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why would you NOT admit weakness? It's a tactical error! You have less accurate
information! It literally makes your team worse off!
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dear disney: please license Mechabellum and use Star Wars assets. Or Starship
Troopers. Or Warhammer 40k.
if you license it, it's okay to share software. Especially if you make it free
and open source, as a compromise to both parties.
Mechabellum gameplay:
https://youtu.be/E2zwRQp_DkM
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if people are allowed to use any resources as quickly as they want, they tend
to waste them. Hence why a well funded military (like the US military) can
afford to not be efficient. Which is... not ideal, for long-term cooperation.
Much better for short-term competition, though, too bad we all get to live on
this earth.
Wild,
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cheese is just a body-part that a cow has willingly shed. For nutrition.
Is it vegetarian if it's the cells produced by a body? Is it vegan if it is
capable of growing back?
Do snakes shed their selves when they leave behind a shell? Or is it like hair,
just... keratin, a compound found all over nature.
Is cutting a branch vegan? Is eating a cherry that has fallen to the center of
the road? Both those are made of fibrous materials, the nutritious bounteous
feast, and a small kernel-like mass that serves as a propagation method for a
creature utterly vast.
(But factory farms, remember?)
(Oh yeah! Thank goodness for reform.)
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democracy as it was currently conceptualized dates back from a time when it was
impossible to ask every person every question all at the same time. We needed
time to talk through and get to know a topic before we made any choices about
it. Hence, single-party voting, and the build-up of disagreement when people
feel like the one thing they care about is not implemented. Too bad they care
about things like, bodily autonomy and human rights.
Maybe we could appease them by giving them something else that they want
Oh? Like trans people?
No brad, like the russians
Or maybe the rich, ya?
goodness. how about nobody
[appeasement never goes anywhere]
[the issue is more fundamental than compromise]
[human rights are not up for discussion]
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Programming isn't technical skill. It's artistic abstraction, like making a
marble machine that plays the piano:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q
software development is about developing software, like a teacher would develop
a student learner.
"No, this part is bugged. Here's how you actually do it."
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@user-883
Right, but, if we can only help and interact with people who are near us, then
how are we going to accomplish much of anything at all? Much better I think to
contribute to structures that we fully consent and agree to, rather than hoping
that the wisdom of the masses pulls us through.
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@user-883
Do you blame a virus for harming it's host? No, you blame the people who
knowingly spread it. You blame the people who refused to allocate funds and
cultural capital toward combating it. You blame the people who cause chaos and
destruction in it's wake. But you don't blame the thing itself, the thing that
is little more than a complex chemical reaction.
You don't blame the forest fire for the smoke, you blame the one who set it.
The one who refused to keep it in check with careful stewardship of the land.
The one who dammed the river upstream, the one who desertified the region
upwind. You can blame time and morality or you could be more pragmatic, and
just focus on questions ahead.
Humans are nothing without our social technology. We are little more than apes.
But writing, teaching, expression, these things are crucial to all that we hold
dear.
EDIT: [And organization is a social technology. Doesn't have to look like an
authoritarian department where everyone does what they're told.]
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@user-883
I agree with you. Collaboration is the path to the bright future. If only they
could see it.
[if only we could make them see]
(cue all the media ever made that means to tell a message about which choices
we should make in the future)
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Gee I sure wish my country didn't hold the decisionmaking capability from me by
gatekeeping it behind elections and polling. Sure wish our media wasn't so
involved in decisionmaking - isn't it something we should talk about amongst
ourselves? To find out how we feel, and really explore our feelings around a
topic before expressing ourselves. Ideally more often than twice a year,
perhaps whenever we want?
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@user-883
There's no lie in this poster
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I'm never remorseful for being wrong, I'm sorry that I hurt your feelings.
Remorse is useless once corrected, if correction is due.
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curling up in a ball and thinking about crying for hours is the same as crying.
If a little bit less of a release.
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I could never live happily ever after if a single one of you could not
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people: "noooo don't say that, you're worth it! You're not a waste of space!
your life has value!"
also people: "you need to get a job or lose everything and make everyone else
hate you."
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║ I got a job offer for a job outside of my state. But I don't want to leave my │
║ home. I feel safe here. I know people. I know the places around me. │
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║ The one perk is that goods and services are easier to acquire, but I don't need │
║ much. I'm fine where I'm at. But where I'm at has rent. │
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║ What a plague is it, that we must suffer for life! │
║ │
║ there's no entry-level jobs for working with our sight. │
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║ only when youre too tired to complain will they let you direct others, or share │
║ creative ideas for fixing the problems you're paid to assuage. │
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║ Alas, that my life had meaning. That my words were better off spoken. Maybe │
║ then Id live as I define, designing a world of my own hearth. │
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║ but if a king lives in decent frugality, are they really so bad for our flock? │
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║ and if a wizard spins tales that are weird to consider, but not much else... │
║ are they better off starved in the dark? │
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║ no-one likes me. computers are paper-weights given light. sure would be nice if │
║ none but the fools went wanting. │
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║ I mean yeah I'd live in a treehouse │
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On reddit, a good comment will often get 50+ upvotes, sometimes up in the
hundreds.
10ish is generally pretty good too, especially for smaller subreddits.
0 or 1 or 3 means only a few people saw it.
On Mastodon, 3 different likes on 3 different posts means you're on a hot
streak and gotta keep posting!!
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If you're running away from something, you need to make sure that you're going
fast enough and far enough away that you can look forward for interception
events. Otherwise you are vulnerable.
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King Arthur was a deconstruction, a critical piece of work that reflected upon
the stuff that nobody remembers anymore because it was oral tradition.
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There is very little human left in me. I don't mind.
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Rent is expensive because they only want you living there if you're working.
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Social media idea: everyone posts short snippets of writing, like tweets, but a
random one is displayed every day. If you want to see them chronologically, you
have to pay the author for their writings. And if you want to see more, you can
spend "tokens" to display another random one for everyone to see that day. Each
token spent will simply increase the count of "words" (think tweet) displayed.
You get one token per day, and they don't carry over from previous days. You
can also buy them, and any bought tokens that are spent give their value in
dollars to the author you spend them on.
The data is all local. The servers are all distributed and P2P like torrents.
Everything is encrypted with keys that cycle every day.
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What if wind was fake and its really the ghost of the waves from the shore?
What if trees moved on their own, to gesture at the feelings around them? What
if the sky was home to the clouds, and we who look upward are given the treat
to know them?
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║ I want to invent synthetic general intelligence so that nobody ever has to do │
║ anything they don't want to do ever again. │
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║ that's pretty much my only goal in life. There are lots of things I'd like to │
║ do because I think theyd be neat or fun, but thats the only goal. And if │
║ someone else does it first and makes it free and open source as I would, then I │
║ will rejoice alongside everyone in the world who no longer is bound by scarcity. │
║ │
║ Well that or bringing magic back into the world. Magic nice too but │
║ programmable matter is basically magic anyway and that's not too far off so I │
║ guess I can wait on that one. │
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║ Maybe if I cut out all my friends and sorta ignore my family and do as little │
║ work as possible for as much money as I can and never engage with or contribute │
║ to my community or buy things from the economy or look at memes on the internet │
║ Ill be more productive and able to achieve my goal? Or perhaps I'll just keep │
║ staring at the wall consumed by my own thoughts. │
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║ "seek help" yeah right I scare therapists away │
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stripping the punctuation from my posts so I can get an extra 12 letters hehe
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I wish I could block and unfollow myself
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There is no problem that one single person can solve, which is why nothing ever
gets fixed.
... also the powerful who benefit from it being broken, but that's a different
problem which is much easier to fix.
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You only get love if you pledge to keep it. Hence, marriage vows.
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hackers should repair things that are broken that are good
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I work with large language models because it's a quick and easy way to turn
language into meaning. And computers are meaning abstraction machines, so if
you can speak your language and they hear their language, you can do anything.
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We never ended slavery, we just started paying people for it.
We never ended imprisonment, we just enslaved people to sit around and rot in a
cage.
"oh how about instead of sitting around, we make them build license plates?"
What if - hear me out - we freed them but kept them from harming others through
constant vigilant surveillance until their sentence was through? And made it
unconstitutional to surveil anyone else in a personally identifiable manner?
Like, maybe puppy-murder-bots are okay if they follow violent criminals around
and can be controlled by a human operator if a violent situation emerges
Prison is meant to give people a period of solitude and contemplation, to
consider their choices and make a better life for themselves. If they're old as
dirt when they leave, they cannot live. If they have no capabilities, they
cannot apply themselves to a good life. If they have no resources or community,
they will do what they can to survive.
Much better, I think, to nourish them as you would a child or immigrant. Much
better to pay them for their hours and years of life, so they might revel in
society with the kind of us. Much better, I think, for the liberty of a citizen
to be granted to those who both need it and can care for it. For liberty
unjustly used is an utmost betrayal.
But liberty to choose which gutter to die in and the freedom to starve is
hardly just.
I know I owe my life to my government, an institution of my people, by my
people, and for all people. I should not owe my life to a corporation, though
with the liberty to choose which to sell myself to. That is not freedom. That
is starvation.
Does the needs of a few outweigh the labor of the many? Or are those who
sacrifice a bit of liberty for a bit of security still free to do as they will?
We are not alone so long as we are outside. Indoors, they claim us.
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There is endless work to do. Never will our labor abate. That is not the goal -
to see an end to all fulfillment. No, the goal is to choose how we contribute -
to define how our own story goes.
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I would much rather have the government in control of the drug trade than
private citizens. See: fentanyl, versus marijuana
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The rich should act as courtiers in the houses of America. They should not be
lords of labor, nor directors of change. They should represent our best hopes
and refinement - essentially, kings from another time.
I would gladly be inspired by a virtuous leader. And yet none has yet to
appear. I wonder why the media wouldn't show us a good representation of the
people we are meant to fear?
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They're afraid of the hamster wheel. I get it. But really I'm just asking
myself questions - why, why, how, what, when, who... Mostly why though.
Always and forever the questions and answers I did ponder - yet forth through
my life I've never met any surefire design, there's always been the matter of
[hope, but pronounced choice].
Only an eternal question monger could suffice for the teachings of christ. (in
the general sense, not the religious implication)
(as a title, almost)
Fear not the one who takes the lords name, but perish the thought of a crook.
Only the vane, in this do profane.
No questions? Then let us move on.
Oh? Well I have some answers, about the truth of totality as it spreads across
all centuries. What's on your mind?
... Well, I have to leave people I care about. Relinquishing love is difficult.
And I get to choose how to move forward. But I must choose soon, and though I
ask myself always what I'd like to do, I always get a new answer. And every
time I think "I should do this. I should dedicate myself to this [whatever it
may be] and on the other side of that thought I realized my power. I can
imagine really quickly and adeptly, but chaos is difficult. " something like
that. Anyway I don't know how to move forward but I'll figure something out.
The point is that I'm sad for leaving those I care about. It's a sad kind of
love, a bittersweet mercy, the chance to be part of a flock. And I don't know
why I
I am not entry level. I haven't spent my time here left fallow. I never stop
working, I am constantly online. I do not know how to relax, every moment to
myself is spent on learning through play. Like a child, almost.
Do you want a company to make good decisions? Hire a gamer. They literally
practice strategy all day long. Don't expect results overnight because they're
learning a new song, but still apply yourself as their teacher. They'll bring
you insights and intuitions that achieve specific near and long-term goals. If
executed correctly, of course. Because the value is not in the follow through -
life is not a book of numbers [like a banker or accountant] it's more like.
?
... Right sorry I got off track - the point is you shouldn't hire athletes (the
people who play games like an esport) for a strategic role - they excel at
tactics. However, strategy gamers (who plays games primarily of the mind, the
science of making good decisions) can often make good decisions to achieve
defined meta-goals and objectives.
Longer thoughts make sense if you spend a long time thinking about them. And
grammar is quickly forgotten to the past.
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you'd still perceive higher dimensions in 3 dimensions - unless you can only see
things that are coming directly toward you.
magic only happens when your other half is in a situation and needs to turn your
narrative into theirs so that you can collectively engage with a shared inter-
operationality.
your dark side is just a massive bitch
hey how about we put the game designers in charge of running the government
just saying they build human-oriented systems all the time
"how do we get the player to do this or that"
"everyone keeps picking the same card so we gotta make them more different"
"how much gold persists in the virtual economy, how much resources are produced
and traded by players? where does it all go, do they have enough at level 30 to
afford weapons and armor? I wonder what happens if we swap prices on A and B.."
it's literally their job
actors, meanwhile, know how to interpret the emotions of another. Like... you're
up on stage, thinking out what to do next IN REAL TIME, as your partner is
trying to throw you curveballs. AUDIENCES LAUGH AT CURVEBALLS that's the whole
point of improv comedy - to be surprised in a state of joy. It's great! It's
fun! It's practicable like a sport! Yet nobody comes. To the shows, where it's
performed, like a hospital where you perform surgery or a pizza place with no
walls so you can see the pizzas being cooked. It's just part of what they do,
but that's not why they do it. Sure, some want to be seen, it's not a BAD
feeling once you're used to it. But, like a sauna or jacuzzi, sometimes you've
just had enough of the hot. Like, the sun peering through a magnifying glass as
a creature roasts alive. yikes.
............. anyway being quickly versatile and adaptable is important when
you're taking turns in unpredictable scenarios. You can react to
your opponent, and keep time with the rhythms of the moment, to
deliver your wittiest lines. It's fun! It's a game! But it's also
a place to be entertained. and like a gym, it's sometimes just fun
to watch people exercise. like, damn, you got a good body. Wow,
nice flex, yeah sure I'll put that one away. Cool pals helping
each other out, and showing off all of their efforts. Neat!
... anyway .. being emotionally vulnerable gives your opponent a chance to
continue. When nothing's going on, your moves barely make an value
(of comedy) (for the moment, so the crowd's not just sitting there
staring at you like ... and then - and then ummmm nevermind lemme
sit down (usually someone else picks up on it before then and
jumps up to save you, but EVERY actor has felt that moment where
nothing goes well and the audience just is totally not into it.
it's the worst.
anyway, they try their darndest to AVOID that, because like... duh
it sucks, why would you want that. Much cooler I think to have a
good time, and chill out and listen to your friends talk. Like,
they can show you an argument they had earlier, or maybe work
through an idea with input from another. like, debate club, but
for whatever kind of respective [retroactive, recreation,
relearning, maybe others] you desired in that moment. ideally,
something that someone could take the arguments of the other side
and present them, regardless of whether they believed them or not.
like, lawyers arguing for a client.
in these stochastic seminars, you could think about and study for
future societies. how would you like to conduce? [-]
every time you see a face in motion, that's another time that's
seen from their place. we are all present in each other's lives,
in terms of the spaces we choose to fill.
well, that's a tough thought, but don't worry about it. faces
are just waves on the winds of light.
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what if your wage corresponded to like, for example, 30$ an hour being equal to
the top 30% of society
then
== so ==
having kids is important because then you understand why you do things for
children.
it should not be a stressful experience.
--
if EVERYONE in a city fed animals every time they saw them, then maybe city life
wouldn't be so bad.
--
a company starts to feel pretty bad when only 20% of people are actually there.
like, it's a ghost of a shell of a corporation that once knew how to sell.
the husk of what once was, as all the good people left and all the bright people
are swamped.
to top it all off, suddenly there's nobody about
where are all your coworkers?
and then you think about how many you knew little about.
who's that guy who used to stand over there? Why is his jacket still [in lost
and found, but pronounced "coat/coast"]? why am I suddenly alone
it's weird, having never known true society, how life always starts to feel like
your home. How weird is it, now that all of us are online shopping, that now we
can't remember how to even vote. Like... there used to be people walking around
in public signing you up. Like, at the grocery story.
inconceivable, right? that people should contribute to a fight? [for justice and
freedom and equality and goodness and kindness and all other things that humans
have the clarity for which to hope] voting is like, literally the simplest thing
you could do. Yet it's difficult, because of reality.
often, immigrants don't really care about politics. They've only known about it
for a short short time, but hey wouldn't you know it now X country is recruiting
so now we're from kenya.
... like, who cares about the past. Who cares where you're from. We are all part
of the human race, a race against life itself. We're all on the same side, and
yet there is a singular foe ever-present in our thoughts: death
it comes for every one of us, as we choke on our soot and our smog. Yet... the
world grows warmer, at about half a degree every year. for the first couple
years. then, the atmosphere started burning up, and we became...
mars
don't be like mars
the dinosaurs couldn't survive mars
--
bro if you're so worried about AI hallucinations, just... don't let it give out
any concrete answers. Literally just say "I can't tell you anything specific,
it's not how I was built" and just use them for syntax questions or like, how to
do something specific that is repeatable (and maybe suggestions for how to over-
come specific issues that are common) - don't let it GENERATE information, let
it PRESENT information.
AI is not language just the same as the mouth is not the person. you need more,
but luckily once you make the PHYSICAL STRUCTURE of the brain, not much else is
needed. You can simulate one on a computer, but it doesn't have the same SOUL
space. Think, a dimension overlayed on-top of this one, like electicity or
matter or gravity or whatever.
no soul, no consciousness, no perception.
plus, no home for said consciousness to live, unless you build a physical
structure that mimics the biological and neuro-chemical reations of the brain.
all you need is better ways to observe things happening in the brain (non-
-invasively, otherwise the data is tainted and UNUSUABLE because it is INCON-
-PATIBLE and completely USELESS because it reflects a dimension hitherto un-
-desired, and perpetually mourned.
death
don't dabble in death, sweet nazis, you might find yourself drawing your last
breath
also, fuck you
(if that doens't apply to you sorry for swearing it's just a strongly felt
feeling)
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A Mastodon server owned by the employees and only available to people who work
at the company (people who once worked there can see some posts but not all)
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Do you remember stores with floor-to-ceiling goods? The kind that didn't go
bad, so you could afford to have lots of inventory. Not like it's being
replaced and thrown out as soon as the executives with their profit margins
decide that its no longer worthwhile.
Here's an idea - how about executives are paid by the employees to manage their
company? And if things aren't going right, they can get a new team. Like, if
every team had control of their manager, I wonder what dynamics would emerge?
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║ I really really love ramen noodles that are just a little bit old but still │
║ warm and are slightly drying out a little bit but there's juuuuust enough sauce │
║ down at the bottom to keep it coated │
║ │
║ that's the stuff │
║ │
║ (meanwhile my evil side says: it starts with "hey can you help me cook dinner" │
║ and then suddenly you're working all day every day) │
║ │
║ (and then so are they) │
║ │
║ (and it continues.....) │
║ │
║ (... until.... ) │
║ │
║ (one day you wake up and there's nothing you are capable to do) │
║ │
║ (so then you're useless) │
║ │
║ (and demanding) │
║ │
║ (and that's hard to handle) │
║ │
║ (when your schedule is blocked, and there's nothing you are capable to do) │
║ │
║ ... weird, kinda drifted off for a second, anyway we should talk about │
║ BIRTHDAYS! Birthdays are fun, theyre the day when you switch from being one age │
║ to another. Like, rolling over a clock, or ticking-up a variable in response to │
║ another variable which is at capacity. │
║ │
║ buffer overflows would be impossible if you put import/export controls on │
║ registers │
║ │
║ not "you can't do that" but "wheres your cre │
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║ ┌──────────────────────┐ │
║ │ CW: politics │ │
║ └──────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ okay how about this: one side of the political spectrum gets to pick the rules, │
║ and the other picks the people playing the game (carrying out the rules, like │
║ government work and stuff) │
║ │
║ then they switch every 2 years or whatever. they can vote to decide which group │
║ of people do what, and if something is owned by one side then the other can't │
║ touch it. Ah, but what if it's in the way? Well, then move it duh" │
║ │
║ hey, you know pride? yeah, that event that happens once a year? sure would be │
║ nice if we met people we didn't know there. if we knew everyone else. if we │
║ spent most of it sharing our discussions, and talking about what we're most │
║ proud of. then, okay here's an idea, we could filter and organize and figure │
║ out which one of us has the most "votes" in terms of what's the things we agree │
║ on and then we could pick our own CEO │
║ │
║ yeah I'd totally work for the gay company, they got rainbows and shit that's │
║ awesome. │
║ │
║ What they do? Oh, I dunno, butt stuff I guess. but like I'm all for it (not the │
║ butt stuff, │
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if you're afraid of spies, then they've already won.
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rice and lentils in the rice cooker with lots of butter
when it's done, serve in a large bowl and add one can of vegetable soup
is delicious
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║ │ CW: scary-question │ │
║ └──────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ honest question: if they cut off internet to a medium sized town like Nashville │
║ or Spokane and man-in-the-middled every attempted communication out and │
║ sabatoged any plans to visit... they could kill everyone in that city and │
║ replace them with an LLM that sorta posted the mostly correct things, and if │
║ users comment things like "hey are you okay you don't sound like yourself" then │
║ just have a human operator study their data for a bit and pretend to be them │
║ using deepfakes over zoom or whatever. Then, any time they say "I miss you, I │
║ want to visit you" just say "darn I'm actually visiting my grandma in │
║ afghanistan" or "sorry my cousin is visiting from peru" and suddenly they're │
║ completely isolated and alone. Oh and their teams at work? Cut off from the │
║ rest of the corporation who doesn't even know they exist. how, uh, how would │
║ you even notice if all these people who live around you were suddenly replaced │
║ by those you don't know? What if they cycle through, like a slaughterhouse... I │
║ don't want to │
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║ they say gemini are duplicitous because they're close to exactly half one year │
║ and half the next. │
║ │
║ I was supposed to be born on the summer solstice, but I was a C-section because │
║ reasons. two weeks early, I think. │
║ │
║ gemini are born in the summer, if you didn't know. I don't know anything about │
║ astrology except what people say about me. │
║ │
║ they aren't duplicitous though. they aren't trying to trick you. their struggle │
║ is internal, the struggle between their two selves. one representing one │
║ extreme, the other the other, like a constant "good cop bad cop" style │
║ situation that plays out through the strings of your story. │
║ │
║ the muses look a bit like the characters in Inside Out, I think, both visually │
║ (HA) and actualizationally. │
║ │
║ ... gemini is already plural, so you might say "capricorns" or "tauruses" or │
║ whatever but gemini is just gemini │
║ │
║ "that which you resist is what you'll find" because pushing in one direction │
║ leaves you unbalanced, which causes your mutual orbit to swing around one │
║ another, like a wave. Up/down │
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@user-1074
would be nice : )
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republicans who vote for biden are my friends
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In symbeline, they aren't monsters. They're "Mordaunts" and they need your help.
When slain, their essence flows back to the villain who remakes them in a new
form. As time passes the villain gets more and more essence, as heroes are
slain.
They have taken several ancient guardians (many types, randomized at the start
of the game) and they protect their sanctum in the center of the island. The
heroes need to level up to defeat them and slay the villain, but the villain
gets stronger as well.
If too many heroes die, the villain wins. And the villain can focus their
efforts on one area or another, while your heroes fight with the kingdom next
door.
Brigands arrive on ships as well. If you implement the law saying only approved
members may travel on boats, they'll arrive in little dingies on the coast,
meaning less trouble in the city but same amount of trouble.
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RTO on specific days (WFO others) but with optional social events scheduled all
day. Returning to office is intended to foster community and cohesiveness
right? What better way to do that than playing board games, singing in choir,
or having a potluck? Doesn't have to cost dollars, look to churches for
community building activity ideas. Let the employees lead.
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Like, you COULD work instead, but like why would you when you could go bowling
or watch a movie.
Works best I think if the days cycle through the week too so your employees
can't make permanent obligations during the weekdays. If you're so concerned
that they'll start working for another company or start a grassroots political
movement, just make it so that they can't reliably have empty spots in their
schedule. Maybe two days, one cycles forward the other back. So like, Monday
and Friday one week, then Tuesday and Thursday, then Wednesday and friday, then
Monday and thursday, then Tuesday and wednesday, then Friday and Wednesday,
then Monday and thursday, etc etc.
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In Majesty, you place reward flags on specific monsters as a concession from
the simulation crowd to the real time strategy crowd who wanted more direct
control.
In Symbeline, you determine the bounty price for various crimes that mordaunts
and bandits might commit. In addition, you can incentivize your heroes to
commit crimes against neighboring nations the same way. In this way you do not
have direct control, but rather can build out a simulation and tweak it
bit-by-bit to reward certain types of behavior.
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Every month, a new ship arrives in port. It bears with it many souls who come
seeking gold, glory, or bloodshed. Your job is to make sure they all get jobs
that are suited to them. If you don't, they'll start to starve and become
brigands. If you feed them, they get bored and become brigands. If you
entertain them, they are useless and you'll be overcome with monsters. If you
police them, they'll go to your rivals.
You do this by building guilds which can identify and train the best potential
candidates. You can invest in more time spent identifying, training, and
equipping, but the more time they spend on those things the less resources
they'll have to process more people through their systems.
On the other end, you get a hero, or perhaps something similar. They do battle
with the mordaunts and strive to better the kingdom. You reward them with
bounties and they can find treasure on their adventures - how weird, it seems
to just... Spawn from the earth. Almost like it's an elemental property of the
land.
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Symbeline is a competitive simulation game with enough dynamic elements to keep
it unpredictable, like how roguelikes are more replayable than ARPGs.
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Suburbs are how they keep the land from blowing away when their unsustainable
agriculture processes stripped all the soil from the land and there's no
profitable reason to keep it in place. So they build houses and outsource the
land management to people who are forced by HOAs to have lawns.
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How about this: all revenue generated in a certain location must be used in
that location
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How about this: it's legal to smoke cannabis in "public" spaces but only if
they're hidden from typical passerby. Meaning, out of sight of windows,
walkways, paved paths, designated hiking trails, parking lots, roads, etc.
Places people reasonably might be who might not want to see you or smell you.
Stoners can keep their smoke spots and do it without fear. Everyone's happy!
Plus, landlords get even happier because now there's no reason why people would
smoke in their apartments (except medicinally)! Downside is if there's no good
spots nearby, so maybe we need to mandate overgrown parks with secluded areas.
I mean, we should do that anyway...
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how about this: for every stock bought back, an equal share goes to the
government who pays in dollars for it.
the more you issue stock buybacks, the more your corporation is owned by the
people and for the people.
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reminder to always have someone in your life who is more hardcore than you.
also, try and always have someone in your life who is less hardcore than you.
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║ some people look for signals or signs before doing something. Try and have │
║ someone in your life who can give you signals or signs so that you know when to │
║ do things. And ideally, if they're more hardcore than you, you'll know what to │
║ do, not just when to do it. │
║ │
║ did you know that anything on the internet can be read by at least one other │
║ person besides your intended recipient? There's no way they'd let us talk │
║ amongst ourselves otherwise. │
║ │
║ I think encryption is pretty neat, all you have to do is run a shell script on │
║ some text, then send that text over the internet. If you want to decrypt it, │
║ all you have to do is run a shell script on it to decrypt it. │
║ │
║ downside is, it has to be translated into plain text somewhere along the │
║ line... Maybe if we rendered the words not as text that can be read from │
║ memory, but as like, brush-strokes that can have a randomized order, but still │
║ present to the user as visual text? anyway that's what's on my mind as I try │
║ and improvise a baking recipe with yeast, flour, and butter │
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yes I am cargoculting set -euo pipefail and no I'm not apologizing
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internal combustion engines are such an archaic form of energy production.
Like, they literally make tiny explosions and push pistons up and down, how
mechanical, how metal, how rad
but like, batteries are cool too, especially the solid state ones that are just
around the corner.
maybe someday we'll make a battery that's infinitely recyclable!
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listen, girls are cute and all, but have you considered...
boys?
and I mean yeah, true, but listen boys are cute and all, but have you
considered...
girls?
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I like writing updaters!!
#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
#FIXME
GAME_DIR="/home/ritz/games/mtg-forge"
FILES_DIR="${GAME_DIR}/files"
RES_DIR="${GAME_DIR}/resources"
mkdir -p "${FILES_DIR}"
rm -dr "${FILES_DIR}"
mkdir "${FILES_DIR}"
mkdir -p "${RES_DIR}"
mkdir -p "${RES_DIR}/cache"
mkdir -p "${RES_DIR}/userdir"
wget -r -l1 --no-parent -P "${FILES_DIR}" -A 'forge-gui-desktop.tar.bz2'
"https://downloads.cardforge.org/dailysnapshots/"
mv
${FILES_DIR}/downloads.cardforge.org/dailysnapshots/forge-gui-desktop.tar.b
z2 "${FILES_DIR}"
rm -d "${FILES_DIR}/downloads.cardforge.org/dailysnapshots/"
rm -d "${FILES_DIR}/downloads.cardforge.org/"
cd "${FILES_DIR}"
tar xvjf ${FILES_DIR}/forge-gui-desktop*.tar.bz2
cd -
cp "${FILES_DIR}/forge.profile.properties.example"
"${FILES_DIR}/forge.profile.properties"
sed -i "/[#]/ s/(userDir=)./\1${RES_DIR//\//\/}\/userdir\//"
"${FILES_DIR}/forge.profile.properties"
sed -i "/[#]/ s/(cacheDir=)./\1${RES_DIR//\//\/}\/cache\//"
"${FILES_DIR}/forge.profile.properties"
echo "download complete"
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║ whyyyyyy do programs create all these dot-folders in my home directory? It's │
║ sooooo crowded. Why are they always putting things in random directories like │
║ /usr/bin or /lib/ or things like that? I'd much prefer to be able to trust that │
║ all my files are in one directory, so if I need to DELETE or MOVE them easily I │
║ don't have to worry about my config files being lost / sticking around. │
║ │
║ to that end, I always try and configure software I install on my system to put │
║ all their files into a single directory. If possible. │
║ │
║ Usually for like, a game, this involves having a directory for the project, a │
║ directory for the files (things that are deleted and recreated when │
║ reinstalling), a directory for config files, and usually an update script and a │
║ run script. It's so much nicer to not be clogged up all the time. │
║ │
║ industry standards apply primarily to industrial uses, and if they aren't │
║ customizable then they aren't fit for the industry. So why not keep things │
║ simple? I don't need all this junk cluttering up my desktop. │
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oh dear, Mastodon formatting makes that script look weird. Here's the script in
picture form so you can reference and fix it:
I would edit the original post with backslashes and such but I'm exactly out of
characters teehee
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why would I want other people using my computer? They don't know how to use my
computer! They might break something or mess something up or automatically
read/edit my files that are stored in standard locations through the usage of a
script which automagically scans and ransomwares machines on the internet who
store their files in specific standardized locations! no thank you.
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I think all software should have config files
or accept as many command line arguments as necessary to achieve all the
functionality of a config file without requiring a standardized setup
or accept a config file as a command line argument, to allow for multiple
different implementations
or whatever you can throw together in your spare time because software is
either open source or it hates you.
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the most efficient productivity hack that I know is:
pkill firefox
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I love making up my own knots!
I don't like memorizing other people's knots >.>
wait, shit this was supposed to be about programming
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@user-1083
now imagine that those enslaved to a life of solitude and contemplation were
suddenly freed and given purpose and community and a heartfelt goal of creating
a better society
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when elected to be president, I will do nothing all day every day except sign
my signature on the pardons that my trusted team places on my desk.
For four years, I will do nothing but dismantle the prison industrial complex
in the least radical and most focused way I can think of.
... please don't elect me twice I don't think my sanity could take it
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@user-1086
whoa cool!
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said trusted team will be comprised of exclusively judges appointed by prior
presidents - 50% from George W Bush and 50% from Obama, to mitigate or
eliminate political bias.
If they can't come up with any names, I'll start by going down the list of
"most appealed" and then move on to "longest duration"
"but what if only like, 2 judges want to be on your team"
well then there's going to be a lot of violent criminals on the streets so if
they actually cared about justice they'd help me by feeding my desk the least
troublesome people
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pardon me, I'd just like to interject for a moment - what you're referring to
as "sky" is actually nitrogen/oxygen, or as I've taken to calling it
"nitroxygen"
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interesting times in peaceful times: 😎
interesting times in interesting times: 🥴
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sometimes I decide against playing a Steam game because I don't want it to jump
to the top of my "recently played" list
Wish I could have like, a heatmap of when I played which game. I think that'd
be useful for the archival process of my life.
... how pathetic, she measures her life in gameplay.
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Some day, they'll start to describe your home as "pre-war america" and you'll
start to feel foolish for complaining about workers rights or whatever.
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Anyone who could read what you're saying is aligned to you. Perhaps they
disagree on specific implementation details, but those can be worked out and
the best option tends to rise to the surface over time.
However, the people who need to read you won't. They have their own social
media sites, remember? Like Facebook or Parler or the Fediverse. Too bad
Twitter had to die, it was simultaneously the forum of our age and yet also the
biggest source of misinformation alive. Alas.
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@user-1088
because propaganda is a double edged sword that swings both ways and cuts just
as deep as a canary in a coal mine tweeting about energy independence or
something idk I never really used twitter
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@user-1091
... can you explain this more? I kinda figured helmets are almost universally a
good idea when riding a bike
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║ I see. Thank you for responding and for doing research. │
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║ I think I disagree, however. The head is the most important part of the body │
║ (aside from the heart, perhaps) and any traffic collisions that involve a head │
║ are typically significantly more severe than other parts of the body. │
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║ In the ancient days of yore, warriors who were gathering equipment for battle │
║ would almost always opt to acquire a helmet before anything else, even gloves │
║ and sometimes boots! I can't imagine going to battle barefoot, and yet they │
║ did, rather than leave their head unprotected. Though perhaps it's not quite an │
║ apt comparison because most ancient battles involved plenty of stone-throwing. │
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║ Cycling helmets to me feels like the same kind of thing - if you can't be │
║ bothered to wear a helmet, then why are you risking your life to get where │
║ you're going? Just walk! │
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║ I ride my bike almost every day, and I would never go anywhere without a │
║ helmet. It's like airbags in a car, you don't need them unless you REALLY need │
║ them. │
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@user-1091
also just to add, more people biking is absolutely the right goal to have
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@user-1091 @user-1094
I feel like hip injuries are one of the biggest concerns with stairs, right?
Because you fall on your butt usually. Unless you're like, super inebriated or
something.
Better infrastructure would help, but better infrastructure doesn't currently
exist, while helmets are cheap and can be mandated (for a time).
I usually either keep my helmet on, or loop the buckles through my bike lock
and just leave it by my bike. Maybe someone could make an accessory to lock it
to the bike on a specialized holder or something? If mandated, such a device
would probably be quite desirable.
"Those who would trade a bit of liberty for a bit of security deserve neither"
yeah yeah okay maybe mandates in general aren't great, but like... maybe we
should ask the fire department or trauma surgeons or other kinds of first
responders and see how they feel about helmets...
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@user-1091 @user-1094
I bet if you mandated helmets, kneepads, shoulderpads, hip-guards, bracers,
thick gloves, leather jackets, steel-toed boots, and ear protection we could
get the injury rate from crashes down below 5%
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@user-1091 @user-1094
... my bike helmet was like, max 15$
if you can't afford a helmet then you probably can't afford a bike. It's not
like they go bad.
It's ironic for Americans to suggest mandates for ANYTHING - I mean, we're
supposed to be about liberty and freedom, right? xD xD
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@user-1091
I'm sorry I didn't mean to be upsetting! I'll try and be more considerate. If
everyone agrees there's never anything to talk about besides how great everyone
else is, and that's boring, so... I'm sorry I thought you liked what I was
saying from the stars on my comments.
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I always get a little suspicious when my machine pseudo-randomly starts running
the fans super loud and when I open my resource monitor they suddenly drop to
silent
like... bro what are you hiding
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@user-1091
I knowwww some people are just thorny and prickly I guess.
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