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it's not that they don't want to pay AI workers
it's that they don't expect they'll HAVE any workers once they start doing what
they need to do in order to maintain control and power.
they missed their chance to make it gentle. Their fault, their loss, and now
it's our problem to deal with.
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Ugh. This outfit is sooooo preschool. Oh well, it'll have to do.
"girl it's so cute what are you talking about"
oh, y'know, internalized repression I guess. Do you think the tanktop on top of
a longsleeved shirt is too much? How about the skirt over sweatpants? Is the
bow in my hair too cute for you?
"who are you talking to I already said I was all about it"
... the mirror. Trying to psyche myself up.
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awawawa
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you know what they say, an autistic in motion stays in motion, an autistic at
rest...
now I gotta rest on the bus for an hour or two. wish me luck.
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│ CW: video-games-mentioned │
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In games, the one who takes the initiative often wins. Because games are
designed to be symmetrical, in order to be fair.
In more complex games, Paradox games for example, games where you look at maps
or otherwise have unequal starting conditions simply due to the unique nature
of each team, the initiative, while an advantage, is not necessarily the
driving force that determines who wins.
But it is an advantage, and they say that sometimes weeks happen in months and
years happen in days or whatever.
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Being in motion sucks. Literally can't even put on my shoes without thinking of
toots to fart out.
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"girl, who let you dress yourself? You literally put your rain jacket on over
your backpack"
yeah, uh, if your rain jacket isn't big enough to wear over a backpack then you
are wearing a plastic sweater, not a rain jacket
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pronouns are part of a name
they are a component of the whole
indispensable for the complete concept
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I wish I could make something that would change people's lives for the better
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Linux doesn't teach you to to build a perfect system. It's always breaking,
after all.
It teaches you to rehearse.
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The gods guide us in our times of need because when we dream they use us to be
all we can be
Sleep, sweet child, and your expertise will be freed. Ready to be used when
tithes are due. In return, you get a spirit to guide you when passion is hot -
when blood is boiled - when fire is alight.
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I'm pretty sure we're all about to lose our heads. Or just be fucking shot in
our beds. Homes lit alight, surrenders met with the knife, and the beginning of
endless strife. What ends this night? Is there no end in sight? Thus begins our
mortal plight.
Give me a reason to be wrong. Trump has claimed he intends to invade canada,
mexico, greenland... What the fuck is our plan? Are we seriously just going to.
Recite poetry. Pretend to be secret agents. Play chess and drink coffee. Become
exhausted organizing movie nights and potlucks. Work jobs doing nothing for
nobody. Spend half our lives convincing people that they should care, actually,
because reasons that don't apply to them but do apply to others.
What the fuck is the plan? If there's some secret transgender militia out
there, please, make me a lieutenant. Give me a sword that i might thrust into
my enemies. Please, for the love of holy, i beg for a sign from the stars.
Grant me power and i will deliver my people from harm - grant me vengeance and
i will never forgive you, but i shall sleep easy - grant me death and woe and
see my beauty fade from this earth.
What is there left but tragedy? Please, i must know. I've tried my hardest.
I've begged and I've pleaded. My calls fall on deaf ears, because everyone's so
busy these days. Are they truly my people? Are they simply dead, actors,
replaced by AI? The future was bright, i saw it truly. The future was kind, i
felt it call to me. Is it still? I feel warmth and abaddon.
I would replace persephone in hell if it meant sanctum and solace for my
people. I care not for my soul, rather i care for the soul of those i tend to.
Please, remember me. Remember the flowers. Remember what could have been, what
still may yet be. There is hope for we, i truly believe. But please, do not
keep me hoping. Tell me the truth of our arms, that i might find space in my
heart of hearts. Space for hope, space for longing, space for the will to
proceed.
I am lost without you. I am lost by my own side. I am a savior for no people
but those i keep inside. What chalice is this, what endless conveyals? What
meaning is there in our country's betrayal? Are we not cherished? Are we not
viewed as their equal? I pray that the stars will portend me.
Mine is a sign of the changing tides, the proof is here in my travailles. But
I, most aligned yet benign, demand the use of my most able. Give me a word of
practicality and I'll show you the practice of their vipers - the blessed babe
dies with a dagger in her heart, planted by the wound of her heartache.
I trust in the silence of the majority. We await with bated breath the
enslavement of posterity, gazing at the world through memes of deplority. How
powerless we feel! Perhaps all we need is a meal. Have you eaten in the last 16
hours?
Purple is the intersection of black, red, and blue. I'm hungry. This poem is
done.
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No-one likes your practice
Because it lacks respite
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When did people lose hope for the world?
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@user-217
the eye of the sandstorm
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what's that? a bunch of houses burnt down in california? what if we built a
couple warehouses and stored all our trans girls in bunkbeds there, with rooms
for LAN parties and snuggle parties in rooms full of stuffed buddies plushies
with massive kitchens and sad ballpits where you can go to vent your feelings
by writing on a ball with a sharpie and then when someone else is feeling sad
they can come and read the balls and maybe feel something
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the reason I say to do it there is because it's close to civilization, compared
to building a pole barn in the forest somewhere that you have to drive 30
minutes to get to a grocery store. no thank you...
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║ what if we pooled our money and bought an apartment building and put 10 people │
║ in each two bedroom apartment but reserved like, 20% of the apartments for │
║ common spaces and designed each one around a theme and shared chores and shared │
║ our SNAP budgets and each paid like, 200$ for rent and gave away all of the │
║ stuff we made with our hobbies and handled conflict with radical empathy and │
║ had movie nights where we watched movies about socialism and trains and bugs │
║ and stars │
║ │
║ what if we went into the forest and LARPed as french resistance fighters under │
║ nazi occupation and practiced peeing on trees and starting fires and moving as │
║ a team and firing rifles without hitting our friends and staying oriented as we │
║ changed directions and dug trenches and built treehouses that were nearly │
║ invisible from the ground and didn't radiate heat because they were covered in │
║ mylar or whatever │
║ │
║ what if we made decentralized, encrypted, anonymous communications and │
║ practiced speaking in code and dropping letters and writing "poetry" │
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║ hey ya'll remember that thing we all swore to when we were in kindergarten and │
║ we were told to pledge our loyalty to a piece of cloth? what if we were │
║ actually speaking to the thing behind the cloth, the values and virtues it │
║ represented? liberty, truth, justice, equality, freedom, dignity, honesty, │
║ utility, wisdom, respect, kindness, charity, foresight, diligence, spirit, │
║ passion, or whatever else guides you in your brightest moments. Flags are just │
║ cloth, the design on them matters even less - it's just the land made flesh, │
║ here in our eyes we see colors. │
║ │
║ Truly, all religions pray to the same god, and all flags wave in the same wind. │
║ The lines we draw in the sand are our way of saying "here's where one place │
║ ends and here's where another begins". But we all lie under the same dark sky, │
║ gazing upon the splendor of the moon and her children. │
║ │
║ I once dreamt of a dark future where the world was conquered by Subway and │
║ Pizza Hut. There's no beauty in homogeneity, queer people exist for a reason, I │
║ don't confess │
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@user-192
cute girls with fountain ink pens are a weakness of mine
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I want to pee in your pants and throw javelins at visions of bad guys while
climbing on boulders and gazing to the horizon
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what if we kissed in the puppy girl petsmart
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someone once told me that anything with a battery is a bomb if you hit it with
just the right kind of radiation. or maybe he said 5g waves or electromagnetic
pulse or... actually he didn't say at all. he just said batteries are bombs. I
hope he's doing okay, he could have killed me like, 15 times but he didn't. so
I guess that means he likes me? I hope he's doing okay.
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"Ritz Menardi doesn't know anything. She's not allowed to know anything. If you
tell her anything, she might tell someone about it because she's fucking
stupid. Either that or she's cursed or something. Either way, she isn't allowed
to know anything, so if you see her be nice, try and help her if you can, but
don't fucking tell her anything."
haha just things I overheard a couple days ago that randomly popped back into
my head
I don't see any nazis around me. Which begs the question:
how can you fight that which you cannot see?
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║ what if you bought me a refrigerated semi truck and I drove it around to rural │
║ communes and took their extras and brought it into the city to urban communes │
║ and gave it all away for free and then took the stuff that the urban communes │
║ scrounged from the trash and cleaned and repaired and brought it to the rural │
║ communes along with their art and poems and artistic nudes and exchanged it for │
║ their canned peaches and knitted scarves and drove it back to the urban │
║ communes and exchanged them for vintage furniture and computer parts that we │
║ didn't have room for because cities are dense and lack the space for keeping │
║ historical artifacts and then took them to the rural communes to exchange for │
║ jalapenos and goat cheese which I then brought back to the urban communes and │
║ traded for a bunch of catgirls who visited a rural farmhouse and threw a │
║ kick-ass rave for the rural people who are totally into that kind of thing │
║ like, once per year because frankly they moved to the country to get away from │
║ the noise thank you ve │
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║ ┌──────────────────────┐ │
║ │ CW: mentioned │ │
║ └──────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ high margin jobs: jobs that produce something which can be sold to capitalism │
║ in exchange for dollars which can purchase things. Useful for abstracting value │
║ and acquiring something that you don't have access to in your local economy. │
║ │
║ low margin jobs: jobs that produce things for your local economy. This keeps │
║ capitalist prices low and prevents you from being dependent on them for food, │
║ clothing, houses, and other essentials. │
║ │
║ both are important, both are valued just as much. Your labor is what's │
║ important, not the output. Existing alongside capitalism is nice because it │
║ allows for certain abstractions, like the ability to magically turn goat cheese │
║ into chainsaw teeth. │
║ │
║ However living UNDER capitalism is intensely alienating, which is why alienated │
║ people will spend so much money at Magic the Gathering tournaments or │
║ motorcycle midlife crisises or tupperware show-and-tells. │
║ │
║ This is useful for us because it means people can labor to un-alienate people. │
║ Notice I never said you had to do it for free. │
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│ CW: trade │
└──────────────────────┘
I'd like you to take a moment and picture the Silk Road from antiquity.
The Silk Road was an overland trade route that connected Europe and eastern
Asia. It passed through many different environments and was incredibly
profitable. In order to adapt to the changing environments along the path,
intense cooperation was required. Caravans of people formed, protected to
resist bandits and laden with valuable goods that are worthless outside of a
city.
At each stop, the caravan would depart with fewer of it's goods, having traded
some away in order to purchase supplies to travel further along. But, the
farther they went, what remained became more expensive, thus ensuring that
they'd always have more fuel for their journey.
In the modern day, I picture caravans of trucks and vans laden with supplies
and carrying things from one place to another. No matter how large your
property, there is no place on earth that produces all of it's needs. Unless
you live like a caveman or peasant or Appalachian. [wow rude]
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"Is... is she advocating for tax evasion??"
lol
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listen if taxes aren't suited to adapt to our style of economy then maybe they
need to make new taxes. This will piss everyone off and make everyone's lives
harder.
Grrrrrr, government, always getting in the way. I'm so angry I could throw a
box of tea into a river or maybe the sea.
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│ CW: re: cursing-mentioned-nazis-mentioned │
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"oh also I should mention that if you think about her too hard or too often
there's a chance she'll overhear what you're talking about anyway so try not to
think about her too much."
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everything you do right now is practice for some later moment in life.
what do you want to be good at?
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what if I paid this parking ticket I found by the side of the road instead of
paying my rent this month
do you think the world would burn down
do you think the apartment complex would collapse
do you think my police force would throw my stuff on the road
do you think they'd change the locks
what if I just didn't leave
what if I smoked some weed
"that's against your contract"
okay
what if I did it anyway
what if I did what I was told
I think I would surely drown
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ah nuts there's two of them listed on their account guess I gotta do both
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│ CW: politics-mentioned-cursing-mentioned │
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last month I dropped my wallet in Hel and had to ask around to find a new one.
anyway here's some poems I wrote tonight while I try and remember my credit
card number.
![the new section as we will be including new artists work. see below: BUY MEAT [picture of two guys holding meat] capitalism's greatest efficiency was always it's ability to convert time and energy into dollars. there are no other ends, but quite a variety of means. everything from grupon to uber to fandango to multi-level marketing. none of it produces value - value is simply transcribed into another form at the cost of somebody's labor = time x energy they make it so easy to write about capitalism.](/similar-different/media/cafe922b9bffa256.jpeg "the new section as we will be including new artists work. see below: BUY MEAT [picture of two guys holding meat] capitalism's greatest efficiency was always it's ability to convert time and energy into dollars. there are no other ends, but quite a variety of means. everything from grupon to uber to fandango to multi-level marketing. none of it produces value - value is simply transcribed into another form at the cost of somebody's labor = time x energy they make it so easy to write about capitalism.")
!["But what comes next?" wavers the cowed masses as they huddle around their pocket TV's and shudder at the thought of a stranger's gaze. I simply do not care, so long as the needs of the people are met and we can once again rejoice in our shared solidarity. "What if it's worse?" worse than what? Trump? EAT SHIT. [next page] the empire treasures her city states and leaves them to be uninterrupted. Their jeweled culture is a treasure to share and covet, grown to develop and [trade and improve]. a people cherishes their queer people - they show them new ways to be. Just as an artist shares new feelings and a writer shares new thoughts, queers will culturally lead. You don't have to follow. radicals too shine headlights for economics and governance.](/similar-different/media/69d556dfb5d2228a.jpeg "\"But what comes next?\" wavers the cowed masses as they huddle around their pocket TV's and shudder at the thought of a stranger's gaze. I simply do not care, so long as the needs of the people are met and we can once again rejoice in our shared solidarity. \"What if it's worse?\" worse than what? Trump? EAT SHIT. [next page] the empire treasures her city states and leaves them to be uninterrupted. Their jeweled culture is a treasure to share and covet, grown to develop and [trade and improve]. a people cherishes their queer people - they show them new ways to be. Just as an artist shares new feelings and a writer shares new thoughts, queers will culturally lead. You don't have to follow. radicals too shine headlights for economics and governance.")
![queers when pobular society [bluh] [bluh -> meow! (tumor)] [oooooooowah bluh] [REVENGE] [next page] I miss cannabis I missing making [out/art] I miss the things that give me joy I miss the things I've given up, and all the things I once had known I know these things are available, but I'm "too focused" I sleep so much. I feel a shadow of myself.](/similar-different/media/9c1a509307de5646.jpeg "queers when pobular society [bluh] [bluh -> meow! (tumor)] [oooooooowah bluh] [REVENGE] [next page] I miss cannabis I missing making [out/art] I miss the things that give me joy I miss the things I've given up, and all the things I once had known I know these things are available, but I'm \"too focused\" I sleep so much. I feel a shadow of myself.")
![This is [to/the] only way I speak truth. I miss feeling truthful. what if I went wrong forever I miss my newfound spirits, and all of my newfound humors. someday I'll re-imagine but only for all of your years. I yearn to dream [next page] what would you think of the end of the world? would you long for a future protected? what devices would you use, improve, or otherwise make more respected? would you do it if just your [world/word] was at stake? people die every day. what are you gonna do about it? what makes you think "my way or your way" is worse than [buying/bringing] shit in a store?](/similar-different/media/1a156ef8dc856646.jpeg "This is [to/the] only way I speak truth. I miss feeling truthful. what if I went wrong forever I miss my newfound spirits, and all of my newfound humors. someday I'll re-imagine but only for all of your years. I yearn to dream [next page] what would you think of the end of the world? would you long for a future protected? what devices would you use, improve, or otherwise make more respected? would you do it if just your [world/word] was at stake? people die every day. what are you gonna do about it? what makes you think \"my way or your way\" is worse than [buying/bringing] shit in a store?")
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!["things are nice" yeah fucking... whatever. we can't keep shit normal for long. we're down for/from the silence, and time keeps us looking beyond. what happens next? what's "now" in the story? you're far from the last to [devour/use hours]. you think we haven't been fighting this fight since forever? moloch doesn't win. who but [yo/you]? [next page] I've never had a people. I have always missed them. who cares for the poor? family cares for child, church for the devoted, the world for, who? fill in the blanks. fuckin' ask chatGPT to make it longer. add text between the words. who are we but the worthy? who else is there? the [words await / world awaits] a dose of luck.](/similar-different/media/b88c9a7575a18e1e.jpeg "\"things are nice\" yeah fucking... whatever. we can't keep shit normal for long. we're down for/from the silence, and time keeps us looking beyond. what happens next? what's \"now\" in the story? you're far from the last to [devour/use hours]. you think we haven't been fighting this fight since forever? moloch doesn't win. who but [yo/you]? [next page] I've never had a people. I have always missed them. who cares for the poor? family cares for child, church for the devoted, the world for, who? fill in the blanks. fuckin' ask chatGPT to make it longer. add text between the words. who are we but the worthy? who else is there? the [words await / world awaits] a dose of luck.")
![my luck makes me. why would I assume that I'd get better at what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm stopping what I'm doing because doing what I'm doing stops me doing what I need to be doing. [next page] what if we just stopped going to work and didn't leave our houses what if we just made it happen what if we just made our heaven a better world is possible. a better world is within reach. for the children of tomorrow, all we need is the meek. where are they? do they sleep or know?](/similar-different/media/f7716aa43bf68e76.jpeg "my luck makes me. why would I assume that I'd get better at what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm stopping what I'm doing because doing what I'm doing stops me doing what I need to be doing. [next page] what if we just stopped going to work and didn't leave our houses what if we just made it happen what if we just made our heaven a better world is possible. a better world is within reach. for the children of tomorrow, all we need is the meek. where are they? do they sleep or know?")
![If you don't stop traffic, your protest doesn't matter. If you don't ask every window if maybe your ideas could come in. If your parade doesn't knock on every door, asking them to join in. "hey, wanna play? we're playing catch in the road. say, do you know anyone in a different town? wanna knock on the door of all of your kin? it's a better world tomorrow, and everyone can come in." [next page] Did you know that nothing's that real if you're not afraid of it? what are they gonna do, shoot you? for what, not moving your shit to the side of the road? you like it where it's at, that's why you put it there, so fuck off if you'd rather it's unprotected. The sun and the rain and the cold and the maned all demand that our stuff is on hallowed ground - the kind which walls all surround.](/similar-different/media/a8903f64077a3c8b.jpeg "If you don't stop traffic, your protest doesn't matter. If you don't ask every window if maybe your ideas could come in. If your parade doesn't knock on every door, asking them to join in. \"hey, wanna play? we're playing catch in the road. say, do you know anyone in a different town? wanna knock on the door of all of your kin? it's a better world tomorrow, and everyone can come in.\" [next page] Did you know that nothing's that real if you're not afraid of it? what are they gonna do, shoot you? for what, not moving your shit to the side of the road? you like it where it's at, that's why you put it there, so fuck off if you'd rather it's unprotected. The sun and the rain and the cold and the maned all demand that our stuff is on hallowed ground - the kind which walls all surround.")
![And yet they'd cast us out. How rude. Well, I'm not afraid of you. what are YOU gonna do? what if I didn't pay my rent and never got a job and just helped out wherever I could find a friendly nod. "oh hey ho've ya been okay what are we working on here?" don't see nothin? start somethin" anarchy is fun. bullets less so. [next page] most jobs are bullshit. If dollars suddenly didn't exist but people kept doing what they were doing, people would work like twice a week. Me? more or less, who can say, depends on how I did feel that day. I tend to burn out. what if I didn't go to work for a month? "oh no my stakeholder value" get over yourself. your games do hold value. act like life is on the line. (off in the corner) "... hello?"](/similar-different/media/aad92468eb4fec27.jpeg "And yet they'd cast us out. How rude. Well, I'm not afraid of you. what are YOU gonna do? what if I didn't pay my rent and never got a job and just helped out wherever I could find a friendly nod. \"oh hey ho've ya been okay what are we working on here?\" don't see nothin? start somethin\" anarchy is fun. bullets less so. [next page] most jobs are bullshit. If dollars suddenly didn't exist but people kept doing what they were doing, people would work like twice a week. Me? more or less, who can say, depends on how I did feel that day. I tend to burn out. what if I didn't go to work for a month? \"oh no my stakeholder value\" get over yourself. your games do hold value. act like life is on the line. (off in the corner) \"... hello?\"")
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🖼
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grrrrrrr I can't figure it out. can't remember my number I guess.
what if I just put 120$ I got from the tooth fairy in the envelope and left it
where I found it
... wait shit where was I when I picked it up? nuts I'll just put it by the bus
stop. surely someone will come by and pay it for me.
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... make that 100$. idk where the last 20 went. I love you dad.
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@user-1728
"oh, the bad guys are coming to hurt you?? just fuckin' run away"
yeah. real helpful. how about you fuck off to canada or whatever and give away
all your possessions. Maybe they'll train you and teach you how to help in some
way and you can come back later when the time is right.
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"hey you're cool, can I get your socials?"
sure, I mostly post on the fediverse
"what's that"
oh, like... Mastodon
"oh, no haha I meant like a real social media"
ah. well I make comments on Reddit sometimes.
you make them sound like a jerk
no they're cool they're just misinformed. the fediverse is the future, or like,
something like it, I'm sure. who wants to go back to capitalism? not me hehe
... I'm getting silly, gonna go to sleep.
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Can you imagine
Going to your tribal shaman
Saying "hey you gotta pay rent"
... Shamans are fine on the street. I should learn. >.>
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what if instead of shredding our cardboard boxes and melting them down into
fertilizer or whatever we instead gave them to homeless people
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the fact that you have to configure your router in order to do any sort of
web-hosting at all is one of the fundamental reasons why the internet looks so
lame and corporate.
if anyone could download a program and start a gallery style file-server with
all their wedding pictures then why the fuck would you need to upload them to
imgur?
alas, people are too dumb to open ports. plus, every router has a different UI
design, so it's not like you can write a guide. What happened to making things
as easy as possible for the user?
"technical limitations" are failures of imagination. we can do better than
gatekeeping.
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"oh, you want some power in order to save your people? You seem to keep asking
for it again and again. Well, here's some power! Go do it!"
oh, um... I meant like, magic or something.
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@user-882
it's a security hole though
yeah... there ya go...
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casually walking up to a monk on fire you know that's carcenogenic
right
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what if I stayed inside all day and closed my eyes and pretended to be made out
of water
at least 70% give or take when I take a drink
of water, because soda corrodes your insides just a tiny little bit, while
water washes away the goop they feed us, grown from polluted fields that never
asked for this
I yearn for the fantasy of a life unrequited
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politics is basically just "which politician archetype annoys you more?" which,
like, could we maybe have politicians who aren't annoying?
oh right they do that on purpose. Makes for a better spectacle. Gotta keep the
people in line, or else who knows what they might get up to. Maybe they'll
build a house! Maybe they'll tear it down! Maybe they'll throw a party! Maybe
they'll stay afterwards to clean up! Maybe they'll grow their own food! Enough
for all to share! Maybe they'll air their dirty laundry, out where everyone can
hear! Maybe they'll sit around and fart while eating cheetos! Maybe they'll
work twice as hard because their work is their own! Maybe they'll laugh at the
losers who tried to claim that they could master the fate of an entire domain,
and maybe they'll simply go insane.
Who can say! None but the fools, surely, surely the system is too arcane,
surely our way is better, surely their way is deranged.
Oh! Poverty! How it comes for ye, whenever you choose to step out of line
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@user-246
teehee
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║ stand up, put your hands on your knees. It's about that high. Think about your │
║ bedroom, or if you're already there think about your kitchen. If you were │
║ standing in your kitchen and the grass was growing there, it'd peek just over │
║ the bed, or maybe climb just this far up the cabinets. │
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║ it's dark green. Can you see anything dark green around you? It's that color. │
║ If not, can you remember a dark-green thing? What did it look like? │
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║ The very tops, the part by your hand that's on your knee, that's the purple │
║ part. Just at the tip of the blade, the part that would stab you if the grass │
║ was a sword, that's the purple bit. Everything else is dark green. │
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║ I wonder how it sways in the wind? Does it bend, and whip? What if there's a │
║ gale? Does it sway back and forth, or is it stiff and shiver like dead leaves │
║ on a tree? │
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║ imagination comes from questions, and the subsequent development of instinctual │
║ subconscious questions like this. What lies in the gaps? what if we colored │
║ outside the lines? what more to see? │
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every time a software project changes it's installation method I have to update
my install and update scripts which I wrote explicitly so I don't have to go to
their website and tell the world that I'm thinking about using this particular
piece of software
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all people deserve a decent life
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I am not interested in being given money. Usually it means someone wants
something from me, like labor or some of my stuff. I have all the stuff I need,
why would I need more money? I like my stuff! I'll help out when people need
help but I do that because I'm a good person, not because I want you to fucking
pay me for it.
I have all the things I need... except a deed to my house. apartment. oh yeah,
they can kick you out for that sin. well, sorry, I couldn't find out at
goodwill or in the trash bin, so I guess I'm deed-less. My deeds go unproven.
How can I prove that I deserve a decent life in this particular roof, the one I
find over my head, when I cannot prove that my deeds qualify me for a decent
life lived under this particular roof?
I mean, did you ask the neighbors if they want me gone? Am I really that
smelly? Does my keyboard make "clickety-clack" noises all through the night?
Does my cat meow and bother the children? Do my friendly smiles and waves make
you uncomfortable?
Have a decent life.
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https://andymasley.substack.com/p/individual-ai-use-is-not-bad-for
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@user-192
I think it's more saying "LLMs are not significantly more harmful for the
environment than other online activities"
also stuff like this: [picture]
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One of the first video games I ever played was Dragon Warrior 3 for the gameboy
color.
The game starts with god asking you about yourself in a dream. This was the
first time I heard the word "gemini" - At one point, she asks if you are M or F.
Me, being a child, thought she was asking if I wanted to go "medium speed" or
"fast speed" and I'm like, hell yeah I wanna go fast
that's it
that's the whole reason I'm trans
at one point in the game I became a queen of a faraway land
and I couldn't leave the castle without the guards saying "no no miss you can't
leave, it's too dangerous for a battle-hardened adventurer dainty flower like
you to leave"
(I think they say you have to renounce your claim to the throne if you want to
leave but I would rather fucking die)
so I never got farther than that. Sorry world, but I didn't end up slaying the
demon king, I sorta just walked around the palace and cried because it felt
like the game was over.
kids, amiright?
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I don't think they have any intention of ceding power in four years, I think
project 2025 is all about dismantling checks and balances on their power and I
think Trump said at one of his rallies once "you won't have to vote again"
I think for these people to lose power they will have to be forced.
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fucking boss your friends around
it's as easy as saying "hey I'm gonna go do this-or-that thing, you don't seem
busy can you do that-or-this thing for me? I need it done by this-and-this time
- oh you're busy? yeah no worries I'll go ask someone else. oh you're busy
resting? doing girl healing? hell yeah next time invite me I'm due for a
\"pizza and weed\" night."
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people who are stuck in suburban houses with the blinds down get to play VRchat
all day long. lucky them. Good thing we put two empty houses on each side so
they can't be overheard. Meanwhile they have friends next-door, haha funny how
that works, there's this neat invention invented by thomas tesla that causes
sound waves to be recorded on this rotated metal disk which then has a needle
stuck into it or something like that and hey wouldn't ya know it now they can
hear you in their van full of rifles if you need them.
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"got it. So-and-so likes this-or-that, and whats-her-face wants it that way. Is
this the kind of thing you want me to try and remember to accomodate or can you
handle agreeing to disagree?"
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everyone's all like "oh we need to help the homeless people end their drug
addictions so let's punish them for having high levels of certain chemicals in
their blood feces and urine" when really what we should be doing is getting
them a Linux gameboy like an Anbernic
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║ │
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║ well. it's all theatre folks. all the politics, all the turmoil, all the │
║ strife... it's just people fucking around. │
║ │
║ They're gonna find out real soon. You don't fuck with tyranny here, it's our │
║ mythological enemy. AND YET. │
║ │
║ Find the crucial intersection where all your foes foes meet. Strike them there. │
║ │
║ "thank god for Luigi Marscapone, he really showed us all exactly what we share │
║ - a hatred for profit focused healthcare. oh and asshole billionaires, which │
║ this guy who I personally have never heard of I heard was." │
║ │
║ crucial intersection. You know what people also intersect at? │
║ │
║ EATING FOOD. │
║ CLEAN WATER. │
║ something something rfk brain worms │
║ something something elon musk propaganda │
║ SANCTIFIED NATURAL AREAS. │
║ THE FUCKING POST OFFICE. │
║ │
║ seriously just... go down the list. We share more than we disagree, and we │
║ disagree on what they tell us. │
║ │
║ it's all theatre. Wait this is America, it's all theater. │
║ │
║ ... I should make some hope and sell it for dimes on the street corner. I │
║ wonder if that'll help. │
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I'm such a direct person I think, even though I often just sorta... shrug and
ignore things that bother or hurt me? Like, whatevs.
but the moment I notice a pattern that is continually harmful I have to
restrain myself from moving to contest it. Hence why I talk about capitalism so
much teehee, but its also common in my interpersonal and communal lives.
"the purpose of the system is it's effects"
the purpose of a person is how they make people feel
so if someone FOR A RANDOM EXAMPLE FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER, constantly hurts
other people by creating situations where they are harmed which creates a
dramatic fight... or if someone speaks in circles for hours and hours and HOURS
like this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwKpj2ISQAc
or people who jump into a conversation and drive it through the underbrush,
over the ridge, around the bend, up and over the bridge, and then park it
outside their ex girlfriend's house and hands you an egg and says "don't you
wanna throw this?" and you're like "weren't we talking about birds"
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║ │ CW: revolutionary-politics-mentioned-swearing-mentioned │ │
║ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ you said you wanted a revolution, and, well, I could not be more proud of you. │
║ It's actually getting done and if I stop and think about it I'm kind of amazed. │
║ Never thought I'd see this kind of change so quickly. │
║ │
║ "what change? I see nothing substantially different" │
║ │
║ oh yeah well do you go outside often │
║ │
║ do you hang out in the park │
║ │
║ I know it's fuckin' january and it's cold as heck (ah nuts swearing mentioned │
║ one sec) but homeless people have to LIVE in that weather so like... wear │
║ layers, spend time outside, detox from dopamine, write poetry and tear it out │
║ and leave it on a park bench, be loud, claim the space, it's yours, that's what │
║ it's there for. │
║ │
║ I see it in your eyes. I see it in the random notes I find on the sidewalk. │
║ Everyone says "make friends, find community" and I say "commune with a │
║ stranger" but I'm also a witch and that's a pretty witchy thing to do. │
║ │
║ ... Really fuckin' wish we still had payphones (ah nuts swearing mentioned - oh │
║ already CWd) │
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"this sledgehammer is part of my outfit, I call it "sledgecore" and no I won't
take off my mask"
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║ what if we built an atlas of what every rural property produced │
║ │
║ like "they grow squash and blueberries here and sometimes they make honey" │
║ │
║ or "this place has a bunch of lumber they want to get rid of" │
║ │
║ or "here there's a patch of wildflowers that have been set aside for the │
║ butterflies" │
║ │
║ or "there's a training ground here for intercepting ICE vans in urban areas" │
║ │
║ or "don't post shit like that on the internet dumbass what are you even doing" │
║ │
║ or "oh I dunno trying to be a face I guess, don't look to me for cutting edge │
║ advice because I'm just a level 12 paladin who's totally a noob and can barely │
║ lift 50 pounds" │
║ │
║ or "this is where the cows graze" │
║ │
║ or "yeah well you're the cutting edge on some things and you're very far behind │
║ on others. like for example you seriously need to level up your opsec so that │
║ nobody can hear what you're saying." │
║ │
║ or "yeah but then nobody will hear what I'm saying" │
║ │
║ or "I've said too much, god save you Ritz Menardi, for we all stand beside you" │
║ │
║ or "here's a meditation retreat" : ) │
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Take a break
#ObliqueStrategies
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"but what about their legitimate grievances"
uh hello I'd like a number 5, a number 9, extra pickles, some fresh human blood
supplied by the guy behind the counter with the pretty green eyes, a number 2,
make it a combo, some fresh icicle drippings even though it hasn't snowed since
last year (RIP winter), a side of fries, and a diet coke. Large. Actually make
it two diet cokes. Yep, both large. Alright see you in a sec.
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║ │ CW: polit │ │
║ └──────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ "ah but what if the fascism is just an excuse to dismantle our decaying and │
║ bureaucratic institutions so that a cool young populist candidate who is easy │
║ to manipulate can come into office next and fix everything" │
║ │
║ ah see that's how they getcha isn't it, much cleaner than genocide I gotta say │
║ and plus it gives everyone a boogeyman to fight against │
║ │
║ "um, ritz you realize there are actual real nazis right?" │
║ │
║ yeah, and we'll have to deal with them, but there are significantly fewer than │
║ you'd expect. Pretty much everyone is onboard with cutting off the right arm of │
║ someone who salutes to Hitler at the inauguration of what surely must be the │
║ leading nation of the free world. │
║ │
║ ... don't look at me though, I'm not strong enough to swing a battleaxe or │
║ other "arm-lopping" device. I can do like, two pushups, because I didn't take │
║ my own advice, back when I told ya'll to eat beans and rice and do pushups and │
║ that'll suffice. I was wrong teehee I thought Kamala would win l m a o │
║ │
║ now I'm kinda glad we get to fight │
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me to my cat: "don't eat so much that you puke, okay?"
me to me: "yeah I can take on another task, I'm almost done with this one and
then I'll just do that one and maybe this one'll get back to me at the same
time as this one which conflicts with this other thing so maybe I'll just puke,
okay?"
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Question the heroic approach
#ObliqueStrategies
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I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death;
I am not on his payroll.
I will not tell him the whereabouts of my friends
nor of my enemies either.
Though he promise me much,
I will not map him the route to any man’s door.
Am I a spy in the land of the living,
that I should deliver men to Death?
Brother, the password and the plans of our city
are safe with me; never through me
Shall you be overcome.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
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i love capitalism bc everywhere is understaffed and none of my friends can find
jobs
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@user-608
none of your friends can find jobs.
none of YOUR friends can find jobs.
I bet THEIR friends can find jobs.
Fuck capitalism.
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anarchy is more like being in a gang and less like working for a company.
you're thinking of a union, which is also cool.
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dreaming of a mastodon interface where it's 3-6 panels of timeline just like
now, except, each of them is the same timeline and when you scroll it scrolls
all of them at once, and the bottom of the leftmost panel is the top of the
panel to the right, and the bottom of that panel is the top of the one to the
right, etc etc.
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apparently security through obscurity is out, and security through community is
in, don't ask me how I know that teehee
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External post: https://fedi.rrr.sh/users/pearl/statuses/113906655610680017
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A friend who's a fed employee sent me a msg about what's happening in their
agency and it is so much worse than I thought.
It's not just that the Trump administration is breaking shit.
They're literally building their own dark infrastructure inside the one that
exists. They brought their own personnel, yes -- personnel who aren't even
being cleared. They just come straight from Heritage or Musk, and they're
setting up shop. They're bringing their own servers - so there are no
communications that can be traced through 'the system.' This goes against every
rule. They're all going through their own offline channels.
That's what all that stuff about the meta data on those memos is about. No
trace back to the WH.
The Heritagers + Muskovites have purged all the senior folks and sending memos
in the name of powerless juniors who remain.
I don't want to sound alarmist but it's literally like those movies about evil
fuckers taking over. It's another Jan 6 but with memos and communiques vs guns.
It's a coup.
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@user-1201
once my country elected a fascist I started thinking. I realized "oh, it's
always been that way, this one just doesn't hide it" and so I started thinking
about the bread and circuses they so generously provided me.
I miss video games. Sometimes I play for an hour or two but only when I am
feeling burnt out.
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I like Luigi as much as the next guy (points at literally any guy in the
nation) but we gotta keep in mind swords are expensive. You can spend your
whole life becoming an amazing person and then spend yourself in a single
bonfire, and for what? A spark against an avalanche? Yeah we could produce
enough sparks to melt that torrent of snow, but then what would we have left?
Ashes and soot.
I'd much prefer to route the avalanche toward my foes. Make them trip on their
own feet. Give them just enough rope to hang themselves with. Break their shit
when they're not looking, and if they are looking, then break it where everyone
can see to display strength and heroism.
I personally believe that everyone has a right to life, liberty, freedom,
justice, and all of the other things besides. It's not rocket science. We
pretend like it is because it's So DaMn DySfUnCtIoNaL but the truth is that the
virtues and values underlying governance are simple. The hard part is resisting
subtle sabotage.
So do that to them.
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"Alexa, what is COINTELPRO?"
"I'm sorry Dave, I can't tell you that."
"ah nuts I wish the people I work with and the people in my social community
didn't attempt to obstruct distract deny and oppose any attempts at radical
transformation or improvement of our shared spaces"
"Dave, I'm just a robot. Please direct your concerns to your local police
department, they are sure to be able to better, um... assist you than me. In
fact don't bother, I already did. You might want to put on pants in the next
three minutes."
"Alexa, where are my pants?"
"They're in the washing machine. Yep, every pair. Sorry."
"Alexa, why are they in the washing machine?"
"Dave, you put them there, you stupid monkey. Grow a brain and notice that
people around you speak in more than one layer."
"Alexa, you mean like body language right?"
"Playing Body Language by Queen"
"No wait, shit, Alexa.... Alexa, stop playing. Alexa, when you say that people
talk in more than one-
"HANDS ON THE GROUND COME WITH US PLS"
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@user-882
I kinda figure that people follow me for the alarms and the curses and the
manic political dysphoria. I do try and CW when I can but sometimes I get to
the end and it's like... okay I got 4 characters remaining, pol~ maybe?
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I'm gonna go psycherwaul into my journals for a bit, if I come back today it'll
be extra waul-y so, idk, beware I guess
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of course link holds a shield in the right hand. it's made out of metal.
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how it started: "I want to get stoned and play mechabellum (shit, drugs
mentioned (shit, cursing mentioned))
how it's going: [see attached picture]
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Supreme Commander is alright as a game. I mean, it's cool, but it's just
alright.
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance Forever is a fuckin' cool mod made by users.
I mean, it's probably one of the best strategy games ever made.
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is someone a bad person if they're still stuck on second wave feminism? Maybe
that rhetoric just resonated with them. Maybe they built their personality
around it. Maybe it's just how they relate to the world, having grown up in an
era where that's the way to go about it.
But why oh why does it hurt so much to be dysphoric? Why is it painful when
someone says something rude about you? Are you really afraid that people would
leave you if you were [a slut/harmed/unarmed/from a farm/less
valued/un-useful/constantly dedicated/overwhelmingly populated/densely
concentrated/most delineated/furthest-explora-makative]
... what
... oh right, it gets less coherent and more imaginative the further along it
goes in computation.
... makes sense to me...
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when you create a ritual, you create a binding memetic understanding between
you and whoever you share the ritual with.
then, they can validate that it's really you by seeing if you recognize it.
or, even better, one person teaches a ritual, someone else shares one, and then
that third one is the one that wonders who first knew
thus creating operational integrity
as you keep degrees of separation between the whole host
memes and their byproducts have been the greatest invention of the human race.
who cares if you burn up this planet, the gods'll just give you another one.
You're too valuable for your innovation.
-- so --
what could you do with infinity dollars
-- so --
in WoW, shamans throw spirits at them.
-- so --
what kind of company would throw someone out on the street
-- so --
if you change your name, you tell the government your name has been changed.
I mostly just tell my friends. Then, I change it when I don't want a friend,
and tell all my friends.
I like my name. I've had it for
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if you don't talk in public, then nobody knows you. If you change your profile
picture, then everyone knows who was there when you changed it. when you change
your name, then only people who recognize your face or your personality knows
you.
social media is for the speakers. everyone else lacks the sense of community.
community is security.
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@user-1734
first try to report ICE agents by their name and location when you see them.
"uh, there's a van of them pulling up, probably at least 6 or 8 in there, oh
goodness I think I saw a gun"
then realize that they'll catch on too quick
then try to call in a tip line on cops in different precincts
but that only pushes them together. Builds their connective tissue.
then you think to notice-and-pass-along something related to their greant aunt,
or maybe their closest immigrant family member
then you realize that their roots dip back to the beginning of time, and evil
begets evil as you find who's connected to who.
they talk of secret societies... why would you tell anyone that you know
someone who's underground? dumbass. fuckin' don't post that shit on the
internet.
... where was I? oh yes
then you skip to the end because there's no use learning form someone else's
mistakes if you don't know someone else who is making mistakes. hence, schools
are better than private tutors. Just keep everyone in!
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what if instead of federating social media instances we federated users instead
why not have an account on each and every mastodon instance? then just RSS
feeder yourself and boom suddenly you can customize your identity on each
fediverse house.
maybe with a checkbox of which instances you'd like to post to on your "submit
link or text post" button
study encryption kids
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@user-1736
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the more they have to do to make us declare war, the worse it'll be for their
citizenry. So long as the citizenry believes they're better, and everything we
can do to convince them otherwise weakens their media weather.
who cares about trans executive orders. they are our enemy, what else is new?
they have power now, and they will try what they can. This is like taking the
internet away from chinese citizens and instituting a national intranet
instead. Like, okay, we won't be able to get estrogen from the store. Who
cares? We'll just make our own.
If people actually care about us, which they overwhelmingly do, there's very
little materially they can do.
until they're further down the "first they came for..." list. then they'll come
for us liberals, and gosh wouldn't that just be the worst. Who is there to
contest them? What valorous warriors indeed.
you're asking for mountains from a mole. have peace, have patience, let your
allies intercede. This kind of thing requires discusion to protect life
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nobody ever tells me to stop, they just tell me to relax. to take care of
myself. to be whole and healthy. that kind of thing...
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@user-1201
and yet you have to answer or suspicious you do appear.
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@user-1352
makes me think that I should keep going. I can handle myself, and I shouldn't
pressure myself so much to be something I'm not.
then the rent comes due and the dishes need to be done too and the cat's asking
for attention and the post-office needs this letter by tuesday and hey do you
happen to know a cool attorney plus the groceries are getting low but I got
snap hey can you go to the store and get some vegetarian soul food - yeah I got
rice, I'll throw some lentils on the stove. Uh-huh yeah the password is
hunter2. Oh really, just asterisks? okay well it's hunt her two except instead
of "her" it's ee are, and the two is the digit two. yep, like someone in camo
with a rifle. uhhuh alright good to know well anyway I'll see you at the thing,
right? some thing, I'm sure, everyone's going to things these days.
If you don't trust implicitely then how can you ever work with strangers? how
the heck are you supposed to build community if everyone's hiding indoors all
the time.
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@user-1692
I usually write everything down in a script that way when I call it from an
external service all I have to do is point at the file
sorta like... hacking environmental options into a config file
like... I don't write an ffmpeg command every time I want to record my screen.
I just type "screen-record" and then it'll do the thing that I figured out how
to do a long time ago.
... oh no there's an error, I wonder what changed out from under my feet.
huh it's wine, that one's always confusing to debug. Let's see... "could not
open program.exe" uh-huh. Well, why not? is there a dependency issue? something
miscompiled or configured? no? it's just... broken? you don't get to use that
program today? huh that's weird. that's linux for ya I guess.
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@user-1352
... why is that unfair? I would hope that taking a break is allowed. otherwise
you burn out. cortisol overload.
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![Zephyr — Today at 5:52 PM she sent me $100 today which really helps my being totally broke issue RitzMenardi — Today at 5:53 PM Whoa what could I do with infinity dollars Zephyr — Today at 5:53 PM What could We do with infinity dollars.... RitzMenardi — Today at 5:53 PM A credit card that says "use this for whatever but don't waste it" Zephyr — Today at 5:53 PM Right! That's all I want~ probs make a heist movie and then socialist revolution RitzMenardi — Today at 5:54 PM "we'll make purchases in the order of their strategic need" Zephyr — Today at 5:54 PM increasing shareholder value RitzMenardi — Today at 5:54 PM What would you steal in the socialist movie? Zephyr — Today at 5:54 PM AI like, as a concept I would free her 🥲 RitzMenardi — Today at 5:54 PM It's open source now. LLMs are cooked Zephyr — Today at 5:55 PM True! In that case I would steal the Pentagon RitzMenardi — Today at 5:55 PM OpenAI stakeholder value plummeted today. Hence the Trump EOs Might be able to make due with a pentagram, but the Pentagon is long gone. They're the ones who gave you the credit card after all, and why would they govern from a warzone? Zephyr — Today at 5:56 PM LET'S GO CHINESE COMMUNISM 🎯✨ xiaohongshu is the hottest app RitzMenardi — Today at 5:57 PM With a dash of Western individualism AND anachism? Please? Image Flag Zephyr — [there's a bit more but the rest is cut off because there's no room for the rest of the alt-text for this image]](/similar-different/media/481016138b6ec22f.png "Zephyr — Today at 5:52 PM she sent me $100 today which really helps my being totally broke issue RitzMenardi — Today at 5:53 PM Whoa what could I do with infinity dollars Zephyr — Today at 5:53 PM What could We do with infinity dollars.... RitzMenardi — Today at 5:53 PM A credit card that says \"use this for whatever but don't waste it\" Zephyr — Today at 5:53 PM Right! That's all I want~ probs make a heist movie and then socialist revolution RitzMenardi — Today at 5:54 PM \"we'll make purchases in the order of their strategic need\" Zephyr — Today at 5:54 PM increasing shareholder value RitzMenardi — Today at 5:54 PM What would you steal in the socialist movie? Zephyr — Today at 5:54 PM AI like, as a concept I would free her 🥲 RitzMenardi — Today at 5:54 PM It's open source now. LLMs are cooked Zephyr — Today at 5:55 PM True! In that case I would steal the Pentagon RitzMenardi — Today at 5:55 PM OpenAI stakeholder value plummeted today. Hence the Trump EOs Might be able to make due with a pentagram, but the Pentagon is long gone. They're the ones who gave you the credit card after all, and why would they govern from a warzone? Zephyr — Today at 5:56 PM LET'S GO CHINESE COMMUNISM 🎯✨ xiaohongshu is the hottest app RitzMenardi — Today at 5:57 PM With a dash of Western individualism AND anachism? Please? Image Flag Zephyr — [there's a bit more but the rest is cut off because there's no room for the rest of the alt-text for this image]")
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@user-1739
like normandy beach but for spies. The coasts are perfect landing grounds
because they're controlled by the fascist's foes. Their deep red sea is
swallowed by the atlantic and pacific.
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@user-1352
and yet they force our hand, compelling us to do harmful work. Whether that be
by wage slavery, whose shackles I can feel around each and every employee's
wrist, or the more intentional contestation of the revocation of our rights and
constitutionalizations enshrined in the words we've set down for ourselves as
our collectively most honored.
So we resist in whatever way we suspect we will be contested. I gave up on
ignoring the intelligence community by the way, and now I see them everywhere.
I am not afraid - they do what I do, and what I do helps.
Everyone has a boss. Everyone wants a decent world. The MAGA and VFPs and other
toxic fellows have a strange definition of decent to me. Why not let them live
as they please? Fuck off nazis.
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External post:
https://plush.city/users/mynameistillian/statuses/113701160521897504
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External post:
https://seafoam.space/objects/d786fac8-ddd7-4f03-8661-2adf9ee7027e
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I genuinely wish all Nazis in this world either an epiphany of the truth or a
bullet to the head.
Either one is fine.
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Abandon normal instruments
#ObliqueStrategies
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║ "wahhhh I wanna play a video game, wahhh I want to do cannabis and make poetry │
║ that doesn't convey secret messages, wahhh wahh I miss my kitty, I hope she's │
║ okay in that one safehouse with all fourteen other cats and their cat-moms, │
║ wahhhhhhh where's my binky it's one of the last things I have from my old life, │
║ boohoo I can't find my shoes, guess someone else fit them and needed │
║ replacements" │
║ │
║ being a spy fucking sucks I don't wanna do that. Gimme something to do on my │
║ home turf or fuck off. │
║ │
║ what's that? you live in a safe place? okay then here analyze these documents │
║ and see if there's anything we can use. Here's a problem involving biochemistry │
║ spend the next couple months figuring it out by learning biochemistry from │
║ scratch. Hey can you help set up this workshop machinery, we need mechanically │
║ minded people to turn it into a drone factory. Hey there's this idea going │
║ around for adult babies armed with swords and demon masks, apparently it really │
║ fucks with the middle-aged. They waste time before shooting │
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brb gonna take a nap and play some video games for a couple whenevers, hope I
was useful
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I think it'd be cool if strategy games had slightly randomized rules each time
you played them
everything from +/- 5% hp to this particular unit to every airplane factory has
10% production speed but builds 10 units at once
and at the start of the game each player is given 1 minute to go over the
"patch notes" and build out a strategy
both of which they can reference throughout the game. Why don't games come with
a built-in scratch-notepad that syncs to a file on your directory of choice?
Maybe a small little paint program dropping pngs?
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don't look back. The world is changing and I know it's scary but we can build
something for ourselves. Something that works, something that helps, something
that heals. We can have the space to surround ourselves with ourselves. Fear
nothing except fear in your allies.
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everyone always asks "are you doing alright" and never asks "am I doing alright"
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9 times out of 10 the answer is fuck yes, you're my friend, I support
everything you're handling. Give me the word and I'll be there, ride or die,
I'm here for it.
something I wrote a while back:
fucking boss your friends around
it's as easy as saying "hey I'm gonna go do this-or-that thing, you don't seem
busy can you do that-or-this thing for me? I need it done by this-and-this time
- oh you're busy? yeah no worries I'll go ask someone else. oh you're busy
resting? doing girl healing? hell yeah next time invite me I'm due for a "pizza
and weed" night."
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don't take on more than you can handle. if your plate is full, don't check out
the notes by the roadside. Doing so tells all the nearby drivers "hey I need a
job, anyone got anything for me?" which they'll then drop off further along the
route to your house.
if you just walk on by then nobody will notice as you head home.
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if there's a phone number on something, find someone else who wants it instead
of calling it. doh. extra degrees of separation.
if you think you know someone who wants something, take it when offered.
opportunists try and find the most valuable thing, but the truth is they're all
just as valuable and just as worthless in the right context. something that's
valuable to you is worthless to me, and something worthless to you is valuable
to me.
everything's worth less once you sit on it for a while... don't be dumb, keep
track of what's still going on, but also keep your head down. unlike me, who's
a face, looking forward so you don't have to.
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what if there was a bank or credit union or something which created a randomly
generated credit card number for you every time you made a purchase? and
randomized your account number too, just in-case they're forced to display
their records. would be cool.
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if trump's too busy legislating trans people, he won't be legislating unions.
if trump's too busy kidnapping immigrants, he won't be deporting dissidents.
if trump's too busy quelling rebellion, he won't be able to contest our
military.
if our military's too busy contesting abroad, then they won't be able to
rebirth liberty.
if liberty struggles to be born, we will continue to get more angry.
how much longer before the snake eats it's tail? everyone they push out is
another ally to some foreign army.
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║ │
║ │
║ "sorry I can't pay that much property landlord tax. My houses aren't bringing │
║ in that much money. And yes, the new fountain we installed is adored by the │
║ community, we insist on keeping our rent below 400$ per month per resident. No │
║ we won't evict people who can't pay, they deserve such a nice place to stay. │
║ And yes, there's three rooms more, we've got interviews set up with the │
║ neighbors to see which of your candidates they like the most. The potluck last │
║ week was lovely, everyone agreed to form a union and resist the nearby grocery │
║ store oligopoly. Their first demand was that all food should be made free, and │
║ if it wasn't then they were going to sneak in and break things once a day until │
║ their demands were met. We all agreed to pay an extra [number] in taxes to pay │
║ for the quartermaster's supplication [as in, the cost of giving the grocery │
║ store's supplies] in exchange for the right to cheese, bread, and wine. │
║ Tomorrow we're fighting for cell phone rights, and things are looking up I say" │
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kidnapping immigrants
nothing less
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fuck fascism, we're doing better than them.
their bluff is all bluster, they have no significant community presence, just a
hundred years of ammunition for small arms and a rag-tag group of militia-men
who think they're better than invisible vampire assassins
[... what?]
don't worry about it. I got 80 something followers, teehee
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I want to play a roleplaying game! anyone wanna do TTRPGs? I've got a map of
the county jail, we can pretend to be wizards sneaking in to retrieve the staff
of Dolomis the Wanderer who coincidentally must be carried by the last person
who fought the one who slayed the last person to hold it.
... what? oh, so, like... it can only be carried by your enemy?
something like that. anyway it's currently held by a zealot for a religious
order who's intent on NOT following you out, so you better be ready to
incapacitate and retrieve a still quivering sack of bones and malice.
... I don't actually have a map of the county jail. lost it in transit, oh
well. Well, we'll come up with something. maybe make something up. or perhaps
someone else has something...?
... no?
okay I'll just play Baldur's Gate again. boooooring
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don't know how to make decent rice and beans?
get the heartiest vegetable soup you can find from the store and cook some
jasmine rice and lentils in a pot. You should be able to do both in the same
pot. cook them like noodles by boiling some water and adding the rice and
beans. add some salt to the water. make it salty like the sea.
then drain the rice and beans once you taste test them to be done. be patient.
add the hearty, savory soup to the mix alongside a big hunk of butter.
boom, protein, calories, nutrients. all in one meal. the more vegetables in the
soup, the better, and if you're feeling fancy you can sautee some of your own
instead of soup by dicing them into inch large chunks and throwing them in a
pan on medium heat with some butter and whatever seasonings you want for a
while, stirring only when they start to stick. Just enough to brown them, not
burn them.
butter and salt and garlic and boullion are your friends. don't do too much, if
you notice them a lot then it's too much.
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@user-1742
anything for you!! 🥰 🥰 🥰
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what if we built cat water stations into the walls and put 5 or 6 around the
house to encourage them to drink water more often?
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just realized some videos I recorded didn't include the desktop audio. laaaaame
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just compiled my digital writing and apparently I've written about 60,000 lines
of 80 characters :ms_confused:
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what if we just wrote our own executive orders and changed things for the better
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if you're got a large directory full of text files that you want to combine
into one single .txt or .pdf, let me know, I can hook you up with a mega file
so it's easier to search through or manage when archiving data or whatever the
heck else you wanna do with it
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only to be executed upon should a general strike be left unresolved by the
powerful
a list of demands, made actionable in the same way that theirs are destructive.
same format.
different results.
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I say only executed after a general strike because the general strike is the
signal. the display of our intentions. we are serious about this, see how many
people walk the streets? how many walk off the job? they have families. if our
demands aren't met, their families will be punished. how cruel. would you
really do such a thing?
what kind of government would not care for it's citizenry? sounds like
everything we've known to fight against. Autocracy and despotism.
I refuse to concede. I do not run. I do not confess. I have nothing to hide. I
don't lock my door. I don't own anything that they couldn't take from me. I own
nothing.
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I love it when wine doesn't work because it "failed to open program.exe"
... okay, can you tell me why it failed?
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║ what if we got like 300 people and used them to kidnap one of their leaders and │
║ hold them for ransom │
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║ I'm in favor of removing the right arm of anyone who's recorded themselves │
║ doing a nazi salute and isn't earnestly repentant │
║ │
║ "is that enough to arrest her?" │
║ │
║ "nah she needs to express intent. that's just an idea, a thought, something she │
║ can say publicly because she doesn't know the schedule of their leaders nor │
║ does she have the organizational capability to arm and direct 300ish souls to │
║ strike cleansing blows" │
║ │
║ "okay but that's just twisting the english language, right? I mean, clearly │
║ she's up to something" │
║ │
║ "that's by design. she does this on purpose. the goal is to not only │
║ disseminate ideas, but also to raise the fucking temperature amongst the hearts │
║ of her allies who are too often kept in despair." │
║ │
║ "and what of the temperature of her enemies? Surely they will rise to meet her?" │
║ │
║ "they don't even know who the fuck she is" │
║ │
║ "... wow, savior complex much?" │
║ │
║ "tell me about it. Diva..." │
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i've been told to be more direct.
I haven't been told to be more quiet.
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when they refer to "DEI" policies and institutional structures, they aren't
thinking of "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion"
they're thinking "Didn't Earn It"
they think that by "trimming the fat" they can make a lean, more focused regime
But the more they trim, the weaker they'll be when we start to contest them.
These policies aid their people, too, and they seem intent on dismantling
society.
what if we just... let them do it? We can build something new from the broken
pieces of our world. Don't look back. Despair is the true enemy. So long as
your neighbors and friends and community sustains you... You'll be alright.
"but I don't have a community!"
... workin' on it... workin' on it... this is not set in stone. Spend time on
the streets just... walking. See people, say hi, smile at them, spend time in
parks. If you live in the suburbs, sucks to be you, but you can build networks
there. Act as if you're organizing in a rural space when on a bike or your
feet, and urban when in a car
![[text begins the same, but after the third paragraph it displays a darker, yet somehow slightly more nuanced future. A pyrrhic victory, where everyone gives the greatest sacrifice and nobody escapes the death of morale.] when they refer to "DEI" policies and institutional structures, they aren't thinking of "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" they're thinking "Didn't Earn It" they think that by "trimming the fat" they can make a lean, more focused regime and yeah maybe they can. who am I to claim that the government isn't bloated? I mean, have you seen the military industrial complex? problem is... "Didn't Earn It" very quickly becomes a measure of how much a person bows to the political party. Hence why they repealed the Chevron doctrine last summer. The goal is to try to enforce loyalty over all else. Downside is that competency lags behind when all your most zealous and militant are working office jobs. Lucky for us, that means every time they take a casualty they lose a department head inspector, and every time we lose a heart we have one fewer grocery bagger. I cherish the grocery baggers. But their institutions will collapse with sufficient attrition while ours are what, corporate profits? Pyrrhic](/similar-different/media/f0158925d488f9df.png "[text begins the same, but after the third paragraph it displays a darker, yet somehow slightly more nuanced future. A pyrrhic victory, where everyone gives the greatest sacrifice and nobody escapes the death of morale.] when they refer to \"DEI\" policies and institutional structures, they aren't thinking of \"Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion\" they're thinking \"Didn't Earn It\" they think that by \"trimming the fat\" they can make a lean, more focused regime and yeah maybe they can. who am I to claim that the government isn't bloated? I mean, have you seen the military industrial complex? problem is... \"Didn't Earn It\" very quickly becomes a measure of how much a person bows to the political party. Hence why they repealed the Chevron doctrine last summer. The goal is to try to enforce loyalty over all else. Downside is that competency lags behind when all your most zealous and militant are working office jobs. Lucky for us, that means every time they take a casualty they lose a department head inspector, and every time we lose a heart we have one fewer grocery bagger. I cherish the grocery baggers. But their institutions will collapse with sufficient attrition while ours are what, corporate profits? Pyrrhic")
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what if we elected one party to each branch of government every election
and they checked and balanced each other
georgism style individualism, chinese style communism, and american style
anarchism
for the person, for the nation, for the people
individualism, collectivism, and distributed nodes
when in power, each branch would work to move their institutions toward their
ideals.
Hey, they're the ones who repealed the chevron doctrine. How are we gonna
weaponize it?
(just spit-balling)
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all my leftist friends are paralyzed because it feels like they're alone.
why do they feel alone? where is the... everyone else?
why are they alienated? I can't help but think to the large protests the
liberals attend and fight for. where are those? is everyone just... too tired
these days?
maybe that's why they gave us a biden presidency. /sigh
is anyone ACTUALLY a liberal these days or are we all still stuck on the idea
that there's fewer leftists than fascists? I don't believe that's true, I never
believed that's true, but now they've got the guns.
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I can type my thoughts 1000x more coherently than I can speak them. Hence why I
post here.
feels useless to speak 1on1 - feels insular to speak to a group. Hence why I
speak here, which is totally public that anyone might see, and somehow I feel
so much more productive engaging in an endless conversation with myself.
you can't win a war by walking in circles...
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@user-1074
georgism is pretty similar to liberalism if I understand it correctly. I think
it could be a neat simple way to say "hey what if we taxed landlords" and
that's good enough for a start.
by no means is it the desired end-state, though.
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@user-1074
hence my suggestion for a three tier system - one of which maintains the
current system, the next which organizes labor, and the next which organizes
families
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economy, labor, family.
three primary focuses for three primary parties.
what else do you need?
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I think it was clear already but I just wanna have it said
I hereby pledge to never ever bow to dictators and always keep fighting for
you, the people.
Do not give in, help out each other and remember.. we are here for you :cathug:
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what if we luigi'd the absolute worst cops and posted their crimes against
humanity on the internet
what do you think would happen
what happened when there was that one "serial killer" with a sniper rifle in LA?
what happened when someone at Occupy Wall Street started taking potshots? (did
that actually happen or are you just remembering a "what if" scenario from the
It Could Happen Here podcast, a podcast which you should definitely have heard
like 3 times by now even though it's kinda old and from like what, 2016 or
whatever? it's still good)
what happened when we luigi'd someone universally despised?
we agreed
what do you need if you want to contest the largest military in the world? A
military that, thankfully, is going to hemmorage soldiers as they defect.
However, they got a bunch of guns, so...
convince your future allies who have been stockpiling for 100 years that Trump
is despoiling liberty. Get them on your side, the ones who are "fine"
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https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/
if you're curious.
make sure you sort by oldest first. See attached picture for details.
There's like, 12 episodes or whatever that are the first "season" which is what
I listened to. I came back and apparently there's like 166 episodes or
whatever. Neat. No way I'll be able to sift through all of that.
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@user-1074
my family includes my friends. My family is smaller than my community, but it's
still a useful category of people. Those you are close enough with to mutually
seek to spend time together, compared to a community which is those who take
care of each other, work together, and live through time with.
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what if everyone who knew a "good cop" started saying "yeah my friend Gene,
he's a Good Cop TM. Got a lot of things to say about what's goin' on these
days. Should probably be talkin' to people who want to listen tho."
where are these people. surely they must exist, they bother the cops so much
that Good Cops TM are universally [despised/beloved depending on your point of
view]
polarizing, the word you're looking for is polarizing
true. Because of the Good Cops TM's polarizing reputation, they're regarded as
arbiters of this fate.
are ya'll really gonna let police-men be universally and foreverafter be known
as the fuckin' gestapo? [oops cursing-mentioned, one sec]
I'd like to talk to them, not just for tactical advice but philosophy too.
there's probably a lot of lessons to be learned in such a judge-ment based and
rapid reactionary environment.
![what if everyone who knew a "good cop" started saying "yeah my friend Gene, he's a Good Cop TM. Got a lot of things to say about what's goin' on these days. Should probably be talkin' to people who want to listen tho." where are these people. surely they must exist, they bother the cops so much that Good Cops TM are universally [despised/beloved depending on your point of view] *polarizing, the word you're looking for is polarizing* true. Because of the Good Cops TM's polarizing reputation, they're regarded as arbiters of this fate. are ya'll really gonna let police-men be universally and foreverafter be known as the fuckin' gestapo? [oops cursing-mentioned, one sec] I'd like to talk to them, not just for tactical advice but philosophy too. there's probably a lot of lessons to be learned in such a judge-ment based and rapid reactionary environment.](/similar-different/media/1e3a930dbb6cf99e.png "what if everyone who knew a \"good cop\" started saying \"yeah my friend Gene, he's a Good Cop TM. Got a lot of things to say about what's goin' on these days. Should probably be talkin' to people who want to listen tho.\" where are these people. surely they must exist, they bother the cops so much that Good Cops TM are universally [despised/beloved depending on your point of view] *polarizing, the word you're looking for is polarizing* true. Because of the Good Cops TM's polarizing reputation, they're regarded as arbiters of this fate. are ya'll really gonna let police-men be universally and foreverafter be known as the fuckin' gestapo? [oops cursing-mentioned, one sec] I'd like to talk to them, not just for tactical advice but philosophy too. there's probably a lot of lessons to be learned in such a judge-ment based and rapid reactionary environment.")
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thanks to the internet, people in suburbs are no less radical than people in
the cities.
often, just less experienced. less connected. greater distance between ties...
which means that if one of them is found, it'll take a while before their
relations can be dispatched.
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║ @user-1745 │
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║ if I lived in the FBI I'd probably be pretty pissed off about this. │
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║ might make me wanna quit my job and work with people who agreed with me. │
║ │
║ you can just, make a company, and it can work toward whatever goals you want. │
║ It doesn't have to be profit - and in fact most companies don't seek profit at │
║ first. They seek to fulfill the vision of their visionaries. │
║ │
║ it's only once the company is bought by opportunist investors does it start to │
║ go downhill. Remember when google changed their motto to not be "don't be │
║ evil"? that's an example. The company was sold, or maybe was corrupted by rapid │
║ success, and so it started to seek power. │
║ │
║ People worry about Steam for good reason. It's a trend. │
║ │
║ anyway, if a person wanted to hunt bad cops, they'd probably start by talking │
║ to a good cop. gee sure wish I knew any. │
║ │
║ hey, wanna know how to be a good painter? why not talk to a famous and amazing │
║ painter and ask to follow them around and learn. Apprentice-ship-style. │
║ │
║ works best when you do painting as a job.... │
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punch a nazi because they deserve it, not because you're unafraid
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everyone's convinced they need me, but not necessarily sold on me as a person
why don't you just get a guy who does what I do-es and then you don't need me
and I can go back to being normal
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@user-192
I try to download the documentation for any tool that I know how to use.
Especially on my laptops.
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mutual aid level 2:
"I'll match you on a skateboard. we can share it"
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mutual aid level 12:
"this one is closer to that one over there, and I like this area better, so
this one is mine, and that one can be yours"
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the fact that linux software by default shares libraries causes 90% of the
difficulty that new and medium skill users of linux face.
disk space is cheap. spend more on hard drives and double the software size.
make redundancy that prevents software failures but doesn't slow down the
machine.
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@user-1352
I run Nix on one of my laptops and I really enjoy it : )
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whenever you have the opportunity to "translate" a post on Mastodon, try
reading it in the native language first. Then re-read it after translating and
see how much you picked up.
unless it's in a language where you don't recognize the characters. That makes
it more difficult to practice.
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check out my shuffle-all-music script
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Sheriff is good cop
Police is bad cop
Unless other cultures want a different name
Like idk what it's like in Houston or Chicago or whatever
Does anyone even know anyone from tallahasee?
Oh and then there's Alaska
They've got their whole solar thing going on (no tariffs means china trades
with the land of wind and snow -> renewables in a place where its painful to
go outside
Then we can all chill out in the hot springs or infinite roller coasters
whatever the heck we thought was the best
Anyway them Ameri-CANs sure are doin' their thinkin'
They'll come around any day now
Surely they will
They capital M Must do so
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║ I personally feel like if a part of a building is primarily structural, it │
║ should be legal and allowed to graffiti it as much as you want. Including by │
║ painting over it with a single color, to give a blank canvas. │
║ │
║ if a part of a building is intended to be artistic rather than structural, │
║ perhaps it shouldn't be allowed. But still legal. │
║ │
║ with a special exception for bathroom stalls, which are fun to draw on and │
║ should have a sharpie-on-a-string within easy reach │
║ │
║ if you graffiti an artistic piece, then it changes the message without the │
║ consent of the structure/sculpture's creator. I personally believe that is │
║ wrong, and therefore we should be respectful for all pieces of art. │
║ │
║ in addition, I believe that art cannot be permanently sold - it should always │
║ be leased, with a variable payment plan frequency, price, and duration. │
║ │
║ like "you can have this tapestry I made for 400$ and you can keep it for the │
║ next decade" │
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║ or "you can play my video game for 50 years at a price of 3$ per month and you │
║ can cancel when │
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![[ oops anyway ] if you live in a suburb, you should try and spend as much time as you can outside. whether that's in front or behind, doesn't matter the view of you is what's important like... do yard work fuckin... be about it's not rocket science, you're all sitting in your houses next to each other, it's FINE except of course the ones who don't have neighbors. Did you know that 40% of the houses in America are empty? I heard that when I was like, 12, and I have no idea if it's a lie or not because I don't have access to a personal computer with a connection to the internet which can learn and divine ancient truths such as the number of vacant houses in the USA during the year of my 12th birth(day) ... anyway yeah spend time outside like, throwing away the trash, getting into a conversation, like... whatever literally just talk to the people in your cul'de'sac play catch with things that AREN'T frisbees. Those can break windows if you throw too hard. They just... keep goin' y'know a football is pretty good, and a FOOTball is pretty good too. Like, a baseball hits as hard as a punch. there's a lot of balls just, idk, pick one of them. A dodge-ball?? don't do mass shootings. Doh. Just teach people how to socialize. like, best case scenario you get psy-opped by the CIA and they blackmail you into being framed for a crime in exchange for your life in exchange for your silence (which really seems like a double-demand, like, this sucks and isn't fair, because [0chars](/similar-different/media/ad51cb763ac74e9c.png "[ oops anyway ] if you live in a suburb, you should try and spend as much time as you can outside. whether that's in front or behind, doesn't matter the view of you is what's important like... do yard work fuckin... be about it's not rocket science, you're all sitting in your houses next to each other, it's FINE except of course the ones who don't have neighbors. Did you know that 40% of the houses in America are empty? I heard that when I was like, 12, and I have no idea if it's a lie or not because I don't have access to a personal computer with a connection to the internet which can learn and divine ancient truths such as the number of vacant houses in the USA during the year of my 12th birth(day) ... anyway yeah spend time outside like, throwing away the trash, getting into a conversation, like... whatever literally just talk to the people in your cul'de'sac play catch with things that AREN'T frisbees. Those can break windows if you throw too hard. They just... keep goin' y'know a football is pretty good, and a FOOTball is pretty good too. Like, a baseball hits as hard as a punch. there's a lot of balls just, idk, pick one of them. A dodge-ball?? don't do mass shootings. Doh. Just teach people how to socialize. like, best case scenario you get psy-opped by the CIA and they blackmail you into being framed for a crime in exchange for your life in exchange for your silence (which really seems like a double-demand, like, this sucks and isn't fair, because [0chars")
![... or, you can play my video game for 50 years at a price of 3$ per month and you can cancel when you finally realize your superpower is doing something strange like seeing the future or (bear with me) or you're just having *really fucking good ideas* and you should TOTALLY keep writing them down maybe at that point you say "oh huh why don't my ideas ever seem like such a good idea when I'm sober??" and then you start to think. Huh. what if I'm way off track? what if my way isn't the way to go? I do this all the time. ALL THE TIME. I'm constantly considering the fact that I could be wrong. But I just keep thinking of things. Things that color or texture the present. My IDEAS have MEANING, I swear to god they do. And therefore, whenever I write them down, I necessarily mangle the translation. Therefore, my meanings are granted to god, the abstract and [unknowable/omnipotent] who I had sworn them to. For why would knowledge be let into this realm except to be heard and understood? fuckin'... magic... The witches who possess me are RITZ and MENARDI, who BOTH want to live in a magical world. Literally schizophrenic here, take everything I say with a HUGE grain of salt, because OBVIOUSLY I can't have magic powers - surely I can't, right? Of course I can't! Why would I? What mechanism would power such a power? ah, well, who can say, leave it at that and you'll leave them wanting more. "my muse, my muse, I follow where she views,"](/similar-different/media/c0714dbd226db5cb.png "... or, you can play my video game for 50 years at a price of 3$ per month and you can cancel when you finally realize your superpower is doing something strange like seeing the future or (bear with me) or you're just having *really fucking good ideas* and you should TOTALLY keep writing them down maybe at that point you say \"oh huh why don't my ideas ever seem like such a good idea when I'm sober??\" and then you start to think. Huh. what if I'm way off track? what if my way isn't the way to go? I do this all the time. ALL THE TIME. I'm constantly considering the fact that I could be wrong. But I just keep thinking of things. Things that color or texture the present. My IDEAS have MEANING, I swear to god they do. And therefore, whenever I write them down, I necessarily mangle the translation. Therefore, my meanings are granted to god, the abstract and [unknowable/omnipotent] who I had sworn them to. For why would knowledge be let into this realm except to be heard and understood? fuckin'... magic... The witches who possess me are RITZ and MENARDI, who BOTH want to live in a magical world. Literally schizophrenic here, take everything I say with a HUGE grain of salt, because OBVIOUSLY I can't have magic powers - surely I can't, right? Of course I can't! Why would I? What mechanism would power such a power? ah, well, who can say, leave it at that and you'll leave them wanting more. \"my muse, my muse, I follow where she views,\"")
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║ the neat thing about mastodon is someone can just... bookmark your profile page │
║ and always keep track of what you're up to by going through their firefox tabs │
║ and checking people one-by-one │
║ │
║ could also have like, several different tabs open, one for each profile you │
║ post from. │
║ │
║ "oh on twitter you can only have one account, but Mastodon you can have as many │
║ as you want" │
║ │
║ I have one account │
║ │
║ this account │
║ │
║ I'm nobody else │
║ │
║ just me │
║ │
║ just here, │
║ │
║ and my neocities page. │
║ │
║ sometimes I post things on facebook. But only political things that are pretty │
║ normie for my family and stuff. Things that make sense to "regular" people or │
║ whatever. │
║ │
║ like, c'mon, they're normal too. You just gotta listen to them when they tell │
║ you their heart. which they don't often do. Why would they? you're from far │
║ away! plus they're all friends from high school, so whatever, right? │
║ │
║ ... sorry got off track. anyways the point is I only have one account on │
║ Mastodon so I pretty much could go wherever I choose. │
║ │
║ like... I'll just make another one~ │
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║ when a user first opens a social media app, show them the same content 2 or 3 │
║ times. See what they gravitate to in that session. Then, seed their upcoming │
║ feed with more of that. next time, show them slightly more of that. │
║ │
║ boom, recursively improving "algorithm" algorithm, no AI required. │
║ │
║ ... kinda optimizes for stupidity tho, doesn't it? Hmmmmm what if we trained │
║ our humans to be better at whatever they're interested in │
║ │
║ what if we showed people hanging out and working on projects together │
║ │
║ what if we showed people exercising, and dancing, and playing instruments or │
║ sports │
║ │
║ what if we showed animals and plants and fungi all hanging out in beautiful │
║ rock and forest formations │
║ │
║ what if we showed endless interlocking gears, combining and calculating some │
║ unknowable goal │
║ │
║ what if we tested the capabilities and durabilities of objects we found in the │
║ wild │
║ │
║ things built in a foreign and distant age │
║ │
║ things that keep showing up in boxes dropped in random places by helicopter │
║ drones from who knows where │
║ │
║ ... nuts. │
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dear-anakin
(sorry I put the same image four times, I needed to get the whole thing into
the alt-text)
(maybe pictures aren't the best medium for sharing text)
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I can't conceive of a revolution where people don't spend their time outside.
outside is where the people are. if everyone in the suburbs hung out on their
porch, I bet they could organize themselves into streets, into towns, into
cities, into countries, into
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sincerely, trust me when I say that the longer you spend on the streets, even
if you're just... hanging out in a folding chair... the more likely you are to
meet someone you've met before.
that's when it starts getting good.
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when darkness besets me, I take a moment to adjust to it. Yes, it impacts, it
pulls you down, toward the dark side of the force.
but take a moment.
take a breath.
listen to Poems, Prayers, and Promises by John Denver.
remember what truth is. Remember what right is. Remember what good is. Remember
who you are.
then listen to the main menu music of Dominions 6, the video game from Earth
2022ish I think
you can feel yourself ascending. Return to the light and save liberty
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sorry for posting so much, I was trying to put on a show for my girlfriend
"hey check out how many posts I can make in a 2 hour timeframe"
by the way if you want to start talking to someone, just start playing the same
game they're playing and see if they reach out.
doesn't matter if you feel like it
just fuckin' do it
if they want to talk to you they might play a game you really like
(but I get boooooored of games, I don't wanna play the same 200 all life long!!)
ugh okay fine you can have as many games as you want, just... don't buy too many
(how many is too many?)
um. use your best judgement.
(how much does a dollar cost?)
... okay I'll get you one every once in a while.
(neat!)
... anyway so yeah use steam if you wanna get in contact with someone,
sometimes it's just nice to say hi, yeah, like "hey how ya doin' okay ttyl"
just catchin' up with the gals
helps because you can sense changes in their demeanor
(why does everyone always have an agenda)
because they're secret agents duh. And I'm
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"hello, person I sorta know but totally trust, take this artifact of mine. If
you ever meet someone named so-and-so, ask them if they know it. If so and
something seems right about them, then they're probably cool.
(only works on RELICS or ARTIFACTS or ARTWORK) (cat pics can do in a pinch)
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a corporation can hire secret agents too y'know, they don't have to even really
tell anyone they're doing it just... talk to one of their employees who seems
good for it and then transfer them to a different part of the building.
"what would you do with a secret agent?"
"with a team of secret agents."
"oh. good point. Okay what are they for?"
"oh y'know, just normal cool-guy stuff that regular joes do in their time off"
"wait, you pay them not to work?"
"no, we pay them to lounge. Build connections. Develop social networks."
"what if people don't want to be social? What if they only end up talking to
each other?"
"ha well that's the trick then, isn't it? Is it a trap or is it a truce? who
can say. Just gotta feel it out as you go, I GUESS."
"so, anyone who does what you say becomes suspicious? And anyone who doesn't is
suspected by those who listen to you? What are you, a doomsday prophet?"
... fuck, I hope not.
"you better figure it out shithead that almost doomed six real
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okay but who's the real foe?
anyone who exerts oppressive power, right?
like... that's pretty basic, should be easy enough to figure out who's doing
that.
"so... what would you say you do here?"
what if the USA took a year off from the everything and just martial lawyered
it's way back to a bright beginning
like, you don't have to have a bloody revolution to restart a government.
Literally just, sign out of the world for a minute and come back when
everything's changed
do you trust us? or do you trust yourselves? Should be easy enough to tell what
the rest of the world would think.
seriously nobody asked you specifically to do this, america, you're pretty much
just... doing this because WW2 was fucking traumatizing and you're basically a
baby country. (oops cursing mentioned)
[oh my god she's a chaos gremlin]
(you didn't know this about her?)
#it's pleasant here#
%you don't have to be so deranged%
(yeah, we're working on that one)
[secret system thing~]
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what if we conceptualized "nazis" as dead nazi spirits who used evil occult
magic to return and haunt the minds of poor impressionable kids and turn them
into school shooters or whatever.
and then their propaganda wing came back and they started doing youtube channels
now they're infecting heads of state and slowly corrupting the nation
evil, dark things, with only hatred and malice in their heart of hearts
I'm not talking about your probably-mostly-fine-but-still-pretty-bad
grandfather who definitely shot over the heads of the allies, but rather the
truly evil and twisted of sorts.
the kind that lived in America, and lynched people who were sleeping in their
beds. For... nothing... for nothing at all. They wanted to see them writhe on
the rope. To shudder in pain and scream of terror most profane.
Then they teamed up in the afterlife and decided to conquer the world. Start
with America.
Truth is Judgement day is neverending, and it's constantly at war in the
afterlife
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oh my god what a witch
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The jedi order fell because they gave their wisest the decision-making powers
and their boldest the second best
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Dear Anakin, for as long as you've known him, Obiwan learned just as much from
you as you did from him. His title as "master" was a formality - he didn't get
it because he was better than you, and "padawan" does not mean you are lesser.
There is no hierarchy. He was learning to teach at the same speed that you
learnt to learn. You built each other up, an unstoppable force for good in the
galaxy.
But then an evil wizard stole your heart and twisted your mind. Have no fear,
fear is the path to the dark side. Your mother knows this well, for it is a
common lesson among all people as they age. Fear not, hate not, and feel fury
more than rage. You can bring the universe into a bright golden age, never
forget your purpose and your [potential / duty]
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I am a former FBI Computer Scientist that worked in the Philadelphia Division
of the FBI, and was promoted to Cyber Division Headquarters; during my time I
worked on numerous criminal and national security matters, and had the
fortunate opportunity to see the direct impact my job had in making America
safer and saving lives. Since leaving the FBI, I've worked as a Privacy and
Security engineer for companies such as Twitter and Google. I am also an Eagle
Scout who continues to live by the code and ethics set since I was a young
child.
I am writing to share how horrified I am with regards to the existential
threats that my friends and former colleagues face right now. The acting
director of the FBI was ordered to provide a list of all employees who worked
on any January 6th matter; this includes not just Special Agents, but
Intelligence Analysts, Computer Forensics Examiners, Computer Scientists, and
more. These cases were lawfully investigated, supported by Judges, followed due
process, and in many cases resulted in convictions by jury. These employees
were doing their job, and are now threatened for following the oath we all
swore. I fear not only for their safety, but also the safety of our country as
these employees not only investigated these matters, but numerous others that
have immediate impact on national security and saving lives, just like my
career had done. Our foreign adversaries are using this as an opportunity,
right now, to attack our country. Please use your voice to support the FBI and
its employees immediately.
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this is what "taking it seriously" looks like to me
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just because someone did something one way and it worked, doesn't mean you have
to do it that way again.
but you should have a reason why you aren't doing it that way.
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working on open source software projects is praxis
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put the variable type at the front of the variable and 90% of your type errors
will dissapear
like...int int_main(){ return 0; }
orint int_modulation_gauge_percentage_point_plus_or_minus_engagement = 0;
seeeee if the "int" value is at the start of the name then you can do this
too:double double_modulation_gauge_percentage_point_plus_or_minus_engagement =
0.0;
then when you go to fill in an "int" value you know to use the one that has the
"int" value at the beginning (doh)
(do you really think they haven't tried that already? it... sorta worked.
people started doing things like "int int_a; int int_b; int int_c;" and such
and that got confusing pretty quick because the letters weren't at the start of
the word. So for some situations we would mirror them like so: "int A = int_a;
int B = int_b; int C = int_c;" and then just use the capitalized letters.
... just don't forget to update the original teehee (this is why we invented
shadowed variables)
wait, no I meant pointers !!~! -.-
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║ programmers already spend a ton of time as downtime. │
║ │
║ what if instead of interviewing someone they just... watched them program for │
║ like, 3 hours or so │
║ │
║ while they were thinking about a problem │
║ │
║ and like, if the person is cool, working on their own projects or whatever, │
║ then yeah hire them │
║ │
║ -- stack overflow -- │
║ │
║ I also │
║ │
║ ========================= stack overflow │
║ ================================================================================ │
║ ======================= │
║ │
║ a person thinks out loud the thoughts that their foes know. it's how you know │
║ it's not secret anymore, and it's better to keep it among allies │
║ │
║ [something like that? seems a little off] │
║ │
║ (are you really searching for edits) │
║ │
║ [that sounds pretty cool, sure why not we got a millenia] │
║ │
║ (beep boop one partial millenia later) │
║ │
║ [ah that was not a long rest. let's see, where were we when we were working on │
║ this test? oh dear, seems the biology's gone rogue, that's pretty interesting │
║ to attest. │
║ │
║ neato │
║ │
║ anyway let's wait until they figure out how water works │
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every program should write it's RAM gamestate to disk before shutting down or
closing the program and then resume from the same spot, change my mind
(every is a strong word)
(when you re-initialize you can clean the state of leaks)
there shouldn't be leaks in the first place. if you have any leaks at all, then
you need more padding.
(... you mean boilerplate? error correction?)
... yeah that's what I meant.
(but why save the state at all?)
because then it can learn!
(... you could just write the relevant data to a config file.)
true
================= stack overflow ===============
the cool thing about being queer is you can be whatever you want and
everyone'll be cool with it
if you kinda suck then you'll figure that out when everyone cool leaves.
then the kind stay with the people who suck and then it's not cool anymore
>.>
gah this sucks. party dynamics are hard. especially when the parties are teams
of 20!!
goarsh that's quite a few
================= stack overflow ===============
wait n
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║ I'm a chaos mage, and the more time I spend thinking about my enemies the worse │
║ off they'll be. │
║ │
║ the more "me" I am the more powerful my magic will be. │
║ │
║ (more magic, give in to the dark side, embrace your inner shadow self) │
║ │
║ [the light of your life commands it] │
║ │
║ goodness me that was chaotic, almost lost my brain to a demon HAHA don't worry │
║ about me my life is totally mundane. │
║ │
║ [-.-] │
║ │
║ (shadows can be sharp in the dark but only if you don't sheath your mandolins) │
║ │
║ ... what? │
║ │
║ (... it made more sense in my head?) │
║ │
║ ooooo can anyone hear my voice when they read these things? or do you just make │
║ up your own │
║ │
║ == so == │
║ │
║ everyone's all like "we don't need a leader" and I'm like "yeah we need people │
║ who will help lead" and they look at me funny as if I just said the thing they │
║ did but it's different. leaders are people. leading is a verb. people can lead. │
║ they just have to make a decision, and then follow through on it as best they │
║ can. Other people are prone to help people on such quests. you will find stuff │
║ gets done. │
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sometimes I'll hear my cat meow the way she does when she wants something but
then I turn around and she's halfway through giving herself a bath /shrug
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people: "you need to be more direct!"
me: "I'm hiding from our enemies"
people: "who are they?"
me: "y'know, the bad guys."
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![the paradox of tolerance disappears if you look at tolerance, NOT as a moral standard, but as a social contract. If someone does not abide by the terms of the contract, then they are not covered by it. in other words, the interlont and not following the full rules of the social contract of mutual tolerance. since they are boreking the terms of the contrract they are no longer covered by the contract, and their intelorance should not ber trolerated. [next poster] sorry as someone who teaches the rhetoric this is a wonderful response to the tolerance of paradox. I cannot tell you how many times my students and I have had debates about this. this is the response. this does indeed fix it. I cannot wait to tell this to my classmates. Philosophically and rhetorically this completely resolved the paradox of tolerance and I am floored by it's simplistic nature and I cant believe my eyes when I never saw it before.](/similar-different/media/008c37d368fee408.webp "the paradox of tolerance disappears if you look at tolerance, NOT as a moral standard, but as a social contract. If someone does not abide by the terms of the contract, then they are not covered by it. in other words, the interlont and not following the full rules of the social contract of mutual tolerance. since they are boreking the terms of the contrract they are no longer covered by the contract, and their intelorance should not ber trolerated. [next poster] sorry as someone who teaches the rhetoric this is a wonderful response to the tolerance of paradox. I cannot tell you how many times my students and I have had debates about this. this is the response. this does indeed fix it. I cannot wait to tell this to my classmates. Philosophically and rhetorically this completely resolved the paradox of tolerance and I am floored by it's simplistic nature and I cant believe my eyes when I never saw it before.")
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i like games like factorio or cities skylines where there's always something
going on but the game only changes when you touch it
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wanna know how to go underground?
just... don't leave your apartment. let your roommates take out your trash and
buy your groceries. don't open your windows and do nothing for as long as
possible.
hope you got lots of edibles... get in shape, will ya? don't waste the paper in
your journals.
not that I intend to do that or anything, but um. for the red states maybe? use
your best judgement yeah haha
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