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@user-1218
ha wild
well, survival games! shareware games are more of a distribution style and less
of a genre, like "subscription software" versus "usable software"
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@user-1352
Unfortunately I have to use the proprietary drivers because video games, so I
can't use Nouveau T.T
I figure if I like Gentoo but wish it was a little more "config file" based,
then Nix is probably my best bet!
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everyone's all like "why would you spend so much effort writing that software
in a distributed way when it works so well in a centralized manner" and the
answer is because you never know when you're going to need to train an LLM on
like, 400 raspberry pi's or calculate the velocity of an unladen swallow as it
circles a black hole the size of mercury or whatever physicists do in their
spare time
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@user-1218
it was funny : )
it might be??? the guy who made it is named Ville Minkonnen (I think) and that
sounds vaguely scandinavian
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when I think of crowd sizes, I don't think "we're winning! hooray!" I think
"okay so what are they up to, where are those people, what caused them to
disappear, are they busy or are they dead" because questions like that provide
strategic value, while statements like "we're winning! hooray!" improve morale.
I'm not in charge of morale. I'm not in charge of anything, but mostly because
I'm too public for that kind of thing. Morale is important, it's perhaps the
MOST important thing. But strategy is also important, and must not be
forgotten. Honestly though, I do believe we're winning, and I think it will
crush the spirits of quite a few people. How sad... But war involves a lot of
crushing, whether it be fought with blades, bullets, or words of madness like
mine.
[250 characters remaining, tap tap menardi]
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@user-203
I've been trying to get it to work with raylib but I'm having difficulties with
the C interoperability T.T
https://www.raylib.com
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Emoticons only work as tone indicators when people know what the funny faces
mean
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@user-1218
so true d=(T.T)z
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I wonder if anyone would pay me to write bash scripts for them? is there a role
that's just... bash scripter? is that what sysadmins do all day? or is that
more automation? and what the heck is a dev op? do they write bash scripts?
or maybe writing bash scripts is the "fun" part of linux, and nobody would pay
anyone else to do it because they want to do it themselves
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@user-1218
It's a person with a thumbs up who has a fountain of tears streaming down their
cheeks. Any time you see the T.T fountain of tears emoticon you should view it
as slightly sarcastic - they're not actually crying, it's more like a "ahhhhhh"
type of thing instead of a "[cry cry cry]" forever type of thing.
Oh also the z is them with their other hand on their hip all sassy like.
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@user-1071
... That doesn't really sound like my jam! Sounds too stressful hehe
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@user-1071
You know, that makes sense! Finance plus signing things. Their operations are
probably more... paper based and contractual than programmatic.
When I think of devops I think of my time spent as a contractor for a large
tech company...
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@user-1071
hehe it was my favorite job I've ever had
downside is... it was hard to get to work every day. I'm not built for
long-term dedicated labor. Maybe I should freelance? idk where to even begin
with that, though.
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└──────────────────────┘
@user-1071
I have plenty of things made, but none of it organized : (
Kinda makes me wish I could like... train an LLM on my social media posts and
use it programmatically somehow to help me organize my stuff into different
categories according to what kind of topic or style they were written in.
Hmmm......... There's no way I could do it, I mean, there's no way I could
organize and edit my stuff, but with the help of a computer I might.
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I am the witch who cursed my past self with my current life.
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@user-570
me three!
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I can't get into a game with swords like this, I'm sorry, those aren't swords
they're stat sticks...
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DID YOU KNOW if you ask someone 15 times over the course of an activity whether
or not they're "having fun" then odds are they won't, in fact, have very much
fun
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-> file: fediverse/3761
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trust that your friends enjoy you
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-> file: messages/523
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You know all those times you did really horny things for no reason? Those are
times when someone was having a wet dream to your life.
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│ CW: food-mentioned │
└──────────────────────┘
macaroni works great for mac'n'cheese because the holes in the tubes store
glutinous water and when they meet melted cheese they form a nice sauce
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│ CW: cannabis-mentioned-mental-health-mentioned │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
I think I'm a better writer when I'm sorta consistently taking the meds I was
using to self-medicate...
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-> file: messages/524
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Every bit of software you write is another useful toy for the rich to
incorporate into their AI databases that they can use to build what they'd like
as they cry themselves to sleep in their bunkers of war and famine
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Why do I keep dreaming of embarrassing myself in combat situations?
Oh yeah, because all my paladins need me, and I'm a fucking baby. What did I do
to deserve this upon them. How could they learn from me? There is nothing for
me to be. I am ashamed of myself.
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│ CW: software-mentioned │
└────────────────────────┘
what if instead of sending "cease and desist" notices, corporations sent "hey
you need to transition to publicly owned assets" notices?
if progress is slow, they can pour funding into the project. If they're
intentionally going slow and not meeting their reasonable deadlines, then they
can be sued, and that's a whole process during which the "cease and desist"-ed
project can't legally be used by anyone.
the deadlines are set based on the scope of the project and the capabilities of
the team, capabilities which may be augmented by the infusion of dosh by the
parent company.
At the end, the product must be completely publicly owned, as in
free-and-open-source, so that they cannot be allowed to compete with the parent
company - instead, they may be used by the parent company, without requiring an
open source license going forward for their version.
Once the project is feature-complete and utilizes 100% non IP assets and
software, the relationship ends and the sky is the limit for modders.
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-> file: fediverse/3765
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┌──────────────────────────┐
│ CW: capitalism-mentioned │
└──────────────────────────┘
me: "the entire capitalist project is borken! We must start from scratch! We
can start from scratch! For the good of all mankind, we shall utilize our vast
potential for good and benevolent ends, and to that end we must begin by
dismantling capitalism!"
also me: "hey what if we made capitalism suck less"
because like, I don't know the future. I'm just a person, remember? wink
gotta have backup plans ready no matter which way it goes.
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┌───────────────────────────────────────┐
│ CW: personal-medical-health-mentioned │
└───────────────────────────────────────┘
gonna ask my doctor for ADHD meds so I can hopefully jump-skip framebuffer
divebomb spinadoodle half A press my way over the fucking labyrinth that is my
weird and jank af mind
and no I don't watch speedruns but my social group hears me a lot of them.
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-> file: fediverse/3767
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┌───────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ CW: re: personal-medical-health-mentioned │
└───────────────────────────────────────────┘
"having trouble doing anything at all because you have too many thoughts? Here
let's give your body a turbo-boost so that you won't be able to help but skip
those pesky mind critters!"
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-> file: fediverse/3768
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┌──────────────────────────────────┐
│ CW: implied-yelling-about-autism │
└──────────────────────────────────┘
you know something that would ACTUALLY help autistic people?
if we gave shopping carts actual tires instead of the hard plastic wheels they
have. The NOISE is DEAFENING and CACOPHANOUS
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-> file: fediverse/3769
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┌──────────────────────────────────────┐
│ CW: re: implied-yelling-about-autism │
└──────────────────────────────────────┘
@user-1589
oh noooooo did we just invent the axiomatic conflict of society?? ?
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for every "I was there. I helped make it happen" we need at least a couple "I
was there. I saw the whole thing go down"s because like, nobody's gonna believe
a belligerent, even if they're on the defensive.
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@user-1591
you are what you eat, and if you're alive, then you animate what you eat into
your form.
but a book come to life is just wood.
see the last like, 60 seconds of this episode of Adventure Time:
season 5 episode 8
Mystery Dungeon
(pls don't ban me)
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taking in sticks and stones
to my house and home
so I might walk upon them
and toughen up these feet
and feel a bit more complete
with my hobbit... feet
just in case I need to make a getaway in the night
to avoid some dire plight
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-> file: fediverse/3773
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┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ CW: re: personal-medical-health-mentioned-cannabis-mentioned │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
no adhd meds, but yes different antipsychotic
he made a very convincing argument that consisted primarily of "why don't we
try a different type of the same thing" yeah that makes sense
also he seemed quite happy that I quit cannabis for a while. I guess he's
working for THEM lol
(who's them?)
of course, the ones who want to keep me from my DIVINE DESTINY or whatever.
Airquotes. ugh I need to get over myself, it's just fucking weed, right?
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don't forget to check the checksum of the checksum generator!
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-> file: fediverse/3775
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│ CW: re: personal-medical-health-mentioned-cannabis-mentioned │
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@user-1550
yeah because they infect everyone else who is on the same wavelength. When you
change the ripples of the pond you inhabit, those who are in similar ponds will
find their ripples resonate in the same ways.
which is why I try and be a good, positive, and heartfelt influence to the
voices in my head when stoned xD
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whenever repeating letters like thiiiiiiis or thisssss make sure if you're
doing K's that you have at least four
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the co-opting of the "hand shading eyes from the sun" gesture is the most
soldier thing I can think of
"no sir. not at all, sir. It's a sign of respect, sir."
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┌──────────────────────┐
│ CW: music │
└──────────────────────┘
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7xn5zeJ4D4
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-> file: fediverse/3779
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┌────────────────────────┐
│ CW: cannabis-mentioned │
└────────────────────────┘
I don't think I can write Ephemeren without weed T.T
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"Hey, I'm not actually [username]. We just didn't know if we could trust you,
so we sent one of our best and boldest, aka me. You seem chill though which is
why I'm telling you now. My real username is [username], you can message me
there if you want. Oh and here's an invite to an encrypted IRC server, you can
google how to connect - post there if you need anything important, otherwise
just pretend like nothing changed. Anyway I sent this at 4 in the morning so
that you could respond whenever you wanted. I really enjoyed our conversation
about [subject] and I know someone who's into [subject] so I could hook you up
with them if you want.
Welcome to our community, let's [insert goal here] together."
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-> file: fediverse/3781
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@user-246
one of those things sounds easier than the other!
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@user-246
... oh, Curry's a language.
I thought you were hungry.
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@user-246
better than currying yourself in the car, or at the store, or in the park, or
at your best friend's funeral, or while listening to "smooth jams 1980s"
playlist they made you back in high school, or when buying more tissues at the
store because you can't stop crying about the curry you would make together
or... wait hang on I lost the metaphor
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-> file: notes/satisfactory-academic-progress-appeal
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This month, I was diagnosed with Schizotypal disorder. I had a single hour to
talk to a psychiatrist (thank you, insurance) and he explicitly told me that my
diagnosis was preliminary.
Schizotypal is a type of neurodivergence similar to autism but with elements of
schizophrenia (paranoia, delusional and / or magical thinking) and my
presentation includes ADHD symptoms such as difficulty focusing. When medicated,
I have difficulty concentrating, however the paranoia and delusional thinking is
suppressed. The treatment plan is ongoing and developing.
These issues have been present for the entire time I've been at WGU, and before.
However, I am seeking treatment now because I had begun to have difficulty
maintaining a job and keeping a home.
Currently, my medication is working. However the greatest issue facing me right
now is financial problems - I couldn't maintain a job while unmedicated, and
frankly while medicated I am still having difficulty for different reasons.
However the intent is to refine the medication choices to find a solution that
works for me. However, employment is still a concern, and so I have requested
and been approved for a term break of at least 2 months with the option to
extend. During this term break I intend to resolve the financial issue however
I can. Ideally in such a way that will allow me to apply myself toward school
work.
This degree is important to me. Without it, I won't be able to find employment
in the tech industry aside from technician roles. My previous experience with
them has given me experience, and I learned quite a bit... Until I ran out of
things to learn. I do not believe I could handle that type of work long-term for
various reasons. In the short term, I may attempt it but I am convinced that I
will burn out quickly.
I currently feel as if I am disabled. I don't know if it's true, perhaps I'm
just going through a rough patch. But once my savings hit zero, I'm out on the
streets, and I won't live long like that.
When thinking about whether or not I'll be able to complete my degree, I
honestly cannot give you an answer. I've been in higher education for over a
decade, surely I should have finished by now. But I cannot get over various
hurdles it seems, and frankly I have no idea why. It's... Maddening, to see
yourself, so full of potential, yet chained to the form and circumstances you
are given. I wonder what choices might I have made differently to avoid my fate,
if it truly is my fate to fail in this way, but I have no answers.
I am intelligent, of this I am certain. I know more about computers than anybody
I know, and I would love to apply myself toward them. But I lack a degree, so I
cannot be seen by recruiters and hiring managers. I try to work on my degree,
but I find the words on the page grow dense like the forest between the trees,
and I cannot see a way through to reach new understandings. Why do I keep
learning these things? I already know what a callback function is, what
interfaces are used for, how to implement safe multithreading in a parallel
environment, I know how networking protocols interact with hardware and how the
airflow through a case affects the thermals of a computer's internals. I've
grown crystallized in my knowledge, it seems, due to the endless pursuit of
these foundations. I think I would excel in the higher-level courses, but... I
can't get there. I crave the insights that might be learned in a master's
degree, but my brain is not wired for homework. I'm not built to cram for tests,
to learn someone's else's tools and frameworks. I don't know what I could be
doing better, it feels like I'm so alone. I guess it's my own fault for picking
an online school, but WGU is the best of the online schools, and I needed online
because I move around a lot. Well... I used to. My boyfriend moved around a lot,
but now he's my ex-boyfriend. Oh well.
... Anyway you can probably see why I have difficulty with school. It's
difficult for me to stay on track. I can start working on my project 5 or 6
times in a day and make marginal at best progress, and each time it hurts more
and more to return. I don't have an answer, but I don't know what to do if not
to pursue my degree. I feel as if I'm on the brink of despair in my life, and if
you read these appeals often, I imagine you hear that a lot.
I will apply myself more to my coursework. Once I find a job, I will give
everything to my school, even as it breaks me. I am... intense, and I feel
strongly that I must get this degree. Between it and me, there is quicksand, but
I must get through.
Thank you for your consideration. I understand however you decide. If I can knab
a decent job, I might be able to pay for my degree myself, given a couple months
to save up for it. But I highly doubt I could find such a thing in this economy
and this life I do lead.
Please consider me, I will accept any aid that is offered.
Cameron
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A child's schooling should consist of the bare-minimum amount of mental labor
necessary to teach them the fundamentals of arithmetic, reading, and writing.
They must be given opportunities to apply themselves toward educational goals
beyond such things, including social proficiency, and physical dexterity and
strength, and specialization in a particular academic subject.
Kids need freedom. They need community, not "social time" that does not consist
of anything more than living in the same rooms at school as the other kids.
They need to be able to visit each other whenever they want.
I personally believe that lectures taught in an interesting and engaging way
are significantly more effective at instilling a drive to learn than rigorous
drilling of detailed information. A kid will not learn a sufficient amount of
information in school to be useful in a particular topic unless they seek out
the knowledge on their own. Universities attempt to "fake" this effect by
getting them to research.
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this character portrait from Shadowrun Hong-Kong was a major source of gender
envy for me
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turns out I'm too much of a neurotic cinnamon roll to be a cool stand-offish
empath
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arithmatic control flow
If A, then B. Else C
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"Zoontalu, I have MEESed one" will forever live rent free in my head
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Go download your fedi archive!
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If you have a thousand options in your case / switch statement, you should
probably refactor.
consider putting function pointers (to the things you would have switched to)
in an array and instead of checking "if this enum, then this, if that enum,
then that" etc send an index into the function pointer array. That way there's
no branching at all.
The best way to generate performant code is to reduce or eliminate branches. If
you're working on a video game or networked program, this can be incredibly
important.
The second best way is probably reducing cache misses and increasing
parallelism, but those are different problems.
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oh huh I really don't want to work anymore.
I used to, but they wouldn't let me.
Then they did let me, but I worked too hard and burnt out.
Then I recovered for a while, and asked to work again, and they said no.
Repeatedly.
I don't think I want to work anymore. It's an abusive relationship. It feels
demeaning. I'm better than employment.
[rent comes due]
oh no
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dear everyone in every friends list I've ever made, on social media, in video
games, and in the contacts on my phone:
I miss you. I hope you're doing well.
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this world was made for you and me but I just keep whining and crying about it
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@user-570
it's a nice place to be. Rent's cheaper than portland, so I hear, because of
the taxes or whatever.
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@user-570
unless you meant canada. I vote no on that, because there's very little
difference between there and here. I mean, it's colder, which is nice. But
don't move because of politics or whatever. We can handle that.
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fellas is it gay to get a software job that pays 6 figures just to buy out all
the mutual aid posts every time one crosses my feed??
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everyone knows me as a massive flake
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what if we got together and adopted a new open source project every month and
just collectively worked around the clock to learn and work through the
important problems facing it
or even like, cleared out the backlog of stupid pointless boring tasks that
would allow the developers to work on something better
call it the wandering parade of development
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could give us some experience organizing small, short-term projects to
accomplish specific goals and tasks in an ad-hoc way that relied less upon
procedure and more on "I think so-and-so knows something about that, they were
looking into those files and posted a breakdown of how they work yesterday"
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@user-1352
You're absolutely right, the compiler knows better than me! Certainly the
compiler doesn't know best, but certainly the compiler knows better than me.
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what if we got together and adopted a new open source project every month and
just collectively worked around the clock to learn and work through the
important problems facing it
or even like, cleared out the backlog of stupid pointless boring tasks that
would allow the developers to work on something better
call it the wandering parade of development
could give us some experience organizing small, short-term projects to
accomplish specific goals and tasks in an ad-hoc way that relied less upon
procedure and more on "I think so-and-so knows something about that, they were
looking into those files and posted a breakdown of how they work yesterday"
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I don't want power, I want control, over my own life at least, and at
most whatever I am suited to designing.
And in order to prevent control from becoming power, it must not only be
decentralized and distributed amongst all who are impacted by it, said control
must also be paired with a burden of responsibility.
There must be no malice in judgement, no fear in foresight, no hatred in
organizing. This is the responsibility of those who would hold unnatural power
over others - the kind that are bourne on the contracts and procedures of
institution.
If the powerful do not seek to relinquish it, then perhaps they do no deserve
it. And yet a nation of Cincinnatuses would surely fall to weakness, as the
strength that they covet is replaced by whoever they can get to fill the role.
Not ideal.
Instead, a human should revel in their strength. The will to power is
the will to passion, and passion is intrinsically human.
However, power corrupts, and all humans should seek to avoid corruption, or at
least to keep it at bay. To do so, a person must consider their impulses and
listen to the words of the unspoken for. Only then may they overcome the perils
of control without reason.
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The strength of a leader is determined not by how many arms they may bear, but
by how many sets of arms they may bring to bear
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"I give you my sympathy, not my empathy, for if given empathy, I should surely
go mad with grief."
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"no need to thank me. It's hardly a gift if someone has to do it."
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@user-1352
oh no, but I did!
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║ │
║ well, the idea is that they would handle all the tech debt and merge requests │
║ and bugfixes and such - the kind of things that aren't very interesting to work │
║ on. That way, the people who are most dedicated and passionate for the project │
║ have a way to clear out their backlog and start as if from scratch. │
║ │
║ Plus, if they later don't understand how or why something was implemented, they │
║ could always message the person who implemented it and say "hey why did you do │
║ it this way I had it this other way before" and then they could reply and say │
║ "oh yeah because of this-and-this system we implemented for these-or-that │
║ caching reasons related to integer flow through the syncretic binary op-code │
║ delimiter" and then actually wait no maybe you're right, I see what you mean │
║ │
║ well... they don't have to merge everything if they don't want to. They could │
║ just... ignore the parts that people worked on that they don't want to include │
║ in the project. I'm thinking it'd be an opt-in thing too, so someone could │
║ request it! │
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neat
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@user-1074
I think anyone who is against circumcision would also be against those other
things
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@user-1074
those are the kind of people who probably shouldn't take up that much space in
your thoughts
like... they're hypocrites. yeah-sure-fine-whatever. Maybe their opinion could
be changed if they were in different social circumstances, but, they're not,
so... fuck 'em until they are, yeah?
so many people don't think for themselves. That's okay, they don't have to
think if they don't want to. I guess. But they also can hurt people, so... fuck
'em, until they are given the chance to consider, and they choose to consider.
It's very difficult to maintain hatred when presented with the possibility of
consideration. But those kind of people typically never have that opportunity.
So... like I said, fuck 'em. Don't give them power, don't let them hurt people,
but they can fuck right off with their hatred and vitriol (vitriol not unlike
this kind that I'm writing right now)
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🎵
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"Ritz, we love you, but you're fucking stupid, so we're gonna have to break
your legs now."
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They keep trying to make a movie out of my life because that's how they keep
culture going but I won't let them unless the movie is about them
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doing my best to get at least one bugfix or feature done per day on my
video-game mod. I think the regularity and discipline could do me well.
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this is how I write trello cards or tickets.
and yes, before you ask, modding this game is a constant struggle because the
mod tools are... minimal... so you must work around various challenges by, for
example, adding 1680 different "events" that must be checked every single turn
for every single province on the map.
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feeling kinda sick in a weird way. hope I haven't been poisoned.
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@user-1259
not to pizza since I don't usually eat those, but I do to other frozen /
pre-cooked foods!!
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War is hell - each casualty bids farewell to a wholely unique treasure from
this world - war is hell - there is nothing that cannot be resolved with words.
And yet we fight, and yet we pillage. War is hell, and those who demand it must
do so only to resist evil, elemental evil, the kind that wars on the innocent
and pillages the bounteous. War is hell. Fucking kill the ones who make it.
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"Ritz Menardi? Oh yeah I remember her. What a massive disappointment. This is
why we don't let fucking divas join."
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The right is using the neo-nazis. They don't want them either, but
they're a convenient boogey-man.
of course kamala is going to crush trump. That's the whole point, to
show the world what a ridiculous farce our elections are. They have never been
representative, and now we will see.
Ask any red blooded American, left or right, how they'd like to handle
neo-nazis. We all know where we stand.
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trying to tame a young dumb monster, wish me luck, I see good in him
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the tricky part of being an adult is that your problems become less and less
google-able.
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We need to find a way to care about all the shitheads who are going to have
their hearts broken by trump
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There are strategic goals and top down goals.
Strategy is the domain of the execs. They must be as general as possible and
justify their existence. They are the glue, the connectors, the people who know
who to talk to in order to get things done.
Tactics are the realm of the workers. They must be capable, dependable, honest
and fair. They must diligently realize the goals of the strategic plan using
whatever means they deem fit to address the tactical situation at hand. The
more freedom they have, the more effective they are.
These two forces are pitted in contest under capitalism. Under socialism, they
are orthogonal to one another. Not a pyramid, but a cylinder on its side,
growing from its base on one end to its zenith at the other.
They are allies. They are similar, but distinct. Their roles may overlap at
times, or perhaps not if they should not desire it. A person should be able to
work wherever they like. They are the best judges of their capabilities.
There are only so many resources, and if we vote on their distribution we'll
give enough for everyone to share. And then we'll run out. Unless, of course,
we demand sustainablity. Long-term, and ignoring profit but rather
seeking to build capability. That is the only way to [ramp/snowball/scale].
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