Poetry Collection

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 I like locally hosted LLMs because I can use them to summarize my own writing
 enough to put them in a post, or an alt-text box.
 
 I like them for other reasons too and it's hard to find people to geek out
 about them with.

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 Golf courses and national park trails should be one and the same. Picture it -
 you're walking through a forest and you find a branch in the path. A small sign
 with a circle on it represents the ball, and you can ignore it if you'd like.
 Choosing to take the path to the game, you curve around a bit, just out of
 sight of the main path, and there is your little green.
 
 It's roughly 10ft by 10ft, so pretty darn small. Just enough for you to set up
 and look around for your next shot. There'd only be one, or maybe more if space
 permits and the trail was especially branchy. But looking through the foliage
 you'd find a small hole passing through that illuminated your target green like
 a spotlight.
 
 Looking up on a hike you'll typically see the branches of the understory, the
 shimmer of light, and the texture of wood. When standing on a small little
 green, you'd see that, but with a perfectly circular hole that showed exactly
 where you needed to hit the ball to score your point. Well, not exactly
 circular because gravity will pull the ball down, meaning you need to see the
 entire arc. Unless you're at a vantage point or something and can see straight
 down to it.
 
 I believe this would be true justice, where everyone gets what they want.
 Golfers can play their game in bright natural spaces, and hikers can exist
 undisturbed. Golf courses can be used as farmland, to ensure the city gets fed.
 Plus there could be fees for golfers, rather than being paid to a private
 resort owned by a billionaire they'd go to the park rangers.
 
 And golf courses as they currently exist could still exist, they'd just be more
 like parks for the people with days reserved for golfing. Or maybe they'd golf
 over fields of wheat and cabbage, rather than plain old empty grass. I mean,
 the infrastructure is already in place for golf, why not use it for more
 practical purposes too? Better than burning it down to sate our bloodlust
 toward the rich. The goal is to make EVERYONE rich, remember? How can you do
 that when the crabs behind you keep pulling you down?
 
 Much better, I think, to design things such that the benefits of the rich are
 shared equally, while the responsibility of power rests heavy as a sword of
 damocles. That blade is what is missing from our advanced future society, but
 I've got a sword and I'm not afraid to swing it.
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 Children, listen to your elders. They're the ones who made the problems you're
 dealing with, so they're the ones who know how and why those problems came to
 be.
 
 Elders, listen to the children. If your solution would have worked, the problem
 would already have been solved.
 
 People, work together to address issues. A United force can accomplish so much
 more than individuals struggling on their own.
 
 In an authoritarian system, an elder would say to a child "this is how we do
 things because this is right, this is how it should be."
 
 In a libertarian system, an elder would say to a child "this is why we do
 things this way, and here's why this way works best for me."
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 hey a couple months ago there was this really cool visual programming language
 posted here that was like, windows aero themed and it was super cute - does
 anyone know what that was called or have a link to it?
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 @user-1037 
 
 It isn't scratch, it was more like... connecting puyo puyos I think
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 @user-1037 
 
 It had mostly pastel colors I think, well not really pastel, more like that
 mid-2000s aesthetic where everything is glass and colored fluids / palm trees /
 dolphins
 
 I remember there were different colors / shapes for different operations like
 "add" or "while loop" and I think they combined somehow? It was a real
 experimental thing I think, but there was an animation so I'm assuming it was
 functional. I'm trying to remember more about it but I can't, it's so random...
 I don't even know what I'd search for really.
 
 I just had a friend who I think would really like it, and I was thinking of my
 friend and that came to mind...
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 @user-1037 
 
 oooo those are cool, but it didn't have the "puzzlepiece" arrangement. It was
 more... 2 dimensional I think? More like putting marbles on a chinese-checkers
 board. And they had relationships if you moused over them, like...
 semi-transparent arrows connecting them I think? It was different than anything
 I'd ever seen before.
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