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 @user-482 
 
 [secretly installs a keylogger and doesn't tell anyone upstream but still
 pushes it to production]
 
 [or worse, was told to do as such and given tools to fabricate "evidence" to
 the contrary to everyone else on the team]
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 all things are defined in waves
 
 kinda wish all my Reddit data, that stored every comment I've ever made was
 stored
 
 oh wait it was, anyone wanna train an LLM on it? I've got it in a zip file on
 my desktop. Also Discord messages, pictures from the past few years (those from
 my middle school experience of owning a smartphone were sadly [thankfully] lost
 when I dropped my phone in a toilet) AI is just silly yo xD like bruh what, are
 you gonna make me somehow that's more "me" than me? c'mon get real, like
 nothing's actually as you'd feel, so be fine and just "chill" with your
 home-scenes.
 
 It's fine, you're fine, don't worry. I'm here. I've got you, I'm with you,
 let's be fine and together how's that feel? I love you, I cherish you, we've
 got this. It's not so hard, because you've done the worst of it already.
 There's literally no cause for loss of virtue? Don't worry. I'm here for you.
 You're precious to me, and I am capable of protecting you. I hope you know how
 to be loved, because I'm doing it anyway.
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◀═[BOOST] ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐  Has anyone seen an app, or created their own system, for collecting and    organizing contacts for all the businesses, contractors, etc that they     use? Something separate from your device’s default contacts app.                                                                                      Stuff like your barber, doctors, home service people, etc. I want to       catalog all the ones we use but NOT mix them in with friends and family.  └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘                                                         similar                                                          different─▶

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 If evil is concentrated in 0.1% of the population, even though that's only
 7,000,000,000 * 0.001 == 7 million (is my math right?) people actually hang on
 that's a lot, if they're dispersed. Hence why evil relies on the capacity for
 good to do what it wills. All we have to do is decide *NOT* to do what
 they want, and then we're fine.
 
 downside then is, of course, how do you eat? how do you survive? the world has
 been designed in such a way that food doesn't just grow on trees. The light of
 the stars burns when you're trying to sleep and it's raining.
 
 damn. Would that we had more perfect conditions.
 
 Heh, just kidding. Humanity is nothing if not termeritous [high in temerity] -
 I'm positive we're more capable than we'd wager. Hence, talk of "great
 exhultation" and "wildest optimizations" or "brightest of futures" and "honest
 conducers" - okay I made that one up but it's a representation of what I'd like
 to express. GOSH art is hard. Would anyone like to read a 20 page book I wrote
 when I was most in tune with
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjKy0IpWHJU
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 On Reddit there's this idea that 9/10 users will never comment, and 9/10
 commenters will never post. Hence, the distribution of content is generally
 aligned to this ratio of sorts.
 
 I wonder what the proportion is on the fediverse? If it's the same, perhaps
 it's due to our human nature. If it's different, perhaps it's due to the design
 of the software. Or maybe, just maybe, content is better where the people who
 create it are given the power to co-host.
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 [x-post]
 
 https://t.co/3ZkFb3gs0f
 
 original post:
 
 https://indieweb.social/@user-483/111712965927534339
 
 that's how you'd do it on Reddit, at least. With the "original post" part in a
 comment. It sorta disconnects the line of connection, but still the data is
 allowed to flow forth. So anyone who views it from a certain perspective (like
 that of those who own the server it is transmitted upon) could see the
 connections formed, and thus create a map of individuals who have interacted
 with certain content on the internet.
 
 anyway I'm mostly just doing it so I can talk about my random shit without
 profaning a most serious and compassionate topic. Who am I? Just a witch. And a
 bunch of others I guess.
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 [says they're going to go to bed]
 
 [refuses to do so because power has gone to their head]
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 would be nice if the Fediverse wouldn't let you post something on Mastodon
 unless you filled out a content warning for it.
 
 sorta like a post title on Reddit, allowing people to say "nah I don't feel
 like reading something from X perspective right now"
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 @user-78 
 
 I read about half of this:
 
 https://jo.wtf/6d.html
 
 before I was consumed by the intense urge to prop myself up on a pillow and
 listen to you rant at the ceiling at 4am about gravity or the cosmos or
 whatever you were thinking about prior to speaking your heart
 
 and then I'd write it down, and cherish every moment of it as I shared it with
 my peers and we tried to analyze just what you meant
 
 [sorry for being gay on your timeline]
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 ...zzzZZZzzz...
 
 in old MMOs like City of Heroes or Runescape you could do different emotes and
 they'd often have text messages that'd play whenever they were applied. Like
 /sleep causing your character to say "...zzzZZZzzz..." it was kinda cute.
 Anyway what I meant by that is I'm eepy sleepy goodnight my fellow americans
 (or whatever)
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 @user-488 @user-489 
 
 The ones that charged in tend to have a higher mortality rate. Over time, this
 leads to a decline in bravery and an increase in PTSD. At least, that's my
 theory.
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 @user-494 @user-495 
 
 All phones are made out of rock. Plus oil and glass and... actually that pretty
 much covers it.
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 @user-500 @user-501 
 
 Maybe a button on the side that's recessed or difficult to access would rotate
 the screen? Like, just shy of something you need a pin to press. Or it could be
 a setting in the system settings to rotate it for accessibility purposes.
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 @user-504 
 
 You can only visit so many places in life. Don't feel bad about missing a few,
 the world is large and we as people tend to be quite good at cooking.
 
 However in regards to your main point, I think it's immoral for a restaurant to
 be forced to close the way you describe. If it means something to people, it
 shouldn't be destroyed simply for the sake of making something new. If people
 don't care about it, or if there's something better to replace it with, sure,
 but replacing a 40 year old restaurant with a Chipotle feels wrong.
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 @user-495 @user-494 
 
 OH YEAH how neat! All phones are made out of rock and the bones of ancient
 plants and animals.
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 @user-507 
 
 meow
 
 now there's just a few more
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 @user-509
 
 Layoffs are a great opportunity for a bunch of people who worked with the same
 tech stack to sit down and think "What could we make together?"
 
 Sure would be nice if there was a group or organization that pre-emptively
 reached out to them and said "hey, we're holding a meeting in relation to the
 layoffs they did to you. Would you like to attend? If so, think of some cool or
 unique parts of your job, and we'll break into groups and discuss things we
 could do with those cool or unique things."
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 Sauteed vegetables, my beloved
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 @user-107 
 
 related, here's my idea for a solution / form of resistance:
 
 https://tech.lgbt/@user-479/111740055039021736
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 @user-514 @user-515 
 
 when humanity is fully grown, we won't need all the resources on earth.
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 if you save one of the biggest kind of can that you regularly use, you can put
 the lids of other cans in it. Just, layer them, one by one, until the can is
 full. Then you can bend the edges to "seal" it shut, and tada! Now you have a
 solid hunk of piece of metal that can be saved and melted down if you ever need
 it.
 
 Saving cans is inefficient for space, but the lids can do if you just want a
 little bit on hand.
 
 It's not like it goes bad, and what's one can's worth of storage space in your
 pantry? Depends on the size of your pantry I guess.
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 The tech industry is uniquely qualified as 
 
 one of the most important components of the modern industrial complex
 
 which requires highly skilled labor to undertake and utilize
 
 which is affected by the dynamic where:education, especially liberal arts
 education, tends to produce humans who can see through the lies of authority
 
 yet which is disadvantaged because:tech workers are paid salaries that are just
 bonkers in relation to their output ("yeah it'll be done compiling once this
 game of League of Legends finishes") (which isn't exactly unfair because
 programming is taxing on the brain)
 
 however, the game industry has shown that passion is a suitable exchange in
 return for monetary compensation, and thereforepeople who make games tend to be
 more leftist, as they are put in situations that higher paid employees are
 likely to be able to ignore due to their higher social class
 
 which kinda makes sense, because the most progress towards unionization is
 happening in the games industry.
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 @user-518                                                                        │
 People who strive for the truth and most efficient, sensible, and optimized      │
 method of operation should be the kinds of people making decisions.              │
 It doesn't necessarily imply they're moral or ethical people, but it does mean   │
 that they'd likely make better decisions when presented with similar             │
 information, as compared to someone who acted based on what they were told.      │
 Besides, sometimes you need foot soldiers and grunts. People who don't have the  │
 inclination towards the types of thoughts you have. That's okay, stuff needs to  │
 get done and when someone knowledgeable is in charge they can direct others who  │
 don't know/care.                                                                 │
 Of course, this only works if the people who ask questions are given power. If   │
 the people who strive for honesty and clarity in their methods of operation are  │
 given the tools and capabilities to undertake tasks that align toward a common   │
 goal, shared by all those in the organization. Unfortunately, when that goal is  │
 profit for the owners of the company... Well, you probably know.                 │
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 That feeling when you do a thing a friend showed you how to do, and you think
 of them 🥰​🥰​🥰​
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 That feeling when the dream starts in your bedroom, as you sleep, and can't
 move because of sleep paralysis. Scary things are often just kind things viewed
 backwards. From the outside in.
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 one of the low level skills that tends to come naturally to witches is the
 ability to make nutritious gruel taste amazing and have an interesting texture.
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 @user-521                                                                        │
 Reminds me of something I wrote last Tuesday.                                    │
 All things are defined in waves, and if darkness is all around you then light    │
 is sure to find you. Perseverance and fortitude is what avails you, when you've  │
 found yourself in the house of a witch. Or a pleasuredome. Or hell. Or any       │
 other place where positives (peak of the wave) lures you to negatives            │
 (damnation, discorporation, sublimination, de-saturation, dessication, etc)      │
 You'll know it when you see it. I'm not talking about joy like you'd find from   │
 picking a beautiful flower or sharing a gift with another. This is the           │
 seductive kind, the kind that cuts straight to your soul. Be constant, be        │
 aware, know your surroundings, and trust that your heart is what delivers you.   │
 "with mind as my guide I let will lead my stride and step forth out in-to my     │
 own future"                                                                      │
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[not enough characters for the entire text of what follows, so I've attached two pictures, each the same visually but with different descriptions, to enable me to work-around the text limit that Mastodon imposes on picture descriptions. Here is the 1st text...]:  Hello, I am a witch.  There's more than one kind of witch, but I promise that I'm the kind you'd like to have around.  There's another kind, however, that is unlike me in kind but I think you'll find is just as rare, and just as tempestuous.  I like to think I am good aligned, perhaps not "good" as in "capable" but "good" as in "benevolent" and "perhaps" as in "unknowable" and "but" as in "desired" and "desired" as in "what I work toward because it's the right thing to do" and "work toward" as in "realized according to the effects of my actions not just by my intentions"  The other kind of witch is the kind that hurts people.  There are many reasons why you might find yourself in the house of such a witch, but all of them are caused by your desire. Take care in the house of a witch such as this, and stay no longer than your time allows.  If you find what you're looking for, get out.  If you're almost out of time, get out.  If you lost something, find it, and then get out.  If you run out of time, and things start to "smear", yell out loud your social security number. If someone's trying to save you, it'll help them know where to put you when you are returned to your body.  [not enough characters, check other picture]  I'm sorry to say, but if things start to smear then life will get a little bit strange. Just a little. Much better to get out beforehand.  If you find yourself tempted while inside a witch's house, abandon what you lost because regaining it comes with a cost.  If you lose sight of your friend, then when you see them again you cannot trust that they are who they claim to be, not inside of the witch's house.  If you lose sight of your friend, trust that they will get out by their own hand, and find what you want and go home.  Unless, of course, your heart is pure, and your friend is what you want back in your life again. Then you will trend toward finding them yet again, so find what you want and get out.  They will try to keep you there, through inaction and professed exhilaration, but generally they'll do what you command. So take them and get out.  There are many reasons why you might find yourself on the path to a witch's house, but none of them are to be repeated. It's more of a life event and less of a venture, so take what you want and go forth.  If you find yourself in my house, take a cookie or a brownie, and please do come again. The house of a witch such as mine is somewhere you'll probably find that love and affection are fonder.

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