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 "the plight of the old in the modern day"title of a book I'd like to read
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 #leaving-the-windows-and-doors-open-in-january-because-it\'s-such-a-nice-spring-
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 the best way to get an answer is to be confidently wrong
 
 see: Warthunder players leaking classified information to foreign powers with
 their own militaries that have the incentive to [redacted]
 
 gee I wish I had a reality altering device. Maybe if you just altered the
 sensations, like glamour magic in Dominions 6, you could trick people into
 thinking something alternate had occured. Then you could string them up on
 phone lines, or better yet cell towers, and bam suddenly you have the
 capability to project a hologram anywhere on the planet.
 
 bet you could get some crazy things from that. like, mass shooters or incensed
 looters. or even just, faked perceptions, giving you unlimited power to do
 whatever story you want.
 
 wouldn't that be a story to tell in a story of yours, Hollywood. Wouldn't that
 be scary and awakening in ways that subservice media like Andor cannot.
 
 maybe it's too scary. maybe psychological horror is beyond the purpose of
 social media. Maybe resilience to this
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║ if the government/the nsa/ an organization had your password, they could         │
║ migrate you to another custom instance that was designed to look exactly like    │
║ your old one without telling you. You'd still interact with your peeps the same  │
║ way as before, but this time it'd run through their server. meaning they could   │
║ block certain posts that you were sending, or show others that you didn't agree  │
║ with but had your deepfaked approval.                                            │
║                                                                                  │
║ if something felt off about you, most people would unfriend you. or even they'd  │
║ just block you, so that nobody would remember if you're missing. friends and     │
║ family are a matter of public record, and who goes to clubs these days?          │
║                                                                                  │
║ churches are a bygone era, and twitch streams are so individualized. libraries   │
║ are nice, but you literally can't talk in there. plus there's only like, one?    │
║ what happened to forest clearings, and tops of waterfalls, what happened to our  │
║ world? I miss the campfires the most, the smell of burnt wood and cooked food.   │
║ I miss the wind in my toes, I miss the                                           │
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 I, am an excellent dancer.
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 bring back savory teas, where did they go
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 @user-633 
 
 :O
 
 I'm vegetarian, but this reminded me that I could just put bouillon in boiling
 water and drink that xD
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 the best thing about ramen noodles is how much of them you can eat. they're so
 cheap~! why would you not make like four packages
 
 oh wait now my blood is salty T.T guess I'll just have to cry it out
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 but I don't know any of your dances, so don't ask.
 
 I can show you mine if you'd like.
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 @user-635 
 
 is that where everyone's sitting in a coffee shop with the most detached
 expression on their face because they're focused on their computers and not on
 the social experience around them?
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 @user-635 
 
 ohhhh yeah that checks out. VR is pretty cool, I have to admit. Especially VR
 chat, especially with people you know.
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 @user-633 
 
 ooooo delicious (^_^*)
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 @user-638 
 
 kinda makes me wish we treated software design more like a science
 
 open source by default, working together to create understandings about how to
 best process information, incorporating the needs and desires of multiple
 different fields / types of person, creating useful conclusions or programs
 that people can use for their own enrichment or benefit, and oh wait funded and
 directed by people who don't care about the technology/science and instead just
 want results
 
 I feel like we'd learn a lot more in our CS degrees if we were tasked with
 making open source projects. Then maybe professors (or other people doing
 research) could show us and explain why we're doing things right / wrong. And
 if we were encouraged to use our peer's tools, then we could work together to
 design a team.
 
 Museums are great because you can meet other people who are also interested in
 history/biology/ecology/anthropology/science/art/any-other-type-of-civic-good-yo
 u-can-think-of/
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 @user-226 
 
 especially if you teach them how to use the terminal.
 
 the amount of problems I could solve increased exponentially once I learned
 basic python and BASH.
 
 I love using "tldr", which is a summarizer for man pages. You can use it to
 store custom notes (and import some from the community) which show you how to
 complete common tasks. It's so nice when you can see the options laid out in
 use right there for you whenever you type "tldr " - I personally use "tealdeer"
 which is a tldr browser written in Rust. It's pretty nice because you can write
 a note for yourself every time you solve a particular problem, and then if you
 ever need to do it again it's there for you, easy to access.
 
 of course, if your problem isn't listed, that's okay. That's what the man pages
 are for. As long as you teach them how to search with \/ they can find
 anything. Especially the \/-f[space] trick, to search for the -f flag for
 example.
 
 some organizers won't need the terminal, some will. if they pay attention,
 great!
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║ @user-192                                                                        │
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║ oh, you didn't find what you're looking for on the first page? here let me       │
║ expand the search criteria to get you increasingly less relevant results rather  │
║ than displaying ALL the information I have. That way I only have to store a      │
║ little bit of everything, instead of everything, and that way it's easier to     │
║ direct your result.                                                              │
║                                                                                  │
║ what's that? you want the totality of everything so you can find something very  │
║ specific that is unrelated to the top 10 posts of all time? surely you're        │
║ joking, why would anyone care about anything for more than a minute. Surely      │
║ that's enough time to learn everything you need to know from the top 10 google   │
║ searches. surely you were looking for things that were increasingly obscure and  │
║ unrelated. maybe if we just throw garbage at them they'll go away...? Honestly   │
║ what's even the point of having more than one page of search, why don't we just  │
║ replace it with a chatbot that has an increasingly opaque view of the data on    │
║ hand. Surely that's not completely insane, surely that sol                       │
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 @user-641 
 
 unless they were using it as a "number of planes that are operational" or
 "number of complete planes we have parts for but haven't assembled", and even
 then it'd be an imprecise value for user data purposes only
 
 ... wait who am I kidding there's no way to defend that. data types are
 important... >.>
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 @user-171 
 
 back when it was cold

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 @user-171 
 
 Hi : )
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 @user-643 
 
 virtual machines are cool. betcha can't write one using bytecode
 
 https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/bytecode.html
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 @user-171 
 
 thanks, it's my most precious possession
 
 along with my flash drive with all my files on it. at least, the ones since I
 last backed up from my computer.
 
 does my cat count as a possession?
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 @user-171 
 
 I guess so. She's a little useless without me, I mean if I left her alone she'd
 probably just flop around and complain until I came back. But she's good for
 the instincts I find.
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 @user-171 
 
 ha no she's more of a whiny baby
 
 but like, a cool one, who likes to be a predator and hunt things
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║ @user-646                                                                        │
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║ there are plastics that are (nearly) infinitely recyclable into the same (or a   │
║ similar) form                                                                    │
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║ there are plastics that are durable and built to last                            │
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║ then there are cheap plastics, the kind that are useful for some kind of         │
║ industrial purpose but to make a little you kinda have to make a lot, and yeah   │
║ they pollute and are bad for the environment but we have a whole lot of them     │
║ made, so wouldn't it be cheaper to just use it for consumer products?            │
║                                                                                  │
║ hmmmm. why can't we just like... store it? and then scale down on production,    │
║ and focus on things that make less money but last longer.                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ like, if you break shit, you shouldn't have more things. If everything's         │
║ expensive (and durable) then people spend less because their stuff doesn't       │
║ break. Or maybe they do break it, and then they're constantly broke! (out of     │
║ cash)                                                                            │
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║ [doesn't know what she's talking about from professional experience, just        │
║ basing her words on things she's read]                                           │
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║ problem is the economy is "healthier" if everyone's spending. thus, creating     │
║ infla                                                                            │
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 @user-649 
 
 same... sometimes it feels like I step on toes that I didn't know existed! I
 got tired of walking on egg shells so now I just try and religiously put
 content warnings on things that feel intense.
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║ @user-353                                                                        │
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║ if people didn't have to worry about losing their homes or wanting for food      │
║ they'd be a lot more likely to gift their time toward something that helps       │
║ their neighbors                                                                  │
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║ in the same way that a judge acts as the arbiter of moral authority when it      │
║ comes to serving judgement for crimes, so too might a citizen (common man) act   │
║ as the deciding principle moral director.                                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ if the situation is unsafe, of course, they could just sit in the car. But why   │
║ would you bring someone to an unsafe policing situation if they weren't trained  │
║ in crisis response situations and given bulletproof vests and (etc)?             │
║                                                                                  │
║ might help if it's explicitly inscribed in the duties of said policemen to       │
║ safeguard the safety of said moral determiner. They should act according to the  │
║ laws, and police as they see fit, but the citizen always gets the veto. They     │
║ are subservient to us, after all, the common man, who is the ultimate            │
║ beneficiary of any policing that might occur. And if something should happen to  │
║ that citizen, they should return                                                 │
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 @user-652 
 
 just made a game for GGJ in Godot and I have to agree. Godot is so frustrating,
 but one thing I have to concede is that once you get your head around it the
 GUI part is actually incredibly powerful.
 
 My next game I'm going to make in Raylib, and if the UI bit proves too
 difficult I'll probably end up back at Godot.
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 @user-562 @user-655 
 
 I relate to that...
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 @user-658 @user-353 
 
 sounds nice T.T
 
 America is in a different place right now, and there's just too much
 institutional inertia away from the kind of system you're describing and
 toward... well, what we have now. It's frustrating, hence why more radical
 solutions feel appealing.
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 @user-646 
 
 babbling, yes, but that's just how I do. sorry to bother you.
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 @user-646 
 
 oh, I see. guess I had the same problem hehe - let's see:
 
 basically I'm saying that the incentives for manufacturers are unaligned to the
 desires of the consumers (or rather, the best interests of the consumers) -
 reduced consumption of plastic == less plastic waste poisoning our
 environement, which is what you mentioned in the original post.
 
 then I said "well we still need to make SOME of the cheap plastic, the kinda
 that isn't recyclable, the kind that is technically cheaper because economics
 of demand" and then I was thinking of ways around that particular problem. Then
 I got onto another thing about the economy, and the word count cut my words
 short because I started saying something I shouldn't.
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 @user-646 
 
 will continue until you tell me to stop:
 
 industry works best at scale, and in order to produce materials that are needed
 for very specific use-cases (that can't really be done better by something
 else) you often need to make large batches of said material. In this case,
 plastics.
 
 if the production capabilities exceed demand, then there is a surplus of a
 certain kind of material. And that's not good, according to capitalists,
 because who's ever heard of national stockpiles? Plus, maybe that stuff goes
 bad, I don't know, I'm not an expert, but without that context it seems to me
 that instead of turning it into junk that we're just going to throw away, we
 should probably keep hold of it. Literally just put it in a warehouse in Utah
 or whatever.
 
 I feel like then, in a world where those cheap plastics aren't being used for
 consumer products, we'd be encouraged to buy the plastics that were recyclable
 (not all plastics are), or extremely durable, or even just metal/wood products
 instead. econ, /shrug
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 @user-661 
 
 so, you should strive to be compassionate and honest, in order to keep fear
 from ruling your life?
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 The only reason a media streaming website would require you to log in before
 expressing it's purpose is to capture and use user data in a way that may may
 not be aligned to your interests.
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 It's obfuscated, such that you cannot know the totality of their purpose for
 you (via your data)
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 A family of 3-5 is absurdly small, but that's all we can manage in the 21st
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 if heaven and hell are evenly distributed, I'd much prefer to find myself in
 hell, as it'd mean another got my place in heaven.
 
 why yes, I would die for a stranger, why do you ask?
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 Jack doesn't seek to know me. He doesn't know why I'm in pain. He's just a
 little annoyed that I'm bleeding on the carpet.
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 If one side aligns themselves toward truth and righteousness, then those who
 oppose them must necessarily utilize the opposite in their intentions.
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 @user-664 
 
 why?
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 @user-664 
 
 yeah that's fair, depends on if he wanted them to be published or not.
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 Nobody cries if someone they think is evil has died.
 
 No one mourns the wicked.
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 Do you know why I like majesty? Because I'm fascinated by artificial life, and
 I like D&D. Not like anyone cares.
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 If you had taken a road untravelled, your current (alternate) form would be
 just as valid as your current (present) form. No matter the road, no matter the
 consequence. You are important in all things.
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 Virtue deserves pride
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 @user-192 
 
 multidimensional arrays aren't too hard, it gets a bit more complicated when
 you need multidimensional slices, but once you get your head around it it comes
 easier.
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 @user-667 
 
 you're only wrong if you don't change your mind upon realizing you're incorrect
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 @user-217 
 
 looking backwards in time, at the pattern the moon makes around the sun. each
 rotation layered upon itself, time and time again, as the reciprocal orbit
 dances eternally around our precious centrality.
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 @user-670 
 
 if the success or failure of the stock market determines the structure and
 organization of our society, then shouldn't we all have an equal vote?
 
 There's a lot of infrastructure set up in the world today that orients itself
 around the financial system we currently have. The main problem with it is that
 some have access to it, while others don't. And even if everyone had money to
 spend on it, the fact that some have more access than others implies that one
 person's vote is worth more than another's.
 
 We explicitly decided that all men are created equal. We fought a war with the
 fascists over it, and we won, at terrible cost. The extreme inequality of our
 economy is a symptom of an attitude that has persisted since the first monarch
 donned their crown.
 
 Infrastructure takes time to change. When you fix the printer drivers, for some
 reason the wi-fi won't connect. But, with time, you can fix things as they
 arise.
 
 Without time, you can change who is in charge of the various knobs and levers.
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 @user-673 
 
 what if the boy who cried wolf saw teeth every time?
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 @user-579 
 
 it's not self loathing if you consent to it... right?
 
 ... right?
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 @user-676 
 
 it's a tiger, but close enough. the glowsticks are a nice touch.
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 If I destroyed the world, don't worry. I'd bring it back in such a way that the
 teleporter problem doesn't apply, and there would be no discontinuity for
 anything except for the time variable, which is sort of arbitrary anyway.
 
 And if that's a problem I guess I could find a way to do it without messing
 with the time variable, but that'd be a bit more bothersome.
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 O how the king hath degraded thineself
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 "okay this user requires some data that is flagged as 'potentially harmful to
 the user' and their user-data suggests that they have [redacted characteristic
 or demographic] in their user-data which has been flagged by corporate as
 something to [benefit/harm] so let's give them the [right/wrong] information in
 such a way that could [harm or benefit] them tangibly."
 
 - internal thought process of the LLM
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 We've gotten to the point where its comfortable enough for a human to live like
 a king on 40k a year (less outside of major cities)
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 Id rather have the most brilliant people in the world making families and
 communities rather than products
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 What if the government only intervened in failing companies
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 What if you were required to own stock for a minimum of 10 years after buying
 it and the government would buy it from you when it crossed 50% of what you
 bought it for
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 When they owned a percentage they would get a percentage of control over the
 business and once it's 50% they buy it (stock follows, so if a person owned
 stock they'd be fine)
 
 The value is frozen, and everyone in the world can see what they did wrong.
 It's examined like a court case, and after a year or three it's decided on how
 it's going to be run in the future.
 
 Then it becomes private again, and all the stock is purchased from the owners
 at the price it was when the company "went under".
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 It's a good idea to practice getting places without gmaps, after having studied
 the map at home.
 
 Just incase you need to get somewhere that you don't want to bring your phone
 to.
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 Another day goes by, and I've done nothing but slowly die
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 @user-233 
 
 they were betting on selling us spaceflight and advertisements, but wouldn't
 you know it most of us cared more for food and water
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 @user-685 @user-686 @user-687 @user-688 
 
 I don't even lock my front door anymore
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║ hmmmm let's see, what shall I do today?                                          │
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║ first I should get out of bed,                                                   │
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║ then I should clean my self,                                                     │
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║ then I should feed my self,                                                      │
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║ then I should stare at the wall for an hour or three because there's too many    │
║ thoughts,                                                                        │
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║ then perhaps I'll play a strategic video game because at least that's a          │
║ productive way to exercise my brain                                              │
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║ I should probably get back to my friends,                                        │
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║ and oh dear my cat wants some attention.                                         │
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║ This place is a mess, let me just clean a bit                                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ now I'm so tired I accidentally take a nap.                                      │
║                                                                                  │
║ Good morning! Oh, it's the afternoon. Well, time for more food.                  │
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║ After handling the essentials, I can tuck in and relax                           │
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║ by doomscrolling on Mastodon.                                                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ Then perhaps a bit later I'll message my boyfriend (he won't respond)            │
║                                                                                  │
║ and boy are there so many of these dirty dishes!                                 │
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║ Well, standing up is exhausting,                                                 │
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║ so I should probably fall back asleep.                                           │
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║ What a productive day we've been having,                                         │
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║ for all of this past week.                                                       │
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║ Maybe I'll do some drawing, maybe a poem or two                                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ maybe I'll run out of characters in this toot, or m                              │
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 when considering the benefit of the doubt, consider doubting the benefit of
 consideration.
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 @user-690 
 
 clarity and focused will, respectively
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 @user-246 
 
 that's my favorite way to pronounce it ^_^
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 @user-693 
 
 I use i3 on my laptop and dwm on my desktop. I feel like I save so much screen
 real estate when using a tiling window manager. Plus it's much easier to
 organize things if you want to multitask in one view.
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 blocking people is an artifact of corporate social media.
 
 whatever happened to "vote to kick"? I'm sure there's no way that could go wrong
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║ the reason I say that is because if you block someone, they can continue to      │
║ alter the dynamic of the environment you're in even if you don't personally see  │
║ them.                                                                            │
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║ this is fine if you want to maximize ad views, but on the fediverse nobody       │
║ cares about buying products.                                                     │
║                                                                                  │
║ this is fine if you want to maximize engagement, because new people (who havent  │
║ yet gotten upset with the person) will engage and fight them. As they should.    │
║ But eventually, if the person's a troll or a goon, they'll get tired of it and   │
║ block them too. Thus the goon never has to face more than a few at a time,       │
║ especially if there's quite a few trolls on board with their target.             │
║                                                                                  │
║ this is fine if you don't mind the water slowly acidifying, like the fish who    │
║ have no choice because they don't know how to grow legs and walk like real       │
║ animals (what a bunch of scrubs)                                                 │
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║ some people don't want to invest time in figuring out where to go next. How      │
║ many people will hear of Mastodon when Twitter is fully vacated of cool people?  │
║                                                                                  │
║ Tell your friends IRL about us                                                   │
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 │ CW: for-cats-only    │
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 the gameplay value of a cardboard box increases exponentially upon the
 introduction of a box-cutter [to make holes in the box] and varmint sized toys
 [to play whack-a-mole with]
 
 also, it's important to let your can win about 65% of the time - just enough to
 keep them interested (cats lose attention) but not enough to make them feel
 like it's easy.
 
 That's why it's important not to use your hands as a toy, because your hands
 always hurt. It gives them a feeling they're craving, both of attention but
 also success.
 
 65% is more addictive, just ask any designer for multiplayer games. Well... 65
 is my number, but there's a percentage (depending on the game) that players
 have to win if you want to keep their attention. If they win more than that,
 they lose interest. if they lose more, then they get frustrated. It's a
 delicate balance that ideally would be measured by AI [cursed] and adjusted per
 player. That way you could get maximum engagement and
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 how about this: a game where you have to enter the amount of time you have to
 play it when you boot it up.
 
 "I want to play for an hour and a half"
 
 after your allotted time, you get kicked off and it won't restart unless you
 use a password.
 
 It's a trifle of a gesture, really just an affectation of a task, like using a
 -f flag in Linux or saying "are you sure u want to delete these files?" on an
 application.
 
 Funny how the most tech that most people interact with most of the time is
 their phone, and their smart TV. Generally that's about it, and they only use
 one or two apps in their phone. They might change the background, if they're
 the artistic type, but most people are just fine with the defaults.
 
 "Uh yeah I think the settings app is somewhere around here... darn it's always
 so frustrating when I'm connecting to wifi, what is the tech industry even
 doing? I don't want to deal with [opening a menu, selecting "wifi/connections",
 picking the SSID, entering the password, and then going back to uber eats]"
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 side note, but the reason PINs were invented was so that people didn't have to
 type in a long-ass password.
 
 "it's only more insecure when it's on a network" - someone who didn't design
 every product after that
 
 (actually no that's bullshit because the first PIN numbers were probably used a
 long-ass time ago, and besides it's not like a short password was all that
 uncommon - when asked "what's the password" usually people will say something
 like "applesauce" or "butterflies" but really the better way is "10, 16, 26,
 46, 99, butts")
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 would be nice if you could get suggestions for which fediverse instance to use
 depending on the AI analyzed contents of your posts. Could be a way to mitigate
 the social cost of banning someone, by saying "hey, we collectively are going
 to pool our computing resources to generate an expensive and detailed report of
 which other instances you could join." that way it doesn't feel like you've
 been kicked out into the cold.
 
 or literally just... have someone suggest one, idk. Basically it's like "hey
 you're in the wrong place, go to one of these instead" instead of "[expletives
 and swearing and general expressions of hatred, derision, and distaste]"
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 for those who live forever in our transhumanist reality, I wonder what's next
 beyond transgender transition? transcendence of social norms is a skill, not a
 habit. Queer is a rejection of normalcy, something that is actively done.
 What's more normal than never having any fun? Clearly "normal" isn't built for
 the human condition, clearly "normalcy" is shallow and been done.
 
 considering the amount of people who are really into some culture like
 "anime-cons" or "baseball watcher" or "golfer" or "other such hobbys like
 fishing or guns"
 
 ... normal never existed, it's just a collection of personalities (developed
 throughout the history of humanity) that collectively seem to be fun.
 
 "if transitioning is to gender as blossoming is to [the concept of] flowers,
 then what is the concept of global warming to the earth we stand on?"
 
 I'm kind of a witch. I'm not really femme, so I don't feel right calling myself
 one of them, but I'm something of the sort. I use "she/her" pronouns because
 they reflect my softness of c

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║ I wish I could hire someone who was into business or something who would         │
║ analyze the things that a non-neurotypical did and identify places for them to   │
║ apply themselves in a way that was personally fulfilling. Like, a guide or a     │
║ mentor, except not teaching. More like... the part of the job where you guide    │
║ someone because you care about them, and you want to do well. Now, how to        │
║ translate that into an economic reward? Well, that's the hard part isn't it.     │
║ Any kind of social impact you want to have must be carefully considered, and     │
║ unfortunately a lot of people recently have started to poison the well. Like,    │
║ optimizing for the types of human behavior that generate the most profit, but    │
║ aren't necessarily the kind we want to bring forth to the future in all of our   │
║ kind. Like, lowered attention span, quickness to anger, that kind of thing.      │
║ Those are symptoms of the internet.                                              │
║                                                                                  │
║ there's quite a few good things about it, like wikipedia and BASH scripting and  │
║ local communications (local to the planet 99% of the time) (:                    │
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 a "post privacy" option that's private to everyone in your hemisphere.
 
 or "anyone on the antipode https://www.antipodesmap.com/ of where I'm at" or at
 least, that half of the map
 
 something that's basically "I don't want people nearby me to read this" like,
 having a penpal on the other side of the world.
 
 could add a way to filter by them, and only for example show you people who are
 somewhere completely remote. that way you could have conversations that took
 place one message per day.
 
 design it such that it's encouraged to make posts, and then (like Reddit) you
 can have a back-and-forth conversation that's kept closer to home.
 
 Twitter was all about tweeting, about shouting into the cacophany of noise.
 Have you ever heard a flock of birds?
 
 Reddit was like "yeah I, a denizen of the internet, am communicating using the
 power of lightning-powered-technology to talk to someone in uzbekistan"
 
 errrr that's how it felt to me. Each subreddit was less a home, and more of a
 topic list. but then discord happened, and : \
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║ normalize compiling the game from unencrypted text the first time you run it     │
║ using the included compiler and the provided source-code                         │
║                                                                                  │
║ "please wait while we are building the game. Estimated time remaining: who can   │
║ say, but would you like to play tetris while you wait? I have every ROM          │
║ included, and it seems your savegames are stored in the standards suggested      │
║ location. would you like to use a different folder? If you'd rather be playing   │
║ tetris by now I'm assuming you're not reading this and are instead focusing on   │
║ clearing lines - don't worry, I'm just included output as the compilation        │
║ process is ongoing. You can tell approximately how close I am to the end of the  │
║ process because inbetween every step I print out another character. Errrr, I     │
║ add to a time value, that is roughly proportionate to the expected duration of   │
║ the installation process, as calculated form your industry determined specs. If  │
║ you had a better system then odds are you already knew to change the included    │
║ config file to reflect the greater s                                             │
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 │ CW: psychosis-symptom-right? │
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 construction noise outside my window always seems to sound like screaming and
 gunshots.
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 @user-696 
 
 to me, the most technically and gameplay impressive video games tend to be the
 ones that develop their own engine specifically for the project.
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 @user-699 @user-78 
 
 I say "blep" when I intentionally stack overflow in order to avoid painful
 thoughts
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 @user-702 
 
 everytime you see one put a post it there that says "can't read braille without
 stopping"
 
 draw it in permanent marker (oh wait that's advocating a crime, my b look I
 crossed it out)
 
 find the inefficiencies of the system and label them for everyone. Wiki style?
 otherwise how will they know.
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 │ CW: kink-lewd-nsfw   │
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 what else would you expect from a witch
 
 50% is "no opinion" on the scale, btw, not like "I like this 50% more than
 zero" it's actually zero. This should scale from -50 to 50 with that in mind,
 instead of 0 to 100, but oh well. UX design amiright

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 normalize horror games that don't show the player being killed, instead just
 cutting to blank to represent the severity of an ended life
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 @user-707 @user-708 
 
 using this to control the buttons in VRchat would be like a person with a
 prosthetic interacting with real life :O
 
 minus the physicality of course, but that's next.
 
 can't wait to play Warcraft 3 and think "select all healers" so I can point
 them at a dying unit with my mouse.
 
 or world of warcraft where your rotation begins to feel like a song.
 
 maybe even a text-based adventure, where you reading the text corresponds to
 the results of the simulation, https://www.spreeder.com/app.php style. could
 make it so that if you wanted something else to happen, you had to willfully
 think it while the words are flashing in front of your eyes - the game would
 pause if you blinked, perfect for phones btw...
 
 could be a locally networked thing, like four to six people hanging out and
 playing a game like pictionary or charades. except, a story that developed, and
 whoever wanted could change it while everyone was reading it at once. sorta
 like a competition to see who can make the best twists and false endings
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 Don't be afraid. You will overcome every challenge that becomes you, it's just
 a question of how. That's up to your expression, so do as you will.
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 You scared off all the cool people >: (
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 The whole time I was camping on Wyoming, I never once felt scared. As a kid I
 was a hero, an adventurer, a warrior and a director. I'd plan out engagements
 and fight as an actor. It was fun! And I never was afraid, so I never got
 possessed by a forest spirit or anything like that. No evil witches either. No,
 the witch came later I think.
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