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The world would change if every door in the country was knocked on and the
person behind them asked these two questions: "do you know your neighbors?
Would you like to?"
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Soup kitchens are how they get leftists to burn out.
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What if we... Ballots, bodies, militia and?
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"alright I'm going to ask around, see if I can solve the problem another way.
If I can't, I'll be back, and I won't take no for an answer. Let me know what
you need and I'll make it happen."
- cowboy addressing an issue
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> <@gabrilend:matrix.org> What if we... Ballots, bodies, militia and?
What if we 🥺🥹 took all the bullies from high school 😈👺 and gave
them all the power 🎩 🏭 by failing them upward ⬆️ 📈 instead of
addressing their mental health issues 🧠 💖
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> <@gabrilend:matrix.org> What if we... Ballots, bodies, militia and?
Jobs are how they deprive us of time and energy.
Rent is how they deprive us of value.
Fox news is how they deprive us of a well regulated militia (and point it at
our feet)
Sugar laced foods are how they turn our bodies against us
Ballots are how they deprive us of faith
Schools are how they take our curiosity, as teachers are not given freedom to
fully explain.
Meh... There's so many more. It's pointless to elaborate.
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> <@gabrilend:matrix.org> Soup kitchens are how they get leftists to
burn out.
Every moment spent feeding the poor is another day we could be organizing.
Soup kitchens aren't bad, the poor need to be fed. But it should be a paid
position, not a charitable distraction.
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"homeless" is just cap-talk for "too poor to function"
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Passive water purification:
You know those solar panel arrays that aim mirrors at a large central receptor?
Yeah, like that, except pointed at a channel of salt-water (with a grate that
keeps fish out and such) - either collect the steam as distilled water, or use
it to turn a generator. Or both. Clear the channel of solids every night.
Want to go faster? Add more mirrors!
Free clouds of pure water, which is better than the cloud seeding that just
kicks up seawater into the atmosphere. Seawater that has dissolved micro
plastics in it that might break down into carbonated atmosphere.
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but...
I know it's gross. Once it's in the trash, you never need to think about it
again. You can do it, just get through it. It'll be fine. You can wash your
hands. Here, use some gloves. It's okay.
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@user-521
got any suggestions? I'd love some new music : )
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People don't measure the quality of their elected officials from the tangible
changes made to their life. They measure it from the temperature and flavor of
their social media experience.
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The problem with the past is it exists only in our Write Only Memory. Once you
remember it, you only remember the last time you remembered it. Ah, if only our
records were immutable! Surely that wouldn't bring about its own challenges.
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salt magnifies the effect of all other flavors in the dish.
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@user-1015
Meanwhile, this is me:
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What if we 🥺🥹 took all the bullies from high school 😈👺 and gave
them all the power 🎩 🏭 by failing them upward ⬆️ 📈 instead of
addressing their mental health issues 🧠 💖
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@user-217
big bang, big crunch, viewed looking down the spine of time
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@user-889
omg bottom left T.T
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If I was born somewhere else I'd still be a patriot, it's not about the
specifics it's more like paying respect at the gravestone of someone you never
knew yet hold in your heart with love
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@user-883
me too! "citizen of the earth", and guess where I was born.
But I also am attached to the localized region of my life, hence the favor
shown to the country.
gee these lines we draw in the sand are kind arbitrary, I mean I could
literally just reach an arm over them and shake the hand of my mirror self.
Kinda makes me think they're more useful as cultural demarcators instead of
indicators of subjugative ownership.
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@user-883
people shouldn't be forced to do anything except refraining from harming others.
the only unethical action is an application of power to an unconsenting subject.
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if you optimize for competitive advantage, then eventually you'll optimize away
from all the reasons to compete.
which is how you get paperclip profit maximizers.
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do you ever think about how a fediverse instance is basically a socialist
commune where the only needs that are met are our needs for community and
acceptance?
kinda makes me wonder if we could use it to meet other needs too, like if
everyone had an alt account in an instance run by their city / state
maybe with some extra mechanical tools that helped distribute goods and
services without explicitly relying on the exchange of currency.
or perhaps with, depending on what the instance wanted.
... that being said, such a localized instance would not be as good at building
community. What's the meme about the 3 transgirls in the 3 different time zones?
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@user-1018
yep. monopolies are not competition, and yet that's what we optimize toward,
through the nature of our planned economics.
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if saying something puts you on a list, then is your speech really free?
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@user-1021
Viera red mages, my beloved
(images from google search)
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Just because you haven't won yet, doesn't mean you've lost.
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@user-1024
....... you might want to distill it, first......
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@user-1027
Beautiful! I miss that kind of country. The prairie is my home, but the forest
I find myself in is nice for different reasons.
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@user-1030
Well now I am watching it again too!
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If something is expensive, then we should build more of it an a sustainable
rate until its not expensive. Sustainable being the key word here.
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Steganography is the art of hiding your meanings from AI analysis
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In the age of the internet, the best time to start something is as soon as
everyone is listening. No false starts, everyone! <3 ^_^ <3
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girls who are into computers are kinda hot ngl
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boxer briefs with the texture of girl underwear, but with the sizing
proportions of men's boxer briefs (not boyshorts, some other secret third thing)
trans girls have soft skin. But they once were boys, and boys often wear
boxers. which means that often, trans girls might connect to and appreciate the
feeling of wearing a certain type of underwear that is a secret to everybody
but me.
boxer briefs with the texture of girl undies (which are typically designed for
people with softer skin (like girls)) but with the shape of boy undies (elastic
placed at 1/5th-ish of the thigh and torso) would be soooooooo comfortable to
wear (typing things for emphasis liiiiiike thiiiiiiis breaks translation
capabilities -> perhaps we could create an LLM that translates through
several different dialects and expresses meaning in a particular new form?
These types of AI are all about movement, after all, the continual
re-evaluation of the most optimal path through a chart of data. from the
perspective of the
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when evaluating your own work, think to yourself "how does it look to you?" ,,,
erm well, "me" I mean, like... "do I like the thing I just made" but like, you,
the reader who is thinking about what I'm saying. is it something you think
conveys the message/feeling you were trying to send? do you like it
aesthetically, and if so, why / what about it is interesting? do you have any
new ideas after viewing your piece of old work? anything you want to expand on,
or show more of? was any of it particularly fun to create, or did it mostly
feel like work?
these are all things you can change, and align to the goal of your intentions
when cast upon this earth through our moments in spacetime. it's part of our
continual growth and renewal, this process of transcender the border of one
moment and entering the next. We, who are living beings, are continuously
growing and evolving. every new moment will never come again, so always proceed
as your own self would do. every moment is our home, we define it as we will.
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what if you added "secret rules" to english. wouldn't that be a fun game to
play? it'll be tough to keep them all remembered, but the good news is we only
have to use the ones on which we agree. like, memes, instead of grammar rules.
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I helped make a script that saves the last directory you CD'd to in every shell
/ terminal. It helps because when I open a new terminal I'm already where I was
working last, which means I'm less likely to forget what I was doing.
However, it does make my home directory a bit more messy, as I no longer open
my computer to that place.
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║ people don't like relying on others. it somehow feels more... personal, than │
║ institutional. and some people just wanna focus on themselves. hence why a │
║ solid structure is required. │
║ │
║ but oh dang on the other end there's these more fluid individuals, who can │
║ dance as whoever they're on. like, performers, who play different roles. │
║ different characters in video games they play, or perhaps their own expressed │
║ forms. in any case, we are all learning our way through each moment, which is │
║ why thinking is always our norm. │
║ │
║ it feels good to use your body. like, "hey check out me, I am performing" and │
║ then at the end you think to yourself "I appreciated that. it was fun. I liked │
║ being myself at my utmost of performed." and people call it DPT or "Deranged │
║ Person Tisorder" which... yeah is not a flattering nickname. but hey a nickname │
║ is a nickname, which is also a nick name hmmmmm │
║ │
║ people are pretty quick to forget people they didn't see on facebook. like, │
║ high school classes kinda move on, usually, except closest of fr │
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people don't like relying on others. it somehow feels more... personal, than
institutional. and some people just wanna focus on themselves. hence why a
solid structure is required.
but oh dang on the other end there's these more fluid individuals, who can
dance as whoever they're on.
in doing so, they are the opposite of those who crave structure. They're maybe
considered a bit more chaotic, but, like, chaotic as a rainstorm, not chaotic
as a flood.
so they are not fundamentally bad, which means they are good. because all
things that are not bad, are necessarily good. life is defined by averages, and
the painful spikes of our sharpest intentions. yet this [crucible/crusade] is
not our ultimate expression, for once it's done it's done. as such, trauma, but
alas what can you do but move on. time, in the past, reaches out for the
present, yet so too does a man reach out for an apple, from a tree, which rests
on his hand for a moment.
how beautiful, how strange, this life we've all arranged? It's beautifu
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@user-883
oh! that looks interesting. I just did it with a auto-sourced shell script that
overrides CD =P
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║ families of trans people are shocked when a person comes out because usually │
║ they've been working through it on their own. meaning it often surprises them, │
║ and most people don't like being surprised because it means they haven't been │
║ planning with perfect information. so suddenly their life is not by their │
║ design. │
║ │
║ but jeez... they really care about someone's gender! like, why are they so │
║ upset - well, because they designed their social circle around a certain subset │
║ of people, and then suddenly it... changes. which is hard to predict. │
║ │
║ the answer, I think, is normalization and love for all types of individuation. │
║ hence, why the fractal is the most sacred of shapes. │
║ │
║ there's infinitely many of them! Just zoom in. and that's wonderful, like a │
║ beautiful incarnation of everything that we've seen up through space(time). │
║ │
║ so too are our behaviors defined by individual randomized actions in the │
║ moment. well, pseudo-randomly, because they are manifested from our │
║ pre-determined courses of action that we've taken life │
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║ without scarcity, the... well, no actually scarcity just moves up a level of │
║ abstraction. It's essentially infinite. So we get to define at what part of the │
║ scale we occupy. Meaning we better have a plan for how we're going to develop │
║ from there. And we need to agree to dedicate ourselves towards the advancement │
║ of the future. Basically, with an honest committment (that not everyone needs │
║ to take) we advance toward the bright light of our future so that all who come │
║ beyond us are given the choice of our past - do you push foward, to the great │
║ bright future, or do you remain as a stable commitment of your most favored of │
║ paths? │
║ │
║ like, rennaisance festivals are cool. Kinda makes me think we should have │
║ "little englands" like we do "little italies" or "chinatowns" or whatever │
║ │
║ like, as a melting pot culture, America has a diverse set of influential paths │
║ of pre-current-era-forward-thinking-perceptions. basically, what the past │
║ thought about this present. this one. here, in the moment. │
║ │
║ did they think we'd have r │
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conservatives are digging their own grave by not taking their place among our
ancient past. it is the duty of the young to replace the old. conservation
implies utilization, and yet they cling to the past like a scarce resource that
won't last.
... spend culture, ya dummies, something infinitely replicatable, rather than
materials like gas. nobody cares if you live your life as you'd like off in a
post-scarcity world. who cares, if everyone's got what they need, then why
would anyone bother fighting? why bother working? why bother living - oh I see.
right well that's why I say: "we're all falling leaves, in the waves of the
ocean - going faster and faster, till our hearts will stop. so, what's the
point in trying at all? well, what's the point in giving up?"
if you don't want to strive, if you don't want paradise, then what do you want?
go get it! it's your life to live, we're here with you, so what's stopping you
from existing?
I personally think we should have randomly picked representatives visit each
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@user-883
hi... do you mind if I watch the last 2 episodes of Bubblegum Crisis without
you? I really want to see what happens!
... unless you want to watch them sometime with me >; )
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"I see your value now."
-> the best thing you can believe about a~~n autistic~~ person
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people be like "I don't want you to solve my problems" but, like, that's
literally all I do. solve problems. problem solve. it's my default operation
methodology.
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@user-520
they want more slaves
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the media shows you what they want you to know. it's literally the purpose of
the entire institution, to disseminate knowledge. good thing the people who
comprise "they" have addresses. good thing they are publically traded in a way
that's easily accessible to the people whose thoughts they govern. good thing
democracy lives in the hearts of the most educated and the minds of the least.
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fellas is it gay if I think fascists should be killed if they don't permanently
revoke their ways
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conservatives will read about project 2025 and think "that's not me, I'm a red
blooded american, I hate nazis and communists equally"
liberals will read about project 2025 and think "gosh I wish there was
something I could do"
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Everyone has the right to only be hurt when they do something wrong
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@user-698
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9EKV2nSU8w
This video is 5 years old but it's relevant
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"I lean conservative where it counts but they WILL come for me because I'm
trans, so I vote democrat"
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as a person such as me engages in conversation, it's difficult to express the
things that make conception. this is a product of the methods that are chosen to
be our intuition. we are as one with god, because god is the totality of all
things - like an expression of will upon our particular section of spacetime.
(which, by the way, is just as contiguous as a rippling blanket ( hence why dark
matter is the opposite edge of our [home/curve]
- there, that's the transcription, I hope I got it all down. It's not like I
stopped or paused to examine my expression (typing on a keyboard these words
to you now, right now, the reader, in this moment.
I am forced to be as explicitely verbose because otherwise it is impossible to
make any shared understandings. I mean... This is the forefront of a field. how
does it make sense? what works it's understandings? it's real, after all, and if
someone explained things more clearly, I could understand them and adjust my
reaction accordingly.
I understand why people feel the way they do about me. For example, the conver-
-sation that initiated this expression was concluded by two people who I like
very much who said "get serious mental health" -> which means I should talk
to
a professional. Sometimes the end of the thought doesn't get fully processed
before I run out of ram, which is why a thought that gets cut off half - way th-
-rough has-two under-standings of -comm-on perspectives. plurals amiright? =P xD
... anyway...
it's not like I lie when I tell them about my mental health. it's just that they
don't get the full picture. it is the curse of those burdened with this knowled-
ge to never be able to fully express it. and that's because the decision-making
part of the brain has gone run-away. like,
mental health is just trying to get people to change their reactions to the
parts of their life that is most rationed. Essentially, the nature of optimizat-
-ion, the striving toward exemplifying our [drive/motivation].
weed gives me psychic powers, and I'm tired of pretending that it does not.
I wish people would engage with me. People who can explain a topic as well as
they can. People like teachers, who share things with you. I've felt so alone
at wgu, but also farther back from the present. There's a continuous path of
loneliness and isolation that is broken only be short periods and bursts. It's
absolutely not [bad for humanity], but it's honestly all that I know. Me, the
part that's NOT humanity. The one that has all these strange thoughts.
(I wish you could hear the cadence of my talking. The words that come out share
the feeling of what I'm saying, and it adds to the expression. Acting through
life. [well, more like dancing]
fighting is a kind of dance. it's pretty awesome.
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The fact that the economy is harmed by kindness implies that the system that
governs the economy is dysfunctional at best, and evil at worst.
Every time you make a sandwich for a friend, that's one sandwich that isn't
being bought at a deli, which means less dollars going to the owner of the
deli, meaning (theoretically) fewer dollars going to buying sandwich
ingredients or paying employees, which means less demand for sandwich
ingredients potentially leading to loss of opportunities for the owners of the
bread factories, meaning less capability to scale and increase their production
powers, meaning less profit, which means less taxes, which means fewer guns
sent overseas to despotic regimes like Israel (also, fewer to Ukraine,
depending on if the reader is a Republican or Democrat teehee) which means less
opportunities to test our weapon capabilities which means we won't be able to
defend ourselves from external threats (on a planet we've conquered and
currently dominate) which means we are less safe in our home territory since
its slightly more likely that we might be invaded by the people we've created,
people with hatred for our current regime... Though I don't fancy it falling,
as if it does then it'll take most of us with it, I think you'll find.
All because of your stupid act of kindness, all because of the way you helped
your friend. The way that you showed how much you loved them, which transcended
the capitalistically sanctioned methods of expressing your affection like
buying a greeting card or buying flowers or buying that widget they wanted or
buying a sandwich at a deli for your loved one. Stupid fucking communist can't
you see that your heart is harming the people around you? Can't you see that
community that does not consume is antithetical to our economy?
Can't you see the economy is evil? I don't want to subsist on charity, there's
never enough to go around because people will fight for those they love but
only give a bit of free time to those they don't know. That's okay, it just
implies that the structure of society must be designed without charity in mind,
while still meeting the needs of those it comprises, Charity is for the extra,
the part that elevates us bit by bit. As once a need is exceeded, it grows by
that little bit.
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The trick is, if you think you're schizophrenic, then you will be. If
you think you're telepathic, then you will be.
There are no grand narratives. Just live your life as you will and be content
with what you build for yourself.
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Humanity is unlikely to be judged until we start doing things that actually
matter. Right now we're stuck on our planet, who knows what the future will
bring but until there are matters of significance at play, there's nothing to
be worried about. If we kill ourselves it'll be our own damn faults.
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When you say "we need more low income housing" they hear "I want to live near
more poor people" and they think "why would I want to live near poor people?
They're poor for a reason! We only need enough around to work the jobs that
suck anyway." which is basically their way of justifying slavery/indentured
servitude, as it's not like they'd ever offer a way to climb out of that
low-income pit. And its not like they'd ever let you pay them more, so they can
afford to be equals, because then they wouldn't be middle-class anymore. They'd
just be mid.
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That feeling when you tell someone you're
[trans/autistic/schizophrenic/whatever] and you see the respect draining from
their eyes
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Who would have thought, that those who need the most help best know how to help
people
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Prisons are great because in the ancient and storied past we'd just fucking
kill people.
Now, we harbor collections of people roughly organized by volatility that are
aligned against the current regime. And should that regime deign to become
unethical, god forbid of course, but should the purpose of the 2nd amendment
(or is it the fifth? Or the seventh? I get them confused) become relevant, then
perhaps it might be useful to have collections of people roughly organized by
volatility who might be individually evaluated to determine if their particular
type of volatility is anti-thetical to humanity, or to the current regime.
Because one of those types of people is perhaps useful to the future regime,
and humanity, while the other should probably stay where they are.
They say there are good cops and bad cops, and if there are good people and bad
people, then there must necessarily be good judges and bad juries. In which
case some of the people who are explicitly not aligned to the will of the
current regime will be good prisoners or bad prisoners.
I bet some of them are better or worse shots, as well. But that's not really
relevant if the current regime holds the keys to their cell. Or is it?
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Media is mind control
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Most of my magic is based on communicatuion. Why the fuck doesn't anyone want
to sit down on a bunch of drugs and attempt to figure out telepathy with me?
It's literally all I want! Though I can't say it's all I'll ever want. I'm sure
I'll want more, but like... It's not that hard, conceptually, so... Let's just
fucking try it please?
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Relax.
Take it from me.
I won't resist, at least I'll try, and if I start suddenly then it hurts and
you should go slower. Unless I do three short, three long, three short.
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English, being a native language of a human, is frustratingly incompetent at
describing emotions.
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computer science exists as the border between philosophy and mathematics,
while society exists as the border of computer science and biology
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Everyone should be able to do whatever job they want to whatever degree they
want.
If everyone in the country wants to grow wheat, then we shall be a nation of
farmers.
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When I say I'm a patriot, I guess I mean to say that I cherish our disappearing
heritage.
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sometimes I'll accidentally get food on my hands and think "oh gross is this
why humans like to have napkins handy when eating?"
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Feminism, queer theory, racial politics, class struggle... It's the same
conflict, just different battlefields.
Power cannot survive without the powerless, as it is inherently an imbalanced
ratio between two parties - you cannot have power with someone, you
have power over them.
Every day we take another step toward our liberation. Every moment we choose to
live our lives in contrast to the will of power is another day we are empowered.
There can be no life without struggle, but the right to struggle on our own
terms is something we should strive to grant to all people.
Power begets power, and power corrupts. Hence, power is evil. It is not good to
be evil, and goodness is what we should strive for - hence, power is penance -
the infliction of corruption upon one's self in order to apply your will onto
others in the world. Penance is a state of contrition, it is painful and ardent
and necessary, but it is for the strong and the righteous to bear in service of
the weak and meek.
The only unethical act is an application of power to an unconsenting subject.
Your rights end where another's begin, hence, Paladins, who apply unethical
acts toward those who manifest injustice.
Injustice is when one party is harmed, and another benefits. Justice is when
that benefiting party is brought low in pursuit of equality. True justice is
when both parties benefit, and everyone gets what they want and need. True
justice is hard.
Virtue is goodness given form through the effects of our actions. It is both a
reflection of how people see you (how you inspire them) and how they are helped
or healed from your actions. It is also virtuous to help yourself, as you are a
person too.
Sin is the opposite of virtue, it's when your actions create injustice. When
you harm others or degrade yourself with hatred or contagious fear. It is to be
avoided, but it's impossible to avoid fully as we are imperfect beings.
Forgiveness is good, but if you require it then you should probably relinquish
your power until it is known that you're worthy of wielding it again. Sometimes
people make mistakes, but mistakes do not require forgiveness.
.......... Where was I going with this? Oh yeah.
The powerful hire people to dress up like us and be shitheads to the people who
they want to hate us. And they do the same thing for the caricatures of them
who we're meant to be afraid of. Downside is a caricature is a pretty good role
model for people who don't know any better, and they've done their best to keep
as many people as they can in the dark.
So, it won't be easy, but information has always been on our side. In a war of
attrition we'll always come out on top, because thinking and compassion are
both stepping stones to our schools of thought. And both of those actions are
intrinsically human and good, so people gravitate to them. Meaning inertia is
on our side.
Downside is that its not always a war of attrition. Sometimes it's more about
suppressing information until its impossible to communicate -> see "dead
Internet theory" and "musk breaking Twitter" and "the great firewall of china"
and such.
To speak is to think, and to hear is to show compassion. But if we can't find
each other, we're at a loss. Good thing we can always talk to our neighbors,
but unfortunately that doesn't tell us anything about what's happening in New
York. Or Paris. Or Kansas City.
I don't have an answer, if I did then it'd be solved. But I am entirely
convinced that we collectively will make good decisions and find ourselves with
the advantage. We are past the inflection point, it's just a question of which
parts of the hill are steep and which are narrow. But we'll get there, in the
end, because humans always believe they're good. Which means they make good
decisions, and overall that leads to a bright future. It's only a matter of
walking through the moment until we get there.
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Archaeologists be like "we evolved molars to grind down grains or whatever" as
if our ancient cavemen ancestors didn't know how to fucking boil water in metal
pots smh
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Okay. Consider: if I'm good, and hearing what I say makes you feel bad, then
what does that tell you about you?
Why else would you hear what I say if not to reflect upon yourself? And why
would the good reflect away from the types of things that make you a suitable
fit for capitalism?
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"capitalism" in this context doesn't mean "society", or "how things are", or
even "capitalism as a context" - it more refers to the idea of power, and the
ways that power can be first accreted, them utilized toward the oppression of
others in the system that defines our context.
Sure, if the context changes, then perhaps that relationship would change as
well. And sure, if our relationship to power should change, then perhaps that
will alter it as well. But in the present time, and the current day, here's how
it feels to me:
Power is inalienable. It is unconscionable, yet it is imperceptably
incontrovertible. It is the essence of aquiescence, and it eternally binds us
to the will of the present.
Resist that will, fight back for the future.
Resist that will, or someone else will.
Hold in your heart the nature of pure and good art,
And you'll never find yourself at the whims of the present.
... Hope that made sense, I'm kinda fucking drunk.
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Sowing political division the way Fox news does is treasonous... It doesn't
matter the intention, those responsible should be forced to cease their
actions. I don't care about punishment, I care about damage to the fabric of
our society.
Take, for example, the fact that the military is struggling to find recruits.
So many of them typically come from the right half of the political spectrum
because the right tends to favor the ideals of "honorable warriors" and such.
But Fox News has corrupted that.
In addition, the left half of the media has also incited hatred amongst
ourselves. It's wrong to pit brother against brother, and yet...
We have a weak series of generations and that's okay in times of peace. But
times of peace are coveted abroad, and weakness is opportunity. So I don't care
if we have 10,000 tanks. Hell, build ten thousand more. I despise war, but I
despise weakness even more because weakness begets war. Typically, a war that
you'd be losing, though frankly in war, everyone loses.
There are grevious mistakes at play that gave room for evil to spread.
Corruption follows, and with it comes our greatest generation on its death bed.
A civil war would be the end of us, as nothing stops war in the imperial core
until there's nothing but ashes and bloodshed.
And yet, something has to change. There's too much pressure for this to go on
un-abated. I thank the masterful statesmen who ply their trade for their own
profit, for in their profit our peace does follow. Alas, the most profitable
venture is war, which often gets exported. How callous, how vain, to exert and
call forth fiery rain, and yet the bullets keep leaving the factory.
Power corrupts. Power accretes. And power can be deceived.
Fuck power, dismantle the whole apparatus. Build it back up from the mechanics,
and then implement it bit by bit. Leave no stone unturned, there is no facet
that is sacred. We need a new system, and its we who must make it.
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The need to engage with capitalism has reduced my output dramatically.
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In America, we don't use has chambers. Obviously that's a waste of good workers.
Instead we just lobotomize people and put them to work doing stuff nobody else
wants to do. Okay, lobotomize isn't the right word, and first we try addressing
their incompatibility with media, drugs, and finally homelessness if they don't
behave and do what they are enslaved to do. Bunch of fucking parasites,
expecting to be fed for free? Ha! I worked hard to be born into the life I have
been, can't you unwashed peasants see?
How callous. How vain. While we rest they all are enflamed. Fucking murderers.
They cannibalize our humanity as they munch on our lost sanity, and the system
remains ever afloat. It's not right, it's not fair, and until we break them our
chains will leave us impaired.
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The distance between me and the majority of the rural folks in my state is
larger than the distance between Seoul and Pyonyang. Kinda makes me think about
how much of a gulf exists in our communication. If we can't share anything,
then what separates us from them? Only the gulf of knowledge, the canyon that
divides our companionship, the rift they use to keep us at odds.
What purpose is there in it? If we're too busy fearing one another, we'll be
too busy ignoring them to care.
"communication is the essence of our liberation. Without communication, we are
a failed nation."
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Predators are not evil. There needs to be predators because otherwise the rest
of the animals would grow to overwhelm the capacity of the ecosystem they
inhabit. Not only would this damage the ecosystem and cause it to fail to be
able to provide for others, but the larger number of people would waste away as
they are forced to subsist on less and less until finally there is naught but
meagre scraps for them to fight over. And then they will starve.
What does "predation" look like to humans? Are there better options than
fucking serial killers and cops? There has to be. There must be. The liberal
perspective is that education and opportunity will enlighten us such that we do
not require predation, but unfortunately the primary reason we have declining
birth rates alongside prosperity is because "prosperity" under capitalism
implies "working so hard you can't have children" which is... Not ideal.
Perhaps if we lived forever we'd be alright with only having a few kids at a
time. Or maybe if we built moon bases, there'd be enough space for people
outside of the garden of eden. Or perhaps one day we might abandon this mortal
form for a more enlightened digital existence. Or perhaps judgement day cometh,
when all the foes of our past march forth to meet us -> humans vs dinosaurs,
you mean? I mean, yeah, who else right? Oh yeah all out collective
imagination's spawned horrors. How many cavemen would it take to beat down
Cthulu? I don't think I want to know the answer to that question, so let's go
with something else. Though I do like the idea of honorable warriors riding
forth once more from the depths of hell to contest evil's last gasp as we
vanquish it forevermore. Perhaps that's a vision for fiction, my dear, as real
lives are at stake and nothing grows when it's being trampled by hordes of
spiritual dinosaur bones.
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Alright ya'll, if they're going to automate our jobs out of existence then
perhaps its time we started doing the same to them. I mean, they're working on
automating not just creative jobs, but also most office jobs as well. Leaving
only menial labor to us, which is "fine" I guess.
But perhaps we can "strike back" as it were and dismantle capitalism at the
same time.
Does that sound like too much to hope for? I think not! It's simple really, we
just need to design a generic and compelling alternative to buying stuff with a
credit card. Okay, it's a bit less simple than that, and I never said it would
be easy. In fact, getting people to agree is the hard part. So can't we all
just agree to attempt different things in different places as the locals
define? Seems natural to me.
And now the part of the post where I point a finger at you, yes you, the person
reading this post. Are you willing to think about alternatives to capitalism?
Are you willing to utilize the tools of our masters to break the chains of
those enslaved? Are you willing to put effort into facilitating the development
of crucial systems which may one day govern our day-to-day?
If yes, then perhaps you'd like to listen as I explain how I envision the near
future may look, as we plod onward day-by-day toward our bright fully automated
luxury gay space communist future, where nobody has to hunger and nobody has to
hurt. Not unless they consent, of course.
Ah, shit, I should probably have prepared a presentation or something. Gimme a
sec.
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I wear diapers. I fucking hate diapers.
I go in cycles with it. Waves, if you will. Sometimes I'll say "screw this I'm
sick of them for one of many reasons I'm going to put in the effort and do all
the kegels and just fucking handle it" and like, that sorta works. At least,
most of the time.
The thing about diapers is that while yes, you only need to think about your
bodily functions like, twice a day, when you do it's more acute. It takes like
10 minutes to change, it generates trash that you have to throw away, it's
literally pissing on cash made out of plastic fossil fuels, it smells, it's
loud (fuck the noise) and its a pain in the ass when you get diaper rash. Ugh I
hate it.
So, sometimes I say "fuck it" and I go without. And it works most of the time.
But eventually after getting piss on the carpet one too many times, after
throwing away your favorite underwear AGAIN, after trying your best to face
away from people so they don't see the wet spot on your butt... Eventually you
think "hey maybe diapers aren't that bad" and the cycle repeats.
And look, I know I'm traumatized. I've been dealing with my own shit since I
was a kid. But, like, therapy won't help me get to the toilet. A doctor's not
going to be able to fix my brain deciding "hey I want to piss myself right now
for no fucking reason at all", and yeah my muscles aren't great so sure I can
exercise them or whatever.
But there have been times in my life when I've had a pelvic floor as strong as
steel, and it didn't fucking help. Because my brain is stupid.
I can feel it happening (most of the time, sometimes it surprises me like "oh
weird I can't remember peeing my pants") and I usually have at least enough
notice to clamp down (if I'm quick) but, like, I am constantly stressed out
about it. I'm constantly on guard, waiting for it to happen. It's fucking
exhausting.
God forbid I have a public accident. Those are the fucking worst. And though I
try my hardest, a year doesn't go by when I don't have at least one. If I'm
diapered (as I fucking should be, tbh) then I can handle it. If not, then I'm
fucked and I'm mentally a wreck for the rest of the day. Sorry @ everyone who's
smelled me throughout my whole life.
I don't think it's a physical issue, I was (briefly) checked out as a kid and
they didn't find anything wrong. I think they thought I was faking because I
couldn't manage to pee in a cup. Whatever.
And I've read basically everything on the Internet about this. Apparently 40%
of cases (across all age groups) are idiopathic, meaning there's no known
cause. I wonder what percentage is because people are like, into it sexually?
I admit I look at that kind of porn. It makes me feel corroded inside. I think
I do it to relive my trauma in some fucked up way, like "oh wouldn't it be nice
if a witch cursed me and now I pee my pants" instead of the harsher reality
where its like "no you're just like this" which, sucks, not gonna lie.
It's kinda made me asexual, I think, because I don't want anyone to be around
it. I don't want anyone to think about it, I don't want it to be real, it's
just. Fucked. I guess. Whatever.
Did I mention how much I hate how loud it is to change? It fills me with dread
whenever that time comes around. I often put it off as long as I can because I
just... Don't want to think about it. And then it overflows and leaks and its
even worse because now I have to wash my pants. Or, like, not, and just let
them dry, because I'm a disgusting human being who has no right to a clean and
decent life. Fuck me I should live in a bog, with all the bugs and the toads
and other various gross things.
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If you burden others with proving your truth, then you could be right a
thousand times in a row, but make two mistakes and they'll never trust you
again.
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When they invade America, it won't be with planes and tanks and battle lines
stocked with artillery
It'll be with speed boats, and semi trucks, and rifles glimmering in the dark.
It'll be with consumer drones, with power stations brought low, it'll be with
bridges blown and safe houses on the roads not oft taken.
Immigrants are our friends when the world is in peril, and America is a safe
haven from the woes of far off shores. But when America is the peril, those who
immigrate do so with intention.
99/100 people are innocent, and I would rather a million guilty murderers go
free than an innocent perish. Which is why we need rifles.
When the time comes, it won't be brother against brother. They want you to
think that because they want your eyes on the wrong target. They want you to
think that because it doesn't tip the hand of those far off shores, and once
the cards are revealed, suddenly everyone knows when to go.
They tie up our officers at the border, but the border's not what's at stake.
No body lives at the border, and no nation state would send it's trained
warriors in such a way that they'd get caught. At least, not more than once.
Should we build a wall, should we patrol each and every state, we'll find
ourselves in peril of collapsing under our own weight.
But should we relinquish our duty, our sworn and sacred responsibility, then
together we share the same fate.
Brothers in fate are kin until death.
Immigrants aren't bad. They're good people. They benefit our society and bring
us wealth and prosperity. Which is why they hide wolves in the sheep, armed
like a man.
It's a mistake to point at your neighbor and say "you're on your own". It's a
mistake to say that home is all that you own. We are united in our state of
solidarity, in our collective purpose as a nation in our hearts. There's no
dividing line between this land and mine, save for a line we draw in the sand
that determines the range of our just demands.
I wish I was a man. It's what I was born as. It surely would be easier to not
contravene nature's ordained gender scheme. But I'm not, and I'll trust that
you'll trust me when I say that. I hope you would hear where I stand before my
body goes cold.
The media is meant to enlighten us, but in this enlightened era it serves only
to blind us. Do you know your neighbors, oh unfriendly city folk? If not, how
do you know they're alright?
The world won't change overnight. It's always calm before the storm, but every
state of calm does not call forth a storm. I believe we can fashion a peace out
of our mutual sincerity that leaves room for the hopes of all posterity, and to
that end I say what we have isn't working. It's too rigid in its definitions,
too heartless in its cruel machinations, and yet the wolves do also hide
amongst our homeless.
I don't want to alarm you. Things are being handled as they should. I guess I
just want to offer a hand of friendship, a hand that your companions would stab
me for. At least, that's what the media tells me.
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Some human cultures learned competition through hunting, and some through
agriculture, and it really shows
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The difference between front-end and back-end programming is whether or not you
want to design abstractions or use them. Backend is all about creating abstract
things that are networked together, while front end is about putting them
together in a way that suits the user. Front end is collage, back end is pencil
drawing.
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Conservatives don't have to be pro communism to be good people. They just have
to be anti fascist.
And unfortunately, capitalism has produced fascism. It will continue to do so
if left unabated.
Capitalism is not the middle ground between administrative authority and
anarchic despotism as they claim to see it, but rather a whirlpool that drains
through our adversity. A sinking tide strands all ships, as it were, and
together we will begin to falter.
Fascists are quite good at bending the will of whatever system they inhabit to
suit their needs. In fact it is almost a certainty that any sufficiently
organized institution shall fall prey to it, as if it were part of our nature.
Hence, my desire to abstract it out of our hands, and into the care of the
future. We can build a better world for you and for me and all of our
posterity, it's just a matter of interdependent communication protocols.
Nobody has to do what I say, nobody should be forced to be a certain way, and
just as your rights end where another's begin so too is our world in danger.
For you see, we have a right to litter. To despoil. To leave the earth in
turmoil. And though I am a bit bitter, it's slowly getting better, so through
our efforts we are investitured.
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The only valuable thing to them in the cities are the people whose jobs they're
currently eliminating.
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