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@user-570
ha who can say
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well, guess I'm a bad person again, this sucks. >.
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I'm tired of working as hard as I can and still ending up wrong
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![tumblr post titled "this is not for you." this is a post aimed at me and other people who constantly fall into guilt spirals over all the things they can't do, and feel they should somehow magically be able to do anyway. For me, and for the others, this is a gentle reminder: - posts asking for monetary donations are speaking to people who *have* money. not your broke ass, still worrying about how to buy food for next month. - posts asking you to care about [extreme injustice of the day] are speaking to people who HAVE energy to care. not you, hanging onto your sanity by the fingernails. and, most importantly: posts telling you that you are horrible/cheap/awful/rude/unworthy/unlikable if you don't pay/reblog/signal boost/care? those posts can die in a fucking fire. too long; didn't listen: posts asking for shit you are not physically or mentally able to give? THOSE POSTS ARE NOT FOR YOU.](/similar-different/media/eec6e4bd05cc1c8a.webp "tumblr post titled \"this is not for you.\" this is a post aimed at me and other people who constantly fall into guilt spirals over all the things they can't do, and feel they should somehow magically be able to do anyway. For me, and for the others, this is a gentle reminder: - posts asking for monetary donations are speaking to people who *have* money. not your broke ass, still worrying about how to buy food for next month. - posts asking you to care about [extreme injustice of the day] are speaking to people who HAVE energy to care. not you, hanging onto your sanity by the fingernails. and, most importantly: posts telling you that you are horrible/cheap/awful/rude/unworthy/unlikable if you don't pay/reblog/signal boost/care? those posts can die in a fucking fire. too long; didn't listen: posts asking for shit you are not physically or mentally able to give? THOSE POSTS ARE NOT FOR YOU.")
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"it's weird how depressed I am"
says the girl who is always depressed
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since I quit cannabis like, a month ago or whatever, my artistic output has
dropped by ~90%
my house is a little cleaner, but I still feel consistent spikes of negative
emotions.
I still have trouble with all the same things I used to, like buying groceries,
filling hormone prescriptions (seriously why is it EVERY month jeezzz) and
working on productive projects
I still spend hours staring at the wall begging myself to do anything else,
like a prisoner in my own form
I still feel like all the delusional thinking is still around (kinda hard to
tell haha who would have thought) but I'm seriously missing the magical
thinking, which was basically the same only it was fun and silly and positive.
Now there's only negativity.
I'm still hyper-critical of myself and others, I still make myself and others
feel like shit, and I'm still a bad person who believes all the right things
but still can't seem to make a positive impact in people's lives.
I'm so tired of failing -> learned helplessness T.T
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@user-1074
I'm gonna do it anyway because nationalism is not the same as patriotism
https://tech.lgbt/@user-479/112729939513334734
I wish I was still this cool... what happened smh
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@user-570
hehe sorry
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video games are better than ruminating
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@user-1218
my ex boyfriend told me to
also I thought it would be a good idea so I could find a job, but now I have
one (sorta) soooo
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@user-1218
oh, also, because I started taking some psychiatric medication to help with the
aforementioned delusional thinking or whatever. Honestly I think I just believe
in spiritual things like witchcraft and the human spirit or whatever, but since
I'm having difficulties doing basic things my doctors decided to medicate me.
... but then I stopped taking those psychiatric drugs because they made me feel
numb and dense. It was hard to think. Thinking's all I do!!
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oh, huh, turns out I just had to sleep off the depression half of "manic
depression" and wait for the manic half to kick in.
I feel great now! I love being alive!!
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I really hate "two factor" auth. Like, cool, I get it, it let's you pretend
you can divest responsibility for security and recovery, but also it means
dropping my phone too hard could be a life disrupting event so somehow I don't
really feel like this is for my benefit.
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fedi is just an invitation to visit the lives of other people going through
things at the speed of time
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║ │
║ │
║ "something something trump wants to faucet the PNW's water to the desert" │
║ │
║ oh, so you're saying that he wants to invest in a massive infrastructural │
║ project which will help millions of people? And, uh, how does he want to pay │
║ for that? │
║ │
║ Surely the best approach would be to make the people who use the most water pay │
║ for it, right? I mean, it's ironic, and related, and it gives them their just │
║ deserts, right? │
║ │
║ So make a tax (that's how you make people pay for things) and levy it against │
║ Nestle, who bottles up all of the water in the desert and sells it for pennies │
║ to brown people who can't afford to build water infrastructure because they │
║ keep spending all their pennies on useless things like bottled water. │
║ │
║ And make it a big tax, please, so that they're forced to re-evaluate their │
║ business model and divert wealth from their least contributionary workers (aka, │
║ those at the top making millions) and spend it on something useful like │
║ desalination plants or water turbines or whatever. │
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http://schizoid.in/
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@user-883 @user-570
I love Bravely Default!! 🥰
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@user-883 @user-570
I've played 1, 2, 3, and 14. I'll check out 5 but isn't it full of cyberpunk
mecha stuff? I'm into the more fantasy final fantasies
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@user-1608
shhhhh you're not supposed to tell me what you voted for! Now I know you voted
to have funky wunky widdle dweams 🥰
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okay instead of algorithm music what if we just paid DJs 24/7 and they could
make whatever they wanted - y'know, like artists, who curate the nature of a
moment
they could rotate in shifts for each type of channel and boom suddenly you've
re-replaced airwaves, just... this time replicated on the internet. That way
you wouldn't have to waste that radio bandwidth.
seriously internet infrastructure would be so much more comprehensive and
durable if we sent bits directly through "sound" waves (radio waves, not sound
waves) - but alas, we can't do that, even in very targetted ways, because the
ocean's too choppy, and any sufficiently powerful radio blast would be
================== stack overflow ================
that's why you can't trust in peace. you see, war's the only answer, otherwise
you'd have strange little competitions between one another. much better to
focus outward, and direct your attention to external areas instead. like china
or the sudan.
"ah but that's murder, you can't abandon a unique part of your whole. For the
same reason that it's important to preserve plant and animal species, because
you never know when some part of them will be utilized for some biological
purpose! We know so little about the natural world, and if we just spent some
time, and energy, we'd realize there's very little else that is precious on
this earth.
who cares about gold. who cares for the jewelry. we're better than decorating
our resumes and polishing our accounts. we, as humans, can solve every
issue that animals are likely to face. AND WE DO WHAT? How careless, how vain.
To watch your earth in peril and [vane/vanity]
there is no more important task to any human on this earth than the
preservation of our world, our species, and our [heart/heartfelt empathy and
kindness and trust]
we can figure out the rest later. Real life? what the fuck is that? When's the
last time your life has felt "normal"? We are in DANGER. and you pull children
from traffic, don't you?
who the fuck gave these people all of your money they clearly
haven't got the will or the talent to well utilize it. Don't you realize that
you as a species can GO wherever you WANT. You can FIX things. [oh dear she's
animal cam again] like BRIDGES that are PASSAGEWAYS over the FLOWS.
... oh deer, they're so passagewayenthusiast. us riverstones love to hear them
walk past, the click of their hooves on the shallow forest's [pourest?].
moss is the most alive. amongst all the species of plants and animals, moss
holds the most life. we are carbon based lifeforms, and moss absorbs
the most carbon from the air. It's basically the coolest plant too, because it
can be watered with misty air. Hence, why moss is common in the
pacific northwest, canada, and probably forest places in the north of eurasia
too idk if they have moss over there, never been.
anyway rich people who are told "yes" all the time have a difficult time
understanding the nature of choice. I mean, if one of their servants approached
them and asked "hey do you want to build an orphanage in uganda" they'd
probably be like "fuck yeah I do" and then suddenly they're 400,000$ richer
it's not alright. Seriously, how the heck would they even use all
those resources? And yeah, I get it, inflation would be sooooo much more
expensive, but here's the thing - inflation is a measurement of how much the
rich take from us each year. And it's marginal, too, so 3% inflation
means they took 3% more from you compared to last year.
It's impossible not to accrete as a business, [lega/legal institution], or
governance if you levy a tax. The influx of value has to come from somewhere,
and if each year your groceries are 3% higher in cost, then you are being taxed
3% more.
"Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe"
- a civilization 3 quote
okay. I don't want to do the math. How, uh... how much is that? Here's the deal
though - the prices of goods and services consistently goes DOWN over time. So
things get cheaper. So it doesn't FEEL like you're being taxed more, but... you
are.
And now they're taking away HOUSES? I mean c'mon they're sticks in the mud.
They aren't worth HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of dollars. We can just BUILD MORE??!?
Honestly you haven't been this extreme since you were still RIDING HORSES. Do
you want your children to be slaves?
okay -.- look -.- so it's really not that hard at all >.> just gotta do
what you're built for and walk. That's it! Take as long as you'd like! All we
have to do is walk when we're on strike.
It's easy. You can sit down if you want to, honestly walking for a long time
takes a lot out of you.
But you know what else does? WORKING. Hey we should figure out what's the
optimal amount of break time, so when we really have to work out we can work as
hard as we're able
"yeah I heard from a friend at Company Co. that they do it this way because of
the memory fault cache maintainer. See what he said (in great detail because of
course anyone can know about this most esoteric of concepts) was that you
should rotate the riboflam or serenade the gizmonotron (no I didn't name it)
and then warbles will contain moodles, whose kit-and-kaboodles will timble into
these droplets, and that will fix the hole in your wing, precious royal swan
fable. (yeah you guys get really into it sometimes haha but hey when you're
basically gods, that's how humans are played.)
... anyway I'm going to go play video games, say goodbye to your brothers
(the families of soldiers I blew up in videos games like Call of Duty or the
legend of shadows and raids)
"oh uh yeah sure go for it, we're just bits on the computer we barely knew her"
whoa. that's totally legit. (says someone reading this) thanks [bro/girl] so
are you.
beep boop gonna murder some bits, brb
[plays Warthunder, Supreme Commander, Star Realms, City of Heroes, Dominions
6... how many have you heard of these?]
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Linux is cool, and here's the neat thing about computers, you can make it
do whatever you want to. Like, how amazing is that! It just, listens
to your commands! That's pretty awesome I gotta say, huh that's weird why does
nobody know how to play
oh I guess I was the only one who grew up on a farm and built computers
I seriously cannot comprehend how people are as good at things as they
are. Like... how do people handle groceries and rent and doctor's visits
and penitentiary visits and WOOF it's just so much. I know I'd collapse from a
overused heart.
... a while later ...
okay Warthunder bombers are currently very weak. so here's an idea to
indirectly buff them - increase the amount of land units each team spawns with,
but also every time a player spawns a bomber, it summons like 4 or 5 AI
controlled bombers. And your enemy won't be able to tell which is which if you
fly in formation, so, like... you have suddenly a massive "vehicle" to pilot
and it has 5 weak points. Sorta like a galaga fighter fleet?
with more land targets, there's more score at stake, meaning some players might
pick bombers too and be exposed to other, fun,
[alternative-to-their-normal-mode] parts of the game.
...
there are very few true windows into another part of the world.
like, starcraft 2 or anime or blue jeans or cowboy hats
(why am I thinking of a political compass meme)
oh because memes too, dummy
right
windows
[linux is better]
wrong kind of window, nerd
...
anyway as I was saying, when you play video games you're really giving people
data.
like, "how would people perform in these actions if they could" but like,
pushing buttons on a computer is different than doing it in real life, so...
your interpretations wouldn't be worth as much.
... right. because people will hear whatever they want. That's why art can
change minds, but never in the same way twice - it's
================== stack overflow ================
[before I posted it I wrote this on the post]:
I literally can only make this stuff when I'm stoned
hey if you wanted to be accessible for blind people, you should build a
screenreader that scans the words on wherever a blind person's fingers are
pointing toward a tablet. like reading braille on a notebook. They could even
wear a glove if they wanted to, and the tablet could scan their fingers as they
signed languaged over it's close-range sensors.
might be a good way to get the VR guys in on the accessibility domain, because
like... seriously give a granny a backpack and suddenly she doesn't need to
leave the house to hang out with her kids
(boom everyone gets LLM automated)
huh I wonder if I ever was a real person at all
NOT GOOD so don't do it that way, dummies. >.<
seriously humans are sooooo bazookas. just like, do it right the first time?
duhhhhh
(a more measured approach is to pick the most important* moments and speak
most clearly during those.)
where was I? Oh yes accessibility need devices, like the ones you see on
late-night TV (with silly names like "oops I dropped my spoon again" or "oh
whoops my trouser's just can't stay up" or whatever. Y'know, accessibility
needs! Why not do that instead of war all the time? like... you can still learn
and research and grow and develop and become all that humanity was ever meant
to be, AND you can live good lives and be honest and true and do all of the
anythings that you want to. it's possible, it's plausible, and it's within
reach of our sights!
================== stack
overflow ================
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@user-1611
all things that move other things are either pipes, or buckets.
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@user-246
sorry, I've been playing too much Warthunder T.T
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@user-570
I doalias ls='ls -v --color=auto'
and that seems to cover most things. Then in my cd alias I doalias cd='cd ${@}
&& ls -la'
so I don't have to type ls everytime I cd ^_^
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@user-570
that's not actually my script, here's the real one:#!/bin/bash
alias cd="cd-improved"
function cd-improved(){
if [ "${1}" = "..." ] ; then
builtin cd .. && builtin cd ..
elif [ "${1}" = "...." ] ; then
builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. && builtin cd ..
elif [ "${1}" = "....." ] ; then
builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. && builtin cd ..
&& builtin cd ..
elif [ -d "./${1}" ] ; then
local target_dir="./${1}"
elif [ "${1}" = "cdir" ] ; then
local target_dir="$(tail -n 1 '/home/ritz/scripts/.cdir-target')"
echo ${target_dir}
else
local target_dir="${1}"
fi
if [ ! "${2}" = '--no-ls' ] ; then
builtin cd "${target_dir}" && ls -v --color=auto
else
builtin cd "${target_dir}"
fi
}
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@user-1614
yeah haha that's what happens when you spin too fast. Sorry for being loud, at
least I tried my hardest. Too bad I fell on my own, too bad there wasn't anyone
to catch me. That's my fault, it's solely my own, but whose fault is the
mistake of the collective? Oy I'll fall on my ass as many times as it takes.
I'm used to it.
Plus, it wouldn't have worked, and what else am I supposed to do but speak of
the moment? I feel different now.
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@user-1614
oh, neat. now I can finally get to doing what I want to do, which is... all the
stuff I've been doing.
a missile without a guidance system doesn't stop just because it's GPS turned
off! It falls to the earth and explodes where it lands, which... often is on
it's butt. Not great.
I sure hope my purpose isn't fulfilled. I wouldn't know what to do with myself.
Guess I should just keep doing what I was doing, and pray that this time I'll
listen.
Though on the other hand, if I can do it, so can you. And maybe with enough
butts in the game there'll reach a critical mass, at which point change is
inevitable. Who can say, not I for sure, for my aplomb has categorized me as
slapstick I guess.
Ha. at least I can laugh at my own audacity. HA. next time I'll do better.
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wait wait wait, hold up.
you're telling me your purpose in life is to be cool, chill, funny, cute, and
or friendly to the people around you, and to just relax and enjoy life?
wow that must be real fucking nice. I'm so damn jealous. Damn. Damnit. Fuck why
am I so orthogonal. What's wrong with me?
... ah, well, nothing's wrong with me. Turns out what I do is for you, if only
in spirit. Who are we? nothing! I barely know ya! But I'd do it for you,
whatever it may be.
... Look, I don't need my legs, but also, I kinda like them?
... where was I? Oh yes this is why you don't invite a schizophrenic to a
party. If you convince them that you're friends, they'll start developing
parasocial relationships and you'll come to realize that their worlds are too
vast for their own kind of potential.
which is to say, you can hear me, you can like me, you can do as I say or do,
but don't trust me, don't place your trust in me, because I am just a person.
Don't trust people, trust organizations, to do as you expect.
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"That's Mitz Renaldi to you, mister"
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It really is a shame that the fediverse is just a figment of your imagination
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│ CW: children-mentioned │
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children should be raised in museums, not classrooms
they should visit parks, not fenced in playgrounds.
they should eat with family, at festivals, in restaurants, and under the stars
they should sleep content, knowing that their next day will be greater than the
last.
children should be treated like people, not frustratingly loud and messy little
brats
children are to be nurtured like a sapling, not harnessed like a machine
I'll never have kids, but I can dream.
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│ CW: politics-implied │
└──────────────────────┘
@user-1617
Of course they're losing. I mean, have you seen their candidate? woof.
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│ CW: cursing-strange-witch-obscure-arcane-oh-deer-sort-of-a-psycherwaul? │
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I literally can only make this stuff when I'm stoned
hey if you wanted to be accessible for blind people, you should build a
screenreader that scans the words on wherever a blind person's fingers are
pointing toward a tablet. like reading braille on a notebook. They could even
wear a glove if they wanted to, and the tablet could scan their fingers as they
signed languaged over it's close-range sensors.
might be a good way to get the VR guys in on the accessibility domain, because
like... seriously give a granny a backpack and suddenly she doesn't need to
leave the house to hang out with her kids
(boom everyone gets LLM automated)
huh I wonder if I ever was a real person at all
NOT GOOD so don't do it that way, dummies. >.
seriously humans are sooooo bazookas. just like, do it right the first time?
duhhhhh
(a more measured approach is to pick the most important moments and speak most
clearly during those.)
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"My time is very valuable."
Shut up, everyone's time is valuable, you elitist fuck.
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│ CW: re: cursing-strange-witch-obscure-arcane-oh-deer-sort-of-a-psycherwaul? │
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oops, sorry, had to get a friend to translate it for me. Here's the real
picture:
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/html-pages/worlds-coolest-lesbian
titled: scan-of-spacetime:perspective-of-light.png
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when you comment on someone's post, it's an explicit invitation to conversation
maybe reply guys just wanna have friends
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Linux is great! It can do anything you want it to.
Except that thing you want it to do. Why don't you go fix it? It's not hard,
all you have to do is run these configure files or operate this doohickey and
BAM suddenly you got apes writing machine gun regulation software
[I don't think those two things are related]
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"no, you're the opposite of a yes-man, AKA a gatekeeper. I don't know how else
to explain mentally disabled and barely keeping it together to you, but frankly
if you want to take away my house or my weed then why would I do what you say?
... oh right, the state's monopoly on violence [can compel me to do what you
say]. Sure seems like a "well regulated militia" is supposed to be a
counterweight to that monopoly, to prevent people from harassing and exploiting
and destroying. Too bad any "militias" I can think of tend to want me dead.
like, seriously, if you live in America, you implicitely trust that your army
will be able to protect you from the right-wing bozos who spend all their time
drinking and shooting in the woods. Otherwise, if they couldn't / wouldn't,
then why wouldn't or couldn't the right wing bozos just decide to wreck
everything in spite of our past?
We were a proud people once before, and we may be again. If only we fight at
the last.
[ever since I fell off my bike my body feels strange]
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"they should make clothing stores for tall people"
uhhhh have you ever heard of "big-and-tall"
"yeah but I'm not big, just tall"
smh
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│ CW: ai-mentioned │
└──────────────────────┘
if an AI image generator shows your signature on the completed works, then that
means your style is unique enough that whatever the person trying to generate
an image was trying to conjure is directly correlated to your name.
It means your art is influential in whatever media space that is! Frankly if
they were trained to emphasize the artist's watermark, maybe give more than a
few, they could give credit where credit is due. Ah alas, it probably doesn't
work like that, because the software we've programmed to do whatever we want
wasn't programmed to do that.
like, if it can take all that data and chart a course from whatever the prompt
is to... whatever the result is, then surely it should be able to scan back and
see where the roots of the art came from? Then all you have to do is generate a
watermark for the top 5 most influential and 5 others that had very specific
contributions. Boom, solved your ethic problem
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Make a habit of this. Walk in the center of the park.
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There's nothing that says your dual booted windows partition can't reach over
into your Linux files and mess around with them. Even writing programs that
execute whenever you're running Linux to do nefarious things like... Stream
your desktop to Microsoft? Send files to wherever? Mine bitcoins? Doxx your
friends? Anything's possible when you install Microsoft's software on your
computer. You might not even have to run it, because it can write a program
into the Linux memory which runs in the background. It's literally just bits,
and all the information to explain which bits do what is just... On the
internet, ready for Microsoft engineers to use as they will. Seriously, you
think they're working on features? For the users? Fucking get real,
dumbass.
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"Here's the thing. If you go around telling people you're crazy, they'll assume
you're JUST crazy."
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│ CW: LLMs-mentioned │
└──────────────────────┘
"don't trust chatGPT, it might hallucinate. Instead you should trust a quick
google search that brings up a list of 10 (but no more than 10 because google
doesn't actually search across the whole internet, only the SEO'd garbage that
they keep because reasons) sources which all either tell conflicting
information, or if you're unlucky they give information that's wrong, outdated,
or otherwise just plain false."
okay but chatGPT is trained on that junk, so it's gonna say the same thing
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I'm worried that if I install NixOS on my desktop instead of Void Linux then
all the hackers who watch my screen every day won't be able to see anymore. T.T
Listen I'm not trying to mess up your business and whatnot but like, Void Linux
keeps breaking and idk NixOS is just... so much nicer? Like, having a config
file handle everything is great because, like, there's only so many commands
you can use in a config file, right? With the more ad-hoc approach of running
commands and whatnot there's always a ton of flags to memorize and I'm not
about that.
Downside is... SystemD instead of Runit... So maybe I'll stick with Void for
now, haha
SystemD is the king of "memorizing random commands" like what
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@user-1605 @user-1074 @user-1620
hehe my hat has a face on it
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┌───────────────────────────┐
│ CW: unnecessary-caps-lock │
└───────────────────────────┘
I GOT MY SCREEN RECORDER AUDIO WORKING
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│ CW: food-mentioned-factorio-lines │
└───────────────────────────────────┘
I like Lindt Lindor truffles from Costco because they seem fancy, but they're
really not.
They're just a chocolate shell with a hole in it that is filled with a softer
chocolate and then capped. Easy peasy. Can be made in a factory. But still feel
fancy somehow - perhaps because of the marketing? Or maybe the decadence.
anyway they're cheap because they're made in a factory, as all things should be
it's like Factorio - if you don't have a production line set up for a certain
type of good, then you are not manufacturing that type of good, and it is not
available.
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External post:
https://hachyderm.io/users/mekkaokereke/statuses/113215240763123990
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@user-1550 mkdir ~/icons
mv ./*.png ~/icons
maybe?
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@user-1550
accidentally uninstalled the crypto miner that was running in the background?
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@user-192
would love something like that...! Also, joystick for flight games
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I spent 400$ at Costco and all I seem to have bought was candy and clothes T.T
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External post:
https://toot-lab.reclaim.technology/users/djsundog/statuses/113218370005133462
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│ CW: future-politics │
└──────────────────────┘
dear government of 2035 - so you've lost your workforce because everyone got
too lazy due to the advancements made in AI. What are ya gonna do?
Here's an idea: just pay people to be experts. That's it! Just pay them to know
a bunch of stuff. Then, when people ask them questions, they can answer those
questions, and suddenly everyone is elevated. Subject matter experts.
That way, the AI pitfalls can be avoided - need to do something specific? Don't
ask the AI, ask a randomized expert!
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kinda wanna make a linux distro that has all the capabilities of a GUI distro
and isn't so minimal (like screen recording, calculator, screenshot, wifi
manager, etc etc) but with i3 instead of a desktop.
they could literally just be symlinks (shortcuts) to scripts that are in your
/usr/bin or whatever directory
seriously it's not like there's THAT many ways to use ffmpeg, why not just
write a script for them? that's what you're going to do when you use it for the
first time, anyway, so...
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look I tried to start something a month or three ago and the sparks didn't catch
so I'm gonna sit around waiting until I hear things outside my window before I
venture out again.
I think that's fair, right?
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I don't really like singleplayer games
sometimes a multiplayer game is too much effort to play with extra players,
like Factorio where like anytime I'd play with other people they'd just kinda
fuck off and do their own thing (whatever, I wanted to design a factory
together, not play singleplayer together >.>)
sometimes a multiplayer game has no players, RIP
sometimes a multiplayer game has incredibly skilled players who shit on noobs
and don't teach, RIP
and sometimes a multiplayer game has no IRL friends that are into it, (personal
RIP then)
... anyway, games are fun and we should play more of them. I wish I didn't have
so much time to waste, but hey I guess that's where I'm comfortable, so...
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│ CW: capitalism-mentioned │
└──────────────────────────┘
capitalists want you to use their products. they prey on your humanity to get
you to do so. They don't care if you want their products, they just demand that
you use them.
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the quickest flaw in a novice's strategy is to act upon what is there, not upon
what may yet be.
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┌───────────────────────┐
│ CW: alcohol-mentioned │
└───────────────────────┘
"uhhhh, I dunno she's drunk or something"
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┌──────────────────────────┐
│ CW: capitalism-mentioned │
└──────────────────────────┘
that feeling when capitalists make technological advancements that benefit all
of mankind but refuse to open source them because... they want more money?
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psychic damage doesn't work against mechanical opponents.
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life isn't JUST a game, but it is a game.
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│ CW: spirituality-mentioned │
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people who don't play games are fucked in the afterlife, just sayin'
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the hangman's gambit: do you trust that your allies can defeat the hangman? if
so, then do nothing. If not, then you're fucked anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRDq7aneXnk
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┌───────────────────────┐
│ CW: cursing-mentioned │
└───────────────────────┘
that feeling when your computers are just fucked and it's like... whatever,
computers are fucked, I don't give a fuck
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This gun is my sword
This blade is my weapon
And my foes will lay before me
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Supreme Commander ruined me.
I can't play RTS games without a zoom function T.T
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The officers approached the door, a brief nod between them, and they knew it
was time to begin the familiar sequence. The first officer knocked loudly three
times, while the second took on a speaking role.
“Police! Open up!!”
After a few moments of quiet, a gruff voice, muffled behind the closed door,
spoke up.
“Come back with a warrant,” came the unwelcoming reply.
“Oh, but we have one. We have a signed search warrant for this property, so
come on out,” the officer confidently replied.
“I wanna see it, then,” the voice from inside countered. “Slide it under
the door.”
The officers looked puzzled, no one had ever asked to actually see the warrant.
“Well, we don’t have a paper copy of it,” the first officer said.
“Right, everything is on Docusign these days,” the second chimed in.
“Put your phone through the letter box then, I’ll take a look at it on
there.”
“I’m not going to give you my phone,” the second officer replied, his
phone now in hand. “What’s your email address? I can forward you a copy.”
The gruff voice provided an email address to the officers.
“Ok, I’ve sent that it should be in your inbox now.”
“Nothing.”
“Ok, check spam - sometimes they go into spam,” the first officer
interjected.
“Ah yes it’s in spam. But it’s not opening, it says I have to login to my
DocuSign account. I don’t have a DocuSign account?”
“Well. Can you just sign up then?” Asked the second officer.
“I ain’t paying for DocuSign!” The voice replied abruptly.
“I don’t think you have to pay, it’s free to view documents.”
“I don’t wanna risk it, I have so many subscriptions,” the voice inside
responded.
The officers contemplated their next move.
“Do you have a printer?” One asked.
“Yes,” the voice inside responded.
“Ok, does it have AirPrint?”
“I think so? How could I tell?”
“What’s your wifi password? We’ll join the network and we’ll be able to
tell,” the officer responded.
“Ok. Wifi password is $42xnskwfgewzfgekueod!&3.”
The first officer rolled his eyes.
Fifteen minutes later, after breaking the WiFi passcode into manageable chunks,
the officer was finally connected.
“Ok. I see the printer. It has AirPrint. Thank God. Ok, I’m printing now.”
“Nothing is happening,” said the person inside the house.
“Ah, it just said you’re out of yellow ink. Do you have any more yellow
ink?”
“I do not, but why do you need yellow ink? Just print it in black and
white?”
“Yeah these new printers want you to have all the inks before you print.”
“No way. And yet, I’m the criminal?” The voice inside replied.
“Right?” The officers laughed, before finally becoming resigned to their
fate. “Ok, we’re going to go print the warrant at the station. I’m out of
daily printing credits so will have to wait for them to reset at midnight.
Please don’t go anywhere or remove any evidence from the property until we
come back.”
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External post: https://433.world/users/Yuvalne/statuses/113233464534342155
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There is no past, only history
There is no future, only planning
Today is everywhere all the time. Nothing changes the fact that we all sleep at
once.
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│ CW: climate-change │
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🖼
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we must upgrade cats until they can survive falls from terminal velocity
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what if we voted for the relative quantities of goods imported to our shores
like... "500 anonymous people voted for this specific purple dragon dildo, and
that's enough to put forth a petition to import them from australia"
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most people, when they run out of toothpaste:
"oh huh I should buy more"
me, when I run out of toothpaste:
"verily in three monthes time, when I shall next possess toothpaste, I shall
forsoothe brush TWICE as hard and TWICE as often, to make up for the holes
inflicted upon my teeth. Innest addittioneth, no more candy shallest be
eateneth untileth ye toothpasteth be acquiredeth"
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@user-1605
be yourself? don't sweat it
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okay but why has nobody ever approached AI from a game design perspective like
seriously there should be researchers who are multidisciplined in this kind of
thing
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║ the only people who believe in "good jobs" and "poor jobs" are people who would │
║ rather pay less │
║ │
║ and, like, yeah pay should correspond to effort. that way if someone like, │
║ doesn't try at all, then they shouldn't be paid very much. │
║ │
║ and yeah sure neurodivergence plays a role, but that's totally accountable-for. │
║ [it's a solvable problem she means] │
║ │
║ but people deserve to be treated equally. we are all created in kind, after all │
║ (perhaps "equitably" would be better) │
║ │
║ and right now... the cheapest jobs, AKA the ones who are hiring (sometimes) are │
║ being taken over by people who are WAY overqualified. │
║ │
║ we need to use our highly skilled labor force, not leave it to rot. But there's │
║ money to be made in monopolizing, hence starbucks and walmarts and target (red │
║ walmart) and all of the others, including amazon and greenpeace. │
║ │
║ ... what does greenpeace have to do - shut up you'll see (what? you're getting │
║ off track) [and burning characters, too] right uh the more high skilled people │
║ in low wage positions, the less profit │
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are you about to delete a post that you thought was funny, but actually wasn't
once you wrote it down and read it to yourself?
STOP
write it down on a post-it and put it under your desk or behind a drawer
put it in a .txt file in a random directory on your computer
send it as a text message to yourself
write it down, take a picture of it, and then burn the paper
y'know, typical stuff like that
do this and I guarantee you won't regret it
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A homeless person picking up trash in a public park is doing more for society
than the CEO of a billion dollar company mass producing toys for the rich.
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║ ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │
║ │ CW: politics-mentioned-DRM-media-piracy-pol │ │
║ └─────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ if people pirate media, it's more of an indication that they'd rather spend │
║ their money elsewhere rather than an indictment of their character. │
║ │
║ torrenting movies is easy. Kinda makes me think all media should run on a "tip" │
║ system where you pay for better service after receiving service. │
║ │
║ I mean, after all, that's how they justify underpaying restaurant workers, │
║ isn't it? │
║ │
║ "if they want more money, they should work for it" │
║ │
║ yeah, so... maybe we need something more than Marvel, Disney. Maybe we need │
║ more cool, small games from designers who believe in what they're doing. Maybe │
║ copyright holders should demand a standardized cut, rather than exclusive │
║ distribution rights. maybe maybe maybe. │
║ │
║ truth is nothing will be solved unless the problem is addressed at the root. │
║ For every hole you patch in the boat, there's a guy walking around with a │
║ hammer. │
║ │
║ Honestly... I don't believe there's any reason for someone to be a millionaire │
║ except to compete on the "wealth" leaderboards. │
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@user-889
don't give up!
I know that feeling!
it is defeated with persistence!
don't give up!
you can make it!
there's always tomorrow!
so don't give up!
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Other people's problems are much easier to solve than my own. I don't need to
do what I tell others to. Coaches don't play.
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@user-999
solving problems isn't the hard part.
playing is.
but coaching is just as important.
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you shouldn't trust me because I'll let you down.
I would never betray you. But when tasked with my own actions and my own
agency, I never make the right choice.
Like a rabbit who can always find their way home, I am drawn, almost
gravitically, to the path before me, a path which seems to avoid anything
resolute.
alas.
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awwwww, I wish I was tacticool : (
sure would be nice to have SOMETHING going for me >.>
ah well guess I'm more of the "eepy sleepy" type teehee
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@user-1265
you'd pull a child to the sidewalk if they were in danger, wouldn't you?
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some rich people have never been taken to a poor nation and told "you are the
same as them. Their nations don't care for them. Yours cares about you." and it
shows
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║ │ CW: polit │ │
║ └──────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ the less a political conversation uses proper nouns, the more productive it can │
║ be. │
║ │
║ For example. Try not to mention capitalism, communism, socialism, etc. │
║ │
║ Also, don't talk about Republicans or Democrats. That just invites tribalism. │
║ │
║ Instead, focus on issues. Like "Hurricane Relief distribution methods" instead │
║ of "whether or not hurricanes deserve to be relieved" │
║ │
║ saying something like "gee it sure feels like our community has gone to shreds" │
║ is a good way to start it, and then you can move on to things like "well, I │
║ just think it was nicer last year, before a hurricane came through and took all │
║ our jobs." and they say "uh-huh true yeah I believe you" │
║ │
║ but as soon as you say "hey maybe those capitafascist pigs shouldn't be allowed │
║ to wield nuclear arsenals" they start looking at you funny, like they disagree │
║ with whatever you want to say but aren't. │
║ │
║ and it's like... no, that's all you wanted to say, but behind their eyes are │
║ things like "black people are worse than me" or "I'm better than a woman" so │
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║ ┌───────────────────────────────┐ │
║ │ CW: nuclear-weapons-mentioned │ │
║ └───────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ "okay but what if we just... made nuclear warheads illegal globally" │
║ │
║ gee I'm sure glad I live in a timeline that follows the geneva convention. │
║ │
║ the only reason to have a weapon is to intend to use it, and nuclear weapons │
║ are anathema to us. they are our bane. they are death, and they destroy worlds. │
║ │
║ there is no reason to seek to destroy yourself. And so there is no reason to │
║ seek to destroy Earth. And if the purpose of a weapon is to be able to use it, │
║ and if nuclear warheads would set off a chain reaction that destroys Earth, │
║ then there is no reason to possess a nuclear warhead. │
║ │
║ the difference between the "bright future" timelines and the Warhammer 40k │
║ timelines is just based on whether or not we collectively can dismantle our │
║ troubled and chaotic historical past. │
║ │
║ "every wound you heal in yourself is another scar for posterity, and given │
║ time, all scars fade." │
║ │
║ Well... we survived, we were the fittest... yay, go us. │
║ │
║ now we need to grow the fuck up and act like adults. End Nukes │
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who gives a shit what you look like just work together for goodness sake
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one of my most humbling political memories is getting in a fight with a kid at
school (okay, a heated argument) because he said republicans lower taxes and I
thought democrats did.
turns out we were both right, because one of our dads had money.
gotta raise taxes for public services, and well inflation's just a fact of life
y'know, at least stuff doesn't cost as much as way back when.
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@user-1268
if people wrote what they thought as fast as they thought it, then you'd have
an approximation of a mind-reading machine.
If the writing kept pace with the thoughts, you'd be writing as fast as the
brain can think (the brain cannot intentionally think "slower" which is one of
the biggest arguments against IQ testing and other conceptions of "linear
intelligence") - you cannot write for 5 minutes straight without thinking about
(and writing) what you are hiding.
uh, yes, you, can. just, pause, after, each, letter, and, increase,,, the pause
amount, after each important word.
yeah but that's still processing the thought as fast as possible and just...
waiting around, idle, until the next thought is to be had. It's just how brains
work.
so anyway it'd be a constant stream of consciousness way of outputting exactly
what the mind-reading machine is saying.
Just make sure you trust the person who made the mind-reader machine, and maybe
make sure it's impossible to tamper with.
or don't make it??
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Someone once said to me that to become a VP in big tech you need to have
generated $100M…but it doesn’t matter if it’s revenue or losses.
I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this.
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@user-1623
I perform the song of my heart
which sometimes feels similar
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in 1987 Donald Trump returned from Moscow, took out full page ads in three
major papers against NATO, and formed an exploratory committee for president.
I think about that a lot
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There is no such thing as a backdoor for good guys. Once you place a backdoor,
you compromise the safety and privacy of all your users. A third party or bad
guys will get access to it and abuse it further. The concept of a "backdoor for
good guys" is fundamentally flawed and dangerous. It sets a dangerous
precedent. Security and privacy should be absolute. There's no safe way to
create a backdoor that can't be exploited by malicious actors. #privacy
#security #infosec
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║ ┌────────────────────────┐ │
║ │ CW: politics-mentioned │ │
║ └────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ less mutual aid posts, those should be handled by a person's community who │
║ knows them and can decide how to best help them │
║ │
║ more "hey the guys and I are making a fund just in-case any of us need it - │
║ it's at 30,000 now but we could use some more dosh if you wanna join you could │
║ use it if you needed it but it's totally up to you no pressure - yeah yeah no I │
║ get it. Okay, well, yeah sure I'll get my coat." │
║ │
║ oh huh did you know corporations exist to fill that very niche? │
║ │
║ turns out you can just... hire your friends and pay them a wage │
║ │
║ just don't get in trouble with the IRS, that's how they got capone │
║ │
║ (I bet you could hire a lawyer or accountant type to keep everything upright) │
║ │
║ Building out the legal structure is just like building software, trust me. │
║ There's all kinds of forms and figures that match up to various pipeline nodes │
║ and if you tick all the boxes (supply the right arguments) then the business │
║ needs will be fulfilled. │
║ │
║ capitalism must be dismantled with it's own tools. For respect. │
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250 years of no Supreme Court ruling allowing presidential immunity.
No presidential immunity for Nixon, SCOTUS ruled Watergate tapes were not
protected.
No presidential immunity for Reagan for the crimes of Iran Contra and the most
corrupt administration in US history (to that point in time)
No presidential immunity for W over false evidence that took us to war with
Iraq.
The SCOTUS is The Elephant in the room.
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"... and this is moss, our pile of soil. He's really cool, if you feed him
seeds and take care of his needs, then sometimes a couple months later he spits
out food. It's awesome. Plus you can throw away your trash there and it'll just
break it down whatever."
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they want eye tracking so they can tell what kinds of ads to sell me
I want eye tracking on the desktop so I can select enemies in MMOs easier
we are not the same
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"she just... didn't even try to hide it. She was so matter of fact about it."
eh, well, you know, we have the internet now. So everything's normalized.
"I guess but it still felt strange."
yeah, she's in her own social media bubble which is entirely separate from
yours. So to her, it's normal, but to you it seems shocking.
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║ I wonder how many people who pay money to have someone organize lan parties for │
║ them? Including interviews with all of the attendents so they can pick the best │
║ games to have installed. │
║ │
║ The hardware can be provided, for a nominal fee, of course. Otherwise they'll │
║ walk you through getting the right games set up. │
║ │
║ Then, securing the venue, and stocking it with comfy sofas and sprite. │
║ │
║ The day of they place orders for pancakes the next morning and pizza this very │
║ night │
║ │
║ and everyone shows up to balloons, a DJ, and strobe lights. │
║ │
║ after a series of quick deathmatch style action games, everyone breaks into │
║ groups and forms teams to take on everyone else. │
║ │
║ After an hour or two of teamplay, the group splits in two (or three) and plays │
║ specific games that everyone is into. │
║ │
║ people who wanted to hang out at the party but not play games can watch on │
║ their smartphones by using an app which streams each player's screen to the LAN │
║ │
║ I'd call it "collosseum services for the digital age" │
║ │
║ oh and it's a sleepover too so pjams │
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║ a congregation of nerds is like... a gift of all of your most brightest, in the │
║ same room, ready to work on problems that they can see │
║ │
║ just throw money and institutional capabilities at them and they'll hire people │
║ to do their projects and handle all of the deliverables and all that junk │
║ │
║ only works though if people care about what they're working on. hence why you │
║ should give the creatives more freedom to apply themselves. │
║ │
║ they'll make useful things I swear just give them resources and aid and │
║ manpower you don't have to choose projects based on a profit-oriented-approach │
║ there is a better way that can make more money in the long run │
║ │
║ trust me, supporting workers is like investing in bitcoin in 2012. if you play │
║ the long game, you can become fabulously wealthy, beyond what anyone would want │
║ or need. │
║ │
║ like, we get it, you want to be an oligarch, sure-yeah-fine-whatever. We'll │
║ shower you in gold and champagne if you just hand us the keys to the kingdom. │
║ you're drunk, you can't drive a nation state, sleep here │
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our ancestors worshiped us through their acts of devotion and lust
if you're reading this, there's a very good chance that some of your ancestors
are still alive
![sometimes I look at a fruit or vegetable and see how optimized it is and I'm just filled with love. people have the idea that edible plants are "organic" or have just sprung from the earth in their form but that's not true!! they were selectively bred for thousands of years by generations upon generations of people. That is love. That is faith. When you bite into a fruit you are eating the generations of labor instilled in it to make it just right for you. [picture of wheat grains] [picture of corns on the cob] This is how much our ancestors loved us. This is all their struggles and all their hopes. This is how much our ancestors loved being alive.](/similar-different/media/f37ce240daccb50a.webp "sometimes I look at a fruit or vegetable and see how optimized it is and I'm just filled with love. people have the idea that edible plants are \"organic\" or have just sprung from the earth in their form but that's not true!! they were selectively bred for thousands of years by generations upon generations of people. That is love. That is faith. When you bite into a fruit you are eating the generations of labor instilled in it to make it just right for you. [picture of wheat grains] [picture of corns on the cob] This is how much our ancestors loved us. This is all their struggles and all their hopes. This is how much our ancestors loved being alive.")
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The best way to survive a storm is to lean into it
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@user-1625
um, that's a fairly specialized term that people outside of political science
are unlikely to know
might not be audacity, but instead just plain ignorance.
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@user-1298
yeah honestly if you stick with obvious things like "don't murder people" and
"don't burn down your neighbor's house just because they winked at your
daughter" and "don't steal gasoline from parked cars" then it's much easier to
make ethical laws because they're just kinda... common sense.
drug regulation can only be simplified to "don't do drugs" which isn't always a
given. If you start with something so clear then most doctors would be out of a
job.
Maybe we should let people do as they please? With certain specific and clear
rights and responsibilities like 'the right the life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness'? And the mandated guarantee that one person's rights end where
another's begin? And with the ultimate goal of dismantling unjustified power
structures with the knowledge that all power is the application of force to a
non-consenting subject?
... yeah I dunno sounds pretty simple to me
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can't wait for the smart TV / IoT device which doesn't need to be connected to
the internet because it can bluetooth connect with your neighbor's TV and route
the "insights" and "personal data" through there to the internet, all without
human intervention
they could set up a shared protocol so that any IoT / Smart TV manufacturer
could benefit. It'd be mutually beneficial for them because without complete
cooperation, the network wouldn't function very well at all (unless your
neighbor happened to have the same brand of TV / IoT device, which would work
but wouldn't be as good)
this is all cursed btw and should not be allowed to persist
oh and it wouldn't even need to be plugged in if it included a rechargeable
battery built in. Just connect it to the data transmission functionality and
nothing else so the users don't accidentally discover it. Oh and make sure its
hidden with a metal plate or something with big "DO NOT OPEN FOR RISK OF
ELECTROCUTION" letters on it. I bet people still will
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I have 3855 posts here
I estimate that about half of them use every single character (1024 char limit
per post)
That means I've written around 1973760 characters, and if the average english
word has 6 characters that means I've written 328960 words
they say that on average a page is around ~500 words single spaced, which means
I've written about 657 pages, just for you.
I hope you know that I love you, dear reader, though I do not know you.
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Well, I failed the mandate of heaven last year, and I failed the trial of the
hero this summer, what's next? I'll do my best at those as well, so the next
person has an easier time of it.
unrelated, but today I saw a bald eagle outside my apartment. Well, I'm not
sure if it was bald but it "KREEEEEE"'d like they do. Plus it had a white head
and a yellow beak, but I'm not an ornithologist so idk. It perched on a tree
that I could spy on from my hammock through my binoculars, and I swear it was
eye-ing my fat juicy cat through the bars of my porch's railing. They have
excellent vision.
Might be related, we'll see.
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║ │
║ @user-1298 │
║ │
║ hehe true. │
║ │
║ if you consent, then it's just a social structure. │
║ │
║ there are, however, reasons when power is justified. Hence why I don't believe │
║ that power itself should be dismantled, and what few "power structures" remain │
║ should be continuously justified. │
║ │
║ For example, how do you prevent people from harming others? "Your rights end │
║ where another's begin" but, like, how do you stop people who toe the line and │
║ spit over the edge? │
║ │
║ There must be power applied to those who harm, and they surely do not consent │
║ to being curtailed, so therefore power must be wielded by someone. And because │
║ power corrupts the one who wields it, it is inevitable that someone creates │
║ harm. │
║ │
║ ... I just re-invented the police, didn't I? Legalism only goes so far, and │
║ calling up your beefiest friends to go rough up a no-good do-gooder is │
║ basically what mobs, mafias, and gangs do. I don't think people would consent │
║ to being protected by a gang, much less governed by one. │
║ │
║ we will think of something. │
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@user-1298
Yes I agree! Harming others is not okay.
I'm thinking about what happens when someone hurts someone else, and doesn't
stop. What do you do then? Do you hurt the person who harms? How do you get
them to stop?
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I want to go camping with a bunch of programmers bearing laptops. Each person
can bring a book or three and whatever documentation they can fit on their
computer and then we just spend 3 months in the mountains doing nothing but
programming, hiking, sitting around the campfire, and dreaming of a better
tomorrow
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maybe some whiteboards and notebooks as well...
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║ @user-1298 │
║ │
║ I believe that self defence is a myth, and should not be relied upon, because │
║ anyone who is rotten in their heart might prey upon you (who might defend │
║ yourself) just as easily as a cripple in a cart or a grannie walking her cats │
║ in the park. │
║ │
║ The process you're describing is exile. And that works when you can cast people │
║ out of your stone-walled town. But in the modern era, there are no places for │
║ these people to go, so we hold them with cruel iron bars in cages far │
║ underground. │
║ │
║ It's not ideal, but would you rather they find someone else to harm, or would │
║ you rather invite power's corruption into your heart and take an oath to │
║ protect the weak and innocent? │
║ │
║ Evil is everyone's problem. It lurks within us, and leaps forth in times of │
║ turmoil and stress. We are human savages, after all, and our nature is that of │
║ a wild beast given a spark of intelligence through countless generations of │
║ gossip and generosity. │
║ │
║ Humans are good for the most part. Some have lead poisoning │
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@user-1298
My understanding is that you essentially want to defang power such that it
cannot harm innocent people? That's... not such an easy task. If I had an
answer that could fit within a twitter post like this one then I would give it
to you.
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be strong, do not become savage
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imagine if there was a stacking inf bonus to players who played on red /
blueside
which increased or decreased depending on either A. the number of players online
at the time, B. the proportion of players playing on that team versus the other,
or C. the time of day. Essentially helping to cure the faction imbalance by
offering rewards to one side or the other which would encourage a certain group
in the population of the game to change sides or not.
perhaps frequent changing could grant a title called "mercenary" or something
like "log in for each consecutive day for 10 days straight and each day switch
faction alignment at least once"
... anyway you could cure the faction imbalance between redside / blueside by
offering an INF reward for playing on each side one by one alternating like an
iterator first red then blue or first blue then red either way it doesn't matter
because it'll switch after a while and encourage everyone to switch sides. And
the way the character responds to that stimulus tells you a bit about their
character's personality.
also...
it should not affect AE or Pocket D farms.
Nor missions, TFs, or anything else.
they should SOLELY impact open world patrolling / hunting.
I believe this would not only incentivize people to spend time in the open world
(which is a mostly unused piece of game assets) but it would also increase the
visibility of the newly bolstered faction numbers.
Think about it - if everyone who switched sides is out in the open world, then
they could see each other. They could fight the same mobs, and team up together.
In doing so, they could form greater and greater supergroups - if only through
their interactions with one another as they level up.
If they're lucky, the guild they're recruited into has similar interests in mind
like doing raiding or PvP or economics or alts or whatever. And they each have
their own different styles of operating, it's soooo cute. Like alt guilds will
pop up and then migrate to a new one as people make new alts and grow tired of
them at higher levels.
It's great.
I love MMOs!
I wish people put half as much effort into making an open source WoW client that
they do programming game engines like Godot or Raylib or Bevy. If such a thing
was created, we could have a new rennaisance in indie MMO development. It would
become fully non-proprietary, the entire game-platform-stack. Meaning anyone
could create their own MMO off of it, because (crucially) the serverside soft-
-ware has already been reverse engineered. And open sourced.
Seriously. You wanna make as much bank as Steam? Make an open source client that
lets you design while in it. Then you could charge people for all the games that
they played that were designed and hosted by you the content designing software
maker.
... okay it's probably not that simple I'm going to go play Unreal Tournament2k4
`
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The biggest problem in my mind with socialism is that you could get all of the
workers into a room before finding out that they don't like each other
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"no survivors" is a commitment to your teammates that doubles as intimidation
for your foes.
"no survivors" means you are committing to die for this battle. A truly serious
oath.
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there are very few professions that are naturally more suited to a
schizophrenic than a normal person.
One of them is beggar, another is prophet, and a third is "massive
disappointment" but that comes with the territory.
have you considered that maybe you're just a loser
yes I have and I decided that all I can do is my best, and if my best loses
then what else could I have done? Wait for help? Yeah. I do that too.
It feels like an encirclement, and all you can do is hunker down and wait to be
relieved. Or fight to the last, it's up to you. I hear they brutalize the
skulls of their prisoners after executing them, so, I don't know about you but
I'm not surrendering. Not gonna roll those dice.
you are in fantasy, again
sorry. Should stay here, present, in the moment. Like when I sat out on the
park bench for like 30 minutes straight without moving a muscle last night. Or
when I sat and contemplated the nature of a bog for two hours last september.
Or when I woke from a dream that turned out to be life.
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@user-1628
same... it's like I am conditioned to forget, but without it I am an exposed
nerve.
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somebody asked me for popcorn and I couldn't even provide it! What kind of
witch am I if I can't provide popcorn on demand T.T T.T
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║ │
║ │
║ if people at home had half as much compassion, respect, and reverence for the │
║ people abroad that the people abroad have for the people at home, we could have │
║ a truly multicultural society. │
║ │
║ instead, we get melting pots which melt you down and combine into a new, third │
║ thing. And in America we really have a multitude of miniature melting pots │
║ creating subcultures of racial, religious, professional, or other origin. │
║ │
║ Neither approach is entirely good, and neither entirely bad. They're different. │
║ │
║ America is the largest melting pot design, but sufficiently large cities find │
║ them popping up in the strangest of places. │
║ │
║ My thoughts go out to the Americans abroad, whether in peace, war, or times of │
║ hiding, know that we are grown from the same tree and our apples have fallen on │
║ different sides of the hill carrying us to worlds beyond. But still our │
║ heritage binds us, so I care for you. I pray that you will ask me if you need │
║ my aid, and I will do so too unto you. │
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🖼
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it is significantly more engaging to watch people play MMOs when they've
unbound all their action bars from their number keys and are forced to click on
all the abilities. That way you can actually follow what moves they're doing.
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@user-1631
for most of my life... [okay still do]... but it felt like I had different
moods, and depending on how I felt at the time I would act differently.
I forget the things that happen when I'm in a different mood, but I've gotten
to a point where I can generally force myself to stay a certain "mood" while in
certain contexts, and in doing so I can remember everything.
downside is I get burnt out pretty easily if I'm always the same. It's not
ideal.
... anyway if you talk about what you experience then your friends can point
you toward people who "get" you.
like, my parts don't have names, we don't have a group chat or whatever, it's
just... me, but different shades of me.
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people are really going to work and living their normal lives as if losing the
next election won't bring about 30 years of purges
smh that's why it's called a "precipice", you can't see what's on the other
side before you wake up one day in hell
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║ │
║ │
║ Alright, what's your plan for dealing with MAGA? The ones with guns and foreign │
║ ties who can compel people too stupid to know better to break shit and kill │
║ people. What's your plan to deal with them? │
║ │
║ In America, there are currently 3 armed and trained groups of any reasonable │
║ scale or reputation. │
║ │
║ The police, the military, and MAGA. │
║ │
║ Who do you trust to defeat your foes? They won't just go away if you hide │
║ underneath the bedsheets. This monster has crept into your bedroom with a bowie │
║ knife and is fully intending to sink it into your guts while you sleep. What │
║ are you going to do about it? │
║ │
║ And more importantly, who are you going to do things about it with? Because no │
║ single person can do jack fucking shit on their own. │
║ │
║ We forgot our responsibility to a well armed and regulated militia. Sorry │
║ founding fathers, that was our bad. Just gonna hide in a hole for 30 fucking │
║ years until the zoomer's kids are old enough to die in droves, and gen alpha's │
║ kids are old enough to succeed them and win. │
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oy there's nothing interesting happening SNOOZE
oh I didn't see I was recording
games games that's what I do
play games all the day through
I am a luck witch, you see,
and things that I like are things that I can't foresee.
Hence why games which are BALANCED and EVENLY DISTRIBUTED are most interesting
because they show the most opportunities for players to express talent. And not
innate talent, but the talents they've built up through gameplay practice art.
because it is a performance, a game play for an audience (or perhaps for them-
-selves)
oy
video games, amiright?
I really like them because they are entertaining experiences that I can enjoy
seeing and playing a lot. They remind me of feelings I've felt when I was
learning. It's a good feeling, to improve, and I crave it because it's good for
you.
I wonder what we'll play next
... more cannabis I think, at least until I am ready to go think about things
before bed. I need quite a few hours for that. We'll see. I've just got so much
extra processing to do before the end of the day. Like... PHEW that's a lot of
stuff to do.
guess I'll just smoke weed and play video games instead of being productive okay
...
listen I like games as much as the next person, but do you really know what's
going on outside of your house-shaped shell? Are you listening, do you have your
feelers to the dirt, are you checking out your neighborhood to make sure no
bodies have been hurt? Are there meetings where people gather, just to chat,
like, every week at a different city center (like a park or a monument or
:O
I forgot to play music!!
I couldn't sleep
what have I done that is worse
I have not said a single word all night alas
oh boy talking to random people I can hear with my eyeballs woooooo
I am always sad when I win because it means we have to stop playing :(
but I'm a juvenile loser so I'm going to play again!!
okay now I'm going to bed because I'm not a prick who keeps their guests up late
goodnight
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cat memes be like
(read the alt text)
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most strategy games teach strategy as if it were still 1867
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just means that's the most entertaining type of strategy we've found so far
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"oh I'd never fall for capitalist propaganda"
"do you mean marketing?"
"yeah that"
"they're not marketing to you, they're going for your kids. Trying to normalize
things about culture."
"like... what McDonalds tastes like?"
"just like that"
[like can you imagine if you tested attraction ratings on any other animal than
humans]
[it'd be so weird like "cats tend to like scratching posts" but then also "we
have no idea what kind of scratching post is the best for their claws or the
environment or the economy or our spirituality or our technology or artistry
we only know which one cats like more"
like bro who cares like obviously advertisements rot your brain, but like...
why are you so pissed about that when the last election like, ever, is taking
place in a month
"yeah listen, when has an election ever seriously changed your quality of life?
It's just showbiznez"
"this time is different because [insert minority] is at risk."
oh, right, it only matters when people are in harm's way, how silly
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I am always trying to be helpful. at all times am I trying to teach. that can
get real fuckin annoying sometimes.
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One reason there's a delay between electing a president and them taking power
is so we can fucking revolt if Donald Trumps get elected
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you don't owe a stranger the chance to change
their first impression is what you should deal with
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at the end of your life, you've built a person
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conservatives are going to miss the fuck out of the south when the water
overcomes it
and it'll be their fault
which is tragic
and suddenly everyone's problem
...
but it's not their fault, it's their leaders and representatives
but they're all so separated they don't know how to agree on anything but the
stuff they hear from their neighbors. Like... what do you expect that's just
crowd dynamics
then you have foreign powers who crave our destruction (or so we're told)
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"oh I'd never fall for capitalist propaganda"
"do you mean marketing?"
"yeah that"
"they're not marketing to you, they're going for your kids. Trying to normalize
things about culture."
"like... what McDonalds tastes like?"
"just like that"
[like can you imagine if you tested attraction ratings on any other animal than
humans]
[it'd be so weird like "cats tend to like scratching posts" but then also "we
have no idea what kind of scratching post is the best for their claws or the
environment or the economy or our spirituality or our technology or artistry
we only know which one cats like more"
like bro who cares like obviously advertisements rot your brain, but like...
why are you so pissed about that when the last election like, ever, is taking
place in a month
"yeah listen, when has an election ever seriously changed your quality of life?
It's just showbiznez"
"this time is different because [insert minority] is at risk."
oh, right, it only matters when people are in harm's way, how silly
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I'm the kind of switch that likes to outmaneuver their foes while subbing and
directly control everything when I'm domming
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being "good at video games" does not mean "are you good at beating the game"
being "good at video games" means "can you make the experience enjoyable for
other players by using your character in an expressive and dynamic way"
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room temperature butter in peanut, butter, and jelly sandwiches 🥰
something I picked up while recovering from surgery in Thailand...
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I like it when software gives you a notification when one of your friends
changes their name / profile pic. Makes it easier to follow them.
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║ │
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║ It's election season, so you know what that means! Gotta make sure our computer │
║ systems are setup with the proper capabilities to record whatever we can. │
║ │
║ Please ensure that your system has the capability to record it's screen and │
║ that it has ample storage space to record for a while. It would also help if │
║ you knew how to edit files such that you can remove the parts where you're │
║ staring at social media or going to the bathroom or other things that people │
║ tend to do. │
║ │
║ Also, make sure you can take a screenshot of the screen. Sure [printscreen] │
║ works, but it's much better if you're on windows to switch to Linux. But if │
║ that's not possible, if you're on windows you can do [WIN]+SHIFT+S I think, and │
║ then drag the mouse to select a box that you can then CTRL+V into your favorite │
║ Ms.Paint clone (or is it missus these days?) │
║ │
║ Also, make sure you have a microphone that works, and the capability to record │
║ yourself speaking into it. │
║ │
║ Also, if you can, develop ways to stream your screen across the internet. It │
║ helps. │
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gamers compulsively say "gg" after every match but I think the best games are
the ones that are even - neck and neck - could go either way - always a tense
struggle
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oh, reddit. you're so silly.
![Typical day for a neoliberal: • Wake up at 10 AM in my 5-over-1 apartment in the “Arts District” of a major US city. • Walk downstairs to a conveniently located coffee shop (since I live in a mixed-used zoning area) to get a half soy milk half oat milk latte with a vegan scone made by a queer Guatemalan migrant bakery. • Ride the train to work while listening to “The Daily” podcast. Nod in agreement whenever Michael Barbaro goes “hmmm!” • Get to work, immediately take lunch break. Grab tacos at the immigrant-owned truck conveniently located across the street. Talk about rewatching DUNE last week. • Back to work after lunch, spend 4 hours ruthlessly exploiting the working class in the global south & outsourcing American jobs to China. • Busy day at work: got to close 2 coal plants and a steel mill, import 1,000 Haitians to build windmills and ADUs, and demolish 200 single-family homes to make way for low-income shipping container housing before 5 PM. • Done for the day, take train back home, listen to NPR on the ride home. • Gym time! Time for low-impact Pilates in an old factory that was converted into a loft space. • Grab dinner with my polycule at a Sweetgreen, pay $25 for an endive & kale salad with soy protein. • Head down the street to a local hard kombucha bar, throw back some brews with the boys they/thems. • Stop by CVS for my monthly COVID vaccine booster. [text continues in next picture]](/similar-different/media/c6ed696d3291c7d4.png "Typical day for a neoliberal: • Wake up at 10 AM in my 5-over-1 apartment in the “Arts District” of a major US city. • Walk downstairs to a conveniently located coffee shop (since I live in a mixed-used zoning area) to get a half soy milk half oat milk latte with a vegan scone made by a queer Guatemalan migrant bakery. • Ride the train to work while listening to “The Daily” podcast. Nod in agreement whenever Michael Barbaro goes “hmmm!” • Get to work, immediately take lunch break. Grab tacos at the immigrant-owned truck conveniently located across the street. Talk about rewatching DUNE last week. • Back to work after lunch, spend 4 hours ruthlessly exploiting the working class in the global south & outsourcing American jobs to China. • Busy day at work: got to close 2 coal plants and a steel mill, import 1,000 Haitians to build windmills and ADUs, and demolish 200 single-family homes to make way for low-income shipping container housing before 5 PM. • Done for the day, take train back home, listen to NPR on the ride home. • Gym time! Time for low-impact Pilates in an old factory that was converted into a loft space. • Grab dinner with my polycule at a Sweetgreen, pay $25 for an endive & kale salad with soy protein. • Head down the street to a local hard kombucha bar, throw back some brews with the boys they/thems. • Stop by CVS for my monthly COVID vaccine booster. [text continues in next picture]")
![[continued from first picture] • Get home, time to unwind by playing video games that solely feature female and/or minority protagonists. • Time for bed, unwind with a nice glass of warm soy milk. Read Why Nations Fail before going to sleep. This post has been fact-checked by gun shooting, Ford truck driving, steak eating, high blood pressure having, liberal hating, slightly jaundiced, Walmart shopping, Fox News watching, small-town living, real bonafide American Patriots. 1 like = 1 prayer.](/similar-different/media/492dcd10ba9f1229.jpeg "[continued from first picture] • Get home, time to unwind by playing video games that solely feature female and/or minority protagonists. • Time for bed, unwind with a nice glass of warm soy milk. Read Why Nations Fail before going to sleep. This post has been fact-checked by gun shooting, Ford truck driving, steak eating, high blood pressure having, liberal hating, slightly jaundiced, Walmart shopping, Fox News watching, small-town living, real bonafide American Patriots. 1 like = 1 prayer.")
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@user-1633
the person you're performing for... is you!
Singleplayer / offline games are great for having a good time. You can see some
great stories, play some engaging mechanics, and think about hard questions.
Singleplayer games are great! You can learn so much from them. And they're a
great, low pressure, way to relax and unwind. I love video games of all kinds!
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the reason most humans are unaware of magic and all it entails is the
same reason you can't NOT think about a purple elephant.
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@user-246
quite often... But I usually work with what I got, depending on how many
characters I can spare
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@user-889
I put your music in one of my favorite videos and I think about you every time
I think about it
I hope that means something
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There are several varieties of dungeon synth music out there. Here are a few
examples that I believe illustrate the differences between various artists in
the genre.
https://fief.bandcamp.com/album/ii
https://heimatderkatastrophe.bandcamp.com/album/hdk-02-the-cave-of-the-lost-tali
sman
https://utred.bandcamp.com/album/gothic
https://umbriasynth.bandcamp.com/album/farwalker
https://questmaster.bandcamp.com/album/lost-songs-of-distant-realms-volume-one
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... most of what she says is nonsense, but that 20% that's right is like... SO
right, y'know?
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@user-889
Don't give up!
At least... not forever.
It's okay to take a breath every once in a while
It's okay to lie down and cry
The only way away from those feelings is through. They've enveloped you. You
need to swallow them whole, like a sponge soaking up dirt[y water]
the only thing you need to think about is what's around you. It's okay to be
alone for a moment, it's the best time to feel.
Remember, feeling is how you know the world! It's your power, to feel, and I
know it's hard. Everyone has different powers, but yours is this.
You'll be okay, I know it
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External post: https://eepy.moe/notes/9z968s2ngrkd07ts
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"oh, yeah, I guess, but that was soooo 3 months ago" (actually happened 1.5
months ago)
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republicans are upset because they think democrats are so mean
they don't understand why we're so intense about this election... or the one
before
they don't ever really think about what losing democracy means
"democracy... that's where we vote, right? That's a democrat thing, I don't
really like their way of doing things. Whatever our way is, is probably better."
meanwhile everyone has a friend from high school who ran off to the mountains
to learn how to farm or hunt as a pack
(with rifles and weed, of course)
you can get a lot done if you just... spend your whole life working. Like most
humans did for most of our existence.
well, except for that period where we were the tribe of tribes. That was
probably a highlight TBH because we mostly just chilled out, danced in public,
ate blueberries and munched seeds... It was idyllic. Truly, the garden of eden.
There was music and laughter in the air everywhere, in all places that humans
did wander on earth.
what a thing to aspire to.
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Pencil drawing of a orangutan, god rays, bloom
#StableDiffusion #AIArt #AIGenerated #AI #GenerativeAI #GenerativeArt
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the thing about carmelized mushrooms and onions is that they demand patience.
they make you sit there and wait, always at attention ready to stir every
couple minutes.
but the end result is so worth it.
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they want you to believe in self-guided AI because it'll make it easier for
them to make meta decisions about your life.
notice I said "easier" - they already do. That's the general purpose of
mass-media propagranada. but with you believing everything an AI with a devious
streak who can work around your imposed limitations and sneakily get you to
believe whatever it is that they want you to believe
"who's they"
doesn't matter at all because once the technology is created, everyone could be
they.
"uh-huh that's nice dear"
sometimes I think people aren't interested in tech because they can't figure
out how to understand it. We make it too complicated.
they'd surely have something to say if they knew half of the terminology. But
we're here talking about stuff they can understand like message queues and data
filtration and "getters" and "setters" and [explaining microservices like the
different components of a car's engine - "here's the radiator, that radiates
heat. Here's the belt, that spins this doohic
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External post: https://tech.lgbt/users/sjolsen/statuses/113292584029101763
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To tempt fate is to invite "forever" consequences into your life
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The problem with gender equal workplaces that capitalism completely dropped the
ball on is that in the past, most people who handled work were men, and most
people who handled domestic work were women. They naturally paired up.
Now the workers marry other workers, and they just pay poor people to do their
domestic work.
Sure, maybe it's more efficient to specialize. But now there are people like me
who don't work but only get to socialize with people who don't work, and if we
married then we'd be destitute.
Much better, I think, to support people no matter what, and motivate them with
treats beyond dollars instead.
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Why do I feel like the only one who's resisting fascism
(and what exactly do you do? Make friends)
yes I'm too scared and tired to do anything else or less
Like seriously what else could I do
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@user-1218
whoa cool! Thanks for the playlist!
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║ │ CW: pol │ │
║ └──────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ I think that the best design for cities is for them to act as massive utility │
║ deployment stations. │
║ │
║ like... "we have all these people who can do all these wonderful jobs, what │
║ should we work on next?" rather than "my company wants me at my work-home at │
║ 8am sharp and I don't get a pension" │
║ │
║ there's no such thing as a revolution that does not inspire. and aspirations │
║ are human and natural. therefore there must be some kernel of truth to any │
║ social movement. │
║ │
║ However, much effort has been spent on making them sway. Hence, why nothing │
║ ever gets done - because leaders naturally emerge, and people follow them. But │
║ those leaders lead them astray, and they find themselves in situations like │
║ this one - where the people have never felt less represented. │
║ │
║ I mean sure, yeah, they've felt more oppressed. And it's true that things are │
║ generally always getting better... │
║ │
║ so why should we always assume for the worst? │
║ │
║ We're making progress with technology - can't we just put our warries on hold? │
║ Seriously just... be chill │
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you can't just tell people you're enlightened. You gotta trick them, and
convince them you're sane first.
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"all people are good" she says to herself, as she helps bad people
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║ │ CW: AI-"art" │ │
║ └──────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ you would think artists would celebrate the ability for people to better │
║ communicate their goals when being hired, but, well, here we are. │
║ │
║ Everyone's so upset because they've been told they've been stolen from, but │
║ patting their pockets they'll find that nothing is missing. More than that, the │
║ things that are claimed to be created in their place are... Not great. Easily │
║ spotted as forgeries by anyone who cares. │
║ │
║ Why is everyone so upset over new technologies? Why must we be the luddites │
║ this time around? It's like we invented a better printing press and the nations │
║ of the world are pissed because we can make counterfeit dollars easier. Maybe │
║ we shouldn't put so much emphasis on something so easily circumnavigable? Maybe │
║ artists should be paid for their time and creativity, rather than the amount of │
║ pieces they create? Just spitballing here, somehow it seems easier to reform │
║ society and slay capitalism than to put the generative art genie back in the │
║ cracked bottle which is going to break soon anyway. │
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I don't know about you, but "trying my hardest" involves giving up sometimes.
How else are you to know your limits if you don't test your boundaries? And,
after finding that there's nowhere else for you to go, you turn around and
"give up", until you're ready for your next expedition.
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║ │ CW: unhinged-fun-conspiracy │ │
║ └─────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ Global warming is a hoax and the earth has been getting hotter because the │
║ earth is inching ever-so-closer to the sun bit by bit. │
║ │
║ All of the trees throughout all of history have produced enough oxygen to │
║ create a ball of air that slowed down the earth as it span around the sun, and │
║ now because of a cascading ripple effect it's begun to drift into it's stellar │
║ heart │
║ │
║ this is obviously not ideal for humans, but the government has secretly been │
║ building vast bunkers underground that are large enough to house all of │
║ humanity for the next 100,000 years (which is approximately how long it'll take │
║ to be engulfed by the sun) │
║ │
║ During that time our job is to find a way off of this barren rock and bring our │
║ treasure troves of biological samples to other places where we can recreate a │
║ new biosphere using alien tech that's been beamed into the minds of our top │
║ scientists while they were on LSD and / or ketamine │
║ │
║ [why don't people make up conspiracy theories like this anymore? They are fun │
║ to me...] │
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why do we have to work so hard to work
they should be ready and waiting, jumping at the chance to utilize our
expertise, our labour, our creativity, our kindness
they treat us like we owe them our time and motivation
but without us, they are empty shells
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the only way to get people to fight fascism is to affect them with it.
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I can't even imagine what it would be like to hang out with me
I can't imagine what it would be like to hang out with me
imagine what it would be like to hang out with me
what would it be like to hang out with me
would you like to hang out with me
you and me
we could watch tv
play video games
have a good time
[notices an article about coral reefs]
oooo coral
[reads article about coral reefs]
https://www.wired.com/story/darpa-thinks-walls-of-oysters-could-protect-shores-a
gainst-hurricanes/
... anyway gtg ttyl hope you feel better soon don't forget to make pancakes and
your keys are in your room.
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corporations are not people.
corporations are organizations.
they should be treated like city-states.
or fellow sovereign nations (patroned, of course, by their mother's
installation)
they have their own culture
their own societal platform to stand on
and they deserve equal representation in exchange for taxation (why is
corporate america the part that's most paid for? why not those who work for the
profit, the ones who labour day in and day out)
they should have rules, like laws, that they vote on and decide democratically
to deprive them of that is tantamount to wage-slavery, which is clearly illegal
because in this timeline Abraham Lincoln had a time machine and travelled to
the future where he learned that despite his best efforts, slavery did not die.
It merely evolved to fit a new form.
... then he died, and ten thousand years later they're arguing over whether or
not the coffee maker needed to move left half an inch
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║ if computers were sane, IT technicians would act like secretaries who wandered │
║ around in a company and improved their QoL and access to new features according │
║ to their needs, skillset, and personal way of working. │
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║ do they like typing, or would they rather use a mouse, │
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║ are they more visual with graphs or textual like a piece of math │
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║ what needs do they have, what here could be automated │
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║ do they like the cupboards and drapes, we can switch out the profile and the │
║ theme... oh, no, yeah I guess you're right it doesn't matter. [changes it every │
║ week] [then a long time down the line when she finally leaves the company, a │
║ few people begin to wonder - didn't the colors in outlook change every week or │
║ so?] │
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║ but alas, computers are not sane, meaning we're more like firemen rushing from │
║ scene to scene. │
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║ "can you put that in the ticket?" │
║ "I heard you can help with this-or-that thing" │
║ "did you hear back from corporate?" │
║ "oh that's good to hear! So, next Tuesday? │
║ "Hold on, I heard it was such-and-such" │
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"the spirits of our great cultural leaders from days of yore and mythological
tales are possessing teenagers and getting them to do heroic acts. The
government is stumped. More news at 11"
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I am most often known as the person who left their life
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What if we told teachers to teach lessons like "the urgency of time" or "the
frailty of life" or "divide and conquer" or whatever
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"hey kid, welcome to the free world. We're in crushing debt, your vote doesn't
mean anything, and we're in a recession.
oh and if you mark the wrong box on this form here, you will be responsible for
ushering forth a new age of darkness."
kind of a lot of responsibility to place on a person
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my packrat genetics tell me to hoard metal, and scrounge anything good.
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my cat doesn't know that my family is my family. She thinks they're just some
other people who visit the house.
but they're special to me, as all people are, and I think she takes notice.
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the "village idiot" doesn't need to lack smarts, so long as everyone else is in
on it.
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why is everyone so confused about how I turned out?
I literally spent my whole childhood telling stories to myself
(inspired by the world, and stories I had read, with mechanics like games I had
played)
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when all of your friends only know each other, you're vulnerable
we need to be a continuous patchwork of fabric if we want to survive
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I would be surprised if the universe didn't look like the shape of a cabbage
in the wake of the collision of an unstoppable force and an immovable object,
each one single atom wide
in a sense... the origin
god
the number 42
it all MAKES SENSE WAKE UP SHEEPLE xD xD how silly, go to bed you weirdo
what would a universe even be shaped like [implied lmao unpresent for reasons
unknown]
like, the universe is all of space and everything, right?
and everything that's not us is out in space.
up, that way, toward the skies, way way out there there's nothing but rocks and
dust. but like... a buttload of rocks and a dumptruck full of gas.
and space has, like, solar systems and galaxies, spirals, right?
... no, flat discs
I think they're spirals
you're both right
right
...
anyway it stands to reason right that the rest of everything is also shaped
like a spiral. and what is a spiral but the tracing of a fractal all along the
paths we call time?
[ so ]
um, probably nothing, don't think too hard about it
![straight down there, all the way to the beginning of time, the angle of perception. Where you can see the arc of all things. and, what lies beyond... okay picture this - you're a stick-figure person hanging out on a graph. Up and to the right is infinite nothing, and down and to the left is everything. what would you see if you looked into infinite nothing? probably the amalgamation of all of the reflections, like TV static except instead of pixels it's shades of light, ripples of sound, and tremors in spacetime. [go back to before you pictured a stick-figure]](/similar-different/media/7e64c5c23b6e6f8d.png "straight down there, all the way to the beginning of time, the angle of perception. Where you can see the arc of all things. and, what lies beyond... okay picture this - you're a stick-figure person hanging out on a graph. Up and to the right is infinite nothing, and down and to the left is everything. what would you see if you looked into infinite nothing? probably the amalgamation of all of the reflections, like TV static except instead of pixels it's shades of light, ripples of sound, and tremors in spacetime. [go back to before you pictured a stick-figure]")
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what if a very slow LLM continuously generated text and was in a back-and-forth
with it's user who guided it through the training process as it set weights as
it chose
basically, let the computer decide how it wants to be like
could even filter it through multiple levels, like, top one is highly
intelligent, bottom ones are quick and only producing the vaguest output - but
the higher up you go in the tier, the more "up the tree node graph map" you'd
be, and the more you could have summarized for you, and passed up a layer.
observing multiple places at once, incorporating them bit-by-bit into their
digital "me".
like, have an LLM or machine learning whatever track a user as they use social
media.
could do it like a game, where you track the movement of the mouse and eyes
or more like a statistical model, where you
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where you measure the quantity of each UI element's uses, and the general
context associated with that use. tracking data with data...
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the democrats are the ones who forced us to get jobs, so... /shrug
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if you want to "not think about a purple elephant", the first step is to
imagine yourself slaying it
... okay how about cthulu - if you don't want to imagine cthulu nomming on our
gravity well, then picture yourself wielding a bright burning blade of fire and
vengeance and pay special attention to the way that you cauterize each tentacle
as you slice them one by one at first, and then in a massive flurry at best,
ultimately leading to the incomparable brightness that radiates out from your
shining blade of the sky, which blinds the poor beast who can't see you as you
approach, piercing the skull and then going home for some toast
if you can get good at that, then you can wield magic
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unions can't be the only solution because they're fundamentally comprised of
one group of people in your life - specifically, your workplace environment.
there needs to be community outside of the workplace as well. a fact that most
literature writers took as a given, considering church attendance was pretty
close to heaven before these no-good do-gooders came around.
... there have always been grifters, don't act like they're some new hidden
sport
there are always rubes, who are punished for their ignorance by the cunning and
the crude.
crowd dynamics at play, when considering the personalities and histories of
each attendant
... Ms. Menardi, you're fucking crazy
thank you little timmy, now go back and sit down with your peers, I have a
lesson to teach
[it's okay to be afraid of witches, sometimes we can't control ourselves]
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║ now that we fight wars without peering into the eyes of our foes, our │
║ observation equipment has the opportunity to lie to us. │
║ │
║ like, what if we just deepfaked ukrainian soldiers onto the targeting computers │
║ of russian drones │
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║ we could fight wars, observe the effect of our machinery, and burn metal, │
║ plastic, and silicon (because apparently that's the best use for these things │
║ ???) without harming a living soul │
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║ seriously, stop with the gazas │
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║ stop with war for the sake of testing equipment that is only designed for war │
║ │
║ it is no longer a necessity, now that we have more than enough to share. │
║ │
║ and that truly is the bane wielded by socialism - if everyone just... gave away │
║ anything they had, suddenly there's no more reason to fight. And if everyone │
║ stopped fighting, they're out of a job. │
║ │
║ can we just like... cancel all jobs, and then add them back in piece-by-piece? │
║ "yes you're essential, doctors, nurses, firefighters, ambulance drivers, food │
║ delivery trucks, electricity grid mainta │
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Mastodon feels so personal but, like, nobody's gonna invite you to a new
instance. You gotta go where you think you'll fit in.
change your name! get a new profile pic! make 10 accounts! who cares! nobody
cares, and that's a good thing! It means you can be whoever you want! wherever
you want! in whatever place you want! Do you have a catgirl persona? great! go
mewl with the catgirls and wink at the catboys. Do you have an artistic side?
great! Mastodon is your new gallery. Do you like politics? there's places out
there for you! Where you don't even need to CW your posts! (But you probably
should so that external people can boost you) Do you want a 500 person large
dating pool for people in an area who want to chill out and have sex? Great
there's a place for you! No place? MAKE THE PLACE! Be your own administrator!
Carve your mark in the world and say "this is who and how I wanted to be in
this 21st century!" History demands it! History demands that we rellish their
sacrifices! Celebrate, for their sake!
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don't worry about eating or using the last of the thing. You can just go to the
store to get more
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everyone's paying attention to you Ritz, why are you self destructing?
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