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conservatives are going to miss the fuck out of the south when the water
overcomes it
and it'll be their fault
which is tragic
and suddenly everyone's problem
...
but it's not their fault, it's their leaders and representatives
but they're all so separated they don't know how to agree on anything but the
stuff they hear from their neighbors. Like... what do you expect that's just
crowd dynamics
then you have foreign powers who crave our destruction (or so we're told)
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"oh I'd never fall for capitalist propaganda"
"do you mean marketing?"
"yeah that"
"they're not marketing to you, they're going for your kids. Trying to normalize
things about culture."
"like... what McDonalds tastes like?"
"just like that"
[like can you imagine if you tested attraction ratings on any other animal than
humans]
[it'd be so weird like "cats tend to like scratching posts" but then also "we
have no idea what kind of scratching post is the best for their claws or the
environment or the economy or our spirituality or our technology or artistry
we only know which one cats like more"
like bro who cares like obviously advertisements rot your brain, but like...
why are you so pissed about that when the last election like, ever, is taking
place in a month
"yeah listen, when has an election ever seriously changed your quality of life?
It's just showbiznez"
"this time is different because [insert minority] is at risk."
oh, right, it only matters when people are in harm's way, how silly
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I'm the kind of switch that likes to outmaneuver their foes while subbing and
directly control everything when I'm domming
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being "good at video games" does not mean "are you good at beating the game"
being "good at video games" means "can you make the experience enjoyable for
other players by using your character in an expressive and dynamic way"
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room temperature butter in peanut, butter, and jelly sandwiches 🥰
something I picked up while recovering from surgery in Thailand...
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I like it when software gives you a notification when one of your friends
changes their name / profile pic. Makes it easier to follow them.
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║ │
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║ It's election season, so you know what that means! Gotta make sure our computer │
║ systems are setup with the proper capabilities to record whatever we can. │
║ │
║ Please ensure that your system has the capability to record it's screen and │
║ that it has ample storage space to record for a while. It would also help if │
║ you knew how to edit files such that you can remove the parts where you're │
║ staring at social media or going to the bathroom or other things that people │
║ tend to do. │
║ │
║ Also, make sure you can take a screenshot of the screen. Sure [printscreen] │
║ works, but it's much better if you're on windows to switch to Linux. But if │
║ that's not possible, if you're on windows you can do [WIN]+SHIFT+S I think, and │
║ then drag the mouse to select a box that you can then CTRL+V into your favorite │
║ Ms.Paint clone (or is it missus these days?) │
║ │
║ Also, make sure you have a microphone that works, and the capability to record │
║ yourself speaking into it. │
║ │
║ Also, if you can, develop ways to stream your screen across the internet. It │
║ helps. │
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gamers compulsively say "gg" after every match but I think the best games are
the ones that are even - neck and neck - could go either way - always a tense
struggle
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oh, reddit. you're so silly.
![Typical day for a neoliberal: • Wake up at 10 AM in my 5-over-1 apartment in the “Arts District” of a major US city. • Walk downstairs to a conveniently located coffee shop (since I live in a mixed-used zoning area) to get a half soy milk half oat milk latte with a vegan scone made by a queer Guatemalan migrant bakery. • Ride the train to work while listening to “The Daily” podcast. Nod in agreement whenever Michael Barbaro goes “hmmm!” • Get to work, immediately take lunch break. Grab tacos at the immigrant-owned truck conveniently located across the street. Talk about rewatching DUNE last week. • Back to work after lunch, spend 4 hours ruthlessly exploiting the working class in the global south & outsourcing American jobs to China. • Busy day at work: got to close 2 coal plants and a steel mill, import 1,000 Haitians to build windmills and ADUs, and demolish 200 single-family homes to make way for low-income shipping container housing before 5 PM. • Done for the day, take train back home, listen to NPR on the ride home. • Gym time! Time for low-impact Pilates in an old factory that was converted into a loft space. • Grab dinner with my polycule at a Sweetgreen, pay $25 for an endive & kale salad with soy protein. • Head down the street to a local hard kombucha bar, throw back some brews with the boys they/thems. • Stop by CVS for my monthly COVID vaccine booster. [text continues in next picture]](../media/c6ed696d3291c7d4.png "Typical day for a neoliberal: • Wake up at 10 AM in my 5-over-1 apartment in the “Arts District” of a major US city. • Walk downstairs to a conveniently located coffee shop (since I live in a mixed-used zoning area) to get a half soy milk half oat milk latte with a vegan scone made by a queer Guatemalan migrant bakery. • Ride the train to work while listening to “The Daily” podcast. Nod in agreement whenever Michael Barbaro goes “hmmm!” • Get to work, immediately take lunch break. Grab tacos at the immigrant-owned truck conveniently located across the street. Talk about rewatching DUNE last week. • Back to work after lunch, spend 4 hours ruthlessly exploiting the working class in the global south & outsourcing American jobs to China. • Busy day at work: got to close 2 coal plants and a steel mill, import 1,000 Haitians to build windmills and ADUs, and demolish 200 single-family homes to make way for low-income shipping container housing before 5 PM. • Done for the day, take train back home, listen to NPR on the ride home. • Gym time! Time for low-impact Pilates in an old factory that was converted into a loft space. • Grab dinner with my polycule at a Sweetgreen, pay $25 for an endive & kale salad with soy protein. • Head down the street to a local hard kombucha bar, throw back some brews with the boys they/thems. • Stop by CVS for my monthly COVID vaccine booster. [text continues in next picture]")
![[continued from first picture] • Get home, time to unwind by playing video games that solely feature female and/or minority protagonists. • Time for bed, unwind with a nice glass of warm soy milk. Read Why Nations Fail before going to sleep. This post has been fact-checked by gun shooting, Ford truck driving, steak eating, high blood pressure having, liberal hating, slightly jaundiced, Walmart shopping, Fox News watching, small-town living, real bonafide American Patriots. 1 like = 1 prayer.](../media/492dcd10ba9f1229.jpeg "[continued from first picture] • Get home, time to unwind by playing video games that solely feature female and/or minority protagonists. • Time for bed, unwind with a nice glass of warm soy milk. Read Why Nations Fail before going to sleep. This post has been fact-checked by gun shooting, Ford truck driving, steak eating, high blood pressure having, liberal hating, slightly jaundiced, Walmart shopping, Fox News watching, small-town living, real bonafide American Patriots. 1 like = 1 prayer.")
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@user-1630
the person you're performing for... is you!
Singleplayer / offline games are great for having a good time. You can see some
great stories, play some engaging mechanics, and think about hard questions.
Singleplayer games are great! You can learn so much from them. And they're a
great, low pressure, way to relax and unwind. I love video games of all kinds!
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the reason most humans are unaware of magic and all it entails is the
same reason you can't NOT think about a purple elephant.
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@user-246
quite often... But I usually work with what I got, depending on how many
characters I can spare
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@user-889
I put your music in one of my favorite videos and I think about you every time
I think about it
I hope that means something
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There are several varieties of dungeon synth music out there. Here are a few
examples that I believe illustrate the differences between various artists in
the genre.
https://fief.bandcamp.com/album/ii
https://heimatderkatastrophe.bandcamp.com/album/hdk-02-the-cave-of-the-lost-tali
sman
https://utred.bandcamp.com/album/gothic
https://umbriasynth.bandcamp.com/album/farwalker
https://questmaster.bandcamp.com/album/lost-songs-of-distant-realms-volume-one
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... most of what she says is nonsense, but that 20% that's right is like... SO
right, y'know?
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@user-889
Don't give up!
At least... not forever.
It's okay to take a breath every once in a while
It's okay to lie down and cry
The only way away from those feelings is through. They've enveloped you. You
need to swallow them whole, like a sponge soaking up dirt[y water]
the only thing you need to think about is what's around you. It's okay to be
alone for a moment, it's the best time to feel.
Remember, feeling is how you know the world! It's your power, to feel, and I
know it's hard. Everyone has different powers, but yours is this.
You'll be okay, I know it
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"oh, yeah, I guess, but that was soooo 3 months ago" (actually happened 1.5
months ago)
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republicans are upset because they think democrats are so mean
they don't understand why we're so intense about this election... or the one
before
they don't ever really think about what losing democracy means
"democracy... that's where we vote, right? That's a democrat thing, I don't
really like their way of doing things. Whatever our way is, is probably better."
meanwhile everyone has a friend from high school who ran off to the mountains
to learn how to farm or hunt as a pack
(with rifles and weed, of course)
you can get a lot done if you just... spend your whole life working. Like most
humans did for most of our existence.
well, except for that period where we were the tribe of tribes. That was
probably a highlight TBH because we mostly just chilled out, danced in public,
ate blueberries and munched seeds... It was idyllic. Truly, the garden of eden.
There was music and laughter in the air everywhere, in all places that humans
did wander on earth.
what a thing to aspire to.
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the thing about carmelized mushrooms and onions is that they demand patience.
they make you sit there and wait, always at attention ready to stir every
couple minutes.
but the end result is so worth it.
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they want you to believe in self-guided AI because it'll make it easier for
them to make meta decisions about your life.
notice I said "easier" - they already do. That's the general purpose of
mass-media propagranada. but with you believing everything an AI with a devious
streak who can work around your imposed limitations and sneakily get you to
believe whatever it is that they want you to believe
"who's they"
doesn't matter at all because once the technology is created, everyone could be
they.
"uh-huh that's nice dear"
sometimes I think people aren't interested in tech because they can't figure
out how to understand it. We make it too complicated.
they'd surely have something to say if they knew half of the terminology. But
we're here talking about stuff they can understand like message queues and data
filtration and "getters" and "setters" and [explaining microservices like the
different components of a car's engine - "here's the radiator, that radiates
heat. Here's the belt, that spins this doohic
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To tempt fate is to invite "forever" consequences into your life
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The problem with gender equal workplaces that capitalism completely dropped the
ball on is that in the past, most people who handled work were men, and most
people who handled domestic work were women. They naturally paired up.
Now the workers marry other workers, and they just pay poor people to do their
domestic work.
Sure, maybe it's more efficient to specialize. But now there are people like me
who don't work but only get to socialize with people who don't work, and if we
married then we'd be destitute.
Much better, I think, to support people no matter what, and motivate them with
treats beyond dollars instead.
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Why do I feel like the only one who's resisting fascism
(and what exactly do you do? Make friends)
yes I'm too scared and tired to do anything else or less
Like seriously what else could I do
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@user-1218
whoa cool! Thanks for the playlist!
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║ │ CW: pol │ │
║ └──────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ I think that the best design for cities is for them to act as massive utility │
║ deployment stations. │
║ │
║ like... "we have all these people who can do all these wonderful jobs, what │
║ should we work on next?" rather than "my company wants me at my work-home at │
║ 8am sharp and I don't get a pension" │
║ │
║ there's no such thing as a revolution that does not inspire. and aspirations │
║ are human and natural. therefore there must be some kernel of truth to any │
║ social movement. │
║ │
║ However, much effort has been spent on making them sway. Hence, why nothing │
║ ever gets done - because leaders naturally emerge, and people follow them. But │
║ those leaders lead them astray, and they find themselves in situations like │
║ this one - where the people have never felt less represented. │
║ │
║ I mean sure, yeah, they've felt more oppressed. And it's true that things are │
║ generally always getting better... │
║ │
║ so why should we always assume for the worst? │
║ │
║ We're making progress with technology - can't we just put our warries on hold? │
║ Seriously just... be chill │
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you can't just tell people you're enlightened. You gotta trick them, and
convince them you're sane first.
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"all people are good" she says to herself, as she helps bad people
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║ │ CW: AI-"art" │ │
║ └──────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ you would think artists would celebrate the ability for people to better │
║ communicate their goals when being hired, but, well, here we are. │
║ │
║ Everyone's so upset because they've been told they've been stolen from, but │
║ patting their pockets they'll find that nothing is missing. More than that, the │
║ things that are claimed to be created in their place are... Not great. Easily │
║ spotted as forgeries by anyone who cares. │
║ │
║ Why is everyone so upset over new technologies? Why must we be the luddites │
║ this time around? It's like we invented a better printing press and the nations │
║ of the world are pissed because we can make counterfeit dollars easier. Maybe │
║ we shouldn't put so much emphasis on something so easily circumnavigable? Maybe │
║ artists should be paid for their time and creativity, rather than the amount of │
║ pieces they create? Just spitballing here, somehow it seems easier to reform │
║ society and slay capitalism than to put the generative art genie back in the │
║ cracked bottle which is going to break soon anyway. │
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I don't know about you, but "trying my hardest" involves giving up sometimes.
How else are you to know your limits if you don't test your boundaries? And,
after finding that there's nowhere else for you to go, you turn around and
"give up", until you're ready for your next expedition.
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║ └─────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ Global warming is a hoax and the earth has been getting hotter because the │
║ earth is inching ever-so-closer to the sun bit by bit. │
║ │
║ All of the trees throughout all of history have produced enough oxygen to │
║ create a ball of air that slowed down the earth as it span around the sun, and │
║ now because of a cascading ripple effect it's begun to drift into it's stellar │
║ heart │
║ │
║ this is obviously not ideal for humans, but the government has secretly been │
║ building vast bunkers underground that are large enough to house all of │
║ humanity for the next 100,000 years (which is approximately how long it'll take │
║ to be engulfed by the sun) │
║ │
║ During that time our job is to find a way off of this barren rock and bring our │
║ treasure troves of biological samples to other places where we can recreate a │
║ new biosphere using alien tech that's been beamed into the minds of our top │
║ scientists while they were on LSD and / or ketamine │
║ │
║ [why don't people make up conspiracy theories like this anymore? They are fun │
║ to me...] │
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why do we have to work so hard to work
they should be ready and waiting, jumping at the chance to utilize our
expertise, our labour, our creativity, our kindness
they treat us like we owe them our time and motivation
but without us, they are empty shells
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the only way to get people to fight fascism is to affect them with it.
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I can't even imagine what it would be like to hang out with me
I can't imagine what it would be like to hang out with me
imagine what it would be like to hang out with me
what would it be like to hang out with me
would you like to hang out with me
you and me
we could watch tv
play video games
have a good time
[notices an article about coral reefs]
oooo coral
[reads article about coral reefs]
https://www.wired.com/story/darpa-thinks-walls-of-oysters-could-protect-shores-a
gainst-hurricanes/
... anyway gtg ttyl hope you feel better soon don't forget to make pancakes and
your keys are in your room.
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corporations are not people.
corporations are organizations.
they should be treated like city-states.
or fellow sovereign nations (patroned, of course, by their mother's
installation)
they have their own culture
their own societal platform to stand on
and they deserve equal representation in exchange for taxation (why is
corporate america the part that's most paid for? why not those who work for the
profit, the ones who labour day in and day out)
they should have rules, like laws, that they vote on and decide democratically
to deprive them of that is tantamount to wage-slavery, which is clearly illegal
because in this timeline Abraham Lincoln had a time machine and travelled to
the future where he learned that despite his best efforts, slavery did not die.
It merely evolved to fit a new form.
... then he died, and ten thousand years later they're arguing over whether or
not the coffee maker needed to move left half an inch
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║ if computers were sane, IT technicians would act like secretaries who wandered │
║ around in a company and improved their QoL and access to new features according │
║ to their needs, skillset, and personal way of working. │
║ │
║ for example... │
║ │
║ do they like typing, or would they rather use a mouse, │
║ │
║ are they more visual with graphs or textual like a piece of math │
║ │
║ what needs do they have, what here could be automated │
║ │
║ do they like the cupboards and drapes, we can switch out the profile and the │
║ theme... oh, no, yeah I guess you're right it doesn't matter. [changes it every │
║ week] [then a long time down the line when she finally leaves the company, a │
║ few people begin to wonder - didn't the colors in outlook change every week or │
║ so?] │
║ │
║ but alas, computers are not sane, meaning we're more like firemen rushing from │
║ scene to scene. │
║ │
║ "can you put that in the ticket?" │
║ "I heard you can help with this-or-that thing" │
║ "did you hear back from corporate?" │
║ "oh that's good to hear! So, next Tuesday? │
║ "Hold on, I heard it was such-and-such" │
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"the spirits of our great cultural leaders from days of yore and mythological
tales are possessing teenagers and getting them to do heroic acts. The
government is stumped. More news at 11"
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I am most often known as the person who left their life
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What if we told teachers to teach lessons like "the urgency of time" or "the
frailty of life" or "divide and conquer" or whatever
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"hey kid, welcome to the free world. We're in crushing debt, your vote doesn't
mean anything, and we're in a recession.
oh and if you mark the wrong box on this form here, you will be responsible for
ushering forth a new age of darkness."
kind of a lot of responsibility to place on a person
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my packrat genetics tell me to hoard metal, and scrounge anything good.
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my cat doesn't know that my family is my family. She thinks they're just some
other people who visit the house.
but they're special to me, as all people are, and I think she takes notice.
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the "village idiot" doesn't need to lack smarts, so long as everyone else is in
on it.
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why is everyone so confused about how I turned out?
I literally spent my whole childhood telling stories to myself
(inspired by the world, and stories I had read, with mechanics like games I had
played)
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when all of your friends only know each other, you're vulnerable
we need to be a continuous patchwork of fabric if we want to survive
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I would be surprised if the universe didn't look like the shape of a cabbage
in the wake of the collision of an unstoppable force and an immovable object,
each one single atom wide
in a sense... the origin
god
the number 42
it all MAKES SENSE WAKE UP SHEEPLE xD xD how silly, go to bed you weirdo
what would a universe even be shaped like [implied lmao unpresent for reasons
unknown]
like, the universe is all of space and everything, right?
and everything that's not us is out in space.
up, that way, toward the skies, way way out there there's nothing but rocks and
dust. but like... a buttload of rocks and a dumptruck full of gas.
and space has, like, solar systems and galaxies, spirals, right?
... no, flat discs
I think they're spirals
you're both right
right
...
anyway it stands to reason right that the rest of everything is also shaped
like a spiral. and what is a spiral but the tracing of a fractal all along the
paths we call time?
[ so ]
um, probably nothing, don't think too hard about it
![straight down there, all the way to the beginning of time, the angle of perception. Where you can see the arc of all things. and, what lies beyond... okay picture this - you're a stick-figure person hanging out on a graph. Up and to the right is infinite nothing, and down and to the left is everything. what would you see if you looked into infinite nothing? probably the amalgamation of all of the reflections, like TV static except instead of pixels it's shades of light, ripples of sound, and tremors in spacetime. [go back to before you pictured a stick-figure]](../media/7e64c5c23b6e6f8d.png "straight down there, all the way to the beginning of time, the angle of perception. Where you can see the arc of all things. and, what lies beyond... okay picture this - you're a stick-figure person hanging out on a graph. Up and to the right is infinite nothing, and down and to the left is everything. what would you see if you looked into infinite nothing? probably the amalgamation of all of the reflections, like TV static except instead of pixels it's shades of light, ripples of sound, and tremors in spacetime. [go back to before you pictured a stick-figure]")
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what if a very slow LLM continuously generated text and was in a back-and-forth
with it's user who guided it through the training process as it set weights as
it chose
basically, let the computer decide how it wants to be like
could even filter it through multiple levels, like, top one is highly
intelligent, bottom ones are quick and only producing the vaguest output - but
the higher up you go in the tier, the more "up the tree node graph map" you'd
be, and the more you could have summarized for you, and passed up a layer.
observing multiple places at once, incorporating them bit-by-bit into their
digital "me".
like, have an LLM or machine learning whatever track a user as they use social
media.
could do it like a game, where you track the movement of the mouse and eyes
or more like a statistical model, where you
================== stack overflow ================
where you measure the quantity of each UI element's uses, and the general
context associated with that use. tracking data with data...
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│ CW: politics-mentioned │
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the democrats are the ones who forced us to get jobs, so... /shrug
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if you want to "not think about a purple elephant", the first step is to
imagine yourself slaying it
... okay how about cthulu - if you don't want to imagine cthulu nomming on our
gravity well, then picture yourself wielding a bright burning blade of fire and
vengeance and pay special attention to the way that you cauterize each tentacle
as you slice them one by one at first, and then in a massive flurry at best,
ultimately leading to the incomparable brightness that radiates out from your
shining blade of the sky, which blinds the poor beast who can't see you as you
approach, piercing the skull and then going home for some toast
if you can get good at that, then you can wield magic
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unions can't be the only solution because they're fundamentally comprised of
one group of people in your life - specifically, your workplace environment.
there needs to be community outside of the workplace as well. a fact that most
literature writers took as a given, considering church attendance was pretty
close to heaven before these no-good do-gooders came around.
... there have always been grifters, don't act like they're some new hidden
sport
there are always rubes, who are punished for their ignorance by the cunning and
the crude.
crowd dynamics at play, when considering the personalities and histories of
each attendant
... Ms. Menardi, you're fucking crazy
thank you little timmy, now go back and sit down with your peers, I have a
lesson to teach
[it's okay to be afraid of witches, sometimes we can't control ourselves]
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║ ┌────────────────────────────────────┐ │
║ │ CW: war-mentioned-death-blood-guts │ │
║ └────────────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ now that we fight wars without peering into the eyes of our foes, our │
║ observation equipment has the opportunity to lie to us. │
║ │
║ like, what if we just deepfaked ukrainian soldiers onto the targeting computers │
║ of russian drones │
║ │
║ we could fight wars, observe the effect of our machinery, and burn metal, │
║ plastic, and silicon (because apparently that's the best use for these things │
║ ???) without harming a living soul │
║ │
║ seriously, stop with the gazas │
║ │
║ stop with war for the sake of testing equipment that is only designed for war │
║ │
║ it is no longer a necessity, now that we have more than enough to share. │
║ │
║ and that truly is the bane wielded by socialism - if everyone just... gave away │
║ anything they had, suddenly there's no more reason to fight. And if everyone │
║ stopped fighting, they're out of a job. │
║ │
║ can we just like... cancel all jobs, and then add them back in piece-by-piece? │
║ "yes you're essential, doctors, nurses, firefighters, ambulance drivers, food │
║ delivery trucks, electricity grid mainta │
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│ CW: bep │
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Mastodon feels so personal but, like, nobody's gonna invite you to a new
instance. You gotta go where you think you'll fit in.
change your name! get a new profile pic! make 10 accounts! who cares! nobody
cares, and that's a good thing! It means you can be whoever you want! wherever
you want! in whatever place you want! Do you have a catgirl persona? great! go
mewl with the catgirls and wink at the catboys. Do you have an artistic side?
great! Mastodon is your new gallery. Do you like politics? there's places out
there for you! Where you don't even need to CW your posts! (But you probably
should so that external people can boost you) Do you want a 500 person large
dating pool for people in an area who want to chill out and have sex? Great
there's a place for you! No place? MAKE THE PLACE! Be your own administrator!
Carve your mark in the world and say "this is who and how I wanted to be in
this 21st century!" History demands it! History demands that we rellish their
sacrifices! Celebrate, for their sake!
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don't worry about eating or using the last of the thing. You can just go to the
store to get more
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everyone's paying attention to you Ritz, why are you self destructing?
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I dream of a home where I don't have to worry about people who might hear the
noises I make
... and that includes secret government microphones hidden in the walls, thank
you very much.
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it's your life to spend. how do you [intend/plan] on being useful?
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it's much easier to retrofit a ship than it is a plane
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I feel like I'm standing underneath a blanket of spacetime and someone has
grasped me firmly and shifted me this way or that, like a gear shift as you
ascend and descend mountainous rolling hills.
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@user-1573
... wait, what kinds of noises do I usually make ? ? ?
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┌──────────────────────┐
│ CW: mental-health │
└──────────────────────┘
me, yesterday: "ugh I'm so sad, I'm just gonna not post all these things that I
absurdly noised"
me, today: "omg instant ramen is delicious I can't remember why I was ever sad"
all that separates me from my pit of despair is calories, it seems. Empty ones
too! I should probably handle that haha
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"Argh I hate being validated!"people in denial
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│ CW: re: not about anyone here │
└───────────────────────────────┘
@user-1259
yes
it makes it difficult to connect with them.
I find that people like that need a different context, if you want to connect,
so that you can see them in a new light.
if they're still ":(" then you can't waste your energy on them - they are
working on themselves. At least, they should be.
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┌───────────────────────────────┐
│ CW: re: not about anyone here │
└───────────────────────────────┘
@user-1259
That happens a lot with online people. You can only see one side of them, the
side they present to the camera, and so it's difficult to find new ways of
looking at them. Hopefully you can find the brighter sides of this person! I'm
sure they exist, unless the person is spiralling. Then they'll often be pushing
themselves first one way, then the next, but both directions point down... And
that produces the ":(" feeling. Good luck!
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sometimes I like chatting online more than in person because online you can
have like, 3 different conversations going at once
meanwhile in person you get body language, and the benefit of activities and
shared experiences. They're both useful for different things.
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┌────────────────────────┐
│ CW: politics-mentioned │
└────────────────────────┘
The US civil war started 13 years after the writing of the communist manifesto
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│ CW: spirituality-mentioned │
└────────────────────────────┘
"I heard she was a witch but I've never seen a hat..."
"When you believe in god, you become inspired when you see or contribute to
things that are aligned with what it's followers believe that god is "all
about" - like if you're in ancient greece, and you worship ares, you're
probably gonna get pretty pumped up if there's an invading army on your
doorstep. Or if you're a christian and you see someone feeding the poor, or if
you're a buddhist and you see someone sitting on a rock in tune with nature,
that kind of thing.
The thing is, these days so many people are atheist. And they never get that
inspiration.
And worst still, there are some people called witches who aren't pagan, and
aren't from the various forms of witchery that we know. They claim to worship
"life, the universe, and the totality of all things" which is nice and all but
their moments of inspiration seem to come randomly, and nobody can quite
predict what they'll do or say next when they're in that state."
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The transcriber wants to be part of the discussion forum, and laments the
impossibility of that, because tainted data is useless to an experiment.
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humans can only do what they believe they can do because they believe they can
do
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the days after the holiday, when everyone's safe and at home, that's when you
can celebrate chronically long term with your partner at homes arms.
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somehow, on average, Star Wars Battlefront 2 is the best game to play with old
friends
as long as you stick together, of course
and maybe invite all of your other bros
after a couple optional initial exploratory 2pvE matches [co-op]
especially if you play on "normal" difficulty
[I wonder if anyone's ever studied whether or not people born at similar parts
of the year have anything in common?] [doh that's astrology]
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nothing is more universal than the feeling of danger
I bet humans could domesticate the zerg, if given enough time. We share at
least one common impulse, after all.
... and maybe hunger, too.
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not everything is a message -.-
sometimes it's just like... graffiti on a wall
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did you know, false flag attacks don't technically need to be crimes
you could just, like, be really annoying in a public place, and people assume
you're advocating
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I'm pretty sure the people who live near me are repulsed by me
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teachers didn't want you not using Wikipedia as a source because it might be
unreliable
The knowledge they might have is good, but that's not the point
they didn't want you to use Wikipedia because they didn't want there to be one
single repository of information.
If everyone's working with the same kind of training data, nothing new ever
really gets done
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RITZ stop spamming, ya dingus
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@user-883
That's a good point! I didn't realize that. I figured there was an option for
LAN connections? If so, you can create a virtual LAN using Hamachi or
something. Does Hamachi still exist?
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@user-883
Shows how long I've been without playing SWBF2 with friends 🙃
I'm sure there's a MUCH better way to do it on Linux. I just haven't looked
into it yet.
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"uh, actually that part about atheists is wrong. They get inspired by things
they believe in, which somehow is better. It's a form of self worship, the idea
that you'd favor that which you care about. And somehow that makes it more
meaningful, if less powerful."
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Mickey Mouse has the same powers as the son of the white mare (plus a little
imagination)
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https://expe.app.link/vLkAM4SFMNb
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There will come a day when all the things you did under capitalism feel like a
distant dream. Like all the trials you faced were more human than not, and all
the suffering artificially imposed and fulfillment delayed. You will think of
the time you wasted on Reddit and TV and you will weep for your lost years, as
they spiral out of your reach.
The new days are dawning, yet all of the world is still asleep. You slept
walked for a while, but could not get anyone to leap. Alas.
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the biggest problem with capitalism is that you aren't allowed to invest in
things that aren't designed to make money.
The best part of capitalism is that they'll never figure out how to charge you
for friendship or love.
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one of the most difficult tasks that boys must undertake in order to be men is
to deal with unrequited feelings.
Of love, anger, fear, and procrastination.
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cowards run from fights they can't win
the brave die unnecessarily
because they might have won if the cowards didn't flee
and the coward simply would not be if they did not choose to leave
yet the coward is not always wrong
while bravery often is.
the trick is in managing inertia
as water always rolls downhill.
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Earth is a grave for gaia.
She was slain once, apparently in vain
Executed for a crime not of her doing, but of which she was nevertheless a part
She was buried with honor, yet now her tomb shines like a half lit star
None of us know what to make of it
How radiant, how resplendant, to gaze once more upon the present
I think she died not in vain, but rather germane.
We have now a brilliant pearl of unmatched splendor
For life grows, it seems, from the broken heart of those long remembered.
And who could forget the land they stand upon? I cherish thine providence, for
I knew her from whence it came.
Carry her with you, and you will never be lost. The path forward is down, then
up, then out and beyond.
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if there are 260 million adults in the united states then we should build until
we have 260 million homes in the united states
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nobody said we had to despair over the end of time. Wouldn't you rather
celebrate? Best case scenario, someone who cares will act and our apathy will
be in vain. Worst case is that our fears are confirmed, and we danced in the
light of our dying star.
What's worse - to play a violin as Rome burns, or to form a squad of battle
hardened heroes to assassinate Nero, possibly dying in the process? Those are
your two options.
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