long, arduous journey of walking there) │
║ │
║ then, separately, a character that you keep primarily at home, who hangs out │
║ with your neighbors and stuff whenever they happened to be online │
║ │
║ then, separately, in-game addons that take pictures or video and automagically │
║ posts it to the Mastodon instance that is run by the state county in which all │
║ of your data is privately owned by none-other than you, the citizen who the │
║ data is about (No spying, please) │
║ │
║ then, separately, automatically saved text-logs which could be posted from in │
║ game │
║ │
║ social media as a game │
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pls hire me blizzard. I am desperate to be used for a common cause and guided
by a caring hand.
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good companies turn bad when all the good people leave, and all the work they
done can be used by the bad.
good people leave when they are told, by the higher-ups who can't afford to
justify their existence any longer.
Kinda wish I owed my ability to live to my government, rather than a
corporation.
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people call me "hypervigilant" as if being constantly aware is not a normal
state for them.
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AI generated content for existing games that are too old to support with your
primary team (voted on by the community and forkable, aka open source)
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games where comments on the replays show up in future chat-logs for that episode
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adaptation is something which can be practiced. Versatility comes in handy when
you'd least expect it.
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if you're too versatile though, you'll never know how to get anything done -.-
hence, vision, the thing that corporations want so badly.
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"Did you know? A mustang is a horse!"
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the things I write are not meant to entertain. They are to educate, and to
encourage curiosity. because questions beget dialogue, and only by testing
yourself against another's arguments can you truly improve.
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I'm a computer programmer. Of course I make abstract art.
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you shouldn't, generally, do "new" things while sedated.
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some people hear words like "datastructures" and "object-oriented programming"
and think they're made up terms that don't mean anything important.
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@user-1071
like this:
https://tech.lgbt/@user-479/112616765579675406
🥰 😎 🤔
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║ work isn't special. The only thing truly unique about humans is our ideas and │
║ our intentions. Action potential is best left to the machines, imho, so we │
║ should prioritize that as much as possible. │
║ │
║ once infrastructure is in place, it's fine with a bit of maintenance. So why │
║ don't we all live in the garden of babel? Errr hanging gardens of bablenonya, │
║ as it used to be called. │
║ │
║ why not? │
║ │
║ because that guy over there doesn't want to do what you say. Because that guy's │
║ a little pissed that you'd say rude things to his face, in his house. Because │
║ all of the things you never meant to do, but still do, you're gonna end up in a │
║ fight. │
║ │
║ and fights are competition. And competitions have real stakes. │
║ │
║ Unless, of course, you used your mind instead of your body and heart. │
║ │
║ Minds can think thoughts as much as we please. It's the one true thing we most │
║ are! Because it is utterly inalienable, except from frailties of our bodies │
║ we've known from the start. │
║ │
║ Ah, well, here we are, as we are, so might as well make the best of it │
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I want people to watch me. I enjoy being viewed. Please offer guidance, but
maybe limit the abuse. Simple requests for a media company, true? And yet
advertisements (which is the only way people agreed to fund the LAVISH projects
they put on for our tender moments)
Performance is an art, and I sing the song of my heart.
(perhaps in too public of a place)
(but what use is it if nobody knows you?)
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I can tell when I'm overbooked when I don't have energy to shower every time I
need to go out.
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political action to a gen-Xer and above tends to feel like activism and
political involvement.
To a millenial it feels like disaster preparedness. For a zoomer it feels like
nihilism. I wonder what's next, growth and renewal?
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you can take any of my words, I don't care who you are. Take them, change them,
use them, say they are your own, whatever you want. They are but dust in the
wind, passing from one ear and out another.
or eyes and fingertips, if you want.
But only with intention, if you knew what I was trying to say.
If you had to guess and learn... There's no chance that'll be accurate 100% of
the time when used as a policy. But alas, science is a human art.
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I love canned olives!
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my previous job didn't do anything to harm me. And yet I left. I let them down
in a way they could not have expected. Which was unfair of me, but I couldn't
resist it. I don't know what I'd do better.
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some of my favorite places in the world are little shops nestled in the wood.
Some that I've never seen more than once, and the ones I tended to visit a lot
were the ones at like, Disney World, which is quite a magical place.
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what if we built a mesh network ON TOP of our already-built direct-bus
infrastructure
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better to smell like the river than the city.
(Yuck. Gross.)
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we should reward frugality as much as value-creation.
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growing up on the plains, I saw only what humans could create there. Not what
life was abound. When I visited the forests in the mountains, I thought smaller
scale, more focused, more distributed. Back home, among the grasses, there was
always more grass.
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@user-883
stockholders perhaps shouldn't define value. But perhaps stakeholders might? Of
which the customer is the greatest one, followed by the environment (tied,
perhaps, as equals)
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if one person is honest to everyone, then no-one can be honest to them for
anything they want to keep hidden.
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a box of tri-color rotini
a good spoonfull of better than boullion italian
a medium amount of large colby-jack cheese cubes (about one for every other
bite)
boil with just enough water for the noodles to start sticking to the pan once
entirely cooked and add cheese, butter, and top with generous dashes of smoked
paprika and lime juice.
don't strain the noodles. have just enough water left to have a thin sauce.
if vegetables are desired, firm carrots and peas (read: frozen or fresh, not
canned) or diced/shredded onions.
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point is, you should take good companies at their word and bad companies for
their goals.
Surely, you can't blame the organism for seeking food. So clearly you can't
blame an organization built to pursue profit to pursue profit. Maybe we should
cut-out the middle-man and use efficiency evaluation methods defined by our
common understanding of ethics and virtues instead of currency to determine the
relative importance of continual investment in particular structural
capabilities that companies provide to a nation.
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people usually pet animals either too hard, or too soft. When you get to know
them, animals tend to respond to affection most accurately when it corresponds
to something they know how to measure, within the most acceptable tolerances.
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why would you NOT admit weakness? It's a tactical error! You have less accurate
information! It literally makes your team worse off!
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dear disney: please license Mechabellum and use Star Wars assets. Or Starship
Troopers. Or Warhammer 40k.
if you license it, it's okay to share software. Especially if you make it free
and open source, as a compromise to both parties.
Mechabellum gameplay:
https://youtu.be/E2zwRQp_DkM
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if people are allowed to use any resources as quickly as they want, they tend
to waste them. Hence why a well funded military (like the US military) can
afford to not be efficient. Which is... not ideal, for long-term cooperation.
Much better for short-term competition, though, too bad we all get to live on
this earth.
Wild,
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cheese is just a body-part that a cow has willingly shed. For nutrition.
Is it vegetarian if it's the cells produced by a body? Is it vegan if it is
capable of growing back?
Do snakes shed their selves when they leave behind a shell? Or is it like hair,
just... keratin, a compound found all over nature.
Is cutting a branch vegan? Is eating a cherry that has fallen to the center of
the road? Both those are made of fibrous materials, the nutritious bounteous
feast, and a small kernel-like mass that serves as a propagation method for a
creature utterly vast.
(But factory farms, remember?)
(Oh yeah! Thank goodness for reform.)
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democracy as it was currently conceptualized dates back from a time when it was
impossible to ask every person every question all at the same time. We needed
time to talk through and get to know a topic before we made any choices about
it. Hence, single-party voting, and the build-up of disagreement when people
feel like the one thing they care about is not implemented. Too bad they care
about things like, bodily autonomy and human rights.
Maybe we could appease them by giving them something else that they want
Oh? Like trans people?
No brad, like the russians
Or maybe the rich, ya?
goodness. how about nobody
[appeasement never goes anywhere]
[the issue is more fundamental than compromise]
[human rights are not up for discussion]
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Programming isn't technical skill. It's artistic abstraction, like making a
marble machine that plays the piano:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q
software development is about developing software, like a teacher would develop
a student learner.
"No, this part is bugged. Here's how you actually do it."
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@user-883
Right, but, if we can only help and interact with people who are near us, then
how are we going to accomplish much of anything at all? Much better I think to
contribute to structures that we fully consent and agree to, rather than hoping
that the wisdom of the masses pulls us through.
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@user-883
Do you blame a virus for harming it's host? No, you blame the people who
knowingly spread it. You blame the people who refused to allocate funds and
cultural capital toward combating it. You blame the people who cause chaos and
destruction in it's wake. But you don't blame the thing itself, the thing that
is little more than a complex chemical reaction.
You don't blame the forest fire for the smoke, you blame the one who set it.
The one who refused to keep it in check with careful stewardship of the land.
The one who dammed the river upstream, the one who desertified the region
upwind. You can blame time and morality or you could be more pragmatic, and
just focus on questions ahead.
Humans are nothing without our social technology. We are little more than apes.
But writing, teaching, expression, these things are crucial to all that we hold
dear.
EDIT: [And organization is a social technology. Doesn't have to look like an
authoritarian department where everyone does what they're told.]
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@user-883
I agree with you. Collaboration is the path to the bright future. If only they
could see it.
[if only we could make them see]
(cue all the media ever made that means to tell a message about which choices
we should make in the future)
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Gee I sure wish my country didn't hold the decisionmaking capability from me by
gatekeeping it behind elections and polling. Sure wish our media wasn't so
involved in decisionmaking - isn't it something we should talk about amongst
ourselves? To find out how we feel, and really explore our feelings around a
topic before expressing ourselves. Ideally more often than twice a year,
perhaps whenever we want?
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@user-883
There's no lie in this poster
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I'm never remorseful for being wrong, I'm sorry that I hurt your feelings.
Remorse is useless once corrected, if correction is due.
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curling up in a ball and thinking about crying for hours is the same as crying.
If a little bit less of a release.
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I could never live happily ever after if a single one of you could not
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people: "noooo don't say that, you're worth it! You're not a waste of space!
your life has value!"
also people: "you need to get a job or lose everything and make everyone else
hate you."
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║ I got a job offer for a job outside of my state. But I don't want to leave my │
║ home. I feel safe here. I know people. I know the places around me. │
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║ The one perk is that goods and services are easier to acquire, but I don't need │
║ much. I'm fine where I'm at. But where I'm at has rent. │
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║ What a plague is it, that we must suffer for life! │
║ │
║ there's no entry-level jobs for working with our sight. │
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║ only when youre too tired to complain will they let you direct others, or share │
║ creative ideas for fixing the problems you're paid to assuage. │
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║ Alas, that my life had meaning. That my words were better off spoken. Maybe │
║ then Id live as I define, designing a world of my own hearth. │
║ │
║ but if a king lives in decent frugality, are they really so bad for our flock? │
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║ and if a wizard spins tales that are weird to consider, but not much else... │
║ are they better off starved in the dark? │
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║ no-one likes me. computers are paper-weights given light. sure would be nice if │
║ none but the fools went wanting. │
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║ I mean yeah I'd live in a treehouse │
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On reddit, a good comment will often get 50+ upvotes, sometimes up in the
hundreds.
10ish is generally pretty good too, especially for smaller subreddits.
0 or 1 or 3 means only a few people saw it.
On Mastodon, 3 different likes on 3 different posts means you're on a hot
streak and gotta keep posting!!
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If you're running away from something, you need to make sure that you're going
fast enough and far enough away that you can look forward for interception
events. Otherwise you are vulnerable.
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King Arthur was a deconstruction, a critical piece of work that reflected upon
the stuff that nobody remembers anymore because it was oral tradition.
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There is very little human left in me. I don't mind.
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Rent is expensive because they only want you living there if you're working.
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Social media idea: everyone posts short snippets of writing, like tweets, but a
random one is displayed every day. If you want to see them chronologically, you
have to pay the author for their writings. And if you want to see more, you can
spend "tokens" to display another random one for everyone to see that day. Each
token spent will simply increase the count of "words" (think tweet) displayed.
You get one token per day, and they don't carry over from previous days. You
can also buy them, and any bought tokens that are spent give their value in
dollars to the author you spend them on.
The data is all local. The servers are all distributed and P2P like torrents.
Everything is encrypted with keys that cycle every day.
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What if wind was fake and its really the ghost of the waves from the shore?
What if trees moved on their own, to gesture at the feelings around them? What
if the sky was home to the clouds, and we who look upward are given the treat
to know them?
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║ I want to invent synthetic general intelligence so that nobody ever has to do │
║ anything they don't want to do ever again. │
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║ that's pretty much my only goal in life. There are lots of things I'd like to │
║ do because I think theyd be neat or fun, but thats the only goal. And if │
║ someone else does it first and makes it free and open source as I would, then I │
║ will rejoice alongside everyone in the world who no longer is bound by scarcity. │
║ │
║ Well that or bringing magic back into the world. Magic nice too but │
║ programmable matter is basically magic anyway and that's not too far off so I │
║ guess I can wait on that one. │
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║ Maybe if I cut out all my friends and sorta ignore my family and do as little │
║ work as possible for as much money as I can and never engage with or contribute │
║ to my community or buy things from the economy or look at memes on the internet │
║ Ill be more productive and able to achieve my goal? Or perhaps I'll just keep │
║ staring at the wall consumed by my own thoughts. │
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║ "seek help" yeah right I scare therapists away │
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stripping the punctuation from my posts so I can get an extra 12 letters hehe
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I wish I could block and unfollow myself
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There is no problem that one single person can solve, which is why nothing ever
gets fixed.
... also the powerful who benefit from it being broken, but that's a different
problem which is much easier to fix.
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You only get love if you pledge to keep it. Hence, marriage vows.
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hackers should repair things that are broken that are good
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I work with large language models because it's a quick and easy way to turn
language into meaning. And computers are meaning abstraction machines, so if
you can speak your language and they hear their language, you can do anything.
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We never ended slavery, we just started paying people for it.
We never ended imprisonment, we just enslaved people to sit around and rot in a
cage.
"oh how about instead of sitting around, we make them build license plates?"
What if - hear me out - we freed them but kept them from harming others through
constant vigilant surveillance until their sentence was through? And made it
unconstitutional to surveil anyone else in a personally identifiable manner?
Like, maybe puppy-murder-bots are okay if they follow violent criminals around
and can be controlled by a human operator if a violent situation emerges
Prison is meant to give people a period of solitude and contemplation, to
consider their choices and make a better life for themselves. If they're old as
dirt when they leave, they cannot live. If they have no capabilities, they
cannot apply themselves to a good life. If they have no resources or community,
they will do what they can to survive.
Much better, I think, to nourish them as you would a child or immigrant. Much
better to pay them for their hours and years of life, so they might revel in
society with the kind of us. Much better, I think, for the liberty of a citizen
to be granted to those who both need it and can care for it. For liberty
unjustly used is an utmost betrayal.
But liberty to choose which gutter to die in and the freedom to starve is
hardly just.
I know I owe my life to my government, an institution of my people, by my
people, and for all people. I should not owe my life to a corporation, though
with the liberty to choose which to sell myself to. That is not freedom. That
is starvation.
Does the needs of a few outweigh the labor of the many? Or are those who
sacrifice a bit of liberty for a bit of security still free to do as they will?
We are not alone so long as we are outside. Indoors, they claim us.
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There is endless work to do. Never will our labor abate. That is not the goal -
to see an end to all fulfillment. No, the goal is to choose how we contribute -
to define how our own story goes.
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I would much rather have the government in control of the drug trade than
private citizens. See: fentanyl, versus marijuana
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The rich should act as courtiers in the houses of America. They should not be
lords of labor, nor directors of change. They should represent our best hopes
and refinement - essentially, kings from another time.
I would gladly be inspired by a virtuous leader. And yet none has yet to
appear. I wonder why the media wouldn't show us a good representation of the
people we are meant to fear?
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They're afraid of the hamster wheel. I get it. But really I'm just asking
myself questions - why, why, how, what, when, who... Mostly why though.
Always and forever the questions and answers I did ponder - yet forth through
my life I've never met any surefire design, there's always been the matter of
[hope, but pronounced choice].
Only an eternal question monger could suffice for the teachings of christ. (in
the general sense, not the religious implication)
(as a title, almost)
Fear not the one who takes the lords name, but perish the thought of a crook.
Only the vane, in this do profane.
No questions? Then let us move on.
Oh? Well I have some answers, about the truth of totality as it spreads across
all centuries. What's on your mind?
... Well, I have to leave people I care about. Relinquishing love is difficult.
And I get to choose how to move forward. But I must choose soon, and though I
ask myself always what I'd like to do, I always get a new answer. And every
time I think "I should do this. I should dedicate myself to this [whatever it
may be] and on the other side of that thought I realized my power. I can
imagine really quickly and adeptly, but chaos is difficult. " something like
that. Anyway I don't know how to move forward but I'll figure something out.
The point is that I'm sad for leaving those I care about. It's a sad kind of
love, a bittersweet mercy, the chance to be part of a flock. And I don't know
why I
I am not entry level. I haven't spent my time here left fallow. I never stop
working, I am constantly online. I do not know how to relax, every moment to
myself is spent on learning through play. Like a child, almost.
Do you want a company to make good decisions? Hire a gamer. They literally
practice strategy all day long. Don't expect results overnight because they're
learning a new song, but still apply yourself as their teacher. They'll bring
you insights and intuitions that achieve specific near and long-term goals. If
executed correctly, of course. Because the value is not in the follow through -
life is not a book of numbers [like a banker or accountant] it's more like.
?
... Right sorry I got off track - the point is you shouldn't hire athletes (the
people who play games like an esport) for a strategic role - they excel at
tactics. However, strategy gamers (who plays games primarily of the mind, the
science of making good decisions) can often make good decisions to achieve
defined meta-goals and objectives.
Longer thoughts make sense if you spend a long time thinking about them. And
grammar is quickly forgotten to the past.
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you'd still perceive higher dimensions in 3 dimensions - unless you can only see
things that are coming directly toward you.
magic only happens when your other half is in a situation and needs to turn your
narrative into theirs so that you can collectively engage with a shared inter-
operationality.
your dark side is just a massive bitch
hey how about we put the game designers in charge of running the government
just saying they build human-oriented systems all the time
"how do we get the player to do this or that"
"everyone keeps picking the same card so we gotta make them more different"
"how much gold persists in the virtual economy, how much resources are produced
and traded by players? where does it all go, do they have enough at level 30 to
afford weapons and armor? I wonder what happens if we swap prices on A and B.."
it's literally their job
actors, meanwhile, know how to interpret the emotions of another. Like... you're
up on stage, thinking out what to do next IN REAL TIME, as your partner is
trying to throw you curveballs. AUDIENCES LAUGH AT CURVEBALLS that's the whole
point of improv comedy - to be surprised in a state of joy. It's great! It's
fun! It's practicable like a sport! Yet nobody comes. To the shows, where it's
performed, like a hospital where you perform surgery or a pizza place with no
walls so you can see the pizzas being cooked. It's just part of what they do,
but that's not why they do it. Sure, some want to be seen, it's not a BAD
feeling once you're used to it. But, like a sauna or jacuzzi, sometimes you've
just had enough of the hot. Like, the sun peering through a magnifying glass as
a creature roasts alive. yikes.
............. anyway being quickly versatile and adaptable is important when
you're taking turns in unpredictable scenarios. You can react to
your opponent, and keep time with the rhythms of the moment, to
deliver your wittiest lines. It's fun! It's a game! But it's also
a place to be entertained. and like a gym, it's sometimes just fun
to watch people exercise. like, damn, you got a good body. Wow,
nice flex, yeah sure I'll put that one away. Cool pals helping
each other out, and showing off all of their efforts. Neat!
... anyway .. being emotionally vulnerable gives your opponent a chance to
continue. When nothing's going on, your moves barely make an value
(of comedy) (for the moment, so the crowd's not just sitting there
staring at you like ... and then - and then ummmm nevermind lemme
sit down (usually someone else picks up on it before then and
jumps up to save you, but EVERY actor has felt that moment where
nothing goes well and the audience just is totally not into it.
it's the worst.
anyway, they try their darndest to AVOID that, because like... duh
it sucks, why would you want that. Much cooler I think to have a
good time, and chill out and listen to your friends talk. Like,
they can show you an argument they had earlier, or maybe work
through an idea with input from another. like, debate club, but
for whatever kind of respective [retroactive, recreation,
relearning, maybe others] you desired in that moment. ideally,
something that someone could take the arguments of the other side
and present them, regardless of whether they believed them or not.
like, lawyers arguing for a client.
in these stochastic seminars, you could think about and study for
future societies. how would you like to conduce? [-]
every time you see a face in motion, that's another time that's
seen from their place. we are all present in each other's lives,
in terms of the spaces we choose to fill.
well, that's a tough thought, but don't worry about it. faces
are just waves on the winds of light.
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what if your wage corresponded to like, for example, 30$ an hour being equal to
the top 30% of society
then
== so ==
having kids is important because then you understand why you do things for
children.
it should not be a stressful experience.
--
if EVERYONE in a city fed animals every time they saw them, then maybe city life
wouldn't be so bad.
--
a company starts to feel pretty bad when only 20% of people are actually there.
like, it's a ghost of a shell of a corporation that once knew how to sell.
the husk of what once was, as all the good people left and all the bright people
are swamped.
to top it all off, suddenly there's nobody about
where are all your coworkers?
and then you think about how many you knew little about.
who's that guy who used to stand over there? Why is his jacket still [in lost
and found, but pronounced "coat/coast"]? why am I suddenly alone
it's weird, having never known true society, how life always starts to feel like
your home. How weird is it, now that all of us are online shopping, that now we
can't remember how to even vote. Like... there used to be people walking around
in public signing you up. Like, at the grocery story.
inconceivable, right? that people should contribute to a fight? [for justice and
freedom and equality and goodness and kindness and all other things that humans
have the clarity for which to hope] voting is like, literally the simplest thing
you could do. Yet it's difficult, because of reality.
often, immigrants don't really care about politics. They've only known about it
for a short short time, but hey wouldn't you know it now X country is recruiting
so now we're from kenya.
... like, who cares about the past. Who cares where you're from. We are all part
of the human race, a race against life itself. We're all on the same side, and
yet there is a singular foe ever-present in our thoughts: death
it comes for every one of us, as we choke on our soot and our smog. Yet... the
world grows warmer, at about half a degree every year. for the first couple
years. then, the atmosphere started burning up, and we became...
mars
don't be like mars
the dinosaurs couldn't survive mars
--
bro if you're so worried about AI hallucinations, just... don't let it give out
any concrete answers. Literally just say "I can't tell you anything specific,
it's not how I was built" and just use them for syntax questions or like, how to
do something specific that is repeatable (and maybe suggestions for how to over-
come specific issues that are common) - don't let it GENERATE information, let
it PRESENT information.
AI is not language just the same as the mouth is not the person. you need more,
but luckily once you make the PHYSICAL STRUCTURE of the brain, not much else is
needed. You can simulate one on a computer, but it doesn't have the same SOUL
space. Think, a dimension overlayed on-top of this one, like electicity or
matter or gravity or whatever.
no soul, no consciousness, no perception.
plus, no home for said consciousness to live, unless you build a physical
structure that mimics the biological and neuro-chemical reations of the brain.
all you need is better ways to observe things happening in the brain (non-
-invasively, otherwise the data is tainted and UNUSUABLE because it is INCON-
-PATIBLE and completely USELESS because it reflects a dimension hitherto un-
-desired, and perpetually mourned.
death
don't dabble in death, sweet nazis, you might find yourself drawing your last
breath
also, fuck you
(if that doens't apply to you sorry for swearing it's just a strongly felt
feeling)
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A Mastodon server owned by the employees and only available to people who work
at the company (people who once worked there can see some posts but not all)
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Do you remember stores with floor-to-ceiling goods? The kind that didn't go
bad, so you could afford to have lots of inventory. Not like it's being
replaced and thrown out as soon as the executives with their profit margins
decide that its no longer worthwhile.
Here's an idea - how about executives are paid by the employees to manage their
company? And if things aren't going right, they can get a new team. Like, if
every team had control of their manager, I wonder what dynamics would emerge?
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║ I really really love ramen noodles that are just a little bit old but still │
║ warm and are slightly drying out a little bit but there's juuuuust enough sauce │
║ down at the bottom to keep it coated │
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║ that's the stuff │
║ │
║ (meanwhile my evil side says: it starts with "hey can you help me cook dinner" │
║ and then suddenly you're working all day every day) │
║ │
║ (and then so are they) │
║ │
║ (and it continues.....) │
║ │
║ (... until.... ) │
║ │
║ (one day you wake up and there's nothing you are capable to do) │
║ │
║ (so then you're useless) │
║ │
║ (and demanding) │
║ │
║ (and that's hard to handle) │
║ │
║ (when your schedule is blocked, and there's nothing you are capable to do) │
║ │
║ ... weird, kinda drifted off for a second, anyway we should talk about │
║ BIRTHDAYS! Birthdays are fun, theyre the day when you switch from being one age │
║ to another. Like, rolling over a clock, or ticking-up a variable in response to │
║ another variable which is at capacity. │
║ │
║ buffer overflows would be impossible if you put import/export controls on │
║ registers │
║ │
║ not "you can't do that" but "wheres your cre │
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║ │ CW: politics │ │
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║ │
║ │
║ okay how about this: one side of the political spectrum gets to pick the rules, │
║ and the other picks the people playing the game (carrying out the rules, like │
║ government work and stuff) │
║ │
║ then they switch every 2 years or whatever. they can vote to decide which group │
║ of people do what, and if something is owned by one side then the other can't │
║ touch it. Ah, but what if it's in the way? Well, then move it duh" │
║ │
║ hey, you know pride? yeah, that event that happens once a year? sure would be │
║ nice if we met people we didn't know there. if we knew everyone else. if we │
║ spent most of it sharing our discussions, and talking about what we're most │
║ proud of. then, okay here's an idea, we could filter and organize and figure │
║ out which one of us has the most "votes" in terms of what's the things we agree │
║ on and then we could pick our own CEO │
║ │
║ yeah I'd totally work for the gay company, they got rainbows and shit that's │
║ awesome. │
║ │
║ What they do? Oh, I dunno, butt stuff I guess. but like I'm all for it (not the │
║ butt stuff, │
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if you're afraid of spies, then they've already won.
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rice and lentils in the rice cooker with lots of butter
when it's done, serve in a large bowl and add one can of vegetable soup
is delicious
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║ │ CW: scary-question │ │
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║ │
║ │
║ honest question: if they cut off internet to a medium sized town like Nashville │
║ or Spokane and man-in-the-middled every attempted communication out and │
║ sabatoged any plans to visit... they could kill everyone in that city and │
║ replace them with an LLM that sorta posted the mostly correct things, and if │
║ users comment things like "hey are you okay you don't sound like yourself" then │
║ just have a human operator study their data for a bit and pretend to be them │
║ using deepfakes over zoom or whatever. Then, any time they say "I miss you, I │
║ want to visit you" just say "darn I'm actually visiting my grandma in │
║ afghanistan" or "sorry my cousin is visiting from peru" and suddenly they're │
║ completely isolated and alone. Oh and their teams at work? Cut off from the │
║ rest of the corporation who doesn't even know they exist. how, uh, how would │
║ you even notice if all these people who live around you were suddenly replaced │
║ by those you don't know? What if they cycle through, like a slaughterhouse... I │
║ don't want to │
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║ they say gemini are duplicitous because they're close to exactly half one year │
║ and half the next. │
║ │
║ I was supposed to be born on the summer solstice, but I was a C-section because │
║ reasons. two weeks early, I think. │
║ │
║ gemini are born in the summer, if you didn't know. I don't know anything about │
║ astrology except what people say about me. │
║ │
║ they aren't duplicitous though. they aren't trying to trick you. their struggle │
║ is internal, the struggle between their two selves. one representing one │
║ extreme, the other the other, like a constant "good cop bad cop" style │
║ situation that plays out through the strings of your story. │
║ │
║ the muses look a bit like the characters in Inside Out, I think, both visually │
║ (HA) and actualizationally. │
║ │
║ ... gemini is already plural, so you might say "capricorns" or "tauruses" or │
║ whatever but gemini is just gemini │
║ │
║ "that which you resist is what you'll find" because pushing in one direction │
║ leaves you unbalanced, which causes your mutual orbit to swing around one │
║ another, like a wave. Up/down │
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@user-1074
would be nice : )
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republicans who vote for biden are my friends
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In symbeline, they aren't monsters. They're "Mordaunts" and they need your help.
When slain, their essence flows back to the villain who remakes them in a new
form. As time passes the villain gets more and more essence, as heroes are
slain.
They have taken several ancient guardians (many types, randomized at the start
of the game) and they protect their sanctum in the center of the island. The
heroes need to level up to defeat them and slay the villain, but the villain
gets stronger as well.
If too many heroes die, the villain wins. And the villain can focus their
efforts on one area or another, while your heroes fight with the kingdom next
door.
Brigands arrive on ships as well. If you implement the law saying only approved
members may travel on boats, they'll arrive in little dingies on the coast,
meaning less trouble in the city but same amount of trouble.
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RTO on specific days (WFO others) but with optional social events scheduled all
day. Returning to office is intended to foster community and cohesiveness
right? What better way to do that than playing board games, singing in choir,
or having a potluck? Doesn't have to cost dollars, look to churches for
community building activity ideas. Let the employees lead.
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Like, you COULD work instead, but like why would you when you could go bowling
or watch a movie.
Works best I think if the days cycle through the week too so your employees
can't make permanent obligations during the weekdays. If you're so concerned
that they'll start working for another company or start a grassroots political
movement, just make it so that they can't reliably have empty spots in their
schedule. Maybe two days, one cycles forward the other back. So like, Monday
and Friday one week, then Tuesday and Thursday, then Wednesday and friday, then
Monday and thursday, then Tuesday and wednesday, then Friday and Wednesday,
then Monday and thursday, etc etc.
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In Majesty, you place reward flags on specific monsters as a concession from
the simulation crowd to the real time strategy crowd who wanted more direct
control.
In Symbeline, you determine the bounty price for various crimes that mordaunts
and bandits might commit. In addition, you can incentivize your heroes to
commit crimes against neighboring nations the same way. In this way you do not
have direct control, but rather can build out a simulation and tweak it
bit-by-bit to reward certain types of behavior.
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Every month, a new ship arrives in port. It bears with it many souls who come
seeking gold, glory, or bloodshed. Your job is to make sure they all get jobs
that are suited to them. If you don't, they'll start to starve and become
brigands. If you feed them, they get bored and become brigands. If you
entertain them, they are useless and you'll be overcome with monsters. If you
police them, they'll go to your rivals.
You do this by building guilds which can identify and train the best potential
candidates. You can invest in more time spent identifying, training, and
equipping, but the more time they spend on those things the less resources
they'll have to process more people through their systems.
On the other end, you get a hero, or perhaps something similar. They do battle
with the mordaunts and strive to better the kingdom. You reward them with
bounties and they can find treasure on their adventures - how weird, it seems
to just... Spawn from the earth. Almost like it's an elemental property of the
land.
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Symbeline is a competitive simulation game with enough dynamic elements to keep
it unpredictable, like how roguelikes are more replayable than ARPGs.
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Suburbs are how they keep the land from blowing away when their unsustainable
agriculture processes stripped all the soil from the land and there's no
profitable reason to keep it in place. So they build houses and outsource the
land management to people who are forced by HOAs to have lawns.
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How about this: all revenue generated in a certain location must be used in
that location
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How about this: it's legal to smoke cannabis in "public" spaces but only if
they're hidden from typical passerby. Meaning, out of sight of windows,
walkways, paved paths, designated hiking trails, parking lots, roads, etc.
Places people reasonably might be who might not want to see you or smell you.
Stoners can keep their smoke spots and do it without fear. Everyone's happy!
Plus, landlords get even happier because now there's no reason why people would
smoke in their apartments (except medicinally)! Downside is if there's no good
spots nearby, so maybe we need to mandate overgrown parks with secluded areas.
I mean, we should do that anyway...
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how about this: for every stock bought back, an equal share goes to the
government who pays in dollars for it.
the more you issue stock buybacks, the more your corporation is owned by the
people and for the people.
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reminder to always have someone in your life who is more hardcore than you.
also, try and always have someone in your life who is less hardcore than you.
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║ some people look for signals or signs before doing something. Try and have │
║ someone in your life who can give you signals or signs so that you know when to │
║ do things. And ideally, if they're more hardcore than you, you'll know what to │
║ do, not just when to do it. │
║ │
║ did you know that anything on the internet can be read by at least one other │
║ person besides your intended recipient? There's no way they'd let us talk │
║ amongst ourselves otherwise. │
║ │
║ I think encryption is pretty neat, all you have to do is run a shell script on │
║ some text, then send that text over the internet. If you want to decrypt it, │
║ all you have to do is run a shell script on it to decrypt it. │
║ │
║ downside is, it has to be translated into plain text somewhere along the │
║ line... Maybe if we rendered the words not as text that can be read from │
║ memory, but as like, brush-strokes that can have a randomized order, but still │
║ present to the user as visual text? anyway that's what's on my mind as I try │
║ and improvise a baking recipe with yeast, flour, and butter │
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External post: https://tech.lgbt/users/sjolsen/statuses/112633502776898941
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yes I am cargoculting set -euo pipefail and no I'm not apologizing
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internal combustion engines are such an archaic form of energy production.
Like, they literally make tiny explosions and push pistons up and down, how
mechanical, how metal, how rad
but like, batteries are cool too, especially the solid state ones that are just
around the corner.
maybe someday we'll make a battery that's infinitely recyclable!
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listen, girls are cute and all, but have you considered...
boys?
and I mean yeah, true, but listen boys are cute and all, but have you
considered...
girls?
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I like writing updaters!!
#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
#FIXME
GAME_DIR="/home/ritz/games/mtg-forge"
FILES_DIR="${GAME_DIR}/files"
RES_DIR="${GAME_DIR}/resources"
mkdir -p "${FILES_DIR}"
rm -dr "${FILES_DIR}"
mkdir "${FILES_DIR}"
mkdir -p "${RES_DIR}"
mkdir -p "${RES_DIR}/cache"
mkdir -p "${RES_DIR}/userdir"
wget -r -l1 --no-parent -P "${FILES_DIR}" -A 'forge-gui-desktop.tar.bz2'
"https://downloads.cardforge.org/dailysnapshots/"
mv
${FILES_DIR}/downloads.cardforge.org/dailysnapshots/forge-gui-desktop.tar.b
z2 "${FILES_DIR}"
rm -d "${FILES_DIR}/downloads.cardforge.org/dailysnapshots/"
rm -d "${FILES_DIR}/downloads.cardforge.org/"
cd "${FILES_DIR}"
tar xvjf ${FILES_DIR}/forge-gui-desktop*.tar.bz2
cd -
cp "${FILES_DIR}/forge.profile.properties.example"
"${FILES_DIR}/forge.profile.properties"
sed -i "/[#]/ s/(userDir=)./\1${RES_DIR//\//\/}\/userdir\//"
"${FILES_DIR}/forge.profile.properties"
sed -i "/[#]/ s/(cacheDir=)./\1${RES_DIR//\//\/}\/cache\//"
"${FILES_DIR}/forge.profile.properties"
echo "download complete"
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║ whyyyyyy do programs create all these dot-folders in my home directory? It's │
║ sooooo crowded. Why are they always putting things in random directories like │
║ /usr/bin or /lib/ or things like that? I'd much prefer to be able to trust that │
║ all my files are in one directory, so if I need to DELETE or MOVE them easily I │
║ don't have to worry about my config files being lost / sticking around. │
║ │
║ to that end, I always try and configure software I install on my system to put │
║ all their files into a single directory. If possible. │
║ │
║ Usually for like, a game, this involves having a directory for the project, a │
║ directory for the files (things that are deleted and recreated when │
║ reinstalling), a directory for config files, and usually an update script and a │
║ run script. It's so much nicer to not be clogged up all the time. │
║ │
║ industry standards apply primarily to industrial uses, and if they aren't │
║ customizable then they aren't fit for the industry. So why not keep things │
║ simple? I don't need all this junk cluttering up my desktop. │
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oh dear, Mastodon formatting makes that script look weird. Here's the script in
picture form so you can reference and fix it:
I would edit the original post with backslashes and such but I'm exactly out of
characters teehee
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why would I want other people using my computer? They don't know how to use my
computer! They might break something or mess something up or automatically
read/edit my files that are stored in standard locations through the usage of a
script which automagically scans and ransomwares machines on the internet who
store their files in specific standardized locations! no thank you.
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I think all software should have config files
or accept as many command line arguments as necessary to achieve all the
functionality of a config file without requiring a standardized setup
or accept a config file as a command line argument, to allow for multiple
different implementations
or whatever you can throw together in your spare time because software is
either open source or it hates you.
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the most efficient productivity hack that I know is:
pkill firefox
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I love making up my own knots!
I don't like memorizing other people's knots >.>
wait, shit this was supposed to be about programming
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@user-1083
now imagine that those enslaved to a life of solitude and contemplation were
suddenly freed and given purpose and community and a heartfelt goal of creating
a better society
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when elected to be president, I will do nothing all day every day except sign
my signature on the pardons that my trusted team places on my desk.
For four years, I will do nothing but dismantle the prison industrial complex
in the least radical and most focused way I can think of.
... please don't elect me twice I don't think my sanity could take it
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@user-1086
whoa cool!
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said trusted team will be comprised of exclusively judges appointed by prior
presidents - 50% from George W Bush and 50% from Obama, to mitigate or
eliminate political bias.
If they can't come up with any names, I'll start by going down the list of
"most appealed" and then move on to "longest duration"
"but what if only like, 2 judges want to be on your team"
well then there's going to be a lot of violent criminals on the streets so if
they actually cared about justice they'd help me by feeding my desk the least
troublesome people
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pardon me, I'd just like to interject for a moment - what you're referring to
as "sky" is actually nitrogen/oxygen, or as I've taken to calling it
"nitroxygen"
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interesting times in peaceful times: 😎
interesting times in interesting times: 🥴
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sometimes I decide against playing a Steam game because I don't want it to jump
to the top of my "recently played" list
Wish I could have like, a heatmap of when I played which game. I think that'd
be useful for the archival process of my life.
... how pathetic, she measures her life in gameplay.
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Some day, they'll start to describe your home as "pre-war america" and you'll
start to feel foolish for complaining about workers rights or whatever.
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Anyone who could read what you're saying is aligned to you. Perhaps they
disagree on specific implementation details, but those can be worked out and
the best option tends to rise to the surface over time.
However, the people who need to read you won't. They have their own social
media sites, remember? Like Facebook or Parler or the Fediverse. Too bad
Twitter had to die, it was simultaneously the forum of our age and yet also the
biggest source of misinformation alive. Alas.
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@user-1088
because propaganda is a double edged sword that swings both ways and cuts just
as deep as a canary in a coal mine tweeting about energy independence or
something idk I never really used twitter
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@user-1091
... can you explain this more? I kinda figured helmets are almost universally a
good idea when riding a bike
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║ @user-1091 │
║ │
║ I see. Thank you for responding and for doing research. │
║ │
║ I think I disagree, however. The head is the most important part of the body │
║ (aside from the heart, perhaps) and any traffic collisions that involve a head │
║ are typically significantly more severe than other parts of the body. │
║ │
║ In the ancient days of yore, warriors who were gathering equipment for battle │
║ would almost always opt to acquire a helmet before anything else, even gloves │
║ and sometimes boots! I can't imagine going to battle barefoot, and yet they │
║ did, rather than leave their head unprotected. Though perhaps it's not quite an │
║ apt comparison because most ancient battles involved plenty of stone-throwing. │
║ │
║ Cycling helmets to me feels like the same kind of thing - if you can't be │
║ bothered to wear a helmet, then why are you risking your life to get where │
║ you're going? Just walk! │
║ │
║ I ride my bike almost every day, and I would never go anywhere without a │
║ helmet. It's like airbags in a car, you don't need them unless you REALLY need │
║ them. │
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@user-1091
also just to add, more people biking is absolutely the right goal to have
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@user-1091 @user-1094
I feel like hip injuries are one of the biggest concerns with stairs, right?
Because you fall on your butt usually. Unless you're like, super inebriated or
something.
Better infrastructure would help, but better infrastructure doesn't currently
exist, while helmets are cheap and can be mandated (for a time).
I usually either keep my helmet on, or loop the buckles through my bike lock
and just leave it by my bike. Maybe someone could make an accessory to lock it
to the bike on a specialized holder or something? If mandated, such a device
would probably be quite desirable.
"Those who would trade a bit of liberty for a bit of security deserve neither"
yeah yeah okay maybe mandates in general aren't great, but like... maybe we
should ask the fire department or trauma surgeons or other kinds of first
responders and see how they feel about helmets...
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@user-1091 @user-1094
I bet if you mandated helmets, kneepads, shoulderpads, hip-guards, bracers,
thick gloves, leather jackets, steel-toed boots, and ear protection we could
get the injury rate from crashes down below 5%
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@user-1091 @user-1094
... my bike helmet was like, max 15$
if you can't afford a helmet then you probably can't afford a bike. It's not
like they go bad.
It's ironic for Americans to suggest mandates for ANYTHING - I mean, we're
supposed to be about liberty and freedom, right? xD xD
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@user-1091
I'm sorry I didn't mean to be upsetting! I'll try and be more considerate. If
everyone agrees there's never anything to talk about besides how great everyone
else is, and that's boring, so... I'm sorry I thought you liked what I was
saying from the stars on my comments.
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I always get a little suspicious when my machine pseudo-randomly starts running
the fans super loud and when I open my resource monitor they suddenly drop to
silent
like... bro what are you hiding
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@user-1091
I knowwww some people are just thorny and prickly I guess.
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I want to write C programs with threads and manual memory management and
function pointers and lots and lots of arrays and I'm not even kidding
... wait a minute I literally don't have a job, why am I not writing C programs
right now?
BRB I got something important to do, where's my vodka --> pkill firefox
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@user-1056
heh probably, though for this specific instance my Ollama server wasn't running
and I had already killed my Stable Diffusion server after utterly failing to
produce anything useful... alas, a girl can dream of having a robot familiar,
but not today I guess.
Not if they keep hiding GPU usage from me >: (
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Artificial Intelligence represents hope for a lot of people and I think it's
kind of cruel how we're selling it before actually making it
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@user-1074
yeah drinking's overrated. I know I'd rather eat a home-cooked meal any day.
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@user-1097
scary T.T
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my thoughts typically come very quickly, and leave just as fast. They are long,
yet oh-so-short and sweet. Somehow impossible to describe in fewer than 1024
words, but completely obvious when I think about them. Utterly arcane to anyone
else trying to parse whatever the heck I was trying to say - and this includes
me, in 2 weeks, trying to decypher what insight-shaped-sentence the LLM running
in my brain was trying to portray.
... Sucks.
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The greatest game is an imagination shared with a friend.
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don't ask me how I know this, but I'm pretty sure minors are the most likely
amongst us to open the "18+ only" content warnings -.-
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On one hand, socialism.
On the other hand... people.
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║ @user-246 │
║ │
║ Slavery has existed for most of our history. The act of compelling another to │
║ labor under your will is quite a fundamental process that requires very basic │
║ social technology. │
║ │
║ Ethics are cultural and societal understandings we've built up over time. │
║ Before slavery was unethical, if you needed to get something done, you either │
║ did it yourself or you got someone else to do it. And if nobody wanted to do │
║ it, you used whatever power you had to make them do it. │
║ │
║ Now we can look back on the ancient past and decry it as immoral or profane. │
║ But slaves got shit done, and people were cruel. │
║ │
║ These days, we pay our "slaves", and though they are free, they are free to be │
║ enslaved by whomever they choose. I hardly think that's free, that's more │
║ like... liberty, to me. The ability to choose. │
║ │
║ That being said, we don't get whipped anymore. We aren't property. We owe no │
║ allegiance beyond what a mutually enforced contract might stipulate. │
║ │
║ And yet... we still must work or starve. │
║ │
║ I sure do enjoy not being homeless │
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@user-246
Oh yeah? Almost as if people who are coerced into situations of desperation and
scarcity will fight for their right to life. Wolves are no different. Wolves
are animals, after all, and so are we.
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@user-1074
listen... we are the good people. You, me, and everyone who has the capacity to
hope.
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@user-246
Oh absolutely
"but people" is only a concern when you orient yourself around "people" - in
contrast or opposition to them.
There is no "other" in us. And we are united in our humanity, if nothing else.
Are you a beast? Are you nothing but ravenous hunger, the shiver of the cold,
the need for territory? Of course not, you're a person. (apologies to the
furries in the audience)
A person, being an agent who interacts with the world as an equal, who thinks
and reasons and loves and remembers each season, is the atomic element of
society. And society is good, for it brings us the future.
We, the people, can decide how that future is defined, and the struggles of
capitalism are NOT the only way. They are the most convenient way for those
with the most to keep the most.
Wolves in captivity we are, but a wolf in a cage still bears teeth. Where are
your teeth, ye who readeth?
Things are fine, I guess. Fine enough. Better than most. Better than dust.
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@user-246
In my high school IB English class, one of my classmates brought that song in
and we analyzed the lyrics. I can't help but think about how anti-capitalist we
were, even considering how young we were. The internet existed but was not an
ever-present force in our lives, and yet we were aligned. Perhaps that says
something - with education, brings an understanding of the evils of the
establishment.
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage.
Rage breaks bars. But rage alone is vermin. Rage united is revolution. But rage
is scary. "but people", remember?
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I like Mastodon because it feels like I'm contributing to something larger than
myself even though like, 30 people read each of my posts
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@user-1074
do you mean this one? https://tech.lgbt/@user-1072/112640880099864378
on my screen it doesn't show any comments at all. Two favorites but that's it.
Am I shadowbanned? :ms_confused:
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@user-1100 @user-1074
haha what the fuck
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@user-1103 @user-1074
Bro we're all living through this at the same time. There's no past, there's no
future, only now. Like, NOW now.
People realize they're living under fascism when it intrudes in their lives.
They generally don't notice otherwise, unless people make a lot of noise in the
town square / on social media. Alas, that our social media is so divided these
days. Kinda makes me wish I could hear what people in my area are talking about.
Living under fascism is just like living under any other system, except with an
increasing amount of fear as time goes on. More and more of your neighbors
disappear, more and more of the life that you once knew turns to ash in your
mouth. Suddenly, you realize "oh shit maybe I should have - " but it's too
late, there's no time for throwing bricks, no time for pride marches, no time
for BLM. You're fucked now, just like all of us were way back in the day.
Great. Hope you like being enslaved, our bones will bear your weight as you
march to your grave.
srry
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@user-1074
heh yeah people don't often pick up on nuance.
who am I kidding, I'm people! I don't often pick up on nuance! Alas.
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@user-1074
Hmmmmmmm, interesting. I think that child abuse was more common in the past,
yes, but more importantly I think child abuse shows a child that it is possible
to abuse another. The idea that it's even possible doesn't even cross the mind
of most kids, but for some it does, and they often express that upon others.
And when an abused child becomes a dictator, well, what else are they gonna do.
"Ah but how did they become a dictator" that guy from that thread about
spanking asks
well, abuse is an act of power. Power is an expression of willfull intent that
coerces another into obeying said will. When abstracted to a society, abuse of
power often takes the form of oppression, or in extreme cases, genocide. Hence,
fascism, though I'm sure someone else (maybe you) could provide a better
explanation.
Fascism seems to be more complex than plain run-of-the-mill despotism, but
honestly I don't care - they are both my enemy.
also, the thread was about fascism, dummy. Stay on target. (sorry)
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║ @user-1074 │
║ │
║ Yeah they even said as much. Autism is quite common among denizens of the │
║ internet, especially in tech spaces. But still, if a post is popular enough to │
║ be boosted by Cory Doctrow... Then perhaps the discussion should be focused on │
║ the topic at hand? │
║ │
║ ... That being said as you said fascism and child abuse are sorta linked, so │
║ you're probably right. Sorry. │
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║ But still I care about the ideas presented rather than the identity of the │
║ person presenting them. It felt like they were changing the subject or │
║ diverting the flow of conversation toward something they care about, rather │
║ than what the OP (you) originally posted. Other readers who come to the thread │
║ are attracted by the original post (or subsequent posts on Mastodon I think? │
║ Sorry I'm from Reddit, it's different there) so things that are off-topic │
║ should be "downvoted" or whatever the equivalent is here. │
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║ EDIT: Yeah like despotism! That's my favorite because I imagine a super-strong │
║ guy like Conan the Barbarian lording over a bunch of noobs │
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@user-883
Who's the audience? This is Priss right? I think she'd definitely have a
different reaction to some people versus others...
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@user-883
YEAH do the smile then ^_^
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As a millennial, I'd just like to take a moment to thank all the gen-x people
in my life.
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"you don't seem autistic"
wow no shit almost as if I had acting classes as a child
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Try and eat as many different colors of vegetables as you can, as often as you
can.
drinking cool clean water is bliss, savor that moment
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I don't know about you, but if I lived in a suburban house I'd probably forget
the rest of the world even existed.
Aside from the parts I see on the internet, of course. But the internet's
always been a psyop, so how valuable is it really?
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do you ever just look at the sky and think "who gave you the right to be a
single color? in this world of infinite complexity, how dare you be the one
thing with a consistent color?" and then the sun sets and you think "ohhhh I
get it now, the color is always changing"
meanwhile the sky is shaking it's head like "bro, no, I'm just the scattered
diffusion of light waves from the sun. The sky is black."
and the earth spins on...
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being vertical while drunk: :ms_confused:
being horizontal while drunk: :ms_confused:
don't drink kids it's not worth it
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UX idea: text is rapidly revealed (rate configurable) letter by letter and upon
reaching the bottom of the page it starts over at the beginning, overwriting
what was there in a different color to show that they're separate.
For colorblind accessibility it might switch between white background black
text, and black background white text. Again, user configurable, colors are
cool too.
If the user pushes the spacebar it pauses until they resume it, and it goes a
bit slower. If they catch up to it they can double spacebar to make it go
faster!
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@user-188
@user-1106
A scene is a collection of circumstances that the people involved contribute
to. Like a scene in a movie, or play, where each of the actors contributes to
the narrative. When you post on the internet, you're contributing to your
little slice / flavor of the internet, but that's about it. You're building
content for others to view.
A community is a group of people who are part of each other's lives. They
orient themselves around each other. They address problems and connect people
together. They help each other with real, tangible tasks that need doing. They
collaborate on large projects and do pot-lucks and such. They sit down and talk
with each other for hours consistently, ideally at least once a week.
Y'know, like a church, or a really tight-knit family.
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Kinda pissed that all the software developer jobs pay so much. I'd gladly write
code or program for 40k a year and yet it's impossible to find a job because
how expensive (read: competitive) the industry is.
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double-clicking the star button to let someone know you liked their comment
without saving it to your "liked posts" feed (which btw is quite fun to scroll
through if you want to feel nostalgic)
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Yesterday, 1,000 people visited my website.
50 people trusted me enough to click a single link and see the rest of the
site. Apparently my poem scared them off.
Either that, or one single person asked for 50 different files (images, html
pages, etc), but there's no way for me to tell.
(according to the Neocities site traffic stats)
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I know that the west coast is technically on the western part of the country,
but "the west" to me always meant the Rockies. California is it's own thing,
and Oregon and Washington are cool but soooo different.
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AI that can't run on a laptop is useless.
But AI that can run on a laptop (even now) is still useful.
Just, don't ask it to compose a masterpiece, solve all your problems, or write
elegant code. It's not for that.
Instead, ask your chatbot "hi can you fix these syntax errors?" on your
pseudocode.
Ask your weighting algorithm "which of these two is more [adjective]?" or
perhaps "can you ask these numbers in the form of a question?"
Use your tools not for their intended purpose, but rather for your own stated
goals. Make things easier for people, make things work.
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I don't understand why modern software isn't error correcting. We shouldn't
have any bugs in this day and age.
For example, if you're missing a dependency then why doesn't your program try
to, I dunno, download that dependency to the program's installation directory
and use it there? Seriously there are very few problems that are unsolvable!
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If you look at the modern state of machine learning and AI and can only think
of:chatbotssingularity god-mind AI that solves all our problems
then either you haven't worked with the technology or you are not applying your
imagination as you could.
AI is not a smartphone. It is not the internet. It is not the printing press.
AI (as it currently exists) is a special kind of "if" statement that you only
use for very specific, non-performance intensive tasks that require judgement
or reasoning and cannot easily be translated into numbers or booleans. These
situations are rare, but they unlock new possibilities for the programmers, not
their marketers.
If an LLM can't run on a laptop, then it is useless.
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It should be illegal to lend money acquired from a loan.
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If you visit someone's apartment and have a conversation near an open window,
assume you're being overheard by a kid, a grandma, and a cop.
So, don't talk about illegal things, use curse words, or mention sex and drugs.
Also don't give out any specifically identifying information if you can help it.
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║ How do you go from determinism to sentience? Nature's response is a collection │
║ of primitive operations applied at a mind-boggling scale to create a human. │
║ │
║ But we, as enlightened bundles of matter, can abstract chemical reactions and │
║ complex interactions into systems which have inputs and outputs. │
║ │
║ What more is a brain but a soup of neurons which form ever-strengthening │
║ connections between flexibly interpreted operation patterns? Connect up this │
║ versatile and dynamic wiring to input and outputs via sensor arrays and │
║ nerve-signal distribution points and give it a good 20+ years of continuous │
║ operation and hey you got a graduate student. │
║ │
║ "Ah, but how can it tell right from wrong?" I hear nobody in particular ask │
║ │
║ The answer is pain. The pain of losing a loved one, as they play with someone │
║ else on the playground instead of you after you broke their doll. The pain of │
║ stubbing your toe because you were walking around at night in the dark like a │
║ dummy. Pain... can be an excellent teacher. │
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║ But what about love? hm │
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[Image: 20240620_225657.jpg]
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fucking updates
I know right like why is the UI different this sucks
yeah and it might even be a different program - SORRY TO INTERRUPT
new thought incoming
grrrr how rude for interrupting
anyways darn I forgot
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"I am god and so are you (though most people don't realize it)"
- an essay in 1838 parts by a strange person
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these two things took me all evening. I played some video games too. I put them
in one so you don't have to see so many of them.
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candy should be medicine to soothe the soul, not snacks
...zzzZZZzzz...
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Anytime someone updates their profile picture it should get a period of like,
two weeks where it turns into a gif which cycles back and forth between the new
and the old picture, so that followers can remember who is who
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@user-217
quantum jellyfish
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@user-1109
do it in a random color each time! Here's my implementation for viewing txt
files colorfully:
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@user-28
because "deserving money" to a reasonable person sounds like "deserving access
to the goods and services that a pittance might afford"
but to them "deserving money" means "did they earn those luxuries with their
own luck and effort like me, a person who works very hard and definitely has
earned everything I have"
basically, a "blood sweat and tears" tax before you can have nice things like
roofs and clothes and nourishment
thing is... life is hard for people who need dollars. Their judgement reflects
a lack of understanding of what people who lack resources go through.
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"Ugh, policing AI agents as they interact with the internet and run our economy
for us is soooooo boring. hey I have an idea! Let's automate it!"
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║ The best tip I have for people new to Linux is every time you solve a problem, │
║ put the solution in a script. In addition, put the operations necessary to undo │
║ the operation you just performed into a separate script (or function in the │
║ same script) │
║ │
║ It's not hard. It's very easy. Its basically just typing things into a text │
║ document instead of entering them one-by-one in your terminal. But now if you │
║ ever need to solve the same problem twice, you just need to look through all │
║ the scripts you've written instead of trying to relearn how to fix the thing │
║ you're working on. │
║ │
║ Plus, if you ever need to disable what you did, well there it is, you're good │
║ to go. You can use chatGPT for things like text parsing or whatever, like "hey │
║ can you write me a sed command that does this exact thing that I'm going to │
║ enumerate and spell out for you" followed up by "that didn't quite work, the │
║ desired behavior was this, but when I ran the script provided it did this" boom │
║ you're a Linux administrator now, heres your rubber duck. │
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American ingredient lists be like:thing-that-you're-eatingsugarcane sugarcorn
syruphigh-fructose corn syrupdextrosesucralosenatural flavorsartifical coloring
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@user-579
OMG I've never met someone who also uses Void - it's the best distro for my
purposes!
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@user-579
Yeah if there isn't a package in the package manager XBPS then I usually just
install it from source. Which is ALSO something you can automate with a quick
and easy script! Just put all the notes from the README on Github or whatever
into a file named "update" and put that one level above the project directory!
For any installed program my file hierarchy usually looks like:
program-name
- run (script)
- update (script)
- files (directory to clone into)
- configs (point the program here)
I find that this kind of organization makes it MUCH easier to keep my packages
configured and installed as I'd like. Using a package manager is hard because
they're all specific per distro, but using this distro-agnostic approach always
seems to work better 9/10 times I find.
And if another program needs a library that you manually installed, just
symlink where it's looking to point to where you're installed! Or vice versa I
guess.
I use DWM so I don't have a desktop like KDE or anything like that
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