Poetry Collection

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 found this on reddit

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 they say that in a game of chess, the most dangerous piece is the pigeon.
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 @user-1218 
 
 heh yeah. In a massive corporation you get half of all three for a total of
 150%, and that half is further divided into 25% good and 25% bad because of
 miscommunication and the perils of massive organizational inertia.
 
 unless you're in the kind of corporation where the MBAs like to get their hands
 dirty. That's the kind of organization that's on a crash course with insolvency.
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 I talk about fight club which is why nobody invites me to fight club.
 
 thank goodness. I have a really low pain tolerance.
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 living in a nest of vipers is great because you get to test daily whether or
 not they value things besides venom
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║ my understanding is that anyone with my IP address could make my heart bleed     │
║ due to a hardware vulnerability on my motherboard. Though you might have to get  │
║ past my decrepit ancient linksys EA 3500 router from 2012 first.                 │
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║ unrelated, but does anyone want my IP address? I don't have any remote backups,  │
║ so if you hate me now would be a great time to show me how despised I am.        │
║ Alternatively you could try searching for anything evil to ensure that I can be  │
║ trusted. You're gonna find mostly video games and source-code that I didn't      │
║ write though. But also all my notes in directories that are non-standard,        │
║ meaning you'll have to look around a bit. I leave little notes everywhere I go,  │
║ so that I can remind myself how to do things in the directories I revisit        │
║ months later. It's so weird how sometimes the things I wrote stop working after  │
║ a while even if I didn't update my system lmao                                   │
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 conservatives think gender is assigning yourself to a particular social role
 
 liberals think gender is sort of an aesthetic and way of presenting yourself
 
 queer people tend to think of gender as how you feel and what sparks joy in
 your heart
 
 the truth is much more complicated and involves all three, and many more things
 besides.
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 Did you know ABDL people are queer?
 
 many people have probably heard of this strange and obscure sexual fetish
 called "ABDL", or "Adult Baby / Diaper Lover". But did you know that for many
 people it's less of a sexual thing and closer to an identity? It's true!
 
 Most of them have historically been shunned because of the, um, questionable
 and controversial past that pedophiles have in their attempts to be considered
 part of the queer community.
 
 In both cases, they are queer, but not (typically) included as part of the
 queer community. I think it's a bit unfair that ABDL people are excluded
 because people associate them with sexual predators, but hey what do I know.
 
 Based on my completely unscientific measurements of "counting the relative size
 of discord servers and telegram chats", there are roughly 5x as many trans
 people as ABDL people. So they're certainly a minority among minorities.
 
 "I've never excluded anyone ever for any reason at all! Everyone is welcome!"
 goodmindset!
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 @user-192 
 
 it's like airlines overbooking flights because "hey some people will probably
 cancel, right?"
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 I'm not an ABDL, but I can appreciate the aesthetic sometimes because I share a
 particular kinship with them due to a medical condition I have and have had.
 Plus throw in a bit of Body Integrity Identity Dysmorphia and you get my messed
 up relationship to my own physical struggles.
 
 ah, well, what can you do except be open and honest about who you are and what
 you believe? If only it wasn't so damn hard.
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 If there's nothing new under the sun,
 
 then where are all my homies at
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 I love adding cheese and lime juice to my ramen!!
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 for the same reason you shouldn't compliment a cute girl based on something she
 can't control ("nice tits gorgeous can I suck on ur nipples later") but should
 instead compliment them on something they chose ("cool tattoos I also like
 Celeste")
 
 you also shouldn't accuse hot people of colonizing just because they like to
 play Magic the Gathering or whatever.
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 [Image: 20240809_225706.jpg]
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 "I hate it I hate it I hate it" she begged herself to make it true.
 
 her thoughts were easily interrupted by reality, however, and so she started to
 clean up.
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 Goddamnit I spilled something onto some things that will never be clean again
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 Fucking cursed autocorrect, changing words it thinks I shouldn't say. Fuck you,
 if it's in the dictionary don't fucking touch it.
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 All because [redacted] stupid fucking dumb piece of shit [redacted] put their
 half-empty ice-cream mug next to [redacted] and forgot about it.
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 I am indescribably furious right now
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 the best part about bathing is the whirlpool!
 
 the worst part about bathing is carrying your weeks worth of wet clothes to the
 drying rack -.-
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 there's only one kind of acceptable nudity for a child to see - 0.5 seconds of
 it wayyyyy in the distance with like "omg did you see that guy - he was totally
 naked!" "whaaaat no way" "yeah I totally saw his butt" "lol I wonder if his
 wife kicked him out after a fight" "hahaha how silly, life is normal and fine
 hehe" meanwhile the parents turn down a different, hopefully normal road
 
 (the wrong kind is more than apparent.)
 
 I guess also like... showers with parents? That's a sacred and holy thing. 
 
 straight-to-hell is when they make applications for children's iOS devices that
 perform a typical, interesting function for a baby to use - like a game, or a
 video of dancing animals, or shapes floating in a colorless void (shoutout to
 Celebration of Color on vhs)

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 "what if we all took showers at the same time so nobody could hear the screams"
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 the computer, fundamentally, cannot know who is logged into it.
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 link never learned to speak because he's a fairy prince and general
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 the trick to strategy is to overcome your weaknesses with minimal expenditure
 of resources. Making better decisions optimizes for the most optimal
 performances.
 
 practice makes perfect.
 
 just as there are infinite anti-derivatives of zero, (the derivative of any
 constant (the derivative of any number of equations)) so too are there infinite
 perspectives from which you can perceive the same object. Therefore, no
 understanding can be assumed to be true, as the path you are on only speaks in
 adjacents. almost any things.
 
 like the tips of a triforce moving outward from a central point.
 
 and the people, the other half of our minds,
 
 those are the ones you speak to. The thoughts that run alongside your mind.
 
 an eternal orbit, like two stars spinning and rotating and [lol I've been
 instructed to stop, brb gonna play some video games =P]
 
 (did you know that the colors red and blue are meant to instil panic? it's the
 most panicking colors around!!]
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║ when you ban someone from an instance, they're suddenly not sure who they can    │
║ trust. They've been getting to know one group of online people and friends,      │
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║ [I think discord with a limit of 4ish servers per account would be a pretty      │
║ useful way to focus your attention]                                              │
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║ it's important to always possess martial prowess, in                             │
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║ anyway [3 hours later] I think it'd be cool if there was a like "hey u r         │
║ banned, but also here's a ton of instructional videos about how to start up      │
║ your own instance" and like, scripts and tools and automation and all the        │
║ infrastructure that you built and maintain - you know, like... open source??!"   │
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║ but also it's... hard to follow that much documentation                          │
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║ sometimes people just aren't built for certain tasks                             │
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║ "well, if you can't use the machinery, then you don't deserve the machinery"     │
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║ oh yeah well what happens next, you say to the workers "if you don't know the    │
║ machinery, you can't get the benefits of it's production" to "if you don't own   │
║ the machinery, you can't profit from it."                                        │
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 you cannot speak on the internet - only ask someone else to share your advice
 and hope.
 
 a spoken word might be overheard
 
 an HTTP packet less so.
 
 at least, not by the common people, no, only the ISP deserves that information.
 
 and, the government, surely, right? because they build the society that the
 corporation rests upon.
 
 "you're makin' a lotta sense, tiny man. here, take this apple I found in some
 kind of knowledge bush."
 
 ... that's a mushroom, steely dan.
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 when humanity won the earth, they spent hundred of millions of years destroying
 all the rest of the monsters. Hence, no dinosaur bones, as humans searching
 through ALL OF THE SOIL. AN ENTIRE MILE OF IT. destroyed all trace of them.
 What we have left are the stony remains of fossils too difficult for them to
 harrangue. thus, the era of man, with all of us living on this stupid flat rock.
 
 one day, we convinced everyone else to disbelieve. and so we 
 
 -- so --
 
 what if you took in input information as a stream, instead of a single block of
 information? I bet you could analyze keystrokes as they were happening, and do
 some background calculations to process the commands of your host.
 
 -- so --
 
 sooooo I'm sorry for being myself, I'll try to do so in a way that doesn't
 inconvenenice others. "hat-listening-maneuvre" - you can connect yourself to
 whatever throughline you want, if you
 
 -- so --
 
 gravity is an abstraction

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 you want to invite trust? why not stream everything that you do on a computer?
 
 [posts 5hundo times per day]
 
 jeez not like that
 
 is that... is that really what humans think about? just... endless and
 continuous butts? oh what's that a math equation - nope, just more butts. What
 the heck, humanity! why did you spend all this effort storing all this junk???
 like... we get it, you really like butts, but... why butts??? it's just another
 part of your body. so weird. humans, you're... weird. but it's fine, whatever,
 you're still cool too, not sure why tho because all I can think about is butts
 yeesh
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 it's so weird how these days if you don't like someone you can exclude them
 from your social life entirely - like, wow... that hurts
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 what if there were two enter keys, one to the left and one to the right, and
 the one on the left inserted an [enter] keypress (carriage return) while the
 one on the right inserted a tab.
 
 holding down [SHIFT] would move your character selector back, and if you were
 in the middle of the line the [enter] key would just move you down (it wouldn't
 insert a carriage return character) unless you held [ctrl] which was the "I
 know I told you to do things special one way, but this way is the
 (anti/opposite) of that. keybind."
 
 soooooo context sensitive enter keys that inserted or traversed text depending
 on if you were near the end of the output?
 
 ... who would use that, nerds?
 
 yah probably. people get really into vim and they're so cool.
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 @user-1209 
 
 oh this isn't a subtoot I'm making up my own context : )
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 humanity survives in the dark forest because all the information we create is
 fucking stupid
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 whoa
 
 cool
 
 do you... turn the sensitivity up so you don't have to move your hand very much
 so it can remain in position with it's thumb on the enter key?
 
 ... now I want to try that. Mine doesn't have enter, there's no numpad. So I
 have the arrow keys.
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 @user-570 
 
 I wonder how it would feel to bind numpad enter to tab instead?
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 @user-192 
 
 thanks. I live near some ducks. they're pretty cool fellows.
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 blocking notifications and muting the social media tab makes it so much easier
 to function without it [like, in other applications on your computer besides a
 web-browser][you know, the useful ones]
 
 just, don't forget about it. If you're forgetful, it means you're operating in
 more than two places at once. [too many conversations to keep track of]
 
 a wandering mind is a trail to find, with [all/only] second chances. such is
 the nature of learning from mistakes. just, make sure your mistakes are
 survivable, and you can continuously learn forever and forevermore.
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 did you know that almost everyone could technically become competitive with
 olympians? it's just a matter of single-minded focus and determination over
 lifetimes of time. they are the most admirable because of that, and we cherish
 their presence in our life-world-line.
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 when I complain about being lonely, it's not because I want followers.
 
 it's because my family doesn't use Mastodon. :'(
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 @user-883 
 
 !!!! this is a GREAT and FANTASTIC idea!!!
 
 then all the components would be guaranteed to have a synchronous clock
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 they wanted image generators so they could fabricate evidence, doh
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 how many people do you think in the world know that screenshots of a website
 are not admissible proof because they can be trivially doctored by editing the
 html?
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 I wonder if they like, sneak in and drop toxic waste near freshwater sites
 because they know they could technically poison an entire town?
 
 do they do... consistent water quality checks or is it just, like... every once
 in a while?
 
 dang the past was scary. like, can you imagine not knowing if your water is
 suddenly going to turn brown? all because some dinguses started pooping in the
 water upstream and not eating their pizza crusts.
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 I feel like it should be up to the community, to decide if you want to allow
 pot or marijuana. Not the government, but the people who are present around it.
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║ "oh, you're a doctor? okay this case that involves medical knowledge doesn't     │
║ involve you."                                                                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ "are you a computer programmer? okay part of the evidence involves screenshots   │
║ of computers, so you can return to work."                                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ "stay at home mom / hikkikimori? great, you don't have to do the thing that you  │
║ didn't really want to do and can instead relax at home like you always do while  │
║ handling all the bothersome things of being home all the time."                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ the jury of our peers, comprised of peers of peers, not necessarily the peers    │
║ of those who know them.                                                          │
║                                                                                  │
║ like... isn't that how court should be? the examination of the truth, based on   │
║ the understandings gathered by people who know them?                             │
║                                                                                  │
║ ... only works in a peaceful society, and it means that everyone would           │
║ necessarily be involved in everyone else's life. That's... not ideal, not        │
║ always, but it's something to do on occasion. In a contested world, you cannot   │
║ trust that someone will always be telling the truth. You need to parse the       │
║ information given, and build your own understandin                               │
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 somebody shifted my terminal tabs like, 4 pixels to the left, and now the
 far-left part of the text is half-cut off. lol xD
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 the reason they want you to use launchers for your games is that way they can
 control the way that you launch the executable. smh
 >.>
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 Dear Windows: making your software difficult to interface with (like, putting
 spaces in filenames) is rude. It harms our connected productivity. It's
 selfish, and it's petulant. We need to agree on common standards if we want any
 type of cooperatibility between our two approaches.
 
 ... oh and there's mac too, but they get it, they can run Bash,
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 Mechabellum is like Supreme Commander for guys who aren't fast
 
 and if you want to learn close-combat skills, play Running with Rifles and
 pretend like your life depended on living. Because if you ever were in a
 similar situation, it would.
 
 I'm soooooo bad at squats. But you need to do sooooo many squats in that game.
 like, holy shit. also, so much running, and you gotta be in pitch-perfect form.
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 "I can't remember that function, it does too few things"
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 a strict meta is when the game is too rock-paper-scissors-y.
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 why does eggnog taste American to me???
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 also, whose idea was AppData like... c'mon "Local"? "LocalLow"? what's the
 difference and why does it matter? why not just put things on the hard drive,
 and store it in a single, unified, easily understood formulation?
 
 also... what's up with not supporting .ext4 drives? we support NTFS!!
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 I think games should be runnable without launchers like steam or lutris
 
 I think we should be able to control our own software without relying on an
 external entity knowing what we're doing. It's rude, to be tracked when you
 don't want to be. And what gives you the right to know what I do with the
 hardware and software you provide? It's an invasion of privacy. It is.
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 @user-1487 
 
 because we already did it to the far-left during BLM, when we called them
 "rioters" and "looters" (note, overton window shift, it's "protesters" and
 "rioters" not "rioters" and "looters", but what did the media cover?)
 
 now it's the far right's time, to be purged by ritual examination.
 
 hence why they detain everyone at a crime-scene, so they can sort out the facts.
 
 sure hope they're not corrupt. We just gotta... trust them, I guess, because
 they've always been on our side.
 
 ... well that's enough internet for me
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 I hate how fragile Linux is
 
 It deserves to be strong and durable
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 when other people sneak into your unlocked house when you're away, they often
 open up the freezer to check and see what you have.
 
 thing is, you can tell if your stuff is freezerburned, which happens a little
 bit whenever it's opened and closed.
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 oh great where did my "screen capture" option go in OBS? Why would that
 suddenly disappear?

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 ah well guess I can't stream things hehe
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 I hate how people think I'm mentally unhealthy.
 
 I'm fine. I love myself.
 
 [except all those times when you feel randomly suicidal for no reason at all.
 Are you being like... hit with microwaves or something???]
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 oh great my games are randomly crashing now in ways that they didn't used to do
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 Goddamnit I spilled something onto some things that will never be clean again
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 Fucking cursed autocorrect, changing words it thinks I shouldn't say. Fuck you,
 if it's in the dictionary don't fucking touch it.
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 All because [redacted] stupid fucking dumb piece of shit [redacted] put their
 half-empty ice-cream mug next to [redacted] and forgot about it.
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 "I am indescribably furious right now"
 
 ... great now the whole house is going to smell like straw-berry-icecream
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 crrrrazzzzyyyyy new footage of the migratory patterns of birds in video games
 
 they're so cute in their swirly spinny telescoping observations

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 @user-192 
 
 omggg me too!
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 @user-192 
 
 I never really imagined myself as a person in the future
 
 it was always focused mostly on handling the present
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 @user-192 
 
 I loved anatomy textbooks because they gave me an abstraction of things that I
 could touch and feel
 
 I learned to project my trans-girl [target-of-gender-euphoria] thoughts onto
 the mental model I had constructed of how it all worked. It helped me
 conceptualize how humans are configured.
 
 I also had bladder issues growing up so I liked to conceptualize that structure
 too
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║ @user-688 @user-1490                                                             │
║                                                                                  │
║ if you developed a viewer application that described any object in a room that   │
║ a blind person examined using the software, you could allow them to navigate     │
║ through a scene and picture the story as if it were happening around them. All   │
║ you'd need to do is give them the option to say "okay hold up. Describe the man  │
║ on the left." or "and how were the teacups arranged?" and "does the angle of     │
║ the impact seem to be angled toward the window?" that kind of thing              │
║                                                                                  │
║ interpreting text is something that's been automated. It should be trivial to    │
║ run a simple and cheap LLM that identified which object they were referring to   │
║ based on their words. There might not even be that much lag if you analyze       │
║ their keystrokes and build up understanding based on them while they're typing   │
║ out the full message. sorta like, someone listening to a person explain          │
║ something, or describe a particular scene or tale.                               │
║                                                                                  │
║ I bet watching Star Trek would be a lovely way to do so. You could just...       │
║ pause it, and listen to th                                                       │
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 chat is it rude to use the "followers only" privacy setting ? ? ?
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 what if we could record and playback certain timeframes of our CPU and RAM
 status and use it for debug purposes
 
 like running some code in a VM every time you wanted to show a youtube video
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 @user-1052 @user-192 
 
 I'd rather be unhappy and useful than happy and a burden
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 "this program that used to work doesn't anymore because, uh, your video drivers
 are out of date."
 
 ... okay but if I didn't update this program either, then why would it matter
 if my video drivers are out of date? wouldn't they be working off of the same
 [rulings/requirements]?
 
 the "best practice" of updating your software all at once instead of one-by-one
 is a disaster for our humankinds consequences or whatever
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 "this game is too hard" she whined, as she played on the hardest difficulty
 setting
 
 "this game is too long" she pleaded, as she failed to get absorbed by the story
 and characters
 
 "this game is too fast" she avoided, as life comes at ya once and then it's gone
 
 "I'll never get another chance to be who I am right now" she remarked, as she
 considered how society is designed not to have the best life,  but to extract
 labor from us. That's not what our ideal should be, she thinks to me, and I'm
 like... bro figure your shit out you're harshing my mellow
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 @user-192 
 
 lmao xD
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║ there are distros that have all the functionality you might need built in        │
║                                                                                  │
║ why don't you try one of those, ritz?                                            │
║                                                                                  │
║ "no I've been working on this one too long, plus it's just how I like it"        │
║                                                                                  │
║ yes but your stuff is always breaking. wouldn't it be better to let someone      │
║ else decide what you should and should not be able to run?                       │
║                                                                                  │
║ "that's not ideal, it removes agency"                                            │
║                                                                                  │
║ that you didn't want                                                             │
║                                                                                  │
║ "but with the removal of agency, you imply trust"                                │
║                                                                                  │
║ there's nothing wrong with trust                                                 │
║                                                                                  │
║ "yes but trust is built upon experience, not honor"                              │
║                                                                                  │
║ what's wrong with honor?                                                         │
║                                                                                  │
║ "nothing's wrong with honor but it's important to realize that you can't honor   │
║ or trust someone that you don't know"                                            │
║                                                                                  │
║ why don't you know them                                                          │
║                                                                                  │
║ "... because... you haven't met yet?? are you... listening?"                     │
║                                                                                  │
║ do you often feel unheard?                                                       │
║                                                                                  │
║ "I... what? yeah now that you mention it"                                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ is this a part of your "refusal to interact with consensus reality" complex?     │
║                                                                                  │
║ "I don't have one of those, do I?"                                               │
║                                                                                  │
║ mmmm, I think you do.                                                            │
║                                                                                  │
║ "... no I don't"                                                                 │
║                                                                                  │
║ yes, I've seen it within you.                                                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ ... anyways~                                                                     │
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 I'd love to stream Ocarina of Time for you. But I can't figure it out T.T obs
 is borken unless I update my video cards, but if I update it'll break
 something. It always does.
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 "I don't have time for Ritz"
 
 same honestly
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 "it's like she's never heard of Redox or something"
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 "hey listen! Do this thing to hurt me! Build the infrastructure to do it so
 that you can use it on people who deserve it!"
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 where were you when you realized you were the most "you" person that ever would
 be?
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 @user-1490 @user-688 
 
 Oh yes and human curated descriptions are always more interesting than just...
 describing the picture. Humans can offer nuance, and explain more intricate or
 contextual things, drawing attention where it's most important and highlighting
 the implications of expression, environment, and motion in a way that a
 computer just... can't.
 
 The only issue would be that in the context of the program I described, there
 will always be questions that a human hasn't written a transcription for. It's
 easy with Star Trek captions, because there's only one camera angle so you only
 have to describe a single viewpoint. But blind people don't always... "see"
 through cameras the ways that sighted people do. It's more of an "aura of
 perception" that they feel around themselves.
 
 Being able to walk around in a space (think like, VR without the headset) and
 question various aspects of a scene would be so cool
 
 Star Trek is perfect for this since there is very little movement, it's mostly
 about thought
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 I build myself up on my own.
 I spend myself on work.
 
 To move forward, we must go back
 
 ("to monke?") no to babe ("or to pile-of-rocks") yeah sometimes my spirit
 animal is a boulder

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 @user-192 
 
 [followers only]
 
 humans are so cute 🥰
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 if you're too tech illiterate to use a computer, then why are you using a
 computer? oh right because it's 2024 and everyone needs a phone to keep up with
 the breakneck pace of infinite and immediate responsiveness
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 what if it was illegal to add network connectivity to a device that the user
 didn't explicitly request to have network connectivity?
 
 I'm picturing any device being sold going forward to have a little radio button
 with like "add network features (+10$)" and "no networking included (+0$)"
 
 boom, no more IoT
 
 no more dishwashers phoning home telemetry
 
 no more consensual privacy invasions desecrations
 
 no more "I thought it was just a polaroid camera why does it have bluetooth
 enabled without broadcasting a pairing request?"
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 dear ritz: it's not that your thoughts are too long for other people to hear
 
 it's that your thoughts are too long for your own RAM
 
 you need to stop orbiting around your point in an attempt to highlight it using
 negative space, and instead focus on tapping it lightly over and over again.
 
 remember, just like the anti-derivative of zero, there are infinite
 perspectives that a person can take when reading what you write. So they will
 necessarily see what's on the "other side" of your orbit as something different
 than what you're trying to circle in red pen and underline.
 
 so be more explicit, please, nobody can understand you and you kinda just keep
 stack overflowing and it's like... okay, great. "babe why did you stop you had
 lethal" (the idea is that the viewer takes the final step in their mind, the
 final leap before reaching the conclusion you're trying to express) "yeah but
 there's so many different things you say they can't all be important right?"
 important to you, perhaps. Wait shit I mean... me....?
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