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The full story is a lot more complex. I broke the law with him in a dangerous
way, but he was going to do it anyway and I wanted to know more about him.
I could not deprive him of power because I am powerless without my words. But I
supplied kindness anyway, and got hurt.
I forgave him while he was hurting me, but if I see him again I'm drawing my
knife. If he comes near me, I won't think twice.
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I learned a lot last night, and I'm pretty sure that everything I say is going
to be censored. Why would you allow resistance in such a public place?
I don't know what else to do, though. He will come for me, he knows where I
live, and I will do what I can to fight him.
He's much stronger than me. He's much more massive than me. He will kill me.
But that's not the point, is it?
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He skuffed up my water bottle.
He tore pages from my journal.
He made me lose my necklace.
He damaged my knife.
And still, I followed him all night.
Why? Because I knew it was important. I needed him to tell me what he was doing
and why. And I think I know, now.
To all the federal agents reading this, please understand that I am a patriot,
and he is not. Who do you serve?
To all the leftists, punks, anarchists, queers, and anyone else who's cooler
than me, please understand that they will try and make it hard. But our love
will win.
Don't abandon your friends. If someone you know goes missing, they're probably
buried in the trash-dump or human trafficked.
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One takeaway I learned is that it is vital that we have strong community bonds.
Not just a healthy community where you can walk outside and see friendly faces,
but you have to know people.
Whether that's achieved through some kind of revolutionary vanguard party or
whatever, or just... being together and learning and growing to sing one
lifetime of song, either way we need each other.
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║ They will say they're "off their psych meds" yeah, okay, but a diagnosis and │
║ prescription is trivial for a doctor to write. │
║ │
║ They are paid about 35$ per hour. │
║ │
║ They have 2 week shifts "vacations" where they are transferred to a city with a │
║ person they could reasonably impersonate where they act for a while. │
║ │
║ (I know this because one of them replaced a homeless man I knew who had like, 3 │
║ teeth total, and then a few days later a man who looked similar acted as if he │
║ knew me. He had perfect teeth.) │
║ │
║ They have a PO box where they can receive useful items for their disruptive │
║ activities. Hammers, spray-paint, whatever. │
║ │
║ They don't carry any money. No wallet, identification, or anything, so if they │
║ get picked up by emergency response services then there's not much they can do │
║ besides try and stabilize them before letting them loose. │
║ │
║ Some of them have "long-term shifts" where they work with children or the │
║ elderly over months or years. It's just as fucked as you imagine. │
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I get it. I don't care to live in a world like this. Consider this a suicide
note, though I will not die by my own hand. This I swear.
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oh, also, he definitely knew me. He's probably reading this.
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@user-1071
It's cool. I'm stronger than him.
Thanks. I'm about to go chat with a friend, maybe ttyl if I'm still broken up
about it. ❤️
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the best way to heal from harm and from hurt is with a friend or three around a
table with a beer or three and relative safety and privacy.
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@user-1268
it's important to ask whether the actions of your allies is valuable or
impactful in some way.
otherwise your team falls prey to the placement of "bait" which causes you to
assume that the direction of attack is under control.
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@user-249
you can host anything you'd like on a raspberry pi. If the software
requirements are within the hardware specs, of course.
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delivering letters to the right place at the right time is the most important
task that an agent might have, in the modern day.
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you should not be afraid of satellites.
be afraid of drones, so far off in the distance that any visible section of sky
is potentially suspect.
though, the farther away it is, the more difficult it is to develop sensors and
cameras that can detect that far.
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@user-249
very few things waste power so much in our modern era than the utilization of
AI technologies to accomplish things such as "repeat this question 500 times in
your head and then give a reply: what is the purpose of
antidisestablishmentarianism?"
like... yeah I get it you need to justify the expensive power of large language
models but, your boss isn't going to care if you used 5 jigawatts or 500
pletawatts of power. they only think about "+10% this year, contributing about
~x% to our bottom line" which is NOT enough information.
they probably don't even know that investing in AI implies buying more hardware
computational capabilities, silicon and power-draw in all.
they literally just rubber-stamp everything with a sorta aligned goal of
"representing the company as people expect it to be have" (which is often
neglected) and making the big numbers go higher.
If, instead, we had visionaries at their head, and instead gave our most ardent
believers control over our most rational experts...
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@user-1268
was just wondering what interesting or useful or incriminating data was found
in the heritage foundation hack.
because, like, they could just leave a security vulnerability open for
downloading their like, contact data for customers, and like... that's not too
useful for people attempting to fight them. it's the CONSUMER'S data after all,
not the corporation / organization.
all I saw was the headline that they downloading some gigabytes of information,
I didn't check to see what it comprised
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@user-249
sup
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@user-249
most people don't talk to me so either you're braver than most or I hit a
common chord that you and I share
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alt text:
a picture of a reddit comment chain talking about torture and the "spin" that
the media should take on topics of difficulty. They mention how all the
internet is manipulated by bots which allow a single person to push a button
and cause a hundred upvotes on a comment, essentially determining the narrative
according to what their bosses intend.
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I had some difficulties this morning, but I spent some time with an elderly
lady and had a drink or two with a good friend. Then we went back to my place
and discussed governance over a joint's worth of vaporized cannabis.
overall I think I learned a lot, and I am looking forward to tomorrow and all
the tomorrows to come.
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learning martial arts is not useful for the combat capabilities gained through
practice
but rather for reading the flow and rhythm of an engagement.
to learn the discipline to practice a craft
to develop healthy and honorable relationships toward competition and jealousy
the practice the drive and passionate motivation that comes with performing an
art to your utmost capabilities
and to keep you in shape.
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@user-1153
what kind of meta are you referring to? instance stuff?
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I can handle pain, I will probably just cry about it and try to avoid it.
That's like... the most natural human reaction to pain, I think.
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@user-1153
made a picture to describe it based on that singular post you shared. Feel free
to use this, or not, depending on how you feel about the situation. That's just
how I, an outsider see it based on the single necessarily biased perspective of
the summary you presented me.
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literally just... if you want to connect to me, come hang out on my wavelength.
or like, invite me to join yours, and I'll do my best to show how I feel about
the things you share.
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having the right people in the right rooms with the right other people is
critical for success.
The most rational people tend to be the best experts - they know the how and
the why.
those of faith, belief, and passion are more often the visionaries - the ones
who are driving a boat.
advised, of course, by the rational types.
the reason is that those who are most devoted to their principles will most
often follow their principles - meaning you should follow and support the
people who most ardently believe the things that you do. Because they will make
decisions that align with what you believe in.
of course, the faithful can fall into zealotry. they can develop magical
thinking, or rationalizations that are not grounded in reality. it's important
to ground them, to guide their perspective toward the real-life problems, and
not the imagined ones. because the imagination of a visionary looking out
toward the horizon will see farther than those who are sure-footed-ly looking
at the ground in front of them.
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hi everyone it's wednesday night which means it's time for my weekly Dominions
6 strategy podcast - you probably recognize this as something I do weekly so
you're probably not paying too much attention because it's more of the same
stuff which I've been doing for a while that you probably don't have to worry
about because if --- anyways you can listen to it at the link below: or here's
some highlights:
it's important to take the initiative, because those with the initiative have
the ability to determine the scope and nature of the engagement of their foe,
meaning they can tailor the contest to their strengths rather than that of
their enemies
it's important to strike at a foe's flanks, but when paired with the initiative
this means you'll have to identify a strategy that would work well, maximize
it, and develop a counter-plan for the enemy's counter-plan that they apply to
your main strategy. The winner has TWO total strategies, the second of which
addresses your foe's contestation of your main strategy.
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probably the worst person in the world to piss off is a secret agent xD xD
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to improve your "cat-petting" abilities, try to imagine that the wall in front
of you is the most interesting thing in the world - stare at anything else
besides the cat, and look at them in your periphary. Occasionally you can look
back, but the idea is that this way they will be able to look at your face
without painful eye contact.
cats are autistic - they don't look at you unless you're looking somewhere else.
most people stare at cats when they are engaging with them, and totally ignore
them otherwise.
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cats and dogs are people too
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I am not asleep. But you cannot expect a strategist to act based on information
she doesn't have.
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ha "interview" yeah okay, it kinda hurt even though I said "stop" so of course
I gravitate away from pain
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what kind of linux user are you if you don't even like reading terminal output?
it's USEFUL and INTERESTING information!
WHY ELSE WOULD THE PROGRAMMER OUTPUT IT???
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have you ever noticed the people on Mastodon who used to have cool and
interesting ideas but now just kinda repeat the same basic things over and over
again?
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when they replace you on mastodon they change your pfp and name so that nobody
can remember who you were
it's not like you'd remember amongst your 6000 followers
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one of the downsides of "first-past-the-post" style voting is that the winner
gets all of the power, no matter if 100% of the population voted for him or 51%.
if, however, the top 2 candidates were chosen, then it's naturally likely that
the older, more experienced of a particular position would spend their effort
mentoring the young, rising star.
in doing so, they would naturally transfer knowledge from one generation to the
next like parents to children.
however, this only happens when the primary candidate and the secondary both
believe the same things.
meaning those who have collectively similar beliefs concentrated in an area
will have the advantage of passed-along experience, while those from more
divided areas (thus implying that the primary and secondary candidate don't
agree) will often have better actionable skills.
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where will all the martyrs go when the martyrs kill themselves
and where will we all go when it's too late?
it's not over till you're underground
it's not over 'fore it's too late
"the city's burnin'"
that's not my burden
it's not over 'fore it's too late
(there is nothing left to analyze)
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the problem with figureheads is that they can be assassinated.
when your leadership is dealt a crushing blow, how do you react? how do you
adjust to pain, loss, and despair? the snake can be killed with a shovel - a
hydra with infinite heads cannot be killed by blade alone.
can you still act without them? what if your directives go silent for a bit? is
your agency lost, or can you still complete your objectives?
when people rally behind a person, that person is not long for this world,
because people are fragile and soft.
when people rally behind an idea, that idea can never die so long as they
continue to share it.
the worst part about being trans is that our numbers are limited by biology.
thank god ideas have no such limitations.
I've been sleeping all day. think I might sleep a bit more.
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@user-249
oh y'know just sleeping until I see something I can do.
I am not afraid, now or ever, but I am sleepy.
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what happened when they got Martin Luther King Jr? What about Malcolm X? What
happened to their movements? What is the plan to avoid that, what lessons could
be learned?
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not much to do now but wait.
you know how the story goes. promising recruit drops out of basic because she
refused to do immoral things. but, she's shown too much to the internet, so
she's kind of in a bad spot. at least until the next time she gets abused.
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I still don't lock my door
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I don't have anyone to vent to but you, fedi
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something something parasocial relationships are not real and cannot be used
for anything beyond the amelioration of emotions for cathartic purposes
something something your coping mechanisms are doing more harm than good
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anyone else listened to the podcast "It Could Happen Here" and decided a better
world was possible, that a better world was within reach?
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the future is the home of marble statues and shimmering chandeliers, replete
with moss and sunlight.
the future is a world where we care for each other, and grow in riotous
profusion in all our myriadic forms.
the future is where we will find ourselves, as soon as we take responsibility
for our own arms.
the future is waiting - the future is calling to thee
it's there for the present, if the present should choose to grasp it.
I, personally, choose a mortal life instead. Find me at home, or find me out
there - either way, if you want me on your side, talk to me fair.
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I really do believe that you can write any computer program you'd like with a
combination of Lua, Bash, and C.
Bash to start the program and enable updates / configuration, Lua to handle the
scripting and ordering of events, and C (or Rust) to execute performance
intensive sections. (often in their own threads)
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Lua is 100% better than Python in every way, fite me
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capitalism is like if your thread allocator gave 90% of the work to 10% of the
threads in the pool and your tech lead claimed it was more efficient because
the remaining 90% of threads would have the results of the program "trickle
down" to them somehow
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@user-95
I'm not too scared about what's within. I mean, I've done LSD like 5 times and
cannabis 500 times, and I've spent that time intentionally unravelling internal
threads. There is nothing within me that scares me.
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In The Deed of Paksenarrion (1988) the main paladin character has some
"unwanted sexual contact" early on in her career. It's handled very well in the
book, but what struck me while reading it was how she as a character handled it.
war makes monsters of us all. well, all except our paladins.
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@user-1292
You don't have to come up with the WHY for why a character does something -
only that it happened.
if the "WHY" leaps out at you, sure, yeah, go for it, until of course your
players sitting around the table say something like "I bet they did this thing
because of this reason" and you're like "shit that's better than what I got,
okay that's how it's gonna be"
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@user-1295
great, see ya soon. don't forget sunscreen.
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@user-1292
ah, well, I don't even know what HTT is. Sorry for clogging up your mentions
😅
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do pushups
and squats
and planks
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Verizon is apparently the only "secure" mobile network, though I'm not sure why.
Frankly I don't think any of them are secure, but ah well who can say.
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@user-95
there is nothing within that is scarier than what is without.
just like being in the dark at night, what's without remains hidden until it's
coming for you in the night to drag you out and shoot you in the street like a
dog.
but fear is the greatest enemy, that which gives them power to do such things.
be not afraid, and you can resist all that you might.
within, there is trauma - that needs healing
without, there are villains - they need fighting
trauma isn't scary. the hard part happened already. now you just need to heal,
which takes focused growth, the same way a body grows a scab over a wound while
it heals.
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@user-1153
my views are similar!
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I don't mind that he touched me inappropriately I'm just pissed that he messed
up my hair
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kinda tempted to make like, 20 different accounts on like, 20 different
mastodon instances and just have them repost all of the things I've written in
the past one-by-one-by-one until someone notices and calls me out on it
might get some more conversation, at least
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VIDEO GAMES, amiright?
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║ ┌──────────────────────┐ │
║ │ CW: uspol │ │
║ └──────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ if your goal is to get people to resent homeless people or gay people or black │
║ people or... insert minority here, then what kind of world do you really think │
║ you're building? │
║ │
║ "ah, but you don't understand - it's to make the COLONIZERS hate minorities, so │
║ they move away and leave the city to ourselves" │
║ │
║ ... that's the worst fucking take I've ever heard. We are all colonizers! We │
║ live in AMERICA. But yeah sure I see what you're saying, you want the │
║ gentrification to stop. And you do that by metaphorically "firing a gun into │
║ the area in suburbia once every 2 or 3 days at random hours" which, like... │
║ yeah that'll reduce property value, but also now my water bottle is all dented │
║ up and my knife is scratched and my journal has pages torn out of it and I lost │
║ my favorite necklace and I'm pissed because you told me you were going to help │
║ me and work with me and be my friend and then you just abuse me for hours and │
║ hours and it's like... why?? I get that you were teaching me but I wanted to │
║ know YOU, not lessons │
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I'm not bitter, you're bitter. >.>
... okay, take a breath, you're fine. It's hard to handle negative feelings
when you're alone because other people can't boost you up. We rely on each
other for emotional stability, but when you're alone you can only feel your
emotions at the same rate as your thoughts. And your thoughts need to process
the events you're experiencing, using emotion as an "encoding" for preserving
the "meaning" of your life's story. Bit by bit you learn new things, while
living through life, and the lessons you learn from them are generated from the
cognitive conclusions reached by cognitively interpreting emotional reactions
to each moment. like "this-or-that thing happened and I feel that-or-this way,
meaning I should act such-and-such way in the future when presented with
situations that bear similarity to this current one that's ongoing."
... turn it upside down, right, makes sense mastodon feed. thanks for
redirecting me in a different direction through your pseudo-randomized input.
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just now realized what the "followers only" privacy setting is designed for
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people who like you
or at least are interested in what you have to say
versus public, which is people who can hear you (because they happened to be
listening at that time of day)
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and it's important to trust people who like you (or are interested - wait what
listen it's not always a good thing - nuts they're continuing) it's important
to trust people who are interested in what you have to say because your value
as a person is determined by the thoughts and understandings you can generate
with your mind and/or apply with your body. Strict pure capitalist "value".
but value isn't the only thing that's important.
some blades of grass are taller than others, some are shorter. yet the gardener
enjoys each of their presence the same.
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"did you know that mentally ill people are oppressed minorities too?"
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I was being tested, of that I have no doubt. I was focused on the situation at
hand, because that's how an improv actor operates.
but the improvized conversational "scene" that is in play was also designed to
test for understanding.
if the actors in the scene made the same logical "leaps" or "conclusions",
moving from one thing to another with a clue of emphasis, tone, cadence, and
flow of conversation...?!*#
hence, why it's important that the speaker is always the one engaging.
leaving off the conclusion of a thought in order to check that the person
you're talking to is going down the correct path of understanding.
in doing so, you can transfer knowledge in an impossible-to-decrypt manner.
endless synonyms and custom-made figures of speech (to illustrate a previously
expressed dynamic)
while also confirming concurrent data as it's stored.
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│ CW: re: DID // cw; ego destruction │
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@user-1298
this is kinda cursed, pretend there's another content warning:
--
that kinda happens every time you sleep for most people
or, well, maybe just for me
it's like starting with a blank slate and having access to "memories" that can
be referenced by ID or searched for using keywords
also like, a "todo" list of things that I've been working on or that are going
on in my life
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I have the gameplay mechanics of a paladin but the body type of a sorceror
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the reason rent is so expensive is because of all the surveillance equipment
they need to pay for and upkeep
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they say human trafficking is a huge issue but why don't you ever hear about it
on the news
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@user-1311 @user-1312 @user-1313 @user-1135 @user-1314 @user-1315 @user-687
@user-1316
a rare chance when retracting the right to strategically vote actually
increases the number of options available to the user.
the difference between frequency and magnitude of impact.
the only thing a political party can really offer is consistency. otherwise
people would just vote in whoever was most relevant to them at the time! can't
have the proletariate choosing their fate, after all.
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@user-687 @user-1316
... form of ID as in... passport versus driver's license?
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@user-570
I escalate that way against fascism, nothing less.
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seriously a microphone and a raspberry pi for each apartment would solve like
90% of your insurgency problems
problem is it's highly unethical, so, only an unethical governing body would do
such a thing.
HMMMM CAN YOU THINK OF ANY OF THOSE? GEE I SURE CAN'T
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@user-570
what does fash-jacket mean? :O
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@user-570
so, the same thing as pearl-clutching journalism?
"OoOoOoOo look at all these BLACK people going to JAZZ CLUBS and seducing our
flapper women"
or "Rock and Roll and drugs are ruining this nation!"
basically eliciting an emotional reaction in order to prime a group of people
to hatred or violence against a particular target group of people
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highly, highly recommend having a smart phone and a dumb phone at the same
time. The smart phone can be wi-fi only so you don't have to pay for it,
just... have it around in-case you need it. Use it for things like playing
Magic Survival or messaging from bed, but use your flip phone for all the
phone-related activities like calls and texts.
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don't follow strangers to second locations.
especially not if they involve walking to the other side of town...
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║ think about the number of people you could get in contact with without having │
║ to introduce yourself to. │
║ │
║ "hey, this is so-and-so, how's it going?" │
║ │
║ like, people who are active in your life that you could talk to or reach out to │
║ for any particular reason. │
║ │
║ did you know there's a natural limit to the amount of people that a human can │
║ have in their life? It's true! The number is between 120-160 people, depending │
║ on the person and how invested they get in other people's lives. │
║ │
║ so, if you have fewer than 60 people you could send a message to right now, │
║ then you're using less than 50% of the total "friendship capacity" in your │
║ life. Go make some friends! │
║ │
║ "ah but I don't have the bandwidth to think about that many people" │
║ │
║ yeah. good point. even without a job I still want to be focused primarily on my │
║ own stuff, like going on walks to look at leaves and playing video games and │
║ hanging out with my cat. │
║ │
║ as a kid I made the mistake of optimizing for the moment, rather than viewing │
║ my life as a plan. │
║ │
║ I dont mind tho │
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the kind of friendship where you SSH into each other's systems and leave notes
for one another.
as soon as you find one you message the person who left it like "yoooo only
just found this lol" and they're like oooo yeah did you see the bash script I
wrote in that directory "yeah totally I used it on one of my video files just
now - cool filter!"
ahhhh reminds me of all the times hackers have hacked my permanently insecure
system and left me friendly messages like "hey I'm on your side" or "how's
life, friend? I hope it's going well." or "never forget; you are worth all the
fear" y'know cute things like that
oh. right. because leaving vulnerabilities like that can lead to threat actors
affecting your stuff. how lame.
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the reason you will NEVER find a SINGLE example of anti-semitism from me is
because I watched Fiddler on the Roof when I was 6 and Schindler's List when I
was like, 8 years old.
Long before I was on the internet.
All it took was 6 years of being trained in empathy (from mother to son or
parent to child) and I could watch a movie like that and realize how fucked up
it was.
Jews are people. And the holocaust happened.
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║ if you asked me to start talking, I could continue for hours explaining │
║ technical details of computer systems or the different types of win-conditions │
║ in different strategy games or how to make good pasta with only 3 ingredients │
║ or what it's like to be a cat, how must they see things or overcome barriers │
║ between them and solutions? │
║ │
║ ..... anyway it's important to be able to talk for a long period of time at the │
║ drop of a hat because if your conversation partner needs you to immediately │
║ initiate a conversation, you can do so. │
║ │
║ there are a myriad of reasons why someone would want an immediate conversation, │
║ including "acting casual" or because they want to be distracted from nearby │
║ suffering or whatever. │
║ │
║ in addition, being able to follow long conversations with little bits of useful │
║ and actionable information thrown in to an otherwise indecipherable melange of │
║ verbal goo. │
║ │
║ what's important is to trust your conversation partner, and to know that │
║ they're giving you what they can because they trust nothing around. │
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the better you eat, the more ready your body will be for unexpected situations.
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║ │
║ │
║ "the goal is to have multiple people piloting different sections of the drone │
║ swarm. the image recognition technology will adapt and eliminate any hostiles │
║ within range, while also attempting to place themselves in positions which │
║ maximize the camera coverage of areas the others can't see. then, the director │
║ can say "you 5 move east 1/4th of a mile" based on their vision from the │
║ combined camera output from the drones. │
║ │
║ the "fog of war" should not be black, also, but rather it should be the vision │
║ of the long-range camera style drone up above. if you have multiple, you can │
║ take their vision and find the angle based on their coordinates and elevation │
║ (soh-cah-toa) and then you should have another perspective which can fill in │
║ quite a few blanks. │
║ │
║ in fact if you had at least 4 of them you could reliably cover every corner of │
║ the city. notdownstrets │
║ │
║ depending on how the factory situation is going, could be used with infantry │
║ too, but like... human conflict? in this era? how barbaric. │
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many people have not seen the kind of opulence I have.
my early childhood was during an economic boom - the dotcom bubble brought
wealth to us all.
I saw how life could be. how clean, how measured, how thoughtful, how robust
and stable our lives could be. I saw it because that's what the eyes of a child
saw, but that's what I saw.
I think of what would be required to reach that kind of society for all and the
only conclusion I come to is that the accretion of power in singular hands
causes corruption in those who wield it. In doing so they twist the people they
compel or effect, making them learn the wrong lessons.
essentially, evil trained into us by the demands of the society we're present
in.
I see no other cause, no reason for suffering. We have the technology to build
vast cities of solid stone, glimmering crystal sculptures and walls of moss and
ceremonially ornamental bones, but instead...
I think we just like what carbon can bring.
but have no fear, fusion is just a decade away, then we can |
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║ the american revolution was literally just... rich people trying to avoid │
║ paying taxes │
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║ and the poor people went along because, like... yeah inflation's really been │
║ fucking with their budgets │
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║ so in the end it made most households wealthier... │
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║ (built upon the backs of slaves, mind you) │
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║ ... but as time went on the rich wanted to pay less and less. │
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║ they had their opportunity with the World Wars, and after the first (when │
║ America, previously a mid-tier country at best, suddenly industrialized) they │
║ realized "oh hey war profiteering is pretty profitable"... │
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║ (something that was known quite well to the British) │
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║ ... and then the Rockefellers and such, whose descendants never lost money but │
║ nobody knows their names, did it again in WW2 and the Cold War and. │
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║ the entire country is a game of numbers and spreadsheets in the ivory towers │
║ (literally, towers with nothing but opulence) and it always has been. │
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