Poems in true chronological order by post date
-> file: fediverse/2673 ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────┐ ║ 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 │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/2674 ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: factually-untrue,-that-never-happened.-this-is-just-gesturing. │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/2675 ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── ┌────────────────────────┐ │ CW: genocide-mentioned │ └────────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/2676 ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────┐ ║ 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. │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/2677 ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── the better you eat, the more ready your body will be for unexpected situations. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/2678 ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌──────────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: cursed-but-useful-technology │ │ ║ └──────────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ "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. │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/2679 ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── 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 | ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ |