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@user-883
no? ! ?
EDIT: but now I have xD xD
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listen if your man page is more than like, 10 pg-down's, then you might want to
consider breaking that utility up into smaller pieces.
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@user-883
ffmpeg is an example of a swiss army knife and I prefer fixed-blade knives
gandalf voice
keep it simple, keep it safe
plus if something goes wrong and ffmpeg isn't supported anymore then you need
to redo a lot of your BASH infrastructure. However if only one of the tools
failed, then it wouldn't be so hard. And if every tool had a man page with
like, 3 pages tops, then it wouldn't be too hard to figure out which one to use.
... though I guess there's a benefit to having a larger tool that can store
lots of functionality so you can say "I know I need ffmpeg, but I'm not sure
how" versus "I know I need some random obscure package that I have no way of
knowing, so I'll google it and give a tech company data about what specific
thing I'm looking for"
do one thing and do it well, but they never said how big the thing must be.
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at this point in the internet, if you don't want your data to be used for AI
then you shouldn't be using the internet.
though they have plenty of information already. I mean, you've been using the
internet for what, 20 years now? More?
... that's a lot of hard drives. Especially if they need to duplicate info
somewhere. Ah well there's lots of stuff that doesn't matter, like old video
game footage or the personal website of a person who would go on to influence
this other person who would lead this other person to learn how to do a thing
which would... eventually culminating in an expression of culture, which would
not be able to be understood if not for the archival efforts of people like
archive.org.
... what I'm saying is that the internet, as a culture, is impossible to
understand without swimming in it. And for some reason they've filled it with
cameras, watching the every movement of your fins or flippers or whatever
humans grow with these days.
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@user-969 @user-970
When you choose, you choose a 33% chance
when they choose which door to remove, they are removing 50% of the possible
wrong answers.
which means when you get the chance to choose again, your 33% chance (which is
locked in stone) is now boosted to a 50% chance, but only if you switch.
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my mom used to always say "the computer will always do exactly what you tell it
to" and I've since learned that "the computer's obedience is why you make
backups"
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in other news, I spent ~9 hours yesterday working on a dumb project that I'll
probably tell you about once it's finished, and then a BASH script that my
friend and I wrote just deleted every single file because I failed to terminate
a sed command. Or something, still not entirely sure what happened, because it
deleted the script that was doing the deleting.
good thing I have backups from ~3 hours ago. Feels great to lose 33% of a
project for nothing.
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Picture this: IRC with images
end to end encrypted, stored only locally in txt and png files on each
participant's computers, and... that's it. that's literally it. the perfect
communication application.
everyone's "username" is just their public key and a custom label is assigned
to them locally
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martial arts are an art in the same way that plinking is target practice.
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the sun doesn't seem as bright if you spend your days underneath it.
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@user-973
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whenever something like this happens I think about how we rely on digital
infrastructure to understand the status of the world. And then I think about
who controls that infrastructure.
kinda makes me wonder if it's blocked for a certain group of people who they
temporarily don't want to be able to tell their distant friends and family
about anything going on around them
but like, I'm not a doctor, I'm just a person. It's probably just a networking
outage. That kind of thing happens all the time because some technician
accidentally unplugged a server while working on a different nearby server and
WHOOPS now Cloudflare is down. Wild.
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I don't love nature because I want to be in it. I love nature because I believe
it is important.
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🥕 That's just called statistics. And if y'ain't systematizin' your
statistics properly and rigorously then it's even worse than divinin' entrails
cause numbers are easier to believe.
I don't love nature because I want to be in it. I love nature because nature is
important.
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Give different regions different starting cosmetics @legiontd
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@user-883
you can always throw that resume at the next job too!
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If corporations can't be held liable for the content we post, then we own that
content. And if we own it, they cannot use it.
Ah, but scrapers. Sounds like the ISPs responsibility.
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Also, if they delete it we should be entitled to a copy of it so we can post it
elsewhere. Otherwise they're destroying our content, which they orient their
business around and which we own.
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why don't we teach git in high school?
oh yeah, because microsoft word is not plain text.
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I don't think I've ever appreciated a notification Steam has sent me about my
friend's playing games. If they wanted to play with me they would text me.
It does, however, make me think about video games more. And seeing their name
makes me think of them, which makes me feel closer to them without actually
interacting. Which is kind-of an anti-behavior, like facebook stalking
except... paying attention to what your friends are playing and when and how
much and... not good.
I know a lot of people who are permanently offline on Steam because of reasons
like that. But, of course, they can still see everyone else, which feels like
an anti-pattern...
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║ │ CW: cursing-mentioned-eye-contact │ │
║ └───────────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ If you're worried about passing, take what you're good at and make it gay. │
║ │
║ Do you wear band t-shirts and black jeans? Great you're an emo girl now, │
║ totally reasonable transitionary state before you end up as a cute anime girl │
║ with spinny uwu dresses or whatever your heart desires │
║ │
║ do you generally stick to jeans and sweatshirts? Okay congrats you're just as │
║ cute, don't feel inadequate just because you like being comfy. Hell yeah you're │
║ cute as fuck, you know you are, I mean just look at that smile! Wow damn │
║ │
║ like, switch the gender, not the vibe. not only will other people be cool with │
║ it but also, like, you won't alter the course of your trajectory. │
║ │
║ unless that's what you want, but TBH if you're both enigmatic AND phlegmatic │
║ [EDIT: but like the opposite of phlegmatic, I always get the definition wrong] │
║ then you can change a lot and people won't rely on you to be a certain way. │
║ │
║ ... you know you can delete things before you post them, right? Ha I've never │
║ even heard of the word. │
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@user-883
... it's so the AI content scraping algorithm that inevitably trawls the
fediverse (or even just one server) knows the subject of the text / picture in
question. That way it can use past posts by other people to communicate with
specific "targets" if you will by saying "uhhh okay make this person feel fine"
and the AI's like "yeah sure I can do that hang on" and it posts real posts by
others with the modified profile picture, cadence, tone of voice, personality,
memories, whatever variables they want when compared to the person they're
playing in the conversation with the person or "target" if you will that
they're "target" if you will-ing.
... wait actually that's not the reason, what the hey. It's because that way
people who are uncomfortable being seen don't have to if they filter all that
out.
... Idk it's useful information for whatever filtering methods or reasons you
have. Content classification is important for both archival purposes and for
utilization toward any ends or means or go
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║ some people are the memory kind of autistic, where they know everything about a │
║ thing and it's the coolest thing │
║ │
║ I'm more like... the optimizing autistic, where everything has to be perfect. │
║ and if it's not perfect, then you should change it. and if you can't change it, │
║ then you should tell someone else to change it. and if nobody can change it, │
║ then you should consider it part of the context / starting variable and then │
║ just say "okay" and treat it like it's normal and something you should use to │
║ inform the rest of your optimization actions / decisions. │
║ │
║ other people are other kinds of autistic that's not a comprehensive │
║ classification system. But I mention the first kind explicitly so I can │
║ contrast it with my experience, which is implied to be [impulsively?] different │
║ in the kind portrayed in the following contrastion, where I mention how I'm │
║ autistic and don't get "irony" or "sarcasm" that people on the internet seem to │
║ revel in in a way that makes me feel isolated and anyway optimization is great │
║ becaus │
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I configured my portable touch-screen device to hide the clock.
I don't need to know the time, why would I bother? [distract from more
important things to think about.]
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this is my boyfriend/girlfriend, they're who I am most honest with.
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║ company like facebook or whatever using deepfaked versions of your friends to │
║ hang out with you and pretend to be other people... but you're also deepfaked, │
║ so you're interacting and you don't even know it. and based on your │
║ interactions it pushes you closer / farther away, depending on it's meta-goals │
║ - like more of this personality, more of that feeling. The dialogue only sorta │
║ needs to follow, as long as they never realize what's amiss. Well, since you │
║ control all of your communication methods like irc or irl, then there's nothing │
║ to worry about because you can just overwrite what they're saying with things │
║ that don't matter but still need to be said, like lawyer speak in EULAs that │
║ nobody reads because like honestly, why would you right like they're │
║ interesting sometimes but frankly they're unenforceable, right? that's what I │
║ read on a website that someone hosts online that I don't know on a computer │
║ using software that had an EULA that I didn't read. ehhhh you know how it goes, │
║ always along for the ride. │
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you don't always have to get a perfect score >.>
@user-974 aiming for exactly 0 characters remaining
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║ the more cute people I meet on this website the more I realize that I'm not │
║ interesting, I'm just more interesting than the people I know. Big fish in a │
║ small pond is still big, and it's good knowing that you got people around. │
║ │
║ for much of the past, trans people were sorta... underground. Reddit was one of │
║ the first places where they could really be themselves because of the │
║ combination of anonymity and social media interactivity. │
║ │
║ there's this old meme from teh early days of Reddit that goes like this: │
║ Everyone is a bot on Reddit except for you. │
║ │
║ There's this other meme where some guy makes a post that's like "help I │
║ accidentally switched my phone to Japanese and now I can't navigate through the │
║ menu options to fix it!" and everyone in the replies all speak back in perfect │
║ japanese │
║ │
║ I also heard that the US government allocates enough resources such that their │
║ private engineering departments are always about 10-15 years ahead of the │
║ civilian (and by extension, international) sector. When did chatGPT happen? │
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you always think you want something, but then you don't, because expectations
are not reality, and you were just addicted to the feeling of hope.
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being post-op is like "yay I can finally have sex!" but then you think "ehhh
why bother, it's a lot of work"
plus you gotta dilate
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all of the good people I know work at corporations.
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║ whoa, what time is it? "time for your daily sleeping babe" yes babe... │
║ │
║ but first, some horror [beware the psycherwaul, for she likes to dream and has │
║ no idea what she's talking about] │
║ │
║ {why would you post these all at once? people are going to get pissed at you │
║ for breaking rules that you didn't know. And by "you" I of course mean "the │
║ kind of people you are, not you in particular because you know things" and by │
║ "kind of people you are" I mean "the type of person who spends enough time on │
║ the internet to know how internet things generally work" like my goodness │
║ internet people are dramatic. There's sooooo much drama all the time, like... │
║ why │
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║ oh yeah because people are dramatic. duh. How could I be so vain. │
║ │
║ what's your deal │
║ │
║ is it wrong to post links to things you've written in the past? ehh it's not │
║ like there's rules on the sidebar like on Reddit or whatever. what would a │
║ sidebar even look like on Mastodon? │
║ │
║ oh yeah, a person's profile. Except, the consent is backwards, because people │
║ hear what they hear. │
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go to sleep what's wrong with you jeezzzz
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reverse dorian grey where someone looks decently old but every picture of them
gets younger every year
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│ CW: politics │
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all games that you can lose are capitalist games. All of their mechanics are
abstractions upon the competition between the player and the computer (and
possibly other players), which creates a disparity of outcomes - some must win,
others must lose.
I think that's okay, though. There's something inherently satisfying about
power. I believe such interactions should exist in our diversions, not our
institutions.
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they say that slugs don't like salt because they turn into pickles
of course that's not true, cucumbers turn into slugs when fed a diet of leaves
and cucumbers
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everyone has a right to their interpretation of events.
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@user-979 @user-980
they do it for power.
power corrupts, and these profane desires they possess are the definition of
evil.
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a 4th dimensional entity would exist at about the same speed we do
sometimes... it feels like what I do is my responsibility to the universe
like, I had been commanded
the reason nations are important is because they are an allegiance based solely
on geography. something we can all agree on is the material, so why not define
ourselves by it?
but that's all they are
just words we pray to our star
so look around. Your allegiance is to your neighbor, and theirs to theirs, an
endless fabric of trust. We are all neighbors on this ball of sticks and mud,
so come along with me and see the ways it could be.
Much brighter, by far, to orbit our star, than to give up on life's precious
notions.
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the path to defeating hunger lies not in feeding people, but rather in reducing
the prices.
I personally believe in FREEdom as an ideal, and why not strive for the ideal?
to defeat greed, you must banish inequity. Ah, but people like inequity, or
else they wouldn't revere such power.
maybe there's no going back. maybe there's no future. is it really such a crime
to live in the present? I know who I'd like to be -> someone who prepares
the world for posterity.
knock-knock, did your doorbell break? or are you still on vacation? How long's
it been, weeks? months? are you ever coming back again? it's lonely without you
here, I miss you and your neighborly definitions. though I'm sure it's much
brighter, wherever you are, so I think I'll stay here and orbit our star. Much
calmer for me, and this way I don't have to watch you bleed, so take this as my
honest confession.
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City of Villains is a fun game where you can beat up both superheroes and nazis
https://youtu.be/VtyfDBqpTVU
best viewed at 360p in my opinion
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@user-982
funny how that works
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@user-122
hi I looked at your profile and it says you're one of the two people on
tech.lgbt
why are there so few people? when I joined last year there were so many
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competition is valuable because it empowers us through sport.
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"of course, I'm on lots of places on the internet. I know my way around the
territory. I can show you a bit, if you dare, so come on this journey as I
share."some person, some-when, in the future looking at our storied and ancient
past
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the devil shows you the plan, and then prevents all others from understanding.
the angel is when you give up and focus on purity.
what is life if not the will to power? there's nothing stranger than a
follower. [I don't understand that, feels like a diversion]
[huh new paragraph I guess]
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no such thing as a dishonest competition. With the addition of lies it becomes
abuse, perpetuated by (and assigned to) the leader or whoever is foremost.
Like... "Red team won because they were a better shot" versus "blue team just
wanted to play along"
if you let the loser define the narrative, then you will always align yourself
to them. but the other way around is oppression.
everyone has a right to their perspective. It is the only thing that is truly
their own here on this earth - a soul, of a man, if you will.
if you let competition define who needs the most support, rather than who is
the most remarkable, then you'll find that most of your ethical qualms are
quelled or at least stifled. Which is a good thing, right? How would we define
ourselves except against injustices.
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I am dogmatic with my code of ethics. Believe me, or don't, contest me, or not,
I always will do what I trust.
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if you want your game to be playable in 20 years, make sure it runs on Linux.
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Trans girls be like "I'm both Chihiro Fujisaki and Chiaki Nanami" and people
don't understand why they don't get capitalism
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"come home" and "don't go" sound the same. Same for "kill yourself" and "save
yourself". If only there was a universal language that we could speak to our
refridgerator (or other parts of the world prone to tapping) where positive
messages would have a different amount of syllables from negative ones. Ah well
I guess that's why they call it an angel and devil tapping on your
shoulder.
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Inside of me there are two wolves. The first says "wait no I'm actually a
human" and the other says "I'm a witch! Teehee"
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Don't write self documenting code! Force people to read the documentation so
they know how to use it
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[Image: Screenshot_20240113-003148_Firefox.png]
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I wonder how many things I've forgot? More every minute, I'd say, and though I
try and chronicle them all... What's there to say?
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hello everyone, Discord is down for me and I can't reach any of my friends over
SMS.
You know I'd just... give you my address if you asked, right?
oh no sorry turns out they were just busy haha silly me why would I worry
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@user-985
thanks I know what I'm doing with the rest of the day
... once I finish this thing I'm working on. Ah, but the sun is out now, and
the work can wait. The work can always wait. What's one more tomorrow, the
future will not abate! eh that doesn't concern me.
PLUR and be good, I'll be here until I run out of feed [food], and then... well
I'll probably have to go to the grocery store.
... cheers, love the fish
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if you don't like me anymore, and then you hide yourself from me instead of
telling me, I'm going to spend the rest of my life wondering if you're still
alive.
It's a curse you bestow upon me, and it's worse than saying goodbye.
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if you haven't spend hours wondering if you're god, the antichrist, a
cognitohazard, the future president of the world, a target of aliens / the CIA,
or any other number of common delusions... then congratulations you're probably
not crazy
but odds are you aren't magic, either.
... ehhhh "wonder" is a strong word, more like "know, trust, and believe"
much better to be a witch I believe, someone with the "teehee" kind of magic
than someone compelled to destroy humanity through the reactions of others to
the actions of the self that are impossible to resist or fully control.
BRB I'm going to leave my apartment to get groceries, leaving my door unlocked
because that's what I always do, surely it'll be empty when I return. Surely.
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@user-987
somebody yelled the N word at me once while driving, and it's like... bro, I'm
white
maybe they couldn't see beneath the witch-hat
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taking my 3ds everywhere just incase someone else is my age
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if someone wanted to defame you, all they'd have to do is set up a pipeline
between your computer and your social media posts.
In that pipeline, attach an LLM that does a passable job and instruct it to
transform whatever they say into the inverse.
suddenly, everyone hates that person. If you were smart you could turn it off
for specific people such that they see the generally positive and healthy
posts, and then after a point flip it such that they only see things that are
specifically opposit-ed to trigger their specific insecurities.
might require a bit of a human touch to make sure it's working correctly, but
if you had the means, motivation, and time to set up such a thing, it would
work pretty well I think.
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picture this: ramen noodles, but there's more of them, and they aren't bad for
you. They taste slightly less salty.
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there's this fun game that people sometimes play on Reddit where someone will
make a post that says something like "comment on this post and then edit it
after I reply to make me look bad" and someone will say something like "how are
you doing today man" and he'll reply "oh you know pretty good actually it's
pretty nice honestly" and then they'll edit their comment to say something like
"how do you feel about the droid attack on the wookies" so OP looks like
they're condoning mechano-violence against tall furry humanoids
that's just an example, usually it's for comedic effect
I just think that's an interesting illustration of a process that could be
co-opted by a "man-in-the-middle" attack to alter the perception of a person
partway through their journey, perhaps when it's at the point where they're
most despised (or perhaps in pursuit of that state)
something something cancel culture plus deepfakes
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a perpetual motion machine would appear stable to the machine in motion
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if you're gonna kill yourself anyway, might as well throw yourself at a cause
you believe in. Ideally the kind that requires repeated attendance and lots of
opportunities to make friends or forge communal bonds with people who can help
you.
honestly, what do you have to lose? sure it's hard, but nothing worth doing is
easy. If it were, someone else would have done it already.
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@user-246
C, because it's really just a K and an S in a trenchcoat
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@user-521
design structures and institutions such that no person can harm another, no
matter how evil they are.
design structures and institutions such that nobody goes hungry, and nobody is
objectively poor. Unless they keep breaking things or whatever, then you should
maybe let them be destitute.
Good and Evil should contest in the spiritual realm, not the legal one.
"The only unethical act is an application of power to an unconsenting subject"
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@user-990
some of my favorite AI works are from that era! Maybe a bit afterwards too.
Like this one:
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/pictures/game-design-pyrrhic-victory4.png
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changing my profile picture. Here are the old and new pictures, for historical
purposes.
EDIT: changing it back because I can't see the details when it's so zoomed out
>.>
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@user-521
Oh! I didn't realize anyone agreed with me teehee I have such a short memory
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now is as good a time as any to clear your cookies and put every password you
have to re-enter into a password manager. I know it's hard but you can do it!
also, don't forget to request your archive of the fediverse every 7 days or
whenever!
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I miss university because of all the gay people I could hang out with.
I guess I must be lonely.
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humans are most effective when in a cohesive and comprehensive social context.
they don't want you at your best because they are anti-human in nature. Hence,
the alienation of capitalism.
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the gay urge to hang out with men
the lesbian urge to hang out with women
the trans urge to see other trans people naked
... I mean, uh... I'm perfectly normal and reasonable look at me being a
massive qt
... the queer urge to find your people
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│ CW: cursed │
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that one option flag in the config file that you don't know what it does
because the documentation intentionally doesn't explain it very well (or
explains that it solves a use-case that like, nobody would ever have, and
certainly you don't have) that secretly sets a flag which sends your [redacted]
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leftists: social media is bad guys, and here's why: [insert perfectly valid
reason, of which there are many possibilities]
leftists: watch me be an exemplar who practices what they preach
[nobody sees them because they aren't on social media anymore and people don't
know how to make friends IRL anymore preferring instead to speak into a void
that sometimes whispers back]
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the further down you get in the tech tree, the less powerful the benefits
should be.
the most important choices for a build are usually taken early on, so why
encourage snowballing instead of a more linear approach to scoring gameplay
decisions?
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politicians appeal to certain segments of the population. That's just how
they're designed. They're meant to be reflections of your hopes. We shouldn't
demand them to be moral, or kind - they should just do what we want them to.
That is the spirit of democracy, that we the people should decide.
... a lot of people watch reality TV though, like... all day every day
and a lot of people listen to fox news and such
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normalize deciding, as a group, who to follow
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an artist is best known posthumously when their best work is the stuff they
kept secret
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... what
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I love all humans. It is unconditional.
The kind of love I have for nazis is a kind of vengeful love.
Like, the way you might love a family dog who recently got rabies, bit two more
dogs, and is currently eyeing you with terror and malice in its eyes - the kind
that only comes from the loss of compassion.
"you were kind once, as all humans are, but sometime in your life you made
choices. and now you are here.
I burn thee for my fathers
I spite thee for thine mothers
And I slay thee to fight the dragon of hate."
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"good afternoon, ma'am, my name is [redacted], and I'm just a person, I'm not
with anyone or anything.
I'm going to all the houses on this street and knocking on their doors and
asking them two questions - you don't have to answer if you don't want.
The first is "do you know any of your neighbors" and the second is would you
like to meet them?"
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"Where have all the bastards gone?
... Where have all the riots gone?"Green Day, American Idiot, Letterbomb, 2004
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oh hey look what I found (no idea how authentic it is)
https://midgard.antifa.se/
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there's nothing in the rules of the internet that says you can't share a
mastodon account with your 18 closest friends.
you'll only find such a demand in the EULA's of websites that you probably
shouldn't be spending very much time on, anyway.
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still waiting for a brand of kitty litter that absorbs moisture at about the
same rate that you need to replace it...
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