Poetry Collection

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 I'm one of those weirdos who likes hot sauce more for the "sauce" than the "hot"
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 @user-1218 
 
 OOOO I like that, it's very pretty to see with my eyeballs! And it sounds cute
 too. 🥰
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 You know how we select from amongst our number electors and representatives who
 vote on our behalf?
 
 Truly an excellent strategy in the era of instant communication, an aft-gone
 luxury that our ancient forebearers surely would have incorporated into their
 nationbuilding design, if they had had it.
 
 I can't help but wonder if it would be a useful strategy to "give" our votes to
 a representative who voted on our behalf. Most people do not care and cannot
 possess the capacity to care about voting, but if they gave their vote to
 someone they trusted who they had a personal connection to beyond party
 loyalty, then perhaps we could mandate voting
 
 I can't help but wonder what that would do to our electoral landscape. If
 voting is mandated, and as easy as pointing at someone and saying "yeah
 whatever she picks", then perhaps the old white grannies with quivering lower
 lips who stare with hatred whenever a black person walks past and chat with
 their gal pals at church wouldn't have as much power over us.
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║ I wish my mouse-cursor would spin when I spun the mouse. In the span of a spin,  │
║ a spun mouse would spin a full revolution or so before getting caught up in the  │
║ wire.                                                                            │
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║ Maybe... to avoid that, the wire could be attached to a circular ring along the  │
║ bottom of the mouse, below where it was held, and as the mouse was spun it       │
║ would rotate to point the cable toward the back of the desk? Doesn't even have   │
║ to be motorized, could just do it based on tension...                            │
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║ I think, hardware wise, all you'd need for the 1st implementation would be a     │
║ second laser on the bottom of the mouse - positioned with one near the point,    │
║ and the other near the palm, to give it the greatest differential to measure.    │
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║ for the 2nd implementation you'd need the ring system mentioned earlier, which   │
║ would require a connection to the non-mechanical components of the mouse (the    │
║ laser and it's little processor) and I'm not sure how that would work with a     │
║ movable connection point.                                                        │
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║ Also... how do you prevent it from getting gummed up with food and junk??        │
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 "uh, the question was why do you want something like that, not how you would
 implement it."
 
 oh. Um, well, isn't a spinnable mouse-cursor justification enough?
 
 "no, you need to explain what use-case this has. What kinds of problems could
 you solve with this technology that you couldn't before?"
 
 well, setting aside the potential for new input methods to games and the
 inherent satisfaction gained from spinning a mouse like a top when bored, I
 think it might give us a better option for horizontal scrolling. Like,
 'horizontally scroll when a special mouse button is held down and the mouse is
 twisted a bit to the left/right'
 
 "so, like when you push the middle mouse and it lets you pan across large
 documents?"
 
 yes! Only instead of being able to go up AND down, it would just go left and
 right.
 
 "... huh?"
 
 oh I mean instead of up/down and left/right, it would just do left/right
 
 "... right"
 
 and left!
 
 "... yeah. and left. Uh, okay I'll see what I can do but budget's pretty tight,
 we might just lay you off."
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 scrolling through old nintendo power magazines I find games that I've never
 even heard of from the times when I was playing games on those systems.
 
 Some of them even look pretty cool. This is the best magazine to ever exist,
 fite me
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 wow 90s advertising was intense

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