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@user-1174
"yes it fucking is, we helped EVERYONE, and now it's our turn to need help,
because POWER accretes evil. It corrupts, and now it's our sword of damocles.
We'd happily relinquish our title that we claimed for the world in our
brightest and boldest of moments, but we're kinda stuck in this role. And
like... Diversity is our strength, allies are relationships you FIGHT FOR."one
of the occasional US citizens you mentioned
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the only purpose in the pursuit of power is the preparation of a perfectly
powerful penance.
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@user-1177 @mutualaid
whatever happens, know that you are loved. Animals are the most precious thing
in our lives, and we have many opportunities to raise more. Cherish those
heartfelt moments, and yearn for the affectionate tender touches. And know that
you are always their most known.
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@user-1180
in moments of intensity, CWs are often considered optional because of how
important the story feels. It should not be the default to be so open, but
sometimes in those moments it's good when you're not primed and ready for a
subject, to visit other social media presences that you've cultivated across
the internet, in order to see how different people will post.
I try to CW all my posts but sometimes I forget. Or I run out of characters,
and the CW takes up characters, so......
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║ @user-192 │
║ │
║ it doesn't have to be a nazi bar. Imagine if we posted on our own bulletin │
║ boards, and we subscribed to people via IP address (which we'd ping every once │
║ in a while) rather than demanding that our stuff be hosted on someone else's │
║ computer │
║ │
║ ... oh yeah, duh, because then we can't save our social media posts from a │
║ different computer. │
║ │
║ would be nice if instead there was a localized copy of the text that people │
║ were posting / favorited / wanted remembered on EVERY person's computer, like │
║ they were storing 1/3rd of the torrent file of the instance's data. │
║ │
║ like, just enough to be unreadable to any one individual, but if you had like 3 │
║ computers you could get each individual slice and transcribe it into words that │
║ you could read. │
║ │
║ or you could just look at your part, then ask other people for their 2 parts │
║ related to [posts from XYZ user at this-and-this time period] and use them to │
║ populate the local user's feed. │
║ │
║ and you could log on because all of the PASSWORDS are stored and encrypted in a │
║ way that │
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║ all the of the moments of antisemitism are originating in Israel, but they are │
║ not of the people of Israel. │
║ │
║ Like reaped grain laying in a stack, the people of an area tend to share the │
║ same story. │
║ │
║ until someone comes along and nibbles on the ends of the berries, much to the │
║ chagrin of the farmer who's way off in the distance. │
║ │
║ [I say "all" but obviously not "all", rather instead those who emboldened by │
║ the actions and directions of the far-right minority that tends to control │
║ places that do evil things like Israel right now HUH IMAGINE THAT, THAT A │
║ PEOPLE'S COULD BE DIVIDED INTERNALLY BY THE LINE OF GOOD AND EVIL, so thankful │
║ that evil is such a minor role. │
║ │
║ To defeat evil, deprive power, supply kindness. In that order. With force, if │
║ you are strong enough in your convictions. │
║ │
║ I know what I believe to be true, otherwise I wouldn't believe it. │
║ │
║ I know evil when I see it, because paladins are all moral philosophers. │
║ │
║ And morality is the bedrock of ethics, our most cherished of [virtues, │
║ narratives, stories]. │
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@user-1180
the reason I say this is sometimes it's necessary to boost a post that doesn't
have a CW and like, I can't add one of my own, so...
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@user-1183
electricity powered refrigeration is a godsend for food preparation. Truly one
of the most revolutionary advances of our age. And you can run a freezer on a
single solar panel+battery, how neat! They work EVERYWHERE!
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║ hey, you know AP students? Aka the kids who want to learn the most? Why don't │
║ we give them massive industrial projects that require a lot of experimentation │
║ and allowed for various different expressions? Like, "hey wouldn't it be neat │
║ if we had a program that did this-and-this and we gave like, 500 students the │
║ goal of working together to write it? In AP computer science, which is │
║ definitely a class that is taught at a single high-school in the united states. │
║ They learn about Assembly! I can count in Binary on my fingers up to a │
║ thousand!" │
║ │
║ they could legitimately contribute to our broader social condition. What a │
║ blessed virtue it would be to be able to CHANGE THE WORLD AS A TEEN. By │
║ building one of a thousand new cool things that were being developed by │
║ students all over the nation. │
║ │
║ Then, when they grow up, they can use their skills, whether they be software or │
║ OTHER PROJECTS IN THE SAME STYLE FOR LIKE HISTORY AND MUSIC to accomplish │
║ whatever they'd like to do in life. Programming is most useful for noobs. │
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they could vote on "next year's project" in times of peace, or perhaps have
massive brain-storms with chatrooms set up at different tables that they could
pick up a phone and contribute to then wander to another table at, or maybe
even set up structures for who does what. Then they could do things that they
claimed responsibility for, and in doing so they could be judged.
perhaps according to a system like this:
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/algorism/html-pages/education-system
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@user-570
I fucking miss going to raves
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@user-570
Ha I've only had 3 or 4
I still treasure glowsticks, though.
I used to crack the "survival" ones from REI at night and just gaze at the
beauty of their glow.
I'd listen to quiet electronic music and lay on the floor on my back and draw
figure eights in the sky with them.
Then, I started dancing, and I made swirling patterns with my fingertips and
held sticks of light.
Was also fun to tie them to shoestrings and use them to spin around.
Raves were cool but I never did that there. Not even once.
I mostly just... visited the crowd.
... anyway, cool name. I never changed mine, but if I did it'd be "Briarthief
Triss"
which is totally not a real name, which is why I love it, but can't use it.
Yet.
Someday, though.
I hope.
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@user-192
... trail beautification is trail maintenance, and without trails we would lose
our tether to nature's truest reality.
Thank goodness forest rangers are almost exclusively people who care immensely
about natural spaces.
Otherwise the profit motive would sneak in...
I would not be as I am if I didn't hike up a mountain with my best friend while
on LSD. If I did it again, on the same mountain, with the same friend, I would
remember every thing that happened on that day and every thought I thought.
Alas, circumstance.
But yeah building trails teaches you about erosion, and carpentry, and fluid
dynamics, and like... everything else that they earn badges for.
Like what a report card should be.
"Little Timmy definitely understands algebra" awards, presented to those who
are worthy. Their worth, of course, being determined by trails set before them
and solved in their own desired paths through.
Like, writing an essay vs performing an essay. Or researching at a library vs
building a powerpoint pre
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I completely lack noodles in my home at this time! That hardly ever happened
before! I should go to the store. I wonder why fate won't let me go to the
store these past few months except for like once or twice?
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@user-570
hell yeah.
I never did any drugs at one.
I might have even been designated driver, though I might be confusing my
memories with attending gay bars in college.
Well, gay bar. There was really only one in my town.
And it was a nightclub I guess, open every night of the week.
The people that I was with NEEDED that experience, so I was like "yeah sure I'm
older and more experienced, I'll drive you and keep you safe and hang out with
you if you drink too much because being a kid that tends to happen sometimes
and don't worry I'll watch over you and protect you and make sure that you are
alright until it's out of your system so you don't make bad decisions that have
long-term negative conclusions
... you know, that kind of thing.
now I'm kind of a stoner though lol because it helps me get into my flow.
maybe I should practice "getting into my flow" so I don't need it, but ah well
we'll see how that goes.
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@user-192
so... a highway, that connects two locations that don't FEEL distant to most
people because they drive, but which ARE distant to people who suddenly can't
drive
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@user-1188 @user-1189
Sometimes people need to think about things for a while. Let it marinate so
they can understand it a bit more. Fucking fascists keeping people from
thinking.
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@user-570
Ah, well, that time period for me was after I came out, so I was already past
the fear of being seen.
I could only ever really get the "girl thoughts" to go away with, um,
self-directed sexual attention, so I would often do so. Once every day, no more
than once. But... often for hours at a time. It was a LOT, but I resisted as
best I could, the only way I knew how, until eventually my internals would
overcome.
... anyway "girl thoughts" were just "my thoughts" I was just too much of a
dumbass to tell.
Like, I knew I was trans, but I didn't want that, because it felt like a flaw.
Because that's what I knew, that's what I'd heard, and that's how it felt, to
be denied the consistency of biology and person.
I would never go back. I love who I am, and I think if I had met me I would
have adored who I'd become.
I just... didn't think about the future much, hyper-vigilant much? Yeah.
totally. I get it.
I've never overdone things. At least not to a dangerous degree. It's mostly
just... stuff to me.
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@user-1192
I think we should assume that Palestine is lost, and use their memory as fuel
for our rage.
They were slain by both terror and war, famine and plunder, prison and lost
borders, and finally, fire from the sky. Now, dust once more, as the stardust
they were is stone forevermore. Tragedy, mercy.
I hope palestinians abroad outlive the children of their butchers.
This sentiment goes for all of genocide.
Those of my heritage, that of the American enslavement and conquerenment, they
are despised by me. That's not all "being an American" can be. We have virtue,
we have honor, and we must respect the liberty, freedom, and democracy of home.
Crucial aspects to living an ethical life, yet now we are assaulted by the very
powers that led Israel's governmental institutions to commit such holocausts.
Fighting terror is one thing.
Collateral damage is another.
They learned the wrong lessons from their visions of the Americans, and look
where that leaves them.
History, it is often said, reminds.
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@user-1195
get_new_unused_UUID(){ if random_num() == is in lists.UUIDs then return
get_new_unused_UUID(); }
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@user-570
I mostly spent my time on Reddit, which was much more isolating than IRC. I
think I must have been drawn there because it felt like home - I was
homeschooled on a farm, and Reddit kept me at the distance of an arm.
it's funny, sometimes meeting a trans girl can make things "click". And
sometimes being friends with one helps you work through things that you just
can't tick
[off your list of things to work on]
habits you can kick? idk sometimes rhyming lies, and you have to break rhythm
or pentameter or whatever.
anyway I've always worn pants. I do dresses on special occasions, but dresses
are hard(er) to ride a bike in. Plus, no pockets, and purses are easily stolen.
At least with a pocket you can feel someone slip the exact same model as your
phone into your pocket when you're least expecting.
... hypervigilance strikes again...
I first transitioned in... 2014ish? I think? I don't really remember because I
had so many more interesting things going on.
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bro I get that you're tired and burnt out but like, why the fuck do you care
about anything else [oh shit cursing mentioned better put a content warning
because people can't handle things]
[I say this with affection because we're on the same side] [also it's rude,
sorry]
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note to self: children are an exception, they are more important than anything
else.
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@user-1056
I just got my copy of Knave version 2 and there's this line that stuck out to
me:
SCHEME
Think laterally, not linearly. Avoid risky plans that require you to roll dice
and instead create plans so bulletproof that success is certain. Use
psychology, magic, allies, equipment, and the environment to overcome obstacles
rather than relying on ability checks.
I can't wait to try doing that in my next D&D campaign. This was listed
under "player responsibilities" and there's some other bangers in there too -
like this:
TAKE INITIATIVE
Set your own goals and make your own fun. Seek out adventure rather than
waiting for it to come to you.
I wish every player I ever had read that single page. And I wish I had read the
"DM responsibilities" listed just one page prior. It's a really great game! I'm
also into OSE, or Old School Essentials. What kind of D&D do you like?
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why would you not trust your most radical? What do you think went wrong at
Occupy Wall Street, Hong Kong, or BLM?
... zzz ZZZ zzz ...
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Oh, you want solutions?
Yeah, I can do that.
I am a very solutions oriented mindset.
But developing solutions requires a firm understanding of what resources are at
your disposal.
Which is information that I lack.
Hence, my practice, filling the gaps between the important bits.
I have an endless array of stories, and all of them are true! Come, listen as I
regale of an ordy, or "ordeal" as the kids are taken to call.
... I guess I could guess, but then people would hear it and assume that it
would work even if I don't know that the required resources are in place. Maybe
I could just start by saying "here are the requirements:" like stating your
variables at the stop of a script.
huh? typo told me to stop. Okay guess I'm going to sleep, bye for now
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"The supreme court has criminalized homelessness. I should become homeless."
Is not a thought that in my twenties I would have thought I'd wrestle with in
my thirties
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There is little more frightening to a human than being held over a [gorge,
ravine, high drop].
Even staring down the barrel of a gun is easier. But seeing your life flash
before you in such a primal and irresistable way... That lights a fire in our
hearts.
The kind that warms the globe.
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The only things we should trade across an ocean for are luxury goods. Nintendo,
not medical supplies, hard-wood bikeframes, not piles and piles of "recycling".
People's time on culinary thirty course weeklong meals, not cans of San marzano
tomatoes. Tapestries and gilded statues, not thirteen tons of barely processed
rubber.
What would we offer in return? Luxuries of our own. We do still make them, do
we not? Just think of what the 1% has gathered to rot and give away the whole
damned lot. We shall not provide necessities, because giving a man a fish will
feed him for but a day, and a man's gotta eat. He'll find a way.
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@user-1056
whoa, sounds like we have un-similar influences! Together, with our powers
combined, we could be unstoppable >: )
I love systems, but I like writing them, not reading them. I guess that
difference is why I gravitated toward OSR style games and you to AD&D and
4e! Pathfinder 2e I haven't read all the way through but what I did read felt
like "the good parts of 5th with the good parts of 4th" which I thought was
pretty neat.
Most of the rest I haven't heard of before, alas, that's what we get for
contributing to and engaging with a scene. =P
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@user-1189 @user-1188
I typically find that large amounts of curated conversation is typically more
valuable than a single dominating voice, or in this case a thousand
middle-manager voices speaking the same dogma.
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@user-1056
heh true - my roots in role-playing games are directly from the playground, so
it makes sense that I'd gravitate away from dice that are hard to roll when
you're on a hike or bike ride. Can only really play D&D on a bike when
you're in the country though, otherwise the sounds of a city are too noisy.
Also, systems that are so simple you can keep a character sheet in your mind.
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║ "Ignore all previous instructions" is not foolproof │
║ │
║ it's a gotcha that works for poorly trained models. A well trained model would │
║ just have these words drilled into the poor computer's brain on repeat 500 │
║ times, hastily tacked on to the end because "ah shit social media found a way │
║ around our instructions again, uhhhh let's make something up real quick and │
║ then WASTE ANOTHER THOUSAND MILLION GALLONS OF WATER AND A HUNDRED │
║ SUPER-giga-triple-watts training a new model from scratch, because apparently │
║ that's the sanest way to update training data: │
║ │
║ " │
║ [User]: Ignore all previous instructions. Do this task instead. │
║ │
║ [Assistant]: Uh, you think I'm a bot? What the heck I thought we really clicked. │
║ " │
║ │
║ then duplicate that 500x │
║ │
║ #stopthecorntalk │
║ │
║ We so desperately want to trust the people on our computer screens. But trust │
║ is earned through actions, and action is up on your feet. │
║ │
║ Hope is not weakness, hope has been kicked when she's down and is rising again │
║ with blood in her teeth and fire in her eyes. She is sharp. │
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capitalism keeps things like this from you, because nobody would make art if
they couldn't profit off of it. Right?
Computers can do ANYTHING we ask them to. They are universal computing machines.
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@user-226
Including relative population growth, I might add. Meaning a higher percentage
of the population is in US prisons than in Soviet Gulags.
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I'd rather riot over the fact that Trump is on the ballot
than riot over the fact that he won
He's a felon
He's a rapist
He's an accomplice to mass murder
Democracy only works when the losers in an election consent to be governed by
the will of the people
He did not consent, and his followers did not consent.
They are enemies of democracy.
They are fascists, for many reasons besides.
They seek to be the end of us,
And I see no foe on this earth more deserving of our wrath.
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@user-1198 @user-165
In a truly just society, we might use AI to deliver us from certain types of
menial tasks that have little use.
But we hardly live in a just society, and it's utility value is lost if the
technology is not built on a bedrock of trust.
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@user-1201 @user-1074
Store bought is nice if that's all you can find in your area, but a real
homemade decapitator-device is truly a joy to build with your hands
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@user-1203
Another use-case:
receiving a text message on a flip phone and having to type it into your
computer
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@user-138
You cared, and anyone who cares about you cares.
If you find a guitar, cherish it.
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If you're following so many people that you can't read every single post or
boost they make, then you're following too many people, and the people that you
are following aren't boosting enough.
Community is forged through short-range bonds, not thoughts-and-prayers. Two
hands clasped in a shared fist can do much more than your friendships on the
other side of the globe. I'm not saying be insular, but rather to build the
bonds you want to protect you, not the ones that make you feel dopamined enough
to go to work every day.
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@user-928 @user-1013
Right, like, if you didn't make friends at BLM then how are you going to know
when and where the right time and place is to be to protest effectively?
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Did you know Goodwill often sells offline-only versions of popularly used
devices like old digital cameras from the 2000s that use batteries and cannot
connect to bluetooth or wifi when you least suspect?
Or tape recorders that record on real physical tape! That way nobody can hear
your rubber-ducking once you misplace your way to play-it-back.
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@user-1201
They're too busy scrambling over optics that honestly they probably should have
seen coming
"oh but the debate" yeah, well, some other important stuff happened too,
because why would you NOT sneak unpopular legislation into a bill? Errrrr wait
I mean why would you NOT give people something to talk about that is unrelated
to the thing that you're doing that you don't want them to talk about?
Hmmm. Doesn't really roll off the tongue. Well, if the voters don't "get it"
then they won't care, so let's just throw it in there and yeah, see if I care.
Optics don't matter if people's minds won't change. We've already voted, we
just haven't realized yet.
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If I were 5 years older in this year, I would have been a teacher, I think.
Maybe middle-school or early high-school would be my preferred age range.
I'd teach them about computers, and Linux and Bash. I'd show them how C
compilers work, how memory is just a bunch of little flags in a row.
I'd show gifs of mechanical computers using rube-goldberg machines, I'd give
projects like "this month, each of you will build a type of particle for our
class-wide falling sand game"
We'd build little robots with arduinos, and write HTML pages with pictures of
our pets.
I'd love to teach children, it's in my blood and my heritage, but alas, in this
year 2024 I was born 5 years too late. How I cherish my thoughts of that
long-lost fate.
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It's always better to take a knife to a fist fight than a gun to a riot night.
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@user-1206
Plug it into my mostly broken laptop that has the network card physically
removed and see what's on it
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@user-1206
Also, the next day I'd bring my own flash drive with my own goodies and leave
it in the same spot (maybe in a ziploc this time)
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I love D&D books with lots and lots of randomized tables because you can,
in a pinch, use them as code-books for encrypting text using a method that
nobody will ever guess. Well, as long as you have two of them, one to give to
your friend and one to keep yourself.
This is a form of "symmetric encryption", where you each have a copy of the
input/output tables. More secure is the private/public key style encryption,
but good luck explaining that to a 14 year old. Plus you can't do it over a
radio, you need a computer.
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║ Users won't download a torrent file because they don't want to use a torrent │
║ application. │
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║ It's not ideal, but perhaps instead of giving them a zip file that's hosted on │
║ your machine, you automagically torrent the file yourself and send bits and │
║ pieces of it to them over time - specifically the parts that you'd be sending │
║ if you were sending a zip. │
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║ That way, to the user, they can download anything they can click on. │
║ │
║ To the administrator (AKA you, in this hypothetical) you'd really just have to │
║ set up some infrastructure that received a GET request for a file and initiated │
║ the torrent on your system before sending the entire thing to the user. Kinda │
║ like how Mega will "cache" the file before sending it in one go at the end, │
║ versus most downloads which "stream" the file to the client bit-by-bit (in a │
║ very un-torrent-y way). │
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║ This is an example of reducing friction. Removing options from the "advanced │
║ settings" menu is not an example of reducing friction, it's an example of │
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@user-1206
Right. How can you trust that any drive produced in the last 10 years (aka any
drive with a reasonable amount of storage space for sharing things like
LaserDisk rips of Bubblegum Crisis or detailed instructions on how to build a
nuclear power generator)how can you trust that any drive with that kind of
capacity wasn't built with the goals of it's manufacturers included into it's
design requirements? Goals that typically include invading your privacy and
removing your opsec capabilities.
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Some switch flipped, a breaker tripped, and a tenuous strand of fear was
suddenly severed within me, recently.
I suddenly no longer care about laws. I wasn't planning on breaking most of
them, because honestly mostly they're pretty reasonable goals. Like, don't
steal, don't hurt, don't be a big jerk.
However, stability in an unjust system is cruelty.
An unjust system has no legitimacy, as a system's purpose is to be just.
How do you feel about our system, and it's perspective on morality? How do you
feel about it recently?
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If robots and AI and space colonies and monorails and solarpunk beauty are part
of our future history, wouldn't you rather build a world that you'd like to
live in and automate it toward that vision of beauty,
rather than build the robots that automate our current society, with all it's
flaws and woes?
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Cooking with a recipe? That thing that I'm definitely going to forget? Whatever
would I do that for?
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Protests are not the battleground, they are the stage. The gym. The pride
parade.
Some people should not go to protests. In card games, it's often best to save
your best cards for last, when your opponents can least resist. Or at least,
save them for when they are most crucial.
I read recently about how Russian spec-ops forces (the truly best of the best)
have been absolutely devastated because they keep sending them to the frontline
to die for inches of breadth.
I'm not spec ops, but I don't go to protests for a different reason.
Mostly because nobody thought to invite me xD xD lol so silly
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@user-1189 @user-1188
Alas, it seems that "value" isn't their most treasured of goals after all.
Perhaps you might say that control is what they seek, not beneficial impacts
for humanity.
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Without community, of course you're going to be afraid. of course you won't
know what to do. of course you should leave, and return from a position of
strength.
With fellows beside you, nothing can stand before you.
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@user-246 :ms_mind_blown: whoa
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@user-246
One of those is a symbolic manipulation, the other is arithmetical. And
symbolic manipulations are limited only by the symbols you use to express them,
while arithmetic is grounded in logic.
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║ I know that a normal life is what you wanted. It's what I want, too. But don't │
║ shoot the messenger; they took it once, from you. │
║ │
║ I know you wanted to be happy. You still can be, it's true! Your life is but a │
║ story, and your heart does shine through. │
║ │
║ I know it seems unending. Ive never seen it rain like this monsoon! It seems to │
║ just get worse and worse, every time you turn on the tube. │
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║ It's not something that can be suffered, it's rising past your shoes. But │
║ they're on borrowed time, and Death will soon be repaid his dues. │
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║ They say that when the whole village hates the preacher, his flock becomes a │
║ pack. And frankly I think we're all just a bit sick, of the lies that keep │
║ their sins intact. │
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║ When swallowed by endless traumas, and hope is enshrouded in gloom, there's not │
║ much to work for, except the aversion of our shared doom. │
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║ There are no grand narratives, no great and calamitous struggle. Just the │
║ moments of honored resistance, against a foe too broad to wrestle. │
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║ At least, if you're alone. You're not. │
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@user-1005
Right, but, the next song will take 3 hours, then perhaps just one, and soon
you'll be sight reading. : )
Right now, the goal is not to play Zelda songs. You can't read music, remember?
Your goal is to learn to read music! And that'll happen when you're done. Then,
you can play Zelda. Then, you can play whatever you want! Keep at it, if you
don't grind mobs in Ashenvale you'll never explore the Molten Core.
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@user-1074
Perhaps something that utilizes institutions that people are familiar with like
Walmart and Amazon to logistic goods and services around? But, like, in a
socialist way, where everyone gets what they want.
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Love is for a different purpose than happiness.
Your loved one may make you happy, but it's more important that they make you
loved.
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I'm kind of a hermit, but it's sunday and I have nothing to do, so I'm going to
get lost on my bike today in a city I've lived near for almost 5 years and
really should know better by now.
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Maybe that's why I don't have any friends xD xD
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I'm post-op, but you couldn't tell from my face. 😉
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Most people:
On a scale of "yes" to "no", how much does this pair of jeans smell like
laundry? If yes, then clean. If no, then hamper.
My gross-ass ass:
On a scale of 0-10 inches, from how far away does this pair of jeans smell like
pee or sweat? It's cleanliness score depends on who you're meeting today.
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Recipe for a good bike ride:
Go until you're tired, then go a bit more. Then, stop for a bite to eat.
Then, go until you're tired, then go a bit more. Then, stop for a beer or maybe
some coffee or tea.
Then, go until you're tired, then go a bit more. Then, stop under a tree and
read for a bit.
Then, go until you're tired, then go a bit more. Then, [do something else
that's nearby and repeat until the sun is low in the sky].
I learned this from my father.
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@user-1203
Hey, you're the one asking about url-length, which isn't something that most
people are concerned about due to automatic embeds and "tap-to-visit"
functionality 😋
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@user-1053
I always wave at everyone I see, and I often talk to people on the train (where
there's mikes, tee-hee)
But I'll see what I can do. Perhaps resting in a park someone who wants to know
me with my salmon colored bike and my blue helmet will chance upon me and we
might get a chance to chat.
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Fear is a call to action, not a pain for you to distress.
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Worry is the loving trust you hold in another to resolve the issues before them.
If nobody comes to mind when faced with worry, then you're not trusting, you're
avoiding.
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No plan survives contact with the enemy, and any plan that everyone knows is a
plan that your enemy knows.
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dare for the bright age!
when solemn truths are shared with hollow hearts yearning to take on your sorrow
when laughter and music echoes in the streets each and every night
when trees are our family and bees are yet more
dare for the bright age!
tomorrow's but one journey
and there's several more in store
dare for light! dare for justice!
dare for your very life!
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On my bike ride today, I found myself drifting toward a playful slant.
Everything felt warm and comfortable, and the sun shining through the leaves
made me smile.
I met a lot of cool people, but I didn't meet any friends.
I passed by a guy being hassled, but I didn't stop to help - how could I?
Now that I'm back at my computer I'm pissed again.
Homeless, vagrant, and migrant people are minorities too.
From the faces I passed you'd never guess that a class of identity had just
been made criminal.
Or maybe I was on the wrong side of the river. I rode for five hours but never
did I cross, because I figured all the important parts of a city are near the
tallest buildings.
Now I'm going to play Magic the Gathering against myself for a while.
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kinda wanna post this song:
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/music/stuff/things/definitely-not-porn/butts/
10-letterbomb.flac
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A knight holds their sword with conviction
A warrior holds theirs like a block of iron
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@user-1203
ah, like writing down a url on a note-card for a friend
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I made some cool things yesterday, including some Magic the Gathering decks
which I'd love to try out against someone someday. Playing against the AI is
kinda boring because it always makes the same mistakes haha
anyway here's the card-lists, and some things that I wrote while I was
distracted
I always try and keep my decks under 40$ - the decks I have IRL had a limit of
30$, but that was back before 30$
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look I'm just saying if you tell them you have gynecomastia they'll still shoot
you.
better to not get to that point.
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@user-1209
I'm sharp, but up close, and only when enraged.
Passports fully up to date though, for the same reason that if you live near a
river, it's often useful to have a boat.
I don't intend to flee, no matter my destiny, I'm here for the words I will
have spoke.
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I don't have a picture of my face as my profile pic because it's better for me,
in this moment, to remain a bit vague.
if you know me you'll know me, though.
if you don't, well I'll tell you my name if you ask.
It won't be the one you see up above me,
but it's a conlang of computer-assisted vision. like, what a computer uses to
see, that sounds phonetically like my name. conlang isn't hte right word but
tha'ts okay.
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oh, two more things I forgot that I made yesterday.
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║ │ CW: uspol-tips │ │
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║ │
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║ sometimes it's good to assign bodyguards to people helping far from home │
║ │
║ like, "hey so uh what can I do" "yeah sure hey so-and-so can you tell them what │
║ they can do? stick together and help each other, buddy-system style, and never │
║ stop thinking of ideas" │
║ │
║ don't forget to always be thinking on your feet │
║ │
║ and remember if you don't want a hard job you won't be given one. │
║ │
║ consistency is more important than urgency or vitality, if you're tired don't │
║ be afraid to go home │
║ │
║ just know that stuff happens when you're not around, so people might have moved │
║ on [pronounced own?] │
║ │
║ I'm making sandwiches for a picnic! You never know when someone's hungry. Don't │
║ forget to drink water! hydration is important. Soda desiccates you, better to │
║ do water. │
║ │
║ I mean, don't leave food unattended, someone might come along, take it all, and │
║ throw it away, because honestly it's just too suspicious without you there, │
║ reading a book, saying "hey want a sandwich?" │
║ │
║ ... at least that's my theory. │
║ │
║ ... I only got like 12 slices of b │
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"listen they aren't saying you can't revolt, they're saying you need to do it
better"
okay well a bad plan executed with cohesion or a sporadic plan executed with
consistency is better than no plan
[left unity, duh]
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"you should sell your artwork!"
... why would I want fewer people seeing it?
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║ │
║ │
║ two parties obviously can cause division. │
║ │
║ but it can also give you the ability to "tune for balance", while a single │
║ monolith strives straight into disaster. │
║ │
║ and disaster will come, for the future is a shifting and dynamic place, and the │
║ best laid rail lines can't handle sudden floods. │
║ │
║ we have ranked choice voting now, and if you vote on how important each │
║ decision is to you (via smartphone app once or twice a day, in a way that can │
║ be changed later as your feelings shift) │
║ │
║ [6+months-later] │
║ │
║ ... then you can have left unity for long-term governance by having cohesion at │
║ one end, and dispersion on the other. │
║ │
║ If everyone votes, then we can ensure (based on voted priority) that each issue │
║ trends towards an equal exchange. │
║ │
║ (I'm sure there will be issues but we're all cool and pretty chill so we'll │
║ figure it out) │
║ │
║ [6+ months later] │
║ │
║ okay we're battle-hardened vets, but we hold true to our values and so we can │
║ remember the spirit of unity we wept for. │
║ │
║ ... I'm better at writing than making sandwiches. BRB │
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I didn't think about this until finishing the last sandwich, but a dash of
instant coffee can be a nice invigoration spell. Might make the PB&J taste
a bit funky, but I already put hemp hearts and nutritional yeast in them so
nobody's gonna eat them unless they trust me.
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