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 The schizophrenic sees truth in dazzling displays of colors unknown to man,
 while the neurotypical sees truth in shades of gray that can be reasoned with.
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 Paprika is the best spice, fite me
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 @user-1037 mmmm, paprika for flavor, red chile flakes for spice
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 The only thoughts that survive are the ones you write down.
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 🖼
I'm proud of myself for getting through the dark times.  I'm proud of my culture for accepting me.  I'm proud of medical science for learning how to facilitate me.  I'm proud of my fellow queers who can support me and keep me safe.  I'm proud of how I designed my self to align to what I felt was true.  I'm proud of all the work I've done, and how far I've come.  I'm proud of all the people who meet me and think "Hey, maybe trans people aren't so bad after all."  I'm proud of my cat, for being so sharp.  I'm proud of myself, for braving the pain of HRT injections.  I'm proud of my friend, for teaching me how.  But most of all I'm proud of kindness, for persisting throughout all of these years.

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 @user-1061 
 
 that happens sometimes, no clue why.
a picture of my neocities visitor counts. For some reason on two particular days it drops to like, 12 people for some reason? ? ?

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 @user-1061 
 
 Oh, it just refreshes the page. At least, that's what it's supposed to do.
 Here's the code:Refresh Page (click me every time you visit)
 
 
 Honestly I'm only 90% sure it actually works. I mostly put it there for people
 on mobile sites who wanted to be absolutely sure there wasn't anything new,
 because Neocities sometimes uses a cached version on your local machine and
 when I'm busy updating things sometimes people can be like "omg dead links?
 this suxxx" and then tab away and never come back which is... fine I guess
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 girls who have so many tabs open that they use ctrl+T to navigate to the most
 recent tabs
 
 wishing there was a way to scroll back to the beginning... alas
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 the opposite of charity is not greed, but rather despair.
 
 gifts dispel it, and giving is an act of affection.
 
 the opposite of greed is not charity, but rather honesty.
 
 if you didn't lie about why you needed the things you don't, then you wouldn't
 get them.
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 that which you resist is what you'll find, but contextual resistance is better
 than going in blind.
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 "you're not the main character, babe"
 
 Oh yeah? Well with side characters like me, it's gotta be an incredible show.
 
 "it's called Life. Of course it's going to be magnificient. What did you
 expect?"
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 more beans, more muscles. You got this!
 
 Don't forget the rice, it's got amino acids which activate the proteins in the
 beans.
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 @user-1049 
 
 doesn't work on Firefox T.T
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 Taking a nap at 6am 🫠😵‍💫🥲
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 They don't build toll roads to abstract taxes. They build them to keep track of
 where you're going.
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 @user-898 
 
 the problem as I see it is that whether building houses gets automated or not,
 they're going to keep building fewer and fewer of them and making them cost
 more and more with cheaper and cheaper materials and labor until something
 breaks.
 
 I personally would prefer if that something were their necks, but we'll see
 what happens.
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 @user-898 
 
 true, but building a house will never cost 100$. Maybe 100,000$, and at that
 point you could build but a few.
 
 Meanwhile, they're throwing around millions of dollars. we're not measured on
 the same scale as they are, and if we ever dip our toes into their end they
 will bite them off.
 
 If supply and demand were real laws that guided our economy, then wages would
 have gone up after COVID, because so many people died. Housing would have
 gotten cheaper, because fewer people were living in them. Food would have
 gotten less expensive, because people were growing their own vegetables and
 baking their own bread while they spent months isolating themselves. But alas.
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 @user-1068 
 
 me whenever I listen to this album...
 
 https://utred.bandcamp.com/album/gothic
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 a soul is bright like the sun, not bright like bone
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 "I don't know what I was doing with this line of code so I'm going to delete it
 and fix it later"
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 @user-246 
 
 Yeah plus the second time around you're likely to make something better than
 whatever incomprehensible hack you did the first time.
 
 More time working on the project == more context which means you might even
 have solved the problem twice already and now just have to copy-paste something
 that's more robust than your previous one-liner.
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 "if I work on the TTY then they can't forward my X session without my consent"
 
 - ramblings of the utterly deranged
 
 as if they couldn't just look at your unencrypted source-code as you save it to
 your hard drive smh
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 would anyone be interested in a Bash+Lua script that takes your Mastodon
 archive and turns it into a folder full of .txt files?
 
 I also made a script that spits out a random one on your terminal, if you want
 that
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 @user-883 
 
 I love that. You're saying I should learn Assembly? ? ?
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 Corporations are pissed that workers started standing up for themselves so
 they're punishing us with tight hiring, fake jobs, and layoffs in order to
 remind us who is the master, and who is the slave. Class warfare doesn't end
 just because we want it to.
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 On one hand, trans people make great spies because we've been acting all our
 lives (pre-transition but post-realization)
 
 On the other hand, our bodies have been physically changed by HRT so it's not
 like we can spy on our enemies -.-
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 Oy, prophets these days. Always getting riled up so easily.
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 If our government was of the people, by the people, and for the people, then it
 would aim to make all of its citizens as rich as it could. A good place to
 start would be by encouraging deflation, so people could buy more high quality
 goods on the international markets, and by regulating the power that select few
 individuals may use to extract wealth and labor from the "lesser" citizens.
 
 I don't know about you but I believe that all men are created equal, and it is
 unconscionable that some may bend others to their will.
 
 Liberty, liberty, freedom for me but not for thee, for I am a despot you see,
 of my own little fiefdom, this palace of renown - I built my playground from
 the blood and bones of your kin, and I stand here on the high ground. Come at
 me! See what my army of drones can do. I built them overseas, with an army of
 slaves that I'm not accountable for. Come at me! See who the police of this
 nation will protect. I paid for them, after all, with my endless coffers and
 vaults of inherited wealth. Come at me! See who will believe ye, the media is
 at my beck and call. Propaganda works on everyone, and everything you see on
 your phone or TV was written for me. So take care, little one, lest I kill you
 with a thought. Less than a thought, for you are just a number to me.
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 smartphone_max_battery_life = int_to_percent(100 - update_count);
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 I do not believe that the responsibility for a safe home can exist in a select
 few. Certainly the majority is not required to sustain it, but with too few you
 risk being gray-goo'd by drones uh hordes of undead or something.
 
 Is it too much to ask that every ablebodied man and woman knows how to dress a
 wound? That we all can start a fire, shoot a rifle, tie knots, and grow
 vegetables?
 
 Is it too much to ask that we take responsibility for the cultivation of the
 legacy of our forefathers, and the protection and nourishment of the earth
 which bore them?
 
 If you don't know how to use a knife, how are you going to feed yourself? If
 you can't do a push-up, how are you going to defend yourself? If you can't walk
 for 10 miles or run for 2, then how are you going to be in the right place at
 the right time?
 
 Fighting is optional. In times of peace, it is an honorable contest between two
 consenting subjects who seek to learn from one another. You must bow to your
 opponent, for they are your greatest teacher.
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 ... anyway, there are tales that are fundamental to the history of the world of  │
 Azeroth that define the shape of their world.                                    │
 For example, death incarnate was once a great and mighty paladin. he was the     │
 brightest, the boldest, and the bravest, but corruption found it's way to his    │
 heart and he became the very soul of what he most feared.                        │
 he came from a nation of peace, of rolling verdant hills full of grain and       │
 butterflies dancing among the dew-drop laden forest trees. he was a stalwart     │
 warrior of justice, seeking out peril and disharmony wherever he walked. He,     │
 being a prince, held great power, and his responsibility was to his people.      │
 When his people were under threat, he reached for the nuclear option, and it     │
 enslaved him. He then proceeded to slay his own father and claim the throne of   │
 the land of beauty, and his people failed to stop him. He gray-goo'd the         │
 populace into a horde of undead, and since they relinquished responsibility for  │
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 In engaging in this manner, they are sharpening their skills and talents. Then,
 when peril strikes their world (everything from a black dragon seizing control
 of parliment to a flame elemental awakening and threatening to Yellowstone the
 globe) they are honed and tempered enough to combat them.
 
 Power begets power, though, and with greater nuclear proliferation comes
 greater threats, like an demon alien invasion, the afore-mentioned death
 incarnate waking up, the elemental forces of hate and despair corrupting the
 very earth beneath their feet, an evil time-travelling dictator bringing
 fascism to the Americas before Columbus showed up (along with WW2 tanks and
 industry), a bunch of ghost pirates and dinosaurs I think? (I was in college
 for this one srry), more demons, and then I think like, the shadowlands or
 something idk I hung up the phone when I got the message.
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 In World of Warcraft, the world is split into a red team and a blue team.
 Neither is good, neither is bad, both are honorable and deplorable in roughly
 equal measure.
 
 These two factions are engaged in constant skirmishes in a select few
 battlegrounds designated as areas where they test their mettle - at first they
 warred across the globe, and they still occasionally do, but a few specific
 battlegrounds emerged as focus points of their engagements.
 
 Typically, they are chokepoints between two major fortifications, one owned by
 one faction and the other the other.
 
 These chokepoints are not held permanently, as they hold little strategic
 consequence. However, they serve as safe, constrained theatres of engagement
 that allow for the hardening of resolve.
 
 Great care must be taken, as war is not a game. Karate won't defeat a puppy-bot
 with a gun, but it might give you the willpower and discipline to learn how.
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 In Warcraft, there's a theme that was first developed in Warcraft 3 and
 subsequently reified with new flavor in every World of Warcraft expansion. The
 theme is "good and evil testing themselves against one another so that larger,
 more deadly threats may be addressed upon their arrival"
 
 In Warcraft 3, an immortal Night-Elf trades his soul for demonic powers to save
 his people. However, it is not enough, and he is forced to team up with an
 ancient corrupted mermaid and the prince of a fallen kingdom who is forced to
 resort to blood magic to survive. Their goal is to defeat the spirit of death
 incarnate before it destroys the world. However, they fail, simply forcing him
 back for a time. They are the baseline, they did not test themselves upon one
 another, simply teaming up as allies of circumstance. They are the Islamic
 State, or the various factions in Iraq and Afghanistan in the 2000s, always in
 conflict, with a semi-collective goal, but mostly allies of circumstance, if at
 all.
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 fireworks rejoice as they meet their violent end
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 suburbs aren't boring because all the cool people live in cities,
 
 suburbs are boring because all the cool people don't know you. But look around,
 because they're there.
 
 if you can't find any, then YOU are the cool people, and you should find the
 slightly-less cool people and show them how to be cool.
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 @user-217 
 
 last memory of a sperm
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 @user-246 
 
 I put a poem, my website, and my favorite project. I think that's enough, don't
 want anyone to know me that doesn't spend time on me.
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 @user-217 
 
 well to the prison of the ancients
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 @user-246 
 
 people who don't write have no idea who they are. perhaps in time they will
 know enough to describe themselves with newfound language they never knew how
 to wield.
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 do you ever wonder about how much heat is absorbed the plants and leaves? Kinda
 makes me think that they're keeping us warm at night. The desert is much colder
 than you'd expect, and so it the moon, or mars, or any other sufficiently
 devastated forest habitat.
 
 (plains are my favorite biome, please don't take them away with your stupid
 climate change, they're one of the most at risk)
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 @user-246 
 
 If a profile is non-existent, then it's much harder to train a public-facing AI
 on your training data. Interesting how if someone disappears there's very
 little recourse if they suddenly talk just slightly different, and anyone who
 notices can say "hey does anyone know this person" - like at a party when
 someone's throwing shit or whatever and it's like "bro who are you with"
 
 how weird that our jobs take us all over the place. kinda makes me think about
 how much more stable you are with roots. I wonder if the cause of our
 employment instability is due to a cause that would also separately desire us
 to be less stable? Makes me think about the common effects of instability, and
 make me wonder who exactly would gain from such actions.
 
 do you ever think about how the media will just, like, inflame people's
 emotions just because if everyone bored then they'll go serial killer or
 something? Er, wait, I mean they'll join unions or whatever. Ah hahaha weird
 right propaganda cuts both ways.
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 @user-246 
 
 Maybe a design that put weight on the sternum instead of the breast area? With
 more support for the waist, like hiking backpacks sometimes do. That way you
 can spread out the physical cost of toiling to carry it, like wearing a belt
 with a chain shirt to distribute the pounds.
 
 seriously just, arm straps that meet in the middle instead of the shoulders.
 Probably won't be as good but it might be better. Could do under the boobs as
 well, for like a triple attachment point.
 
 You can sorta simulate this by clipping the two straps together and pulling
 them to the center, but not all backpacks support that.
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 @user-246 
 
 I think you're right, I tend to examine things at their most extreme as
 practice in identifying my own weaknesses. ^_^
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 @user-1071 
 
 like a king who dictates on high, the taller the chair the farther the fall.
 
 how simple is it, when everyone trusts you, to betray the wishes for direction
 they grant upon you. By leveraging their direction to forward your own ends,
 you are depriving them of the liberty to choose their own ends.
 
 how cruel is it! to be the reason for distrust! alas, who can you go to for
 guidance if not anybody you trust?
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 @user-246                                                                        │
 most artists get around that by posting everything they make everywhere they go. │
 I tend to be a bit selective, because I'm different things to different people.  │
 All things I care for and own, but designed for different context.               │
 for example, I rarely share what's in my journals, but that's about half of      │
 what I've made. I show them to basically everyone I know IRL, but very few       │
 people actually understand or are into them. When I find someone who does it     │
 fills me with hope, that perhaps I'm not as lost as I had thought.               │
 perhaps it makes me less trustworthy, but I'm not used to being exposed. I       │
 never used Twitter, I don't use Facebook (not that often) so my "self" was       │
 something I preferred to perform as on a stage of my own design.                 │
 Like wearing different clothes to express yourself, or performing gender in a    │
 certain way, I am myself when I am most expressful. And I do that in different   │
 ways in different contexts. I'd love to show more, because I'm a performer at    │
 heart, and a performer of the heart.                                             │
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 @user-246 
 
 true, but what is a poem if not a silly construction of phrases? Those words
 don't belong together, what are you doing! And yet it fills you will a feeling
 that the author intended, thus being poetry as a joke.
 
 problem is if everyone says the same joke, it gets kinda... old... hence why
 you should express yourself as much as you can.
 
 I wonder if fewer people are "alternative" these days because they all started
 hanging out on the internet and trying to differentiate themselves amongst each
 other instead of amongst "normal people"? Weird thought, srry haha
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 A style of debate where the two parties take turns interrogating each other -
 like lawyers presenting their case by forcing the other party to answer their
 specific questions. In doing so they can highlight the logical flaws and
 inherent absurdities in each other's notion. And you have to be as truthful and
 honest as possible, or else the entire process is flawed. Giving each person in
 the debate a chance to speak their mind about how they feel about particular
 issues.
 
 Kinda like a caucus, where people debate for their chosen candidate 
 
 Democrats need to listen to what regular voters care about and like, do that.
 Instead they think "how much can we get away with while still delivering their
 51% of votes that secure us the nomination"
 
 And the most radical amongst us should be the most dedicated to the Democratic
 process. It is how we the people wield ourselves, our divine birthright granted
 to us all - to choose the circumstances of our living.
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 if a game presents itself that you know you'll like, at a certain point your
 tastes are so refined and specific that you can think to yourself "... it's a
 sign, I gotta play this" because moments that you find a game you're really
 "into" are pretty rare.
 
 I've never been wowed by graphical technology beyond, like, a tech demo or.
 It's cool to see, but it never sold games to me. I was always into mechanics,
 because they were the kind of thing you could learn from when making your own
 games to play.
 
 I spent a lot of time outside because my mom would only let me use electronics
 for 1 hour per day. Ahhhhh it was always my favorite part of the day.
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 the first argumentative paper I ever wrote for school was on Julius and Ethel
 Rosenberg
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 dear old people - did you know computers don't need to have buttons? You can
 literally just type what you want to make happen (if you know the magic spell)
 and it'll just, do that thing
 
 how cool is that
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 light infantry aren't designed to fight to the death. I think that's something
 that modern militaries understand very well. hence why they can rotate on leave.
 
 when a larger nation attacks a smaller force, it's merely a question of how
 long they can drag it out. like, lawyers who send frivolous lawsuits or
 constantly bothering people for breaking "laws" about their social and cultural
 expression.
 
 if you're not hurting anybody, who cares if you pirate your TV? if nobody is
 harmed, then what's wrong with sitting around eating cheetos all day?
 
 nothing, I say. Hell yeah, I say, if that's how you want to spend your life.
 Your ONLY life.
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 there's even websites online like Facebook or Twitter where you can share        │
 advice and various spells you've invented yourself (it's totally easy to do      │
 btw, I'll show you how)                                                          │
 everyone's super friendly and anyone who's not isn't allowed to bother us. it's  │
 pretty neat. anyway no matter what it is, if something's bothering you about     │
 your computer, you can fix it. it's just a matter of reading through             │
 documentation. Ah, well, isn't it great to have a lot of free time that you      │
 don't know what to do with?                                                      │
 Linux is pretty great, I gotta say. I honestly never really leave the command    │
 line - the text based buttons, I mean. I only use a mouse when I'm doing         │
 something with pictures (or playing a game like freecell or hearts)              │
 plus you can do things like sending raw packets of information to your friend    │
 who's on the other side of the country and they can use a secret key-code to     │
 decrypt it like checking the mail at a locked mailbox.                           │
 anything you can imagine using the physical components of a computer, is         │
 possibleifyrts                                                                   │
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 I'd like to apologize to everyone I've ever interacted with in the past. It was
 unfair of me to interact with you, and I will do my best to not hurt you again
 in that way.
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 harsh lessons of adulthood - sometimes food is not eaten for the taste, but
 rather for how it will make you feel slightly better in the next few days.
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 How about when you hire foreign labor (offshoring) you have to pay taxes on
 every dollar cheaper the labor is when compared to hiring a similar domestic
 employee. Those taxes are used to pay down the national debt specifically on
 debt owed to the nation you're hiring from. If there is no debt, then it is
 given as a gift, as a form of tribute to those who would develop such valuable
 employees.
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 My favorite thing about chatGPT is that its only useful to people who already
 know what they're doing and just need reminders or clarification about
 specifics.
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 @user-1037 
 
 Lua with 0 based indexing would be the perfect language (okay maybe LuaJIT)
 
 (i try to hurt as few people as I can as little as I can but it's impossible to
 not hurt anyone)
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 Coding superpower:
 
 Start thread 
 While(true):
 Run();
 
 Then, whenever you want it to run something else, change the function pointer
 that run() uses to call a function
 
 At the end of the run() function, set the function pointer in the while loop to
 the next one. That way you don't stack overflow from the recursion.
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 you can believe all the right things and still be a bad person
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 fun things to do at pride this year:
 
 introduce someone you've never met to someone you've never met
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 Would you like to know how the world works? Then read on, dear reader.
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 The following is my best attempt to describe the process through which our
 lives intersect reality. It is easiest to explain if you understand how it
 feels to be stoned - to consume the de-oxy-carbo-lated cannibanoids present in
 the marijuana plant - ideally with edibles, as they take effect slower.
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 I've often described the world as being "defined in waves" - this, here, is the
 reason why, and it is easiest to illustrate with cannabis as an example.
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 Do you ever wonder why you can't remember anything after being stoned? Why the
 words you write down, oh so profound in the moment, turn to silliness and
 illusion upon coming off your high mont-vantage? Of course, dear reader,
 because all things are defined in waves.
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 If you've seen Spirited Away, in the first few scenes of the movie the main
 character's parents are taken by food and turned into pigs. They lacked
 temperance, and gave in to temptation. Their journey was not of a wave, but
 that of a black-hole - accretted and pulled toward the ultimate expression of
 that particular intuition.
 
 The good news is they could always be turned back, just pull that part out like
 drawing sickness from a wound, and huzzah! Good as new.
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 Do you think I'm the first person that ever wrote down what they learned while
 they were stoned? Of course not. People have been plumbing the depths of their
 minds as it pulls closer, then returns, as long as they've known the plant to
 be. Something pulls them back, they do not give in to temptation, not entirely,
 and so they return to their senses.
 
 Good news, because that "something" that returns them to their place is no more
 than the bodily processes which consume and overcome the cannabinoids. Your
 body pulls you back, as you float in the astral plane, ever at the whims of the
 winds of fate.
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 The next time you share a meal with family, or perhaps a game with a friend
 online, or maybe even a coffee with a stranger, or a smile with a person
 walking down the path, or maybe a church choir as you rejoice in unison - the
 next time you do one of these things, define the path that your reality takes
 through your actions. Compel yourself to have a good time, without ignoring the
 input of those around you. Bring them to your level, and see what kind of world
 "around you" becomes.
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 The ultimate goal of a prophet is to share that which they've learned with
 people who have learned less. Such is the duty of any teacher. Alas, every drug
 you inhale pulls you closer to a world where other people do drugs. Every
 feeling you have, you (collectively) find yourself pulled toward that feeling
 by just that little bit - all things are gravitic, even the thoughts and
 feelings in your mind.
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 Cannabis is fundamentally a feeling of motion. You can't remember anything
 because things only make sense moving forward in that particular context and in
 that particular plane.
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 The nicest thing anyone ever called me was "the fel communion" and it happened
 in a dream. Alas, that dreams might affect reality. If only ever-so-slightly.
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 tell me again why goods and services are priced according to how easy they are
 to make, and not by how many more of them we could make considering the current
 estimated amount of resources on earth?
 
 even wood runs out, when the phosphorous is gone. but take heart, for human
 ingenuity brings with it ever-increasing capabilities for accessing new
 resources. when the sun goes silent, it will not be because it burnt out, but
 rather because we surrounded it with parts of our home.
 
 and yes, it is more complicated. "how easy they are to make compared to how
 much people want them while utilizing the cheapest and worst resources and
 craftsmanship that can be passed of as quality by shiny marketing that appeals
 to our vapid human senses" is a bit closer, but still not comprehensive.
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 a cool thing about my website is that you only have to remember my name, dot
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 show me an organism or chemical reaction that consumes one type of resource and
 outputs another in concert with another organism or chemical reaction that
 consumes that type of resource and outputs another in concert with another
 organism or chemical reaction that consumes that type of resource and outputs
 the first and I'll show you an ecosystem.
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 @user-246 
 
 how dare you say that on 69 day
 
 talk to me about it in september though, might be interested then
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 the best way to make friends is to be open and honest to them
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 @user-1037 
 
 I've only ever had good friends. : )
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 here's an idea - if we can't get rid of the carbon right away, why not increase
 the total volume of our atmosphere such that it's more dispersed? like
 dissolving a salt in a solution, only with air and [insert pollutant here]
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 @user-217 
 
 eye of the dark hole
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 @user-1037 
 
 billions? sounds like too much for a nation-state to produce.
 
 HMMM MAYBE WE SHOULD TALK ABOUT SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS THAT AFFECT ALL OF US.
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 a video that's a gif and an audio file played at the same time using &&
 in bash
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 worcestersure sauce and soyaki, surprisingly decent combination
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 @user-889 
 
 perhaps you need a community, rather than a friend? just a guess
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 @user-246 
 
 oh, you mean the "/100" button? saves three keypresses I guess!
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 @user-217 
 
 fusion
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 @user-217 
 
 red flower in the sky
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 did you know that Ritz is short for Ritzelen? I don't speak north-west-german.
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 politics is easy, just show the opposite of what your constituents want to
 watch and put it next to your enemy's team-name.
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